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AIs are already trained on huge corpuses of natural human communication, but they still aren't able to reliably analyze human language. Adding a few more gigabytes of chat logs isn't going to do much.
Way off. He's a Senior Google Fellow and his bio used to be on the executive leadership page of Google (I can't find that page any more). He is being paid on the order of 10MM per year, base, easily.
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that would mean javascript is better than go for GTD ;)
You are mixing productivity (getting things done), quality (better designed languages) and popularity (large number of projects) in the same sentence, but you generally cannot find causal links among them.
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Whats new in this? there are quite a few tethered surveillance platforms out there, even rotor based[0].

Heck we had a run away blip just a like a week ago that one is also a tethered platform in most cases and that actually doesn't need to land because motor powered tethered platforms usually need to land every X amount of hours / days just to let the engines cool down (some might have paired engines that can be spun up and down in order to maintain altitude while one of the paired engines is idling).

These platforms allow you to usually have much more powerful engines that can maintain the altitude of a much heavier payload but ofc are much less maneuverable, they are often used as very tactical surveillance platforms for various events sport games and other such venues, political rallies, news coverage and venue broadcasting (Elistair's[1] solution for example mainly sold for commercial broadcasting proposed and not homeland/border security) and critical infrastructure protection.

These aren't the type of drones one would use however for wide area persistent surveillance for those purposes Google's and Facebook's internet providing drones would probably be a better platform and ofc military extreme long endurance platforms like Global Hawk[2](which can be now also autonomously perform air refueling) were kinda designed for it

[0]http://www.uasvision.com/2015/05/14/iai-and-sky-sapience-par...

[1]http://elistair.com/

[2]http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/10/05.aspx
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BetaMax was used for commercial work for a long time, even though it was grossly out of date in the consumer market by the early 1990's. On the commercial side, it persisted because professional camera systems used it and lenses and editing hardware mattered more than tape format.
You call the app store selection for the Roku anemic, yet the AppleTV doesn't even support Amazon Prime. Roku has always had the most support for different streaming providers, and never tries to lock you into any particular store.
I wasn't attacking Antirez. We wouldn't be having this conversation if we didn't agree Redis is essentially good work. I was attacking insecure by default. The point is is that it's not unlikely that someone might accidentally revert to the default configuration even when due diligence was done in the first place.

Can you please go beyond vague references like "tons of things behind the scenes" and "certainly been evaluated". What's the direct answer to the question: "Why can't it just listen on loopback by default?"

I'm not sure "stupid users" and "clever Antirez" gets us any further towards a proper answer here.
Oh, absolutely. Use Safari, never use chrome. And don't play games. If you watch video, only watch h.264. I've often gotten 2 full days of work without plugging it in.
I have a Dell laptop, and the Intel/NVidia driver combo has been the buggiest part of the whole thing. Really irritating.
Just stating my opinion, not trying to troll. I said "C like" because it is very much different than any C like language I'm used to. Dropbox was using Python as a main technology stack not that long ago so I'm not all that surprised they are seeing huge gains using Go. If Go gains more traction I'll consider using it, until that time, 6 years have gone by and I personally haven't seen anybody asking for Go in the Washington DC metro area.
Go is a language designed by Google people, but it is very much not the standard Google language. Most things Google does aren't done in Go.
My "doctor" from the list also was an old guy. He examined me in his living room with 4 cats wandering around and jumping on tables. Very bizarre situation.
All those features, yet media player companies still have yet to include the ONE feature that would make any of them actually usable: the ability to play arbitrary mkv and avi files from the network with a wide variety of codecs.

Western Digital made a good effort some years back, but the UI was terrible. Nobody else seems to care about this one obvious killer feature.

As consumers, we are still stuck building custom low noise boxes running xbmc.
Whenever I read or hear about "preppers" or people preparing for a catastrophe, I've always wondered what their plan was for dental care. When I was in my early 20's, my wisdom teeth became impacted. My only symptom was a horrible upper respiratory infection that turned into pneumonia. Without antibiotics and then surgery to remove the teeth, I probably would have died.

And The Postman was a wonderful book.
> PulseAudio

I abhor PulseAudio, because it just doesn't work as smoothly as JACK or ALSA. Sometimes learning a new thing isn't necessary, as the old ways of doing something still hold.

I agree with the BSD way of doing this: force it on the users and try and help them come to terms with your changes. If there's a revolt and/or it's too much work for you, revert. Otherwise your entire ecosystem is safer.
Good idea.

Its not really any easy problem. Its about 6 million applications per year.

What we should really do is make an open source app or website (perhaps p2p, perhaps run on donated servers) and completely eliminate any part of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services related to processing applications, as well as all of the relevant laws. The laws are too complicated, and the bureaucracy of USCIS uses a very large budget of more than 3 billion dollars. A short (probably 100-1000x shorter) set of streamlined replacement laws can be designed by experienced lawyers within a few months.

We can make a contest that provides 5 million dollars for the best 3 designs for protocols and schemas for a common data exchange system, then another 5 million for the best 3 apps that allow people to process data. This will spend 30 million. We can use 100 million to buy off the politicians or companies that try to stop us. That should leave hundreds of millions left to donate to poor immigrant families and/or unemployed federal workers.

The app or site can be staffed by about 200-1000 online volunteers. This will be plenty assuming most routine applications can be processed within a few minutes.
Isn't this device immensely more powerful than that? You're comparing a Core M to i series, integrated weak GPU to powerful dedicated GPU, Surface Book has a larger higher resolution display - to be comparable seems incredible. Admittedly Surface Book has a lot more space/weight for battery so it's not really a fair comparison either way you look at it.

I'd be amazed if I could get my rMBP (2015) to pull 15 hours though which seems like a fair comparison on most fronts, so I'm definitely impressed.
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He misses the NVidia Shield. It has stellar gaming support, has the ChromeCast functionality included and has a similar set of media apps to the AppleTV.

Even with the prospect of AppleTV's app selection growing faster than Android TV's the Shield should be a worthy opponent.
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I think a difference here is not that people don't get things done with other languages, it's that the language was designed with that as a first class metaphor. (Whether or not that is true I can't say, but that's the feeling the poster gets.)
>So they took advantage of the fact that many Android devices shipped a kernel with a flawed copy_from_user() implementation that allowed them to copy arbitrary userspace data over arbitrary kernel code, thus allowing them to disable SELinux.

Why is it even possible to disable SELinux at runtime?
That should be a compile time option. Either you want the added security, or you don't. It's useless if someone can turn it off.

It required a flawed copy_from_user() implementation, which is now fixed. That's just not the only bug in the Linux kernel, there will be new ones. New ones that may or may not allow a attacker to disable SELinux. The problem is that it is modifiable.

Earlier today there was the story about OpenBSDs pledge(). One of the basic ideas of pledge is that you can't turn it off.
> the Indian population structure is I think, about 2,000 years younger. China's population has more or less one base

Wouldn't your above statement that China's population is a single base invalidate the OT's statement that China was more open to immigration?

Reading that link and following up on ASI, it looks like this is a truly ancient population set, ie: 3rd oldest after the first or second wave of migration out of Africa and past the Middle East. So it is interesting that this population set merged with numerous other population sets to form all the variation we see in South and South East Asia.
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Maybe to a pedant. But in the common usage of the term it is interchangeable with a free market, where competition is always allowed.
I don't think that a startup can solve their coding problems. Only scientists can solve their own coding problems by having the diligence and attention to detail that one would expect of a high school dropout with 2 weeks of a coding bootcamp under their belt.
A big step towards making the Internet more secure.
Kudos to Cloudflare for the amazing work they did.
4K is not ready for consumers yet. Here's my friend's 4K Samsung TV that can't do 4K over any HDMI port without buying a $400 upgrade

http://i.imgur.com/nOSULENh.jpg
Rather than a corporate conspiracy, your suggestion won't be implemented because it would exclude most scientists from the program in favor of bankers.
Started using Go for my latest project (a successor to Evernote). It feels like such a relief, especially having just come out of a node.js project. It's everything I wanted in a (web-app) programming language, and for the first time I can say that a language has actually made my code better. I've never had a codebase this clean before.
As a women in tech, I very much agree with you.

However, i've never had sexual harassment in work, but I do have it in public a few times a year so I do know how it feels.

I'm not sure if it makes a difference but i've been coding every week from the age of 13 (i'm 23 now). I've genuinely have next to always never felt anything but respect from my Male/Female colleagues. I'm a bit of a tom-boy though :).

On the rare occasion I ever felt I was not being taken seriously, I worked twice as hard to show and prove to them why I should be. Okay, fair enough, I shouldn't have to do that but I don't really care, it is what it is, I like the challenge and i'd rather provide evidence through my produced work than argue for ages about crap that won't get me anywhere.

Or complain and blame others. My life is in my control.

And it's not just being female that means I have to do that - people from different ethnic origins will do, people who have disabilities will do to prove their worth. It's just life.
> TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs.

> ...

> Gradient based machine learning algorithms will benefit from TensorFlow's automatic differentiation capabilities. As a TensorFlow user, you define the computational architecture of your predictive model, combine that with your objective function, and just add data -- TensorFlow handles computing the derivatives for you.

Interesting, it kind of look like the machine learning focused version of NASA's OpenMDAO (also a graph-based analysis and optimization framework with derivatives, but for engineering design).
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As for why you were downvoted: Accusing the majority of users on a forum of being trolls usually doesn't fly and it didn't fly this time either.
This effort has existed for many years. It is called Project Gutenberg. Unfortunately, the Donate button on their homepage (via PayPal) does not work.
You can choose an oversight? Once chosen, it ceases to be, no?
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Amusingly (or not), the UK went to all the effort of introducing "civil partnerships" which involved exactly all that upheaval, about a decade before just introducing equal marriage, which then led to a load more effort to allow porting a partnership into a marriage, as well as leaving partnerships in place for those who do want one or already have one.
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That would tend to concentrate all the H1-Bs in high cost of living areas and in high-salary fields, but other than that, it seems like a reasonable modification, provided that the companies are bidding on the minimum salary they'll pay, not the precise salary (to allow them some flexibility on the upside, but to still make it a market).
Based on punctuation analysis, word choice, tone, its not just any human but a mid 20s white female. Probably front ending google.

Real comedy would be going to mturk to try and find the task to communicate try to crack it recursively "M find me the mechanical turk task for this request".
> You're arguing that we should ignore evidence on the basis of political correctness, and I'm arguing that this is silly and dangerous.

I'm arguing that we should only consider evidence. You're arguing in favour of generalisations and prejudice.
> Dropbox was using Python as a main technology stack not that long ago so I'm not all that surprised they are seeing huge gains using Go

They still use Python if you read down the Twitter thread, but I can name so many more. Cloudflare for example.

The likely reason you see such a difference is that the languages are suited to different things. Swift for example is all but mandatory for iOS apps, and so this is not adoption but migration. If you're just looking for small freelance projects then I expect Go will be a long time coming, but if you're looking for large infrastructure work you'll find an awful lot of people very interested in Go.
Older article has some more context: http://m.nextgov.com/technology-news/2011/02/mismanagement-c...
With some effort you could make it work, perhaps make a pull request. Programming languages will likely still be around.

Using open formats and tools would likely help.
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Ignore that other project, and build what you wanted to. At a high level, your ideas may appear the same. But once you get into the low granularity details, your mind will always start thinking up features and improvements that are completely unique.
Tomoyo Linux is an option too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOMOYO_Linux
Go to Best Buy 3 years ago and look at all the 3D TVs and tell me that 3D television isn't about to completely dominate media consumption. TV makers aren't in the driver's seat.

You have to sit very close to even a 60" 4K TV to experience much of a difference - you essentially need a TV that dominates your living room to really discern the resolution leap. The performance penalty for games is severe enough that nobody's in a hurry to release a 4K console, so Apple gets a lot more advantage standardizing around one resolution.
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If DNS is the phone book of the Internet, DNSSEC is the unspoofable caller ID. DNSSEC ensures that a website’s traffic is safely directed to the correct servers, so that a connection to a website is not intercepted by a man-in-the-middle.

No, it doesn't. DNSSEC secures server-to-server DNS lookups, not the client-to-server lookups that your browser generates. DNSSEC is far less valuable than its proponents would like you to believe, and it comes at a significant cost to Internet trust: its real use case, that of replacing the CAs with DNS TLD operators, has the net effect of signing Internet cryptographic trust over to the world governments that control the most important TLDs.

It's understandable that Cloudflare would jump on DNSSEC: the protocol is famously annoying to deploy and has caused major outages, including breaking the first day of HBO Now across all of Comcast. DNSSEC is an opportunity for a company like Cloudflare to make the case that they should manage your infrastructure, not you; the more features like DNSSEC Cloudflare can find, the more market share they'll acquire.

But make no mistake: DNSSEC isn't about helping you with your security issues.

Obligatory: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
I am having a lot of trouble trying to understand the hype behind functional programming. I have read McCarthy's paper on LISP, completed Odersky's course on Scala etc. No revelation so far ( yes, maybe I am stupid, but I won't admit it ). Is it only useful for study as a model that inspired modern programming languages ? For example :

"obvious power of code becoming data."

Many languages have eval() where data can be treated as code.
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> challenge mapping one MAC address to one individual given the hundreds of people milling around the security area at times.

You don’t have to work on a static set of MAC addresses and individuals, rather, you can dynamically track arrivals and departures from your crowd of individuals. So instead of hundreds of people being more or less stationary you get movement data on the few new members of the set and on those who left, including whereto or wherefrom they moved.

After tracking not just one crowd but five, it should be possible to map out trajectories for both faces and MAC addresses. The larger the area or surveillance per traveller and differences in e.g. movement speed, the stronger the useful correlation between these trajectories should be.
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Having said that Rob Pike told me that Go is now one of Google's "official languages".
He forgot Kodi, the non-plus ultra in terms of streaming software. It wins every streaming device comparison just by not depending on closed hardware and beeing open source while supporting everything. Lacking an app? ( Not really, if you are missing an app in Kodi you'll miss it probably everywhere ) Sit back 2 hours and hack 100 lines in python to build it.

Also why is he recommending the fire tv stick and apple tv? The last time I took a look they weren't able to play AC3 and apple was still apple.

Edit:
I just read that huge wall of... text and can't recommend anyone to read it aswell. Most of it is superficial and extremely biased in favor of apple tv. Some facts are just plain wrong. Why is h264/aac vimeo excluded from chromecast compatibility? Considering the _streaming quality_ doesn't even make sense from a technical point of view. 10,000 words and little to no value or facts. I am literally amazed how little facts, specs and test methods are this essay which should be called "Let me tell you about my favorite streaming device and drop some names of others".

Disclosure: Developing my own Media Center on Top of Plex is my part time hobby, which consists mainly of writing plugins that run on a broad variety of clients ( CC, Roku, Fire TV, Xbox 360, PS4, Kodi, Android and so on) for my personal niche media sources.

I'd place Roku as #1 and take the Chromecast out of the comparison. Apples and oranges. I wouldn't consider Fire TV and Apple TV as an option unless you are already up to the neck in their system.
There actually is a salary condition in the requirements. In order to apply for the visa, the company needs to submit a job description along with the salary to the DOL, who then either approves or denies it. The salary for the position has to be above average for the position in the US. Yet this does not seem to stop any of these companies.
That certainly doesn't feel the case where I am. I suppose it may depend on your work field and environment.
In my experience, most of the problems people have with PulseAudio come down to buggy ALSA drivers not handling buffer resizing correctly. Adding tsched=0 as a module option "fixes" that by making them not export the buggy interfaces. The result is much the same as playing directly through ALSA.

The reason PulseAudio wants to use these interfaces is that it has to make a tradeoff between CPU utilization+battery usage versus low latency. If you use ALSA directly, the first application to open the device controls the size of your buffer. The first client was a music player requesting a large buffer? Then your SIP client will get high-latency audio. PulseAudio tries to fix this by dynamically resizing the buffer.

I'm sure there's actual issues with PulseAudio, but somehow most of the problems I see people complain about lie further down the stack.

Of course, discussion of pulseaudio is rather off-topic here, it was just one more example of how "just shut down the new thing!" is often easier than diagnosing the actual problem.
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Exactly. The root problem is that they're just not scientists.
What I mean by that is:

The startup I work at employees scientists, therefore the scientists are part of the startup, and it is our collective responsibility to create an atmosphere of good science.

Creating that atmosphere, in the face of years of habits and history, is a very difficult problem for a startup to solve.
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What do you mean by "diffcult learning curve due to Lua"? Lua isn't difficult. Lua is easier than JavaScript!

Or perhaps you mean to say that Torch itself is difficult to learn because of design choices that were made in order to use Lua?
I am a workaholic independent consultant - so I tend to work until 6.
Perhaps, I doubt his salary is that high, but he'll have significant amounts of of stock grants, options, etc.

Executive compensation is a very odd area, as I said, it pretty much depends how much money he wants.
It pisses me off that US is turning into a version of USSR. The housing described in the article approaches the horrors of Soviet communal apartments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_apartment
It would also increase the compensation of scientists (who also have other options than the H1B visa, such as the O1).