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There is one paper worth reading, I was able to retrieve it from sci-hub:

http://sci-hub.bz/10.1146/annurev-polisci-100711-135308

tl;dr The most effective lobbying groups are typically supported is heads of large organizations acting independently of the rest of the organization or actual people. Estimating effectiveness has challenges in an empirical study but here are our attempts anyway.

There is another paper that shows the outcomes of public policy issues that stirred public interest. I want to find that one.
Its a scam

We have brilliant entrepreneur coming up with revolutionary idea no one had before(lol), sleek renders and good looking models, price point already set, all that and ... absolutely ZERO tech behind it.

lets set so double the killer delete select all
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WebMD talks about breastfeeding vs formula.

Their listed benefits of breastfeeding include resisting illness, lower % of SIDS, a correlation to higher cognitive function, and lower occurrence of other diseases. They then list benefits of formula, which all amount to convenience for the parents. Then they say don't feel guilty either way.

The higher correlations to health benefits are the closest to birth, with nearly all sources recommending breastfeeding for at least the 1st six months, if possible.

I don't know. If I was confident I wasn't exposed (the article said they were very careful, and were certain it was a false positive), I might go with breastfeeding in that case as well.

http://www.webmd.com/baby/breastfeeding-vs-formula-feeding
I agree and I'm also curious how someone would integrate all the React ecosystem into an already exiting app (Rails specifically). Starting a new project is easy, rewriting one is a huge challenge.
As a (primarily) iOS developer by trade, I feel your pain. There are colocation operations that seem to do well. They involve racks and racks of Mac minis hanging out in a datacenter somewhere -- since it's Apple hardware, it's totally acceptable within OS X licensing terms. It costs more, of course, but it might be a valuable investment to an operation that relies on a volume of machines to be available and shareable while staving off concerns about wear and tear.

The standard, and original, is: https://macminicolo.net

I'm sure there are others.
No glue according to this source: http://www.paperonweb.com/A1010.htm
This is just one of many indicators that Edward Snowden is right about the importance of privacy in this day and age. With so much of our lives online, and the ability of technology to interpret that information, allowing spying agencies free pass to all your online data, is the equivalent of making it legal for them to install camera's in every room in your house and office.

There needs to be strong privacy rules and transparency on what degree spying agencies access data about random citizens.

We can not leave it completely to technology to solve this issue for us because regular users will never have the competency to understand how to secure their digital presence.
Who needs face recognition? Metadata is enough to kill

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-based...
> The issue was the way they treated here AFTER the two known-to-be-spurious tests

The tests were not known to be spurious by the hospital.

> neither of which were blood draws which are vastly more accurate.

Blood draws tests are also much longer (that's the 2~3 weeks test whose results they got afterwards).

> I wouldn't ask for a huge payday

Not that you'd get any even if you did.

> at the very least that they clean up their testing procedures and follow protocols.

Is there any protocol you know them to not have followed?

Keeping in mind that the one account we have is the one-sided version of the parents, consider the hospital's point of view: what they have is an expectant mother who has twice failed a drug test and thus a NAS risk, a nearly DOA newborn from emergency C-section and the possibly drug-addicted mother thereafter insists on breastfeeding.
Here's an experienced C programmer and fan telling you a list of ways Fortran is higher-level and superior to C for numeric programming:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/ch1-2.html
I'm impressed by the effort he put into this.

But I can't find anything older then 2002. I mean the most interesting times where anything before, especially the 80s & 90s. Did I miss something or this this just a huge load of more or less modern mix tapes leaving out all the old gold nuggets from the good times ?

I understand that these tapes are scraped from torrents which might be the reason that most analogue cassettes are missing or maybe the very old tapes are burried in the rest of the upload queue?

I'm currently looking at this ordered version:
https://archive.org/details/hiphopmixtapes?&sort=date
Just to put it in perspective, $50B/year is approximately one-third of what the US Military (all branches combined) spends on salary for its 3.2 million employees. It is approximately half of what China spends on its entire military, including weapon systems, procurement, etc.
It is 0.27% of US GDP.

We live in an era of inflated asset values. $50B/year is NOT chump change when it comes to actual deployed capital flows.
Maybe they are using Google translate and Google speach api?
> The other angle to consider is that tracks very likely won't be singular. The tubes are light by infrastructure standards, you could pack two for each direction onto a route without dramatically increasing pylon costs.

This observation fails to take into account real-world requirements of building this sort of infrastructure. Pylon costs (queue the starcraft references) are irrelevant. The relevant bit is building all the tunnels, bridges, and earthworks required to get a smooth-enough train route that is able to safely support the track, provide a safe ride at Hyperloop's projected speeds, provide a conformable ride, and do it all in cost-effective an easy to maintain technology.

In high-speed railway, track defects are measured in wavelengths of fractions of a milimeter in amplitude and periods of 6 to 10 to 50 meters. If you increase the speed, either the limit for the wavelength period increases or the amplitude limits need to be further reduced. Setting up a 200-meter track segment with a sub-milimeter tolerance limit isn't cheap.
Cool. Can anyone tell me what keywords may be useful in exploring this topic? Textbooks?
It's almost comic how uninformed sci-fi authors can be. For example, in classic movies, robots had excellent reasoning capabilities but they couldn't speak but in a tin-voice. Well, speech synthesis is solved to a high degree. My laptop speaks better than those mastermind robots did.

In this novel, the protagonist is uploaded, but then, all he can do is think. He cannot feel anything, no sensations. Why? Computer vision rivals human vision, and in some cases surpasses it. I don't see vision or other senses being hard to implement. The hard part is reasoning and dialogue.

An uploaded mind would be capable of many things, like getting new senses, living in a virtual world or being embodied in a robotic avatar, creating many copies of himself, creating modified versions of himself (without some memories, or different traits), accessing instantly other minds or archives of information, suspending himself for travel in space or time, creating an automatic "restore from backup" system in case of accidental death, or becoming a part of a collective consciousness.
What linter are you using? ESLint handles JSX fine as far as I know. And with eslint-plugin-react it actually does some pretty neat validation on it as well.

I will say that I initially disliked the inline markup as well, but it honestly just makes practical sense. When we used Handlebars still, I always had the template open in a split when I was editing a view anyway, why not just keep it all as one contained unit?
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I would say programming requires either natural talent or passion. Even so with natural talent and without passion the chances of burnout in programming are high.

I believe that talent can be learnt through hard work and an individual is only likely to give forward the amount of hard work needed if they are passionate about it. Also, by hard work I mean coding on your own time, either for work or personal projects.

If I didn't have a passion for software development, I would have stayed in the investment industry where the work is significantly less challenging and the pay is also higher.
Reminds of the work Ken Brakke has done with his Surface Evolver [0]. It's ancient, and it parses files written in it's own weird ini-like language [1] (seriously!?). If only it exposed a decent API (which would lend itself to e.g a python wrapper), it'd be the easiest thing on earth to use.

[0] http://facstaff.susqu.edu/brakke/evolver/evolver.html
[1] http://facstaff.susqu.edu/brakke/evolver/html/datafile.htm
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No, I really am saying electronic voting is fundamentally a bad idea, hence the the video explaining why.
I think exactly the opposite is true. "Personal spamming" will probably help you. Spread your photo as much as possible, all with different names and profiles :-)
If you have a kid its one of the most terrifying things on the planet. I am a father and I can't even imagine a mom with all those hormones going and someone saying that to her.
I can understand your cynicism but I think this kind of product is possible. Maybe not perfect, but that the our consumer technology is already mostly there albeit not unified just yet. I'll explain by addressing some of your concerns:

> "Both voice recognition and translation are HARD problems, for which even companies with tons of resources and talent like Apple and Google were able to provide only sketchy and partial solutions."

I've recently been buying a lot of packages from Japan and found Google's camera translate to be surprisingly good. Bordering on sci-fi awesome.

As for voice recognition, that's something that's been consumer technology for a while. Smart TVs, mobile phones, home automation assistants, etc. It's pretty common technology now. Granted the results aren't 100%, they are still generally quite accurate - with the obvious caveats: depending on a person's accent and background noise.

> "No to mention issues like battery life"

That's a pretty minor point these days on devices with no LCD displays.

> connectivity (hard to believe this device would be able to work without a permanent connection to cloud servers doing the heavy lifting, like Siri does)

They do say it depends on a smartphone app, so my assumption was it works in a similar way to the Pebble watch. ie it's essentially just a bluetooth speaker where the phone will push the data to it.
Work backwards. Start with tools that basically do all your work for you, and then try to understand the pieces as you work with them.

Try the angular-fullstack generator using yeoman: https://github.com/angular-fullstack/generator-angular-fulls...

This will generate you a fully functioning front end and server, with an authentication and user management service. It also has methods to push to heroku, so you don't really need to know how to deploy to a live server.
Maybe entertaining, otherwise I wonder how the contents could be useful to me personally.
My advice would be don't use all the fancy stuff. You really don't need to. A basic HTML page with a few <script> tags will go a long way. And with browsers supporting most of ES6 (WebKit supports all of it) you can use all the new JS features in your dev environment no problem.

Don't introduce these dependencies if you're just learning. Just use what you need (React + Redux).
The Complete Book of Papermaking by Josep Asuncion[0]. It lives up to its name, and includes many of the paper/cardboard types it discusses.

[0] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2665596-the-complete-book...
I don't know what editor or linter you use, but there are increasingly many that support JSX and can give you meaningful feedback about it.

As for your biological linter- you will be surprised at how quickly you are able to get used to it. The key for me was to stop thinking of it as HTML or markup- because it isn't. It's really just a different way to call functions and create objects.

It's far better than handlebars or other template languages because it's an actual regular syntax that you can use a linter with so you know it's going to work as you intended.
Employers routinely subject applicants to personality tests, IQ tests, fitness tests for jobs that have nothing to do with manual labor (essentially age/gender discrimination), background checks, credit checks even when the job doesn't involve handling money, and yes, looking them up on social media. Do people really want to work for these places? Yes, because they need to pay their rent, and don't have the nestegg of a well-paid Silicon Valley software developer, or recruiters chasing them to offer them work.
Actually, the problem exists in Windows 8.1, not Windows 8.
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Hell, you can't use GNU Autotools without a COPYING file or it will yell at you until you create it or figure out the incantation to make it ignore the lack of said file. There's still plenty of software out there on github that uses automake/autoconf that wouldn't be properly recognized like this.
Agreed - and I think it will stay that way. Right now most people find it too much expense and trouble to keep a photo-quality color (2D) inkjet at home, and would rather pay per-photo at Kinkos/Walgreens. I don't see any signs of this changing.

I think 3D printers will go the same way. How many little plastic parts does the average consumer ever want to print? Probably not enough, and not rapidly enough, to justify a big purchase, when they can pay per-item at a (physical or online) Kinkos equivalent and get a higher-quality part printed on a machine like this.
Apparently the source is the 2012 hack, but the release back in 2012 was only 6.5 million accounts. I think this is the first time we are seeing the breach was actually ~20x larger than originally reported.

Since the hashing is so weak (unsalted single SHA1) this is a bit of a gold mine for password researchers and crackers building better dictionaries.
Where I work we no longer use the term 'non-functional requirements', having replaced it with the term 'operational requirements.' We discovered the business was disinterested in discussing 'non-functional' requirements but are actively engaged in discussing 'operational' requirements. It's psychology, they equated 'non-functional' with 'not important to me.' That psychology cascaded down the entire development team: project managers, lead developers, QA analysts. Everyone but architects. Now everyone is on the same page recognizing the importance of these requirements and as a result we're doing a much better job implementing them.
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I disagree. Then you narrow down Snowden's point in a pedantic way. Snowden is broadly speaking about privacy. The issue about government mass surveillance is of course without anybody having been aware of its extent. Citizens should have been given the chance to weight in on the usage of surveillance.

But this is along much of the same lines, in that it shows how technology enables ways of invading your privacy that you might not have thought of.

Much of the NSA invasion of our privacy is about the capabilities they get through technology. With just a bunch of dead data, it would not nearly be as chilling as when Snowden explains how they can perform sophisticated searches through all data stored about you.
Though you are whining about downvotes. To such an extent that you comment on your own post exclusively regarding the subject.
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I must admit that I'm highly skeptical. Show me a working app for my phone that does voice translation, and then I'll believe that something like this works.
>...especially from IBM which has always been willing to do low volume tapeouts (helps to own a foundary)

IBM sold all its fabs to GlobalFoundries about a year ago[0].

[0] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/192430-ibm-dumps-chip-u...
I'd imagine this is going to be more modernish stuff when things were starting to get distributed online, like slightly-post Napster days. There are definitely cassette mixtapes available via torrent but there just aren't that many due to the initial nature of the medium and distribution.
What do you mean by "giving up concepts like security".

Should banks get rid of vaults and stack money on the street curbs?
> Note how all the explanations of difference are assumed to be essentially moral failings of westerners, to eat "properly" [1] or exercise.

You are missing my point. Failure to eat "properly" or exercise is not a moral failing. The article never says that; you interpret it as such. I have failed to eat properly and exercise for most of my adult life. That does not make me a bad person. "Immoral" and "wrong" are not equivalent concepts; the former is a subset of the latter.

> Note the ingrained assumption that if there's a difference between the isolated primitive and the Westerner, the Westerner is automatically in the wrong, be it in behaviors or gut biomes, which they actually have to remind themselves may not be true, though they don't actually come up with any other possible explanations.

That's a problem in certain circles across all of medicine. Just look at the irrational support for "traditional Chinese medicine".

> Mind you, I don't disagree that there are dietary issues in the Western diet or that there are exercise issues, but it's still bad science to presume in advance those are the only explanations to be considered, be it explicitly assumed or implicitly assumed. There's a world of variables out there and we've barely begun to shine a light.

I agree, with medical science in particular suffering from this.
> Main ingredient of all paper is plant material. Loading or filling material such as clay, CaCO3, Talc, TiO2 etc. are used for higher brightness and better printability. Rosin, alum or combination of other chemicals is used to make paper water resistant.

I guess the book I mentioned just categorised things differently - I think the "glue" bit was mainly about water resistance and general durability. Then again, it's been years since I've read the book (and I don't have it with me to check it right now), so I might be misremembering it.

Either way, I admit that "chemical additives" would make more sense as a general label! I mean, adding a chemical to make paper fire resistance can't be called filler or glue.
I agree with you .. but, the first thing that comes to mind is comparing the futility of staying private with the futility of stopping piracy.

Most tech people seem to believe piracy (music, video) is effectively unstoppable. What makes the end of privacy any different?

Of course I want privacy. For current sized cameras I'm pretty sure none are on (not 100% sure though) but as they get smaller and cheaper and people post more and more photos and eventually livecast their lives or at least large chunks of it (it seems like coming eventually whether we want it to or not), how will we stop the end of privacy anymore than we can stop piracy?
You should bookmark this for future discussions bringing up Fortran. Great write-up.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/ch1-2.html
You can get that kind of support (but in email over paper) for many smalltime webapps now. Just doesn't scale well for a million customers ;)
> ...steering committee chair of the Commercial Uses of Functional Programming conference

From Anil's profile on blog and considering he is founder of MirageOS written in OCaml, it would be surprising if it were anything else than OCaml.
> Starting June 1st, when you sign up for a Heroku account you will immediately get 550 free dyno hours. In addition, we add another 450 dyno hours for a total of 1,000 free dyno hours if you verify your identity by providing us with a valid credit card.

Any thoughts on what Heroku gets out of identity verification / credit card info?
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Wow, this is awesome. Thanks for the link.
"Not to mention, FPGA compile times can take hours or even days, which pales in comparison to most C++ template overhead."

It's really funny to see him bitching about iterations with templates then suggest using a FPGA and synthesis tools. I'm glad it amused someone else, too. :)
just shave off your eyebrows, or makeup to make them appear gone. Most (nearly all) facial feature finders expect eyebrows of some kind. (I work in facial recognition.)
How do you start?

Me? I start by asking myself "do you really really need Babel, GraphQL/Relay etc"? Once I've answered "probably not, at least not right now" I decide to use PostgreSQL with python and flask (or node and restify/express if I'm that sort of mood). For the front end I start with a simple bootstrap setup. Once I get to the point where I actually really need GraphQL or whatever I have a good enough understanding of my needs that it becomes pretty obvious how I should integrate it.
If this will be a problem and it's getting abused it will be illegal. It's also illegal to clone a human from your hairs.

I don't get it. I can also search in a phone book for names or i can contact goverment help to find. The problem is what happens after you got the information and this is regulated in laws.

If your data is not on the internet it doesn't mean you are invisible.
In science, it's common to run one week schools on various topics for graduate students and young postdocs. When software is involved, we spend a lot of time dealing with the students' installation issues. I tried the VM approach once, but the images are relatively large and when I tried it with VMWare, the registration process was still a bit cumbersome. This time I tried Amazon workspaces for about 30 students. Though I had some initial growing pains (be careful on permissions!) and they did (I think they were just scaling up when we ran it), I would use it again. It simplifies the Mac/PC issues that we had and makes it easy to share materials. We did have one student with a linux box and it's a shame that Amazon didn't (doesn't?) have a windows client, but overall I had a positive experience. I saw that someone mentioned that there is an Azure option that's similar? At the time, I saw that VMware also had an offering. Has anyone tried it?

*disclaimer these are my personal opinions, not my employer's
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Yeah, we sometimes forget that computers are physical machines that can be affected by their environment.