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18 minute miles for 40 days. It boggles the mind.

Keep in mind the average walker does 20 minute miles so it is barely faster than walking but still, 40 days. I've done marathons and I wouldn't walk for 40 days unless my life depended on it.

This story reminds me of that one guy with an actual "superpower". He has the genetics where his muscles can actually burn lactic acid as fuel. So he has impossible endurance. Dean Karnazes - has run 350 miles in 80 hours (13 minute miles). He's done 50 marathons in 50 consecutive days.
After reading this and other messages like this, I feel like I'm living on a bubble. I hardly ever use whatsapp and didn't know it was so widely used by everyone around me.
WhatsApp also lacks multi-device sync. The feature that made people adopt WhatsApp was saving money in contrast to using expensive SMS (which is the reason why it doesn’t have much adoption in countries with reasonable prices).

Multi-device sync and privacy-awareness both are maybe reasons for a few individuals to switch but they both have problem with the number one feature of messengers: actually reaching other people.

Why something gets adopted is way more dependent on soft factors than on technical factors, as long as the basic requirements are satisfied.
Interesting, the "reality" described are examples of fixed beliefs - who decides what someone's potential is? Who decides what someone's precious time and resources are? In other words "the reality" is singular, fixed, immovable. Examples: "Face facts, you cannot win the 100 meters" "Don't ignore reality, you have no ability to win races". The article seems to imply that people with low fixed beliefs have been told by others what their potential is, and what is precious. Having more flexible beliefs would mean that one does not limit the scope of ones potential. I imagine that one should therefore encourage others in having more fluid beliefs and one should guard against others when they say reality is fixed.

For example: a man with no legs can win the 100 meters race in the Paralympics.
Not even Telegram supports multi-device sync for 'locked' chats. So if you really care about security, multi-device sync is not a feature, it's a bug anyway.

I know only 1 guy who uses Signal and he is an AT&T systems administrator and linux addict. He understands the difference. The rest, use either iMessage or Telegram and don't really care about the rest.
Every student entering a bio field who learns what cancer is and how it works already knows that this is a disease shaped by many factors. Fundamentally, the problem of fighting cancer is the problem of fighting a set of evolutionary mechanisms that are trying to kill you. The popular press always insists on boiling everything down to one easy-to-understand factor, that's how we get those ridiculous and recurring exclamations about cancer that have to be thrown out next week.

There is no single thing you can do as an individual that gets you off the hook for cancer. You can try reducing your probabilities based on the results of studies, but in most respects that's a way more complicated endeavor than what the media portrays it as. Even regular prophylactic screening is not as good a tool as it instinctively seems. Many studies don't give you the complete picture at all, so it rarely makes sense to change your life based on the latest breathlessly exaggerated finding blared at you by the press.
Yes, someone saying something is unnecessary in a given context, while they possess that thing, which may or may not have helped them getting where they are in that very context causes some cognitive dissonance.

I actually agree with her, however, I wonder whether she'd be where she is how having had listened to her own advice.
Jobs are jobs. They come and go.

Startups though..he is vowing he'll build something smarter than Mobileye..seems pretty likely he's going to stay for at least another year in this and more if it's not failing.
That's probably highly improbable. Look at how many different proofs the are for the pythagorean theorem: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/

I'm not mathematician but I guess if there is really only one possible proof for a given question (Gödel might have proven that this is impossible but I don't know for sure), then the question isn't actually an interesting one. Because this would mean that the question touches only very few topics.

But the abc conjecture is interesting because it has lots of links with deep questions in number theory.
To paraphrase: "If you don't freeze your dependencies, you're going to have a bad time".

This is the case in any environment. This is the case for your OS, for python requirements, for java jars, everything. Your versions should be part of the source control (not necessarily the dependencies in your source, but at least a project file that has the versions listed).

Python has a requirements.txt. It's best practice to pin your versions in it.

I've been trying out jspm recently. It's quite nice and teaches you this out of the box. You pull down a npm package, it will put the version into your package.json so everyone can use the same version.
They might actively use it but not because they want to.

In fact, Brazil's most popular chatting app that is recently banned there doesn't have multi-device sync. Hangouts does. Everyone could use hangouts, but not nearly as many people do.
And that Fortan is still the language of choice for HPC - And has the support for CUDA allready
Installing Signal to try as well!

Can Signal be taken down like WhatsApp if the same happens again in the future?
Some people are misunderstanding what this report means by "bad luck", which isn't surprising because this BBC report is lousy, and it follows on from a different paper that said something different and that was also poorly reported.

This older report suggested that two thirds of cancer was because of random mutation, rather than genetic predisposition or lifestyle.

Here's an example of the confusing way that older study was reported: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/02/two-thirds-ad...

> Two-thirds of adult cancers, say the researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in the United States, are caused by random mutation in the tissue cells during the ordinary process of stem cell division. In the other third, our genetic inheritance and lifestyles are the main factors.

> The scientists have created a mathematical model which, they say, shows it is wrong to assume that there are such things as “good genes” that may prevent us getting cancer even though we smoke, drink heavily and carry excessive weight.

This new study disputes that, and says that normal random mutation only accounts for 10% to 30% of cancer, and the rest is because of lifestyle or genetic predisposition.

From a public health point of view that's pretty important. Stop smoking, and control how much alcohol you drink, continue to be important public health messages to reduce the incidence of cancer.
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Nice. Just the standard warning: Most of the detected systems have a big planet very close to the star, because they are easier to detect, not because they are so overwhelming abundant.

(More info, for example: https://web.njit.edu/~gary/320/Lecture10.html )
Dude that's an awesome idea. Semantic analysis of legal documentation to find and highlight contradictions, etc.

Whoever does this - how about sending a percent or 2 my way when you exit for billions :-D
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I think we just push our requirements until they hit boundaries where programming/tooling/whatever sucks.

These days it's trivial to create a CRUD web app that is even save against CSRF when you use a framework like Django.

But of course, nobody wants a simple CRUD web app anymore. It has to do business logic, it must have responsive design, usable on mobile, incrementally load pages, and be an enterprise integration framwork that checks with the credit card processor, the warehouse software etc.

It's just that we don't talk anymore about the things that have become trivial, because we don't spend much time on them.

So of course, in our perception, programming and tooling suck. And they always will. And that's OK, because if everything was breeze, we'd be bored.
Facebook/Messenger is sending a message to Brazilians stating they're working to get WhatsApp back up and suggest to use Messenger while WhatsApp is blocked. https://imgur.com/kx4B3na
You think the ISO vs TCP/IP fight didn't have some element of politics?
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I read the headline and wondered:

"Since when is 'Bad Luck' anything other than a euphemism for the physiological stress which is symptomatic of poverty?"

Clever science journalists note that nearly everything outside of the organism can be generically labeled as the environment.

__As a reply to DanBC:__

>normal random mutation

This phrase does not mean anything in terms of molecular biology or genetics. It is equivalent to "Bad Luck", or "mutation triggered by something". The phrase is inappropriate because it equates point mutations, insertion mutations and deletion mutations.

As a rule, when thou wants to say the modifier "normal random"; thou should instead say "normally distributed", and then make sure that is worth mentioning in that field of science.
I don't have a problem with generating diagrams from configuration and/or code (e.g. with Graphviz) but I'm not keen on diagrams actually being edited and used to generate stuff. However, I would say that my aversion isn't based on a fundamental problem just on my experience that "graphical" tools are often awful from a usability and practicality perspective so that the benefits never seem to clearly outweigh the significant issues (e.g. compare diffs of text files with diffs of diagrams).
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It's similar to X3DOM in the sense you have the 3D scenegraph in HTML (except it's their own components, not a standard like X3D).

Also it's based on three.js which is a solid 3D engine.
Ok, played with it in a virtual machine. Good to see they are making progress.

My experience so far from today's experiment run, .. it still is quite unstable, saw several BSODs (about 7 of them varying from processor locked to the real blue screen)
Most of the times I lost data during the crash. Files disappearing etc..
Good part is that it reboots really fast.

VMware Tools installed -albeit complaining- and I could use VMware shared folders which was convenient.

Of course this is a release candidate and we are not at 1.0 so stability really isn't a promise.
If they manage to get it more stable then it is starting to become usable.
This is such an unhealthy way to view the world, so full of cynicism and an easy path to self-loathing.

> Not achieving "success" (failing) is rarely free: it leaves emotional and physical scars.. Repeat it a couple of times and you're either dead or on your way there.

This is where the mindset change matters so importantly. If you view every point of lack of success as failure, of course it will defeat you- but if you instead view it as a learning experience, and you try your best to understand why the failure came, you can build something out of it.

This is a common strategy to gaining skill in- well, anything- but especially in games. Often the difference between someone with innate talent and someone with experience, is that the person with innate talent can keep up in terms of general mechanics- they can think ahead, guess their enemy out, and go faster, just stressing their enemy out.

But they'll still be beaten incredibly quickly by someone with experience, because they don't recognize the patterns that lead to loss. In fact, one can climb the ladder of skill to the highest echelons of Chess, Formula 1, or Starcraft off of simply exploiting other people's lack of knowledge in a specific pattern.

> In fact, the rule is this: No matter how hard you try, you might still lose. Sorry about that.

For sure. But then again, to always lose no matter what, is about as likely as being Bill Gates. And none of us- truly, none of us- know what the future holds for us. Some of this decade's most successful people didn't see it until their late 40s.

Life is a lot more interesting than "settle for average". We haven't even begun to figure it out, that's why you can even still have such crazy outliers as Gates.
Unfortunately, well-established companies have to (or certainly feel they have to) compete with startups.

Many reports show how time-to-market is more and more important, and 'agile' is the only way.

Even companies well-versed in proper engineering practices move towards the modern 'best practices' and acquire all of the best problems at the same time.
The summary is known. Have you read the abstracts?
It would "be reasonable" to ban if the alternative was a similar local service (e.g. Baidu vs Google in China).

The alternative here was an outdated SMS communication (telecoms in Brazil are so terrible they make Verizon look good).
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> In the worst case you get the whole 'in the future everyone will program and programmers will become totally redundant'.

Yeah, not going to happen because not everyone can think in the level of detail required to program.

Some people just think programming is like waving a magic wand, but when you keep asking them "so, what should it do if this happens? What about if that happens?" they slowly start to understand...
Programming is a form of technology making.

We may be programming in our different teams, companies, organisations and countries, but the stuff we make makes an impact and affects the world around us.

This impact is an input into future similar projects and, given time, the technologies that results from wherever will be better for it. Please note that this idea does not mean that any group now is going to make these technologies, but what we do now will influence the future.

The same pattern has been observed in the industrial revolution - many tinkerers, manufacturers and inventors were all sort of learning from each other, all improving. This happened over decades. The main difference with programming is the time dimension. We've only really been doing it at a cultural level for the last twenty years - we're only just getting started in discussing and sharing what we are doing.
The biggest problem with OpenCL is that Google banned it (in favour of its own crippled RenderScript).
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I thought it said homophobic encryption...

My devious mind!
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For me it would be a huge improvement if this happened in my country. It would mean that if I'm sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen as I am most of the day, I would be able to reply to my friends comfortably using them. With that joke of an application called Whatsapp, I have to choose between replying from a tiny smartphone screen and on-screen keyboard, or going through a ludicrous ritual of photographing a QR code (which works only if my phone has wifi signal and enough battery).

To be honest, privacy in a general-purpose messaging app is the least of my concerns, as I have other means of sending important messages to select people. What is really annoying about Whatsapp is its extreme device dependence* which forces me to depend on a single device for casual chat with friends, family and acquaintances (and not the most comfortable use one) when multi-device messenger apps have been around for more than a decade. Telegram is like a return to sanity in this respect, so any news about Telegram invading Whatsapp's space are great news to me.

*I say "extreme" because Whatsapp doesn't even like if you switch your SIM card from one phone to another. It's insane. I used to have two phones (one for regular use and a cheap old one for activities where it could get damaged easily) and I had to give that up because Whatsapp would force me to re-register every time I made the swap.
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Labview has some interesting ideas (I think a subset made it into Lego Mindstorm)

Also many people don't use what is available to them. Modern IDEs support single-stepping and painless runtime introspection, and many have supported it for 20 years.

Still people resort to trying to trace out in their head what happens runtime.
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Learning Programming is not "ridiculously difficult" my first language in a UK School at 14 was a Cutdown Machine Code CECIL.

And this was in the CSE stream which was for the less able children.
as a tinkerer, I love programming. I enjoy optimizing routines, fighting complexity, exploring the solution space for hard problems.

the problem is, that doesn't pay for a roof and a meal.

so I spend my day fighting users that requires twenty seven pop-ups not to delete their own data accidentally, browsers that have each their own idea of css3, enterprise services that are a landmine of old documentation, bugs, workarounds, workarounds for bugged workarounds and bugs on top of these.

as my mentor once said, if work were fun they wouldn't have to pay you to do it.
Messaging apps are worse than bicycles? Sure, but to be fair, almost everything is worse than bicycles.
" I do not deny that Austrian economists have made valuable contributions to economics. Rather, as the sequel will argue, I maintain that:
(a) The effort to rebuild economics along foundations substantially different from those of modern neoclassical economics fails.
(b) Austrian economists have often misunderstood modern neoclassical economics, causing them to overstate their differences with it.
(c) Several of the most important Austrian claims are false, or at least overstated.
(d) Modern neoclassical economics has made a number of important discoveries which Austrian economists for the most part have not appreciated."

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It's a bit off-topic, but kph is not common in my experience. I have a good explanation: this is metric, which is a very convenient system. If you want to express one measure against an other one, just use measure1/measure2. €10/meter, 25kg/liter etc. You can be more verbose and replace "/" with " per ".

Adding constructs like kph sounds like the reintroduction of foot and elbow sizes in the system. Please keep it consistent. /end of rant
It compiles CUDA (a C++ like language) using LLVM down to host ISA (x86) and virtual low-level NV virtual assembly (SASS/PTX). Only translation from virtual assembly to model-specific GPU assembly is left to closed-source NV code.

For AMD porting you could possibly use http://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUUsage.html
> All you have to do at this point is search through all previously written functions to find the one that most resembles the one you are trying to write.

This magical repository you seek is called "stackoverflow" :-D
I think you confuse creativity (to create something new) with self-actualization and visual art.
Programming is a craft, often used to create things which are really boring.

Coders often like their craft, they like creating things, even if the final product is not important to them on a personal level.
That's the word choice made in the article, it's not mine. I agree with you, I've been programming since I was a child, too. Learning is hard, and it never stops, but that is not a problematic aspect at all as long as you enjoy doing it.
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> While deep-learning has propelled much progress in object recognition and scene understanding, predicting human memory has often been viewed as a higher-level cognitive process that computer scientists will never be able to tackle

Seriously?

Has it seriously often been viewed like that?
Seems impractical. Would you also write mps for m/s?
I believe tech has been competing pretty well against Management consulting and investment banking for top mba grads.
Fair enough. In which case Sear's argument is that even fantastically complex, sophisticated information processing systems with billions of moving parts and vast information storage retrieval resources operating over long periods of time cannot be intelligent. If that's what his position boils down to, what does casting it as a single person in a room add to the argument? As Kurzweil asked, how is that different from neurons manipulating neurotransmitter chemistry? Searl doesn't seem to have an answer to that.
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> If you are willing to share the ride, you can have the same car serve you and someone else who shares a similar route and is willing to travel 10 minutes early (or late - can be incentivize by a discount).

What does the self-driving car change in that case? Wouldn't that be just the same as ordinary carpooling that we can do today?
When you translate "Bad Luck" or 'Unlucky" into Confucian-era Chinese, the term is respectively equivocal to poverty or impoverished. "Random mutation" is vaguely technical enough to have the same connotation in the public lexicon. The term does not have specific meaning in molecular biology, so it might as well be superstition.

The risk factors are there because we do not do enough to care for each other as individuals in society. The statistics are the tool used for trading liabilities in the applied oncological epidemiology colloquially referred to as health insurance risk modeling.
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non-computer activities I like: snorkeling, hiking, travelling, cooking, DIY, boardgames, gardening, reading.

most useful: cooking

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>They now have a desktop app

It sit on the top of a close-source browser...
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Physiologically, humans need shelter from the elements, a breathable atmosphere and nutrients. All of those are engineering problems.

What happens to a human body when it's spent long time in zero-g? I have no idea.

Can humans survive psychologically away from earth? Quite a many of us spend quite a lot of time just watching screens so the tiny boxes of first generation colonists might be livable.

If we belive physiological and psychological survival is feasible, then the only matter left considering I think is acquisition of raw materials and bootstrapping a colony-based industry.

I have no idea of the chemical composition of say, mars, and does is have all of the elements we need for our precious technology. But I would imagine earth is not the only place in the solar system with abundance of the all of the important ones.

This last one is a bit of an unknown to me but otherwise you would need to convince me pretty hard that colonization is not a feasible concept.
Just make sure you went to an elite school, preferably Stanford or MIT.
For those interested in new models, may I suggest the work of Steve Keen, one of the economists who did predict the financial crisis. I have been following Steve's work since the mid-2000s, and it is a more convincing framework for thinking about the economy than most other things I have read. Examples here [1] and here [2].

The intellectual bankruptcy on modern neoclassical economics is exposed in some of the battles Steve has had to fight over the years, such as criticism for using debt toGDP ratio [3]. If neoclassical economists cannot even describe how money is created in the modern economy, what meaningful contribution do they have to describing an economy? [4]

[1] http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/ProfSteveKeen/videos

[3] http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2009/03/14/rory-robertson...

[4] http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2012/10/22/commo...