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In the early 70s, he was the leader of the glam movement, introducing androgyny and bisexuality to the music industry, bringing in visuals from the decidedly underground drag and cabaret scenes. In the mid-70s, he crossed American soul into British pop, creating an image that has been used ever since by thousands of lesser pop musicians.

Besides making his own records, he produced albums for barely-controllable outsiders like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, helping them achieve pop crossover success and survive their own demons.

In the late 70s, he went to Berlin and cranked out three albums of ambient, experimental music that kicked open doors for radical new sounds that fueled the New Wave movement (again with shallow imitation). But he ignored New Wave himself, and instead made fresh, soulful, pop with Let's Dance. In the 1990s, he got heavily involved in the early internet, putting multimedia content on cds and even founding an ISP.

He dialed things back in the 2000s, as age and health took their toll. His two most recent albums were his first in many years. The Next Day was a throwback to his 1970s rock styles. Blackstar brought in jazz and modern hip-hop ideas.

One of the most amazing things about his output, besides how many times he forged new sounds and new visuals for the entire industry, is how timeless it all is. Pretty much all of his records, especially the best ones, sound timeless and modern, even decades later.
In seed stage companies, what is the disadvantage of enabling your employees to early exercise and bonus-ing or loaning them the capital to do so?

The advantage seem clear: employees can get 25-35% more equity at effectively no cost difference to the company.
It's not absurd because of the costs of becoming a doctor, both direct costs and opportunity costs. By the time heavily indebted doctors can hang out their shingles, professional peers have been working almost ten years, racking up a million dollars or so in gross earnings.
I agree in theory, but in practice a K12 student-facing Windows desktop is no more programmable than an iPad.

You are locked down to a small subset of site-licensed applications your domain administrator has deemed appropriate for the least common denominator in your age group. All forms of customization are disabled with Group Policy. Novell and Citrix application delivery are common, so you don't even have a Start menu but a proprietary launcher. Extremely aggressive Internet filtering bans large swaths of content about networking to prevent students from learning how to bypass the filter.

Our IT department enabled access to the hilariously antiquated QBasic environment only for students currently enrolled in a programming course and revoked it the next semester. You had to sign a special waiver saying you promised to only write code directly in fulfillment of course requirements and not do any independent experimentation or goofing around.

I get it, but K12 students on non-iPads aren't getting Linux, they're definitely not getting root, and they're probably not getting user-mode code execution either. You'd need to change the entire culture around K12 IT to make that happen.

The best way for kids to learn to be hackers is on their hardware, free from school or parental controls.
No, not like condoms. If STDs became blockable with common sense and condoms started shipping with perforations and prickles on the inside then yes, but that's not the case is it.
Good question: at present mainly so I can answer his programming questions and send him learning material. We live in different countries.
These guys need to work on their dataviz. Could have made some of the tables into graphs, really.
Man look at that notes app which can be locked with the password being displayed on the locked screen
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I believe that stephenhess's point was that secular thought was an inferior product in terms of its ability to provide certainty and meaning to people. If you look at some branches of existentialism, say (You validate your life by having a "final experience? Or, worse, by experiencing angst? Seriously? That's how I'm supposed to validate my existence?), then it becomes pretty hard to disagree with stephenhess (presuming that I understand his point correctly).
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Having studied their Linux Antivirus (TrendMicro ServerProtect), it's far from a clean, safe and well maintained piece of software:

* It comes with its own http server (apache, with a conf file mentioning NCSA (!))

* Their realtime kernel module barely compiles (on quite old kernel versions), has a disgusting code and Makefile and makes the computer slow or simply crashes when it kind of works.

* They ship their Antivirus with quite old libraries, some compiled more than 10 years ago, and some probably impacted by several CVEs (openssl < 1.0.0, quite old libxml).

* Their init scripts are an ugly thing written in perl lauching several services in one script.

* Their rpm packages are just mindfucking. You have one rpm package to install the software, and other rpm packages to patch it... WTF.

From a piece of software, running as root (or even worst, in kernel space), written in C and analyzing untrusted inputs by definition, it's a bit worrying to say the least.
Give me a driverless car that only works on perfect sunny days, and the rest of the time requires me to drive it manually. That's still 10 x better than the car I have right now.
Eventually, your Tesla will be able to drive anywhere across the country to meet you, charging itself along the way.

While I applaud their ambition, that statement certainly escalated quickly from autonomously leaving a garage.
"civil rights gains are not birthed from religion"

I find this statement particularly ironic as we enter the holiday weekend in which we are called to remember the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.

As Wikipedia says-- "He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs."
OS X is a UNIX, so file extensions don't matter a whole lot. You can double click a plain Mach-O executable file and it'll run it in a Terminal window. For application bundles (folder with name ending in .app), OS X will warn you if the file was downloaded/not signed by a key trusted by Apple.
> Ultimately, secular thought (agnosticism and atheism included) is just an inferior product compared to religions.

How would we know how good a product religions are if almost every single consumer was forced into them from a very young and gullible age by the biggest authority figures in their life, their parents?
It seems like the high reflectivity of snow would help in case of following the tracks of the previous car, where I'd guess the car's tracks are a little bit less reflective than the fresh untouched snow on the rest of the road?
Ask HN: What tool do you use for Code Analysis?
Trying to find a simple tool with a nice UI that can handle a large PHP code base. Tried CodeClimate, Codacy, and Scrutinizer. None did so well with my code base with 15+ minute analysis. Are my expectations too high in terms of speed?
But it might very well be. Just see Pythonista[0] as a great example for scripting on iOS.

[0]: http://omz-software.com/pythonista/
I wish if most surface devices came with the option for 4G/LTE. Heck even a GPS sensor would come in handy when mapping. Not sure why but MS chooses to ignore having these basic features even on their expensive line of Surface products.

That said, does anyone know any universal 3G/4G/LTE dongle? Almost everything I found is made exclusive to a specific carrier. How come cheap tablets come with a universal data capability and yet no usb dongles?
Yes. To the question of why is the world here religion answers, "Because God created it." But no religion deals with the obvious follow up question, "Then who created God?" That question is not allowed in the religious framework. Science does not allow for such questions, either, but doesn't purport to answer the final question of why the world exists.

So do we go with religion, invent God, and take satisfaction in child-like explanation of why the world exists? Or do we go with science and merely acknowledge the mystery of what we humans are unable to fully understand (i.e., the world).
I tend to agree with the parent of your post, even though I agree with your sentiment. I don't think secular thinking will ever find satisfying answers to those questions, so it's going to be more about making peace with dissatisfying answers than finding satisfying ones.

Which makes some religions a "strictly better product". I'd guess that most people will have trouble making peace with the depressing existential reality that "you and the rest of humanity are a mote of dust in the universe," so religions will often give answers that let you sleep better at night, whether or not they are correct or true.
I don't think we need Microsoft to lock us into a carrier, we're happy to do it in exchange for this year's iteration of the iPhone, Galaxy or whatever.
> A Slate article from 2014 stated that Google's cars wouldn't know a stoplight existed, and would simply run it, if it wasn't in Google Maps

That muse be old. In their TED talk from last year, they had it spotting and reacting to cyclist hand signals, school bus mechanical stop signs, and even a police officer directing traffic at an intersection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiwVMrTLUWg

edit: I see you mention this below.

Weird article, though. The author says:

> In fact, when I first wrote about the car for MIT Technology Review, Google admitted to me that the process it currently uses to make the maps are too inefficient to work in the country as a whole.

but his previous article he links to says

> Maps have so far been prepared for only a few thousand miles of roadway, but achieving Google’s vision will require maintaining a constantly updating map of the nation’s millions of miles of roads and driveways. Urmson says Google’s researchers “don’t see any particular roadblocks” to accomplishing that.

(and, incidentally, you quote the word "impractical", which appears in neither quote :)
My understanding is that puberty is earlier due to additives in food. Tofu, for example, has compounds that mimic female hormones. Compounds in soft plastics are thought to disrupt the hormones of young children, too.
This is neat. Here's the demo game, showing what the maker is capable of: http://sparklinlabs.itch.io/discover-superpowers.

To OP: seems like I can jump through walls in the sample game.
I'm not sure I understand; doesn't

BOOK.LANGUAGE.eq("DE")

mean something like

Book.Language = 'DE'

in SQL? That's certainly a boolean expression. I've only started reading the manual, though, so it's possible I got the semantics wrong, but I've had SSMS point out to me this sort of thing before.
It would be nice to have a card that lists these landmark decisions, so that when pulled over you have a way to quickly have handy the names of cases.

"If you don't let me search your car, I'm going to call in a dog ..."
"Officer, the Supreme Court ruled in People vs Rodriguez (2015) that a traffic stop becomes unlawful if it is prolonged beyond the time reasonably required to complete the mission of issuing a ticket for the violation."

Of course, making such an argument at the time might be unwise, but at least you know that the law is on your side if you decide to decline the search.
This is purely anecdotal, but I have a handful of friends who left google after their sabbaticals. They all explained it with some form of "I was surprised how much happier I was when I didn't have to go to work, and I didn't miss it at all." A couple of them actually chose to not work at all for a while, and one started his own company (a small lifestyle business, not a unicorn-bound startup). Using the time to interview and heading off for another full time job is not a pattern I've noticed at all...
Yeah, looks like Windows has it too. Strange. I loathe the idea that you need a "supported OS" to get a fix for your CPU that should work as intended. :)
I'm so over tablets for kids.

If I give my 10 yo son a 15 year old Dell laptop with OpenBSD and wifi over a USB dongle, and a book (1), he learns python.

Give him a 27" iMac and he learns to find and play meaningless random crappy Flash games, watch Minecraft videos, and occasionally play minecraft or do something else, like looks something up, checks his homework assignments, et

Give him an iPhone or an iPad, he just learns to find and play meaningless random crappy iOS games.

I honestly think letting my daughter buy her own ipad was poor parenting on my part.

(1) https://www.nostarch.com/pythonforkids
> They want to make 4/20 an annual drug raid event.

So just make it like Halloween. Have the kids dress in police uniforms and go door to door with the actual officers searching every single house in the county. Have the adults give out marijuana-shaped candy. Say "pot or arrest" as you knock on the house. Have a competition at the end and declare the kid with the weightiest bag of "pot" the winner and give him/her a medal. Go all the way. It's good publicity you're after, not actual police work, after all.
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The shows are designed for young children, not adults. You won't get the humor in them like choosing the hotdog to chew chew chew to summon a train. I suppose a 3 year old would find that funny but an adult would not.

I felt the same for Barney and Teletubbies, it just felt stupid, but young children loved it.
> It doesn't provide out-of-the-box answers to these really hard questions and as a result can be a very scary and lonely ideology.

I think you could say the same about religion when it becomes unmasked (in times of great hardship) or under honest rational doubt (The defeated priest trope). The out of the box answers start looking ridiculous and don't seem to offer much hope.

Bergman's Winter Light really made me realize that religion isn't an answer but rather a framework designed to stop looking for answers using things such as tradition, community and moral certainties to ignore the deeper questions. It is useful until it breaks down and then it becomes apparent that we don't have any good alternatives and the resulting reality is rather bleak. One woman in the film finds faith in Love, at least that is a tangible emotion that can be felt, even if it is as misunderstood as anything else.

I think one of the failures of secular thought is to assume that the alternative to religion (universal and rule based) is also universal and rule based. Often depressive thoughts lean towards a thinking that "if EVERYTHING was like X, or if EVERYONE thought like X we would be okay and everyone would be happy". The knowledge that the world will never be like that, along with the desperate hope that it could be, is what imprisons someone in depression. Usually getting out of depression is either an acceptance of a out-of-the-box answer (like religion) or a change in ego where one learns that they define the meaning of life. I've always been partial to egoism in philosophy and ethics and I believe we are advancing the future to better suit it (virtual worlds, no need to work, more of a focus on creativity, leaving the binds of this planet, etc).
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The large nets, yes. Partly because bigger nets tend to do better so we've built massive nets that run pretty well on big GPUs. But that's the state of things, we have impressive results but from huge neural nets that we really cannot run in realtime on a mobile device.

It's particularly bad if you want to run them on a small, battery powered device. Far more so if you only have one image to process, here they're seeing single image speedups of over 10x compared to GPUs (but slower than batched processing) and energy efficiencies about 1000+ times better than mobile GPUs (and far more compared to the beasts in your desktop).
Can you elaborate? I don't follow the subject very closely anymore.
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> TrendMicro helpfully adds a self-signed https certificate for localhost to the trust store, so you don't need to click through any security errors.

Anyone know if this uses a non-unique key pair like the Lenovo one did?
As people keep saying, one only has to verify functions that can break invariants, e.g. if you define a type that has invariants needed by `unsafe` blocks, then one has to take a close look at any functions that can modify its internals (i.e. things inside the module the type is defined).

Functions that can't break these invariants because they don't have access to the internals of a type do not need to be checked: they can be assumed safe.

> Well, given the most common refute of my concerns is 'you just have to make sure your unsafe blocks are verified to be correct', and the point of this article, is explicitly that this isnt the case...

And, as my comment says twice, my point is just that the two cases are not very different: verifying all unsafe blocks and verifying the modules that contain `unsafe` aren't that different.
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I don't have anything against philosophy. But I can't help but think if you want to understand quantum physics you should study quantum physics. And if you want to understand AI you should study AI. Starting with philosophy rather than the evidence is a good way to get entrenched in world views that don't make sense.

In AI the dominant attitude is that the mind can be considered a machine and that consciousness can be ignored. It dodges the philosophical questions entirely in the name of practicality. If anyone's going to find the answer to how consciousness works it will be neuroscientists, so in the meantime what's the point of debating it on philosophical grounds?

Similarly quantum physics didn't originate from philosophers who thought "It just doesn't seem right that the universe is deterministic! At a microscopic level electron positions must be probabilistic". No, these are things scientists figure out and philosophers reconcile.

It's not clear that AI researchers or quantum physicsts would lose anything by ignoring philosophers.
It (potentially) solves one challenging problem - how to navigate when the roads are not clear or clearly marked. Unfortunately it's a fairly limited solution - "Falling rain and snow can interfere with LIDAR and cameras" (http://www.wired.com/2016/01/the-clever-way-fords-self-drivi...)
There are three reasons Google open-sourced TensorFlow:

1. Their stated reason.

2. Branding. Google likes to show off advanced products that aren't fully developed in order to elevate their brand and recruit engineers (even though most do not work on such products). Project Soli is the best example of this: the product video shows off a small radar and some range-doppler video, but it does not show complicated gesture recognition capabilities, which is the hardest part.

3. Free labor. Deep learning algorithms require a ton of data in order to not overfit to the training data. Google has tons of data while academic researchers do not. If Google gets researchers to develop new algorithms that work well on smaller amounts of data and the researchers develop their algorithms in TensorFlow, then Google can easily incorporate the work into their own products and make it better.
Not quite true. Apps aren’t allowed to use private API’s, but some apps still do.
Huh? What are you talking about?
You classify category theory as philosophy rather than math? Can you explain why?
How the heck would the car know where there is more readily available parking? It seems like parking is a whole other area of work that needs to be done. It would need to:
- Know local parking lots
- Know that if a sign says "full" it can't go in
- If it's not full, somehow grab the ticket out of the machine
- Know the difference between parallel parking and other types
- Know if a meter is expired
- Pay for a meter if it is, or not if it isn't
- Tell how much time is left on a meter
- Be able to read parking restriction signs (street sweeping, restricted time ranges)
- Etc. etc.

Edit: tried hard to get the above to output as a bullet list, couldn't get it to work.
That's rather naive. This isn't a failure to dream big. Everyone understands that SSTO will require major advances in propulsion and materials to be really practical and cost effective.
While that's true, f.lux handles edge cases in important ways -- letting you disable it for certain apps or time periods, as well as "movie mode." As much as I'd like to see this feature be built into the OS, Apple tends to simplify away a lot of fiddly preferences by choosing what they hope are sensible defaults, and as much as I appreciate that in theory, in practice this might be one of those areas where fiddly preferences are superior.
Science is about making the invisible visible and measuring it. They may have found a way to detect gravity waves. I'd like to wait and see the peer review before making any opinions on it yet.
I would love to sort on rating, and I've never seen a way to do that. It would be the single biggest thing that would increase my use of Netflix.
Actually, it's going to be a global totalitarian oligarchy.

The international agreements for trade, defense, and surveillance cooperation are intersecting with the interests of their respective oligarchies and corporations.

Just ten years ago, who would have thought we'd be extraditing and jailing someone for copyright infringement? How about governments subverting civilian infosec and sharing the exploits? It makes going to war for plain old oil rights and defense profiteering seem quaint.
Sure, but they aren't necessary the most efficient model possible
I feel that the battle is kind of lost when you have ventured into this level of detail. If you have to discuss "legitimate way to give permission" to a child it has reached outside the realms of parenting common sense.

I think lot of these issues tie-in very closely to the fact that government is trying to control our lives with the assumption that government knows better than us. As an Indian immigrant to India I am extremely concerned to about my child here because I simply can not exercise my inherited parenting judgement anymore.

One thing liberty loving individuals could do here is learn a thing or two from NRA and completely deny any legislative space to the law makers on this issue. These small bills will not deter the government from what they are already doing.
Not a lawyer.

My gut feel is Google writes their TOS that are concrete enough to be enforceable at some basic legal level, but vague enough to be a catch-all enforcement.

It's crummy that Google is claiming that Routebuilder is violating their ToS, but not telling them how it's violating or why they have deemed Routebuilder a violate of that specific ToS clause.

It definitely feels like large company bullying tactics, which are hard for small/medium and independent companies to fight, without investing (read: wasting) money on legal fees.

This is less about "oh if you don't like the terms, build it yourself" but rather the spirit of which Google was founded.

Facebook and Twitter have pulled this same nonsense as well: encourage all developers build their apps on top of their platforms, to help grow the active user base. Once they become critical mass/gate keepers, swing the doorshut for all except those who are willing to do everything that they are asked of.

The kick in the balls is how Google built their organization on top of open-software, but now has adopted the same corporate policies that closed/proprietary software vendors like MSFT have used.

"Do no evil."
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Did you just suggest that these drones should be programmed to record our activities and report them to the police?
Not at all, and i suspect as sensor technology improves and prices become more affordable digital formats larger than 35mm will rise in popularity.