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I would say higher maths is important in schooling primarily because almost no child "knows" what they are going to do for the rest of their lives.

Given how important each field of maths is to many different technical and non-technical careers and how long it can take to cover and understand them all you don't want to hamstring anyone who might need it, either when studying for a STEM career or when changing careers.

Do politicians and school administrators go gah-gah for easy measurement metrics? Sure, but I would argue focusing on maths is one of the few instances where it's not really a bad thing.
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Well said drones might not need real time radio communication or they could communicate optically. GPS denied navigation is something missiles have had for a while so jamming GPS is out. The small size also means that less current will be induced.

That being said, it would probably be better to use lasers to burn them out of the sky. It probably doesn't take much energy to damage their wings.
Well obviously it's reduced to actual algorithms.

The point is, the programmers don't quite understand what exactly are those features that the neural net is seeing.
Thanks. I was aware of projects that do similar when I started. I had heard of some TV ad using ultrasonic tones, for example. I figured there should be a nice open library, so anyone could have this tech
Sure, but environmental factors play a pretty big factor in how much people will want to learn.
And what if they don't want to do web dev work, ever?
This is definitely something I'd really like to see benchmarked: how valuable is it to pile two different "compression" compared only the "complicated" one (gzip or brotli).
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Thanks. Then, if they work, I "only" have to find out how to make FN buttons working, at least these that control sound volume and brightness. And I had the impression that the CPU use was worse, or the power management worse, for the same usage patterns (when not doing anything special like compiling, just editing or browsing), fan turned on more often.

Edit: I'm reading about "libinput" that it has "palm detection" but it's certainly not my problem with the pseudo "noise." Even when I hold only and just one finger, the mouse cursor "trembles" and "shakes."
You want your children to become programmers like you? Not one of the thousands of other jobs? You want to force them to be mini-esayms without their own minds?

You don't want them to make friends, socialize, network with their peers? To explore their own wants and desires in the safety of a school without your constant disapproval?

You want them to spend their 20s in counselling complaining about their bizarre dad who schooled them at home and forced them to work instead of grow?

2 sides to every coin.
Graph DB technology has been advancing fast over the last few years, and more evolutions are coming down the pipe. For example, Titan and Blazegraph are distributed and can handle billions of edges, and Blazegraph can be GPU-accelerated, which "demonstrated a throughput of 32 Billion Traversed Edges Per Second (32 GTEPS), traversing a scale-free graph of 4.3 billion directed edges in 0.15 seconds" (https://www.blazegraph.com/product/gpu-accelerated/).

NB: TinkePop is not a graph DB -- it's a graph software stack / computing framework for graph DBs (OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP). Since TinkerPop is integrated with almost all of the graph DBs and graph processing engines, its mailing lists are good place to discuss and get help with graph-related projects.

[1] http://tinkerpop.incubator.apache.org/

[2] TinkerPop / Gremlin Users Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/gremlin-users

[3] TinkerPop Developer Mailing List http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-tinkerpop...
The data was sound. They formed a hypothesis. They got a better explanation. Now they have a better hypothesis for the data anamoly. I don't think it's fair to fault them or to discredit the effort.
I also think Davis and Sacramento have potentials.

they are cheap, safe and close to bay area.
Funding doesn't help enough by itself, and the poor school districts get supplemental funds from federal and state governments bringing their total funding on par or higher than richer school districts. I went through poor public schools and richer public schools. Resources were not very different. If anything less competition at poor schools gave me an extra edge.
If you want a PaaS to run on your IaaS, Cloud Foundry can run on AWS, OpenStack, vSphere, Azure and, pretty soon, it should be on GCE.

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, which donates the majority of engineering effort on Cloud Foundry.
It'd remove an onboarding/offboarding/payment stop at the Millbrae station.
I know you're being downvoted, but I spent the better part of today dealing with a Linux Mint Debian Edition (Jessie) install that decided to install systemd in an update. the original install had no systemd. I explicitly installed sysvinit in order to purge it fully. Today's apt-get dist-upgrade (and reboot to newer kernel) brought me this unwelcome surprise.

Therefore, I made today the day I officially switched my last debian system over to Devuan[0], which was easier than I imagined. No more systemd, or packages depending on it.

0. https://devuan.org/
> Bandwidth on GCP (and AWS and most of the other providers) is really, really, really expensive.

It's cheaper if you use the CDNs they provide for this purpose.
You're imagining a world where people go to college and find high paying jobs after following their dream without their parents holding them back.

That is actually a marketing story, dangerous and unrealistic to believe.

Esaym is talking about teaching his kids a real skill they can use. It certainly won't override their ability to learn and persue things- it'll actually make that possible. It'll enable them to make decisions in life without having to pray they can find a way to make money, and they'll have a fundamental skill that'll help them whichever way they decide to go.

People don't generally get good jobs by their own elbow grease. They get them because of their network and connections. Your family is a huge part of that network, and passing on a skill like a trade is one of the surest ways you can ensure your children actually have a future.
Even better, looks like there are a few programmers (CPP and HTML) >60 years old, though the graph shows n=0 for those data points, so do those guys actually exist? If so, the oldest programmer is 86.4, now that's impressive.
A lot of Caltrain suicides are the result of people stepping off platforms when Baby bullets pass through or trespassing on the tracks. Grade sep won't help that.
You could first check via `xev` whether the key presses actually arrive in software. For me they did, but my desktop environment didn't adjust the brightness if an `XF86MonBrightnessUp` event fired.
Most of the developed world is discovering freedom is something we (the public) don't much care about.

So the "land of the free" (and everywhere else) is free to give away all the hard-won freedoms to all and sundry. And they are. Because terrorism.
A "representative democracy" is one specifically where the average voter doesn't need to be informed enough to really understand all the issues, and that's supposed to be its advantage. In contrast, direct democracy is best when all the voters (have the time to) understand the issues. But that's not very pragmatic, so we do representative democracy. But of course, that has its own issues, as what to understand moves from "the issues" to "the candidates".

Somehow, this reminded me of this bit by Douglas Adams From "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish" (in part):

"They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much
assume that the government they've voted in more or
less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again,
"why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said
Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162557-it-comes-from-a-very-...
The implication in the article is that the casinos weren't directly involved in the money laundering. Those who were perpetrating it brought the money into the casinos (ie bought chips with "dirty" money), engaged in otherwise legitimate looking behavior at the casinos, and then cashed out the chips for cash. Apparently, the loop on this was tight enough not to fool investigators.
Many public schools are just fine, if not excellent.. Something like 90% of my 300-student graduating class ended up in college, several dozen at Ivys or "near-Ivy" schools. We had intensive programming classes and maybe 15 or 20 AP options. This was just a random upper middle class district in the Midwest, we were rarely on the list of the 100-best schools in the state.
Considering WebAssembly is a feature that going to be standardised and supported in all JavaScript engines while those other things were either proprietary runtimes or browser specific API's I'd say you have no reason to think this will end up like them.
It's a social commentary
They are both yellow for me on Fedora 22, one is just a flipped version of the other
I think the problem is not that few people reads the spec, but having picked a name that was now declarative. Something like 'context-order' would give a better hint that the stacking is not as simple as one might think.
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> Beyond simple architectural improvements, we could still move beyond basic transistor based computing. The most common example is quantum computing (which offers an asymptotic improvement in some cases)

The number of problems for which quantum computing offers a speedup is very limited. It is absolutely not a general, all-purpose computational architecture.
You'd have the same problem identifying the source of a sniper's bullet, in the context of a world where the government is willing to take people out like this.
Thanks - completely different use case than Prosper202. Very cool, I'll add this to my bag of tricks.
I have to admit I never got the hype about microservices. From a programmer's point of view, it should never matter whether you call a function, a "microservice" or bark at the moon.

Simply encapsulate calls to a [micro]service in a function, so it can be replaced by a local/native implementation without changing other code. And then forget about it.

What is a "service" anyway? Something that reads directory contents? Congrats, you just turned readdir(3) into something with a posh name. Or, more abstractly: If a service is something that does a service for you, you just renamed "function" - and found a topic to talk about at length without providing any actual insights.

The only environment where "microservices" provide a real benefit are big, slow companies where moving a functionality into its own service reduces overhead in terms of certification (ISO 900x et al) for the cost of requiring more computational power because you now have to traverse the IP-stack at least 4 times for each call. But ISO-certifications are hardly a problem any startup will ever have.

Am I missing something?
Maybe we can get some of those people to work on LaTeX.

For example, why should the commands for upright Greek letters be different for different fonts? \upalpha for one font, \alphaup for another, and \otheralpha for another -- it's a damn mess.

Perhaps someone who's cultivated a level of attention to detail could spend some time fixing this kind of buggy crap, instead of spending time telling people how to properly capitalize LaTeX.
I've advocated for and implemented several InfluxDB installations in production over the last year+, and one of the considerations was always that non-alpha (prod-ready) clustering was always promised in the 'next version' that was just around the corner.

Several months ago it seemed clear that the team was overly optimistic, and it's just disappointing to see that now the clustering will be available only in a paid (minimum $400!) option or on their hosted service.

I understand the business considerations here, but it feels like a bait n' switch for all the people who evaluated/used InfluxDB in single-node operation as a temporary measure while giving the team ample time to work out the clustering kinks.

Lesson learned I guess... but dang what an expensive lesson.
They're usually extremely misleading if not completely false. The headlines are all cherry-picked doom and gloom that appeals to the Infowars crowd.. There was a period during the GFC where their reporting was a bit more reflective of reality but it's completely jumped the shark since then. From someone who works in finance, ZH is complete garbage.
He created JavaScript in 10 days. It's still in use 20 years later. That's very respectable.
Why am I not surprised?
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That strikes me as an unfair metric. Really complex problems or intermittent behaviors exist; a reporter can do a highly diligent job of isolating and reproducing a bug whose cause is not easily diagnosable. That difficulty is hardly the fault of the reporter.

If a bug reporter thoroughly documents a problem (and its attempted workarounds and behaviors) diligently and clearly, just be damn thankful that s/he took the time and made the effort.
At a high level, what makes software good has almost nothing to do with how we code, and almost everything to do with what we code. If it solves a problem, simply, easily, and quickly, it is good.
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Why does not this works with localStorage disabled?
I felt I should point out that cpp is probably on the bottom end of the facial hair graph as a result of being on top of the age graph...
Stallman was right, just for the wrong reasons. Scary. Offline computing is probably going to die.
usually, in the states, your ticket will have special letters on it, signifying your relative flight risk. There's countless stories of Laura Poitras and others discussing this. the reader is invited to !yt TSA Poitras.
I have a similar plan. I'd like to hear more about yours. My email is in my profile temporarily. Please get in touch.
These days everyone smart and educated wants to be a 'no-BS' skeptic type person. That means categorically rejecting anything that smells like certain kinds of "low-brow" thought. What I wrote trips the "conspiracy theory" heuristic, so it gets tossed.

It's a lazy cheap heuristic. If you took what's happening today and went back in time 20 years and posted about it on the 1990s Internet, even the wacko conspiracy nuts would call you crazy.
Combining +1 and -1 is a mistake. It would be useful to see thumbs-up separate from thumbs-down to get a gut feel for contention.
The tone between Apple and the FBI is now openly hostile
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Wake-up call, we're a community of programmers and contrary to our echo-chamber, programming is 1 skill of the thousands which make money.

I know a range of different people, none of them are programmers. Do you think only programmers make money?

I am actually shocked and disgusted by his idea of parenting. He wants to isolate them from other children and teach them one skill instead of letting them learn a range and choose.

Re-read what he said, he wants to exclude them from school and get them to work on his business from the age of 13.

I don't expect the public school system to teach my children anything. Hence why they won't be attending.

I fully expect to start "outsourcing" my web dev work to my children when they are 13.
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"Deep Blue is stupid, you know, it's a machine." Garry Kasparov before being defeated by Deep Blue.
Well, it costs their customers money.
I'm printing that out tomorrow, and posting it on my wall. thank you.
Thanks for the feedback, the first thing on my list is definitely more personalization. I just wanted to get it out there and see if people liked it first.
Adopt me and I'll undercut your children for $50/hr.
Why don't you just move to a nicer neighborhood that has nicer schools?

And have you managed 13 year olds?

I'm sure they will be well-incentivized at $60/hr., the question is whether you will have an incentive to put up with them.
The difference is when you +1, you're publically expressing agreement with what they wrote. If someone you like writes something you don't agree with, you wouldn't +1 them. If you're having a good day, you still wouldn't blindly dish out +1's because if you +1 a controversial comment, it could hurt your reputation.

Negation is different because it's entirely ambiguous. You can dish them out freely and retroactively rationalize your intention. -1's are way more susceptible to knee-jerk emotional reactions than +1's.

A relevant example. Think of the political candidate you like the most. If someone you really like asks you to +1 a persuasive argument about their competitor, would you? On the other hand, if they asked you to -1 someone, you probably would. Even if you knew very little about them.
I suppose the real question is then "How do we decide what is 'worth doing' ourselves?"

I think it's fair to say that abolishing all division of labor doesn't make much sense. So what makes some activities different such that they should not be subject to division of labor? Outsourcing work to personal trainers, doctors, and musicians seems like a very good idea to me.
Do you have a proposal for a system that properly integrates alpha and layering without the notion of a stacking context?
The context of this feature is that users were using comments to react without providing substance. The primary motivation is to reduce the visual clutter of non-substantive comments.

While we can agree about what users should do, users not behaving as we think they should is the whole point here. Removing the -1 reaction won't encourage people to articulate their concerns. Nor will it discourage people from writing comments that explain why something is not a good idea. It simply provides a mechanism for people to register disagreement that is less obtrusive than the mechanism they would otherwise use. A cavalcade of -1's as comments obscures and thereby prevents substantive discussion.
Well, I think a voting pool is more practical than manually counting upvote/downvote of every comment. I don't know how often the maintainers will come back and see how an issue is going and see which comments are popular. Also, sorting comments is not fun because of duplicated contents.
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Yeah, I have to say that there are many things I love about Javascript. Even the quirky this pointer is at least interesting (though not particularly useful). Internally JS is very elegant IMHO and it is easy to write beautiful code in many different paradigms.

On the downside: Type coercion is always a bad idea. There is an inconsistency between built in types and user constructed types. It has terrible standard class libraries. It is verbose.

But I can name half a dozen other languages that suffer from these problems and more. Judicious use of a transpiler (like coffeescript) and choice of third party libraries will go a long way. Personally, I enjoy working in coffeescript more than Ruby specifically because of the first class functions.

Not the best programming language in the world, but not the worst either, IMHO. It's just unfortunate that some of the more obvious shortcomings weren't fixed early on.
In other words, "the best software is no software at all."
I'm sorry for the disappointment and understand your frustration. Our hope is that for users for whom a commercial solution isn't an option, there will be open source methods to do what they need.

The HA page with open source options we put up will be getting more detail over time: https://influxdata.com/high-availability/

We're comitted to continued innovation in the open source InfluxDB and see this as one of the avenues for ensuring that we can continue those open source contributions.
I agree. I used to be anti mobile app until I came to the same realization. Did you see https://www.qubes-os.org/ posted earlier today? It looks like an interesting sandboxing approach.
DHH's perspective addresses some of your question:

https://medium.com/@christophelimpalair/why-the-founder-of-r...
Cadence - http://getcadence.com/

We've been hacking on hitting the sweet spot between the simplicity of Trello and the power of JIRA.

It integrates deeply with github & bitbucket, as well as slack/hipchat/irc, so you don’t have to spend a ton of time keeping the data in Cadence relevant or accurate. This bottom-up approach allows us to help map your development process and how work gets done on your team.

Sorry for the sparse page, we're slowly opening beta access to interested teams.
Why would WebAssembly be any more prone to exploits than JavaScript?
-1 for explicitly disabling pinchzoom on mobile/tablet devices.
What's your CI system of choice?
In addition to the caveats they list, there may be systematic biases as to who includes a profile pic and who doesn't. Even an enormous sample and perfect inferences from the face API can't surmount a bad dataset (bad depending on what you are trying to learn from it)
Well, my point is OpenJDK/IcedTea-Web isn't a blob either, but it doesn't make Java applets any better. Neither is Wine (which can host ActiveX controls), but I'm not going to try it at home.

And I agree that modern minified, packed and obfuscated JavaScript is also more like a binary blob than source code. WebAssembly is just a logical conclusion of this.
What about ethically?
Welcome to 1972, actually! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_for_Computable_Functions
I'm overseas and happy to do it for only $40/hour if I can be adopted remotely.
> But fighters do use GPS. Daily. They use it for accurate navigation. But they do not absolutely depend on it.

But...

>>> Just make the plane use GPS.

...implies you would make them absolutely depend on it. Military aircraft use GPS daily, because it's cheaper and better. However, they also have accurate inertial navigation systems as a backup, so they can still operate effectively if the enemy makes GPS unavailable.
I hadn't heard of XZ embedded. Might be worth measuring it, but it would be competing with native gzip in the browser, which is hard to beat on speed. But maybe better compression would be worth it?
Yes, that would be good for development / debugging (like debug symbols) or as an optional way to give people access to the source.
The toolchain is C/C++/LLVM, which is pretty well baked.
I don't get it, why does he want to play for a team he's never heard of?
There's a bunch of interesting tactics I've heard of people employing in the FIFA economy, including cornering certain low value cards as well as "investing" in players like Eric Dier who are likely to be upgraded in the next update so that they can sell an overrated silver who is now only attainable as a midlevel gold.