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Slide can be an option for people with different mindset - like some people prefer Markdown for documentation, while others are happy Word or Writer. Also Slide is a mobile app, so it's suitable for last-minute presentation makers, who do it on a plane, when using a laptop may be inconvenient.
As someone with a horrible internet connection, I've often resorted to using a VPS, Selenium + Firefox+ xvfb is definitely resourcee-intensive and a pain.
There is also Remark.js that converts Markdown into HTML slides - https://github.com/gnab/remark

Also, I'm working on an HTML/JS Slide version - just download it and edit HTML contents. It uses the same markup as in Android Slide and no build system is needed, just edit, press F5, see how it looks like.

https://github.com/trikita/slide-html
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They also have some accounts for specific things, but no general Apple one. The support channel is about the closest to an official overall Apple account. The support channel seems to be pretty decent so far.
What app did you use? Conversations, ChatSecure and Xabber on Android and all of them are really good.
The similarities are that you can use them both to set up federated voip calls and instant messages. SIP is still the standard way for doing interoperable VoIP on the net.

The differences are huge:
* SIP is geared up for initiating sessions (hence the name), whilst Matrix is for synchronising data. SIP is heavily modelled after the requirements of the old PSTN phone network.
* It's quite an old and fragmented protocol and interop can be a pain, especially between IETF and 3GPP style variants
* It has many competing messaging systems layered on it (SIMPLE, MSRP, etc). You have to try very hard to extract a modern chat experience out of them - eg synchronised history, let alone end to end crypto.
* Matrix is HTTP; SIP is its own dedicated UDP-or-TCP transport.
Haha, yeah, I actually rewrote that sentence a couple times because I was trying to phrase it in a way that wasn't wrong, but also got me out of having to address tangential topics like exploration, creativity, and art.
You think $40 is excessive for a morning's work? I really don't know what to say to that that won't attract the wrath of dang. Perhaps he can suggest some polite words...
Others may (will) see it differently, and obviously it depends on context - different things need different presentations - but I can't stand when people have text slides. You are already talking - seeing exactly what you say or the gist of it in text makes one of the two superfluous. Just yesterday I watched a JSConf presentation that I actually ended up sharing that I still found infuriating for the first 7 minutes: The speaker said exactly the sentence (plus verbal decorations, meaning no additional content, just more words) that he also showed on slides. A new slide, a new sentence. (This is the one: "Emanuel Kluge: Go Offline with Service Workers - JSUnconf 2016" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6oPEEyjNQ)

I think a lot of presentations would gain a lot if the power went out. Imagine yourself in a round of people and you explain your idea to them. While common the handling of your smartphone or laptop during a conversation or explanation often is much more of a distraction than useful.

Obviously there are plenty of examples where you do need them when you want to show something concrete like code or the thing you are talking about (unless it's a common object everybody already knows), but especially "idea and concept presentations" often are better off without the visuals. And please don't add jokes just because you heard that you should.

I try to create a presentation by using "just me". And then only add other stuff if it's really necessary.
I addressed this in other comments, I only want that a normal (full time) job pays for a living, I did not want to discuss all kind of edge cases and so it may not apply to your example. But if working at an ice cream shop is sufficiently easy to learn within a few days and the kid does all the same work including cleaning up and what not, how would you justify paying less than to a regular employee doing the same work and having to live on that income?
Neat. Kind of like how there's a whole website tvtropes.com devoted to collecting examples of all the different shortcuts used to tell stories. After a while, the trends in the material become interesting in their own right. Someone who's seen a lot of movies will see that something went wrong and wonder if it's a joke intentionally poking fun at the movie structure itself. Someone who hasn't seen a lot of movies probably won't even notice. I read somewhere that when an isolated tribe in Africa was shown pictures and asked to comment on them it took the researchers a while to figure out that the people weren't interpreting the pictures as representations of other things, but as flat, abstract blobs of colors. They literally didn't have enough experience with photographs to use them correctly. Whereas someone with tons of experience can intentionally misuse photographs to communicate one a different level.

Bo Burnham's standup special has some meta jokes like this. I won't spoil them in case you haven't seen it yet.
Eh, no.

I got my Instagram account hacked a while ago and found myself following all kinds of irrelevant people; but after you unfollow a few dozens in a row, unfollow functionality just stops working. So, every time I try to get back to instagram, login, unfollow as many of these assholes as I can, run into this limit and then just give up.
I don't know what Snowden expected. Was the NSA supposed to cancel its multibillion dollar program because it went against a contractor's interpretation of the Constitution? It seems to me that the system worked. He raised his concerns and they were duly noted. I don't think he presented any new information that the IG wasn't aware of.

I understand that the NSA is extremely unpopular here, but their actions had the implicit consent of every branch of the US government. I don't see anything in this lengthy article that makes me think they should have acted any differently than they did. The only person that has veto power is the president. Everyone else has to go through proper channels, and should do so with the expectation that nothing will change.
> sure, they were warmongers, sexist

Lol. No real bad guy without that feature these days, right.
There are two key differences :

- There was no real alternative to the web.
- More importantly, ie6 worked for the end-user. It only sucked for the developers.
What I find strangely absent in most discussion of the UBI is how these fixed payments will hold up against inflation. Even simple arithmetic based on the Consumer Price Index over the past forty years will suggest that an amount like $10,000 US in 2016 dollars will likely be trivial cash in twenty years time. (And, arguably, it's already trivial cash today for just getting by.)

More than likely, the UBI will have no lasting impact, no matter how it is implemented, unless the buying power of the dollar is realistically accounted for in each year's handout. And I just don't see that happening.
that puts the income in perspective, it obviously has an anticedent. To get the optimum a compromise has to be met. Automation is shifting the compromise in favour of minimal working hours per existing job. Although, it creates opportunity for new jobs with higher learning curve. This has to be compromised for timely efficiency.The first compromise was intensity. ...
I recently switched to Google Compute Engine. It's cheaper and so far more reliable than AWS. Might be another option for some people here.
>When I look in the mir­ror, I see a left-wing ex­trem­ist

Considering left-wing extremists murdered more people than nazis in the 20th century, why is it still socially acceptable to say such a thing?
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I ctrl+f'd for org-reveal, and didn't find it so I'll give it a plug.

I write org-mode files (kind of like a richer version of markdown), and use org-reveal and emacs' publishing system turn them into slide shows like [1] this: (pic: [2]). The best part about the workflow is including code snippets using org mode's add source block, which allows me to edit code in the usual mode that I edit code with. Also org-reveal uses emacs' code highlighting settings to do code highlighting.

[1] http://escherize.com/rethinkdb_talk/
[2] http://take.ms/FHrR0
Have you tried MenuetOS, for example?
It does have a quite nice UI, TCP/IP support, etc

And without any attempt to be 'yet another UNIX clone', I think.
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War is terrible. Average citizen doesn't realize it until there's a draft or until after they're a veteran.

I hope one day we'll reach critical mass of war awareness and stand up against it.
For now, we're building "modern" smaller target nuclear weapons.
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Automous driving will ve way to huge for any uc if thelime of avr and pic, but it's still called an embedded system. Or a system of embedded systems at least.
These ads are appearing on more reputable news sites, but for things like gambling. The story line is almost always about a guy who is left by his woman and he gets revenge by winning big. There are a list of "Facebook" comments, and they make sure a few of them state that it's a scam, which makes it look more legit.
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There is a simpler and more universal explanation for corporate behaviour, and that is that it wants to continue continuing. Once it exists it will justify its existence as priority one. Of course this becomes problematic for big government institutions with "inherent" power. The only power the people have over these institutions is funding, and the case of the CIA, they have taken care of that existential threat as well.
That approach is flawed. What if the imagery to "draw" something is not preexisting. If somebody had not seen alien, he could not envision such a scenario equally vivid.
I discovered something quite similar to this several months ago and tried to submit it as a bug report. One can easily make the display URL of any shared post be anything they choose (screenshot of spoofed whitehouse.gov link [1] and techcrunch.com link [2]), while the link actually goes to any site the user wants. I was told, quite simply, that it wasn't a bug. No one seems to care about the implications of this.

[1] http://prntscr.com/bckcf4

[2] http://prntscr.com/bckdml
It might be related to the fact that too many TV users usually send their id+password in one single clear-text email.
That sort of baiting isn't necessary. I don't agree with Tim Bray, but I'm pretty damn sure he doesn't want to cause mass death. He simply thinks that his proposals would improve most people's wealth and well-being. At the very worst he's misguided, not malicious.
All branches of government, generally, at least in western democracies, are subject to the rule of law. The "implicit consent" of anyone does not, or should not at least, come into play.
Is Keynote that superior to MS PowerPoint?
Rails and Django are back-end; a good analogy there would have been Node.js which, as a framework, has done little but expand its API, implement ES6 features, and improve performance.

Comparing back-end frameworks to front-end is silly; there are entirely different concerns on each level. Or is Rails suddenly diffing DOM elements?
The article starts out a bit slow in a convoluted way which may be off-putting.

There has been recently a major surprising discovery related to consecutive primes (prepub 11 Mar 2016 http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03720). The value of the article here imho. compared with the referenced original paper (lots of math formulas) is that visualization may help exploring the topic. The author is showing some results of his exploration and is inviting us to join by sharing his code.
I won't address the first to points, they came already up in other comments and made me change my position a bit.

A universal basic income has rich people paying poor people and middle income people paying themselves. A basic income with a phase out instead has middle income people paying poor people so the rich can have a tax cut.

This does not have to be true. You can simply phase it out and then adjust the tax structure accordingly. It is a zero sum game, you lower taxes by the same amount you cut the basic income for that person. At the high end you take away 11k basic income and reduce taxes by 11k, somewhere in the middle you reduce the basic income and taxes by 6k each and at the lower end you do nothing.

With matching tax structures there is really no difference between paying an universal basic income to everyone or only paying it towards the lower income range. I am not disagreeing that a flat basic income might be a lot simpler than trying to carefully adjust tax rates.
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I am helping a friend who runs a mindfulness / therapy business to set up a new online business. The business will provide courses (video and some interactive quizzes) to subscribers for a flat fee every month. Majority of the content will be videos. I am looking for a good, secure (hopefully open source solution) with responsive design (mobile access), card payments support, enrolment, and simple course setup with certificate upon completion. Any takers?
I had a look at Open EdX, which looks comprehensive but also very complex (Ubuntu 12 as only platform, really?), Moodle (which is too focused on unis), and Lifter (which is too limited and runs on Wordpress, which I don't trust). Any ideas / suggestions for a platform?
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So, having read through that extremely long and largely uninformative article, I'm left with the impression that there's no real story of any substance here. The NSA spent a lot of time and resources trying to find any evidence to support Snowden's claims that he raised concerns about the legality of NSA programs but they couldn't find any, apart from a single email whining about a difficult question in a test he failed which even the most generous of interpretations would struggle to describe as "raising concerns".

In other words, the headline is a lie.

Ten minutes of my life I'll never get back.
And yet MSIE still ruled the earth as a major pain in the foot in 2010, with a whooping 40% marketshare[0] (All versions of ie). It's only when chrome started doing very aggressive advertising that people started to switch.

MSIE worked for most people. The devs suffered how bad it was, but the people didn't see that because most of the web was designed for it. That's the kind of power you get when you are lead in marketshare. We see that nowadays with websites that only work in chrome (though it's less of a problem, chrome is a lot more open to standards, and the engine is open source).

Concerning branding, I still see a lot of people that think the internet is that "e" icon on their desktop. Other people think chrome is the only gateway to the internet. It's the same situation as when IE6 was the lead. People don't know about alternatives, or don't care. Either way, if their "internet app" sucks, it's generally that internet sucks.

[0] Using https://www.w3counter.com/trends as a source, don't know how accurate it is but it does match my memory of how it all happened.
It will take a direct hit with nuclear weapon on the datacenter for Amazon to change icon to red on service status page.
I have heard reports of the DNS server responding with a Chinese IP address.
> The real issue is with all browser reporting the same fixed dpi, for reason which make sense in context but don't allow to discern all cases.

I'm certainly unaware of browsers doing this, except for a few old ones on desktop and Windows Phone 8's IE, and I can't find anything claiming other browsers do this. Certainly it's never been an issue I've hit.
It seems team viewer is doing the "Deny, Deny, Deny" thing.
The problem is then the rich will do a simple expected value computation to decide whether to do fraud. A disproportionate and non monetary punishment will be far more effective at deterring them.
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> Why should primitive types be treated as second-class entities that can only arise as private implementation details of a class?

Because primitives are meaningless. String has no meaning. "Message" does. "Contact person" does and has conceptually nothing in common with a "Message". Why should they be both of type String?

The real problem with primitive obsession is that it stifles software evolution. Suddenly Message needs to keep other data or have some methods associated with it. Every place where it was used is suddenly invalid because you need to go from String to class and inheriting from primitive is just silly if at all possible.

That's what you want to prevent. It has almost nothing to do with units or dimensional analysis.
that would be a controller. embedded in a similar vein means that a controller or whatever is embedded in a bigger stand-alone system, and thus not it isn't stand-alone on its own.

a desktop is stand-alone. A webserver isn't but the internet its part of isn' really stand-alone. Mobiles were called embedded, but newer phones with apps are rather stand-alone. All are embeddable.
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What is a goal-oriented IA problem that is not centrally based on perception?
Happened to my friend about 3 weeks ago and he's a fairy savvy computer user. Had 5k extracted from PayPal which has just been recovered. All my friends have now uninstalled team viewer if they had it installed.
Very good point. I've seen that.

Or a piece of malware that checks if teamviewer is running (or maybe even opens it), reads the id and password from the window and sends those home
If only there was a way to disable fb messages altogether, otherwise people who will be sending me messages there, will be distracted, and I will be the one to blame...
If only there was a way to disable fb messages altogether, otherwise people who will be sendig me messages there, will be distracted, and I will be the one to blame...
Thanks, I understand your point, and I sincerely don't want it to become a thread of infinite disagreement. But text slides can be helpful.

I often use just text. I rarely use images (no kittens or meme picures, images are good only if they really illustrate what you're saying). My slides are just text, lists and short code blocks.

(for the company meetings I use whiteboard instead of slides more and more often. I illustrate what I speak about in real time and keep people's attention. And I illustrate only when I see people don't follow my words).

People are good creatures, but we are so easily distracted. If someone missed what I just said and I have text slides - he may look at a slide and get the idea.

Also, people are bad a multitasking. If you are saying one thing and slide describes something additional or even different - people will lose their focus. If your audience could close their eyes and not fell asleep - they would be able to get 100% of what you are telling them. But they keep their eyes open. Their eyes focus on you, or their neighbors in the audience, on their phone screens or watches etc. It distracts. Having large, short, clear slides keeps their focus on what you're saying.

So right, it all depends on the audience, how they are interested in your presentation topic and how well you perform on the stage.
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because the message can be sent to different devices (resources) the user is connected with. This is not accidental complexity like you make it out to be. It is needed and wanted.

Or are you advocating a binary protocol? Personally I really like the messages exchanged with xmpp: they are easy to understand and easy to craft. I think the success of http too, lies a little bit in the fact that it is human readable.
then you'd send facebook's checker to the real url, and then redirect everyone else
That's also something that would be relatively easy to game as well.
>> AI research is not really focused on creating systems that consume resources to do nothing but reproduce.

Yeah, here's a little paper I had to peruse lately for a uni assignment (on neural networks, of all things):

Bio-Benchmarking of Electronic Nose Sensors [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....]

It's a comparison of a Metal Oxide "electronic nose" and the olfactory receptors of a ...fruit fly. Results: the MOx sensors are nowhere near the fly's antennae in discriminatory power. The insect's neural system seems to be extremely fine-tuned to discriminate between an impossibly broad range of odourants, with overlapping signals in odorant space. The MOx sensors are rubbish at discriminating between the different odours for exactly that reason (that the odours blend with each other and leave you with so much noise). The MOx receptors even get damaged if the odorant signal is too strong. The fruit fly? It doesn't care.

Here's a bit from the paper, that's really enlightening:

We also note that the nature of the fly's broad and overlapping sensor fields would seem to require sophisticated and powerful neural processing for classification of odorant signals. There is anatomical, experimental and computational evidence that the insect does have such a system dedicated to olfaction [22], [23]. In contrast, it is known that the chemosensory system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, has very few interneurons and synapses between sensory and effector units [24], [25]. Given its deficit in neural processing power, we expect that the nematode approaches one-to-one matching between chemoreceptors and odorants, with less reliance on combinatorial processing than the fly. This would imply that nematode chemoreceptors have very tight tuning curves compared with either fly ORs or MOx sensors and may account for the remarkably large number of chemoreceptor genes identified in the C. elegans genome [26]. Whilst replicating the nematode model in an electronic nose may theoretically be feasible, it would present daunting engineering challenges to develop and deploy a very large number of tightly tuned and independent sensors.

So much about "systems that consume resources to do nothing but reproduce".

Oh yeah, AI is too interested in them, yes indeedy-oh. If we could make _one_ measly computer that could find its way around the real world with the purposefulness and accuracy of a mere nematode worm, we would be happy. No, scratch the "we". _I_ would be happy. The mother of AI they'd call me, you know? It'd be Nobel this and Turing award that and oh, here's a honorary readership to add to your collection, ma'am.

I mean you have to be joking, right? We're not interested in reproducing the cognitive abilities of biological systems? That's like, the definition of AI.
It's possibly one of the things, but I doubt there's a single factor in play here. You could have a similar hypothesis about urban people having less contact with dirt and mud and animal feces and all kinds of wild plants and insects that one living in a rural area would commonly encounter throughout her life. The other theory blames the lack of parasites that suppress our immunes system reactions. Some say it's the pollution in urban areas. And it's probably some sort of the combination of all of these, since they all are certainly a factor influencing our immune systems.
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