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> One reason I hope the tablet market grows to where it can influence the overall Android market is that tablets do not need carrier approval for updates.

Phones don't need it either.
> For group messaging, are all of your friends still using iMessage instead of cross platform things like Telegram, WhatsApp, Hangouts, Discord, etc? If so, why?

It's not surprising that people use what comes on their phone and computer by default.
There's something I never understood though. Technically there's always a side of the Earth that is under the Sun, so why can't countries make some sort of equal-sharing energy agreement to avoid needing batteries, if not at all at least hugely decreas the need for them? So that when it's night on one side of the Earth, everything just runs off the surplus on the other side?

Is it just too hard to move electricity so far away?
Do you have some source for the best way to help people recover from trauma? I have no idea how to do it, but I would be surprised if Dr. Phil style "throw them into the deep end until they get over it" is really the best way.
>Adding transmission is a non-trivial investment.

Non-trivial in terms of size and politics, but an extremely solid one that will reduce the cost of electricity.
Say what you want about DRM, but at least in the audio world, the best software is still DRMed, even after more than a decade of horror stories.

In 1999 I reviewed the Waves (http://www.waves.com/) Native Gold audio plugin bundle on the old ProRec.com. This software was protected by PACE AP DRM software (https://paceap.com/).

The thing about Waves is that it's a staple in the audio world and had already become a staple by 1999. Everyone uses Waves plugs. So Waves had a fairly inelastic demand function, but a small overall market. Enter DRM.

The hateful anti-piracy software they used had some process that snooped around in memory, and if it found anything that it didn't like, it just warm-rebooted the computer.

You'd be recording a vocal take, and BAM! the screen would go black, there'd be a beep, then the BIOS screen, and here comes Windows. No warning, no option to save, nothing. Recording session lost, files left open, disk state inconsistent.

This is unacceptable even once, but the frequency of these intentional crashes was horrifying. In a normal day of use the workstation might crash 20 times or more, typically with some sort of consequential damage (lost work, lost files, corrupted disks, etc). Waves was unable to address the problem successfully for more than a year. Lots of professional workstations were affected, and a lot of customers were very angry.

Nobody wanted to see Waves go under: everyone LOVED the products and wanted to continue to support development. But at the same time nobody could afford to install what amounted to horrible malware on their production workstations.

So the pro audio community had simply evolved a workaround: buy the licensed software, but run the pirated software. Because the pirated software, lacking PACE AP, was perfectly stable.

To this day, most good products in the pro audio community have DRM - many of them still run PACE software. Fortunately, problems are less horrific these days, but everyone in the industry knows the pain of showing up at a session without your Pro Tools dongle, or being at a gig and needing to reinstall a plugin, and there's no internet at the gig with which to validate your license.

TL;DR it amazes me how much pain customers are willing to endure
I feel the author makes a lot of very incorrect assumptions about what the consumer thinks about their phone operation system version. As stated here already it is really the fault of OEM/Carrier as to why a new OS has a poor adoption rate and as such adoption rate is no real indicator of customer satisfaction or mentality. I really wonder how the author came to these misguided conclusions.
Mobile MVPs done by lone developers on a contract basis should be about getting something palatable and pleasant that works, not drop shadows and exacting transparency effects. Save that for a second version or when you have enough of a budget to get a designer that knows her way around interface builder. Getting too caught up in making a MVP pixel perfect is a cause of failure for both client and developer.
> Where did you go to college?

I went to New York University.

> Also, I did IB too, and anecdotally I think it's dramatically easier than the French high school diploma.

French exams are notorious for their grading. That doesn't mean the education actually includes greater depth. Anecdotally, my friends who went through the French education system have a keen appreciation for difficult exams but aren't any more knowledgeable than me.

I don't think you could convincingly argue that an IB-level of education isn't a "functioning" education system though.

After all, even in France you do in fact have higher education beyond high school.
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> Literally who?

Funnily enough, the same thing that they asked when SpaceX approached them.
One or two blocks is 10 or 20 minutes, no? That's not going to make you popular. Maybe bitcoin can replace coupons and travellers' cheques, but that's not a very big market compared to cash and cards.
Hello,

I will try a bot as a/this weekend project.

However my first chat with Poncho was not too great : http://imgur.com/S4iJsw3
No way they will be able to plan, make, and test any interesting instruments if they start now. With the proposed time line it is guaranteed to be a pure put trash on Mars mission.
I agree with you, but, then again, saving money "under the mattress" or a high saving rate is usually frowned upon in the economic press.
Is there a generic way to kill the function every website that ever tries to do this to me?
Not sure if you're considering this or not but there are two sizes of watch so at least screen size is different. Which is pretty much inline with the differences between MacBook Pros and iPhones where screen size is the main delimiter.
> My machine is my own. If I wish to grant other users access to the machine or data on it, cool. That's my choice. If I buy a program to do a task, good. When your program starts taking orders from "nameless faceless someone else", we have problems.

And the content you are streaming through 'nameless faceless someone else' is not your own. You pay to get access to it. Are you saying that because you install a program on your machine, you should have complete control over what it can and can't do to the content it provides?
Should you move your blog to Medium or Facebook?
Bloomberg News reports[1] that David Keith, a Harvard professor of applied physics and public policy, used to be a solar power skeptic but has reexamined the economics of current solar power and now expects solar power to be important because the economics have changed.

Professor Keith's recent essay on solar power, "Cheap Solar Power,"[2] shows the facts and calculations to explain why solar power now beats several other sources of primary electricity for many applications. It is very likely that many industries will move to places where solar power is especially abundant and inexpensive.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-04/harvard-sc...

[2] http://www.keith.seas.harvard.edu/blog-1/cheapsolarpower
So you are saying run a power line across the ocean, so the US can power Europe and Vice Versa?

Maintaining fiber optic cables can be hard across the ocean. How about a power line that has a diameter of 50 feet? I can't even imagine the engineering of that.

Info on losses here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Lo...

No idea on the math for what % of power we would lose across the ocean.

Seems local batteries would win out..
Yeah, this is basically why passive is great. People say hedge funds are good in a downturn, but the odds of a downturn in any given year are not actually that high.
Covariance with Smart Pointers
Ok, so I agree with you that ping pong isn't a replacement for a salary, benefits, or interesting problems. I'm also sure this is a straw man.
An interesting thing here is the source repositories. Sources are Markdown + YAML frontmatter, as many of the static generators use nowadays, but particularly given the source repositories are hosted on GitHub it's hard not to notice the Jekyll similarities.
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>There were expert systems that worked well and they became profitable businesses, but othervice there was little to show.

One could similarly say about our time: "there were neural network applications that worked well, but otherwise there was little to show". What is the fundamental difference between what is going on now and what was happening before the previous AI winter?

I feel that people constantly misrepresent how impressive expert systems seemed back in their heyday. They had a lot of practical applications and they could do some very cool tricks.

Interestingly, the highly impressive accomplishments of SVMs, random forests and boosting went mostly unnoticed, precisely because of the AI Winter.
Yes, it's very difficult to move electricity far distances. I believe it has to do with the natural resistance of copper. While its quite low, it's not zero and it adds up over hundreds of miles of copper. IANAE so anyone feel free to correct me on that
> After all, even in France you do in fact have higher education beyond high school.

That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about broad "liberal arts" curricula that touch on a variety of subjects. In France, it would be very unusual for a math student in university to take classes on philosophy, literature, etc. (ok, maybe some easy English classes for practical reasons, but that's it)

Yes I of course agree that high school doesn't teach you everything you need to know about your topic of specialization. But a good high school education in advanced European countries is basically comparable to undergrad liberal arts/distribution requirements at average American universities.

BTW, NYU is not typical; it's an elite school. You can't compare your experience there to typical colleges in the US.
you are doing excellent work. you should totally join hands with the OP and make something great!!
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Well I can't say I disagree :-)

The more damning thing are the statistics. One of the great things about advertising on the Internet is you get lots and lots of feedback on how much "work" your ad has done (nominally page views and clicks) and you can compare your sales before and after advertising to understand how valuable it is to you. But chart 6 (https://kalkis-research.com/imagecache/532f1ae2393a0502f601a...) is the bottom line. If advertising more doesn't get you more sales, then you won't use it. And that means Internet advertising has to change.
I did IB. It's the best you are going to get in the US. What are your reservations?
Exactly what, do you imagine, Linux could do to make urandom less secure? I'm sorry, but the word for that concern is "nonsensical". Linus Torvalds has world-shattering conniption fits when developers make changes that hurt performance. Can you imagine breaking every one of the many security applications --- for instance, every Go program ever written --- that depend on urandom?

No, that is not a legitimate concern.
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I can tell you as an American, that after a while you get used to the feeling of a huge national deficit and multi-trillion dollar debt. It becomes something like a warm blanket of guilt that helps you sleep at night.
Ray Kurzweil, perhaps.
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In my experience, it's excellent. I definitely found my IB classes a lot more intellectually challenging and invigorating than my AP classes. The curriculum is well-rounded and in-depth. Plus, the requirement of choosing only 4 HLs provides an automatic defense against excessive commitments.

I'm not sure how generalizable my experience is though. My AP classes were at a normal public high school while my IB classes were at an elite boarding school. I will say that the exams are definitely much better for the IB (they're much more detailed and require actual understanding rather than rote memorization).
It goes against the Linux kernel documentation, yes. As has been pointed out to them, it doesn't go against the documentation on OS X or any of the BSDs. But they engage in the same behavior on those systems.
You require rights holders to place the DRM key in escrow with the copyright office.
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Look up High Voltage DC. Answer - It is hard - but not insurmountable. Technology and financing is readily available. It's lack of will, vision and integrating policies across national boundaries that's the problem.

“Let’s Build a Global Power Grid - IEEE Spectrum”

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/lets-build-...
well, the same thing happens when people would like to discuss alternative theories to the causes of climate change. The BBC, for instance, outright bans anyone that talks about it (and so do many other forums), which is outright censorship.

We should be fighting for the freedom to discuss any topic, not just a select few that matches up with the current narrative.
The physics don't make sense for that one. Simple back of the envelope example: How much mass does a train need and/or how far does it need to fall to provide the same kinetic energy as a lake?

We have a pumped hydro solution where I live. It's huge and only supplements a small power plant.
Then their DRM isn't up to the task of protecting their stuff, and that's their fault. They were the ones that decided to put it there.
What Google knows about you, or Facebook for the matter or any other buyer, can be used for targeting and as user features in the ML model which is used to determine the price the buyer is willing to pay for a given impression in the auction.

Most advanced buyers with actual ML in their buying algorithms do this. But ML works in statistical averages on the behavior seen across all users visiting a particular site. At that point the buying process works by figuring out the expected value of a new impression and bids that value, the expected value depends on how the advertiser values clicks or conversions or impressions, so as long as the cost of the impression is lower than the marginal value an algorithm will continue to bid, and potentially win, because it's worth it.

And you can do all the A/B tests you want and you'll see that this is actually true, capping frequency. or choosing to not show an ad because the position on the site is not great, is not a good idea, the right process is to determine a price that, all things considered, is the maximum price (proxy for value and risk) you are willing to pay to be shown in that bad slot that adds marginal value for the advertiser, and marginal value is measured however the advertiser wants.
> The opportunity cost.

With respect to the original article, yes absolutely.

I was responding to the parent comment who described people 'no better off' for knowing versus not knowing.
"Unless Google is going to unveil some new mechanism for updating Android - which would essentially mean taking it out of the hands of the hardware OEMs and carriers"

Arguably this already happened, depending on who you ask. Google moved all? of the high level APIs into the Google Play Services Library, which google can update whenever they want, they can even enable / disable APIs as they see fit (for example, google wallet if it detects you're on a canadian carrier)

Now the only reason to buy a new phone is if you want a new phone, otherwise all your apps will work regardless of what phone / what version of the OS you have.
The proposed change --- unify urandom/random and permanently lose blocking behavior --- can't possibly break userland. There is no way to write a program that depends on /dev/random blocking, because it does so at random.
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I think you are forgetting that the earth is big. Running power lines big enough to power half of the planet thousands of miles across the ocean will be very difficult.
Then we'lll go back to watching TV, or playing smartphone games. Most publishers satisfy the problem of boredom in the office place. They don't provide anything that is critical/unique.

Publishers writing content 'for free' and trying to push ads to you is like a wealthy man throwing money off a bridge, and scolding at us for not praising him in return. We never demanded it from him, it was just thrown at us.
Its crazy that people think that throwing out documented statistics and facts is brainwashing.

I hate tinfoil hat conspiracies. Its starting to plague society and get people disconnected from problems that need immediate attention.

Its good you dropped the subject, there's just no reasoning with them.
That is total rubbish.

I never had a problem with any of them.

Shugo is one of the coolest people about, similar to matz and nobu.

It may be because you don't have anything meaningful to suggest or because the way you word your suggestion in a way that is not ruby-esque.

The Ruby core team does not "lack" any of what you insinuate. And your ad hominem attempt to claim that something horrible must have happened - dude, stop with it.

Something horrible must have happened to you. Were you an unwanted child?

"All they need to do is listen and consider, but they don't, really."

And they do. Testimonies to this are countless other suggestions that were made.

I have been using ruby since about 13 years. As a language, ruby is awesome.

Perhaps go to the php bugtracker and ask them what kind of problems they had in their childhood or something?
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>Sure they had time, but the request was physically impossible. What is supposed to happen if a judge demands a picture of you eating breakfast 8 days ago?

You go to court and explain it's impossible. Sticking your fingers in your ears and singing is a poor strategy and deserves to be punished.
You cannot steal bitcoins from an address that's never been spent, since you only know the hash of the public key.

There are about 2^256/2^160=2^96 possible full public keys mapping to the known key hash, so you could run Grover's algorithm to recover one in about sqrt(2^96)=2^48 steps,
but given the slow cycle time of quantum computers, that's still going to be infeasible for a long time.

This is why address re-use is not recommended...
ImageMagick code execution exploit in one tweet
I agree. Bringing some funky extreme non-linearity into A.I training would be interesting. However, the models would probably be very different than what we have today.

Who else are truly building quantum computers other than D-Wave and IBM?
Are internet comments controlling your thoughts?
Ah, I now realize what stupid assumptions my question had!
To try it out, install then imagine you're planning a trip to somewhere - e.g., type "Things to do in Paris" into Google then check how it organizes the information for you. Feedback most welcome!
> it is way easier to go to college and get a formal education in science, math, or engineering, and pursue an ongoing adhoc self-directed education in the arts and humanities in your remaining decades of life, than the other way around.

This isn't really true. You can't really have any kind of art career, for example, if you don't go to art school. Meanwhile, tons of companies will happily hire whatever chumps code bootcamps are churning out.
From the Professor Damodaran's historical returns link:

From 1928-2015, of the 88 years, 24 were down years.
Probability of a down year is 27%
I wouldn't be surprised if the author confused gas tank and tank.

> Oh, and for even more money on top of all that, special battery and tank protection can be fitted.
> of course limited by laws prohibiting libel, Holocaust denial etc).

And here we see the really tricky cultural clash problem. Some Americans and most Europeans will say that there are obvious limits to free speech - holocaust denial, hate speech, fighting words, etc. But there's a sizable number of Americans (and probably a smaller number of Europeans) who'll say there should be almost no limits to freedom of speech. (Maybe a ban on distributing images of child sexual abuse, but just about everything else is fair game).

Here's an English politician - Luciana Berger, showing a sample of the anti-semitic hate speech she regularly receives. Some people say that's clearly not acceptable and that Twitter should ban those users (I tend to agree with them).

But a sizable number of people say it's fair enough - she's a politician, she's in the public eye, she can just block those users herself, she should put up with it, she should grow a thicker skin, etc.

https://twitter.com/lucianaberger/status/725635171295330304/...

Working out which laws are useful to follow, and which are probably a bit too restrictive, would probably be helpful.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-emirates-court-idUSKCN0PA1...

Or insult my old employer, even if I'm not in the country when I do so?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/uniteda...
''After the 28nm node, we can continue to make transistors smaller, but not cheaper.''
As computer vision and reinforcement learning improved dramatically in the last few years, robots will take over a lot of manufacturing jobs of humans, so as long as there's enough demand to finance robot developments and there's no serious material shortage, I don't see why the cost could not go down to the cost of the material itself + development cost + robot cost in the following years.
That's true. While I understand the carrier channel and why it works the way it does, I'm baffled as to why customers put up with it. You get a phone laden with both the OEM and carrier's spyware, that will lag system updates somewhere in the range of 9 months to never... Why buy that crap?

If Google deserves criticism it's for not pushing harder and more consistently on initiatives like Google Play Edition and Android One.
That works for restauraunts as well.
The average in-state tuition & fees at a public university in the USA is $9,410/year, ranging between $4,890 and $15,160 [1].

Unless otherwise specified, US publications tend to assume "college" = 4 year bachelor's degree.

[1] http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-table...
Hopefully some day US scientists will be granted the same freedom to discuss their research.