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> What do you do when you want e.g. user controlled sorting and filtering?

Sorting is easy. The stored procedure just accepts a sorting flag, add it into your query and your done. Filtering though, I could think of a dozen types of things you may want to filter on and I still may not hit your use case so it's hard to say how to do it based on what data is stored in the database, how it's stored and which RDMS you're using.

I've primarily done this type of work in MS SQL where I've built some pretty complex queries but I was always able to replace dynamically generated SQL with SQL that could generate a cacheable query plan.

Not saying there won't be edge cases and I don't know how your filtering worked so I don't have any type of satisfying answer for you. I would just be surprised if it wasn't doable somehow (I've seen some crazy shit in SQL queries :D)
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You're opening files with base64 encoded images in them? That sounds like hell either way :D

Yeah I've opened maybe one or two files like that before. I honestly can't remember if there was an issue or not but like I said I would be shocked if I ever needed to open a file that's bigger than, say, 200kb in Atom. If I need to open a big file that's, say, logs or contains base64 encoded stuff in it then I use Sublime. Atom just isn't a good fit for opening large files.

Right tool for the job and all :)
No alternative to AI for Google http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23866614
That problem is that it is not a thin wrapper. You can see that in various performance comparisons that jquery is much slower.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11503534/jquery-vs-docume...
Your link still shows tableau.com as the #1 organic result for me. Do you mind screen grabbing the results you are seeing?
Its on line 26 (have to scroll down to see it).
Because $5/$10/month is not the same thing as Customer Lifetime Value.
> The number of people employed might.

It will.

> Engineer salaries are not going to drop a whole lot.

Basic economics say that will follow.

None of these events are isolated. They're interconnected and cascade. Everyone will be affected, even those who are flipping burgers in the Bay Area.
Yes, in order to generalize better you need deeper nets. That was my whole point. But how deep? And what are the parameters of each layer? Grad students just pull those numbers from intuition. And it goes without saying that an infinitely deep net (whatever that means) would not generalize on little data, and would get even harder to train the deeper it gets. If it means what I think it means, you're basically claiming that recurrent neural nets can easily represent anything, but RNNs exist today, and they don't do the magic you're claiming they do.

The forward pass of a net is not theoretically interesting. It's the training of the net that has no theory. The training has nothing to do with digital circuits.

It goes without saying that you've handwaved some (perfectly fine) ideas about composing functions and such. And then claim "it isn't some strange mystery." That's my point. You've argued some ideas from intuition. There is little theoretical rigor around this, however.
I've been eyeing a switch to the ELK stack from Mixpanel + Big Query for an app. Could you expand on what ELK is useful for?
Hydroelectric dams are bad for the environment, and a huge risk in areas prone to earthquakes. They're also a big terrorism risk (ever watched "The Dambusters" about the WWII dam-busting operations?)

Plus, you are ignoring the biggest advantages of the PowerWall concept-- the decentralization and small-scale aspect. I don't think homeowners in my town are going to be building hydroelectric dams in their back yard, even if it weren't an earthquake zone (and it is...)

With regard to new battery chemistries... sure, there are probably things out there much better or stabler than lithium-ion. But posting some marketing copy about a not-yet-shipped new battery product proves nothing. I'm surprised you didn't latch on to the "ultracapacitor" hype since that is also a year away from taking the world by storm (and has been for the last 5 years, at least). As a layman, none of us have any idea whether these physics breakthroughs are 5 months away or 5 years, and none of the people who do know are going to talk about it.

If new battery chemistries do take the world by storm. I don't see why Tesla wouldn't just license them, much like they are licensing lithium-ion now. Tesla has the high-current charging network that a better battery would need anyway. Traditional car manufacturers have a spotty and low-wattage charging network that might not even benefit from a better battery chemistry.

You seem to be grasping at any possible reason to be negative about Tesla. I agree they're overvalued right now, but the idea of building a big factory for batteries, and focusing on a high-end electric car is smart, and the next few years will show that. There are strong network effects in building a charging network, and major economies of scale in building the gigafactory.
They bought Revit and have somehow managed to regress it. Before owning Revit, and therefore only owning a small percentage of the nascent BIM tool marketplace, they drove the creation of IFC classes to ensure interoperability between BIM platforms. Now they practically own BIM, support for this has gone.

Auto desk are a vile company. A serial monopolist that make any of the othe offenders look tame. I'd love to see them go out of business. That said, I hope those that have lost their jobs find new ones soon.
Most likely authentication. He'll e-mail the reporter and include the input that hashes to the value. This way, the reporter can be sure it's him.
It's a bit sad to think that the Apollo program might end up being something of a modern-day Roanoke Colony. I really hope that we manage to get back to the moon before the last of the original moon walkers leaves us.
Not when they all for your resume, then turn you down because you only know Chef, not Chef, Puppet and Ansible.
He meant the "business machine" is well-oiled...

Honest q: Have you surveyed your competitors? HelpShift seems to be a pretty solid offering.

Also, alf mabrook!
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”At the bottom, you have what I call the \"Apple Harvester.\" This is a Java app that pulls in data from Apple's Search API, RSS feed, and Enterprise Partner Feed. It stores all the relevant data about apps and customer reviews in a relational database.“

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/43zw2a...
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Neural nets virtually always get stuck in local optima. I have no idea what you're talking about.
Can you elaborate on environmental reasons which leads to symptoms existing?
> Say what you like about micro libraries, but for explorations like this it really makes JavaScript in a league of its own.Say what you like about micro libraries, but for explorations like this it really makes JavaScript in a league of its own.

Indeed, we spend so much time arguing about programming languages, when in reality the presence or absence of libraries is much more important.
I'm an outsider to Sydney and Australia, and I'm a regular visitor.

This article rings of an insider perspective, full of "we" statements. It has a vibe of personal anger and personal overreaction.

What I'm genuinely curious about is the events that lead to the formation of these laws. Again, as an outsider, the main thing to do in Sydney is drink. A lot. The main thing my friends want to do after work in Sydney is drink. This isn't out of line for a city, and there's nothing inherently bad about drinking. Sydney's youth just seems to be focused on it more than other cities I've visited.

These laws were likely passed as reactionary safeguards. What are they reacting against? This article only comments on the laws mockingly and with satire, including linking to random blogs as sources. Can anyone comment on possible events that lead to these laws? My only opinion is that Sydney enjoys drinking more than the average city, and I'm curious if these "lockout" laws are an overreaction, or justified in some way.
Ironically, "How to write like a reporter from The Economist" sounds more like a headline that would appear in The Economist than "Style Guide"
>Researchers are having a hard time bubbling up new paradigms

One of the most promising approaches at the moment seems to be Deep Mind trying to reverse engineer the human brain. Demis Hassabis their main guy did a PhD in neuroscience with that in mind and they are currently trying to kind of replicate the hippocampus.

("Deep Learning is about essentially [mimicking the] cortex. But the hippocampus is another critical part of the brain and it’s built very differently, a much older structure. If you knock it out, you don’t have memories. So I was fascinated how this all works together. There’s consolidation [between the cortex and the hippocampus] at times like when you’re sleeping. Memories you’ve recorded during the day get replayed orders of magnitude faster back to the rest of the brain.")
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"illegal income" means "income that was acquired illegally". And I was specifically referring to money laundering (which in of itself is a fairly emotionally-charged term if you think that money can be "dirty" in a moral sense). I don't see how you could read "illegal income" as "illegal money". And yes, I agree that money doesn't have morality.
Sadly none of these guys are getting any younger. The youngest person from the Apollo missions is now 80 years old. Humanity really needs to get a move on if we're to avoid the scenario where there is nobody left alive who has walked on the moon.
The long-awaited tech correction is here
> Everyone will be affected, even those who are flipping burgers in the Bay Area.

hey sure there is a bubble there, but last time I checked BA wasn't caput mundi yet. Plenty non inflated startups do exist, even if not specifically there.

Where the whole economy is sustained by VC money, well, there's gonna hit the hardest. But doesn't seem that the whole IT world is following that model.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/893/
What you pointed out is significant and I probably should have mentioned it in the article together with the other things; my point, however, is that these problems kick in at a higher frequency than those historically reached by many accelerators and defended as "optimal" by marketing. In your example, 1 GHz is used as a "nice low frequency" which is a sensible order of magnitude for a modern process; people often believe that you have to go as low as 400 or 100 MHz. (Again, the numbers vary with process, this is just to illustrate the extent of the difference between what I think is the reality vs what I think are the popular beliefs.)
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You hear about stuff like this and it never comes to fruition, does it?
The brain is a mechanism that turns intelligence into action, language or memory. But who has ever said that intelligence is generated in the brain?
Ah, right.

I wonder what the rationale behind this point is, then - especially considering the GPU is quite a bit more parallel than the CPU.
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It's the dot-com bubble all over again. Look at the NEWR stock chart, it looks like the dot-com burst in 2000-2001 compressed to a few months. It's happening a lot faster now, then it happened back then.
Bostrom's paper is based on Hans Moravec's thinking and Moravec's paper is pretty well argued http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm

Bostrom as a philosopher may be fuzzy on processing power but Moravec who was actually building robots has a pretty good grasp.
Innocent people kept getting murdered on King St (a popular bar and night life destination, as well as prostitution or at least erotic joints, and possibly some drug use.)

A few years back there was a spate of "King Hits" which is when one person hits another person in the head and immediately knocks them unconscious, usually through random chance rather than any kind of skill, but meaning that person then bears the full force as their head hits the concrete and likely dies in the process.

There were a whole bunch of unprovoked attacks on that street one after the other on completely random innocent people at night time. It was a national disgrace, one minute you're just Joe Blow walking with your fiancee down the street and the next you're dead. This didn't happen just once, but week after week after week and a bunch of people were dead, and the newspapers were eating it up.

So the government put these laws in place to stop it, and to be fair it seems to have worked as I haven't seen anyone talk about dying on that street in the news lately. Overall though I have split feelings.

On the one hand we need to get together as a society and start putting an end to people who are overly aggressive and posing a risk to the rest of us. Sorry but that's the damned truth. If you're invading homes or punching absolutely random people in the street then you're just not going to fit in with the rest of us and it's time to go. It's us or them and I don't want to be a statistic.

On the other hand it's a shame that as we're all too shy to implement that kind of thing, we get laws that put innocent people in the crossfire and suck the joy out of life for the rest of us. But at least you get to feel comfortable having all those dangerous people still on the street simmering away waiting to have one drink too many and kill others... yay for liberty.
Thanks, MCRed. Yeah, I worked long and hard on this, and this (https://z.cash/blog/funding.html) is the best idea I could come up with. And yeah — if anyone else reading this has any better ideas, I would love to see you try it! If it helps, you could start with a copy of our source code (https://github.com/Electric-Coin-Company/zcash/).
That doesn't matter in the short term. Once the inflated startups tank, everything will take a dive. Remember 2000?

Maybe not. Seems like many here are too young. I'm only in my early 30s and am already feeling deja vu. Life is strange.
Edgar Mitchell and the Big Picture Effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE-PUTVULFg
Periscope is in a distinct, lower tier of usability. You write SQL. Or, put differently, the innovation of Tableau was so you don't have to write SQL for most visual encodings, even non-trivial ones.
Actually I've gone ahead and worked on it myself, in order to make it compatible with a grid layout (which was the more general problem I was trying to solve).

I still need to clean up my modifications, but I should have a pull-request out within the next day or two, adding 'grid' to the existing 'horizontal' and 'vertical' direction options :)
"The US is on the verge of having to pay nurses a little more" is the fruition.
Godspeed.
Read Judge Kaplan's 2014 opinion in Chevron v Donziger. It is long (497 pages!) but fascinating.

http://www.sdnyblog.com/files/2014/03/11-Civ.-00691-2014.03....
Actually, basic economics says that wages tend to be sticky.
You sound like you are in a very dark place. It's true student debt is bullshit but your life is so much more important. Screw it. Leave the country before you consider dying. So many people in your boat so hopefully things will change. I am sorry you are going through this...
Simple solution in Mathematica: http://i.imgur.com/2iBIRwN.png
what happened to the Small houses and fixer-uppers in the 9/8/8 school districts?
What is your favorite drink? I live in Sydney too (Bondi), and agree the new rules are ridiculous, but what's this about 'not mix it in the same glass'?
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How can the state trace transactions as to collect tax
on transactions made with Zcash? If the state cannot trace the transactions and this becomes black economy 2.0 then will it not face banning and seizure from the authorities?

Ie how can we build roads and schools in a Zcash economy?
They should tell you their range before beginning, not the other way around.

Recruiters already have a massive advantage: they have much better knowledge of the market (many more datapoints), why give them for free an additional advantage they can only use against you?
Yup, my power cord is exposed exactly at the point shown in the closed tabs below. I hate that so many companies have followed Apple's lead in removing the relief (I think it was called) so we can have cleaner looking power cords that are more dangerous.
AI is the wrong way to go looking for superintelligence.

Far more realistic is developing means of organizing humans together effectively enough to achieve superintelligent levels of collaboration.

I think before 2025 is quite reasonable given this approach.
Cardboard has very low latency. I believe its far lower than the Oculus is. Its of course not doing very much. But thats the point its simple entry level VR for the masses. Most people aren't going to spend 400$ for the headset + 2000$ for the computer to get an Occulus working. They might after they see the wonders of carboard however. I think they are doing the exact opposite of "poisoning the well", they are letting a whole demographic of people that would never experience VR get a chance to see whats its all about.
More likely the engineers will build AGI first and the philosophers try to explain it after.
Humans have been trying collaboration for a while and the results have been patchy.
This is a bit over the top, completely playing into the media hysteria. A few people got killed because some drunken, uneducated cowards hit them. This wasn't night after night.

I'm also amused at the fact that the premier and all his buddies are devout christians, don't get me wrong,I have no issue with religion or the liberals, I'm long time lib voter, but I'm going to reconsider my vote in the future now though based on this new knowledge I have.

What this really reeks of is corruption. The two big casino's in town (the star, and the one at barrangaroo which hasn't been built yet) are allowed to stay open 24/7, I'm 99% sure there is some preferential treatment going on, money talks, bullsh*t walks.
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Sort of, the viewport can't change more than the displays refresh rate. So the refresh rate is a hard cap on the latency between head movements and the view moving. This is probably why we are begining to hear talks about 120hz smart phone screen, since this would drastically improve them. I believe most high end VR helms have 75hz screens.
And as a result, unemployment higher.
It was in King's Cross, not King St.

And I believe the number of people who died is two.
U.S. liquor laws are weird and vary state by state. In my state bars require an expensive license to sell booze. Bars associated with crimes, DUI, assault and battery, manslaughter get fined and ultimately the license is revoked. When a license is revoked, alcohol can no longer be served at that location, ever. Servers themselves face hefty fines when they're found to be serving someone who's drunk. Get a DUI, your waitress can be in trouble.

This approach puts a lot of pressure on the seller. On the other hand, it gives the sellers a lot of leeway in deciding when enough is enough. Do people get overserved? yup. But "bad bars" tend to self destruct.
Dude, she hit me up on Angel List for a seed round for her new app, Lemonayder. The next waive of the web will be on demand Lemonaid delivery apps.
From the Alpine website, the iso is 82 MB. What's up with that?
Which is based around a HTTP API (also documented by Apple). Not that hard to wrap that in an easily usable SDK for other platforms.
so what? its still pretty damn cool. It gives you a very good feel for what VR could be!
I think it's hard to tell whether a language (by itself, not counting the libraries) will be good for something until you try. Rust has enough going on that some creative people might find some really useful things it can do in surprising spaces.

Think about JavaScript and Node.js. Who would have predicted that?
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Not saying they were needed, however your old employer still might have had a couple of boxes that said "can be presented to investors?" "can be used for pre-sale?" which the hire manager had to tick off at the time they hired them.

Many people at the end tend to do other things than the basis they were hired on, how many times have you seen some "X guru" or "Y expert" and "Z evangelist" being hired at a premium only to end up doing the same crap as everyone else once that specific project fell through?

Salaries can be quite "arbitrary" mostly because that while there is some fine tuned formula behind it on many occasions it doesn't really survives it's with meeting reality, the more traditional "old school" enterprises are probably the best at actually maintaining some logical relationship between experience, responsibilities and salary while the newer tech companies tend to be more erratic and considerably dislike rocking the boat even in cases when an employee does no longer deserve their initial starting salary.
/Average wages/. On a macro scale.

That's not the same situation. Of course you're going to see the $150-200k premium for engineers fall once startups, funding, and jobs disappear. It's already happening in the form of cutting RSUs and bonus packages.

And it has happened before. Why is it so hard to understand this?
`'One-punch'' assaults have cost 90 Australian lives since 2000, most in booze-fuelled bashings, a study has found.`
...
`NSW had the highest number of king-hits (28), followed by Victoria and Queensland (24 cases each).`

So not night after night at all, but more than a couple (this article is from 2013.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/90-killed-in-singlepunch-assa...