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Alerts are my primary reason also; the only time I do any vigorous exercise I certainly won't wear a smartwatch due to the risk of damage, so that functionality isn't of much use. I don't want to wear a watch in bed or in the shower either. I'm not keen on biometric data being collected anyway so it's good that the latest version of Android Wear allows denying sensor permissions.

What would be ideal would be a smartwatch that can manage to set Google reminders without having to have Google Now turned on; that, plus the occasional text message and even more occasional use of navigation, are all I use it for other than looking at notifications.
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So if it never occurred, then what was the point of carrying the guns?
The Matrix, at least, didn't leave this concept unexplored.

There is this excellent series of short animations (The Animatrix), one of the stories addresses this exact scenario.

You can watch it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruFE126Osrg

The Animatrix is, IMO, the true sequel (and also, prequel) to the original Matrix, it is very much worth a watch.
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Heh that's a funny thing to say. I remember when one of the first Snowdens revelations came up, Larry Page wrote a blog post on official Google blog:
https://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/what.html
saying they don't cooparate with NSA.

The same week we were provided documents signed by NSA/CIA officials claiming that Google is not even forced to do it, they provided extra interface for NSA so they can grab data whenever they want:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/12/google-prism-...

Some recent emails with Clinton showed that top Google employers helped with surveillance in Arab countries a couple of years ago, more journalists described that Google is in relationship with NSA. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/6610/20140507/google-cahoo...

Facebook was accused of working FOR NSA to spy on Belgium: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/21/facebook-...

One of Facebook financial founders was PayPal CEO who... supports global surveillance by NSA http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-and-facebook-work-together/...

Question: why should I trust what you say?
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Well, yes. Quite. Trust me, I suspect that nobody on earth is more aware of that article than I am.
Out of Topic: .design TLD is new to me. I wonder if new and obscure TLDs like this will be familiar to non power-user.
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Interesting experiment, but two groups seems like a too small a sample.

If moderation is done by humans, you could simply prove that one moderator had a worse morning than the other, or that through luck of the draw Group A went to a sympathetic moderator while group B did not. That could demonstrate individual bias, but not institutional.

If moderation is automated, how do you control for the weight of keywords, phrases, etc? Maybe Group A was full of statements that almost threw a flag but not quite, while Group B contained mostly innocuous wording but (only) one phrase that actually got flagged.

If both groups were designed to be unpleasant, but various "blacklist" words and phrases are weighted differently, Group A might have achieved "flagged" weight while group Group B was "flagged -1." One might have scored 99 pts vs 100 for the other, but the visible difference is that one remains visible while the other does not.

Thinking out loud, now... let's say that Facebook does have a political bias. How do you prove that Facebook's financial success is despite that political bias, and not because of it?

Is it possible to have a monopoly on digital socialization? If you can't declare Facebook a monopoly, and therefore subject to greater regulation, then your only lever over Facebook is social pressure, presumably in the form of bad press and boycotts, which will reduce their advertising revenue. How do you prove that the existing political bias is leading them to sub-optimal revenues?
Wildly overrated movie. I tried rewatching it on a plane a couple weeks ago, and it really doesn't stand up to repeat viewings. Apparently there is a novelization that patches up all the many, many plot points that were unexplained or made no sense in the movie script, but the movie is really just another lazy JJ Abrams production. Then you notice how, like Jurassic World, nearly every scene is a blatant callback to something from the original film.

Unfortunately, you could package two hours of film of an actual gold-plated turd, and it would make a billion dollars if it had the Star Wars name on it.
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I think the horizontal scrolling is happening only in that github.io web page, and probably not a fault with the CSS framework itself. The framework looks nice and small, and a good alternative to the mainstream alternatives.
[1] is not working on OS X 10.11.5 / barebones Safari 9.1.1 (11601.6.17)

[1] https://security.love/Pastejacking/
>But what do you think is the best way forward?

I have no idea. In the end it will all be fine, of course, but I don't think anyone know how to help countries on their way to democracy. I just find it unlikely that shaking hands with Putin will do much good. However, you are right that hostility to a general population is also bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I very much hope strong AI to be reality within my life span, it would bring singularity and other wonderful things. but the sad fact is, we have close to 0 idea what intelligence means. In this field, we are still in pre-Newton era where we might have all tools available but have 0 clue how to put them together. that's why the world now are busy tackling small edge cases.

The next question is, can we put enough resources (money, smart people, computing power) to brute force? I bet no, because it's not an engineering problem but an ill defined one.

historically, major paradigm shift happened where major vendors ignored. there is no reason to believe google folks are smarter than the old generations. if they were, we as consumers are doomed.
This happens because the Fed is content to expand the money supply by directly giving money to Ray Dalio instead of Ray Smith.

I just don't get how the central banks think they can spur inflation with prolonged periods of 0 or negative interest rates. Have you seen what's in the CPI basket? It ain't stuff HF managers are gonna buy more of if they make $50MM instead of $10MM a year.
> Unlike a human, the tortoise is much more likely to die young than old.

Huh? I thought it was the same for humans.
That page doesn't say that exact quote.
This should be mentioned in the article, I was looking for a simple mathematical comparison.
I'm just surprised how long this took. I was expecting this to happen for the past few years already. Thanks and goodbye.
Usually you don't have any right to enter a country, unless you're a citizen.

So they can make unlocking any of your accounts a prerequisite for entering.
In principle that is fine so long as you know what you're doing. In practice most people denormalising "for speed" aren't knowledgeable about the database implementations they are optimising for and that is very obviously the case here.
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If a person can maintain a blog with ~40 posts over the last year and a half [1], they can afford to spend some time reading about their local candidates' positions as it relates to issues they care about. Networking is just a Facebook group or page away. People in less developed countries such as Cambodia are mounting campaigns this way [2], and they have lower wages, longer hours, and worse living and working conditions than Americans. People there live under a government that has the longest running dictator in Asia (31 years), yet they show up in droves every chance they get to vote.

I'm not attacking the author. I understand the feeling of worthlessness and its effect on your desire to do things. My point is she has the ability to do these things. And, nobody can bestow confidence upon you to act.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=sit...

[2] http://sea-globe.com/virtual-democracy-social-media-election...
Rogue One looks somewhat promising - but it is going in a little bit different direction as a stand-alone spinoff, not having to carry the weight of the franchise.

Although I still think any movie called Rogue One should be about Rogue Squadron and Wedge Antilles... But then again, I really fell in love with Star Wars reading the X-Wing novel series.
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> Instead of resorting to those hacks, follow the PostgreSQL documentation[1] to do it the right way. The simplest way is to initialize your PostgreSQL database cluster as:

This is actually poor advice. The right way on Ubuntu is to use the packages provided by PostgreSQL Development Group (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt), and in that setup you use pg_createcluster instead of initdb.

The snippet in the original article was so hacky because it fixed an existing cluster instead of destroying it and creating a new one in UTF-8.
This is not terrible advice in general. It is also not good advice in general. To make things scale, you obviously have to "break the norms". They give an insight how their specific case works. It's "watch, learn and pick what fits you" material.
> How do I get multiple .onion domains

Repeat HiddenServiceDir

> how do I back up my keys so I can keep my domain?

Backup the contents of HiddenServiceDir
See PoC||GTFO 0x10 [1] for the writeup on "Pokémon plays Twitch chat", a
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Note that the PDF can be loaded directly as a LSNES input replay and
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[1] https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo10.pdf
And this is certainly true, but if the common good is what we target, why not have a proper welfare state, a solid UBI funded by high taxes etc.?

Well, taxation is theft, so that is the easy answer to that.
:-)

But to dig a little deeper... a UBI is an interesting concept, and especially so when one considers a future where most, or even all, human labor becomes unneeded. In a world of 100% technological unemployment, it does seem that we're going to require a different system than what we have now. But I don't think just saying "have an UBI" is much of an answer, because - IMO - the entire fundamental basis of the economy will be so radically different that we can't even imagine how the UBI will be funded and how the economy will work.

I keep running through scenarios, trying to come up with a scenario that makes sense, even hand-waving around the "initiation of force" issue temporarily, and it always seems to come out looking like a Ponzi scheme in the end.

Luckily, I think we're still quite a ways away from the total obviation of need for human labor, so we have some time to figure it out. Well, hopefully anyway.
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The table graphic in this article really eschews clarity. The most recent figures on the left and a giant emoji slapped over it? Seems like a graph would've been better suited. The source even has the table in text format for easy processing.
Programmable SIMs for the IoT?

Now we are definitely going to run out of phone numbers.
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While that also could be the case, it's not what I meant.
It has been already happening for the past few years. The first round was handled by Nokia. Last year MS announced layoffs of 2300 people in Finland. After this there is pretty much nobody left.
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You're not thinking about this properly. There are some facts about finite objects which simply cannot be proved without reasoning about infinite objects - for example, the well-definedness of the TREE function. These facts are true if you have access to infinite objects, but not necessarily if you don't.

This paper shows that a certain class of statements about finite objects, which we knew were true by virtue of reasoning about a certain infinite object, in fact remain true if you're restricted only to reasoning about finite objects.
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I didn't say it wasn't well made, I didn't like the writing. There were so many nods to the old trilogy that my neck started to hurt.

Spoiler alert!

Young adventurer on a desert planet unaware of their Jedi powers?

Resourceful, commanding, brutally competent as well as sexy young princess?

Help from a reluctant rogue with his hairy side kick, on the run from crime lord that he tried to swindle?

A tall masked dark side antagonist, apprentice of a mysterious emperor type guy?

An evil empire vs a rebel alliance?

Secret plans hidden in robot?

Quest to find hermit Jedi master?

Quest to destroy a planet killing Death Star?

The most original part of the writing was merging the adventurer and the princess into one character and making the Vader part an annoying teenager.
eschews clarity

Those are rather nice words, I'm tempted to use plain 'ridiculous'. Feels like a child could do better. Ok it's not some scientific article, but still, you could put at least some effort in it.
Open discourse and debate are how new ideas emerge and either flourish or return to obscurity. The "chaos" you fear is the forge for the future.

Without advances in science, political thought, and technology, we will implode from over population, new diseases, lack of food, diminishing resources, and bottled up dissent fed by perceived injustices and those same diminishing resources.

With censorship you may be able to make everything appear quiet on the surface, however you are shaking the beer can and it only a matter of time before it ruptures.
I'm sure it will come out soon... :-(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_Logic#The_QUE_proReade...
I agree, I really, really hope design tools and practices evolve more in the direction of building a design language and components.

As a developer, it would make my life easier as well, when I try to split designs into components / css.
Holy batman. Now this is officially the worst piece of code I've ever seen in my 15 years of programming. This has to be generated... right?? I can't believe any human wrote this.

Grabs the eye bleach
Spot on! I bet there are hundreds of different stories like this with unconventional uber-hacks for performance.
I would prefer to have it as an OPTION, and being able to disable or enable this (without any back doors.) Of course you can never be sure.
I wear a Pebble. I had the OG Steel, and now have the Time Round. I love mine, and haven't had any of the issues others have experienced (and neither of mine are covered in scratches, and I'm not particularly cautious with them?).
> The transfers work very well.

Sometimes it takes days for a transfer to enter the blockchain proper. I'd say that isn't working very well.
Sorry, I will refrain from further comments. I've just tried to provide a balanced input to the things where I could do so, but I see your point.

>internecine politics

This wasn't my intention at all.
It was actually earlier than that. Regular Athlon vs. Pentium III. The K7 architecture is where they finally came out on top, which was released in 1999. I'm not sure how deep into the Athlon line they kept their lead, but the Pentium 4 was a miserable line which first debuted in 2000. I don't know any friends that were serious about gaming or performance computing at the time that would have chosen a P4 over an Athlon or Athlon 64 which came out in 2003.

I think maybe part of AMDs downfall was their investment in the x86 64-bit micro-architecture extensions they added in the Athlon 64 (which Intel then adopted in their chips). During that time, Intel had refocused on heat and power usage which has paid dividends in the out years. That said, I think the 64-bit extensions came at a necessary time and allowed us to get past the 4GB barrier without having to resort to weird memory paging schemes like PAE.
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What other DAOs are there and how much have they raised?

The thing with tokens is that because Ethereum is so young, the companies being built on top of it are by default super early stage, with no real traction or product market fit to show. So anyone buying tokens at this stage because they want a shared revenue stream of the companies profits, is making very risky bets which have a high likelihood of failure (on average).

I think it's the lure of secondary markets for DAOs that is behind a lot of the interest in, at least, The DAO - people buy the tokens early because there is anticipation of the token prices going up relatively soon after the crowdsale, fear of missing out etc.

I think a lot of it is driven by speculative motives rather than long term investment in Ethereum companies themselves.
Bastiat provides a nice counter point to all that. But I'm too lazy to copy and paste the whole thing here. I'll just suggest reading The Law and/or That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen if you haven't, for another take on things. Note though that there's a lot of subtlety to this whole thing, and Bastiat appears to allow for some notion of lawful taxation, but it's pretty clear that he considers most such transfer of wealth to be what he calls "lawful plunder" and he argues rather eloquently against it.
That clip started muddy looking from all that dust. So, it's less obvious.
> location, and proximity to familiar Bluetooth devices and wifi hotspots

That sooo sounds like a very good idea. /s

In general, i wonder how would they handle all sorts of changes in people.
What are the potential applications for an autoencoder, aside from an exercise in neural networks?

Lossy compression with super high compression rates?
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I have been living in countries where it's perfectly normal to live with your parents until you are married, which are no different in terms of sexual freedom (of freedom in general) or quality of life than the US.

It sucks if it not the case with your country, but do not make it a general case.
Newspapers would already be possible, especially if e-ink displays were made in A4 or maybe even larger sizes. Newspaper companies would have to heavily back them though (free e-reader with a yearly subscription to the digital newspaper for example)
I will guess

1. MS anticipated cheap Android OEMs

2. They anticipated VR and anticipated the need to integrate 3D audio in 3D hardware, which is the grafics cards at the moment. They were involved with VR from Kinect.

3. Multiplatform is not bad.

4. DX9 is probably good enough.
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I wonder how it would have played out for Nokia if Microsoft had not bought them. Rather better in some ways I'd imagine.
Maybe in the US. In Europe I found their offerings underwhelming.
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I'm disregarding your views not censoring them.
> Having something in a single table that is denormalized is always going to be faster than having an elegant data model with "Everything In It's Right Place"

This one folk wisdom that is untrue. There are significant speed disadvantages relating to large blobs of data the database doesn't understand. Serialisation time makes returning large JSON/XML objects expensive when you only need a small part. Overwriting a whole object to increment a counter is an unnecessary source of IO. Duplicating JSON keys in every record bloats the size of your working set, making it more difficult to fit into memory (or the fast part of your SAN).

99% of denormalisation out there is unnecessary and has inferior performance. The best route to performance with row store SQL databases (any database?) is two fold: 1) get an expert on your database to help you write your code and 2) get an expert on your hardware to help you choose wisely. Denormalisation is typically a way to take a performance problem and make it worse while introducing data corruption and race conditions.
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Pixel Qi struck me as overhyped. It was just a regular transflective LCD panel that the founder of OLPC, Nick Negroponte wanted to exploit to get massive funding (from big orgs like the UN, the easily confused ministers of education in developing countries) for his pet project that flew him around the world giving talks and hanging out with popstars who all claim they're doing it to save children in the developing world. If you google Nick Negroponte now, he seems to now claim that he invented or was a key factor in the tablet computing revolution, touchscreens, and VR. http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1329725&print=yes
What you are saying is "it techs 5 minutes to somebody who knows what he is doing", which is precisely what's OP would like to change. You want more less tech saavy people to be able to create those nodes.
Why is taxation theft?

Because you're taking something you have no right to take possession of. And you're right, "theft" is a broader category of actions, but I don't consider that distinction relevant here. Eg, the State doesn't (yet, AFAIK) sneak into you home and take your property without your knowledge, in the name of taxation. Although they DO do some other pretty sneaky things, like civil asset forfeiture, but that's a separate issue, IMO.

The thing with what we call "paying your taxes" in the popular vernacular is clearly a case where the State wants something you have (the spoils of your labor, if we limit this to Income Tax for the time being) and if you aren't inclined to give it to them, they use force to take it. If you were willing to pay it without the need for coercion, then it wouldn't be theft.

And here's the rub, that makes this all so ironic: I expect most people would "pay their taxes" to at least some extent, even without the need for coercion. This is especially so IF the agency requesting said payment is actually demonstrating its value clearly.
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I played around with Blender when I was in college back in 2012-2013. Cycles render was just introduced back then. Blender and it's community has come a long way since then in this short span of time.

My starting point was http://www.blenderguru.com/ (for general tips and tricks), reading about ray tracing(for understanding why my renders were not up to the mark), anatomy of physical shapes(for sculpting) and watching a lot of behind the scene VFX breakdown videos(to understand their construction). Frankly, my humble computer back then was not capable of running 3DS Max or Maya.

Apart from this, a lot of articles regarding photography helped. A keen attention to detail and huge amounts of patience is required(while watching your renders take hours if you have the wrong graphics card).
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I wish they made these data public! Even for neuroscientists , it's hard to find data like that to analyze.
So many times a company isn't good at something, buys someone smaller and faster that is, and then imposes their way of doing things on the acquisition killing it.
For regular packages, sure. But for highly-active, well-maintained codebases like postgres – who package their software for your OS, upstream is going to be quicker with security fixes than distro.
I had an image of Businessinsider as something staid like FT, but on clicking through some of those links it appears to be more like a non-ironic version of Clickhole.