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I think it's somewhat similar to your workplace. No one I know hires people based on purely technical criteria. If your new hire goes around being racist your coworkers, that's a problem. (A conf is not just about talks.)

In addition, software is intensely political. Moldbug would agree: https://medium.com/@urbit/design-of-a-digital-republic-f2b6b...
Wouldn't be able to manage all I want to read without Squirt

https://www.squirt.io/
Its telling that the Guardian turn off comments on any of the hacked of stories or stories relating to bad behaviour by the press.

Afraid you will get called out by your readers for dounle standards maybe
That completely ignores reality.

It is one thing for me to say "let's kill Bill". It is an entirely different thing for me and you to surveil his movements, his schedule, to develop code names, to discuss scenarios for action, to procure means to assassinate him. You can show evidence of serious intent in a conspiracy.
I use 0.9.12.2 and it's been rock solid for past 3 months and prior versions equally stable as well.
Are you sure it's a 2012 Air? Because I have one and with a brand new battery and light use you maybe get 7-8 hours battery life out of it.

The 2013 Air with the Haswell CPU is the one which gives you far more than 10 hours of battery life.
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If I make a plan to murder a person, the police shouldn't have to wait until after the murder to arrest me.
Here you go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFbj3PQynD8
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Hey, it worked in grade school reading groups with human-powered "text-to-speech," right? :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11436228
Even better, do multi-winner districts (3-9 per district) with a ranked choice voting system that would greatly increase how well people are represented in Congress through proportional representation.

http://www.fairvote.org/proportional_representation
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What is the point of speed reading a novel? If you can't be bothered to read what the author wrote, word for word (or nearly so) then you might as well go online and read a summary of the novel - job done. When an author writes a book, they consider every word they put in. Every word has meaning and a reason for being there. I am sure you could take almost any novel ever written and reduce it down to a 10th of it's original size and not lose any of its plot, but it would not be a good book to read.

Of course, it is your time and you can read or not read a book any way that pleases you, I just do not see the point in skimming it.
My 10 year old spends all of his free time on the cubeville server. It's incredible the things they've built there: http://www.cubeville.org/map/
Smaller congressional districts could also help decrease the effect of gerrymandering.

This is interesting.

On the other hand, will we make ourselves even more vulnerable to "grassroots campaigns" like the tea party and lobbies like Alec?

I'm not an expert but there are mathematically and sociologically sound alternatives that are better than what you and I can prescribe. I'd prefer one of those.
Strangely, I found myself less likely to believe this research, just because one of the quoted scientists was a "Sir".

In that sceptical light, I'm still not sure whether the science is really decisive. It seems like that "meat causes cancer" thing (yes it definately does, to a degree that's not particularly worrying in the big scheme of things) combined with governtment requirement to have some kind of science to back up their drug policies, when most of their own scientists think they're absurd and counterproductive.
You may be thinking of http://www.datomic.com/ a product by Cognitect where Rich Hickey works.
However the Clojure data structures also have the time dimension in the context of the language's immutable structures but it is not something you typically concern yourself with too much.
Any comments on how your product and plans compare to https://sourcegraph.com/?

They seem to have a similar offering with an on-premise version, though lacking the smooth editor integration.
to be more clear on this,
i've skipped classes ever since high school started, this was due to being introduced to a computer at young age and having access to the internet - i was amazed by the world and got to see the "oh what the hell this is vile" stuff; it's difficult to fit in my classes.
my parents didn't care what i did on there because they had to focus on their job.
my mother was, and still is, kind about this. she probably knows the horrors i've seen.

so, uh, i guess, i agree with this article even though this applies on where you're from.
there are no "smart kids", though, because, imo, everyone is smart.
Ironically, this point is addressed in the article. Maybe you didn't see it. :) Here it is:

There is only a small area in the retina (called the fovea) for which our visual acuity is very high. Our eyes are seriously limited in their precision outside of that. This means that we can take in only a word or so at each glance, as well as a little bit about the words on either side. In fact, since the 1960s, experiments have repeatedly confirmed that when people “speed read,” they simply do not comprehend the parts of the text that their eyes skip over.
The "sets instead of loops" one makes me think of Ruby, where operations on sets are a basic part of the philosophy in a way they aren't in a bunch of languages.

Even the basic "do this 5 times" is expressed in the same way as a set comprehension:

this_set_of_items.each do |item|
puts "hey, look at #{item}"
end

5.times do |index|
puts "look, a line!"
end
You mean because the people who were running Microsoft PR for most of its history are out and a dramatically different commercial message is now set ?
Easier in the sense that every citizen should be able to contribute more, and that can also be achieved through public funding.

But not easier in the sense that anyone can donate an infinite amount directly to the campaign. That just skews the system in the favor of a few donors (as it already has to a great degree).

We need the "money vote" to be "equalized" among people, just like the ballot vote is. One person shouldn't be able to donate $10 million, when 90% of the others can only donate up to $100 in a campaign. Then it just becomes inevitable that the candidate listens to the people donating $10 million, rather than those donating $100 (even if there are many more of them).
How do you clean the queue table?

Do you use SKIP LOCKED introduced in PostgreSQL 9.5?
Why does one provider get a privileged relationship with the maintainer? I'm surprised that in all those industries there was never a complete division of control.
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Thanks guys! Means a lot but still a long way to go! :)
A lot of people seem to think that banning lobbying will make things better. But looking at campaign finance in India - where lobbying is illegal - the big problem is that all of this gets pushed underground. And what gets formed is this dirty nexus between criminals, politicians and businessmen. It gets worse because extortion is used as a measure by criminals to fund political campaigns (P.S. is this the reason for the tacit acceptance of the Yakuza in Japan..another place with no lobbies?).

Campaign finance needs to be more transparent... But the lobbying process in the US is already aspirational for me.
The problem with having large electorates is you still need a lot of money for advertising. By making the electorates small you basically can campaign by visiting and speaking to every person in the electorate. Get rid of the need for expensive advertising and you get rid of the need to raise money.

I do agree that there are much better voting systems then simple majorities - I like instant runoffs.
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I would never want to "speed read" a novel, or anything else I was reading for enjoyment or enrichment. There are times, however, when I found "speed reading" for rapid content absorption not only desirable, but necessary. When I was in graduate school I would often be assigned voluminous amounts of text on a weekly basis, in several classes. Much of this assigned reading was not particularly interesting or enlightening, yet it composed of hundreds of pages per week in each class. It certainly isn't something you want do to all the time, but speed reading does have its place.
There is significant lattency in digital videos streams and also the render pipe. I don't know how they stream video but it can't be mpeg.

Even with compressed independent frames that never spend on future frames you get the transfer window lattency so you need a lot of unjammable bandwidth. Line of sight transmitters? Ir lasers? Kind of a hard problem though as you might possibly want to not light up the whole country with your communications.

And commodity hardware can't push frames without a lot of buffering. I guess they might afford custom display hardware but it's a complex problem too.

I guess it would be easier to just send the coordinates where you want everything dead and get the popcorns. Bonus extra is everything that actually is a threat but I doubt that it's a actually a big concern when doing CAS, although I guess a A10 pilot might be able to spot schoolyards and kids if they are not under pressure.
I'd prefer if the lawmakers were only informed through public hearings. That's already how it happens in other countries where lobbying is illegal.

Public hearings are public, recorded, and there are voices from multiple camps speaking out about an issue, and given equal time to do it.

Lobbying happens in back rooms, and it's only one person talking at a time making their point. Registering lobbyists and saying when they talk to politicians won't help much if we also don't know what they're telling the politicians or if other voices don't get equal time to speak to those politicians.

When SOPA was about to pass, one politician ignorantly said that "the People" should just get their own lobbyists. Yeah, except the people can't afford to get a lobbyist for every issue. They can afford to participate in a public hearing.
true in the way that "you should watch out for these issues when you deploy Docker to production"?

the creator himself and everyone agree that containers are a way forward, but you can't just jump on them and expect magic to happen.

I think the main reason for a lack of comments is the usage of a controversial historical figure... (at least, that's why it can't be pushed through official channels)
It depends on the density of the information doesn't it? I would certainly agree that many, if not, most podcasts could be listened to at double speed or higher and still be understood. However if the podcast is about a detailed analysis of how string theory explains quantum gravity effects, then I highly doubt one could listen to it at double speed and retain much understanding.
Amusingly, like a much more advanced version of the super mario cloud/bush pallet swap

http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/tod...
On the flip side, you're not any safer putting drones up against jamming technology, like GPS jammers and so on. China proved that tech when they put one of our stealth drones down in Iranian territory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...

There's certainly a middle ground between blowing up dudes with rusty AKs and fighting high-level proxy wars but honestly that barrier is paper-thin, nations like Russia and China will always be escalating that. It's always an arms race. Drones can react faster (for now) but humans can react appropriately.
If you are in a hurry, have don't much time to read novels or book you want to read. You should focus on speed reading.

There are free speed reading software available on the internet which you can use to improve your reading speed.

I would like to recommend spreeder.com
There are defiantly better voting systems than first past the post (I have a soft spot for instant run offs), but having smaller congressional districts should make the system more resistant to lobby groups. The campaign process would move to a more personal reputation based system where the representatives know most of the voters in their district. You might get extreme candidates in some districts, but they would be a small minority without much power at the congress level.
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I dropped out of high school to go to MIT early, then dropped out of MIT to do a startup, and never bothered submitting the class transcripts to my high school for the gym and English classes I needed to get a diploma, so technically: "highest level of education completed: middle school."
Add a gif/webm of it in action to your readme. That will make it a lot easier and nicer to see what it's doing.
> If the African or Latin American country has a good diplomatic standing,

That would just highlight the hypocritical nature of the law. Laws should be about justice; either some deed is damaging to some person/group/society or not. Whether I like the offender or victim, or not, is not a part of the equation. If it is, the law is not a just law, it is something to beat the opponents with.

Such laws could be expected in dictatorships, but not in a supposedly democratic country.
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No, Hydrogen is not a jupyter notebook replacement, it cannot open .ipynb files
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You're looking in /etc/rc.conf instead of /etc/defaults/rc.conf
The current wording of the bill states that you have to hand over the keys to data you have encrypted.

If the provider doesn't encrypt anything (which is the case with end-to-end encryption), then it doesn't have to hand over anything.
It sounds very like array programming, eg APL and it's derivatives
The USAF does not fly the AC208 or the Super Tucano in combat. There is no prize for hypothetical savings.

I would love to see such airframes flown, they would be much more effective in many roles than "super-airframes" like the F-35. But that's not the US military philosophy. We fly the best and most expensive, even if it's 10x as expensive as an airframe that's 75% as effective. It's a calculation that government debt is cheaper than having to face the public over killed and captured soldiers.
Star Division was bought by Sun Microsystems (later bought by Oracle). I was there, then.

That's the original reason we have Oracle OpenOffice: Open Office part derived from Sun's OpenOffice; the Oracle part the reason for the split between LibreOffice and OpenOffice. ;-)
You have to get a bit more creative here. I'm having success with cold e-mailing early founders who are not looking for data scientists then tell them what data science can do for them.

Or apply to their "full stack web developer that is really just frontend" jobs and then be so good that they can't refuse.

There are not enough remote data science jobs to build a board around them. If you want one, you pretty much have to create your own job.
There's all kinds of different... "textures" of information.

Some things are extremely thick with information. Every few sentences, I might need to pause and think through all the implications and realizations that are revealed to me. In audio form, I'm rewinding or pausing, and consuming at <1x speed.

Other sources might spread the important details and facts around. I'm better served by speedreading / skimming / playing back at (>?)2x speed. This strains my short term memory less, letting me assemble the important bits into a broader, deeper understanding of the material, that can contextualize all those snippets in a way that makes it easier to commit to long term memory.

This can happen even with information dense material, in which case I'm better served by repeatedly skimming, than trying to do a single solid readthrough once.

And then there's the stuff that wasn't even worth skimming through once.
I think your explanation does miss some additional nuance though.

> The problem is that this arrangement would have businesses paying money to ISPs that they didn't choose, and can't walk away from. From a consumer's perspective, if a web site is slow, it looks like the website's fault rather than their ISP's fault, which distorts the incentives.

If a website is using significant resources, it shouldn't be on the ISP to subsidize their engineering. There have been plenty of websites throughout history that took up significant amounts of traffic relative to the total traffic. They always paid for leased lines (your third diagram) -- it's only recently that one very well liked company running almost entirely off Amazon decided that leased lines were extortion. If you compare the physical infrastructure of Google's YouTube or MLB.tv to Netflix, the difference is huge.

Also, money doesn't always flow like that. If data is flowing equally (in bit-miles), there is generally no exchange of money. If it's not, money should flow the other way. Many of those backbone providers also were in the business-ISP market, and were leveraging their settlement free peering for more competitive pricing. When video streaming caused them to be pushing more data onto the networks than they were taking - the consumer ISPs wanted to be paid since it was no longer qualifying for settlement free.
Perhaps this depends on the speed of your brain? You know, different people score differently on IQ tests. For example, some score 140 while others score 70. I read (in the book IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen, I think) that what an IQ test basically does, is measuring the speed of your brain.

So I guess intelligent people will be able to understand everything on 2x while dumb ones may not.
Even more fascinating when you realise that economically that era went down in history as ”Japan's lost decade” (which turned out to be rather optimistic, because we now need to number them).
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I'm going to extrapolate a theory based on the following premise: unused memories fade.

- The things you learn in elementary school are very fundamental and you probably use them often.

- High school branches off from the fundamentals; I got straight A's in geometry, algebra, and calculus, yet I remember very little of them. I do remember everything I ever learned in my two CS classes (I am a programmer now).

- The important thing about high school is not what you learn, but that it becomes possible for you to learn what you want/like to learn and do.
"Making a plan" is not something that can be objectively defined and so has a chilling effect on free speech.
I hope this is more reliable than the previous system. I signed up for two step authentication... worked only once! The rest of the times the text message just never came through. I double checked my phone number, I even looked at their status page. nothing :(

just my experience.
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I like the idea. My fear is that a lot of the legislation may not directly affect people in my district but I'm supposed to vote on them as well.

Also I'm not very familiar with the work of committees. Would they grow larger? Would they become even more powerful and stay the same size?
What are your thoughts on programmer/technologist professionalization?
Why not do what is done in the UK and put spending limits in place?
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Unfortunately, there are no fixed rate mortgages available in the UK. The second part I agree with, the interest is cheaper than rent, but the mortgage isn't.
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But they'll never learn. The folly of those who think they can engineer a perfect society is boundless. "If only there was a rule..."
This is cool!
If you could make it possible to specify host, then it would possible to use this to upload directly to CephFS via Rados Gateway's S3 API.
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Removing net neutrality is like allowing supermarkets to buy separate lanes on crowded city roads exclusively for use by their customers.
I have a growing impression that big tech players have developed a cooperative strategy and coordinate their moves to protect users' data in the cloud. And that movement has no altruistic or politic roots but strong economic ones. They just HAVE to ward off any needle threatening to stick the cloud bubble they made huge bets on.

And this is good for the public.
https://xkcd.com/1263/
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I use it to control my Marantz audio receiver.
Anglican dev here.

Systems like Anglican perform Bayesian inference in user-defined models, which are expressed as programs in a general-purpose language – in our case a subset of Clojure. An inference back end then implements a number of generic sampling-based algorithms like Metropolis-Hastings, sequential Monte Carlo and black box variational inference.

From the description, PAMELA provides a probabilistic version of a process modeling language. This is a concept that I'm personally not familiar with, but the intended use case appears to be the modeling of control systems, where inference is performed over some form of latent states in the control process:

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/ddamba/publications/RMPL.pdf

I'd be interested to hear from one of the devs!
This just looks like a job board with ads for companies. Of course they are going say that they take diversity seriously. What have you done to curate this site? I expected to see some sort of data about the companies.
Give them to the Army Air Corps. The pilots need to work more closely with soldiers on the ground than other pilots or air control, and the army are the last people who want to see these planes go.

Then the Air Force Generals can get stars in their eyes about fast jets and stealthy bombers without the hassle of a little flying tank.
I like the idea. One thing though, this won't work unless people vote. A major reason the system doesn't work well today is because only the most extreme voters turn out for primaries. Even if you reduce gerrymandering, it's hard to eliminate entirely.

On the other hand, in smaller districts the electorate will be more likely to share opinions and interests so maybe that counteracts the problem?
so representative, just not of opinions you differ with ?
Because ultimately a spending limit boils down to "you're not allowed to air this film" because you already spent too much. In fact, that's exactly what the Citizens United case was. We have a Bill of Rights which guarantees that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, the right of the people to peaceably assemble, or the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
>It would be much better to ban all lobbying, so each candidate would only have a very small amount o fmoney to spend on elections, and people would be less manipulated into voting them.

I can make up my own mind for who to vote for. I don't need or want anyone to protect me from persuasion. I can't think of an idea more insidious to a free society, that the government needs to control the expression of ideas to protect people from "manipulation".
It's probably not here yet since most of the apps focus on gaming, but TiltBrush hints at it: http://www.tiltbrush.com/
I would be surprised if either AutoDesk or Adobe don't already have something in the pipeline.

Of course, most things that you can do in VR, you can most likely do in AR as well minus some immersion.
You mean, in the same way that Elton John is not a real musician because he too is a Sir? It's a strange argument.