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David Lowery has a history of doing stuff like this. I love his music, but he's become a bit of a troll on this issue in recent years. (See his blog The Trichordist: http://thetrichordist.com/)

His most recent post does a pretty good job of pointing out where he stands on this issue: http://thetrichordist.com/2015/12/24/the-mother-of-all-frida...

Personally, I want to see Lowery make a few more bucks off of "Eurotrash Girl" and "Take the Skinheads Bowling," but his approach to the issue seems to have a take-no-prisoners vibe to it, which is too bad because it sort of undercuts a lot of the fairly valid points he might have. He's not afraid of going after listeners, which is a bummer because the listeners are probably less at fault in this case than the labels are. (He also looks like an older Chuck Johnson these days, which doesn't help matters on that front.)

No matter the complaints about tone or anything like that, we definitely need guys like Lowery making the case for artists. But he might win more support if he were to take some style tips from Taylor Swift [1] on the issue. Swift has done more on this whole issue than Lowery has and she hasn't once had to resort to making fun of an intern who doesn't buy CDs.[2]

[1] http://www.techtimes.com/articles/75173/20150813/taylor-swif...

[2] http://www.stereogum.com/1069672/david-lowery-on-file-sharin...
ugh, oh god
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Given how many deep learning toolkits have popped up and the complexities involved, these evaluations are quite useful. Code comparisons would be even better but I feel that's asking too much given how quickly things move :)

One important note, if you're looking to actually do standard tasks, use a higher level library. My favourite is fchollet's Keras[1] given that it supports using both Theano and TensorFlow as backends. It will likely support more in the future, giving you better performance (i.e. Neon is likely the next contender) and helping prevent legacy toolkit specific code.

I'm confident many of the issues with TensorFlow will be cleared up sooner than later, especially given it was only open sourced a month and a half ago. As an example, bidirectional RNNs are trivial to implement by yourself (~5 lines of code) but additionally TensorFlow has working code for that already in TensorFlow 0.6[2], the API is just not publicly listed.

Most important for this, single device performance is already at cuDNNv2 Torch levels for TensorFlow given the 0.6 update[3]. Both soumith and this evaluation haven't updated the numbers but Google replicated the benchmarks and presented them at NIPS. They're working on adding cuDNNv3 support, which should be another speed jump.

[1]: http://keras.io/

[2]: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...

[3]: https://twitter.com/deliprao/status/673888452736245760
That's a good point :)
His choice of a social analysis of Thomas the Tank Engine is disappointing. Slate covered this in 2011, and was far better.[1] Sodor has the morals and ethics of Imperial Britain. It's all about duty. Duty to one's social superiors. There are even posters, "Sir Topham Hatt says Have you Been Really Useful Today?" Think of this as you stare at your cube walls.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/07/thomas...
A hyperlink is an especially problematic example, as periods are valid in a url (even if it's a bit unusual to end with one).
After the initial excitement ;-) had settled down in the mid-nineties, it was, on order of magnitude, about $100 per year. Every once in a while, an interested mathematician would buy a copy. Other than that, in order to sell such a book, there has to be a graduate level class on the subject at some university (attended typically by about 5 people), and the teacher has to pick your book over a handful of other options.

I haven't kept track of the grand total that I made off the book, but it would certainly be a rather crappy used VW Golf.

I am so far removed from academia now that I have never thought about how I would publish a book like that today. My first impulse would be to make it a free ebook. Web search for "free course textbooks" indicates that this is not unheard of. Does anyone know how common it is, at various levels of higher education?
Consumer accounts have more complete access to Google products. For example there's currently no way to get a Project Fi number on an Apps for Work account.

Also the business plans are theoretically limited to 1TB per users for organizations with less than 5 users. I'm not sure if that's still the case since I seem to have actual unlimited (2TB use now) with a single user organization.
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The tricky part is making a 40+-day voyage with 5 days of food and maybe 10 days of water.
Power users can only change if they have Pro.

So Microsoft is charging more to not keep the key, which means they view it as a benefit for them to keep the key.

If it was just to help the user, why charge to not upload the key?
Yea, I'm all for adding as much layman-intelligible context as possible, but you can always make there sorts of gripes if you expect arbitrarily niche science topics to self-contained. The fact is that there's just not that much to say about quantum memory if you don't have the background to know what a Rabbi oscillation is.

I wonder to what extent this is just a humanities/sciences divide. I'd bet that scientists reading wikipedia far outside their specialty are less surprised and frustrated by the level of accessibility than are non-scientists. With important exceptions, topics in the humanities generally just have fewer levels of dependency.
> I would pay so much more in rent per month for a place that had more sound insulation. Take note building developers. I WILL PAY MORE.

I wonder where you live. I live in a under-developed nation with bad real-estate and there is a good number of building with special noise isolation. Granted, they are double the price. Not only because of noise isolation, they come with other perks (security, pool, quality of materials...).

If you are living in a 2million+ city, my guess this kind of estate already exists. Maybe you should search better.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3316960/ (2014) 7.5/10

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/still_alice/ 88%
Making Wayback Machine accessible in the context of the site that your likely to be wanting to view is so simple yet incredibly helpful. Thanks very much.
I would have put a comma after the last quotation mark.

Personally, I think instructors put too much emphasis on punctuation. I had one instructor ding me for not spelling out numbers between 0-10. I still don't know if he was right. I don't really care.

Looking back he had some issues. This Doctor would love to argue with the boys. We were all so young. We didn't understand why he would make such a big deal out of little errors. Dr. B said, "Come to my office after class!" Looking back, I'm suprised he didn't offer us wine in those pointless office visits.
I'll leave it at imperil. You can argue skewed coverage, but from where I sit, being approached by police in the situation described seems extremely dangerous.
Here is a pastebin purporting to be the tweets recently posted on his timeline:

http://pastebin.com/yk8bgru5
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I've been curious lately: is there any sense in which a nanomachine of mechanical design could be better or faster at certain calculations? Manufacturing and wear issues aside, are their potential theoretical advantages to going back to mechanical systems but on a molecular scale?
Such a system would be wonderful, particularly if it used Backblaze B2 or Google Nearline instead of Glacier (to get around the hours of delay).

Unfortunately, no such system yet exists and the complexities of dealing with many people's libraries (particularly regarding RAW files) make it more difficult than it seems (I've looked at doing this myself in the past).
> 0% interest isn't the best analogy for technical debt, because technical debt often carries recurring costs that are analogous to interest.

My argument is simply that if there is no recurring cost, it's not technical debt. It's just imperfect software that still works without demonstrated problems.
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Uber is only a household name for younger people in cities. I just recently had to explain to my mother what uber was because she had never heard of it. For people over 50 living in suburbs they never hear about all this companies that many people on here think are huge companies that have worldwide recognition.

You cant say something is a household name until more than 50% of middle aged people can tell you what a company does just by mentioning their name
There was a good article a few weeks ago about apartment noise:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/realestate/soundproofing-f...
The role of long-term trusts in jurisdictions without any rule against perpetuities?

I just finished a three-hour lecture on that one. Didn't see any architects.
I have never seen a webpage use "hover for sound". That is an amazing technique.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10808409
> could build a team of encyclopedia-compilers

OK, but if we want better science articles, we need to find a way to get practicing scientists to contribute. You can't improve the article on quantum memory without them.

> ...that could put together a better free, online encyclopedia than Wikipedia

What's the advantage of making it separate from Wikipedia? The only one I can think of is that you can put domain experts in charge who are allowed to appeal to their expertise rather than verifiability. But in this case, you want domain-specific encyclopedias rather than general purpose ones, like the celebrated Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Thanks for links and info.

I think comparability between Java (SE or ME) and Android would be a great win fit both communities :-)
I have to use it. There no other way. Please don't tell me coffee script/typescript, future script.
Also, I feel tired, fatigue I will say, every 2 month there a new way of doing stuff. And you know how difficult is to grab a junior and explain that now react is the shit and not more angular?

Also, do you know how difficult is for the company to hire people and we have to tell them: "we are a bored company, we just use jquery, rails and ajax."

I do not have anything with the language. Is becoming better, but I really hate the noise, the billions of libraries, and every two month the `correct way of doing stuff`

end of rant :)
Yep. RYM has over ten years of user contributions. It's a disgusting mess of PHP with no API, but it works.

The new rewrite will have an API, though I am not sure what the stack will be.
Disk encryption is enabled on some shipping machines, which is to say, it has been enabled on the three brand new Windows 10 machines I've used. The OEM is responsible for the installation, so I'd assume this is an OEM choice, but obviously I don't know.

I didn't notice at first, and really, there's no reason why I should have noticed. Also, I assumed Windows 10 Home didn't come with BitLocker anyway.

The Windows 10 security overview on Microsoft TechNet includes the following statements:

"Modern Windows devices are increasingly protected with device encryption out of the box and support SSO to seamlessly protect the BitLocker encryption keys from cold boot attacks."

"BitLocker supports encrypted hard drives with onboard encryption hardware built in, which allows administrators to use the familiar BitLocker administrative tools to manage them."

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt601297%28v=vs....
Let's think a bit broader: if you did truly solve that problem it's quite likely that the solution would have broad applications across a wide range of domains.

Unrelated, but I am curious on your opinion on something: do you perceive the current shortcomings as something that stems from the tool (the wiki platform itself), the organizational structure (the people), or a combination of both?
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Well if the author wants layman terms... Wiki has that: simple.wikipedia.org

example: simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Theory

As for quality: then try and improve it. Much information gets hidden or lost in the Talk pages because of internal politics and other such pettiness.

And subtopics will always require knowledge of the parent topic. This goes for science, mathematics, linguistics, and hell - even video games.
Yeah I remember reading somewhere that NYC in the early part of the 20th century was actually very loud.
>> The entire system of copyright and recorded art needs to be abolished, and any music that is recorded instantly becomes the public domain.

> No way, artists deserve to be paid for their works.

I agree, but the fair market value of a digitized recording is evidently close to zero and in general too low to sustain an artistic career save for exceptional cases. The era in which a musician could support himself or herself via selling recordings has basically been a blip in the history of music. We can try to sustain this blip, which appears to be a sinking ship, or we can reinforce traditional models like patronage (e.g. Patreon, NEA, private endowments, etc.) and live performance.
It seems, as long as "Any plot" means either a scatter, or bar chart (not even a continuous histogram).

Also:

"There are 3 ways to change the X and Y axis limits.
....Warning: Items 2 and 3 will delete the datapoints that lie outisde the limit from the data itself. So, if you add any smoothing line line and such, the outcome will be distorted"

So, is this a graphics module, or a fitting module, or a data manipulation module? It seems to do all three, depending on which functions you use to "Change the axis limits".

Edit: Probably the best "How to do everything" page I've seen is for python's matplotlib's gallery page: http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html - there is rarely not an example showing exactly what I want to do.
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That's because of a history of bitcoin mining abuse.
People post their API keys on github every day and Amazon refunds almost all of the lost compute time.
A well-written encyclopedia article should still be able to instruct a generally educated lay reader about what a thing is and why it's notable even if the more detailed explanation heads into depths that someone without appropriate background may not be able to follow.

I had a very similar discussion with someone involved with the Wikimedia Foundation earlier this year and he highlighted math/science as having exactly this issue. Way too many articles seem to be written by people who are far more comfortable and interested in using the equation editor than in providing an intelligible explanation.

The problem isn't universal to be sure. But it is widespread, especially in less popular topics.
Please, show how other countries addressed similar crime rates without lethal force.

Single occurences are irrelevant if we're talking about trends. I can conjure an emotional story to prove any possible outlook on this problem.

Yes, crime is correlated to socioeconomic situations, that doesn't contradict anything in my comment.
Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, and dementia is on the rise. So the chances are that most people reading this, not just you Diederich, have some form of dementia in their future. Your family history of old age doesn't include or exclude you, particularly. So you're not unusual, and you're not alone :)

What can we do in the face of this horrible onslaught? Not much, but great journeys start with small steps. Donate to dementia research charities. Become an Alzheimer's friend, if you have such a thing. Volunteer in a care home, perhaps. Talk about dementia with your friends. Write to your local politician. Read about your government's policies.

Just don't do nothing.

Incidentally, I recommend reading Atul Gawande's Being Mortal. Not necessarily for answers, perhaps as an exhortation that we can handle things better.
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> And my point is, looking back those people will say "I am here because I worked hard and everyone one else who is complaining is kind of lazy and should have worked hard as

That's a ridiculous straw man. I don't think anyone in this thread would agree with that statement.

> Those are good to describe how they got to the position of privilege. Which often has a mix of things like luck, hard work, and others. That is why used the word. Using something like "strategic life advantage" sounds a bit odd though.

Of course we all rely on a bit of luck and help from others. But the problem with telling someone you've never met before that they need to "check their privilege" is that you don't know a thing about them. It's offensive in exactly the same way that accusing the poor of being lazy is. If you don't take the time to get to know someone and learn about what they've been through and why they are where they are then you don't get to say things like "you're lazy" or "you're privileged". If you'll pardon my French, "you don't fucking know me".
See also: Pycharm

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/
United States. City is 2 million +, however the area I'm in is very hip/wealthy (mostly young professionals between 23 - 40 with salary jobs). I like to joke that our city's official bird is the crane, because there is a construction crane on every block. The speed at which they build new apartments is ridiculous. They are simply cranking them out as fast as possible to meet demand.

This city is also had the 1/2nd highest growth rate in the US in 14'/15'...if that's any clue. (it's Dallas...)

And yes, apartments do exist here that have great sound insulation, however out of the newer complexes, I'd say most do not. That is my point really.
Isn't the whole selling point of the hypertext format that we can follow as many links as we need for context and foundational information?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803924

Especially the top comment.
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Faker.js now supports something like 30+ locales.

This should expand the amount of name combinations considerably.
In this case its an actual reservoir, reasonable to assume they know exactly how much case is in there.
React Native experience was really quite nice. The android and ios versions have almost the exact identical logic and about 50 percent of the same codebase. I imagine as the android framework evolves, the shared code will increase.
What are the exceptions?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
> I don't necessarily want noise insulation within a dwelling, but I sure want it insulated from my neighbors.

For me, this would be the goal. Being able to hear the next room over for loud noises could be a safety issue, but hearing my neighbor has never been a positive. I can see zones of sounds inside a dwelling (e.g. kitchen - dining room - living room sound separated from bedrooms or office).
http://www.laweekly.com/news/what-went-wrong-at-porter-ranch... has a very clear diagram of what's happening. The inner casing of the well sprang a leak. The gas is blowing all the way back down the outer casing of the well, then exiting adjacent to the casing. So, while the leak is concentrated to an area directly adjacent to the well, it's not a matter of simply capping the pipe.
You won't hear about them. I note that these guys were all P2P pirates - direct to torrent. The real pirates are still trading over FTP sites, which then filter down to UseNet, private forums and are then "leaked" to torrents.
It's normally used as the backdrop to a party, or exercising,
or some other such thing

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is the attitude that, institutionalized, is destroying arts programs in schools across the US and meaningfully degrading the cultural literacy of our society.

I have nothing against those who simply don't connect deeply with the arts, but I take umbrage with the suggestion that the arts lack societal value. Centuries of music history (and art history, and literary history) offer far more profound benefits than mere backdrops and distractions, and that history is still being written.
You're not supposed to express critical thoughts here. Unless you accept being downvoted into invisibility.
The UI is obviously inspired by Rstudio for R. And I have zero objections to that; this is something that I've wanted for awhile, after having difficulty with PyCharm for my Python-related data projects. I'll play around with it a bit.

As a heads up, the setup workflow assumes you are on OS X, which may be a problem if it asks you to open a Terminal on Windows: http://i.imgur.com/nya50e4.png
Arguably, you want better science writers to contribute who may or may not be practicing scientists. After all, the goal probably shouldn't be to replicate physics journal depth in Wikipedia but, rather, to provide a mainstream source of information for those who may have some background but are not specialists on a given topic.
Interesting, though if I understood it correctly[1] this is for radio (which is different from Spotify and other streaming services, where you control which music you listen to). I.e. the effective royalty is still 10-20% for streaming services.

But please enlighten me if I'm wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundExchange
Edit: Re-read your comment.

Would agree.
Why don't you contract to a CPA then? I wouldn't think you'd be opposed to hiring a professional for his specific skills.
We'll still need people to evaluate/compare/vote whether any automated process (driving, pricing, placing, whatever) is good or not. This is where the human cannot be replaced.

Possibly big portion of the employable human population would be simply evaluators, high-level instructors, QA, real-life testing conductors, etc. Silly, but no machines can replace that yet.
Uh, what happens if you walk out the door and hail a cab? How do they stop you?
That'll never happen. For starters, 1099 classification is very defensible. 2nd, if some drivers should be W2s, any type of deal would likely only be in the future. 3rd, in the very, very worse case, there's no way it would be 100s of millions.
Even better:

METALS:

Math

Engineering

Technology

Art

Language

Science

at which point we're back to "education is good" and we've cancelled the whole point of the STEM concept in the first place.
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hey minimaxir, the commands should still work if you have python and/or conda installed. if you have any issues you can post here: https://github.com/yhat/rodeo/issues.

thanks for trying it out!
> Today, music seems like something you just put on for background music.

It's rather sad how little cultural value music gets these days while a handful of billionaires churn out #1 pop hits every other week.

~50 years ago, musicians sparked the hippie movement which was largely a protest against the Vietnam war. This would soon transform into the angry 80s where the advent of electrical music created more industrious, louder, and often-angrier music. Then came the apathetic 90s where bands like Nirvana dominated with their "don't care" attitude.

Today, we have nothing. The last great band was Radiohead and yes I listen to a TON of music and love many bands, but I'm sorry Pink Floyd, Beatles, Dylan, etc.. were not just a backdrop to a party or exercise. They actually had something to say besides bitches, money, and sex.
Every state that has personal income tax taxes llcs the same as the irs. I think you've bought into this canard that business owners are regularly paying taxes out of pocket and it can certainly happen but it's not common. And that's why the article didn't mention it.
So, where was all this gas in 2002 or so when CA was being held hostage by gas suppliers? I never heard of any reservoirs at the time.