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Because non-developers deal with versions. Sure, programmers use zero-indexing because it makes a lot of common things a lot easier, but I can't imagine anyone expecting that to extend to the regular world where the first item being 1 is ingrained, and makes more sense given the use.

For this reason, 0.x versions can make sense - they serve as a good flag for 'this is pre-release', because people expect version 1 to be the first released version.
This must be the most blatantly hypocritical statement I have ever read. Money is STOLEN by corporations by not paying taxes??? How ignorant and thankless can you be? Money is CREATED by these corporations and you owe a huge chunk of your well-being, and quite likely your life, to the existence of said corporations.
It's funny how other open source projects had no problem adopting ZFS or it's license.

Not true; here's OpenBSD/OpenSSH developer Damien Miller on the CDDL:

The CDDL is even more restrictive than the GPL and is
far more legally pernicious. In particular:

Clause 3.5 is a GPL-like "must distribute source" requirement.

Worse, clauses 3.3 and 9 have no place in a free software license.

I don't understand how anyone who has read the license could say that it
is even remotely "compliant with the BSD philosophy". The GPL is far
more acceptable than the CDDL.

> Is there a chance to have star integrated into OpenBSD?

Not with this license. If you want the BSDs to use star, then maybe you
should license it with a BSD license.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=110806948606417&w=2

Here's Theo de Raadt:

And now, because of "ZFS and dtrace", we should throw that entire
Bostic-started effort out the window. Screw freedom, I need ZFS and
dtrace. (...)

Don't be fooled. In fact, I urge our users to investigate every
person who has mentioned "ZFS and dtrace" together in the past. Their
agenda is not the one that you or I believe in. Their agenda is
division.

http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/CDDL-vs-GPL-and-ma...
You can get a decent house in a nice neighborhood on the north side of Chicago for around 200k.
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What kind of things should one check if using a wifi network at a co working space ? I am asking in terms of security. For example, how can I verify that the network is not only secure but is not snooping on the traffic ?
>It could just be that no one who cares enough about security is in a position to drive that change

Bingo, I would also add that it isn't even a matter of caring. I suspect some of these people don't even know that they don't know. Which feeds exactly into your not caring statement.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
The maths rarely work out the way you outlined:

If the mortgage is equal to the rent, then potential landlords are leaving money on the table. That rarely happens for long. Typically most landlords in competitive markets will leverage and take up interest-only mortgages to the extent were rent only barely covers interest and maintenance, and make most of their money on capital gains.

For most people a repayment mortgage and maintenance and appropriate insurance should end up more expensive than renting for that reason.

It is possible to come out financially on top by owning, not least if you're willing to do maintenance yourself etc., but it's not nearly as clear-cut.

I've done very well buying, basically out of luck because I happened to buy on a tracker mortgage briefly before the interest rates crashed after the financial crisis, but if I'd foreseen that change I'd have been filthy rich instead of just a bit better off on my mortgage. But a tracker mortgage adds risk, and it could just as well have gone the other way. I took that risk because I could afford it.

For me, the main economic benefit is that it is a hedge against unforeseen rapid changes in housing costs. If the area I live in suddenly gets drastically more popular than nearby areas, then I can still afford to live here. The cost is that I take a risk with respect to making it harder to move, but with a son in school locally that is not something I'd consider lightly anyway, and that if interest rates swings the wrong way I may still end up paying more overall.
While this is technically true, it's practically false. I got NeXTstep 3.3 running on a machine in the office by building it from the parts of no less than 4 other machines to get the system to meet requirements. And then it was only in (2-bit) grayscale mode.

Other than hardware compatibility, the OS and Objective-C + InterfaceBuilder development environment was far ahead of the mainstream.
I guess they should add a minimum margin for the referendum to pass a resolution.
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Not when you factor in that this program revolves around the startups using state owned and run real estate facilities. To be eligible for the program, you must locate your company on a designated "campus." So, you get incentives...but the state gets new tenants and fat profits, since most of the spaces offered to house a startup are recently renovated warehouses and empty university space.
In Switzerland, imported and unprocessed food is surprisingly cheap. Veggies are maybe 20-30% more expensive than Germany.

I must be misunderstanding something, because these two sentences seem to contradict. In Germany itself, "unprocessed food" is more expensive than in most of the rest of the world.
Crowfunding? Do you see the investors?
Why are taxes immoral?
Yeah, because it would be much better if none of these companies existed.
There is no such thing as "usual machine learning". There are many machine learning techniques, Neural Nets is one of them, and deep learning is a very powerful way of training deep neural networks.

Deep Learning is absolutely interesting and powerful, but it's not like all the other techniques are all the same, or necessarily less powerful, for that matter. Different techniques have different applications.
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The “What can Google do?” is all valid criticism.
I think this is the only model for Whatsapp. They know who is talking to who. They don't know what you are talking about but that doesn't matter when one or two persons in a group show some interest in a subject.
But by European standards, Chicago is a small city of about 100,000 people surrounded by an enormous commuter town.
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I have done hour each way commutes for many years, and while I don't miss it, it's not nearly that much of a waste. It's not "sit around doing nothing" (though, I wish I had two hours a day to sit around doing nothing - it'd be fantastic). It's time people spend listening to music, reading, napping, catching up on e-mail, playing games.

As much as I like currently not having a commute, it was certainly not time that was "crumpled and thrown away".
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There are two sorts of demographic issues.

The first is a mere shift in demographic profiles. This leads to a desire for more consumption and a reduction in production - nothing capitalism can't handle. Prices will change a bit, that's all.

The second is a kleptocratic wealth transfer from the young to the old. Witness contemporary Greece, Detroit, Italy, and similar locales. Then look at many US localities (Texas being one of the few exceptions [1]) and recognize what the future contains.

The latter makes me very afraid, and that's what I seek to escape. Not all countries are set up for that.

In terms of mitigating the impact of the first, India, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Phillipines all have relatively favorable age profiles. Singapore can also maintain a good age profile via immigration - given how well governed they are, I expect that to occur.

[1] Although Texas is well governed and has a solid economic future, it's unfortunately tethered to NY and CA by being in the US. Further, it's unclear that Texas' good governance will continue given how much immigration it's getting from the rest of the US.
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In short: you can't (because nobody can). The easiest way is connecting over that network, using your VPN; you probably have a way of verifying that. (Of course, you need to have previously set up the VPN over a different, trusted network. Turtles all the way down, but some turtles are more manageable than others)

Analogy: "prove that nobody has looked at this piece of paper." For all the checks antd assurances, all you'll ever get is a probability, not a proof.
Another very minor thing is that when I click anywhere inside the section below the header, a light-grey border shows up.

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So does definitely joining the EU or NATO too - which is why I explicitly listed those as the exceptions as long term political issues. You don't join the EU or adopt BI for a term. Those issues would be referendums in most all EU countries.
It's accounted for in the value of the land and the farmhouse, which the owner has paid for.
What major features are missing? It looks like everything is there.
It's an untyped, stack language. A strongly-typed language gives you more readability, safety/security and optimization abilities. Dynamic, but still safe, typing plus hygenic macros can be used to make that even higher-level and more productive. Plus, there's tons of tooling, talent, and libraries for a few, good ones. Forth is behind the curve in almost every respect.

Forth is the way it is mainly because Chuck Moore wants it that way. It's his preference. Tiny cores, typeless, hand-optimized to near metal, primitive VLSI tooling, 18-bit CPU's... nothing justified by scientific or engineering argument. All surpassed by other work in cost-benefit analysis. Nice write-up here by one person that delved deep into it to see good and bad of it:

http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines....
Same way you account for the time your car is not being driven - you consider the total cost of ownership vs benefits and your ability to afford it.
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You deal with that by restrictions of noise. Outlawing minarets to stop noise is like banning vodka to stop alcohol drinking. It doesn't make any sense.
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As of now I recommend everybody to use Prosody stable as XMPP server running on Debian stable. Enable the Prosody modules that provide the XEPs mentioned in Daniel's blog post and/or in XEP-0375: XMPP Compliance Suites 2016[1]. You can either run it at home, which means you have the full stack incl. hardware under your control, or rent a cheap vServer for this, which eventually makes the initial setup easier, as you don't have to deal with dynamic IP addresses. Maintaining a Prosody stable installation on Debian stable means usually nero zero effort. Make sure to have the "security" apt sources and eventually Debian's unattended-upgrade[2] enabled. That's it.

1: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0375.html
2: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades
Interesting. That puts it into perspective how toy-like the Russian internet censorship really is, despite all the local noise about it.
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Yeah, but 0-based array indexing is a convenience measure.

In the real world everybody would just call a[0] "the first element of the array".
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Or that a Doner Kebab in Zurich is 20 dollars and up. That's US salary alright bit US price of living? Hell no
If you owe money to someone and don't pay it deliberately... what else would you call it other than stealing?

Corporations get many benefits from the government (as do we all, in different ways) so is only fair that they pay taxes.

The corporate tax rate is less in recognition that they are capital generators.
A company creating value and the same company committing theft are not contradictory. One can take commendable actions AND reprimandable (?) actions.

As far as whether there is an obligation to pay taxes, well, "render unto caesar what is due to caesar" and all that.
A two hour commute (assuming one hour each way) is very very common. I did it for years when I lived in the suburbs and worked downtown. About an hour door-to-door each way, with the train ride being about 45 minutes of that.
Tens of thousands of engineers (audio, vision, linguists etc.) spent millions of hours for billions of dollars in the past 30 years to invent algorithms that reliably tell us something about a bunch of data. For example, an corner feature algorithm (such as SIFT) can extract the locations of corners in an image and characterize them. This is essential to many kinds of information processing tasks because we want to apply the same algorithm to different data (generalization), so we kind of need an interface to the data. This interface is called a feature (or feature algorithm, feature extractor or feature-descriptor).

All of this work (some of these papers have on the order of ten thousands of citations) is now obsolete because you can start with a random initialization of the weights of a neural network and iteratively improve the weights using backprop for any kind of task. All you need a measure of improvement that is relatively smooth and differentiable with respect to the network weights. What is surprising is that the circuits and programs within reach of backprop training of fully connected neural networks are actually astonishingly good at what they do. But ultimately, this is maybe not so surprising given that our brains do something similar all the time.
"Keep a reserve" is the hard part. Most countries are in debt. Even if you have a reserve to begin with we can disregard it as a temporary luxury - long term the budget must be in balance or the reserve will disappear.

If you vote for "2% raised taxes" or "expand railway network" only the combination (yes, yes) and (no, no) can balance the budget. People would likely vote against the tax increase but for the infrastructure investment.

And even if you could afford it - how do you prioritize it against something else that was also accepted through referendum?
Why would a transmit-only device expose any vulnerabilities in its software? It shouldn't have the physical capability to receive any remote signals, much less act in any way in response to them.
Ah, yes, because corporations exist in a vacuum and generate money from thin air, typically using up none of earth's natural resources.
The bomber did not surrender. It did not land and/or seek sanctuary with a neutral party, even though both options were the more humane. It was not a wounded soldier trying to stay alive: it was still fighting and showed no intention of surrender. Today, the German pilot should have shot it down or be punished for allowing a combatant to so escape.

Chivalry is all well and good but, like so many other stories from that war, this reminds me of the speech in Remains of the Day where the American congressman calls all the old powers amateurs, that the coming war (WWII) wouldn't be prevented by a agreement between gentlemen over dinner. Imagine the outrage today if a US soldier allowed a wounded ISIS fighter to limp home with his weapon rather than capture him. Conversely, imagine what would happen to that wounded ISIS fighter should his compatriots see him fail to kill the hesitant US soldier. War has moved on.
The answer to the question which technique will lead to AI depends on who you ask.

Geoffrey Hinton and Jürgen Schmidhuber are convinced that neural nets trained with backprop will likely lead to AI with minimal additional fixed-function structure. Schmidhuber's intuition is that recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are capable of universal computation, so given sufficient computational resources the RNN can learn any task, including generalization, goal and action selection and everything else that we associate with intelligence. Hinton's intuition is that RNNs essentially accumulate representations in their hidden state vectors that are very similar to human thoughts ("thought vectors"). Hinton thinks that thought vectors will naturally lead to the kind of reasoning that humans are capable of. In his view the human brain is basically a reinforcement-modulated recurrent network of stacks of autoencoders (needed for unsupervised representation learning).

Pedro Domingo sees such universally that may lead to AI in all major fields of AI: (1) Symbolists have inverse deduction (finding a general rule for a set of observations), (2) Connectionists have backprop and RNNs (see above) (3) Evolutionists have genetic programming (improvement of programs via selection, mutation and cross -over), (4) Bayesianists have incremental integration of evidence using Bayes' theorem, e.g. dynamic Bayes networks, and finally (5) Analogizers have kernel machines and algorithms to compare things and create new concepts.

Domingo's hypotheses is basically that only a combination of various of these approaches will lead to AI.
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It's not only for T-shirts or single-shape dress...
Did the parent imply that?
Our Sydney EC2 DB instance is stuck spinning in the "stopping" state so we are basically offline right now. The team is working on getting a new DB instance set up, but I read that our payment provide, Westpac, is also having issues. So even if we do get back online, users might not be able to purchase.

What a mess.
For the true laundryphobe, you can buy socks in bulk for less than a dollar a pair. Just wear a new pair every day and throw them out when you're done.

I don't actually do this, FWIW, but talking about it is a fantastic way to annoy an environmentalist at a bar. I often threaten to create a startup around the "disposable clothing subscription" idea, 9 out of 10 at the table are horrified by the wastefulness or think it's ridiculous that people consider matching socks to be a nuisance at all, but that last person is so lazy that they'd almost consider it if the price was right.

I suspect it probably wouldn't make a great subscription business, pack/ship costs would make the margins really tight if you wanted to stay around the $1/pair price point (and you'd be sourcing really crummy socks even to get there), so I think you'd have to go pretty far up-market. Who knows, maybe that could work (it looks like a ton of sock-of-the-month premium subscription box things do exist), though probably not for daily disposable socks.
John McCarthy [of Lisp noteriaty] asserted that thermostats have beliefs. Searle mentions it in Minds, Brains, and Programs [1]. It's perhaps as good a starting point as many to dive into the rabbit hole.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20071210043312/http://members.ao...
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>> Or that French people should have not resisted the Nazi invasion

All rumours about French people resisting Nazis are greatly exagreggated.
You mean the Lenovo thinkpads which come with tons of malware like superfish and different insecure plain http update mechanisms?
Spoiler: they aren't. It's an incredibly naive position that many "libertarians" hold.

It ignores the direct and indirect benefits that governments provide that support an entity being able to make money that can even be taxed.

It's quite a silly position.

Now specific taxes could be immoral and debate about the correct amount that it should be all you like... but the concept? No.
And if it is, you should do the maths and consider if you can afford becoming a landlord, because it means there's potentially room for yields well above normal (but beware the likely incoming flood of other landlords once people realise).
You might not be the right person to ask this, but maybe somebody else from Switzerland will be able to.

I'm starting a coding internship in Geneva in about two months and I was wondering whether you would have any advice about renting apartments in the area. For example, should I be trying to find apartments in France, or am I better off sticking with Switzerland. Should I be getting in touch with estate agents in the area via phone? Are there any good sites which contain apartment listings? I will be staying there for 12 months so any advice would be much appreciated.
> Most of that stuff didn't matter for the single user use case of Windows back then.

It mattered just as much as it matters now, and it will always continue to matter. People didn't know that it mattered because people didn't know anything better. After all, for the vast majority of people crappy DOS-based Windows from Microsoft was the only thing they could afford to use (in every sense of the word, not just financial sense).

> Also unless you are speaking about Windows 3.x, your statement about prempemptive multitasking and memory protection is wrong.

No. 16-bit software was cooperatively scheduled, and there was a lot of 16-bit software in the Windows 95 era. Even significant components of the first version of Windows 95 were 16-bit. Hell, lots of drivers were real-mode drivers!

Software used virtual memory, but there was zero, nada, nil memory protection. In fact it was pretty standard for programs to stomp over each other's memory as a "feature".

> I develop software for Windows since the 3.0 version.

Who cares.
The standard Chicago city lot is only about 25' wide though. The houses are very close together, with a tiny front yard and a slightly large back yard but only a narrow strip on either side.
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That's why this kind of thing needs to be dealt with on a legislative level.

Insecure automatic updates need to be met with automatic, unappealable per-day fines calibrated to gobble the margin this kind of behavior creates.
0.0.x = proof of concept?
0.1.x = first actually usable version (but may be buggy, missing features, etc.)
I see a lot of posts suggesting what FB should do about this (as if they have incentives to change things; they don't) but perhaps we should focus on informing end users about the dangers of ads and how to properly use an ad-blocker. What would really be great is for the tech community to provide solutions that regular non-techie users can use. For example, if Firefox started bundling anti-ad functionality into its browser.

The age of debating whether ads are acceptable or not is long passed; ads are not acceptable because they are malware. Period. We should be teaching people how to avoid malware and that means avoiding all ads. How can we expect FB to fix this problem when they are causing the problem and they are profiting from it? On the other hand, putting ad blocking technology into the next Firefox would not only fix a huge chunk of the problem, but also send a clear message from a huge fraction of web users that malware is not acceptable in any form, including in ad form. I can't think of a better solution.
> Using Web Driver also got a steep learning curve.

I would recommend not working with WebDriver directly. There are many projects that wrap it in a sane API and make it very easy to use. For example if you're using Javascript then use http://webdriver.io instead of directly using the Selenium WebDriver API.

> IMO it is hard to setup and resource consuming

What issues have you had? It's always been very easy to setup in my experience.

The only two 'issues' I've had are correct management of the Selenium server within a task running context and odd interactions with some browsers when they are driven by selenium (e.g. safari considering `window.open()` to always be a popup from selenium triggered actions).
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