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Feedback Needed:A task list that asks Q's what to do next for each task?
Hello people, I'm trying to validate my idea. I feel that when I try to use task lists I get more things gathered and less things done rather than the opposite. I think I need something like a list that asks step by step what must be done so I always have something actionable to do. Does that make sense for a "Task list app that thinks like you do"? Thanks in advance.
Thanks for sharing, this is pretty amazing.
When people refer to the 'stock market' not being transparent... they are referring to the Regulators. Indian regulators are as transparent as US,China,EU. They have been known for bringing down big shots e.g. Sahara Group but on the other hand have failed to investigate some of the other big co's.

What indian economy lacks -
1. new credible entrepreneurs e.g. existing group co's have gotten into more new businesses and expanded into traditional sectors as compared to a handful of new names.
2. new business models e.g. most business are copying what has existed in US such as ecommerce, taxi aggregators, etc.
3. enhancing regulation in existing markets e.g. real estate.
https://twitter.com/mattl/status/685224731667087360
Gee that video really made me cringe.

Hey, maybe if we dress the CEO in a hoodie, put him in front of an electric guitar with his batman figurines and make him say edgy things like "bullshit" a couple of times, the kids will relate to him!

Cowabunga dudes!
> I would prefer less app-ification, more package management.

I would argue for the opposite: One problem with linux is that you can't run untrusted software without it getting the same access as the user. That's exactly what the appification is.

I see package managers as a source of some problems of linux: Package maintainers are a unneeded middleman between the writers of the software and you, package managers interact with the whole system, scattering files around the whole filesystem and running scripts as root when installing/uninstalling packages.
Applications being files/folders that can be installed/uninstalled with cp/rm seems way more unixy to me.
It happens:

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2015/02/19/electric-car-batter...

http://www.natlawreview.com/article/massachusetts-court-defe...

Emergency Motion, Restraining order, Injunction - these are all very exciting for the lawyers involved and gut wrenching for the employees. Usually you have to be a CxO level or salesperson - or do something that makes someone with money really mad.
> It's tough doing business in Brazil.
Yes, dysfunctional bureaucracy both in the public and in the private sector (government, banks etc.) makes it really hard to create and manage any business. I tried really hard for a while, but it didn't work out.
This actually shows the principle opposite to this article being at work - it demonstrates that you can be annoying to people, and they will somehow deal with you anyway :).
or bf;wr (bad faith; won't respond). i prefer the term "bad faith" since it covers more cases than "wilful misinterpretation"; i've been using it to good effect on facebook to disengage with malicious arguments, though i didn't think of acronyming it.
A short (12') film I made in 2006 after a 3.30 am visit to the Tsukiji tuna auction - such access would be impossible now. (The whole thing is pretty amazing, but the auction at the end is absolutely mesmerizing) https://vimeo.com/8982166
I think this is quite normal and why people recommend
not measuring yourself every day

This is well-intentioned but has an inherent problem: any single weighing could be skewed to either end of the scale.

Instead, I weigh myself almost every day and record it, but I don't attach meaning to any given weighing; I look for a moving average.

I also use a Tanita bodyfat-estimating scale, which helps distinguish day-to-day variations due to hydration level (e.g. a lower bodyfat estimate combined with an upward tick in weight just means you are more hydrated).
I'm certain containers will end up replacing package managers. This idea is being pushed by the systemd guys.

I think its a step backwards, as you loose tight control over dependencies. E.g., in case of a security issue, one cannot easily patch all containers if they are blackboxes.

IMHO, the right tool for this is an improved package manager such as Nix or Guix (which incidentally also support containers in their own way). Perhaps the future should be a Nix-like package manager for dependency management, and container-ization for security and resource limits.
I should be very happy. Oh! I live in misery.

I have some bums I know that can testify the same: having time and no money sux.

I have written Klines of codes in a lot of language, but writing big brother software that impoverish people even if my boss gives me extra time for my life balance makes me sad.

These studies focus on biased population that don't experience poverty, nor seems to care about the others either by ignorance or by convenience (which is worse).

I am ruined, anxious, not(happy) (which is different from unhappy) ... but I still have the will to be able to help people suffering more than me... and worst of all I cannot even donate my blood, I come from Europa in Canada.

But not being happy does not mean being down. I am superficially unhappy, I will find a way to make things better for both me and people I meet.

Happyness is like rain, boring and cold. But it makes you enjoy the sun.

I am not happy and I am angry. It makes me feel as alive as when I wed with the one I love. Being told that not being happy is negative, is the same as if I was told to cut my balls because dick is so much more important.

Sorry, I like them both.
It's only going to be really scary when CPU time becomes cheap enough to re-encode videos on the fly (are we there already?). I can see some nefarious uses of watermarking, or on the extreme end, OpenCV and motion tracking for some enhanced product placement.
Thus far, falsifiable hypotheses test to "false." Perhaps we are not framing the problem properly.

Here's a quick assessment: When somebody gets directions from Google maps, do they prefer the written, listed directions, or the map (in the happy circumstance where both conveyed the same information)? Some people prefer the lists; some the maps. So we might think of the former as verbal learners and the latter as visual.

The problem is, in the context of learning, both (self-described) verbal and visual learners seem to learn better visually.
Ok, I'm making a donation to EFF.
Interesting. So to convince people to disagree I should voice agreement?
As others have mentioned, in many cases the seller doesn't physically have the tickets at the time of sale, and might only get them a few days before the game. Ticketmaster cooperates with venues to do this to -- dum dum dum -- avoid ticket resale. That's the problem.
Oh, I meant no deep embedding of Google services, like in Cyanogenmod.
Microbiome, one of the most important factors, is not accounted for. Neither is genetics.
SparkFun, AT&T Hackathon at Troy NY Center of Gravity Jan 31
CENTER OF GRAVITY TO HOST JAN. HACKATHON HARDWARE CHALLENGE POWERED BY AT&T

Jeff Branson of SparkFun to Mentor and Judge, More Than $1,000 in Prizes

TROY, N.Y. (Jan. 7, 2015) -- The Tech Valley Center of Gravity (TVCOG) is inviting hackers from near and far to a two-day hackathon hardware challenge in its newly opened downtown space this winter.

The "Internet of Things Hackathon, hosted by the Tech Valley Center of Gravity and Powered by AT&T," will take place from Saturday Jan. 30 to Sunday Jan. 31.

There will be a top prize of at least $1,000, as well as other giveaways including a free TVCOG membership. Complimentary food, snacks and beverages will be supplied.

Jeff Branson, educational outreach coordinator for SparkFun Electronics, will be attending the hackathon to mentor the participants and judge their creations. SparkFun Electronics is an online retailer that sells the parts to make your project a reality. SparkFun has been a champion of open-source hardware and software since 2003 and remains a committed partner for education, professional development and technological literacy. Sparkfun provides educational resources, hookup guides and project tutorials for a range of ages and abilities from kindergarten to NASA.

"Sparkfun is always thrilled to support hackathons. The value for us is in working side by side with the people in our community to develop and deploy new solutions for a digital citizenry. We participate in hackathons across the country that focus on embedded systems, Internet of Things, Node.js and community-based problem solving," Branson said. "It's particularly fun for me to come back to the Capital District, where I grew up, and work with TVCOG!"

Kishor Bagul, entrepreneur and former chief technology officer of New York State and TVCOG board member, will also judge in the contest.

INFO, REGISTRATION

Registration is required but free. To register, visit: http://www.tvcog.net/index.php/hackathon/
Yeah, those could be bad. I've always seen it done with strong team leads or technical managers when they existed instead of standups. I have seen that devolve though, and I know what you mean.

I was very hands on when running meetings when I did it that way. Usually had an agenda, broke when we didn't have anything else to do, and kept on topic.
John Legere is the CEO of a multinational telecommunications company. Of course he knows what the EFF is.

At first, he was just trying to explain BingeOn to T-Mobile customers in a favorable way - "optimization for mobile devices to stretch the data available on your plan." And that's exactly what an informed consumer should expect him to say. You're not going to hear the words "reduced quality by default" or "sweetheart deals with content providers" come from the mouth of a man with fiduciary duty to T-Mobile.

But trying to discredit the EFF will blow up in his face. If auto company execs feigned ignorance about Consumer Reports and Kelley Blue Book, we'd laugh at them. It's a transparent way to avoid answering the questions these consumer watchdog groups raise.
The immigration policy is deliberate, from a 1989 NSF memo:

"A growing influx of foreign PhD's into U.S. labor markets will hold down the level of PhD salaries to the extent that foreign students are attracted to U.S. doctoral programs as a way of immigrating to the U.S.. A related point is that for this group the PhD salary premium is much higher [than it is for Americans], because it is based on BS-level pay in students' home nations versus PhD-level pay in the U.S. . "

Basically the government wanted to allow more foreign students in to PhD programs to suppress PhD wages. They estimated without any policy changes, computer science Phd wages would be over 100k by the year 2000...

Bottom line, the Chinese nationals in your classroom and in your office are the result of a concerted effort by the US government and the tech industry to suppress wages.
Would be nice to be able to run Android apps in normal Linux distros
> Generally: no

That's very misleading. The option is called "Suggestions" and it's on by default. I'm convinced they called it that because if they called it "Ads", everyone would turn it off.

> By default the store app MIGHT show some logos for featured apps

That is far from only problem. Here is a screenshot of a Win10 start menu, out of the box, at default settings. Count the ads:

http://cdn5.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/img_55b...
I've never liked the traditional unix way of managing a filesystem either; GoboLinux had the right idea.
They already made that trade by allowing enterprise customers to turn it off.

They also tell you exactly what types of data they collect, along with where and how. That's not consistent with wanting to hide the extent of their telemetry.
Every year I go look where Maemo/Meego/Mer/Tizen (whatever it's been rebranded as) got up to. The N900 remains the greatest phone I ever owned.

I had high hopes for Jolla but I doubt they're really out of their financial troubles - they owe me a very expensive tablet, currently. By the time it's delivered it will be obsolete.
Recheck your pulse. Statistically, you've been dead for months.
The problem with task lists is that they don't allow for context swapping while keeping track of time. I find that the best way to keep myself busy is by making a list every morning of pressing tasks towards my end goal and spending a bit of time on each during the day. Seems to prevent burn out, at least for me. The only issue is the overhead of keeping track of how much time I spend where, and who to bill. A task tracking app that can do that would be awesome. If you can also enable splitting of current tasks further into sub-tasks, while still keeping track of the time for the major task and the sub-tasks....that'd be super awesome.
What? A company oversold its guarantee by using creative definitions?

Next thing you know, people are going to start offering a lifetime guarantee that's only good for the lifetime of the product! ;)
this will - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/20/ubuntus-path-to-conve...
Help out with libhybris then or one of its downstream projects.
I was hoping to read something juicy like null termination was created by a summer intern.
> By default the store app MIGHT show some logos for featured apps, but that's as far as it goes

Yeah, those are ads. It's like when the homescreen of my Kindle that I paid more for to get without "Special Offers" started showing books I may be interested in buying based on my reading history. Also known as ads.

It's insulting. I'm sure over their entire customer base it comes out as a positive feature for them, though. People more likely to click through to the store when they see a game name or screenshot they recognize, while only alienating a few.

At least, as you said, they offer an explicit and easy way to disable them, unlike Amazon at the time, who then took years to add an option to disable those.

Which, by the way, is all I'm asking for on the telemetry front as well. Opt-in by default all you want. Bury the setting three panels deep (don't reset it at your whim, though). I'll feel insulted and slightly dirtied, but I'll disable it and move on, active Windows customer that I am.
The design goals section of the README makes that pretty clear. js_of_ocaml produces pretty opaque JS (in my experience) that doesn't make much use of modern features like modules.
Ketosis itself has natural appetite-suppression effects
> We really don't know if there's some branch of physics that allows FTL travel

I agree, and I didn't mean to come down on either side of the opinion spectrum on FTL. Personally, I consider it a strong possibility that several methods of FTL travel might exist in practice.

> I think that assumption relies on the assumption that ETs have similar lifespans as us, which is probably a faulty assumption.

No, you misunderstood me there. My basic assumption is that ET lifespans (if they are individual beings at all) are for all intents and purposes infinite, as you would expect from any technologically advanced civilization. Instead, my conclusion is mostly shaped by the young age of our own civilization, the meagerness of RF signals emanating from our system, and the vastness of the distances involved.

> There's hundreds of stars within a few dozen lightyears or so, so an advanced civilization should be able to build a powerful robotic ship to tour them all and gather data.

I agree that a swarm of robotic probes meets the criteria for blanket early detection of civilizations. I assert that you would need to cover more than a few dozen light years though, but that's not really relevant. It comes down to the willingness of deploying these probes and the speed at which probe data can be relayed back to someone willing to act on it.

> Honestly, it shouldn't be that hard to detect other civilizations from a reasonable distance; we're already detecting various exoplanets

Planets: yes. Civilizations: it depends. I'm personally doubtful we could detect our own civilization today if we had a clone of humanity orbiting Alpha Centauri, and that's still well within our RF light cone.
"To be on the safe side, criminals who go to D.C. to violate federal law should run for public office." - Best thing I've read today
This isn't a new tack. It's pretty consistent with Legere's whole schtick.
I also care that academics are well-aligned with the problems we care about.

That is not the point of academia, and indeed not the point of why academics are offered tenure with their institutions. Please consider Galileo and Copernicus and the Church of the 15th and 16th centuries. Please consider history.

Google as a business may care about research being aligned with its business, or what 'society' or certain segments of society care about; Google really should not care what academia and academics want to work on. That is the point of, for better or worse, academia: independent research by some of our smartest people.

If Google, and industry, care about what gets research, they should fund it. They then can choose. Please leave academia and academics to be just that, academic.

Without government funding, support, and indeed the wider academia 'ecosystem', my father would have never been able to be a historian of the Scottish enlightenment, and producing the seminal book on Adam Smith. And if you don't think that the Scottish Enlightenment is important to our modern understanding of the Universe, then I suppose that you then have to rethink the contributions of these notable academics, scientists, engineers, and philosophers: David Hume, McLaren, Taylor, James Watt, Telford, Napier--off the top of my head.

My point is that my fathers book may not itself be a major contribution to a current revolutionary idea, but it will likely be part of some future realisation about economics, since Adam Smith is a major cornerstone of our current understanding of economic thought.
Artificial Intelligence’s Last Barrier: Real-Time Learning
My initial confusion came from 1) not immediately understanding how the UI worked, 2) not being that interested in learning because few of my social network were one it. Once I invested a few minutes in understanding it out I loved it. I think the same would be true for many other people who "don't get it".
That's a tremendously short sighted view to take. It's very hard to judge relevance to society over short time frames.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose_malabsorption

I know there are dairy products without lactose, but then the nutrition guidelines should at least mention the issue.
Scott Adams suggests calling it "outragism". http://blog.dilbert.com/post/109482303301/outragists-are-the...
When a company does something good does not mean to ignore when they do something bad.

And BingeOn is fundamentally bad, because its everything Comcast wanted when they were trying to slow-lane half the Internet, except nobody is in opposition to it because they see as a "benefit" rather than traffic shaping bullshit it actually is. They could have just given everyone unlimited data with deprioritization on their network over fixed data users, but they didn't - they make some heavy consumers of data "free" while leaving others against the tide of data caps, and thus harm the free Internet.
"PC is best understood as propaganda" what a bold statement! I like this critical exploration of the whole concept of PC, pretty fascinating.
It's a shame they didn't opensource, IMHO failing to attract a share of Linux enthusiasts.

They should have worked out a viable business model with an open Sailfish.
> They also tell you exactly what types of data they collect, along with where and how

where?
Being able to write coherent paragraphs is a major key. Even if you Snapchat.
> To be clear: most people shot by police are armed and are attacking.

Most police reports say the victim is attacking, but they've been caught lying time after time (usually with no repercussions). Talking about all these statistics to even one significant digit seems suspect.
Is that really PayPal's problem though? It's the user fault for being defrauded. Does PayPal really have liability?
(Other) Great Apes are primarily carnivores, with some being vegetarian.
Now that I gave it another thought. Isn't the only way to comply with net neutrality to throttle _all_ video instead of certain video? And isn't that exactly what T-mobile is trying to do here? It still sucks because it is misleading, but I sort of get where they're coming from.
That's not the default way most people use those services.
Denuvo's support of Just Cause 3 has been pretty impressive. Kudos to them.
This is the same with children who are ADHD. Also, in France children who had symptoms of ADHD and were disruptive were made apprentices in kitchens usually around the age of 14 or 15. This might have changed in the last 20 years. It's why a lot of French chefs are notoriously psychotic, many of them were troubled children given a chance to put their energy to good use in a kitchen. [citation needed]
Filesystems are the worst! Try telling a customer to tar up a directory and send it to you -- things get lost so easily! Most of our customers dont even know what "tar" means. I think you are asking for trouble going with a filesystem as a storage mechanism.

HDFfView is not the only viewer in town. There are several viewers.

I've used HDF5 weekly for the last 5 years and so have my associates and its been wonderful. MATLAB even uses it to store its .mat files these days.

I think you are misinformed and Im sticking to my story !
Ironically, if this was available on the Google Pixel C it'd be a compelling option. (The Pixel C runs Android 6 with no multi-window/multi-app on-screen capability, which somewhat defeats the object of having such a device -- one that with a more comprehensive OS would be a potential Surface competitor. And indeed the Pixel C looks like it was originally designed for ChromeOS.)
Walking Meetings
So the categories where MA wins are ones that basically penalize CA for having other healthy non-tech industries.
I vote that some of these get adopted, definitely solid concepts worth formalizing.
> It's not like a fence is required; the area simply has to be avoided.

That might not be enough. It depends on your criteria for isolation. At the very least you need to prevent us from passively detecting you. How hard that is can be anyone's guess, but most people would agree it gets harder with increasing energy output and proximity. When I say that cloaking outside EM sources might no be enough, I'm talking about what to do with probes exiting the solar system, and the consequences of dealing with them. To be effective, they would also need to take precautions of blocking technologies they are not sure we possess in the first place. It's a tricky endeavor for them.

I would say there is a very practical difference between just avoiding us and keeping us contained.

> And FTL travel? How about near light speed instead?

There is a risk of repetition, I refer you to the discussion betwen Grishnak and myself below.
This looks like it could be very useful. I've really enjoyed using js_of_ocaml, which supported source maps very nicely, but the value printing was often obscured because types and record field names were erased. This looks like it has much deeper integration with the host JS environment and ecosystem. Great work and I look forward to seeing where this goes.