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He's right in the sense that an FPGA will use more power than a dedicated chip. The logic elements are fairly large when compared to the ones in an Intel CPU for example. FPGAs are good for when you know you will need to change a design on the regular like prototyping or when the design will have many updates. If you need it to be faster or you need more than a few hundred, going with an MPGA (depending on the use) might be cheaper. These don't allow change to the design as its baked into the chip but they use the same type of logic as FPGAs and require less power as the logic elements are smaller.
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A few months ago, Amazon's competitor Flipkart started asking users to order via the app rather than through the browser. That's when a lot of my friends and I switched to Amazon. I never really understood the reason for insisting on ordering via the app.

Apps don't have a good way to convey that they are using HTTPS, so I don't like the idea of entering my credit card details in an app. Most internet banking gateways in India aren't yet mobile optimized, so that's inconvenient too. (Internet banking is a popular alternative to debit cards in India; merchants re-direct users to their bank's website where users can login and agree to paying the merchant. It's actually a lot more convenient than credit cards because you only have to remember your bank account's username and password.)
If I had to optimize parts of a ruby project, I think it would be much better to port the code to crystal than C or Go.
That the water rich places have been losing population to water poor areas would allow you to buy real estate in those locations below historical norms. If you buy into the "water will be more important in the future" hypothesis then it's probably a good bet.

I agree that it's hard to know if a correction is coming. I suspect that it eventually will happen, but how far away that eventually is I don't want to speculate. Might be a couple of years, might be a couple of decades.
Suppose the good jobs and services left while the schools went to crap (aka Detroit). Wouldn't people be worse off? Would this be a reduction in poverty?

When someone's home equity has appreciated, they are now living in a more valuable place than they were to start, but they don't have to pay for this. That's income.
Only low power consumption in the sense that you get to run what you want because the chip is fully dedicated to a task. A microcontroller could draw less power doing the same task.
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> If both Microsoft and Corel are aiming for an optimum spreadsheet, the UI of their applications should converge.

This implies that UI design is constrained by a fixed, incontrovertible set of physical laws, leaving little room for creativity, which is obviously not true. Sure, there are a large number of guidelines and rules of thumb about what make for a "good" design, but even within those constraints the space of possibilities is infinite.
Someone I know died from Alzheimer after suffering like 4.5 years. To me, this is one of the most horrific diseases to die from. It gives a great deal of suffering to people around you as well. I remember recently reading about a link between Alzheimer disease and fungal infection in brain but I guess it was just another false hope.
I don't think it is exponential. Dynamic losses in a gate arise from a couple factors (shoot through, dissipation capacitance) but as far as I know they are a joules per switching event effect which scales linearly with clock.
Why shouldn't voters get a say in these matters? If it is so important that experts make the calls, then convince the voters to vote for allowing the experts to make the calls. If the voters don't trust the experts to such an extent they rather risk screwing everything up, then that is what we will have to live with.

For a interesting thought, what about matters of brain development and ability to reason? Why should voters get to decide on matters such as when we are considered adults or when consenting to contracts or sex is possible. For nuclear or medical expertise, there is at least expertise. For matters of brain development, the science is still very young and limited. Or even on a greater extent, why should a voter be given power in matters that require ethical expertise? Matters that require legal expertise?
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Google seems to know that when I am searching for ruby, I want it to rank the programming language first. In due time it will know that by crystal I mean the programming language.
Because it creates a Door to Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell
I write Ruby for money, and I find it difficult to read and write in certain circumstances. Sometimes Ruby thinks the curly braces mean a hash, sometimes Ruby thinks they mean a lambda. The ambiguities in the syntax (wow, it's just like natural languages!) really drive me crazy.

After learning a variety of programming languages, I think homoiconic syntax is the only type I actually like.
How much of a royalty are we talking about in say 2014? Enough for a cup of coffee or for a used VW Golf?

I know that it is rare for modern programming books to make much money for their authors. Thus I imagine for a highly specialized math book it would be even rare.
I'm currently using it to mock my API responses for a front-end application.
>It's a tragic topic to put to a referendum though, because I don't expect every random person to be an expert on the technical nuances of financial history.

Voters are not experts on matters of laws, morality, ethics, psychology, sociology, or criminology. If it is tragic for this to be put to referendum, then most every referendum is tragic.
Although that would be better for the environment, it would make it absolutely obvious to everyone how big of a problem this is. After the BP thing, that's something to be avoided at all costs.
They used to have this at least 6-7 years ago but took it away. Everyone had to have a netflix account so I don't know why it went away.
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> It's supposed to be a professional police force, not amateur hour of bigots, wannabe Rambos and trigger-happy Harry Callahans.

What interactions have you had with police officers in the last few years? Because it sounds like the majority of your "experience" is coming from Mother Jones and MSNBC.

I sit on the Civil Service Commission for my township, which exists only because we have a small local police force. I deal with both police officers (e.g. the folks patrolling the street or doing traffic enforcement), management (lieutenant/chief, elected township officials), and police applicants in a professional context on at least a monthly if not weekly basis throughout the year.

Your comment has not even a passing affiliation with reality.
Every time an Android device installs its monthly security update, it spends an inordinate amount of time, with the screen on, "optimizing" every single app.
Thing is, in the world of design patents even trivial changes are sufficient to avoid infringement.
They are made-up example numbers to show that even if something is not the "general case" (e.g. majority), it can still be a huge problem if it's big enough, especially if it's bigger than the norm in other "civilized" countries. Note that you didn't provide any numbers for "most cops don't overstep their bounds" either.

If we consider "killing citizens" as "overstepping their bounds" (and I'd say is the most overstepping a policeman can do), then US police does it by about 1-2 orders of magnitude (70 - 100 times) more than other western countries...

Here are some actual hard numbers:

For instance, an April 2007 study of the Chicago Police Department found that out of more than 10,000 police abuse complaints filed between 2002 and 2003, only 19 (0.19%) resulted in meaningful disciplinary action. The study charges that the police department's oversight body allows officers with "criminal tendencies to operate with impunity," and argues that the Chicago Police Department should not be allowed to police itself.[29] Only 19% of large municipal police forces have a civilian complaint review board (CCRB). Law enforcement jurisdictions that have a CCRB have an excessive force complaint rate against their officers of 11.9% verses 6.6% complaint rate for those without a CCRB. Of those forces without a CCRB only 8% of the complaints were sustained.[30] Thus, for the year 2002, the rate at which police brutality complaints were sustained was 0.53% for the larger police municipalities nationwide.

Here are some more:

According to the 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index released in November, in the measure of personal freedom, the United States has fallen from 9th place in 2010 to 21st worldwide—behind such countries as Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Uruguay and Costa Rica. Other such rankings systems show the US as low as 46.

Let’s look at our immediate neighbors to the north, Canada. The total number of citizens killed by law enforcement officers in the year 2014, was 14; that is 78 times less people than the US. If we look at the United Kingdom, 1 person was killed by police in 2014 and 0 in 2013. English police reportedly fired guns a total of three times in all of 2013, with zero reported fatalities. From 2010 through 2014, there were four fatal police shootings in England, which has a population of about 52 million. By contrast, Albuquerque, N.M., with a population 1 percent the size of England’s, had 26 fatal police shootings in that same time period.

China, whose population is 4 and 1/2 times the size of the United States, recorded 12 killings by law enforcement officers in 2014. Let that sink in. Law enforcement in the US killed 92 times more people than a country with nearly 1.4 billion people. It doesn’t stop there. From 2013-2014, German police killed absolutely no one.

And more:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/0...

And let's not even get into BS like sending SWAT teams for any BS offense, like getting some stoned teenager...

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21599349-america...
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The article says it's poor at detecting differences in the tails and much better at differences in the medians. So that's where I'd start to find problems.
Even if most officers don't overstep their bounds themselves, they cover for and protect their buddies who do. This makes the majority of cops bad cops.
No, deliberately misunderstanding and misrepresenting design patents is ridiculous. Arguing that Pepsi should be allowed to imitate the design of a Coke bottle is ridiculous.

Rather than taking a zero-sum approach, nuance is needed.
>In no place I've lived would the average person walking into the voting box have spent time studying the history of banking law and policy to make a well-informed rational decision.

Do they study laws, ethics, psychology, sociology, or criminology before making laws? The average voter on any issue is not educated. Why should any issue be given special consideration for this? And if this is an issue with every issue, then the issue is with democracy itself.
There's a book called The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram, and a sequel called Becoming Animal, that I think are relevant. They aren't based on neuroscience but philosophy (mostly Merleau-Ponty phenomenology, a little bit of McLuhan, plus an interesting critique of alphabetic writing) and some field anthropology. Basically he is defending the importance of embodied cognition within non-man-made environments.

From the first book:

> Today we participate almost exclusively with other humans and with our own human-made technologies. It is a precarious situation, given our age-old reciprocity with the many-voiced landscape. We still need that which is other than ourselves and our own creations. The simple premise of this book is that we are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.

I bet there's also a bunch of articles written from a Heideggerian perspective about being-in-the-world as a hiker. I'd expect the "three day effect" to work very well when you are hiking from place to place, engaged in that kind of simple and "primordial" activity.

There's a NASA report that I can't find that was about psychological requirements for long-term living on space stations and one thing they recommended was an explorable space with height differences creating a shifting horizon, so you get that nice free feeling of walking in a landscape.

Which reminds me that The Spell of the Sensuous has an interesting discussion of Heidegger's use of the concept of a horizon, and how it relates to the experience of time...

Oh yeah and I've heard lots of people say, and I concur, that meditation retreats usually shift in character after around the third day, like it takes about three days for the mind to really get into the new situation, fully adjust to the rhythm. After that there's a different flow and meditation feels deeper.

BTW, I love hiking and meditation, but I'm a little wary of romanticism and religion. There's interesting critique of the concept "nature," for example Timothy Morton's Ecology Without Nature. Yet there's obviously lots of fascinating effects on mental health.

Then I'm also a little wary of "scientizing" or "psychiatrizing" both nature and meditation. It has to do with what Heidegger thought of as the technological mindset of treating the world as a big resource to use for various purposes.

I think there is some kind of truth in the way many hikers and meditators want to keep those things "sacred" in some way, regardless of what religious or romantic theoretical framework they use to justify that. If you try to use nature, or meditation, to alleviate the stress from your life, in an instrumental way full of expectations, I can easily see it gradually losing its efficacy, if it becomes yet another maintenance strategy and you lose the sense of noninstrumentality, free exploration, suspension of ordinary pursuits, etc.
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"My name is spelt wrong on my badge, mate," I told him
"Oh, that's fine, nobody cares about your name here anyway; we just need your barcode – that's all."

Sounds like something written by G. Orwell.. Still better than sweatshops in China or 3rd world countries I guess.
I believe the Charlemagne coin was minted in the 8th century.
This seems awesome. But I only use Postgresql at work, and it doesn't look like they have Windows builds. PgAdmin doesn't have tabs so using it requires a lot of window management. Why does MAC seem to be more supported than Windows in all the links I've followed here to other clients?
where do you get your median pe ratio?

http://www.multpl.com/

that's the spu's total pe ratio, and it's about half what it was in 2000.
Not only do they only blame Assad for the violence in Syria, they spell his name wrong. This has got to be an image some troll put together.
I love projects like this. A lot of times what's written out as a formula is hard for someone to comprehend. Some people even understand a computer science code represnetation better than a mathematical representation of the same formula. Giving people a visual way to see what's happening is awesome.
I have to read yet a good criticism of MMT that have not been addressed by the MMT proponents. Maybe you can address me to one.

MMT people don't claim it to be any new or groundbreaking, on the the contrary, they claim is just common sense and chartalism. What they claim is that chartalism is true, especially in modern economies. This is a very difficult thing to dispute if you analyze how money works nowadays.

In my experience, the real problem with MMT, is that the implications of what an economy is or how it really works are politically indigestible for a lot of people and inconvenient for a few.
The author tries to reproduce the falling-in-love experiment of psychologist Arthur Aron, involving a series of intimate questions and staring into each others' eyes.

The end result? They fell in love.

Despite that, her conclusion was:

Love didn’t happen to us. We’re in love because we each made the choice to be.
Control I guess - how to be sure what was due was collected, passing it back up the chain, vulnerable to fraud and violence, and of course no nice customers fronting you billions in free cash each day.
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Hotspot requires as little as 128 KB RAM and 1 MB ROM

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/javame/embed...

If one adds the GUI client APIs, then the whole SDK grows up to 5MB ROM.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/javame/embed...

Some commercial products using the above runtimes are the Gemalto's M2M modules or evaluation boards like the ARM Keil F200.

But I expect Google fanclub to downvote me.
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If people are interested in language compilers/interpreters, another route is to look at PL/0. There are several C implementations that are pretty easy to grok even if you don't know C (very well).
I worry that moving to a larger company will just hasten the consolidation of hosting to a few players.
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Unlikely. This is leaking from a storage reservoir, not a field. Eventually the gas runs out.
The nurse echoes Alec Baldwin's character in Glengarry Glen Ross when he says: "If you don't like it, leave."
My four London servers were also unreachable last week. Looks like Linode have a pretty rough time.
My grandfather passed from Alzheimers this summer. It is awful to say, but his passing was a relief to many, as he effectively died a couple years prior.

This disease is proof positive that there are medical fates far, far worse than death.
I'm guessing the main problem is the vast list of identifiers that you need to think about?
> Nice statistics

Yeah, it sucks when someone comes armed with facts, doesn't it?
How would you build a templating framework in JavaScript?
Faker.js is pretty great. I wrote a simple package to generate fake data for MySQL tables. It's rather basic, but it's been useful to me. It probably wouldn't be hard to stick a DB abstraction layer in front to use with other backends.

https://github.com/michaelmior/mysql-faker
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On the topic of what went wrong I think this LA weekly[3] article is a much better source. The main problem why the well can't be shut down is that the security valve was removed about 40 years ago: "He pointed out that the valve was old at that time and leaking. It also was not easy to find a new part, so the company opted not to replace it.". Certainly a bad decision and it should be checked if regulations need to be changed to avoid similar problems in the future.

EDIT: The old version had used the wrong conversion factors, now corrected

The central number is the exhaust mass of 110,000 pounds per hour. So how much is this really? This is about 50 metric tons of methane per hour. To be able to compare it with other greenhouse emissions we can calculate the CO2 equivalent by multiplying with 0.01133[1] giving the rate of: 1247 metric tons CO2e per hour.

Using the EPA Online tool[2] we can relate this to the toal emissions in Calfornia or the US. The total emission of methan measured in CO2e for California in 2014 was: 9,546,270 metric tons CO2e. Converted to a rate per hour this gives: 1089 metric tons CO2e per hour.

So while the well is leaking it is releasing 114% of the normal methane emissions of California.

Compared to all greenhouse gas emissions the well is causing an increase of 10% in california and 0.3%at the US national level compared to the emissions from large facilities.

[1] http://www3.epa.gov/gasstar/tools/calculations.html

[2] http://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do

[3] http://www.laweekly.com/news/what-went-wrong-at-porter-ranch...
I would love to see some links to that scientific evidence especially about the developing an illness from negative outlook.

It seems almost an accepted wisdom that mental outlook would play some part in recovery process. Think positive and you will recover/improve somewhat faster(this has been in popular press many times in last 20-30 years).

However, I have a hard time finding evidence that negative outlook makes you get a serious illness.

This is something that I see in magazines of dubious nature("The seven all-natural cures to dementia that your doctor is hiding from you!")

Are there publications with peer-review behind that?
Well, there's a simple remedy for that. The police can just not do bad things. They are, after all, employed by citizens and paid by citizens using their tax dollars. They are not independent contractors competing for business in a police free-market.
My second computer (after the Timex Sinclair 1000) was a TRS-80 MC-10. I liked that it had the same BASIC commands mapped to keys like the TS/1000 and so it was a great upgrade into a computer that had colour and sound... and since I was 6 the small keyboard was okay =)
Skip the overly dramatic Orwellian outrage porn and go straight to the banal conclusion:

>What became apparent over my time there was that, whatever the dramatisation of previous investigations, working at Amazon is just shit – but no more shit than any other mundane, badly-paid job.
I remember an interview with the developer of the Amiga port of Great Giana Sisters and he said he couldn't live from it but the paycheck was good enough for a decent car. But remember that this was obviously contract work.

On the Amiga you had an impressive range of freeware developers to commercial developers. The commercialization had already reached levels where companies had their own development teams but you also still had companies that just paid some developers to develop a game for them.
Seems like your DNA technician was only doing what most good defense attorneys do - secure an acquittal for a suspect.

And as for the argument that he was falsifying evidence to allow a guilty person to walk, I am sure that the occurrence of the opposite situation is far more prevalent - that false evidence is produced to allow an innocent person to be jailed.
This is one of my core fears.

I know now that it is very likely I will live well into my 80s, perhaps even 90s. My genetic background strongly indicate a long life span, and I have been taking pretty good care of my body for a long time.

So there is an excellent chance that my body will outlast my mind.

And that just sucks. In my remaining decades, I hope that science and technology will address this. There seems like a good chance of real progress in that timeline.
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I think YaCy[1] is similar to what you describe.

[1] http://yacy.net/en/index.html