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Personally, I can't tell yet the extent to which this is a novelty technology. Stereoscopic 3D has a 150-year history [1] of people saying, "This will change everything!" and then being wrong. Maybe this is finally its time, but maybe not.

This will definitely sell a bunch of units just because everybody wants to check it out. But I think we still don't know the extent to which this will become useful or necessary. Will this be another Google Glass or Segway, meaning basically a flop? Is it a smartphone in 2002, meaning that it's interesting but will take another couple generations to really find a mass market? Or is this the next color television, where it will pretty quickly become the dominant content and device model?

I'm sure full-immersion experience will be something we get to eventually. But if this isn't somebody's first rodeo, they may reasonably question whether this time 3D will really live up to the hype.

[1] Truly! E.g., the Brewster Stereoscope, which sold 250,000 units in the 1850s. Or the ViewMaster. Or 1950s anaglyph 3D. Or the VR of the 90s. Or 3D television, which was the next big thing for a CES or two, and has since vanished.
>But neither China nor Russia seemed like good destinations.

They're actually the only countries that he could have escaped safely to and only countries where he could lead a relatively safe life due to their security apparatus. There isn't a single other country in the world that could have resisted the full pressure of US government. Not a single one! Yes, I know that Ecuador offered him asylum but they cooled down on it [0] and backtracked when US State Department started bearing down on them. Venezuela is also not a great option due to their instability (US friendly gov is only one coup away) and due to the fact that it's crawling with mercenaries.

>It feels like maybe he could've chosen one of the extradition free countries he eventually wanted asylum in as his first destination... since nobody knew what he had done before he left the country.

Extradition-free doesn't mean that he'd be safe from pressure of the US legal/espionage/economic power, spies, assassins, mercenaries and so on. [1] Which country do you think would shelter him if it risked economic sanctions from US, NATO and EU?

>Did he ever give an answer to that?

No, but Assange said that getting him to Russia was their priority because it was the only safe option for him and they'd be able to withstand the pressure of US diplomacy and law enforcement. He owes his life to Sarah Harrison and Julian Assange. [2] Without them he'd probably be dead or in prison or in some black site being tortured. He is also incredibly lucky that US started sanctioning Russia before he decided to seek asylum there so a threat of sanctions didn't phase Putin in the slightest.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/28/edward-snowden-...

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/29/julian-assange-...

[2] https://www.rt.com/news/313829-assange-advise-snowden-russia...
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Its just blatantly false to suggest that this victory means "games are solved". Games like chess and GO are games of complete information. Its just a matter of brute processing power, even if currently computers don't have the processing power to "solve" them.

Games of incomplete information, like poker, are much harder, if not impossible for computers to master without actual AI. It was only recently that heads-up, limit poker was "solved". Even in this case, the "solution" meant only that the computer could put forth a strategy that would not lose significantly over time, not a winning strategy. Games like no-limit hold em are infinitely more complex. This is true of heads-up, but vastly more so for full-ring games.

AlphaGo's victory has certainly been very impressive, but its also predictable. Given enough computing power, winning any game of complete information is just a matter of brute computing force. We'll see how computers (and real AI) can do in the future in regards to other games.
Because the story is essentially a lie. The numbers, and the financial complicity, and the crypto-capabilities. There's no pedo-mafia.

Also that and there are so many more successful ways to catch molestation that we aren't taking.

It's not that molestation and exploitation isn't bad, but when you see someone ranting about it you can be pretty sure they're just doing it to push a political goal. It's an obvious call for censorship and more agency funding.

If the list of relevant things could only be five-thousand items long, this wouldn't even be on it.

And then we get to the cons, many of which are potentially Orwellian.
I was in Shizuoka prefecture (another 200km away than you). I remember talking to my colleague and casually asking where the epicenter was. "Tohoku", was the reply. My jaw dropped because I knew what that meant. You don't feel Tohoku earthquakes in Shizuoka.

I stayed at work until 2am that day because my supervisor would not let me go home until the all clear was given for tsunami. Where I lived, I think we got a 30 cm swell. In contrast, I heard the bad news that one of the people on the same teaching programme I was in had died. She lived in the affected area and went home to check on her apartment in the 17 minutes between when the earthquake hit and the tsunami struck. Had she stayed at work, she would have survived.

Why was there a difference between the actions of my supervisor and hers? I live in Shizuoka which is 50 years overdue for the Tokai earthquake. It has been said that there is an 85% likelihood that it will hit in my lifetime. I also live in one of the most dangerous areas (on the western coast of Suruga bay). Everybody knows that a devastating earthquake will hit and there is constant training. This is key.

I think you are absolutely correct. Warnings are useful to an extent. However, training is critical. My supervisor had absolutely no qualms about keeping me at work (which is also the designated evacuation center for the area) simply because this was obviously a very unusual event. Nobody really expected a tsunami of any size to hit Suruga bay, but it didn't matter. I could go on for quite a long time about the training that we get here because of the impending Tokai earthquake.

On of the good things to come out of the Tohoku disaster is that I have heard that similar training measures have been taken up by the whole country.
That definition makes it very clear why people are disagreeing with you. Switching costs are those incurred by the difficulty of switching, and not the marginal cost of one provider or another. If internet provider A is $80 / month, and provider B is $60 / month, the switching cost has nothing to do with the $20 monthly discrepancy, or any speed differences, and rather represents how easy it is to cancel my subscription by being on hold for hours or cancellation fees.
Probably referring to things like buying stuff online or paying several hundred or thousand dollars.
I deeply admire Garry Kasparov's achievements in chess.

Perhaps even more I value his efforts over many years to bring better life to Russia.

Still I don't agree with his critique of Bernie Sanders. Opposition in Russia is having a problem to get better organized and "move the things at least somewhere". Similarly Sanders, being not the best possible candidate, represents likely the best efforts to move the situation in USA to the right direction.

> Despite the overwhelming evidence before him, Kasparov said it took time for him to realize that for many, the game was fixed.

The game is fixed not only in USSR - which ceased to exist - but to a large extent in USA also. That's what Sanders is trying to change.
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The study from the original post didn't find evidence of the E-S split. It's possible their SQ test was flawed. It's also possible practicing math causes your social skills to atrophy.

The conclusion of the authors could be accurate, but we definitely don't really know the whole picture yet.
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My role involves both analysis and creativity (marketing). I personally find I can't shift from tasks heavy in one to the other multiple times through the day and offer my best work at both. If I need to be creative I try and make my day creative and vice versa for data analysis. I imagine if you consistently stay in one state you get an element of burn-in that makes shifting harder.
That's a good point. Also, syntax highlighting helps me navigate my code by sight, something I don't need to do when I'm reading.
I thought we were at the step where the case is now fully briefed? Isn't the next step oral arguments at the district court level? Then a District court ruling. Then appeal to 9CA, and so forth. Although if someone files for an Emergency TRO, I'm not sure if that goes to 9CA or to the SCOTUS Justice that oversees 9CA (Kennedy).
I see what you're saying with your first point, but does that mean it's more acceptable for people to put out less-polished professional work now that it's easier to go back and correct it? I hope not.

Regarding points two and three, very few authors have an adequate following of "already-interested" customers.

Sharing is easier with digital networks and social networks, sure, but the siloed nature of these media is a new challenge for authors/publishers.

There's a big struggle right now within publishing to figure out discovery.
Have you tried either the web-based or desktop version of Jitsi? There's no hard cap on the number of participants.
+1 for "Learning How to Learn". Helpful for improving study habits.
Amazon probably wouldn't care if you did. They still get paid to shuffle the bits.
That, and avoiding the inconvenience of having your debit/credit card details stolen. Even when used at otherwise reputable merchants.
Does anyone know how the MySQL migration & replication works under the hood? How is Amazon doing all this remotely via just a DB connector?
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That's what I'm asking for. Check the Tinfoil Security link.
That's great (seriously), but doesn't that undermine the premise of the original article? I just checked, and American Physiological Society journals still expressly forbid prepublication. So it's still not universal...
Someday I'd love to feed scientific papers into AI algorithms. Watson does that, and google is starting to. But the file formats are such a mess, especially with equations and figures.
We generally add points and comma to emphasize parts of the text, slow down, stop the reading... Try reading the text out loud without the syntax highlighting, then try with. See? It doesn't work, you're going to emphasize and stop on higlighted words. What would have worked would have been to highlight everything and split the highlight according to punctuation, not words.

As someone else pointed out, different colors for different protagonist talking would be neat as well. But there is not much you can't do without deforming the original intent of the writer.

Another thing that could be interesting would be to give these tools to the writer instead of highlighting the text automatically, but then as someone else pointed out, these tools already exists and are rarely used because of the noise they add (bold, italic, underlined). There are also quotes, quads, uppercase, ... There are many ways to help the reader follow the text.
Huh... That may be possible! It would require Apple not being able to control that entity, however. They would effectively have to outsource security (seems like a dangerous plan). Also, the gov't could then simply outlaw the outsourcing of security functions for device manufacturers.
Voice recognition and self-driving cars aren't solved problems. That last 10% may be 90% of the work.
Does anyone have a link to the response that Apple filed with the court? (The article didn't seem to link to it anywhere, unfortunately.)

Edit: I seem to have found it: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2762131/C-D-Cal-1...

(Found via this article: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160315/15505433916/apple...)
> there are still enough horrible people in the world who [emotion instead of substance]

What's the evidence that we need [abusive bill of the day] to fix that?

Why do we think the potential harm averted is greater than the harm we know comes from overreaching laws and abusive governments?

Human trafficking at all, sex or otherwise, is horrible, common, and relatively easily stopped without new laws - at least for the victims of the moment - so go spend time and effort helping rather than beating the panic drum as you are now.
His argument is also flawed in that he says you need to roll your own because the VPN service providers can be compromised. Well, where are you going to run your server then? Any endpoint can be compromised by the business that owns it weather it be your ISP, AWS, or whatever else you plan to use.
I'd rather be one of a million EC2 nodes for a day, then share a single egress point with hundreds of thousands of other people for a year.

I guess in a way they're somewhat of the same thing, right? How much traffic do you think EC2, DigitalOcean, etc push out each day? Probably harder to tap that entire pipe.
One of my family Windows was updated automatically(or deceptively automatically) and caused a panic, I shut it down forcefully to get it back, so far it did not auto-upgrade yet.
It's an interesting idea. But there's no exit crowding. And so everything is easily linked to the user.

What might be effective would be an app that created multiple instances, with multiple providers, and then shared them with other users. So you were all using multihop VPNs, with the hops changing frequently. The https://www.softether.org/ project allows users to share their VPN servers. You'd just take that to the next level.
One thing which I've done and which has worked somehow, is to give it away to artists out there.

Make a list of artists (musicians in your case) which you think would like your app. Do some serious research to some contact detail for them. You then write to them and offer them the app for free, through a coupon code. Ask them for feedback. Write casually, like the indie dev that you are.

If they like your app, it's likely they will talk about it, and generate some buzz, which hopefully some blogs / sites will pick on.

And be ambitious with the artist list, send it to top people !!
Agreed.

You need to determine who your adversary is (at least the category of adversary they're in).

If your adversary is The NSA, you're probably fucked already - get off the internet.

If your adversary is your local drug or anti-terror law enforcement, they're probably getting "hints" from the NSA and likely parallel reconstructing evidence against you based on that.

If your adversary is closer to local cops, MPAA/RIAA, your boss, your parents, your ex-wife's lawyer, or your ISP - this list provides a great deal of useful information.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/304897946/Reply-Brief-in-Support-o...
No surprise there....testosterone probably plays a role. https://youtu.be/p5LRdW8xw70?t=1311
I can't say I'm a fan. If I select a single commit, instead of giving me a list with a single commit check-marked, it gives me only that single commit and an option to 'show all commits'. So to change the commit you are viewing requires clicking 'show all commits' (waiting for them to load) and then selecting the other commit you want to view (which should just be a check box).

Also it totally baffles me that these actions all require server-side requests. It's really a lot easier to go to the old commits tab, and to ctrl click an open tab for each commit then to use this new feature.

At one point Github offered the best and cleanest UI of all the alternatives - but I doubt this will be the case for long at this rate.
I can't say I'm a fan. If I select a single commit, instead of giving me a list with a single commit check-marked, it gives me only that single commit and an option to 'show all commits'. So to change the commit you are viewing requires clicking 'show all commits' and then selecting the other commit you want to view.

Also it totally baffles me that these are all server-side actions. Github for a long-time had the cleanest and most effective UI - but at this rate I doubt it will stay that way long..
I think you make a wonderful comment here, but your analogy doesn't hold, I'd say. While I applaud the effort going into this, I don't think this works for me. I read "code" for humans completely differently than I do code meant to describe computation (NLS text versus programs, respectively). IOW, there can be no analogy for me.

I think it stems from the way we read Sherlock Holmes as an experience whereas we read a program as an explanation. You cannot substitute an explanation for an experience.
How do you know this? One reason they're called "preprints" is that they haven't (necessarily) been peer-reviewed...
If anyone has any questions about the Tinfoil VPN creator, I'm here (cofounder and CTO) and happy to answer. :)
Not quite the same, unless I'm misunderstanding. I'm talking about an online migration on a single RDS instance with an engine switch handled fully behind the scenes. The link provided doesn't seem to handle data changes since the snapshot, and also requires a switch in the application to point to the new instance which has been restored via snapshot.

DMS gets closer than the above link, I think, since it will handle replication onto the target database for you. But, for two fully compatible database engines, it seems like you should be able to make the switch without having to fuss with replication configuration or spinning up a new instance at all.
I also wrote a Gerrit to GitHub PR proxy... I should ask $dayjob about open-sourcing it. And I seem to recall there's another as well implemented as a gerrit plugin.
To keep your tone ... obviously you've never tried selling it to biologists.
Many speech tech startups are sued endlessly over patents [0], primarily by Nuance, and then when things look hopeless, Nuance offers to buy and make all the lawsuits go away [1]. How do you view this situation, and how will you fight the lawsuits?

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/09/nuance-sues-vlingo-again-ov...
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/20/after-years-of-patent-litig...
"You can't stare at somebody's code and know if you'll like working with them." Sure...and there's not mutual exclusion between the two. Looking at someone's work product is simply another set of data points. I'm not judging someone's fit for a position simply based on a code work product. Or a resume. Or one cultural fit question. I'm using them all to paint a picture and weighing the pieces to determine if I think this person will perform well under the complete circumstances (work/life balance, work required, what team they're on, etc.) Simply put, I've found several different kinds of work products have helped determine positive fit in the past for me.
Sometimes you're on a rapid release cycle making non-user facing changes that will allow you to release new user-facing features. I have no idea if this is what was going on at Github, but I've been at plenty of places where the code and/or infrastructure was so messed up, seemingly trivial updates would take weeks and months to complete.
Agreed, though I want this more than I want the imdb for podcasts.

Ratings and recommendations would be nifty I guess, but I've wanted a one stop shop for podcasts with a clean and consistent layout for a long time. I mean, one that doesn't make me install a bloated program that I don't want to use.

This one's checked off, my other podcast wishlist items:

1) autotag my podcasts by parsing their RSS feeds

2) a head unit in my car that would connect to my wifi from my driveway or garage, then automatically download new episodes of subscribed podcasts every night or morning. Ideally I could manage my subscriptions on my PC through a website or through a settings page the car offers to my network, so I'm not forced to use the limited controls of a car to manage podcast subscriptions. (Maybe everyone else solves this problem by just keeping an iPhone with unlimited data in their cup holder.)
I'm not convinced signing up with one of the existing VPN services is any significantly easier than signing up with Digital Ocean or Rackspace, and using the Tinfoil creator service. Have you tried it?
The crucial difference is that an amateur can provide a meaningful contribution to an open-source software project while the same is unlikely in (modern) science.

You need years of intense studying even to understand the current state of the art in a chosen scientific field.

Experiments require more money too.
Agreed -- it's so genuine it's spooky. You have to wonder how deep the parallels go.

Does Keith Alexander speak in the voice of bumblebee from transformers? Is it safe to answer the payphones in Bryant Park? Did Ed Snowden also rescue Jesus from the NYPD? And if he didn't, who will.
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well, sure. I could stream my desktop in HD @ twitch. But what about latency?
Your examples don't add up.
on your hardware!
One of the biggest problems I've had with RDS (postgres specifically) is not being able to do incremental offsite backups. I wonder if the database migration service can help with that, as they say the process is "reliable" and "automatically restarts the process and continues the migration from where it was halted"
Jitsi Meet requires only a Chrome/Chromium extension for screen-sharing. Video conferences themselves only need the browser.
I would agree and disagree... within constraints both are very well solved... and that's what the press tends to overstate
> the gov't could then simply outlaw..

If this was about the gov't simply making new laws we wouldn't be having this discussion right? Fortunately we live in a country where the gov't can't simply outlaw things.
Oops. Looks like I was wrong... This is a youtube video of a pre-baked "realtime" render.

Still impressive though...
> does the analogy being proposed really hold?

It's not an analogy, it IS syntax highlighting. You just encode a lot of semantics into syntax in java, so syntax highlighting is more useful for determining the semantics.

I don't think the OP was claiming this is useful for english in the way syntax highlighting is useful for java.
In what environment?
Yeah I ignore jobs that ask for these screens. I've spent a lot of time on them and then not heard anything.

When I'm adding to my own team I would rather talk to them about code than have them do these screens. It's more holistic and I get more of a sense of how they think. If I'm going to give them a code challenge like this I wait until after the phone screen so I don't waste people's time.
Nope, that's exactly what it led me to believe, but it is definitely not that.
Heh, I saw the scrollbar but it broke my brain a bit to see a button in the middle of the page that wasn't going to make it scroll.

cf: http://adventurega.me/bootstrap/
They could use multiple signing keys. One in America, one in Hong Kong, one in Germany, etc. If a firmware update is not signed in all (or N of M) jurisdictions, the secure enclave simply rejects it.
Even if high end I imagine in 2-3 years you'll have the same quality on mainstream.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Coroutines in one page of C