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Well, the chimera program can totally run on Windows; it just uses a particular DLL for a good chunk of it's runtime. That's not super different from, say, a C# app with some native Win32 code, right?

A couple of plausible scenarios:

1. You have a legacy UNIX app that is now only being used on Windows, but rewriting it entirely is a giant project. You can compile it against Cygwin, and then new development can run on Windows.

2. You have a cross-platform app that needs a few OS-specific things in certain places. Maybe it's some sort of system status checking/auditing tool, maybe it interacts with hardware drivers, etc. You can use #ifdef WIN32 and call Windows-specific APIs, just like you can use #ifdefs to check for Apple-specific or Linux-specific APIs, and you don't have to port your entire app away from the UNIX model.
The Next Generation Programmer
Two funny stories about Portuguese and programming language books:

1) my father once brought home from work a book about programming with dBase-II. The problem was that they had not only translated all of the text but the program listings as well. I told him that if he tried typing in any of the examples it would not work at all. I wonder if anybody ever bothered trying it.

2) A company called Brascom was selling illegally imported Cromenco computers in Brazil with the name BR-1000. They decided to rename the Cromix operating system to BR-1000 as well. In the manual they simply replaced every instance of "cromix" with "br1000". A student complained that he couldn't get one of the examples in the manual to work, so I looked at it and noticed it had a "br1000(300);" system call in it, so I suggested that he try "cromix(300);" instead. It now compiled and ran just fine.
Hmm, not sure this is a good idea. Most TV characters act so little like normal people that any AI trying to learn anything from them would be getting a really distorted picture.

I mean, one of the very examples they give in the article is The Office. Yeah, I see that going quite poorly as a learning tool.
It's almost like a government-encouraged oligopoly is maximizing the amount of value they can seize from people regulatorily encouraged / forced to buy their product.
So long as the government guarantees students that they can get the loan, and guarantees lenders that it will be paid back (mostly by making the debt lifelong and not dischargeable through bankruptcy) the cost of education will simply be set at whatever the maximum available loan is.

This will cause the value of the education to be transferred away from the student and to the administrators of the institutions. The student will be allowed to keep a small percentage of this value for his/her trouble, a sharecropper of their own education.
Any start-up or small to medium size business that has been operating for at least a year.
On my nationality? No.

On the jurisdiction in which I, or the company employing me, operates? That can well be legitimate. You're discriminating against the laws (or unwritten government policies) in that jurisdiction, not against people.
The SENS approach to cancer is pretty much to turn off its ability to grow in unlimited fashion. If you could compensate for the side-effects, it would be possible to delete telomerase and ALT genes from humans, which would produce cancer free humans - if cancers can't lengthen their telomeres, they die.

Unfortunately, it would also produce humans would be dependent on some form of periodic telomerase therapy targeted to stem cells, or stem cell replacement, or similar. This might be a net gain in a suitably high-tech environment.

A better approach would be something other than permanent removal of telomerase and ALT genes, but perhaps suppressing them globally for a while, or suppressing them in cancerous tissue only. RNAi or other methodologies are pretty reliable for this sort of thing at the present time in the general sense.
"they're rapists... And some are good people"

Can I use this same logic for your typical Stanford, white male student? I'm pretty sure if I did I'd be considered the racist.
I am not rm_-rf, but I certainly would not hedge my future children's future on the stability of a developing country.

That's barring the other multitude of issues associated with moving (child isolation, increased competition, lack of certain infrastructure, new languages, loss of social support network, etc.)
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I think it's neat demonstration. They've got a simple point to get across, and this is a decent enough way to make it.
> ...joining the over 30,000 people already using Coconut...

This triggered my BS detector.

It turns out 30,000 is the sum of all downloads on PyPI since the very first version was released. But there are only 534 downloads on average for each release since version 0.2.2, excluding the blip for 0.3.2. So there is no way there are on the order of 30k users when downloads are roughly 1.8% of that for each release.

This matters because exaggerated claims reduce trustworthiness in a project and are off-putting to potential users.
The thing though is Tesla is also aiming at the energy storage part of the market with has the potential to be much larger.

Assuming their battery technology is competitive there's going to be no shortage of companies interested in their batteries.
Do you know of any more public information about Watson's ability to determine the cultural fit if an individual within an organization?
Because owning property is a form of defense (risk hedging) against the rent-seeking capitalist class.
I was under the impression that the major reason for the failure of current immunotherapy treatments is due to non-response, not excessive autoimmunity.
Python lambdas are explicitly artificially limited to a single expression. Python has statements which are not expressions, mostly control statements and looping constructs.
I believe that Mercury/Gemini heat shields included cork and/or balsa wood.
I know (and bemoan) that lambdas can only have a single expression returned, but can't you just use a named function? (Not as nice, I agree, but doesn't put a hard limit on FP in python.)
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It was a genuine question, and here's why:

if these advanced degrees possess such importance to their respective fields that employers will refuse to hire anyone who hasn't attained them, that simply means that the employers have outsourced a large portion of their on-the-job training to public education. This is troubling, as why should my [insert some other college degree] subsidize companies of lawyers, accountants, actuaries?

And if the above is true, the signalling theory also holds -- by an applicant showing up with the degree, they demonstrate that they've taken significant steps to increase their attractiveness and employability to the employer. It's a competitive advantage. And that competitive advantage is eroded if a large fraction of the population also attains the same degree.
To a degree these worried companies seem to be overreacting:

* Disgruntled insiders always have been a security threat, and usually the biggest threat.

* If the seller is operating on open markets, even anonymously, the company has much more visibility into what's happening than before, when the transactions were more private (I assume). The markets must have sufficient liquidity (i.e., buyers) for the seller to succeed, so I would guess that only reasonably well-known darknet markets would be used. Just monitor those markets and you know what is being sold and in many cases can narrow down who the seller is or even catch them and the buyer.

* Fear of a sociopathic 'lone wolf' is often exaggerated. Consider the similar reaction to terrorist attacks: People think, 'anyone could buy a gun and shoot up a crowded place', but that's not how it works. Physically, anyone could do it - anyone could drive their car into a crowd, an opportunity that arises billions of times per day - but people don't do it. The evidence is overwhelming: Human behavior is much safer than we fear.

* I suspect some is an overreaction to an unfamiliar new tech with a scary name: The Darknet.
I agree that I'm an example of a particular survivorship, but that's not really my point. I'm kind of trying to get out of the usual tech force right now with a focus on investigative journalism. Going that route is an acknowledgement of my survivorship bias while attempting to play my part in making things mildly better.

I would love to see these conversations move towards discussion on happiness, fulfillment, etc of college. The lack of discussion is 95% of my frustration in these subjects and almost always leads towards the economic value of college, while ignoring the individual. College is ultimately supposed to help get access to a happier life through comfort, stability, etc, but my generation overall is very unlikely to get that with the state of their loans. It's really sad.
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Their business is overly-dependent on the iPhone. The fact that 60% of their revenue comes from iPhones might leave them vulnerable to shifts in consumer behavior and/or market saturation.

iPhone sales drive sales of their other products and services. Apple is already facing heavy competition to iTunes; overall sales are declining and app revenue is making up a larger % of iTunes revenue in recent years. The decline of iTunes revenue is largely attributed to the glut of streaming services. I suspect their competing streaming service will need to be a loss-leader in the future in order to fuel grow for their cash-cow.

Now, I don't think that Apple is dying, not at all. But I can see how their situation is a bit more precarious than a heavily diversified company like Microsoft (whose failures demonstrate their impressive resiliency).
And manually closure-convert everything too?
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I just got the Trekz Titanium, put them on my head backwards for the first time last night. Works great. Nothing in the ear – wireless so no cords to get tangled up in. Super flexible so I'm not afraid of breaking them.
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Ah, being able to expand and keep using UTF-8 sounds great.

I didn't know that UTF-16 was considered broken. In what way is it so?
Aren't they putting the disunified characters into the U+2xxxx plane now?

Han unification is generally seen as a bad choice in retrospect, but it was something Unicode had to do when it looked like 2^16 codepoints were all they were going to get.
I bought Doom before I owned a PC. I bought the game, and sat it on my bedside while I saved up the money to buy a PC to play the game. I would go to the retail stores and install Doom on the demo PCs there just so I could play it.

Finally I had enough money for a PC to play Doom, my brother and I played Doom for a couple of years on our home lan. I played dialup doom with friends. I played Doom with the mouse and keyboard because it was the only easy way to strafe kill someone "easily". and then Quake came out.... I went to a friends place and they were playing DM. I hadn't even heard of Quake. I was like "What is this game" "Oh its Quake, by those guys who made Doom". I had to get it. I had a 486. Wasn't ever going to fly. It ran like shit. You couldn't run out and buy a AMD cpu to play it on either because of the FPU. You had to have an Intel. So I bought a second hand Pentium 60, and off I went! I still remember the day I got the Pentium 60 and 8mb of ram and now I could also run Windows 95 too.

Quake was a genre changing game, probably one of the most influential games ever. id loved to make modifiable games, and Doom had quite a solid mod community, but Quake was really the Internet's child. The Quake servers that came online initially were dark foreboding places for anyone not on a fixed line connection. You'd be dead before you knew what happened, so then Carmack created QuakeWorld, with the predictive movement, and suddenly online gaming FPS on a modem was a whole new experience.

So many game sites spawned from the advent of Quake that are still around today. Entire media companies popped up around it.

People have mentioned in other threads why didn't more people use SVGA mode. The answer is because no computer could run it at an acceptable speed. What came of that? GLQuake. Then people were buying shitty (not at the time!) Voodoo 3dfx cards to play GLQuake, with the broken GL implementation Glide, and thus the video card arms race was born.

I got my first real job because of my affiliations with the Quake community. My first true love (who I met through Quake), "Internet friends" that I made playing QuakeWorld that I am still friends with today.

I don't believe any other game has had anywhere near as much influence on my life, or gaming in general.
> Sure, but these fields are known for being selective

Lots of fields that aren't so selective also require a tertiary (= post-highscool) education of some form. Most notably, a huge swath of jobs in health care that involve patient contact.

> Notably, if the field doesn't objectively require a very high level of domain-specific knowledge, but rather a general baseline command of a broad topic, eg. software development?

It's of course possible to become a competent software developer without a tertiary education. I know, I did it (programming job offers right out of high school).

But it's not common, and the secondary education system in the USA isn't set up to enable that sort of thing at scale. IMO it should, but it doesn't, and subidizing tertiary education is far more likely to succeed, and at lower cost, than such a drastic reform to such a huge sprawling institution.
I'm a little surprised that no one has suggested joining the military.

When I was in high school, my parents had no money for me for College. We were middle class, and my grades weren't competitive enough for me to get a scholarship.

So I did what I thought would work well (in 2002)- I joined the USAF as an enlisted "Computer Programmer". Fortunately, _did_ have a good education, so my ASVAB (military job test to determine what jobs you could be) score was relatively high. Joining as a computer programmer opened up the world to me like I couldn't imagine.

Ultimately, I ended up taking night and weekend classes while in the USAF and finished my bachelor's degree shortly before getting out. Later I would go on to get my Master's with my GI Bill because I didn't want it to go to waste.

I felt honored to serve my country and to contribute how I could and I graduated both undergrad and grad school with zero dollars of debt.

I think more people should consider this option, at least if they have a decent education and good military jobs open to them. Understandably, if someone joins as say, infantry, in the Army, it may not be so easy to go to school (though I have plenty of friends who did and took online classes!)

It's not for everyone, but it's definitely an option.
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Wasn't a big player 20 years ago though many colleagues and employees were -- many occasions finding the "LAN guys" holed-up in the darkened data center at Prodigy frag-festing. Been playing OpenArena for the past several months. It's a lot of fun, and there are a lot of available mods. http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Things that I mostly worries about are my career and future plan. Like what I said before, I don't know how to start to plan it. I really want to start what I should achieve at the range of 25-27 and so on, for example.

By the way, creating a list what we want to achieve sounds good to me. I think it's better start with it. Thank you for your advice too.
I'm the co-founder of Apteligent. David, I'm surprised you would describe our solution as "high level passive analytics" unless you haven't tried it yourself.

I would say the difference is our deep focus on mobile user experience vs Sentry's focus on cross platform error reporting. To understand your users this also means you need more data than just crash. For example: app load times, network data, UI latency, etc.
IIRC this is a talk about this: "Building Scalable Stateful Services" by Caitie McCaffrey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0i_bXKwujQ
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So what do you do if you want to run Linux code on Windows, but you can't use the GPL? Cygwin (was/is) not an option in that case, so you just use MinGW. It's a pain, but it gets the job done.
> If I do not want minorities staying in my private residence, I can refuse them staying there.

If they are your guests. Not if they are your customers.

> Off topic...at what point do we stop calling them "minorities" when they are the majority in many regions??

We stop calling them minorities when they are no longer so heavily outnumbered by the dominant ethnic group.
> I'm pretty sure the EFF

Do you mean FSF here?
It seems to me that if you're running on the same device, the gpu should not be a variable.
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Since they just before that wrote that all valid Python is valid Coconut, I thought that it would be a joke about every Python user being a Coconut user.
A pair-wise analysis should be able to detect such magical players, those who increase the stats of those they play with.
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Don't worry, for your convenience, that Telemetry technology was backported to Windows 7 and Windows 8 as well.

There are some programs out there that can help block/disable it.[0]

[0] https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
It's reaffirmed my belief in the pareto optimal - because you can get 80% of the way towards a workable ML solution for your product with 20% of the effort, but that remaining 20% will require effort roughly equivalent to getting your PhD.
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Depending on what school you go to in Texas it isn't that easy to get top 8%. Some schools like Clements which is 50% Asian its quite hard to get into top 8% even if you have pretty good grades.
An RNG is not a bad thing, if the rest of the game is designed to compensate for it. In FPS, such random mechanics tends to make solo gameplay less dependent on skill, but rewards team effort, insofar as coordination can minimize such random chance affecting the outcome.

I can't speak for CS, not having experience there. But in Red Orchestra, where weapons are even more instakill, and there's even more randomness (with things such as artillery strikes, that have unpredictable patterns on terrain - you can be in a trench, and if you're unlucky, a shell can land inside and kill you), good team commander and squad leaders are absolutely necessary to win, and a team with better leadership will run circles around the one that doesn't, even if the latter has better players, for this exact reason.
Well it confused me for a couple seconds. Just seems lazy and careless to call it something it clearly is not
Corruption and incompetence is part of the American judicial tradition.

Scalia took thousands of dollars in free airfare and speaking fees and even was gifted that expensive, exclusive hunting lodge trip where he died.

Clarence Thomas was given a $19,000 bible as a "gift" and $500000 was given to his wife to start a Tea Party group.

This is why I am surprised anyone is phased by what Clinton does in comparison. They'd have to be completely ignorant or very biased.
> It still scales fine

Only 1024 sockets per select because FD_SETSIZE constant? How’s that scales fine? You have 10k sockets = you need 10 native threads, with 10 native stacks, on a quad code machine each of them is guaranteed to be out of CPU cache when IO completes. Not fine, very inefficient.

> there's rather little interest in converting either Alice ML or Erlang to libevent/libev/libuv.

Well, Erlang developers don’t care about windows. And for BSD, Linux and Solaris they already support native event-based async IO for many years. They call the feature “kernel poll”.

> if you think async I/O in 1977 was advanced

I aware on some systems it was widely used. Just not on the mainstream *nix systems where that Alice ML ran in 2000.
Yes they could. It's always possible that another company could somehow do search or social networking better than Google and Facebook, find a really clever way of marketing their services and catch on before the former has any chance to catch up.

It'd help if either got much worse at their core business (since that tends to be what dooms a lot of companies nowadays), but even a strong Google could have a competitor that simply offers people a much better and more user friendly service.

But more likely is that they don't die to direct competitors. They die because they become irrelevant. Their 'true' competitor isn't another social network or search engine, it's something that completely replaces the need to have a social network or search engine.

For example, if a company came along and figured out a way to give people results based on what they were thinking about without any direct input required, that could make Google's typical search box and results page and ads completely useless. They'd be like a horse salesman after cars were invented. Same with Facebook.
The company is probably hoping that the L1/TN visas will keep them loyal.
So is your answer that people who choose "music, art and certain liberal arts" deserve the problems they get from college debt? Does that imply that you are fine with a society where these career paths effectively do not exist?
Are you saying there are only around 30k Python users? :)
Apologies (edited), I meant to suggest that other solutions are generally that. I definitely haven't used Apteligent (or Crittercism), but things like New Relic (which from a glimpse of screenshots, seemed similar), I would label as passive systems.
College is a waste of time and money for almost everyone who attends . In the 1960's, less than 10% of Americans had college degrees. Yet, we still had engineers and accountants and insurance adjusters, etc. Very few people, even white collar workers, learn anything essential in college.

The push for more and more college is a huge wealth transfer from the middle and lower-middle class to the upper-middle class professorial caste.
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Our experience with the two products:

* Asana. A quick test drive completely befuddled and irritated us. Rejected.

* Trello (for a team). Repeated attempts to use this as a collaborative tool among local and remote team members -- repeated failures. Different brains work different ways. (But we're giving it another try! We like pain!)

* Trello (for an individual). This is beginning to work for selected individuals, as a self-management tool.

(Bonus super-secret extra-special Trello-like methodology for managers). (Sample size n = 1, so you know the results are totally reliable).

* Trello on paper. One legal pad per individual team member with their stuff written on it. One legal pad for me with my stuff written on it. Scribbles and rewrites constantly. And (secret sauce) frequent person-to-person chats, live in Oxygenland or over Slack. Works spectacularly well.
You don't generally pull the trigger on six-figure medical or law school debt in your teens.
> In 2016 it is a normal thing to go to bed with earphones in your ears

Huh? Does anyone else find doing so completely impossible?

I start to feel kinda claustrophobic when i'm in headphones - not being able to hear the world around me leads to the "fire, burglars, plane crash, doomsday" kind of anxiety.
If I have kids and am right about humanity's bleak future, I both sacrificed my well-being to support children, and brought more sufferers into this world.