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Just a logically way of thinking. Many people don't know it, but Java is verified with prolog.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-4.ht...
I saw this article yesterday about how more and more apps have become abandoned:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/21/the-apple-app-store-gravey...

The App Store will keep growing but it won't be good if half the apps are abandoned.
I can't help but note that the only game in the top 200 that is not "Free" is Minecraft.
I think this is a great question. I was vague on this as well but I found this site after a quick search [1]

A gene is a code for making a specific protein. Each gene is a sequence of three-letter "words" called "codons". There are special "start" and "stop" codons which mark the beginning and end of a gene.

[1] http://genetics.thetech.org/about-genetics/how-do-genes-work
I have no direct experience with power supplies radiating, except to note that switching frequencies are up significantly, from 20khz twenty years ago to 500khz to 2MHZ today. The AM band is something like 700khz to 1.4MHZ.

Higher switching frequencies and the push for higher efficiency[1] also means very fast switch times, on the order of 20-100ns. High speed signals like that contain very strong harmonics which will leak out.

[1] Old guy mentioned to me what you care about is not the efficiency, but the inefficiency. Because that's directly related to heat. Going tom 90% efficient to 95% efficient, who cares! Except you reduced the amount of heat you need to dissipate by half from 10% to 5%.
It's just a throwaway snide remark about expecting metaphysics to have concrete answers for anything (It's not even coherent; if the air molecules don't vibrate without an observer, there probably isn't a tree or a forest either).

(metaphysics is still an interesting and useful exercise, but the state of not having an answer to a particular question isn't much more of a real conundrum than not having asked the question in the first place. I mean, when you are hungry, eating feels pretty good regardless of whether the food exists or not.)
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The issue has nothing to do with model fitting or the number of parameters. The key question is whether the model is explanatory (of nature) rather than merely predictive. The case of a Markov model is a red herring because those Markov models are designs of human engineered communication systems rather than models of nature.
my breakfast this morning basically consisted of electrons
If it's using a milling machine to cut the PCBs it's neither cheap (breaks a few end-mills per project), instant (have to redo the board several times to fix milling issues) not very useful (1 layer, huge tolerances)...

It's quite a shame the "fablabs" have chosen to go with that approach (for philosophical reasons mostly, I guess, as the milling machine could also be used for other purposes) rather than a decent simple etching process.

Sorry for the rant, I've seen a "fab academy" student struggle with the process quite unreasonably during the last few weeks...
It's possible that this has been 'fixed' with GPL3. I just know Linus used it as a reason not to change the license of the Linux kernel.
Welcome to Claude Shannon! It's not about the message but about the receiver ...
He does not mention climate change at all. Germanys antinuclear movement is against nuclear reactors because it is still unclear what happens to the waste. Remind you that were are speaking of a country that is populated quite evenly, there is no space where you could leave it for ever with noone affected. Same for fracking: somebody will live in the area where fracking occurs. But big money does not care about these people. Therefore Germans are against it altogether.
"I hear this myth"

With it happening to more and more developers, you can't really call it a myth. You can say that maybe their stuff wasn't really that good, or that they're an outlier, but you can't call it a myth.
Been there, seen that. Nebulous, pie-n-the-sky requirements coupled with PMs that don't understand software development and probably don't even understand the product.

I feel bad for PMs, because there is a role for them - just usually not the role that they've been assigned to. PMs tied down to small teams usually causes problems. PMs should be facilitating inter-team development. I believe tech-leads and BAs should be assigned the role that PMs seem to find themselves in when they're assigned to small teams.

And please PMs, learn what the product is all about. Too many times I've seen PMs actively not wanting to know what the hell the product is about and instead love getting bogged down in process (and of course meetings).
Firefox added it ~3 weeks ago under a flag in Nightly, should be in stable a few months from now.
I'm not an expert. But basically what 23andme tells you are what parts of your DNA deviate from the reference genome. If you have certain mutations in certain genes, then those genes (which correspond to enzymes) have a defect: the corresponding enzymes may not work as expected. For example, if 23andme tells you that you have a defect in a gene called BCMO1 (which encodes an enzyme that converts carotenes into retinol), then Nutrahacker could tell you that you might benefit from taking a retinol supplement. (The general case is more complicated than described here, as most genes may not be hacked around by adding nutrition directly, so a more careful approach is needed).

There is a lot of focus on the link between mental disorders and nutrition. For example, people with depression, anxiety, and autism have been helped by addressing their nutritional needs. In some cases, these disorders may be "late-onset disorders", they appear later in life. So even if you have no disorder right now, it might still be a good idea to optimize your diet.
Yes, because I'm an engineer, not a gambler or a marketer. In that time, I also saw OSX become more and more iOS like, with fisher-price grade APIs replacing old, working ones, etc.

Quite frankly I still compile my old stuff now and then, but I have no regrets leaving it all for the hipsters to fight over.
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Has anyone used BMC's bladelogic product? Does anyone know any alternatives? I'm basically looking to see if their is any product out there like that, where I can use roles to control access to servers, where the user can login via putty/ssh.
I'm not looking for a password management solution, but more of a role/user solution. I dont think chef/puppet/ansible have this ability. You can run remote commands and such, but I dont think I could use that to pull up logs and work as if I was on an ssh session on the server. Might be wrong on that though.
> That's a pretty big downside

Or it might give you a huge upside.

I worked in one such situation where a small group at megacorp did pilot our alpha product and drove a lot of feature requirements. I was main point of contact for pilot. It was lot of work and some frustration but after a year of this pilot work, referral from this little group resulted in over $20M in revenue for the product from other groups within Megacorp. Over $100M of revenue from other customers in next few years was easily attributable to referral from this small group at megacorp.
The real irony here is a rant against commercialism that is published on a page with no less than 11 display ads and a "related content" unit....
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There are historical examples of discontinuities, though I don't think the FOOM debate will be settled soon. It may be quite a while before we even get to "dumb AGI", but the hardest part of that is the G part. Right now "they don't work" is indistinguishable from "they don't exist", but if we get that G, I don't see how you could claim either. From there, even if we suppose it's another huge leap to get to true super-intelligence instead of a FOOM, the time to get to merely smart AGI, and indeed smarter-than-human AGI, would be short, if only for the basic advantages of a silicon machine substrate. If all we had were human brains running on silicon even, that would be enough to quickly reach superhuman general intelligence, even if not true super- (or perhaps ultra- as I.G. Good originally put it) intelligence that we expect for a Singularity event.
Because when I die (or anybody else dies), the universe ends for me (or them). The clone is just a different person who can't tell that he's not me. But he is him.

The only thing you can really know for sure is that you're still alive. When you're dead, you know longer have the ability to know.
It's very very hard to make premium games on the App Store now. A typical top 25 premium game (which worldwide in Q1 were games like Five Nights at Freddy's or Scribblenauts Unlimited or Bloons TD 5 HD) earned about $300,000 in Q1 worldwide.

Top 25 game free to play game (which were games similar to Summoners War or Star Wars™: Galaxy of Heroes) earned about $15,000,000. There's a huge gap and this is apparent in what games actually gross a lot.

These are both iPhone only numbers.
Apstra – out of stealth
Is that why single engine airplanes are so complicated? \s
That's because Apple failed miserably at creating any kind of community - the thing that helps the most with skewed reviews, lowest-denominator titles, and other trash like that.

Once again, I'm too lazy to explain this in detail; just look at Steam again.
> it can define itself.

I think you might have missed the full implication of that part.

Certainly, a sentient being can learn new things, but that's a matter of rule-base and memory. No actual intelligence required, IMO. Sentience, to me, goes toward a concept of self. Of being aware that one exists and is responsible for one's own actions.

Personally, I fine with having really smart-but-not-sentient hammers. I'd rather not have to lard up machinery with some touchy-feely "it's alive" sentiment. We won't have to have lots of hand-waving over whether or not that hammer is a slave or not.

If we can have an army of dumb robots performing the work that slaves do now more efficiently and cheaply, then we can easily spot the slave owners and remove them.
Fucking robots coming here and taking our jobs!

In all seriousness I think this is the opposite of what the EU should be doing. By stifling innovation like this their hurting their own economy with dumb laws that will only keep the glorious robot slave future from happening.

Let's also agree that robots are not people. I've seen this dumb stance typically writers or creative types have taken lately around AI and robotics where people think robots are people and take offence at robot slavery.
If I remember correctly, the very first android phone had only a mini USB port and required a dongle to use a 3.5mm audio port. This was almost a decade ago, and this struck me as a terrible design choice. The latest Moto phone does the same (with USB C instead mini USB).

If manufacturers are going to phase out barrel connectors for audio, they should do two things:

1) Use a single universal port standard, like USB Type C

2) Provide TWO of these ports. I want to charge my phone while playing music.

I know its unlikely, but I would rather Apple switch from lightening to USB Type C if they are going to abandon the 3.5mm port.
Posted this in the other thread about this. I think it's important enough to paste here:

If anybody wants to do something about this with me and others, start sending Foia requests for similar information to your local and state governments. You'll find that there is a huge amount of aversion towards releasing things like call logs and email. Push on and on and you'll eventually get what you're looking for. Highlighting the absurdities of these laws through civil reciprocation may just go a long way.

If all goes as best as it can go, I should have Chicago's mayor's office's dns resolution logs tomorrow. Just so I can limit an email search since they consider it too difficult to search for three companies in their email records for a single week. It's taken a year and a half to get this far, but it takes minutes for them to do the same.

This is absurd.

This isn't a place for journalists anymore. None I've talked to are ever willing to do anything similar because of the time it takes to get a request fulfilled. Don't be like them, and just persist, dammit.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgG79eIr8MbkjYrCvcTR...
Is this enough to run chisel?
I'm no mathematician but this makes sense to me. I'll be interestsd in seeing how the article follow up proves the same.
I'm not sure I understand your position. The iOS platform has probably made more indie dev millionaires than any other platform in history. And countless others making a living, or make a few bucks off side projects. Or are employed by app companies.

So yeah, the amount of money attracts a lot of competition, and no, its not easy figuring out marketing and distribution. Most of us fail, but that's really just the nature of entrepreneurship.

If you choose not to participate on a platform that generates billions of dollars annually, I suppose thats on your choice, and you could be correct that it is a waste of time for most people. But what is the cost of being a software developer who ignores this giant wave of mobile device adoption? You can't succeed if you don't give yourself a chance to succeed.
So would you say there is no middle-ground for new developers? It seems what you're saying is that people with an already locked-in user base continue to thrive while newcomer apps are crowded out, regardless of quality.
Yes, you're totally right, my analysis applies to bikes not trains!

A tale in over-confidence / Google book previews availability.
I get (a) and (b) completely. On (c), I felt this way about NCSA Mosaic in 1993 when I first saw it and I'm relieved to hear you say this because although I definitely misunderstood a major technology shift for a few years, maybe I wasn't wrong in my initial reaction that it was stupid.
Even if everything you just said is true, not one word of it justifies the use of the term 'conspiracy theory' - which, in turn, is almost always a term used by the detractors of conspiracists. (And, of course, that doesn't mean the term 'conspiracy theory' isn't useful)
Vs: mobs working against you, companies avoiding you because your name is now associated with something negative, abuse/threats on social media, etc.
Good point, although it could become a lower-quality mono DAC in a Brave New Digital Headphones World.
I guess my question is, yes, you can know that you're still alive, but how can you know that you're still _you_?
Interesting. So this would be something you set up on an existing device?
As evidence against:

> Simulations Are Things In The World ... they do not step out of Musk’s base reality. They are still base reality. They are made of the same stuff everything else is made of.

I stopped reading here.
> People on the terrorist watch list can't fly but they can buy guns.

On the one hand, people who have been found to be a legitimate danger of terrorism by a reasonable process including due process of law arguably shouldn't be able to buy guns. Or fly on commercial airliners.

OTOH, I can also see a reasonable argument to be made that the various terrorist watch lists (including the no-fly list) do not meet the appropriate standard of due process for either or both of those consequences.
Thanks for your manners, but it is probably a copout on my part. I have the wherewithal(-money) to build something like this in my own home but I believe most of these controls are over-engineered progress for progress' sake... for anything less than a few thousand square foot structures. All I really need is a programmable thermostat, a couple timer plugs & my 'routine'. As always, YMMV.

As for the providers, I have to admit, a service economy cannot sustain itself using only transactional relations. In order to ensure future revenues, a contracted service agreement &/or proprietary walled garden approach is the only sustainable model they have come up with. I am a 'break-fix' geezer stuck in my ways and don't subject my clients to lock-in, but my widely varying income from month to month can make affording life difficult at times.

edit: +&/or proprietary walled garden approach
Neat idea. Just a suggestion. Can be made into an Electron App .
...finish a sentence?
I stopped at Vice.com
The difference being that people "pirating" means (typically) that they're downloading for personal use, not for the purpose of generating revenue or profit.

These companies are getting slaps on the wrist for illegal behaviour and can simply consider it a cost of doing business unless the incentives change, eg unless the proceeds of the crime are stripped from them with additional punitive damages.
As the number of developers grows, so does the number of failure stories. That tells you nothing about the proportion of developers that are failing.
Four months old news.
I will Dr Venter in Aspen Saturday.
A few recent discussions related to the upcoming expansion opening:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11913026

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11937133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11810754
Neither. Optimizing for user experience. Like it or not there's a new category of video content, short, casual videos. From the cooking shorts that are taking over facebook feeds to the the jealousy inducing short clips from my friends BBQ last night, this content category is growing.

Snapchat has the best UX for this type of content.

The simple idea of "tapping" to skip is the equivalent to the tab key when you're using excel. Life is better with it, and you miss it when you can't use it in other apps.
Well, there's free and there's 'free'.
We already kind of do that on our CDN backend, this is just a small part of it. But we never actually needed to do geolocation, instead we just ping the "stable" pingable IPs we found from all of our locations, save the results into a DB and when a request from that subnet comes to PowerDNS we just select the datacenter with the lowest RTT on the fly.

I'll see if it's possible to get the routing/GeoIP information for all IPs as that's something we could use too.
https://www.seancassidy.me/dont-pipe-to-your-shell.html

For one.
The point is that every time the timer ticks, if you had defined 'novelty' as the bitstring representing the screen, you get a 'new' state. This multiplies against any blinking animations, any moving enemies, any of the agent's moves, any visible scores, etc. You get thousands or millions of unique framebuffer states before the agent has so much as left the first room in _Montezuma's Revenge_. And DQN already is RAM intensive for the experience replay buffer.
I think we're due for a proper realization of the semantic web in the next couple years. Things seem about at the point where the cost and hassle can be overcome without a significant financial motivation to do so.

Maybe in another decade or so IoT will make sense other than as something fun to experiment with.
> To be fair, you were not rigorous enough to call that a proof and I think you know that.

On the contrary. Referring to a well-known result without proving it in situ is very common. For example, I also assume without proving that if two integers a, b have the property that ka = kb, then a is equal to b. You don't see anyone complaining about that.
My guess is that astronautical internet to the space station doesn't have high enough latency to cause problems, so 'normal' protocols can be used happily enough.

But if you want to link a colony on Mars to Earth's internet, you'll need something like this 'store and forward' style networking, rather than trying to rely on interactive two-way realtime-ish communication.
You can download Craig Venter's genome here:

http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/venter1/bigZips/

However, the human "reference" genome (the updated main product of the Human Genome Project) is a patchwork of about 20 donors' genomes. Many(most?) of the donors are anonymous volunteers from Buffalo, NY, USA.

http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/
which is exactly why the post is confusing.
It's obviously incorrect. It's not even really a logic error, it's a category error.

At face value the statement "if not all living things share a common ancestor, that makes them appear more like they were intentionally created" (although that line of reasoning, i.e. the watchmaker argument, has been debunked time and time again) seems reasonable.

However the statement seems far more grandiose than it actually is.

If two very "primitive" organisms (i.e. operating at a much lower complexity with much smaller and fewer moving parts than even, say, an earthworm) don't share their sets of DNA that may be unexpected (because whatever step there was from "not having DNA" to "having DNA" had to happen twice, separately, successfully).

If we found out that, say, all higher lifeforms shared no common DNA with other lifeforms outside their group and those groups closely aligned to the Christian "kinds" (which don't really map to biologically distinct groups in meaningful or consistent ways) THAT would be astounding.

But even that extreme case wouldn't make the "creation hypothesis" (if you even want to call it that) more plausible because it presumes the existence of an unexplained organism that is far more complex than anything it supposedly created. It doesn't explain anything -- it just shuts up questions about the "origin" by giving an answer that is impossible to analyse further.

There may have been a creator. But it's impossible to make a consistent logical argument for it. And it's entirely impossible to make an argument that that creator would in any way resemble something modern mainstream religions are worshipping.
THE LAWS OF THOUGHT [pdf]
Physicist Leonard Susskind’s Open Letter on “The Lunatic”
Lon.gs: A URL shortener in C
Again with the security is not a 1-fix kind of thing. You put a lot of measures in place to make things secure. This is just one of many security measures that should be in place. The enemy has breached the outer wall, but now we have 3 more inner walls protecting the most important stuff that they also have to breach.

And tape over the mic and webcam aren't really things that can be broken through remotely.
Note that this bill's sponsor, John McCain, is being primaried by a Fourth Amendment proponent Kelli Ward [1]. The Democrat candidate, who is polling ahead of McCain, doesn't mention the Fourth Amendment under her issues page [2].

[1] http://www.kelliward.com/fourth_amendment

[2] http://www.kirkpatrickforsenate.com
I think it's possible that the "Technology adoption life cycle" can be applied to app development. With iOS you were in a unique position to be an "early adopter" getting tons of early exposure on the app store. If you were to try today you would not get much at all.
Well, they had a category (maybe still do) called "Pay once games" or something like that. Basically highlighting games that you paid for once, up front, like normal games, and that didn't have a bunch of IAP.
Why would you SSH in and pull logs instead of using a centralized logging solution like ELK stack?
It's more like the boss showing off the stock price. It gets everyone excited because the company is doing 'well.'

The only thing your metrics would do at WWDC would be to cement that unless you're the top app in your category, you're not making money, and Apple knows this. As long as they're super popular though, developers will keep trying.

Also, why would Apple do anything at their event other than make themselves look great.
So you're proposing the creation of the Church of Genuine Advantage?