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> replaced nearly nonexistent with irrelevant to make my point clearer

I'm afraid your point is still not clear. What's your metric for declaring a market irrelevant?

A conventional office suite is still the solution which is overwhelmingly dominating the market. Maybe look outside your own bubble and bias.
A lot of business will never give away there confidential documents in the hands of third party cloud hosts. (which is the sane approach).
So what's your criteria for calling that niche, irrelevant or even non-existent?
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> Podcasts are great for that.

They are great for that because, just like the Radio, it's not really important if you listen half of the time - because it's precisely low density, low quality content.
No. The reasons always disliked Grub have nothing to do with this "feature", in fact I was not even aware it existed. Nevertheless, I agree with you.
We still live in a very racist society, how is that helped by pretending otherwise?

http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

> The results show significant discrimination against African-American names: White names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews. We also find that race affects the benefits of a better resume.

> We find little evidence that our results are driven by employers inferring something other than race, such as social class, from the names. These results suggest that racial discrimination is still a prominent feature of the labor market.

And as for gender:

http://phys.org/news/2006-05-female-name-chat-users-maliciou...

> A study by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering found that chat room participants with female usernames received 25 times more threatening and/or sexually explicit private messages than those with male or ambiguous usernames.

> Female usernames, on average, received 163 malicious private messages a day in the study.

These are two narrow examples of course, but pretending everyone has a fair shot is extremely naïve.
> than a compliment?

You mean a complement ?
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I guess that's today spin doctors from PR department.
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The thing is, to me, the fact that they ever decided to do this in the first place means I will never buy Philips smart home products ever.

They have proven they can't be trusted with this sort of power, and that is a one way trip. You don't come back from that, you don't get back off my list.
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Yes, it does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyPy#Project_status.
Realtime threaded conversations is a need?
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But then you would need to handle all the trouble that come from multiple clients. What if somebody makes a CLI client that does not support file transfers? The experience of official client's users would be worse because now they can't be sure that the other side can do the same things they do.

If the protocol were to be upgraded then one would have to wait for all of the vendors to support the new features or we would end up working with the common denominator. Real world examples are hardly scarce, we see this thing in the open web with myriad (semi-) proprietary extensions. Samsung has also hard time getting developer support for their unique features.

In the end, the end users would suffer because of inconsistencies. Open platforms are good, but in my opinion they will always lag in user experience behind well executed proprietary solutions.
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Second large company this week to rollback a change after public outcry, with Valve rolling back a change in CS:GO. I hope their marketing people take a lesson out of this.
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Name collision I believe, there's a russian language demo on youtube. It seems to me as a tiny fltk based WM to fit the current UX trends without having a "heavy" DE like Gnome3.
Sure, that's fair. But from their standpoint it's a bit "damned if you do, damned if you don't." This is conjecture, but I imagine supporting cheaper third-party devices is becoming a headache. In the last thread about this, a former ZigBee developer noted how difficult it was to code to the platform. It may not all be evil.
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And why should LibreOffice not be able to integrate a "cloud service" into their suite?

The extension interface of Libre Office even lets me think that this would be technically a triviality to integrate.

Maybe with an open standard instead of a propriety and closed eco system,

with the freedom to choose whom you trust with your data, or to host it yourself.
The Parallella board has an HDMI transmitter connected to the FPGA, it uses the same generation of FPGA as the Mega65 that is described elsewhere in the thread.
>5-figures per day

Where among them is the decimal point?
They're basically killing Lync and making a combined Skype client that can log into multiple "Skype" accounts, including what Skype for Business is (aka Lync).

Its part of their complete rewrite of Skype (that started with the Windows 10 combined Skype/messaging app that is currently in semi-beta that came out with Threshold 2).
No, he's part of the KGB, obviously.
Not trying to excuse OSX's behaviour, but non-technical users are the ones who use passwords like: abcdef, 123456, password123, etc.

In fact, using such characters (emojis, other unicode characters, etc.) in passwords should be considered a secure practice.
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The parallels with the whole Digg v4 debacle seem quite pronounced.
Neither the size of the room nor the speed of the computation is important to Searle's argument. You could replace the person in the room with the population of India (except for those who understand Chinese), and pretend to the Chinese speaker that the communication is by surface mail. Or use a bank of supercomputers if Indians aren't fast enough.
I realize this is getting off-topic, but that's by far the funniest book I've ever read. I don't remember laughing out loud so consistently (or even, at all) at any other book. If anyone's interested, "Three men in a boat" is HIGHLY recommended. "Three men on a bummel(?)" was OK, but this book hurt my ribs because I laughed so much so hard. : )

Ah, to be able to write like that. Was that his only more-popular book, anyone know (wiki's not helpful)?
Thanks for clearing that up. I was unsure what the previous comment meant, but now I know, thank you for using grammar for its intended purpose: looking superior on the internet.
Translation: "we'll do this to shut up the pro users that are generating all this bad P/R, and it really doesn't matter since 99.9% of our customers won't care about this anyway."

Can't say I disagree with the idea. Everyone wants a system like this to be open on principle, but in reality it won't really get used that much. This stuff is still too hard for the average consumer.
It's not a "website". It's a market. Would you say the same thing before buying stocks through eTrade?
I'm downloading it to try in a VM, but this website has almost 0 information on it. Where are the screenshots? FAQ? Where is any information about what this is or why I should use it?

The amount of time it would take to add this info must be a pittance compared to the dev hours they put into the OS!
I don't understand why you're complaining the web app requires it to be in OneDrive first: this is no different than Google Docs requiring it to be in your Google Drive first.

Apps loading files off your disk is highly problematic, and these apps are ran at least partially server side (both Office365's and Google Doc's).

This is a feature, not a bug.
More likely it is to prevent your having to say your password to the person on the phone. This protects you from a malicious bank employee.
Consistent deviations from the null hypothesis indicate the presence of a confounding variable and pave the way to new potential discoveries. A great example (albeit not statistical) is how planets deviate from their elliptical orbits and that this provides evidence for the gravitational pull of other hidden planets and moons. Having a simple model that gives you an expectation (usually the expected value E) can be extremely powerful.
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Do you think your CPU and GPU will stop working if they go out of business?
unacceptable is rather a strong word for criticism of a free hobby project. Consider "inconvenient".
I'm glad to see they've reversed the decision. It was the only reasonable choice they had with such an immature market that could have them dethroned as the leader very quickly. Their reasons for lock-in made no sense. For a product like this compatibility is a feature and many people chose the Philips products because of the ecosystem of compatible products available, the ZigBee protocol and third-party light bulbs.

I'm sure that third-party products were causing problems, however, wholesale blocking of them via software update is a terrible solution. They, literally, turned out the lights on their customers. Meanwhile, I'd be willing to bet support costs immediately spiked -- people call support when things don't work and they just pushed out a solution that increased rather than decreased that.

Unfortunately, I think they've bruised their reputation quite a bit with this move. It's now delayed my purchase of such a product until I am convinced that they have a solid third-party certification program in place (with very low licensing fees) or (even better) a guarantee with the product that they won't try this again when the market is more mature and they have the option of ignoring complaining customers.

Their competitors could see a rise in sales by taking advantage of this blunder and committing to open protocols. I haven't looked at the landscape in this category, yet, and had just assumed I'd be buying the Philips Hue eventually, but they've motivated me to do more research.
Classifying an entire medium as "low quality content" is pretty damn shortsighted. You do know that listeners get to choose what podcasts they press "play" on, right?
Either
A) You don't trust any large, publically traded company.
B) You don't understand how large, publically traded companies work.

This decision was made by someone in marketing. Phillips engineers (in this division) were ambivalent because it meant less verification and testing (yea!) but also means they have a less capable product. It got approved because someone (likely a director somewhere) put together a market strategy that showed they could make x dollars in the next 2 years doing this.

Public backlash was bigger than expected. VP gets involved. Decision is changed.
That's hilarious. :) I'll continue to play my sea lion role as necessary though. As the manatee was born to be gentle and kind, so shall I kindly respond to close minded internet commenters. Like an Internet Amish, I shall turn the other cheek.
> I am not using an alternate implementation of Python here

What does he think Cython and Numba are?

> I am not writing any C code either

No, he's just using libraries written in C and Fortran in a ridiculous attempt to praise Python.

> Writing better Python code to avoid unnecessary computation

You don't improve a language benchmark by changing the algorithm. If you don't understand why, you have a lot more to learn before teaching people how to "make Python fast".
LO's answer to Microsoft's COM is UNO, and much existing UNO code and samples is in Java. So people often get the impression that LO is Java inside.
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As a current job seeker, this is doing wonders in helping me keep my head up.
I used to feel the same way until I realised listening to podcasts was more a passive activity. Reading is active - as in you have to take time away from other things to do it - listening to podcasts is more akin to listening to music.

It's possible to do actively of course, I know there are people out there that listen to music without any interruptions. The primary market for podcasts however are likely to be people who are doing something else and passively listening to them. They may focus in on a subject as it's talked about but a lot of the podcast will only be taken in as a distraction from background noise or silence.

Of course this is all guesswork based on my own opinion and use case, a little of how other podcast listeners I know ingest podcasts too
Or if it's just the occasional batch job, use AWS EC2 spot instances. A machine with 122 GB of RAM can often be had for $0.25-0.50 pr hour and sometimes for a lot less.
At least show some respect by spelling the man's name correctly. s/Korlev/Korolev/
Other companies pay great salaries. In Detroit, for example, you can make 100-130k with a much lower cost of living (even if you're living downtown or in one of the wealthy suburbs). I presume Chicago, Boston, ATL, etc., would be just as lucrative if not moreso. If the bar is based on salary and hours, you can make it in a lot of places.
It's not extorting. It's making sure your house doesn't burn down because you bought the el cheapo bulb from knockoff brand C.
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"Vectorizing" (interpreter-out-of-the-way vectorization, which isn't the same and doesn't necessarily give you SIMD vectorization) your code to get Matlab or NumPy to run it efficiently always seems like an unnecessary burden to put on the programmer, especially for algorithms that don't lend themselves to expressing in a vectorized way. Sometimes you just need to write a for loop, and it's great when the language gets out of your way and lets you do so without slowing your code down by an order of magnitude.

If you care about constrained optimization, Julia has leaps-and-bounds more sophisticated tools than anything Matlab or Python have to offer. Check out http://www.juliaopt.org and especially JuMP.jl. http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_FILE/2015/04/4891.pdf has some detailed comparisons. Macros and fast generic programming make Julia a very well-suited language for doing automatic differentiation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation).
It could be worse: "Some customers were involved in a darkness-related incident."
In tech, all things old are new again every 10 years or so. You can't ever say "that ship has sailed."
I'm surprised how little I've seen someone trying to sell pickaxes for the gold rush of podcasting.

I don't know whether that's an indicator of a trend, or whether the domain knowledge just makes such a venture unfeasible, but I'd imagine to see people renting out recording studios and selling bundled podcasting setups with training and the like, if this were such a huge trend.

Is anyone currently doing this?
I don't understand this reasoning. I believe Philips started the friends of Hue program to make sure third party products "just work" with Hue, the same as Philips products. They want to give consumers an "Apple like" experience where there is no hassle and no fiddling.

They reversed the decision because of the user outcry, they noticed a lot of users would rather risk stuff not working than not get them outright. This is a major step and I like that a lot. Being able to change your course to what users want instead of what you think is the most profitable should be applauded.
I hate sleep. But it would probably not be a good situation if everyone didn't need to sleep, because then we'd all be expected to work that much more. Ideally, it would be awesome if I could avoid the need to sleep, but nobody else should know about it.
I wouldn't say I was representative of the market. But I would like a good product. How do you define the market?
Do you want to encourage the behavior of stubbornly sticking by an initial decision despite public outrage?
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It's pretty frustrating to watch. Feels like an endless repetition of "well humans and dogs are conscious because that's self evident".
There's no sufficient demarcation criterion other than "I know it when I see it" that he seems to apply.
[I guess having a semantics is his criterion but he doesn't elaborate on a criterion for that]

The audience question about intelligent design summed up my frustration nicely (or rather the amoeba evolving part of it).
To me this looks like exactly the sort of situation where classical OO inheritance is the right answer. All of those things are kinds of Account and should have a common base class.
Fun thought experiment: all this information is publicly available, and we're okay with it as evidenced by the fact that we're participating freely in the activity.

You're not bothered by algorithms (maybe you are, but you're not writing about it, so from this context you're less bothered) that can analyze data and language and patterns of communication, but you do have a problem with a human trying to understand the needs and desires of another human in the aim of helping that person land a job they would live?

Like I said, it's a thought experiment. I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm always learning. Unless I'm an algorithm--they never learn. Or do they? Maybe you're just a poor Turing Test judge?! ;)
It's not even that high resolution. https://github.com/mist-devel/mist-board/wiki/Displays

Remember the original hardware being emulated targeted PAL TVs: 576 lines @ 50Hz.

Lower resolution HDMI is certainly feasible, but you have to care more about the signal integrity when designing the board, and it's harder to debug: http://www.fpga4fun.com/HDMI.html
Same here. It blows my mind that there are people that need to be explained what an iPod is, especially in context to an iPhone.
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How does your website preview look in chat apps?
Were you going to buy any of their products in the first place?
The OP was misleading. The benchmark is to calculate fib(20) = 6765, which does not overflow.

You can verify this for yourself at
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/test/perf/mic...
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You might feel differently when Microsoft comes around and jacks your price up with 60 days notice.
Twit.tv as well. I think they sponsored all the popular podcasts.
Being charming, likable or whatever you want to call it is important. Technical competency should be the biggest factor but there are plenty of people who have that and are personable too.
It's stupid easy to build bots with this...
Why are Chinese fishermen destroying coral reefs in the South China Sea?
I don't think you've invalidated his point at all. It's not about why this happened, it's that it happened at all. Apathetic, poor decision making can be just as bad as greedy, poor decision making. Sometimes people need a reminder that corporations are not your friends and investing too much trust is a risky choice.
That was ten years ago. Ever since, AMD had a free playing field… not that it helped.
Totally off-topic, but where do you live?
Both Panoply and Gimlet (two popular podcasting companies) are getting into that business to various degrees. Panoply recently co-produced and co-promoted a podcast with GE while Gimlet seems to be more focused on doing pure "white-label" podcasts where they'll do all the production work, but their name doesn't appear on the final product.

Basically if you are company and want a podcast they'll make it for you (or work with you to make it).
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What fiscal policies would you recommend? Where should we cut back spending and where should that spending be channeled instead?
Ah, I learned something today :-) I must have been mistaken because Open Office was always insisting that I install Java for it to work, so I guess I misremembered. Thanks!
It's not short-sighted once you consider the large mass of podcasts is composed of people recording themselves speaking without any prior script. Of course it's going to be low density and low quality, just like a chat with friends.

There are exceptions like Serial, but that's what they are: exceptions.
I should rephrase that then. The plain text is very portable. And easier to edit and read than RTF. That's not to say that there aren't good RTF editors out there. Even HTML is more readable.
if only valve would listen more often and faster. Im not demanding fixes the next day, but it would be nice to at least get some message saying "We know about this issue, we're looking into it"
I have the same "problem" as the GP.

If I just let a podcast play on the backgrond, I'll certainly learn nothing at all from it.
This is basically just the Hard Problem of consciousness. It's been a hard problem for decades, and we're no closer to having an answer.

>But we think that people, dogs, etc. are conscious because they are similar to us in important ways.

Specifically, mammals have mirror neurones. More complex mammals also seem to have common hard-wired links between emotions and facial expressions - so emotional expression is somewhat recognisable across species.

I'm finding the AI debates vastly frustrating. There are basic features of being a sentient mammal - like having a body with a complicated sensory net, and an endocrine system with goal/avoidance sensations and emotions, and awareness of social hierarchy and other forms of bonding - that are being ignored in superficial arguments about paperclip factories.

It's possible that a lot of what we experience as consciousness happens at all of those levels. The ability to write code or find patterns or play chess floats along on top, often in a very distracted way.

So the idea that an abstract symbol processing machine can be conscious in any way we understand seems wrong-headed. Perhaps recognisable consciousness is more likely to appear on top of a system that models the senses, emotions, and social awareness first, topped by a symbolic abstraction layer that includes a self-model to "experience" those lower levels, recursively.
You can go even lower depending on the commit. I've seen $0.35/Mbit from the low-end carriers, $0.50 from mid-range.
AWS has not decreased bandwidth pricing in a long time
Thats exactly why i buy AMD cards over Nvidia again and again. Who cares about super fancy graphics and yet another, 2% faster shader. Want i want is properly supported Hardware with working Open Source drivers from a company that has interest in its users hacking their own solutions, even when they get better than their properitary ones.
It's making sure that you're not liable for someone's house burning down because they bought the el cheapo bulb from knockoff brand C. This is standard protective legal boilerplate to protect philips in the unlikely event.

Also, want to point out that philips is not "extorting money" from other companies - they can choose to enter the "friends of" program to make the general consumer feel better, or choose not to, at their discretion.

The class of user that realizes any zigbee bulb will work with a hue hub is already technically proficient, and will more often than not be willing to take on any associated "risks."
I think ProfileView is great at displaying flame graphs, but there's more to profiling than can be interpreted from a single graph. For example, it doesn't separate execution time from number of executions.