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> Libertarians argue against regulations

Every party has flaws. Every philosophy that derives from first principles has flaws. If there's a flaw in libertarianism, it's that it doesn't recognize externalities well.

That it infuriates you is problematic. I bounce all over the spectrum on what I believe, and I frequent the DMV voter registration guy to change parties enough that he knows me by name. That said, no matter how much you love any particular philosophy, it can't always hold to be the rightest thing ever.

The American left thinks that it's too burdensome to demand an ID to exercise the right to vote, which isn't even enumerated in the constitution, but think that in-depth background checks are perfectly acceptable to purchase a firearm. The American right feels exactly the opposite. A true civil libertarian believes that an ID infringes on both, and would reject registration hurdles for both.

In scenarios like this I believe that libertarians hold the most enlightened view, which is why I sometimes refer to myself as a libertarian for convenience, depending on the conversation.

> libertarianism has no shades of gray.

On this I disagree vehemently. There are many, many shades of gray within libertarianism. Yes, there are absolutists in every camp, and yes, as with every other camp, they tend to be vocal, but there's no singular libertarian rulebook that everybody follows. There's even a Wiki article on their quibbles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debates_within_libertarianism

Generally speaking, the one universal truth within libertarianism is the non-aggression principle, which states that force should not be used. As most penalties eventually result in force (not paying taxes results in jail), it tends to seem absolutist, but not all libertarians are propertarians, nor are they universally opposed to business obligations (like carbon offsets and the like).
I'm surprised nobody's hacked the Intel compiler to compile for AMD chips. I'm sure it's for fear of litigation.
The biggest legal threat to Uber's business just got a whole lot bigger
Thanks! As long as the screen can be described entirely by the IO rendering functions and the state within the recorded Lua data structures, there's no need to record each pixel color - simply replay the IO rendering functions in the same order using the same Lua state.

The prototype takes advantage of the fact during every frame the screen is reset, and is rendered from scratch. The prototype's "time travelling" works by going back to the very beginning of the program, and replaying every single step. Even if the screen isn't reset every frame, as long as the program can reset the screen when it goes back to the beginning, it will be able to handle replaying the graphics IO.

With "additive" IO functions, such as `print`, which "adds" rather than "resets" the terminal on each "frame", I think there will be a need to replace those functions with an alternate set that does IO through a medium where past additions to the output can be modified. e.g. using ncurses instead of terminal, to show program output.
You could ask for a naming convention in Premiere -- so that various clips or chapters are tagged with #dark or #exciting in their title, and then Jukedeck would play the appropriate type of music at the right time. If you can't get it lined up perfectly, you should transition the music before the video cut, not after.

The start time for a clip is much more important than the end time, so you should adjust the cutoff time for the clip by shrinking it from the end (never expanding it, as clips are often truncated when the footage becomes unusable, i.e. when someone walked in front of the camera, etc.)

I can imagine a Premiere plugin with a stored credit card, and you guys doing a brisk business that way. You could even then become a marketplace for royalty music, have a store where people can upload their music tagged with moods, and video creators could see royalty-free options from Jukedeck or royalty options from third parties.

Places you can add unique IP are: the ability to extract a mood from the video clip itself (most likely through color grading, the speed of pans, the frequency of cuts, and whether it's tripod or handheld), and the ability to automatically extract a mood from 3rd-party music, so I can automatically see the pop songs that are best fits for my video.

Find a way to do this without having to upload the actual video file, because that will kill the experience. Work-in-progress video files are often multi-gigabyte.
The NPR report notes that while women continued to enter medicine and law in large numbers, enrollment in computer science abruptly declined, then seeks to explain this through a heavy emphasis on cultural factors. I believe that we should be placing greater consideration on economic factors, and consider that entering computer science may not be economically rational when you consider the other options women now have (though I also do agree that cultural factors play a substantial role as well). I argue out that even nursing and dental hygiene may have better, more predictable economic outcomes than computer science.
I mean I don't really agree with fleitz necessarily, but any power source can be very cheap/free at the consumer/market level when the government is subsidizing all the costs.

The government is not really a rational actor in economic markets and is often guided by other factors like popular vote, corruption, etc.

It is hard to explain why we don't use more nuclear power from an economic standpoint, but it is easy to understand how politicians and lobbyists have capitalized on fear mongering to create our current energy markets.
Data science for social good fellowship
You could have said the same thing about the black plague and the printing press in the 14th century...
The "business model" argument Comey was making at least becomes somewhat relevant to a national debate on terrorist attacks if you're talking about the actual weapons used in the attacks and the companies that make them.
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I don't think anyone said it makes up a large portion of activism, or even implied it.

However, such pseudo-activism makes enough noise, that I have seen the following: There are young people out there that have labeled in their minds some pretty unsavory activities as being somehow noble or intellectually worthy. There are young people out there who believe such shallow notions, like that the use of certain phrases and/or the wearing of certain articles of clothing by complete strangers gives them free license to attribute certain attitudes and ideologies to those strangers, and that the emotional abuse of such strangers is then somehow a morally worthy activity. (And if you point out that they are stereotyping, they look at you strangely.)

Pseudo activism and hateivism comprise only a sad fringe. However, it does make an outsized amount of noise, especially on social media. In doing so, it produces a kind of corrosive misinformation that reduces society's awareness of the underlying causes of systemic injustice.
I ask all my node questions in #axkit-dahut. :p
In that case I would also like to hear your opinions about stock market :D, in all seriousness there are people and companies who are trying to tackle some of the problems you mentioned and getting funded. Look on the positive side, tools and research by these guys can be used in education and medicine!

I understand most of focus in on the entertainment market but we can't blame particular set of people for that happening, magic leap is essentially promising something we have been looking forward to from so many years(since we saw stuff in sci-fi movies)!
It goes even farther than that. They could have separated most of their work out into separate modules that linked with the LGPL code from KHTML, and all they would have to do to comply with LGPL is provide a way for the user to replace the LGPL code. They would not have had to release the source for their modules.

LGPL is quite friendly to proprietary code.
Actually, they need both. They are building a ML model that detects probable terrorists. You need to work on fine-turning the model as well as gather more data to improve classification accuracy. The question isn't which approach to take, but how much accuracy is good enough. 100% security is only possible if we monitor every thought of every person on this planet. Are we willing to give up our freedom and privacy for increasing our terrorist detection model performance by 0.1%? (just a guess)
Beats me why you're getting downvoted. Hedonic adaptation is totally a thing. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
The page says that there is no DRM on the ebook, yet every page of the PDF is watermarked with the name you used to order. Sounds like managing digital rights to me.
> sending uid assurance

This sounds like an attempt to implement security features the kernel already provides.

Why would you need an assurance of a UID, and why would you assume that it would stay accurate? Using UIDs to do manual security features is going to have reliability issues, and if it's for a non-security feature, you don't need an assurance.
I'll give you that. Whether Dorian was inventor or not, he didn't deserve all the stress and publicity he got. Whereas Wright is a self-absorbed prick playing media games even if not the leaker. Don't care what happens to him from now.
Hiring is a difficult process and I presume that you are specifically interested hiring for tech-focused positions. For my employer, they knew they needed a specific skill set and knew how to look for it. The interviewer told me later that she was looking for someone who had competence in the local language, who could stay engage at several levels in a conversation, and who could demonstrate quick thinking.

Those aren't easy skills to extract from someone on first meeting or through conversation, but their firm consistently does so. For a tech position, I think a similar approach could be possible, but I have to admit I neither know how, nor do I know how it can be initiated.

Maybe the same thing could be accomplished by a savvy tech interviewer at a conference or other networking event? Again, knowing what they need, using casual chatter, directing a conversation toward a tech problem and seeing how it engages the person (and how they handle the puzzle). That approach might work, but it probably isn't practical for a huge corporation. In any event, thinking about it is a neat exercise.
Pardon my ignorance, but I'm still not quite understanding the applications and benefits. Distributed file hosting? High-concurrency reads? Torrent-like? "file sharing network" is a bit ambiguous to me.

(I seem to have broke the demo with a 100 MB file, btw.)
Don't underestimate the positive environmental impact that replacing monitors and mobile phone screens might have. If this is successful and high-quality enough, we there would be less stuff manufactured that requires nasty chemicals, less to recycle, and less energy consumption.
Except that he did use a join in the article itself (formatted as a subquery, but still a join)
I try to be helpful whenever I have a chance. When I first adopted React, my coworkers were frustrated that whenever they Googled for errors they didn't find anything, so I committed myself to writing answers to all the reactjs questions on Stack Overflow for a few months. I do my best to be helpful when responding to issues too -- though I've had less time to spend on maintaining our GitHub repo lately and consequently been less helpful.
I'd like to hear more about Lucrative BigCo. Are they hiring?
I worked at D. E. Shaw for a while (in the FarSight group mentioned in the article), and I assure you that wouldn't have stopped us from hiring you if it was legal in the jurisdiction...
RFC 7704: An IETF with Much Diversity and Professional Conduct
126k for Silicon Valley upper class rofl rofl rofl
Showing leadership doesn't have to be outside the 8 hours expected of an employee. If you're good enough you'll do both of those and have proper time outside of work.

Most people who stay longer at offices do so of their own volition, yet mentally count those hours as work even if they aren't exactly working on a task delegated to them.
No, when it comes to options, it's where you were a resident when they were given to you.
(2/3) and 2 * (2/3) = 4/3

i.e. what would be one standard deviation if income was perfeclty evenly distributed
What percentage of Muslims believe in Sharia law?
Can someone explain to me how a proposed government backdoor into encryption would work? Is every creator of encryption software supposed to build in a master key and hand that over to the FBI?

I ask this in all seriousness, as I cannot fathom how such a system would be implemented, even disregarding the Constitution and the willingness of those creating the software.
> This goes for select subsets of both ends of the political spectrum, and select subgroups on both sides of any hot-button issue.

This is fucking garbage. It's garbage because the status quo isn't neutral, the status quo isn't necessarily just, and actually, the status quo is upheld with lots and lots of violence that isn't considered controversial.

For example, France is clamping down really hard on civil liberties and the UK just authorized bombing Syria because it thinks its righteous violence will cleanse the Earth of Daesh and the status quo moral framework of the West exculpates them of every civilian murder they commit. The moral framework of the West allows the most powerful nations on Earth to escalate to untold levels of violence over sporadic attacks that quite unfortunately kill dozens of people; then they retaliate destabilizing entire countries, uprooting the lives of millions, and causing thousands and thousands of direct casualties from their ordnance.

The point is that it's a massive, massive joke for anyone to distinguish themself from this group of people who engage in 'intellectually malformed pseudo-activism' because there are no apolitical stances and being complicit members of societies that shape the world through incredible violence is no different a hypocritical perversion of morality as anyone who rustles your jimmies on the fucking Internet.
The amount of time taken to solve a given problem in "real life" is irrelevant.

This is for problems where a brute-force solution on a classical machine needs O(2^n) computational steps. This is an exponential relationship; as the problem size (measured by n) becomes large, the number of steps required becomes vast. If each step takes a nanosecond, and n=30, then finding a solution will only take about a second. Double the problem size to n=60, however, and now it will take 36 years.

A quantum algorithm for the same problem might be able to run in subexponential time. It might still be something horrible like O(n^7) and it would still scale better than O(2^n): at n=30 it would take 22 seconds, but at n=60 it would only take about 45 minutes.

This is why computer scientists use Big-O notation; the clock speed of the computer is irrelevant if the algorithm scales badly. You never use bubble sort because it scales badly; almost anything else you can come up with will be better. Likewise, if you had a real quantum computer that could run Grover's algorithm then you'd never factor numbers using any other method; Grover's algorithm would always win.
The most disconcerting thing about this nonsense is that it is on a government funded website.
It takes a few days to learn enough Swift to start coding in it. Just start adding new Swift methods to your Objective C classes by using extensions

extension MyViewController {

func fooAction(sender:AnyObject) {

}

}

You need a bridging header to call back to ObjC

Very few people are blogging or writing books with ObjC. It's mostly Swift, and has been since June 2014:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html
It's not quite that simple. Bacteria invades the body all the time via poor gum health. It rarely leads to sudden blood poisoning that is fatal. Most often, bacteria form mass of blood vessel bound "goop" that cause scarring of the blood vessel that can lead to anything from blood clots to aneurysm. It's true the finding about how bad gum health can lead to these diseases is only about 5 years old. It was expected before but now there is good proof related to it.
That should not matter. Quantum computers promise to do things that classical computers will never be able to do. A 'proper' QC with on the order of a few thousand qubits can perform calculations that even a known-universe-sized classical computer will find intractable. Optimisation quickly becomes irrelevant when you scale these problems just a little bit more.
A language that someone could learn in a few days and can immediately start being productive writing fast concurrent code is interesting. And it is good.
Tim Cook: Apple Won't Make the “Test Machines” Taking Over Classrooms
> Unless you just want to take guns away from all civilians forever, and in that case I don't think we can have an actual rational dialogue.

Can I ask why not? I mean, why is it irrational to suggest that civilians not be allowed to own powerful weapons designed to kill humans?
>> "...gun powder contained in the bullet..."

Don't mean to be a pedant, but this bothers firearms people to no end, and we're on a technical site. A "bullet" is just a projectile - a dumb chunk of material. The "cartridge" contains the bullet, propellant (likely gunpowder in this context), and some other stuff.

So the gunpowder is emphatically not contained in the bullet; rather, both the bullet and the gunpowder are contained in another thing, called the cartridge. [0]

[0] http://www.gunsandammo.com/gun-culture/9-misused-gun-terms/
What do you want in a community that doesn't already exist somewhere?
It seems, based on your comment, that you have experienced Christian practice not meeting Christian teaching, which saddens me.

Sin, in Christian theology based around total depravity, is not 'essentially not being Christian enough', but is rather a failure to obey God. As I said before, this is an area where different religious backgrounds or experiences make discussing this issue difficult.

I certainly don't mean to say that Christians are less violent, but that they should be.

This feels like a discussion quickly falling away from the article and off-topic for the thread, so if you'd like to continue it, feel free to email me, my username at gmail.
This is more of a First Amendment exercise, similar to the publishing of the PGP source code in a book to export it (otherwise classified as a munition) outside of the US. Basically, we all know that human-readable instructions on manufacturing a firearm are protected under 1A. The people involved in this project are trying to see if the same is true where the instructions are machine-readable. And if you get a usable firearm out of it, that's cool too.
"If this machine is faster to do something..."

That's the point; is the machine faster? If the machine is actually doing quantum computing, it won't slow down as much for larger problems (for some problems). But they haven't been able to prove that it's doing quantum magic.
It still is "databases that do not do SQL".

Having a SQL-esque query language is very far from the implications of "doing SQL":

- Any external software that relies on SQL (not a similar language that looks like but it isn't) won't work.

- Any tool which expects SQL and expects SQL-based drivers (like JDBC, for instance) won't neither work.

- SQL is a huge standard with a significant number of features. This semi-SQL interfaces, at best, implement a tiny part of that used to be SQL 92, a standard by the Windows 3.1 era. So not a big deal if you compare with modern SQL implementations in databases like PostgreSQL.

So I think they are still very bound by the definition that they don't do SQL.
From DougWebb, explaining why this would be a good thing to do.

>> These expressions are the same; they're not meant to strictly indicate order of execution, they're meant to express programmer intent.

We can achieve perfect precision and clarity by naming all of our variables x1, x2, x3, x4, etc. But it's better to give descriptive variable names because it helps us and anyone else reading the code understand what it does. This sort of expression is similar.
>> 100% security is only possible if we monitor every thought of every person on this planet

No it isn't because no agency has enough manpower or resources to follow up on every lead a 'terrorist detection model' generates. Catching bad guys isn't all tech. At some point, a human being has to get involved to investigate if they're actually planning to commit an attack.
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The wording suggests that some of them aren't normal teenage behaviors and do suggest a young person is at risk. I wonder which ones they think those are.
Payments to a customer to not buy a competitor's product is a form of price fixing. Other Intel customers would then not know what the real market price was. They were therefore undermining AMD's opportunity without the market being able to take advantage of the price war between them.

Intel seems over-ripe for anti-trust action at this point. I think the government is codling them in all likelihood. This is not a technical issue, I suspect it is far more of Intel taking advantage of its strong political clout.
> Is there some reason teeth can't regrow when damaged?

Same reason hair or fingernails can't - no cells in the exposed area. Plus, evolutionarily we're a lot less prone to tooth damage than many other animals. Without all the refined sugars modern humans eat, they've generally been quite serviceable throughout the reproductive years.
For context - I'm building autonomous Escape Rooms that react to the player's actions. We currently have several long tracks that fit various sections of the games, and we switch between them at story junctures, by playing loud sound effects that mask the transitions.

I would pay in the order of thousands of $ (pounds in your case...) for this system running locally in my network, and in what I would call 'continuous mode'. By which I mean, I give it initial conditions and the track just evolves continuously forever[1].

Ideally, I could then send additional configuration messages and have it evolve further. e.g. Start with ambient/sparse. After a few minutes, I send a command to transition to ambient/sci-fi. Then later, to electronic/aggressive, with a seamless transition between. Even better if I can have a command that is essentially "react to this message", and it does something like a cymbal clash or whatever is appropriate for the settings.

I've done improvised theatre shows before with a jazz band that did all this for us, and it was AMAZING! Being able to do it with an automated system would be a game-changer for my business. I've been considering writing it myself, but it would cost at least tens of thousands of dollars worth of my time, and our current solution is sufficiently adequate that I'm not ready to do so yet.

[1] Ironically, given your current business model, I'd actually have almost zero interest in retaining the music after it's been played.)

On a positive note, I really enjoyed all the tracks I did make!
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"as she approaches 60, but her knees aren't up to long distances."

@cafard, know the feeling. Most of the people I know who ran seriously retired in their 40's, knees smashed. What caught my interest in this article was the quote:

"After about 1,553 miles, the researchers noted that the cartilage that normally cushions joints showed signs of breaking down. But after that point, the runners started building their cartilage again, even without rest. "

What's going on there?

(my disclosure: Keenwalk, 2010 http://seldomlogical.com/2011/MAR/12/keenwalk-why-i-went/ cf Hackernews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1126078 and regular 2000km/yr PT)
Not only that, the classical simulation of the machine is faster than the real thing, because the simulation simulates an ideal error-free machine, which is not the case