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> Once you get data races in Go, you realize that immutable data structures are indeed the right way.

False. There are more things in multi-threaded programming than are dreamt of in your philosophy. For some of them, immutability is very much the wrong way. It means some threads will be playing with stale data for some time.

I'm not saying that I'd want to write that kind of a program in Go, mind you. But your over-generalization is blatantly false.

And, in fact, I suspect that most people writing in Go aren't writing the kind of program where you could get data races at all. Multithreaded programming in Go (if I understand correctly) is mostly a matter of handling multiple independent data streams, not threads that need to access the same data objects.

I suspect that your over-generalization in the second paragraph is equally false, but I have less experience to validate that opinion.
A large part of that $1B is going to solving the market problem (for example, with content deals).
"Is this a dagger which I see before me?"

"No, dude, someone is feeding shit into your AR headset! Told you not to open that suspicous 'Thane of Cawdor' e-mail!"
I think that's sort of the idea of Microsoft's Songsmith.
Well the second video is a mock-up. In the first video notice that a) the observed things are floating in space and b) the camera motion is very smooth. This is how they sidestep the "layering problem" in the video. The desk leg occluding the robot is probably done using a depth sensor.
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/534971/magic-l...
In the first video you will notice that all of the augmented reality images are presented as added light over the background. That is much more plausible than the the second video where there are objects that can be darker than the background or even opaque. Maybe they have some solution for that but I would not expect it based on my knowledge of the area. In the next few years, I would expect any solution to those problems to come with other problems not visible in the second video.
> It is one model of the human brain

No it isn't. It's loosely inspired, but the goal is to make something that works, not to simulate what we know of the human brain. There's a different field, computational neuroscience, which does try to make faithful models of the human brain.
This is incredibly cool! Really well done. The entire experience with creating and listening to the tracks feels really good. I'm going to be using this for my next product demo video.

It's crazy how good the tracks sound.

One thing that would be nice is the ability (like some others have stated) to tweak the generated sound. For example, there might be a lull at 0:24 but given my video it would be best for the lull to be at 0:52 instead. Would be cool if the layers/pieces were moveable a bit to make it perfectly fit the content it's paired with.

Anyways, congratulations!
The question is what would be the actual real life speedup. If it is not easily parallelizable then it becomes much more interesting finding.

I am not familiar with the algorithms used, but name of QMC would suggest that this is an embarrassingly parallelizable problem, so my interest might be just from my ignorance i.e. I am looking for assurance that my assumption actually holds.

But if a quantum computer is demonstrated to have a huge constant speedup against a problem that could not be easily parallelized (i.e. not this case I assume) then cluster of classical computers could not catch up the difference.
If you give classical k cores, then to be fair you should give quantum k D-waves. If you are only making a scaling argument, then no need to include terms that cancel.

If you want to make a comparison between currently available hardware, then the metric should be some combination of speed, power usage, space, cost, etc.
The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the US
T-Mobile USA and Germany's T-Mobile are completely separate entities.
I mostly meant that there is tons of encapsulation in computer programming. Like one could be a full-stack engineer that could go from soldering a transistor (or designing an IC from scratch, to writing a web app that uses web sockets that sit on top of HTTP which is on top of TCP/IP sockets, which is served ruby sitting on top of linux which is virtualized by Amazon AWS which is managed by a hypervisor sitting on top of a cluster of computers, all talking to each other via TCP/IP..... etc.), and there are so many layers 'deep' to that cake.

And this is a personal feeling, but there is less encapsulation, in biology. There are less 'categories' of things that build on top of each other that you have to learn, but those categories are immense and the knowledge in each of those is incomplete. I suppose you could say the knowledge in some of programming is 'incomplete' by virtue of closed-source encapsulation (trust us, this hardware works like you think it does), but that is somewhat artificial.
They failed because they missed the great opportunity of promoting ad-hoc and mesh applications in their API and security model as first class citizens.
So ... more proof that D-Wave is fluff.
Using normal chess pieces? ....

1)

umm I mean you do have an 8x8 grid (8 bits each row) and you could have pieces make up bits being on or off and make a 8 letter phrase (each row being it's own letter).

(Ascii Wikipedia for your reference - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_printable_code_cha...)

2)

Maybe you could also do something like the Where Am I Game?

example:

I stay one night in Denver;
four nights in San Francisco;
And one night in Washington DC;

Where am I?

1 Denver = D
4 SanFrancisco = F
1 WashingtonDC = W

(DFW) -> Dallas

So you could do something like playing a chess game and for every attempted move (like player 1 moves a Rook but keeps his hand on it and taps the board thinking about the move and then places it down means the letter 'o').

3)

There was also a movie with Bruce Willis (or The Rock Johnson. I always get them confused). Where the main guy tries to escape from a space prison. There was one scene where they communicated over a chess game by only talking when there hand was on the queen. Any word spoken while on the queen was then concatenated to a sentance to convey what they were really talking about.
That must be intimidating to be going up against a company with that level of investment, hype and technology that you state as being "decades ahead of what anybody else has." Are you able to share what company you work for and how you are planning to compete?

Also, what would you consider the best consumer AR and VR experiences available on the market today, or expected to be on the market next year? Super interested in this space, but so far have only been able to demo the GearVR in a BestBuy and have an Unofficial Cardboard 2+ for my crappy Nexus 4 at home.
Even if we assumed that (but seriously though, I invite you to at least provide one valid, complete example) your argument is valid, what you're saying is that Go is good for that subset of cases ("some of them") where immutability is the wrong way.

Does not invalidate the fact that it has zilch to offer for the cases where its the right way.
If they targeted Mozilla all hell would break loose. Mozilla is no Napster! They would have one heck of a fight on their hands. I don't believe they would win.
I'm not sure that class-based polarization is inherently problematic. Surely some degree of inequality is an inviolable consequence of a society that values both freedom and private ownership.

Imagine an America in which the poorest families had two cars and a four-bedroom house, in a safe neighborhood with good schools. Would it then be considered problematic if Gates and Buffet became trillionaires?

The problem is poverty; the problem is that the south pole is too far south. It's problematic that many still don't have access to the fundamental Maslow's. The space between the poles isn't.
I find that the most anti-intellectualism, cheap-shot emotional abuse, and stereotyping on the Internet is motivated by moral sentiments through online pseudo "activists" who are really working out their anger and self-esteem issues under the supposed imprimatur of one cause or another. This goes for select subsets of both ends of the political spectrum, and select subgroups on both sides of any hot-button issue.

Attention is the currency of the Internet, and outrage is the easiest way to get it. Underlying most forms of injustice, especially systemic injustice, is the psychology of "othering." Any group that says it is furthering a cause of justice, but which does not go to careful lengths to check the natural tendency of groups to out-group outsiders, is a corrupt doppleganger, buying online social currency with the coin of outrage. Such groups do not heal society, but harm it, regardless of the ideology or cause they espouse.

There is no major cause which is free of such intellectually malformed pseudo-activisism. Neither are there any significant causes that are entirely formed of such. Calling out such hateivism should not be seen as taking or opposing a particular side. Activism worthy of the name should fight such hateivism done in its name. Those who would knowingly exploit such tendencies for more social currency and expanded membership are not worthy of the name activism.
"If someone is driving a SUV down the sidewalk I would probably call the police"

That's just obnoxious.

"the default is not dump whatever you want into the air."

Lol. Pass the news to industry. And seriously, with your attitude, you should be living a 100 miles away from the nearest car.
Northern Ireland will soon get its own corporate tax rate of 12.5-13%.
10^8, not 108!
What I was referring to are economic classes -- which are about ones relation to the economy and manner of interaction, and closely related to (though not identical to) wealth -- you seem to be talking about subcultures which have a loose correlation with economic classes.
Agreed. Maybe the dead American was Satoshi, the Aussie was more loosely involved, and is trying to pull a weekend at Bernie's.

It equally makes no sense that a man who has funds to assemble the Co1n machine with Tulip Trading would muck about with an elaborate hoax like this... It makes no sense in either direction.
Indiegogo wants to help Chinese startups crack the US
They did try the tablet space. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS/TCP

I signed up for the contribution program, received a tablet, built and ran updates on it, participated in Discourse discussions and wanted to do more. Sadly, builds started breaking, they weren't attended to, and the program died a slow death.
Show HN: Space Invaders (more or less)
I stand corrected. Thank you!
I don't think this should be in Show HN.
This is a Space Invaders clone I've been working on for the better part of a year, as i've been teaching myself some basic game development stuff with C++ and SDL2, such as dealing with pointers, spritesheets, fonts, entity-component frameworks, states, etc. The actual game itself is rudimentary but I thought was far enough along to get feedback on. Keyboard and controller are supported, but my controller didn't return all of the button states and I don't know why (SO question here getting no love:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33974828/sdl-gamecontrol...)

It's set up to compile using Visual Studio through a batch file on Windows, because after seeing Casey Muratori set a project up that way on Handmade Hero, I tried it with an SDL project on Windows and it worked. There's no makefile, sorry. I should also apologize in advance for the quality of the code - it's not well documented or anything.

This is basically what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9hwWUDT9f8

I hope someone has fun with it. Bad as it is, I certainly had fun making it.
Playing the Long Game: Mikael Cho on the Rise and Rise of Crew
This is precisely why I asked if you read the article. But it seems you only read the title and the first sentence.
Thanks for the great work!
I had no issues installing and getting it working with my nvidia card, I've been having fun with it whenever I get a chance :)

I'm running a Tensorflow Google developer group meeting in boulder every couple weeks if any of the authors/contributors is in town and wants to come and say hi to the group we'd love to have you.
gdgboulder.github.io
This article would be far more interesting if it showed ways of picking out inconsistencies even when embroiled in blind belief.
My experience as well.
That's demonstrably not true. Experiments have been done on this with animals. There have also been experiments with filling a space with ecig vapor, and calculating how much nic was is the air. It was extremely low. You don't know what you are talking about.
Talking to yourself, there?
"It turns out that somehow, Comey believes that the question of whether to ban encryption without backdoors is “not a technical issue.” He told the senators that “plenty of companies” provide services online while still maintaining the ability to read their users' data, and that “plenty” of smartphone manufacturers can unlock encrypted phones. Thus, he concluded, “it’s a business model question.”"

If you read between the lines a bit, it's clear that what they want is encryption to/from cloud hubs where data is stored using escrowed keys (a.k.a. server-side "encryption"). Many services already more or less do this, so the goal would be to push the entire market in this direction and then eventually to outlaw or otherwise restrict systems that do not work in this way.

This fits in with the dumb terminal / mainframe model of the Internet being pushed to varying degrees by most of the tech giants these days and with Amazon's vision for IoT.

It's stupid and naive to claim that there is some technical barrier to what the FBI wants. It's actually quite easy if we apply a bit of government pressure to push the Internet even further toward the "put everything in the cloud" direction it's already going. Anything in the cloud is almost by definition backdoored.
Funny you mention that. Was just thinking about the book "Rainbow's End." In the near future, it had most people interacting with tactile "muscle-movement" based input, and contact lens displays.

Wearables/wetwear are almost certainly going to be the future at some point. Our grandchildren will laugh when we tell them about having to hold a device in your hand with a tiny screen where you hunt and peck at an even tinier keyboard with your thumb.

Of course we also won't be used to being bombarded with the inevitable massive, vision-filling AR ads that will come.
In the patents they have filed, the occlusion is done with moire patterns. Based on other acquisitions and job listings, the patterns seemed to be tuned into occlusion masks with layered MEMS optical shutters.
That's how I took it, but don't dentists normally put the implants in? If dental insurance is paying for the implants and medical insurance is paying for the bone damage, there isn't a lot of incentive for the dental insurance to pay for expensive implants.
I'm not sure that this is completely the same, but when node.js was introduced it provided a server-side programming language that a ton of web developers were familiar with.

Swift is doing something similar now that it's open source there is a huge community of iOS (and to a smaller extent Mac) developers who are excited that they can code on other platforms (or will be able to in the near future) using a language they already know and love.
I've been using this the last couple of days, it is GREAT. I've been playing chess almost my whole life and I've learned so much.
Some good ideas?
It would work great for commercial, medical, and military training purposes. You can use it to train personnel how to perform tasks that would generally be considered too dangerous, expensive, or risky to jump into first hand training. Doing so could also help lower insurance costs.
Your advice is odd. There are high speed and slow speed handpieces. Slow speed handpieces are not water cooled and the RPMs do not get high enough to do damage to the nerve. High speed handpieces can damage the nerve and are always water cooled (at least if you buy them these days in America).

You're opinion on not going to a dentist who has graduated in the last few years is amusing. In America, most dentist get paid on either production or collection. Payment based on production is getting paid a percentage based on the treatments you bill the patient for, while collection is getting paid a percentage on what you actually collect (which is generally lower because of insurance, etc). Also, If a dentist just bought into a practice or bought an existing practice, that dentist has anywhere from 200K-1MM in loans. This likely outweighs whatever they might have paid for dental school. Because of this, almost all dentists are incentivized to "sell you dental work you might not really need." However, there are good dentists and bad dentists as there are in all professions. As with your primary care physician, it's best to build a relationship over many years with somebody you know and trust.

I'd also like to point out that dentistry, like computers, changes. New materials and techniques are invented all the time. In the dental profession, continuing education is required, but there is a lot of flexibility and most of it is just showing up to the class. This means recent graduates have less experience, but they might have improved technique and more recent technical knowledge.

I can't speak to your personal anecdotes, but I've met a lot of bad dentists too. I don't yet have a good filter for determining a good dentist or a bad dentist.

(Disclosure: Take this for what it is worth. My wife graduated from a top dental school and I know a huge number of dentists. )
The New 10 – US$10 to get redesign
Yes, but if a chunk of the middle class moved to the upper class, is that in and of itself a bad thing? Is it really preferable that no middle class move to the upper class?
I'm torn. Bill Nelson is my rep in Florida, and while I had to call him up to chew him out about trying to cut funding to the FCC for net neutrality enforcement, I find his support of this legislation to be positive.
I'm saying that to be actually meritocratic, where the merit to be assessed is expected college performance, using such factors (or, better, identifying the underlying reasons that existing measures do not work consistently across race, etc., and correctly using the underlying factors that research identifies) may be necessary. But I'm not arguing that admissions should be meritocratic, so by suggesting that something would be necessary for meritocracy, I'm not suggesting that it should be done. What I am arguing is that the claim that, but for AA, the admissions processes in use actually are meritocratic was, and remains, unsupported.
This is neither constructive, nor based on anything that your comment's parent's author has said anywhere in this discussion.
It's not genetics. It's all diet and hygiene.
How many cars were upwind of that poor doorman throughout the day? Did he survive?!
Is there some high-level document or blog post somewhere that outlines the vision of the systemd developers and why they are building these systems? So far I see a variety of projects (of IMHO varying quality) but no attempt at articulating a vision to tie it all together. What's the goal? What problem is all this stuff solving?
There are obviously fake reviews written by HR and managers on Glassdoor.

It's comical.
Wish it worked on my BlackBerry!
But if the upper class got bigger (in terms of numbers), they must have come from the middle class based on this data. That's a good thing, no?
Google has quietly launched an Akamai competitor
Awesome. I like you.
So that's why I can't install it :)
In your initial post, you said:

> The λ-calculus - a 70 year old system - already does everything that all those do, simpler and faster...

If you're saying that you can write programs faster in the λ-calculus than you can in Lisp/Scheme, I think you're kidding yourself. If you think they'll execute faster, I still seriously question your view. And if you think a medium-to-large program will be faster to understand if written in the λ-calculus, I think you're completely mistaken.
Why are you assuming they came from the middle class and not the upper class? Populations in each class are not static. Over that time period, folks moved from the lower class to the middle and upper.
In the post as of today!
Better Management Through Belles Lettres
They just took 1/2 of the median and 2x the median as cutoffs. You can argue that's it's arbitrary, but it seems like as good an estimate as any.
Sealants are generally applied on adult molars and premolars as a child. If you've not had cavities before there generally is no point in having sealants.
I'm reminded of the rule about headlines with a question mark at the end: the answer is always "No".
Good to see the forward progress. I needed to set up a metrics platform to serve tenants on a Mesos cluster, and picked InfluxDB over some alternatives for 3 main reasons: fairly reliable working state at the time (still using 0.8.8) with no dependencies, upward momentum, and stated priority of horizonal scaling. Looking back, it's held up reasonably well. I'm admittedly disappointed that stable, horizontally-scalable clustering keeps getting pushed to the next release. To be fair, it's hard, and the redisigns with the 0.9+ API and TSM tree are important - if you're going to sell people on a dedicated time series DB it has to be really really good at it.

In the long run, the full ecosystem development here will pay off.
I don't think that's right. Roman numerals allowed a bar over the number to indicate that it was multiplied by a thousand. One million, for example, was an M with a bar over it.

I agree about "counting numbers", though. So far as I know, it was impossible to represent fractions or decimals in Roman numerals.
The CEO of GE explains why his math degree is more useful than his MBA
The article does label key escrow as 'technical means that badly compromise their users’ security'. Now I'll be the first to admit that I'm not an expert, but saying 'well, you can use key escrow' ignores the fact that the authors label key escrow as one of the ways not to do it.
Yeah, absolutely. I wouldn't need more than 50-100 all year across all my sites.
Bitcoin has transaction fees. From my reading of the link below, on a $0.05 transaction as suggested in your screenshot, you'd be paying at least a roughly $0.04 transaction fee (0.1mBTC). Admittedly, it's not as bad as the $0.20 base fee that credit cards would charge but a 44% fee still seems prohibitive to me.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees
"In my experience, walking twenty paces behind a vaper vaping is even more unpleasant than walking four paces behind a cigarette smoker smoking."

That's psychological issue of yours. You think that, so you "feel" that.
In the mathematics community, D.E. Shaw is famous for hiring people who do well in mathematics competitions. While they were never identified explicitly, I had an amusing phone call after the first time I wrote the Putnam, which I have to assume was from one of their recruiters. As closely as I can remember it:

Recruiter: I understand that you did very well on the Putnam competition.
I work for a company in New York which is looking for mathematicians, and
we always find that people who do well on the Putnam work out very well
here. Are you interested in finance at all? Have you found a job yet
for after you graduate?

Me: Uhh... you do realize that I'm only 15 and won't finish high school
for another two years, right?
Airbnb engineering is also relatively tiny. About %10 of it is engineers as far as I remember.
Is it too much to ask that they actually look at the content of the pull requests?
Great, let the bullshit pour in ! I am sure the new ipc layer will make you 100 gagillion btc a second and solve world hunger . Yadda yadda yadda , google uses it .