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If you're having RAM problems, you don't want to start up each processor independently as a "port". You'd want to write a Python server that offers a socket, start one instance of that that listens to the socket and then forks (since you control the system fully, probably let it fork once per connection rather than worrying about "preforking" or other complicated scenarios for when you don't control the concurrency), and then write the glue code to talk across that socket. [1]

That way, your Python processes load all their modules and do all their initialization, and the forking automatically takes care of Copy-On-Write semantics in the RAM and you end up with only more-or-less one copy of them in RAM.

[1]: I don't know if there's a "perfect" off-the-shelf solution for you, but there's enough existing code in the world with all the pieces that it's pretty easy to do that nowadays. For instance, one very easy protocol that leaps to mind is:

4 bytes to say how much JSON there is
a JSON object containing the metadata for your connection
4 or 8 bytes to say how long the incoming webpage is
the contents of the webpage you're telling Python to process

It's not perfectly efficient, but it has great bang-for-the-buck, and will carry you a long way before you start needing to do anything else fancier.

You might also be able to bash ErlPort into compliance and get the client and server side going, but, well, this isn't very difficult code to write and it doesn't take much "screwing around with opaque library code that doesn't really want to be used separately" before you could have just written this.
When it's just tens or hundreds of thousands of people that believe in something ridiculous, we call it delusions but when that number gets into the millions we call it truth. Popularity is indeed the harbinger of truth. In other words, how is this different than the idiots who are convinced terrorists are after them? Just because we haven't yet identified the mental sickness in the latter group doesn't mean their conspiracy theories are true rather than delusions, but we are fine with even going to war to protect them. I see no difference between delusional psychotic patients, in other words, and many run of the mill idiots.
In Canada, debit transactions are run through the Interac network, which is a non-profit set up by the Canadian banks. Interac also has an email money transfer service which is widely used.

Canadian banking is different from everywhere because the market is protected from foreign competition. It makes Canadian bank stocks good to own, but makes banking expensive and annoying for Canadians.
The U.S. has ‘worst elections of any long-established democracy,’ report finds
It's just so ridiculously easy to overfit these models, and so so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot as a result.

For example, "I split the data set into 5 random segments and then trained a model on 4 of the 5 segments and then tested it on 5th." Such data is serially correlated (it's not good old iid) so already it looks like you have poisoned the test set with information from the training set.

The hard part is not "feature engineering" or "ensemble methods", the hard part is controlling the entropy that you feed these things because they are voracious monsters and will absolutely eat all of it.
Does this apply to gas stations? I see a few in (rural) Virginia offering "cash prices" sometimes seeming more than 3% cheaper.
>being shot in the process (not deadly)

Being shot is always deadly, I think you meant to say he was not fatally shot.

EDIT: This is not a point of idle pedanticism, it's a very common misconception that there are 'safe' places to shoot a human body such as the shoulder. There are no safe places to shoot somebody, all shots taken by police are shots to kill.

https://www.pfoa.co.uk/110/shooting-to-wound
The bank may be limited in charging the fee but companies aren't. Credit card surcharges are quite popular in the UK. I notice them most on airfares as they tend to be quite expensive - Virgin Atlantic charges 1.5% surcharge for credit cards, for instance.
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I had a close relative experience a psychotic episode and require hospitalization, it was an incredibly intense experience all around. And as you say drugs are very crude tools with unpleasant side-effects, from my personal observation I have to wonder whether those drugs actually help more than they hurt, on average. It's somewhat shocking how backward and regressive our society and medical establishment still is in their approaches to psychiatric issues. At best we're only a few steps out of the dark ages and still fumbling around.
As others have mentioned, the attack requires a local process that has a shared cache, so it would also require a server that has a remote code execution vulnerability.
I hear you. Although, I believe that's one of the loopholes that companies like Infosys exploits. They pay just above market average and they have a really high number of H1B employees, bordering on the limit. Also, market average fluctuates a lot between regions so it can be circumvented as well. Hard problem....
How do blood transfusions actually work? I assumed it was a temporary thing to allow your own blood cell generation to make up for whatever you lost; that transfused blood would cycle out normally or actually eventually be rejected as foreign.
As another commenter alluded to, the cost to host PDFs is barely a factor in the cost of the whole process. The bulk of the cost is the paid staff and the systems required to run the submission and peer review process. Yes, reviewers review for free. But often there are paid editors and there is always significant staff to handle the submissions, find appropriate reviewers, follow up on the process, and ensure that the whole thing actually gets done, check for plagiarism and fraud, etc. That's not to say it's a particularly good system. The whole process of submission, revise and resubmit, rejection, submit to another journal, etc can take many many months (or even years) and traditional peer review isn't perfect (or even close to it) by any means. But arguing that there are no costs involved is simply false.

If we look at non-profit publishers like PLoS we see processing charges between $1,500 - $3,000 per article. And you have to realize that there are multiple kinds of peer review, at a basic level it breaks down to two categories, what I'll call "methodological review" and "impact review". PLoS One, for example, only does methodological review. So at no point in that process is anyone trying to assess the importance of the paper. eLife is a newer open access publisher going a bit the other way, trying to have a journal selecting for importance of the caliber of Nature, Cell, etc. Their initial costs (these numbers are a few years old) came out to be about $14,000 per article.

Depending on how you approach peer review and what services you are trying to provide you can certainly get the cost down, but I have yet to see a model that can get down below about $700 per article (still only doing methodological review). Sci-Hub can be cheap because it piggy backs on the process after the vetting and curation are done. But that's like comparing apple to oranges.
Hickey's latest tweet:

If you think you know how I ought to spend my time, come over and mow my lawn while I expound on the problems of dev entitlement culture.

https://twitter.com/richhickey/status/741982205392617472
Interestingly, Solr also can do a lot of database type work. It can store not just documents for text searches, but also for numeric fields, aggregations, pivoting, etc. A nice tool for a data analysis back end. Even the Hue project uses it for its dashboard maker.
This won't be a long-term solution as the magnetic stripe is a legacy technology that's being phased out. Lots of US merchants already require the chip (if available on the card) instead of a magnetic stripe, and almost all European merchants only accept chip cards (and don't even have a reader anymore for the magnetic stripe).
Call for WPA3 - what's wrong with WPA2 security and how to fix it
If there was a car that ran on tears of children and had 9 tax breaks you know they'd go for that one.
They do it directly or indirectly, I don't know how US banks works but usually over the world bank accounts vary accounts with no/low fees give low interest and vice versa.
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Just because more than one person infers something doesn't mean it's really there.
Always trying to present a 'balanced' view is an extreme form of bias. 10 million well informed people on one side 10 fools on the other. Let's give them equal air time.

Someone is always going to disagree and trying to accommodate extreme fringe beliefs basically prevents you from communicating accurately. Worse it adds a fake air of legitimacy to every wack-job out there.
That sounds like weeding out insider trading, not finding people with legitimate market beating strategies.

If you're trading on confidential information, your profile will look very interesting indeed. You'll be trading near announcements, and you'll be right all the time. Your turnover vs profit and number of trades will be through the roof. By contrast quant shops with real models will be using the law of large numbers.
Right. Something like a third of Manhattan buildings could not be built today due to similar zoning restrictions.
Thought much less likely to be taken over by computers. Radiologists have way too good of a gig going to last.
>I'm definitely not commenting on one now.

Certainly not.

I have to go rant about Google being a front for the NSA now.
This Instagram account for Runners has launched a risky International campaign
Instagram and its reach is undeniably the best in all of social media and runners were already trying to document their journeys on Instagram. “Why not find a better way to do it?” Is the question that led to the Instagram campaign launched by @runnersmagazine
“This account though in its infancy, can be best described as a place where runners speak their
heart. All runners have exciting stories to tell. To discover, reach out and inspire people is our aim.” says P Asish, one of the two founders who run this account.
The injuries, the preparation, the journey, and the triumph is common in the life of an athlete. But inspiring people through their stories is a more complex challenge to execute; especially when you depend on novel narrations.
“No editing, no journalistic feel; the emotions conjure enough excitement for
the story. We have been successfully attracting runners in a way they love.”
Last month @runnersmagazine started reaching out to runners from around the world to share their stories. The result is a series of 22 stories to be published in 22 days (starting June 12, 2016).
“These stories reflect the diversity of the running community in the best possible way: from middle school kids to people in their 40s; from 8 nations(United States ,England ,China,Norway,Denmark,Finland,Canada and Russia) and various professions(including a 2016 Olympics participant). Working moms, obesity
fighters ,a junior Olympian, and several state champions have submitted to the cause.”
The decision to publish stories without editing is risky move. The founders, it seems are willing to gamble the future of their account on their belief. But Asish seems hopeful that this approach will help them build a strong community."We don't like the idea of editing original content.The ingenuity is what sets us apart from the other running pages out there. "
"Toronto is already home to a number of successful venture-backed businesses, such as Shopify, KIK, ..."

Fact check time. Shopify's headquarters is in Ottawa. Kik is in Waterloo.
Igor Tulchinsky has a fund that does this. He also writes books and papers about how he does it, with everything you need to do it yourself.
> In other words, while academically interesting, mixing Elixir and Python for web crawling doesn't make much actual sense.

That's right. It wasn't supposed to be a real project, it's a just a tech demo of sorts. I will have some more real-world uses for the integration in my Raspberry project, I think, but I'm not there yet.
None, but you are taking away from it things that the article doesn't say. AMT is a subset of ME, it's not available on all procs, and even if it is available, it also requires the supporting chipset.

Nearly everyone reading this on a laptop/desktop system is doing so on an Intel processor. Go ahead and attempt to enable remote access without a supported proc/chipset/bios and then come back and complain about this unexpected remote access.

There is a lot of misunderstanding about this technology in the security world which strikes me odd because it's well-documented and readily available for your own testing.
An interesting observation. Obvious, on the face of it, but then you consider: what if they'd been shot in the little finger. Very unlikely to cause death (where prompt medical help is available). People have died from biting their nails (at least, from complications caused from subsequent infection when the skin was broken) but you'd hardly call nail biting a "deadly habit". They both lay along a scale of deadliness. I wonder how probable an action has to be of causing death before it can safely be called deadly?
That is both something that has a reason (they want to test something, in order to change/improve their product) and it doesn't require massive resources since it's automated. Believing this isn't necessarily crazy.
Anecdotally I was in Austin for the first time a few weeks ago and it was just fine without Uber. I did all of the following:

Take a yellow cab from the airport, Walk, get a ride from my AirBNB host, hail a taxi, borrow a bike, get a ride from other friends, hang out on Rainey Street with whatever friends are around and use the Getme app it get to the airport.

Lack of Uber did not affect my visit at all. If anything walking around more enhanced my experience. What a great city.
> 100 people try to develop a profitable trading algorithm....

It's much worse than this with machine learning approaches. Imagine a million people trying to find a profitable algo, all on your laptop, and you are choosing the best one out of all of those.

If you are used to pen-and-paper trading strategies, or even excel spreadsheets, machine learning is just a completely different level to this. And probably how it works will be unintelligible to anyone. I don't even see how someone can write a business plan based on this.
Tesla Autopilot Is “Trying to Kill Me” – Volvo's R&D Chief
I believe the term is vampires. That concept has been around for quite a long long time...
Huh? I think you may be confused. Being shot mean being struck by a bullet. Inanimate objects can be shot. Whether it's deadly/fatal is a consequence of the injury.
Metadata includes who a surveillance target is calling,
emailing, what websites they visit, and, when location
data is available, a person’s movements.

That an impressive definition of "metadata". To the defenders of these efforts i continue to point to the common trend among these agencies: expansion. First the definition of terrorist expanded without merit. Then the application of spy tracking data expanded similarly. Now metadata, the comfy term these agencies have used to limit public outcry, is expanding as well.

This is a frustrating time we live in. Far too few are taking the necessary steps to prevent this serial erosion of, what just some years ago, was common privacies and judicial rights.
Kudos for this, especially for generalizing from real apps. But I have criticisms.

Declarative approaches are appealing, but lack sufficient flexibility for general use. BTW arguably, browsers are native apps configured by html/css/js.

Html templates in json is unnecessarily confusing. It's unfamiliar and untooled.

Unfortunately, json paths are inadequate for api's in general. They can't extract data from within text, combine, compute, nor use complex sequential api queries to get the data you need. You could add all this, but coding in a data format is awful, compared with a designed syntax like javascript.

Still, it is appealing to have just "one json". Maybe people can live with html in json for that. If you also design the backend (or it's an isomorphic frontend to an existing api), data extraction by path should be OK.
> - You must never send an email to someone with a Gmail address

You can be sending to gmail without knowing.
Many business use gmail enterprise. I've been told that their EULA states no mining on private data, but that's very hard to believe.
The backstory here is probably that Walmart was able to negotiate fee discounts with MasterCard and American Express, but Visa refused to budge. So now Walmart is punishing them for our benefit.
I tried it on mobile. It still loaded fast. As with many pages, Firefox Reader Mode improved the experience. Though for me, the bulk of the improvement comes from text formatting, part of the improvement is hiding blog comments, ads, email signups, etc.

Anyway, my experience is that touching Firefox's reader-mode icon in the address bar is usually faster than a boatload of formatting logic; produces more readability than a website's general optimization, and bypasses all the ancillary crap that people concerned enough to optimize for mobile tend to add.
If you were to report on climate change deniers, would you not focus on the fact that they are denying something that overwhelming scientific evidence attests to? Or if somebody claimed the earth was flat, would your report say, "gee, there's an opposing view, guess we'll never know who's right"?
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There are many areas of radiology interventional for example which is aided by but not likely to be taken over by computers. There are threats to any profession but if you look at the earnings from psych vs. radiology it would take a great deal to drive down earning in rad to the level of psych in the near term.
The second-hand FB thing is the one I'm having the most trouble with lately. I just casually try to avoid being in any group photos because I know they'll end up on instagram/facebook but I still appear on some. The whole thing must be kind of pointless by now :(
One of the best analysis of the US geopolitical situation I have ever read is this.

https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics-united-states-...

Thought me a lot.
Please try and find anyone who'd rather be lynched or beaten than have their racial group spoken of negatively.
Powershell is garbage. .Net does utf8 by default but powershell, built on .Net, manages not to.

Try type utf8Encoded.txt > out.txt in cmd.exe and posh. Cmd works and posh fs it up.

And after you do figure out utf8 encoding in posh, it'll always add a BOM just to screw you
Has this just flown under the radar for three years? Why wasn't it noticed and fixed?
When your health costs you your job
I was recently reading about OS/8, which happened because I have become interested in SIMH, and I was surprised to see how similar some of its commands are to those from DOS (which in turn copied CP/M). It was interesting to see the ASSIGN command on another OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/8
UK has the same interchange rates and they have Apple Pay.

The German banks are just too greedy and invested in their own shitty Girocard scheme which doesn't even support tokenization which would be required for Apple Pay.
May be underwater, underground. That was a casual comment tossed off at the end of the article. The first incarnation will certainly be 'at grade' or aboveground.
Google's “Nearby” for Android Shows Apps, Websites Based on Users' Location
Cheap Rocket Launches May Be Key to National Defense
This is bad to hear. I never managed to do a single course in the past due to other commitments. Only thing I did manage was to enroll with them. What can I do now? I wanted to learn to code and become good at it and land a job or atleast get involved in local software development companies. Is this still possible with coursera shutting down? I'm getting a little stressed in being 'late to the party'.
Agree about Windows command prompt being lame compared to bash, but I really find PowerShell amazing, even more so then bash. If you look at all the recent (even not so recent) products from MS, it is clear that PowerShell is the shell for Windows, and not batch. I didn't get the cure for polio analogy that's in the article but I really think anyone that's comparing shells should compare with PowerShell.
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I think that's not a news anymore, that Mozilla is too busy with IoT now.
Read the book "7 habits of highly effective people" it will give you some great insight and maybe help you develop your idea more.

As for non technical things that have helped me

1. Saying No more often
2. Cleaning out the trash (Eating Healthy, Organizing my schedule/home/projects and Cutting Nonsense Relationship)
3. Finding my anchor (The things that ground me, keep me centered and give me purpose. Like family time, a cold beer with a old friend, etc)
4. Understanding my mission (This is something a lot of people struggle with because most people don't know what they want to do with life.

For me the most non technical thing that can help anyone is having the mindset to discover, explore and learn new things.

I would love to read what you come up with so when you have something send it over.
The key part of Tim Berners-Lee's Talk at Decentralized Web Summit
Does this affect TorBrowser?
I think I have read everything Dave Cheney has ever written about errors. But you misunderstand what I'm saying.

The standard library is already littered with error values defined on the package level. Many third party packages emulate that approach.

Once you have done that in package, there is no way to change it. You cannot add function call specific data to an error after the fact. There is no way to implement an IsTemporary(error) function once you have clients that compare any returned error to a package level singleton using ==.

>Knowing the exact error code is probably not what a caller wants

I had that need many times. For instance, I needed to get the SQLSTATE from database errors. There is a huge number of SQLSTATE codes and interpreting/classifying them can't be the job of a data access package or even a DBMS specific driver library.

Also, how would a networking package know what I consider temporary? Some protocols like HTTP specify some errors to be temporary, but that may not coincide with what I'm willing to retry or not retry.
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From the Reddit comments: apparently this is false, the "leak" is just showing FF's defaults.
The characteristic of metaphorical epicycles is that the make simple, testable predictions that are then wrong, which are fixed with another epicycle.

Another more subtle aspect of epicycles, real ones this time, is that they are too powerful and can be used to prove anything. You can predict the motion of the planets with epicycles, it's just that the required series is very long or infinite. And with very long series of cycles, you can "predict" anything: https://youtu.be/QVuU2YCwHjw?t=25s Thus, one of the problems with epicycles both real and metaphorical is that they are indeed not refutable. Because epicycles can predict anything, they aren't that useful; they exclude far less than meets the eye at first.

It isn't hard to see that characterist showing up in string theory. The theory has for a very long time had problems with excluding possibilities, and each new metaphorical "epicycle" seems to come with more parameters than the last, rather than fewer. Now, this isn't unique to string theory since all the current theories seem to have that problem, but then, the point is, why does this problematic theory have so much more support and money than the other problematic theories?
2012. It was the result of a class action anti trust lawsuit between merchants and visa/mastercard. That lawsuit also had a 6 billion dollar payout.
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