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I maintain that, even if one were to grant everything you've written, the disparity in economic and military power is so significant that there would still be no comparison to be made between the fall of Rome and the current circumstances of Western civilization.

The death of 150 people is a great tragedy. Its impact will be felt directly by tens of thousands, and indirectly by millions. But this is nothing in comparison to the events foreshadowing the sack of Rome, and there's little reason to believe it is a sign of things to come.

I think we are simply so sensitive to these acts of violence that we have lost our bearings -- there is simply no realistic series of events by which Islamic extremists can topple Western civilization.
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Quantum computers inch closer to reality as engineers prove Einstein wrong
This MIT Tech Review article is based on only a single, non-peer-reviewed preprint, with missing figures, written by non-experts. The preprint presents a "theory" with no data to support it. I guess it would take real work to do real reporting.
It is tiny. Your Vanguard fund doesn't do manual rebalancing like that. It rebalances automatically by deciding what to buy as new money is added to the fund and what to sell as money is withdrawn.

Charge an extra 0.1% when someone deposits and 0.1% when they withdraw, and that means 0.2% covers the entire cost.
"At the Robin Hood Investors Conference in New York on Tuesday, Lyft said it expected to generate about $1 billion in annualized gross revenue next year, a figure that does not account for the cut of money the drivers take from each transaction."

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't the driver's "cut" like 80%+? This seems pretty misleading
I run XBMC on Nexus Player, which costs less than $50.

You can install Kodi from Google Play store. It can smoothly play 1080p videos from NAS or USB. It also runs most of the video add-ons available for XBMC.
Does this remind anyone else of a very rudimentary looking Gibson (from Hackers)? Only 20 years in the making...
Misleading in what way? It's gross revenue, not profit.
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> Yet the USA spends more on its military and drones and still cannot stop ISIS

If your argument is that the current US strategy is not effective against ISIS, that's one thing, but otherwise please...The US could stop ISIS in a matter of minutes if it chose to employ nuclear weapons for example. It could easily stop them in a matter of weeks or months if it chose to engage in total war without regard to resulting civilian casualties in the area. The reason the US does not engage in such actions is because it has deemed them to be morally dubious and also not politically palatable domestically or internationally.
Do you think, if the FBI hadn't gotten involved, that he would have had the initiative to put this plan, or any similar plan, into action himself?

Based on the article, it seems to me that he almost certainly would not have. He appears to be naive, gullible, and latching on to one thing or other for direction. When placed on a perfectly set up stage for doing something horrible, he did it. But without that perfect stage, what would he have done? He's clearly not a "good person", and could definitely be described as "immoral". But it's not clear to me that he's a criminal and deserves jail time. It seems like he didn't meet the requirements for an entrapment defense, at least according to the jury. But it still seems very close to entrapment: he's essentially being punished for a a tendency or a willingness to do horrible things, even if he would never have done them without specific encouragement.
Thank you for sharing this OP, never heard about it before.

Christopher Alexander (architect and influencer of GoF's original software Design Patterns) very cleverly re-frames design problems in one of his books [1] as optimization problems, where the designer is tasked with minimizing the tension between two or more conflicting requirements arranged as a graph, and where each requirement interacts positively or negatively with it's neighbours. By representing a design problem this way, it follows that "solving" it amounts to clustering requirements together to form sub-components that interact well together, or redefining the solution/context boundaries to re-frame the problem and minimize the overall tension.

It's interesting how this TRIZ framework arrives at many similar insights about the design problem, and I wonder what you get by mixing the two approaches. A lot of what makes it hard to apply is also what makes Christopher's framework hard to apply, which is clear definition of the requirements in the first place. C-K theory seems to overcome these limitations but I haven't played with it yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_Synthesis_of_Form

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-K_theory
Hm I thought Xeon Phi was sort of a failed launch? I remember the previous version being heavily discounted at one point, and it didn't seem like they were releasing new versions very quickly.

What are people using the Xeon Phi for?

nVidia seems to be making a killing off machine learning applications. The entire GTC 2015 was about deep learning.

I assume that Xeon Phi is not nearly as effective for machine learning (?).
This repo can haz README.md? :P

Seriously, this looks really interesting, but "firehose of code!!1" is generally ideal for dispersion, not retention, and when combined with "ooo, I want to try this" results in a small sense of panic :P
Unless it's connected to the internet and does some online verification of single use, it seems kind of pointless protection. I expect a dumped mmc card is already available on torrent trackers...

Edit: of course depends on which model it applies to. If it's for the $15k range, then I don't think anyone would care about extra $400. If it's for the $1k range however, it's going to be a lot of skilled, money saving individuals.
Can anyone confirm that this thing will work as an Android WiFi device without any kind of activation nonsense?

I like cheap Android devices for testing software (the cheaper and nastier the better, actually...)
Indeed, but when the net is 20% of that it feels pretty misleading (at least to me). "Cut of money the drivers take" being 80%? The wording feels very off
Sadly, it sounds like the e-mail you get from mangers when they want you to keep working until your replacements are ready to discard you properly. I agree with you that those two e-mails say totally different things.
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You also have the option of Amazon FireTV or Fire Stick. http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV You can enjoy netflix, amazon prime, hulu, etc and install Kodi. Although you have to go through an extra step to install it. Amazon removed Kodi from its store officially.

It otherwise plays exactly like an HTPC. Everything I threw at it played fine.

The only downside is that it does not support HD audio passthrough.

http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV
What if it's in a "secure element" whose hardware and firmware make it provably incapable of divulging the private key?
It definitely looks better when viewed as a screenshot or in a graphic design presentation. Of course actual usability is far worse, but nobody cares about that. Only how shiny it is. The people making the decisions on which design to go for are given screenshot or mockup presentations in 5 minutes and asked to choose which design to go for. They will always go for the shiniest one, and you end up with stuff like this.

There's some comment about the low attention span we force on executives by making them take 1000s of decisions per day that they aren't even experts in and rewarding them for it in all this.
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Please don't depend on bootstrap. Require jQuery if you really need too, otherwise raw DOM would be lovely and keep your deps down.
I wonder as USB-C gains popularity, will we see a USB-C stick?
There are a bunch of atom-based devices for a hundred dollars or so. One of the ones that looks tempting for me is the Kangaroo -- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883722... -- $15 more than the chromebit, and you get twice the storage space, two usb ports, one of which is usb 3, and an all in all more interesting device.
I'm shocked how expensive that is. Cool find though. Didn't know it existed.
I don't think that would be the case. If a couple of western Governments "ban encryption" it would probably just mean that they weaken the crypto (e.g. backdoor). The traffic of weakened crypto still looks the same as the traffic of strong crypto - I don't think it would make strong crypto any more noticeable.

Also remember that crypto would still be legal in the rest of the world (China is not going to backdoor their crypto for the NSA's benefit) so you would still have heaps of encrypted traffic moving across the internet. I doubt that such a measure would do anything but make mass surveillance of western populations easier.
There is a GitHub issue for keyboard accessibility, although I don’t see this as a necessity it shouldn’t be too hard to add, so I will probably get to it at some point. Thanks for the feedback.
Right, and if it were possible for a "good person" to prove that they have been the target of illegal surveillance, they would have standing and they could challenge the law without creating any unfortunate situations.

The problem is that by the nature of surveillance and what the government does with the results (uses the tastiest bits as evidence and hides the rest), only "bad people" will ever be able to prove that they were the target of illegal surveillance. Thus the unfortunate situation.
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Sadly the Linux ecosystem seems to be getting a whole lot of that managerial double talk lately.
Can anyone familiar with this say if it runs one coroutine per thread? How does a coroutine get it's own stack? If coroutines share threads, is it possible to switch in between a coroutine say when it's blocked on IO like it is in go?

I'm not an experienced go developer but my understanding is that it's possible in go to have millions of goroutines each blocked on IO. I don't see how a C function could mimic that. I thought stack moving was an essential requirement of any runtime that wants to mimic go in this way.

I've looked at some of the special macros like coroutine and go and it looks like libmill runs the entire function fn when you call go(fn) so if fn is blocked on IO then your entire thread is blocked on IO and you can soon grind to a halt if you have even a few blocked coroutines.
So?
By law you also can't grab the higher end tig welder next to it.

Your argument seems to be essentially "if they want to do this, they should have to produce identical models with slightly different firmware and give them different skus and blah blah blah blah blah"

That seems pretty silly.

These are market segmentation restrictions, they would normally just do what i suggested, and produce models with identical insides except for the firmware rom.

Why force them to do that, exactly?
IE what grand purpose does it serve?

This is, IMHO, very different from "you've made it illegal for me to play with my phone that i own", because you don't want to put your stuff on it or mess with the hardware using your software, you just want to not pay for the stuff they wrote.

If you want to install your own firmware on the tig welder hardware, that isn't theirs, and you wrote, awesome, that sounds great. I'll support you to death.
I've been thinking about a raspberry pi for this purpose but I'd prefer something already packaged up (even if it was a pi underneath).
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NVIDIA Titan X today: 336 GB/s, 7 teraflops

Intel Xeon Phi next year: 400 GB/s, 6 teraflops

NVIDIA Pascal next year: 1 TB/s, >10? teraflops

NVIDIA still wins for my applications. Intel is aiming too low.
My understanding is that libdispatch is not a replacement for go's concurrency. With libdispatch each block (closure) that you dispatch runs on a given thread, if that block stalls for any reason then your thread is blocked. So even with a few blocked blocks (heh) your system could be stalled which is not the case with go where you can have millions of goroutines that are blocked.
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You're right, Fed loans are paid off, not transferred for serving, perhaps... I originally assumed they would want to centralize servicing of Fed loans as well, and keep the underlying Fed loan alive underneath since it's a cheap source of funds. But they don't do that, probably not technically possible.

Did I read that right, refinanced / private student loans are dischargable in bankruptcy?
On a related subject, can someone shed some light on the reasons and maybe the legal justification for export controls for these processors? I recall reading an article a few months ago about limitations imposed on exports to China of Xeon processors. Are these such a competitive advantage?
> sort of a failed launch

Yeah. But I think it's good for Intel to follow through here instead of abandoning it like they did Larrabee. Intel has some real design talent, so it would be great if they can get their software team and hardware team to work on a solution that competes well with GPUs.

It doesn't help Phi that Intel's OCL support isn't quite there yet, IMO.

If they could just put their weight behind OCL and add their own extensions to support the cases where their accelerator design is different from GPUs, it would be attractive to HPC types to port their software to support it, IMO.

> What are people using the Xeon Phi for?

I don't know but I suspect it will shine for CPU-bound code that folks don't want to waste time porting x86 executables to a new language/framework. Memory-bound stuff will probably not see an advantage over GPUs. I don't think they'll attract enough attention to TBB/Cilk or whatever they're promoting alongside Phi.
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Seems like a good reason to at least have an international and local no-fly list separate. How's access to flights in Alaska different from access to flights in every other state? Unless there is a difference and I'm missing something?
I suppose I hadn't really thought about why they'd use Facebook when you can just message all the cellphones in a geographic area. Your reasoning makes sense.
How long are your breaks?
Some would argue that "gross revenue" should only include the amount that Lyft gets paid, not the amount that they hold in escrow for their drivers.

This is more a question of semantics than anything else.
Yeah, Intel's behind the curve for sure. But what if they had a soup-to-nuts open ecosystem? IMO that can be a real winner for simple, convenient deployment of a total solution.

It doesn't make up for being a generation+ behind, but I expect they'll catch up over time.
Isn't Amazon's profit margins on sales something like 5% or worse? This doesn't seem any more disingenuous than most other businesses.
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> As a Muslim, this article is an eye opener as to how individuals become radicalised. Part of it is due to Terrorist publications, I don't see why these articles/magazines aren't actively being taken down. Most Daesh foreign fighters were recruited through such channels as well.

As far as I know, most of them got recruited through friends (people often join as a group, apparently).
Buzzfeed news is actually pretty reasonable lately. It's buzzfeed-the-portal that's producing crap. It's so separated that I don't even see buzzfeed-the-portal crap links on buzzfeed news sites.
It could work like license keys for software before the internet. In this case it could be made a bit better if tied to a hardware identifier and verification could be done in hardware based on some unique id thing.

The problem then of course is that how much of the actual functionality goes through that "protection module"? They can put some hardened super secure module but if it just connects into the main functionality via a 1/0 wire, then the bypass will just be to cut that wire and install a fix there. (I've seen that in software as well, fancy shamncy public key license check followed by a simple "if not verified, then disable feature" check in main code).

I think the important part here is the legal protection. Sure they know people will bypass it. But they also know that they can no go after some (larger companies) if they need to and sue them because now the law is in their side.
Gibbon wrote at a time where literary sources were the main material that was used. He actually was something of a pioneer in the 1700s in trying to tie his arguments to cited texts, which is admirable, but given how much ancient historians inherently carried a load of bias and often were offering third-hand accounts at best, they were deeply unreliable. Often histories were laden with propaganda and politics.

Modern historians still do look to those historians, but are much more critical about vetting their reliability on topics, have more texts to work with (largely in thanks to the Oxyrhynchus discoveries - Oxyrhynchus was basically an ancient garbage dump in Egypt which thanks to the arid climate preserved a huge trove of texts.) Historians also have a lot of other material to work with - archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics that either weren't available or weren't really considered in Gibbon's time. Many of these offer more objective data about the goings on of the empire and can tell us a lot about things happening all over the empire and show how unreliable the texts discussing events can be.

Modern historiography tries to approach history from as objective and critical a stance as can be managed, rather than seeing history as a kind of tapestry to weave a preconceived narrative from. Gibbon's historiographical approach was to weave a history from the documents that while for the most part was roughly accurate in many details, was all about building a grand narrative of how the Late Empire fell due to Christianity effectively ruining everything it touched, miring the empire in "superstition," and "enthusiasms." Today historians recognize that we are better off focusing on building as reliable an account as we can while a historian should (at least attempt to) leave the moralizing and grand narratives out.
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What happens when something blocks for synchronous I/O?
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Side note: If the exclusionary rule was a punishment, it's a rather bad one as it allows police to toe right up to the line and if they cross it the worst they get is they lose the piece of evidence they wanted. It's merely a bright line that encourages a muscular police force to toe right up to the boundary. If police were punished (e.g. fined, fired, jailed, lose the entire case, etc) for violating someone's constitutional rights, they would go nowhere near the line.
Nobody will probably see this, but this is my take on the undertone I get from reading this:

"Manufacturers are lazy, and hardware/driver implementations are often buggy and not sufficiently restrictive. Lobbying the manufacturers didn't work[citation impossible], so we might need to block DD-WRT et al. on devices that are sufficiently enough that they freely allow firmware like DD-WRT (and OpenWRT) unmitigated access to the RF chip's parameters via an insecure driver."

Of course they had to be much nicer and much more opaque than that, so everyone got confused.
That looks interesting, but it's out of stock in Australia at t he moment. It does say Intel HD graphics, but does that mean 1080p?
Many low fee funds charge exactly 0.1% annually for the magement fee. They are frequently designed to be 'no load' funds, which, under regulatory requirements, may charge a maximum management fee of 0.25% per year. Additionally, they are prohibited from charging the load fees you described (entry/exit) if they are marketed as 'no load'. Investors benefit substantially from the availability of these funds, and charging 10 basis points (0.1%) per transaction makes them untenable.

You should also consider that rebalancing happens more frequently than when shares are created or redeemed. Suppose a fund has a mandate to track the S&P 500. If a symbol is replaced by another in the index, the fund will need to alter its holdings, incurring transaction fees.
I'm confused. What are you providing? Design & hosting? Or a whole management platform down to shipping? Actual shipping?

Doesn't seem very clear.
What does this offer that three.js doesn't already? Is it as extensible either?
Its based on http://presentz.org, which sadly appears to no longer be maintained.
Any thoughts on how this compares to MPLD3? http://mpld3.github.io/
I have alias foo='bar;tput bel' in my .bash_profile which does the same thing.
While the 12c has been sold for years, they did release an upgrade version a few years ago which is much faster. I believe one of the gripes of this was the keys had the symbols painted on. Not sure if this article is referencing this
Why do you think they still do it? It would seem they have enough people for someone to check NVIDIA's numbers.

Are they offering something closer to general purpose CPUs, something that could schedule OS threads to run on it?
I assume as they are getting outside funding, someone has vetted their underwriting models and loan population. I was curious to learn more about their sources of funds, number of current employees, i.e. fund performance, unfortunately nothing written here.

They are mining more information and winning a lower rate for it. To that end they are succeeding. Without understanding the source of funds, and any guarantees they are making, it's important that they provide long-term durable ROI to justify the lower rates.

If they get the lower default rate they are paying for, then Earnest has created a superior product. Their default rate doesn't and shouldn't have to be zero, but I would be afraid of trying to make up on bad underwriting with poor servicing tactics. I hope both centers are striving to be excellent at their respective jobs.

Since default rates on these loans is high and rising, there is a strong incentive to lower it. If default rates were consistently low, paying more for a marginal additional reduction wouldn't be worthwhile. When default rates are trending higher, I believe you need exponentially higher interest rates in order to break even.
Assuming the figures that Conrad is saying are correct, it is still an amazing company that is growing quickly. Just investors are starting to take a more realistic view on valuations, and readjusting those valuations in their books.

Just because super ambitious growth targets aren't met doesn't mean the company is about to go under...
Ah, Uber took money from Google Ventures, that's why Uber is listed as an option in my Google Maps app.