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What is the performance of this new filesystem engine, compared to VirtualBox shared folders, which are well-known to be slow?
If I read this correctly, the argument is that a) intelligent life could be anywhere from 50kg (a chimp) to 500kg (a small elephant). Since humans are at the low end of that range, and assuming an even distribution across the range, then most other intelligent life is physically larger than us. (There is a tangent relating to population density in there, too).

It's a clever argument. But to be honest I don't think we understand enough about how intelligence arises (consciousness) to really put a bounds on the physical size of species. For example, there is no evidence that any dinosaur was intelligent - why not? Additionally, it seems likely to me that over time humans will virtualize and inhabit different kinds of bodies, probably smaller ones, and that this could be a typical progression for intelligent biological species that don't annihilate themselves.

But most importantly, there doesn't seem to be any real utility to the argument, even if it were sound. I mean, let's say the author is right - so what? Okay, the average intelligent alien is bigger than us. What does that have to do with anything? How does it help us contact them, visit them, understand them? The only application I can think of is as material for certain kinds of science fiction authors' in-story expositions.
TLDR;

A random individual on earth is more likely to live in a country with large population.

Likewise, a random individual in space is more likely to live on a planet with large population.

Using this type of reasoning, the author shows that the human (earth) is probably part of a bigger group of species (planets) of similar size.

Therefore, we can expect most alien individuals to be of similar size to humans and alien planets to be of similar size to earth.
I think you are treating tesla unfairly, or you are perhaps carrying a grudge against them. the nyt piece was really slanted against them - not charging in the night when its freezing, the battery will go down. there are plenty of reasonable things to argue against them (availability of shop manuals, huge delays from when they are supposed to start delivering cars). but that nyt piece was not fair. I and many other tesla owners had great experiences buying, owning, and dealing with the company.
Even 30-40% effective tax is A LOT. It hurts... and hurts more when I see how it's spent.
This is extremely severe. Any package i install might after x levels of sub-dependencies pull in one of these names which are potentially pwned. React and Babel pulled in a few of them to take some well known examples.

I would say the whole npm is pwned until these packages are either restored or that the package name is blacklisted/reserved. Is it possible to blacklist packages locally so I get warned if they are pulled in as sub dependencies? I don't trust every package maintainer to be quick enough to remove these dependencies.
You can use the bits forever, but that's a different problem entirely.

Anything that stores data will physically rot and stop working. You can't trust it much more than you can trust a cloud service.

There are many products in the world that can be used for centuries, fixed up when anything breaks. Data storage does not really have any products that fit that description.
Why not? It worked for the Gone Home and Firewatch people.
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I do agree about the client and Dropbox being more universally supported but I haven't had any speed issues with OneDrive, both Dropbox and Onedrive max out my upstream when syncing. I do use Microsoft Office (and so do other members of my family) but I cannot justify paying an extra to have DB when OneDrive offers the same space albeit a worse performing client.

My only with with OneDrive was the removal of placeholders feature with the Windows 10 upgrade.
I think most agreements look as bad as this one. I bought an original, upgraded for auto drive and will probably get in line for this to replace my wife's car. Since they struggle to make enough to meet demand, they seem to make many of the same car with the same options at a time, delaying various combinations of features. They already announced that people who previously bought one would have a priority in the queue this time. I'm pretty certain I'll put my 1k in.
Yeah, but wouldn't that be the british spelling nonetheless?
> Clearly if you cocatenate hash(A) + sha256(A), you still end up with something is broken.

Now it could depend on your treat model. You want to hash passwords (A is secret)? If yes, then this is broken. You want an integrity check / tamper resistance on A, but A is public (see git)? Then this could be fine. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Really cool point.

I'd argue that the investment strategies you're describing are actually creating value. Getting information about carcinogens out into the world is a plus for sure. Another instance of this is Herbalife which is looking more and more like a Ponzi scheme thanks to an activist investor.

Welcome to the era of regulation through speculation.
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hi - quick question. Is your Dockerfile open source ? We have been building an R powered backend for one of our analytics services and it's been a struggle getting a scalable R-based infrastructure going.

BTW - another killer usecase would be an easy way to build database backed spreadsheets. instead of the TSV, it would be cool to figure out how to interface to postgresql for example.
Source? I find this very hard to believe. 1. How does the engine know of it should be an integer or not? 2. Why would they have a special case for this, it won't benefit accuracy and treating them in a special way probably hurts performance more than just always keeping it as doubles.
Actually (and surprisingly, at least for me), this is not the case... The Vice article mentions a US PRIG study that showed that "user revenue only covered 48 percent of the costs of roads". [1]

[1] http://www.uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/Who%20Pays%20...
The comment was playing on how much more efficient biological components are compared to digital ones.

An actual attempt to answer your question.

Currently it takes quite a lot of computation to detect outlines of objects in a raster image. This is an ability innate to many animals. Suppose we had the technology to keep individual brain cells of an insect alive, and ability to interface with biological neurons, we could pass visual data through, say, an insect's eyes and brain, and get a signal on the other end that corresponds to vectors and lines that describe the object in the visual data. The insect brain is able to process images orders of magnitudes more efficiently than modern computers.

Or we could make some sort of Dog helmet, hopefully without a physical connection, that somehow transmit the vector data inside the Dog's brain to our computers.

Anyways, all of this looks almost impossible. We simply don't have the technology to interface with the detailed and intricate data that is present our bodies, as our brain process the world around us.

I do think one day we will be overlaying data in our own eyes using some sort of neural implant. That device will probably rely on existing vision-related, biological, computational infrastructure in our minds.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's two hundreds years away.

P.S. Here's an article relating to the idea of putting insect brains in robots: http://www.kurzweilai.net/robots-with-insect-brains It's talking about a replicated insect brain on digital hardware though.
I'm having trouble following this thread of conversation : isn't reactive more about restructuring your app as a composition of event streams that trigger actions and GUI state changes, rather than just simply performing async tasks ?

Fwiu, It tries to have you build your app as a static tree of flows, in a descriptive manner. It's a much broader goal.
Heads up: this is how to display the NASA logo and associated graphics, not a standard of what graphical elements to use on NASA's computer systems.
Now that's an interesting question. How many (six figure) employees of BART ride the BART to work?
This exists in Portugal for at least 10 years (in Portuguese): https://www.mbnet.pt/#compras
I'm not defending asset managers but your argument sounds specious: you only need to pick an asset manager once, whereas you need to pick stocks every day or several times a day.

I can't fix my car but I can pick a garage based on reviews, etc.
I think ignorance also plays a part. For example, I myself thought that one of the reasons for going with a decent fund manager was access to e.g. IPOs at the discount price (+ inevitable fees) that the partner bank had access to.

If you're not able to take advantage of such things, I really don't understand the appeal.

(but then - having such large sums of money that I need help investing them would be quite a nice problem to have!)
Holding the bits gives you so many more options with regards to spontaneous changes in service quality. As a nearby comment alludes to, you don't have to deal with all the BS that comes with renting. It is saddening to think that people find this kind of impermanence acceptable; they even defend it!

(Of cour$e they do)

Edit: to be fair, it's nice to be in control of the bits, whether you use them internally or offer them as a service... but as a user it is frustrating to see what used to be a DIY world turn into this... sort-of stucco skyscrapers we call "the cloud"

(And it is especially obnoxious to watch companies sell them the cloud, as if it were so unobtainable in the past... but of course there's money to be made in new markets, so onward!)
In Ukraine, Fidobank offers "Shtuka" (Штука, translated as "piece" or in jargon "thousand") debit cards that are attached to MoneXY account that is in turn attached to mobile number only. And since prepaid cellular service is mostly anonymous here, you can actually have as many anonymous accounts as you can for about 60 UAH (a bit more than 2 USD) each. And still these are physical MasterCards you can put into your pocket, accepted at any supermarket and also suitable for online transactions.
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>If you think you are able to pick out better fund managers, then you should be picking stocks instead.

I'm not sure this is right. You wouldn't say that you should be designing if you think you can hire a designer. There's no reason that hiring a good fund manager is different.

For what it's worth, I'm not good at picking managers or picking stocks with my own money so I choose a parsimonious approach.
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Never heard about this before so I read it up on the cfrg list and oh dear it was phenomenal.

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg06826....
This looks good. They responded [1] to confirm they are working on Vagrant support too.

If xhyve can get a more polished release thats great too, but even for the 'pro' version this is just $40, and best of all it's available via MAS so no more fucking around to both sign in with an account AND enter an activation code (I'm looking at you Parallels!)

[1] https://twitter.com/veertu_labs/status/713265595593191424
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Dang, the animated illustration caught me by surprise.
Another example: A friend of mine who is a MIT/Harvard Biology PhD works as an analyst reading research papers and deducing the likelihood of the drugs proposed by smaller pharma pure play companies will pan out.

He says he was never good in the lab but was always proficient and prolific at reading papers, and finds it to be a bit of a calling for him.
This is an interesting reaction. It could seemingly apply for the game creator or the "Let's Play" creator.

For the game creator, their work is being built upon without permission or license (other than, hopefully, a single game sale) to create something new and interesting, but their name and pedigree is bolstered by the exposure.

For the "Let's Play" creator, their work is produced without expectation of licensing payments but they gain the ability to grow their audience using another's work as raw material.

This comment put into words the weird, hand-wavey feeling I've had about the two being symbiotic. I'm still not sure that we've found a good example of the right balance between the two, but I like the Dragon team's tone when describing the tensions.
This interests me... Do you have any articles I can read about this?

I was always under the impression that the Sounder (our commuter heavy rail line) used tracks shared with commercial traffic (BNSF, etc.) and thus couldn't be fully developed into a city-wide system...
Sure, because just writing

isPositive = (x) => +x === x && x > 0

is boring. Need more requires to require the requires...

Keep in mind though that absolutely not all JS programmers are like that. Not everyone wants to be an aforementioned Dick-from-a-mountain.
When I tried the 30min demo, it felt about right, meaning that I didn’t notice any fatigue holding the controllers. Which is valuable when you’re moving around much more actively, compared to a traditional controller cradled between your knees.
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Not meant to be negative, just another take on some of your points:

* Dyson has a factory in a country with low wages.

* Dyson uses modern styling in their product lines.

* Dyson has a strong brand.

(* Dyson knows about electrics)

It sounds like you can replace Dyson with quite a lot of names.

One of the human brain's strengths is pattern recognition. Wether true or not, we see patterns everywhere.
But that applies to my comment too ;)
How does this solve the dev-prod parity issue (using the same versions of dependencies, etc.)?
Sure. How many other vacuum companies are also making electric cars?
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I know at least one Swedish bank has been providing this service forever too. They call it "e-kort" or "e-card".
In the past year I've only watched a couple of movies, but I've watched all movie related videos of Red Letter Media, "Half in the Bag" and others.

I'm not a movie guy but for some stupid weird reason I love watching what they think about some movies.
Seems reasonable to me. They might come close to recouping the huge costs that cars actually cost.
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Interesting visualisations, if only my X201 laptop could cope. Sometimes realtime is just not necessary.
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I'm not really excited this is another US only service.
See:

isPositive = (x) => +x === x && x > 0

In which conditions does it return a wrong value? I haven't found any.
I have zero experience in this area, but regarding the price volatility, I was under the impression that a lot of the massive late-stage investment rounds had been structured more like debt. So something like 2-3x liquidity preference, with a cap on returns[1]. Not sure if this is what the hedge funds are doing, but if so, seems like they are controlling the price and taking a risk on the time horizon. Of course the fact that they are heading towards the exits (according to this article) implies it's not going as expected.

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/the-tech-bust-of-2015
Hey, yeah it's all open. The Dockerfile is here: https://github.com/stencila/stencila/blob/master/docker/ubun... I'm no expert, but it seems to be doing the job. Would appreciate any suggestions you might have! I'd like to make it smaller i.e. use a smaller base image.
Yes, but Steam may need to be running
Not really, all of those things mentioned need constant security patches even if they don't receive new features. You can't have an insecure Microsoft free application on a non-EOL Windows. They patch things all the time. Sure it doesn't seem like as big of a cost as hard drives, but Microsoft needs to pay engineers and QA guys to fix those programs. Nothing is done for free.
Would the battery usage be much worse ?

I get that taking more CPU time and doing less efficient operations will be worse, but this peaks would generally happen when the user is actively interacting, which in the running time of an app is not a lot.

I would think the large majority of what this could be used for has less interactions and moving parts than the usual app. Of course someone would implement Quake in JS, but otherwise your note taking app or other utility (even a chat app) won't be actively sucking battery constantly.
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The sounds that play when starting and turning off the controller are emitted by the haptic engines in the pads! It's pretty crazy they have so much control over feedback they can reproduce music.
just for the record, i've got a radio key for my car, the convience factor is much bigger than i anticipated :)
I wish someone would give PRT a chance. Something like skyTran could be built for 1/5th the cost and would be significantly faster for commuters (since most time is spent at stops before yours).
There is a delusion, though. The world is constantly arising and passing away simultaneously. When you are depressed, all you see is decay (passing away); when you are manic, all you see is growth (arising). Both views are delusional. Although I freely admit that stating that so bluntly to a depressed person is usually a bad idea.

The reason people give bad advice is myopia. Most "normal" people seem to get by with a system of habits that protect them from perceiving constant change over long-ish time-lines. When you deal with the same boundary conditions day after day you much of your life operates like an autonomic function. This is the ideal, for "normal" people: to have stable, risk-free lives for themselves and their families, at least for 20-30 years or so until the kids leave/you retire. And of course by then you have become your habits, and so you live a peaceful, boring life until you die.

Note that there is an important minority of people who are inherently explorers, risk takers, who thrive on uncertainty and difficulty. Such people will even create difficulty in their own lives just to avoid being bored and disappointed in their own "ordinary" life. They challenge authority, challenge conventional wisdom, and more often then not, they suffer for their unique choices because an unstable life is a stressful one. This can create drama, and isolation, which leads to depression.

An excellent life, I believe, lies somewhere in the middle: some sort of stable base from which you range out occasionally in adventure. Indiana Jones is a good (fictional) example: he had a fundamentally stable job as a professor, but he would also travel the world and have adventures. Victor Hugo and HG Wells seemed to delight in telling stories of such "gentlemen adventurers". A more mundane example would be a family man going on a month-long trek through the Amazon or through Africa or something like it every year (perhaps with Doctors without Borders or some-such).

There are stories of programmers doing their thing while traveling the world, living out of a backpack on $20/month. There are also stories of programmers taking big risks in business, and winning! (and losing). But business adventures have everything to do with money and shrewdness, and therefore are rooted indelibly in greed, not curiosity. Of the people I know of, Rich Hickey (who took 2.5 years to do Clojure) and Bret Victor (who, AFAIK, has been talking on philosophical applied computer science purely for the love of it, and without compensation) are examples of curiosity-driven adventure-programmers. Most working programmers, though, are hired to build the applications someone else has conceived. We might stumble on a nice data-structure or algorithm and share it widely; but that's a perk, and not the main goal of their employment, which is also greed driven.

A lot of us I think lead a double life of creating for someone else to pay the bills, and creating for ourselves to scratch that adventurer's itch.
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Hospitals are run by hospital administrators who have special skills in this area and are usually not doctors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_administration

Administrators and doctors usually loathe each other because they see things from very different points of view.
To be fair, Ireland is just used as a stop on the wayto the Bahamas/Caymans, for most tech company money. It does pump up our GDP though, which makes people think we are doing well, so at least we get that.

Source: Irish person who works in tech.
You only need to pick a stock once too. Or at most, once per several years. If you're trading stocks every day you're doing it wrong.

And you have a lot more information available about stocks than you do about fund managers.
No, that is an accurate impression. The ultimate goal of Houdini is to give developers the tools to innovate; unlike the current situation were all innovation happens at the spec level, and devs have to wait (often years) for browser adoption.
I'd like to have an equivalent of `guix environment` in Brew.
I hope the car will be better than its vacuum cleaners as they are very cheaply made and of very low quality. I know this from repairing a number of them. To be frank you are better off throwing them away and buying a better quality make.
The article is describing something that Eugene Fama (winner of the prize for economics in the memory of Alfred Nobel,) described in a paper a few years ago (2010).[1] Fama and his co-author French found that there is no evidence that any active managers of mutual funds (or any other portfolio of exchange-traded equities) have above-average skill; as a result, some will perform better than the market, and others will perform worse, but none will predictably or reliably outperform the average, and they each take some fee. What this means is that since they all have about the same expected return, and have an expected outcome of under-performing the market by the amount of their fees (as those are subtracted from their expected average returns), you should simply invest in a portfolio with low transaction costs and low holding costs.

[1] https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/teaching/3515...
> You shouldn't NEED to go out and look for an already done solution if it's elementary and takes minutes, if that, to write. Ever.

If writing it would take minutes and adding the dependency would take seconds, add the dependency. And how long it takes to look for is beside the point - code is read more than it's written, so how long it takes to read is much more important.

> This doesn't even make sense. What are you trying to convey here? The more dependencies you can cut out the more reproducible your builds will be. Period. Which is important when you're dealing with code that gets rapidly deployed to many production boxes.

No, look, if you have some kind of problem where dependencies maker your builds unreproducible or break your deployments, you need to fix that problem. If you have that problem when you have 100 dependencies, you're still going to have that problem when you have 90 dependencies. Unless you're going to cut every dependency, cutting dependencies is not the way to fix that problem.

> What's next, are you going to outsource all your for and while loops to a module? You know, so you have less things to "maintain"?

for and while probably should be ordinary functions (smalltalk style) and probably should be in a library somewhere rather than having everyone reimplement them, yes. Almost all languages have a for or while in their standard library so I don't know what you're really saying?