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I think this kind of degree is better given to computer science classes.

Compute science assignments are easy to grade, especially project classes where you can auto-run against a set of tests. In the article, the degree is supply management, we need a lot more free form education in computer science than supply side management.
An NSA becomes a (part of a ) Staasi after the leadership has risen to power basically through murder - murder to the point to where it's impossible to identify the threat any more, for generations.

This ignores the relatively sanguine nature of Russian politics in general. You don't get an Ivan the Terrible every day.

It's nearly impossible to explain just how bloody the Russian Revolution was ( even if you could cleave it cleanly from WWI, a blood-soaked thing of there ever was ). I don't care how noble and popular a "movement" in the US could be, I do not think the American people will ever tolerate armed insurrection on any scale.

I'm also gonna say that while the US is not categorically dictator-proof, it's damned close. If a POTUS used the military while under impeachment proceedings, I'm pretty sure what would happen next. I don't think there's a commander alive that would go along with essentially war crimes under an unstably footed CIC.

Never say never, but Congress can pass a resolution and oppose whatever military force POTUS used. I'm pretty sure of which way that would break.
For someone interested in neural networks, deep learning and stuff like that, is this a useful course?

Not really (depending on exactly what "stuff like that" means)

Also, how valuable a skill-set is R?

Very
The abstract alone really scares me. Micro-directives?
I think you are right about that being a possibility, but my personal judgment is that a lot of bad driving is rooted in poor decision making and concentrated, so I don't think an overall decrease in safety is a likely outcome.
Not so black and white, really. Remember the recent Phil Schiller (I think) quote discussing how Apple sees their devices as a continuum, with more and more functionality going to more mobile, more personal computers? They see the Watch as replacing some amount of iPhone functionality, iPhone being able to do much of what iPad can, iPad largely replacing a laptop, and a laptop almost entirely obviating the desktop? So, in a sense, Apple does view the iPhone as a small and somewhat limited but very real "pocket laptop."

I think the relevant distinction between iOS and OS X is that, with iOS, there is sort of an understanding that the user is granted less direct control, in exchange for a near-guarantee that they won’t have to worry about certain things (like malware, or to a certain extent, battery life) anymore.
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That's wild oversimplification. A lot of people have become capitalists without a privileged start, and a lot of people have lost all their privilege.

The point is that what was said above was a meaningless truism to say that "the capitalists tends to win" because (still) being a capitalist is the prize.
The best available evidence we (humans) have suggests that we're finite beings...and we don't much like the idea of that...

The angst that accompanies knowing that what you were conscious of before your birth likely approximates what you will be conscious of following your death has driven thinkers to posit myriad explanations...none are completely testable, but the scientific postulates are at least open to the rigors of the scientific method, most notably peer review...

If either science or philosophy must be subsumed, I'd rather it be philosophy...

Personally, I prefer a life containing both...
> they could just as simply give their kid the same book on an iMac.

The old laptop, the iMac, and the book are all in the same room.
Your tone implies that dang (or whomever) edits titles willy-nilly to serve some agenda[0]. That's unfair, unless you can present some kind of adverse motive behind such a deed, a motive I fail to see.

The other thing to consider before preserving unnecessarily clickbait-y titles is that leaving them intact could motivate enough readers to flag down the article entirely out of distaste for the title, resulting in more severe de facto "censorship" than you seem concerned about here.

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[0] excluding, for the moment, arguments about articles from and regarding YC insiders like PG.
Sure, but you have to not do any of the other things you can do on an imac.
I just watched "The Internets Own Boy" again last night. It amazes me what our justice system can do to people and not be held responsible.

Had I done the same thing to Aaron, I'd have been given lethal injection by now.
Only for people who insist on owning their own car and avoiding paid parking. For the majority, the car will drop you at work and re-join the pool of cars available for use by those going in the other direction or park in a cheaper place a suburb away, or be available for courier work or whatever else.
Can someone ELI5 why TrendMicro would do this? Sincerely--I don't know what they get out of it, unless they're bad guys. Not trying to be snarky here.
In Australia in the early 80s, we had MicroBee computers in our primary schools. I spent a good proportion of a whole year of out of normal lessons, and holed up in the computer room, as I was the only one in the class who had figured out how to operate the machine (including the teacher).

The default MicroBee install came with games, but they were all written in basic, with source code included. My proudest earliest computing memory for the age of 10 is editing the game code to "Cricket" to get it to spout profanities when you hit a 4 or a 6. At this stage I didn't even know what the word hacking meant.

Several years later I got my first PC, a 386 with Windows 3.1. I was thoroughly confused that I couldn't find the source code to change anything. Eventually I found Gorillas and Snake in gw-basic, but it wasn't the same.

I'm forever grateful that the creators of the MicroBee chose to provide games in interpreted basic. I am certain that I wouldn't have pursued a career in programming if not for that initial spark of wanting to understand how things work underneath the hood.
Yes, they deal with Kleisli composition (which I intuitively think of as taking regular composition and "twisting" it with a monad) but that is different from what I meant. You can't take two different Kleisli arrows twisted with two different monads and combine them in an obvious way the same way you can compose/combine regular arrows. That is why all the tricks with transformers exist. You somehow have to get everything to be a monad again because Kleisli arrows can't cross monad boundaries.
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I have a scruffy beard... ?

It may also have to do with specific circumstances -- like regional culture. In Seattle, everyone was always cold regardless. In patriarchal northern Utah (in the small town where friends of mine run safe-houses for people fleeing polygamy) I got different dirty looks for being alone than for having my child (wives are supposed to be watching the kids in that culture.) In my part of Denver, being white makes me stand out.

In any case, I have noticed different treatment when I'm with my son and when I'm alone.
This sort of test can reduce the cost of treating cancer. I saw a thing about it on the TV, the false positive rate is low, so it makes it possible to intervene earlier, which is a significant factor in treating cancer.

It also identifies what mutations are involved in the cancer, which may help in choosing effective treatments.
"47% have been asked to do lower-level tasks that male colleagues are not asked to do (e.g., note-taking, ordering food, etc.)
32% disagree that they have been asked to do these tasks."

Biased reporting much? 47% of people have had to do lower level tasks, 32% of people did not admit to having to do these lower level tasks.

Why not give the people that disagree the same agency? To further push an agenda (let's not even talk about the lack of comparison to men, only women's lives aren't perfect so lets focus on that). If you were trying to be impartial it would have stated "32% have not been asked to do lower-level tasks."

Feminism step your fucking game up, I'm tired of your shit.
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Ah. I see. It wasn't obvious in either the examples or the source code.

I would like to see more structure: expected arguments, return type, etc.
I don't mean that the plow would operate on the same road 24/7, but that it could be plowing wherever required for longer shifts.
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It all shifted in the 80's due to the kidnapped children on the milk cartons, among other things. I wonder did your 14 year difference span the 80's?
Morally and ethically, the NSA is still accountable to Congress. If anything really big surfaces, they'll receive all manner of unwanted attention, and if it's big enough, no bleats about security will suffice - the committee that does oversight will be invested of quite extraordinary powers.
It was at this point that I realized that the performance of the user-land code in general (including NGINX) could be much better if it wasn't for the legacy network stack in the kernel, which does a bad job at some things such as slow performance accept()ing new sockets, and slower performance because every packet read has to be another system call unnecessarily copying memory; why not use shared memory? That's when I started to get interested in C10M... :-)
I feel like Elon is Amazing. He is taking our boyhood dream (at least mine) and making them a reality. How many of us wanted a Knight Rider car and to goto space and enjoyed racing our matchbox cars as fast as possible.

Now, if he would just answer my e-mail on if he is planning a USS Enterprise style existence for us. I'd volunteer to empty the trash just to be on board.
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It's not a single step, it's just one sign post on a long highway (you can't show all of them). Every step along the way is pretty straightforward and immediately useful.

Eyes are an interesting example, because they are seemingly incredibly complex systems, yet eyes have evolved independently dozens of times. For example, octopuses and humans have equivalently complex eyes which have entirely different origins and have slight differences (for example, human eyes have a blind spot due to the nerve fibers being on top of instead of behind the light receptors).
Yep, that's how it was in the 70's. At 9 or 10 years old I was roaming the city on my BMX bike without a care in the world. No helmets of course. My mom would come out and yell for us when it was time for dinner.
No need to start with R^2; start with R^1, where it's easy. Starting the proof with R^2 essentially means that you must do the induction step twice.

For an amusing instance of induction on dimension, you might enjoy the proof of the AMGM inequality, which proceeds by upwards induction that doubles the dimension, followed by downward induction: https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Cauchy's_Mean_Theorem#Theorem .
As I replied to martinflack, I was expecting to see it in the examples or source code. It wasn't obvious that it's inherited from the implementation language.
You've missed my point. I'm pitting their vast team of dedicated professionals against you as an armchair pundit who doesn't think they've considered liability or accidents.
> I'm not sure about the costs, but it might make for a compelling platform as a 'private cloud' solution.

My assumption is that they will port Cloud Foundry and sell it under a name like "BlueMix/Z".

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, the major donor of engineering time to Cloud Foundry. I believe IBM is the second biggest donor of engineering time.
Simple cruise systems only monitored speed and would throttle the engine to maintain the target speed. When a loss of traction happens, the proper response is usually letting up on the throttle so traction can be regained. These old, simple systems would apply more throttle insuring a mere slip turns into an epic spinoff event.

Secondly, when driving in spotty traction conditions, it is good to use a lower numbered gear and a safe speed combined. That same loss of traction event can result in a very rapid spin of the tires due to the higher gears and torque combining to produce a rapid increase in tire spin rate when not constrained by the weight of the car and traction.

This can happen before a human can respond.

The higher gear puts the engine at a higher rpm and closer to it's natural unconstrained speed, which diminished both the event and it's impact considerably.

The human experiences momentary chatter as the grip of the tire varies, but does not experience runaway spin and the abrupt loss of control it brings.

I would think an automated car could be programmed with this all in mind and do rather well.

An awful lot of humans could use this kind of data programmed in as well. :)
5.2" is way too big for my likeing. Otherwise it seems to be a nice phone.

I know a few people that are looking to upgrade from the one plus one, but have no options due to lack of NFC on other one plus models. This seems a great choice for them.
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Imagine Android, but with Google using its position to set the direction based on its business interests instead of in full collaboration with the open source community.
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Simple != trivial.

A space elevator is simple. Building one is very much not trivial.

This is similar.
You don't become a ruler to be subject to the rules.
The objections from such people have been fully and repeatably refuted. I doubt this new finding will cause any of them to reevaluate their position.
I think he's refering to things like Apple's "bitcode".

http://lowlevelbits.org/bitcode-demystified/
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Yes, it can be used as a web proxy but it only provides screenshots with no interaction. Should be fine for checking content sites.
> People should stay because they want to, not because they have to.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Just reminded me.
If I had known growing up that the country I lived in was like this, I'd of not cared about it so much.

I used to stand when the national anthem would come on and deeply be thankful for what I had.
Selling the phone with an unlocked bootloader seems to go against the "Security is critical to us, and we know it is to you too" mentality.

Having an unlocked bootloader opens to the device up to far more security vulnerabilities should it fall into the wrong hands. In some cases attacks can be performed even if the device has full disk encryption[1].

[1] https://www1.cs.fau.de/frost
You do not have to pay AMT before exercise. The AMT income is on the difference between FMV and exercise cost.

There are risks if you don't immediately liquidate enough to cover your tax bill.
So there are 39 trillion bacterial cells in a human body, and ~30 trillion 'human' cells in our body. EXCEPT that 25 of the 30 trillion human cells in our body don't even have any human DNA in them (red blood cells lack a nucleus, cannot divide, and do not contain human genetic information).

So depending on how you draw the line there are 39 trillion non-human nuclei in a human body, and only 5 trillion human nuclei. That brings our non-human:human genetic ratio right back to 10:1. Though that too is misleading given the amount of DNA in each of those nuclei. (human cells have significantly more DNA in their genome than bacterial cells)

These headlines are ridiculous.
I saw it and I am constantly pretty amazed just how people can't grasp his argument.
As someone who wasn't alive then either, it's a rather well documented period of history, albeit mostly in dead tree form. Karnow is probably the classic (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0140265473/).

To use a more modern analogy that exists on the internet, the 2010 US military research / development / testing budget looks like it was around USD$80b.

Or in other terms, roughly equal to the total of all research spending by all other branches of the US government. (http://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/RDGDP_1.jpg)

Now you're a university professor / dean / president. Times are hard (they always are, you're in academia). There's a huge pie sitting right next to the one you've been fighting over, and all you have to do is work on certain technologies that may or may not have lethal consequences.

I wouldn't take the bet on many people saying "No thanks, I'll be happy giving up grant money for moral reasons."
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Regarding "future for tech-aware users will be browsers in [...] container/VM", see also Qubes OS:

https://www.qubes-os.org/screenshots/

https://www.qubes-os.org/

https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/

and the (microkernel-based) Genode OS with somewhat similar approach:

http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/15.11#Rigid_se...

http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/15.11#Genode_a...

http://genode.org/about/

and finally NixOS/Nix, which I hope will at some point become integrated in some way with the above OSes (as well as many others):

http://nixos.org/
There are longstanding conventions for how to write those, same as with other languages or automatic document generation tools. Search for "lisp docstring style" or something to that effect. Here's a possibly non-authoritative example from the Emacs Lisp community:

https://github.com/bbatsov/emacs-lisp-style-guide#docstrings

Edited to add: Documentation strings actually predate Common Lisp. They were available at least as early as Zetalisp (mid-1970s).
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Sorry, but if we just look at the Google Maps API as an example, it would be a HUGE stretch to consider them a common carrier. The mapping data industry has huge competition right now. We're not even in the same realm of consideration for "regulation" of an API. That is ridiculous.

The simple reality is that Google can control in any way shape or form how their API is consumed. Like I said, if you don't like that, don't build your business on the API. You do not have a right to anyone's API, regardless of how important the data is to your pet project or unicorn idea.

This same argument comes up when the Twitter API consumers get all up in arms because the business they built solely on top of Twitter's platform is all the sudden deemed irrelevant because of API access changes or terms of service changes. Tough tootles! And guess what, your API scraping twitter feed re-display iOS app is not innovation!

I personally think that "free APIs" are great, but if you don't have it in your business plan to share a portion of your revenue with external API data providers when they eventually ask, then you are going to get yourself in the position that the OP did.
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You can query the argument list using function-lambda-expression[0], or by code injection[1].

If you mean structure within the docstrings, there's no official standard, but markup languages for that exist, see Codex[2].

[0]: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_fn_lam.htm

[1]: https://github.com/eudoxia0/docparser

[2]: http://commondoc.github.io/codex/
A soon as you have significant regulation, you now have unwanted coupling between government and industry. The rest is just inevitable.

I love your bit about PR - that's beyond true. But it's the sort of thing that, once you see it, it doesn't really scare you any more. It's all very silly in the end.

The rest? People don't have strong mechanisms for identity any more. They don't live on the same land all their lives, they may or may not have strong affiliation with an extended family, so more ephemeral things creep in. I have friends who rant about the Left or the Right, and when you get 'em calmed down, at their core they're usually pretty centrist, but they depend on political entertainment product too much. And political entertainment product is rapidly going self-referential - this week's FOX story is a volley-hit back from last week's CNN story, ad nauseum. It's just cheap air time with delusions of grandeur.
Oh okay, the expectation was that the web server that the application run was to be private to the application and not anything else. I wasn't aware that apps ran their own web servers, how often is that done?
Condoms also prevent pregnancy. This comparison is ridiculous.
Well presumably the beneficiaries of a cutting edge technology like this is going to be the upper echelons of the developed world.

The spoils of the productivity gains and economic growth in the developed world go to the knowledge worker and capitalist classes in the developed world, and the recipients of outsourced work in the developing world. So one hypothesis would be that increased lifespan of the wealthy in the developed world will increase the spoils the developing world will have access to.

Just a straw man of course.
True. The iPhone is very appliance like. The iPad is clearly capable of much more, but in many ways is limited by iOS, even if solely when it comes to the interface.

But it's pretty clear to me that that Apple is not selling the iPhone as a general purpose computer, and that's fine with me.
It's getting more widespread though. But I'm from Central Europe, not the US. Nowadays the prestige of university/college is becoming similar to the prestige of secondary school some decades ago, i.e. it's almost a default requirement for an intellectual (non-physical) job. But while secondary school was finished at the age of about 18, university/college adds another ~5 years to that. Also marketing and the general zeitgeist makes people stay like children. I mean, I know people who just kind of drift along with time, beyond the age of 30 and they still feel a bit weird when thinking about themselves as adults.
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As long as the solutions can be digitalized or automated via technology it will always be to the benefit to everyone else. (unless it requires some rare materials of course)
Not only security products, but all the core parts of our daily software stack.

I can imagine, in future, that an OS becomes like a nation. There's a core, transparent "government" component of the system which takes care of all low-level resource managements and security (just like a real life government) and there's a proprietary app which has a secret component but has to play by rule (just like a real private company). All the government behaviors and its legislators (i.e. maintainers) are constantly monitored by its users and media, and they are accountable for their actions.

Yes, this is far from perfect, and while we still might have the NSA of a kernel and the Enron of 3rd party apps (whatever it means), I'd argue this is better than the current everything-is-proprietary model.
The abstract is definitely scary.

But this could never get out of development, at least not with our current corpus of laws. The product designers and engineers would quickly realize that there are hundreds of conflicting laws, and beta-testing would show that it would make life nearly unlivable.

Maybe it'd be a good thing, ya know? Instead of having selective enforcement of laws, we'll have the oppressive boot coming down on each and everyone's faces. That'll help smash the state.
There's no fundamental reason that command line applications can't work with input from voice recognition.
Many companies are never profitable before exit. Stock is already this point system where we call the payouts dividends. Growth companies don't pay dividends and they wouldn't want to pay point-payouts either.

If you want this, you can have it by joining a company with a profit-sharing plan. It's fairly common.
> high-order computation like power

What is power?