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Web _advertisement_ developers did.

Also, to get money back for hosting content, ads was pretty much the only way, as a lot of people rather not pay a sub fee.

Patreon or similar options are the best I think.
Discussion of cost-effective alternatives is almost pointless now that we have the ACA, which is effectively a transfer of wealth from individuals to insurance companies for the sole privilege of breathing.

Oops, forgot at include dying also.
No need to redefine anything. DRM works as advertised (lame pun intended) - it manages rights to a product or service. The thing is, the default assumption that "I bought it = I own it" is often no longer the case. Most people just didn't notice. DRM makes it painfully obvious that you don't have the rights you thought you had.
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I'm really sick of "investors" thinking that trimming every little cost here and there is going to somehow fix things.

The investors aren't saying their plans would fix Yahoo. They are saying their plans would extract more dollars per share from Yahoo. I think they agree that their plans would lead to a dying Yahoo product.
But the two don't operate in the same airspace so there's no point. Fixed wings are over 1000 feet, drones are under 1000 feet (and typically under 500 feet).
Those of us with engineering or mathematical background wish that what you assert would be consistently true. My own experience in medium to large corporations indicates that this is only partially true and often requires substantial endurance and sub-par compensation before it begins to work out.

I like Jason Roberts article on Luck Surface Area
http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...

This rings much closer to the truth in my experience. The best results are some combination of what you suggest plus the confidence and ability to communicate about the good work that you have done.
It's rather buried on the site, but there is an online version of the game at http://www.loop-the-game.com/scoop/2015/7/21/play-floop-that... if you want to test out your intuitive theories about the geometry of this.
I like this proposal and I agree that randint is a bad idea.
Having had the pleasure of developing ZigBee stuff (NDA, so cannot name specifics), I can understand Philips' position of blocking 3rd party stuff.

Zigbee is nasty enough to develop for even if you HAVE all the relevant docs and everything, without adding stuff developed by others into the mix. The only thing why this crap ended upon users is because it's less power hungry than WiFi will be and has a bigger range than Bluetooth.
If the business model cannot survive an even bargaining table (i.e. where both parties have equal power instead), maybe it's not as sustainable and profitable as the traditional businesses which make a profit with unionised labor.

I personally don't think that Uber is that much worse than the old taxi companies, and it should continue making a steady profit despite losing its luxury of unilaterally dictating their terms and wages to the drivers.
You can even pair the ESP8266 with the Pi Zero to do the wifi on it!

http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=7053
I suppose I meant IoT gateways on further thought. It's been a while since low-level networking hardware was pushed into my head.

But generally my perception is that the evolution of the network before surplus CPU power made wonderboxes efficient (a "home router" that does everything!) is that network hardware evolved from simpler pieces into more capable but complicated (save on routers by using switches, save on switches by using hubs, save on hubs by using repeaters, etc etc).

So the original intent of my comment was that if we're faced with a network incompatibility issue (e.g. AppleTalk vs TCP/IP), then it'd be good to be in the business of making translation hardware.
Well for instance, if I see a commercial for something like Expedia I know immediately what Expedia is and how it can be used. I also know the web site name.

At the very least, Yahoo needs that type of thing: something to remind us who they are and why the hell you would visit their site.
I think this applies more in terms of 'this fixes a bug in X browser where Y happens'.
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In fact, in the two instances where I've worked at "closed shop" places early in my career, the combination of HAVING to join the union to keep my job, and Union dues, meant that I would have been making LESS than minimum wage as a result! (Worse in one case the dues were annual but I had to pay half up front-- which I wouldn't get back if I lost the job.)
It'd be awesome if `Esc` closed the visualization, it took me a moment to figure out I had to click the icon again to close out of it.
That's basically saying that you can't expect anyone to profitably provide support for a device that anchors an "open" system. There will always be bad actors who screw up the network for everyone else (especially when you're talking about a wireless network), and "civilian" (meaning non-tech-savvy) customers will usually call the network hub manufacturer for support, because that is where they will see the problem, regardless of where the problem actually originates.

Put another way, if your analysis is correct, it presents a fundamental weakness in any standardized architecture that relies on a central managing device, which could prevent the development of a robust ecosystem with many vendors.
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No, when people say 'first world problem' they're referring to a problem that simply doesn't exist in the third world and only by the virtue of our wealth we get to experience it.
If they were made much cheaper, they likely would not be standing today.
This particular code serves me well (in my consulting efforts) since 2008 and 2011. As for maintainability, I still clearly understand it and it can be immediately used everywhere.

If, by maintainability, you mean "looking at the mess I did some years ago in some large project and see how it turned out", then yes, I avoided such projects and large teams. Most of my code was written either by me alone or as a part of 2-3 persons team.
> I'm not an old fart by far, but even I have never imagined rebooting a refrigerator.

I have a mini fridge in my shop that is usually unplugged and has some weird problem with the temperature sensor relay jamming closed the first time after it is plugged in after a period of being off. "Rebooting" it seems to work.
not to mention, there aren't many places for food around 1st and matilda. A starving employee would have lower output.
Sigh... Too often that criticism is leveled at C++ without an understanding of the terrain.

I don't think C developers should be sitting on a high horse on this one.

C represents a pretty good example of the problem. Almost every program that relies upon the standard C runtime's random functions has a flawed random distribution, so any correct program completely bypasses that infrastructure and/or has a ton of additional code/complexity layered on top of it.

That open source basically festered until the C++11 <random> proposal was accepted. The chief proponents of that proposal were, of course, those with the most sophisticated needs & understanding for random functions, and the proposal reflects that. So, the problems with that proposal are arguably a consequence of the flaws in the original C standard.

What remains to be done is to harmonize that proposal with something that makes sense to less sophisticated users, who nonetheless have reached the point where their appreciate the problems with C's random functions.
So I am hearing ...

1) Get a job at Google 2) Write a Compiler in Spare Time 3) ... 4) PROFIT!!!!
<devil's advocate> How is that different from the externality people choosing to fly in airplanes are dumping on anyone else's use of airspace? Why should _your_ right to fly your Cessna/JetRanger/A380 trump _my_ right to fly a drone/kite/model-rocket?
Wow, what a sprawling article. At first it seems to just focus on how the popular physics class explanation of why the bridge collapsed was wrong...which is mildly interesting but I was hoping from the title that we'd get an indepth look at the engineering processes behind the bridge -- as I remember hearing far more about the bridge in my engineering classes than in physics. But the OP delivers some about the engineering, though I'm largely ignorant of the details about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (based on the film footage, I had assumed it had happened in the 60s, because I didn't think color footage would have been easy to take in the early 40s).

I liked this detail a third-way through:

> To be fair to Moisseiff and his engineers, the phenomenon of aerodynamic instability wasn't well understood at the time. But it wasn't completely unknown either. The last collapse of a suspension bridge due to its reaction to the wind occurred five decades earlier, when the Niagara-Clifton Bridge fell in 1889. (The heavyset design of the Brooklyn Bridge, which opened five years earlier, in 1883, was meant to withstand the sorts of forces that had affected suspension bridges in previous decades.)

> Just four months after Galloping Gertie collapsed, a professor of civil engineering at Columbia University, J. K. Finch, summarized suspension bridge failures in an article in Engineering News Record. "These long-forgotten difficulties with early suspension bridges, clearly show that while to modern engineers, the gyrations of the Tacoma bridge constituted something entirely new and strange, they were not new—they had simply been forgotten."

The most recent example of a similar failure was 50 years earlier. No doubt the information would propagate to some degree through engineering libraries...but given how much we today forget about engineering failures and case studies (in the software engineering context, some would argue that the memory hole cycle seems to be about 6 months long) despite vastly improved information pipelines, I've always wondered how difficult it was to learn and maintain best practices in the engineering disciplines before the past few decades.
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> You can opt out of using the smart features, but the presence of wifi and bluetooth stacks and cameras and microphones means that you are living with a long list of vulnerabilities and potential intrusive/abusive behavior.

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Earlier I used to read those carefully.

Today I don't have time and I think it might one day be a good thing to be able to say: "you seriously thought anyone read and agreed to that thing? bwa bwa bwa hahahaha".

I think this part of law is ripe for some serious updates; some updates that will hurt a few established law firms but help everybody else, users, companies and lawyers currently boring them selves almost to death over standard contracts.

I'd hope in the future we'll have baseline contracts (around here this is already partially implemented in a few areas) protecting both users and producer, but seeing UK trying to implement restrictions on photography I'm not to optimistic.
Oh yeah its accessable from China. But I meant that there is no cloudfront edge region in China so chinese customers must cross the firewall and it is really really slow for them.
Same here, I love mine as well. As a plus, the company seems to be pretty open-source friendly, and they've published official APIs and full protocol documentation over the last few months.
They did, but they were worth double the shittons a year ago. That's why they got bought.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/coffee-machine-maker-...
Very, very few of the product teams have reached out, interestingly enough. The ones that have have usually been along the lines of "yeah... we're working on that..."

As for re-reviewing them, thats definitely something I'd like to get to at some point. For now, though, I'm just a single person and can only review so many as it is!
Well, what do you expect? P-zombies' facsimile of empathy can only stretch so far.
I think that with sufficient determination I could have pushed it through, but it was a side project, I was a junior engineer, & I would have needed significant design resources & buy-in to get it to shippable. I believe it would have been possible (Chrome is an especially open & flat structure within google, compared to e.g. Android), but I wasn't willing to go through the effort at the time. I ended up leaving Google to be one of the first engineers at Transcriptic :)
I learned in a discussion with "kragen" that "software engineering" sort of took on a life of its own that turned into a nightmare of management-focused stuff harmful to programming. Most programmers, especially mainstream crowd, have an aversion to the term from the permanent association. I started saying CompSci and focusing on prior techniques rather than "engineering" due to that permanent scarring. As in my other comment, I just focus on specific techniques and processes that help programmers do their job with evidence they work.

It's my suggestion to you. I'm going to try to dig up and read that paper out of curiosity as I know many useful things came out of software engineering research. Most won't, though, the second they see "SEI" or "software engineering." So, might be best for us to just drop that and focus on improvements to "programming" or "development" with specific techniques.
Read this

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-12-02/yahoo-is-lo...

"But what is much more shameful is that the whole point of Yahoo as a company right now is to not pay taxes on Alibaba. I realize that seems a bit hyperbolic, but just look at those numbers. Those Alibaba taxes are worth at least two and a half times the value of Yahoo's entire business. If there was a way to avoid paying taxes on the Alibaba shares that involved burning all of Yahoo's actual businesses to the ground, Yahoo should do that all day long, and then do it again the next day. It would still add shareholder value."
Thanks for the input, updated the post.
He, my bad then. English is very contextual. Point in case, prescriptive could also mean a speaker of E' must speak prescriptive. As foreign speaker, i then figured it means descriptive, which would've made some sort of sense to me, but is actually the opposite in linguistic terms.

Now I get down into semantics, can E-Prime prescribe something or is it the name of a rule-set that can be prescribed? I lean to the latter, hence my remark is still valid?

On another note, I find the recursion mentioned by OP quite interesting in a broader context. Choice of grammar has meaning itself.

Edit: Ultimately though, language is inherently underspecified, I heard, and I suppose in linguistic context it means a lack of definite distinction. You could go on subdividing prescription into negative and positive, i.e. prohibitive and, say, constructive. You could divide that ad infinitum. No?
I've found youtube's related videos list to be quite good at this (and I bet they must be already using some AI for recommendations?)... So you could look for the song title/id and get what youtube thinks are the related songs/artists:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list#re...
This is the most interesting part of the article:

> We often think of Google as a source from which we seek information directly, on topics like the weather, who won last night’s game or how to make apple pie. But sometimes we type our uncensored thoughts into Google, without much hope that Google will be able to help us. The search window can serve as a kind of confessional.

> There are thousands of searches every year, for example, for “I hate my boss,” “people are annoying” and “I am drunk.” Google searches expressing moods, rather than looking for information, represent a tiny sample of everyone who is actually thinking those thoughts.

I've typed similar thoughts into Google. Not these exact ones, and certainly not hate speech, but I've Googled thoughts relevant to things that are bothering me. In particular, I tend to Google my regrets in life, like how I never had the childhood I wanted or how I regret not transitioning earlier, or similar thoughts along those lines, like how I wish I could believe in reincarnation.

I do this in order to find like-minded people on forums and such. I've no intention of reaching out to them (especially since their posts are often years old when I find them on Google), but it's comforting to Google my deepest regrets and find that a stranger on some Internet forum had the exact same thoughts five years ago. Maybe I'll even get something out of seeing the responses to those posts.
Based on current observation, they'll choose to buy the "smart" tv that comes with built-in overlay advertisements because it's $X cheaper.
Hand-in-hand, culturally: if there is a problem, it means an unregulated market didn't solve the problem. Since by definition unregulated markets can't have unsolved problems, the problem must exist and protecting the dogma requires demonstrating that the problem is a lie made up by sensationalist media.
I don't know exactly, but I estimate it must be around 15-20K LOC.
... Also, I just realised it overrides cmd+arrow keys. Those are super important for navigating in text on OS X! Unfortunately I'll have to disable until it doesn't do that, since there doesn't seem to be an option to remap or disable those keybinds.
Ubuntu are aiming directly at this problem by providing the base OS and making it possible for vendors to then layer on the functionality they need: http://www.ubuntu.com/internet-of-things

How much vendors are willing to use something like this remains to be seen. Personally I resist buying things that I think will have a poor security update record. I'd like to see more pressure on vendors to do the right thing here, especially because there is at least one reasonable solution available.

Disclosure: I work for Canonical, but am not associated with the IoT work in Ubuntu.
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> Boss: We introduced Hue back in 2012 w/ the intention to bait and switch the market once we achieved market lock in. Do it now

FTFY
Yep. I have an iPhone 4S that still works great. Granted, iOS 9 is a bit slow, but that's to be expected. It's much better than my 4-year-old PC, which can barely handle today's games, for instance.
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> they don't delete it anyway

Source?
And we hugely benefited from their spectacular failure.
> That "everyone" has to include the leadership of the company. All they have to do is say "no", and the whole thing goes up in smoke.

That "no" means they have to be willing to replace a substantial amount of their employees (including those who might not be part of the union but are willing to go along anyway when they see the terms of the negotiation), deal with the bad PR the union can bring to bear (strikes at large companies are major national news), find replacement employees who can look at that PR and still say "I'm willing to work for this company", deal with falling stock prices, deal with the public or partners potentially choosing to not do business with them, and do all that while continuing to fulfill existing contracts and orders that don't care what troubles they're having. That's a pretty massive "All they have to do". The wrong call there can put a company out of business.

If they're still willing to go through all of that, and the cost of doing so is still cheaper than granting the union's requirements, then they'll say "no", and the union's attempt to bargain will fail.

> Unless they're afraid of getting fired.

Yes, that's the risk you take. You have to actually be willing to quit and stand with the union if you want the union to fight on your behalf. You have to be willing to be out of work and not get a paycheck. The situation needs to be serious enough to put that on the line.

Unions are an incredible tool, and I'm in favor of them. That doesn't mean I'm in favor of laws enshrining them into disproportionately more power than they already wield.
That's why I said "going to". In the future it'll be much easier to hit those people with big fines and/or jail time.

I assumed that was the context of the discussion of this thread.
That is certainly true. Nevertheless, I believe the parent's point stands. "Gamifying" metrics such as time-to-discharge and pain medication usage will certainly alter the incentives of such an institution.
I must have missed the bit in the article where they explained how all local cops are going to receive training in "drone inspection" and access to an up-to-date database of registration numbers.
I remember my first experience with running LXDE.

Turns out drag-and-drop between folders had been implemented, but no one had decided to code drag-from-folder-to-desktop as a feature.

... I wish I was kidding.
Sort. A counterpoint I read on this topic indicated it might be rigged a bit. The comparison was to an emulation of D-Wave's own annealing process on a single-CPU machine. That's... already an unfair representation of simulated annealing's performance on classical hardware. I'd compare the solution of a problem to optimized algorithms on NUMA machines, GPU clusters, and FPGA clusters that cost whatever D-Wave costs. Given that's all one knows about how it really works past their claims: input X dollars to get Y performance and Z energy-use. ;)

Note: One could also compare to performance of single machine with CPU's, GPU's, FPGA's, and/or ASIC's to be more fair. Just needs to be optimal, classical implementation on HW designed for it vs optimal use of D-Wave.
How many sexual harassment lawsuits were there? Why would anyone think this is OK?
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Really excellent list. Might add that Nassim Taleb's Incerto series (while an effort at times) offers insights that dovetail nicely with the startup journey.
This looks fantastic. Exactly the kind of intro for deep learning I've been looking for.
Guilty as charged. The blog is new (days old), but server rendering will be coming.
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Right. They basically want to run the company out and milk it for cash distributions.
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Zwave works great. Ppl harp on it because it's not 'open' - yet there is an open source interface library, products from dozens of vendors interoperate great, there are many choices in software to drive it (open source and commercial with more features). Meanwhile the 'open' alternatives like zigbee don't interoperate at all (in practise), and that is if you can buy products that use it at all; and now there is this hue debacle. I never got what people like about hue at all; is it that they are just screw in and don't need further setup? Home automation is so much more than turning the lights on and off with your phone. That's trivial. It was clear from the start that hue would be very narrow in application. (I'll admit though that using lights to follow what's on the tv is cool, and not available in any other system I know of)
About 8 years ago, I used LeJOS to do Java programming on an NXT brick. It looks like they've updated to support the newer EV3. It's nice to see that they're still in active development.