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I just love Dillo!

On sites that require Javascript, it is useless, of course, and even moderately fancy CSS layouts look ... interesting in it. (OTOH, no Javascript means that it practically has a builtin adblocker.)

But for sites where that is not a problem, it is incredibly fast, plus one can have dozens of tabs open, and it will rarely if ever use more than 100 MB of RAM. For browsing documentation, it usually works perfectly well.
The article is saying "cool it and dim it" but I think they mean to say "warm it and dim it". They suggest the temperature should not be above 3000 kelvin.
I'm a little confused by this article.

There was no suggestion that these systems were built to intentionally produce certain outcomes for particular races or sexes, which leads me to believe that these outcomes are "pure" effects of the ML algorithms that use race or gender as inputs.

Assuming this, is the author suggesting we -should- be coding racism and sexism into these systems to achieve "fair" outcomes? She didn't come out and say it, but I'm not sure how else to read the article. This sounds absurd to me, and would be acting against what machine learning is supposed to give us.

I'm assuming women are shown less ads for highly paid jobs because other ads are, in general, more profitable to show (and by extension more relevant on average). One thing I like about AI is that it doesn't suffer from biases in the same way we do. Why would we want to make it do that?
Interesting. I wonder if this system and that "Hover" technology would be a good fit? A warehouse seems like one of the good places to line the floor with metal and clear the people out.
Sure you can

https://localbitcoins.com/places/859645385/tunisia/
Give me a single, just one single, way that a BTC ETF different than owning shares in a gold mining company, using the language of economics.

If you want a simpler problem, how is it different from an ETF that tracks the price of gold?
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What unnecessary copying are you referring to? According to the documentation, `secure_vector` is just a typedef of `std::vector` with a custom allocator that zeroes memory on destruction.

Also, in C++11, `std::vector` contains the member function `data()` which returns a pointer to the underlying data. The data is mutable through this pointer.
"I actually expected Windows’ Syscall translation layer for Linux to block any such clearly destructive actions."

How would you suggest this could be done?
Personally, I think it's a net benefit that the picking jobs are on their way out. I don't believe most people do it for fun!

On the other hand, there's going to be short term turmoil as people scramble to find new jobs in an increasingly automated world.
Nice catch.

I think their concept is brilliant. A bit hard to gauge in a 2D video.

I so want to jump on the VR bandwagon. But... my brain is telling me to hold off for V2 or V3 when the hardware will likely be orders of magnitude better than the current crop.
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This isn't as insane as people might believe. Let's look at the larger of the two funds: $1B. It's a digital growth fund. Raising that $1B doesn't mean that people wrote a total of $1B in cheques: that money is just "committed" to be called (ie: a capital call).

A simplified fund's capital call schedule might be something like 25%/25%/25%/25%. So each year, for the first four years, they "call" a quarter of the capital, or a total of $250M. Years 5-10 are for harvesting, though they might have one or two more extension years beyond that if the portfolio isn't ready to reap.

Since this is a growth fund, we can see them deploying it over something like 5-10 companies per year for the first two years, then following on in years two and three in later rounds pro-rata with some of the winners. That means that we're only looking at 5-10 companies, $25M-50M each in a series B or C in each of the first two years.
Here's a crazy idea that actually exists. In a handful of countries tenants pay something colloquial called "key money". It's usually a lump sum, say $150k on up, to a landlord. The landlord invests the money and makes what they can off of it and the tenant lives rent free. When the lease is up the tenant gets back their key money to take elsewhere.
"But the trend towards privatising military force could end up accelerating USA's slide down in terms of military power. "

+ This is a very marginal thing.

" If we are indeed moving back to the "normal" (historically speaking) "neo medieval" world were military force is generally mercenary and not national standing armies"

+ This is not happening. Don't worry about it.

Listen - war is too expensive. It is only economically advantageous when the parties are not interconnected.

Some American businesses can economically from a war in Iraq by getting big contracts ... but a war with any real nation would cause massive upheaval in markets.

The moment Brexit happened - it was a big shock to markets - and that was a small thing.

90% of people and businesses 'lose' in a big war, so it's very, very unlikely that China, Russia, USA get involved directly in a war - it's just too costly for everyone. USA is China's #1 customer.

The only 'rising military power' that will make a difference is China.

Everyone else - won't matter.

It's also very, very expensive to challenge the Americans in any way, even regionally, so the only actors that will do it are non-state entities, i.e. insurgents like Al Qeda etc..

The 'big shift' over the next 50 years is that 4 billion people who are not even on the radar today are going from $2 a day, to $50 a day in terms of GDP.
Every galaxy is an apex in the PKI, with the apex of apexes being the hardcoded public keys for each one in the kernel. ~zod is not special (well, it's a tiny bit special, because it's the parent of things without parents).
True, but I think these functions are intended for non-gradient based optimization algorithms.
disagree. but you disagreeing does not mean I should be downvoted below one, ha! ;-)

I do think there's value in making statements which help to stimulate thought in the reader and discussion. hopefully I succeeded at that. I said exactly as much as I'm comfortable with saying.
How about an add-on cover with "phosphor to downconvert the blue LED spike to warmer colors" [thanks, nickhalfasleep]?
ACLU suing US over law that could let software discriminate by race or gender
Only works once per interviewer.
i used to use ZF1. it was a good framework back in its days. than ZF2 come along with its overcomplicated boilerplate configuration and its backwards incompatibility. it was unusable with almost non existing community, so I took a time to look elsewhere and switched. I am happy now with my current framework and can't care less for ZF.
Stop playing coy. What happened?
On the academic-industry/start up side, I know of one such device which does this on a sphere: http://visisonics.com/visisonics-audiovisual-camera/

It works quite well in my experience with it. The spherical geometry enables a 3D capture and visualization.
I think this is actually a good thing, Linux being a first class citizen in this environment and all. Linux is a different beast from Windows, and this being a developer tool, will not babysit the user as much.
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And what about laptop monitors?
If Palantir is a CA business entity (I didn't check, maybe it's a DE corp), its noncompete should be per se invalid (= automatically void) in CA. There are only a few circumstances in which noncompetition agreements are valid in CA, and this doesn't seem to be one of them. See section 2.1.2 in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#Exceptions_...

Palantir's attorneys surely can't have missed this, but I don't see an alternative.
So you run a destructive command and you are surprised it destroyed your system? The sub system is not an isolated vm so it does what it's supposed to do. I don't see a problem here you could achieve the same thing in regular windows command prompt or powershell.
Government policy plays a part, but the construction industry is already struggling to keep up with demand.

Both Google and Microsoft have urban and suburban offices and run commuter shuttles. I don't think it would hurt Amazon to do the same.
Brilliant project! I had a similar idea several years ago, when I was in a master's program in music technology at NYU. I had classes on acoustics and concert recording that really blew my mind as I started to understand how sound behaves within spaces. The idea of a soundfield camera occurred to me, and it seemed like it could potentially demystify a lot of phenomena sound workers have to deal with largely by intuition. Things like reverberation, acoustic modes, propagation patterns, wave effects, etc. I hope this project continues to mature!
Ouch. I was hoping amd would be more competitive this round( although it seems not bad for low end), more co.petition being good for everyone.
I said nothing of the free software movement. I was just talking about the open source movement which came afterwards.

Open source started in 1998 during the release of Mozilla.
No one is going to "give up" anything - in a free transaction between two parties the terms are agreed by both sides.

Rents are up because tenants can afford to pay the rate to live there - ask any landlord if they want to charge more, or ask any tenant if they want to pay less. Both parties end up settling in equilibrium.

The price of rent is what the market can currently bear.

In your plan there are always those that will settle for less yield, or will take on a larger risk, but it has to be out of free will, not mandated by law
And don't even get me started on the LED eye melters that cyclists are running these days. Some are about as bright as car headlights, but the spread and aim are inferior - especially since the folks that run those invariably seem to point them up from the horizontal. I keep thinking about mounting a 8 D cell maglight on a gimbal on my handlebars to give them a photon in-kind response.
OpenBSD invented a similar protocol to VRRP called CARP back when VRRP was patent-encumbered[0].

Configuring it is deceptively simple: just create an interface with ifconfig called "carpN", specifying VID, password and IP address[1].

You can also make it load-balance traffic between your carp hosts if desired[2].

Give it a go for your next firewall/server build :)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Address_Redundancy_Prot...

1: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html

2: http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/carp.4
That is because redder colors correspond to a cooler or lower color temperature. Colloquially, we think of blues as cool and reds as warm, but blue light is actually more energetic (or "hot") than red light.
Marketing and branding. The BlueGene/Q installation is sold as a package.
For anyone yet to read the article who is initially confused (as I was), besides the Kiva you might know from microlending, there's also a Kiva who make industrial robots for warehouses. As per the article, Amazon bought the latter Kiva and forced competitors to turn to alternatives that were yet to be developed.
Do you really need the Linux subsystem to do mass deletions on Windows?

Googling around tells me that good old "deltree" no longer exists, but I would have assumed PowerShell would have some equivalent. If you do such a thing as administrator, won't you expect serious damage?
Great post, Artlav! Great to hear from you after Exosphere in Chile last year. Eager for the next part of the project and hopefully you get some funds for your always interesting ideas.
I like the Ethereum has a founder and leadership team. I just want them to use their influence wisely.
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Yes. It's the blue component (large with high color temperature lights) that is thought to most strongly affect human melatonin secretion and sleep. Here's one of many studies that indicate this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8979406
It's usually mentioned in a negative context as something young women recently started doing and should stop.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3626 covers the claims that this is some new trend, many of which are couched in language which implies that kids these days are doing something wrong or degenerate.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=12774 discusses media coverage a couple of years ago claiming that women's careers (or vocal cords) would be damaged by using vocal fry.

This American Life did an entire episode (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/i... – http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17489 has discussion) about the volume and vehemence of the complaints they receive about female cast members' use of vocal fry:

> Listeners have always complained about young women reporting on our show. They used to complain about reporters using the word like and about upspeak, which is when you put a question mark at the end of a sentence and talk like this. But we don't get many emails like that anymore. People who don't like listening to young women on the radio have moved on to vocal fry.

> What's striking in the dozens of emails about vocal fry that we've gotten here at our radio show is how vehement people are. These are some of the angriest emails we ever get. They call these women's voices unbearable, excruciating, annoyingly adolescent, beyond annoying, difficult to pay attention, so severe as to cause discomfort, can't stand the pain, distractingly disgusting, could not get over how annoyed I was, I am so appalled, detracts from the credibility of the journalist, degrades the value of the reportage, it's a choice, very unprofessional.

The part which underscores that there's a strong gender-based component to criticism is that Ira Glass, the male host of This American Life, is basically the king of vocal fry (along with other long-time radio personalities like Carl Kassel or Walter Cronkite) but nobody complains about his usage and on the rare occasions when any mention is made, it's not expressed in the same kind of negative language:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17496
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Empire is the wrong term. It's misleading, it's fraught, it leads to lazy thinking, facile notions and comparisons, and can facilitate unjustified anti-Americanism on one side, cavalier adventurism on another (think Cheney, neocons, AEI), and perhaps isolationism in a current sense ("we're an empire but we shouldn't be").

"Superpower" is better.
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The creator of goa is presenting on code generation and APIs at Gophercon this year. I'm also presenting on goa at abstractions.io in August. I'm quite biased as a contributor, but I think goa is a great solution for APIs because it encourages you to think through the design completely and generates the code from that design. Generated code is idiomatic and clean. You can see me present at the Tampa Go Meetup here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCFrgWikEX8
"Shooting own foot considered harmful."
TIL running a destructive command does destructive things.
In an interview with BSDNow[0], Bryan Cantrill had mentioned how at Sun, they'd discussed with the person in charge of POSIX compliance, and got a clearance to specifically check for this case and prevent it. This code is present in Illumos [1].

(Edit: added links correctly)

[0] http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_11_23-the_cantrill_strike...

[1] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/5a4ef21a18dfdc6...
> "... conflate me writing and giving attention to something as being "not genuinely interested". I honestly do not understand"

There is a classic trolling technique, which I have heard called a "snow job" but probably has other names, wherein someone tries to basically overwhelm a topic of discussion with minutia in order to get people to waste their time while not actually making any progress in the discussion.

Relatedly, a common technique among people who are dogmatic about a position is to build an impenetrable wall (built out of unreasonable standards of proof, and nitpicking criticism) and then spend a lot of time arguing about how their wall hasn't been penetrated. In essence it becomes a way of inflating the ego -- "we argued for hours and the other guy never even put a dent in my position! That's because I'm so smart!"

Again, not saying this is what you're actually doing, just noting that it's easy to get that perception from reading along.

> "I don't think the perceptions you describe as others perhaps having accurately characterize me, though."

Perhaps they don't. But the first comment I made in this subthread has a score of +10 right now (an unusually high score for a meta-comment of this sort, particularly this deeply nested), which indicates that quite a few people share the perception.

> "I am not attempting to create a particular perception; I'm only trying to have an on-topic discussion"

Whenever you speak or write, you create a perception. Whether intentional or unintentional, it affects your ability to have an on-topic discussion. My hope is that you'll be able to take what I've written here and learn how to reshape that perception, in order to more effectively communicate your interest in an on-topic discussion.

One final thought: the comment "no real evidence", likewise, contributes to the perception. What has been shown might be weak evidence, but it's not nothing. In a Bayesian sense, if you started with a neutral perception ("I do not know if there is a significant difference") what has been presented would be suggestive that a difference might exist, but not strong enough to show that a difference definitely exists. The proper response would be "this seems like an area where better data could be gathered" rather than "no real evidence has been shown".
I have a couple of 4k LEDs in my kitchen, but also have much warmer LEDs in other places around my house. The reason the kitchen is different is so it feels sterile and clean. The cooler light gives this appearance more than warmer light. I guess the same reason many places have white counter tops.
Although changing the colour temperature gets you somewhere its also the extreme spectral spikes of led as a technology which is notably worse than other kinds of lighting
Just get a green laser and mess with the optics on it so there's a bit more beam spread at longer distances.
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How does that work if you sign a non-compete for a job in california with a company registered in delaware?
> It's because all the security guys (as we're) troll a lot and always skeptical (reasonably!) about blackboxes

Why not open-source it then? In that event tt wouldn't be termed a blackbox either.
Hindsight bias.

He probably shouldn't have gambled the $12k to begin with, even though the first spin of the wheel turned out ok.

Assuming $12k is a lot to this guy.
If you assume a non-Administrator/non-UAC elevated user can't delete anything in c:\windows this does raise the question of why the Linux subsystem has so many privileges
I see the writer has used '--no-​preserve-root' when deleting /mnt/c - does anybody know if that's necessary?

It would be an interesting (and probably good enough) safety net if they treated /mnt/c the same as / in this case.
That's in the 'rm' command; not in the syscall itself.

You have the same thing in other OSes, hence --no-preserve-root
I think it's `rd /s /q` these days.
I'd imagine that people who need such picking jobs would rather have them around than not.
He's invested in a specific contract someone else created on the network. Not specifically invested in the currency itself.

The ethereum website starts off with this line:

> Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference

The developers of Ethereum now want to censor transactions from a certain address and interfere with a certain contract because it ran exactly as programmed (including bugs).

That is why it's a controversial fork. If the only reason they're going against the stated principles of the network because the developers are heavily invested themselves... it makes it more controversial. If they're not invested in the next big contract to fail, will that one get bailed out as well?
Just say it, who cares if you're not 100% sure? You're not stimulating any useful conversation right now cause you didn't say anything of value. All you said is you noticed 'something interesting' which could literally be anything.

You didn't even link to any of the 'publicly available' bits of information you read.
Indeed. Thanks for clarifying this.

I now realise that while one may have an rm that takes care of this, one could always get another rm that does not.
Indeed. Other people no longer contributing to the business include the VC's and angel investors by the same logic.

Either the former employees were paid full market rate salaries during their employment, in which case the company colossally fucked up by giving shares to them for literally no reason, or those former employees made a capital contribution just like any other investor.
> Files currently loaded by the Windows kernel and files not
> writable by users in the Administrator user group in Windows
> will not be deleted

Based on that sentence, I assumed the command was being executed by a user in the Administrator group
And OS X's magazine allocator, in addition to probably dozens of others. Segregated-fit allocators are probably the dominant method.
You probably mean swShader and Nicolas Capens's articles on Advanced Rasterization.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sw-shader/

http://forum.devmaster.net/t/advanced-rasterization/6145

Excellent series, even if it surpassed by ryg's more complete series on modern triangle rasterization.

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/optimizing-sw-occlu...
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One of those does not belong.
Those sellers are located away from me and I am a student, the prices are way out of my budget.
FWIW, I would not assume that a Clark post means Popehat is "pro-Urbit" (to whatever extent it matters to you that a law blog might be "pro-Urbit").
It would seem odd to actually have 'children' do this, as it appears in the article. Trained adults can't pick the difference between a good teacher and a bad, I can hardly expect kids to find who isn't a good liar.
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After seeing that name for probably half a dozen years, today for the first time I realized it's probably intended to be a cute mashup of the words "incubate" and "intel"

Go figure.
Society is made out of individuals. You want to live in a society that doesn't screw individuals over, so that your own human rights wouldn't be violated. Property rights are pretty fundamental as human rights go. Intellectual property is a form of property. Therefore people(and companies) should have the right to protect it.

> Their litigious actions also do not improve our society or offer any benefits to the human race. I think a strong argument can be made that they do not actually have a right to dictate who sees their products or what they should pay for it.

Imagine saying the same thing about any other kind of property, and you'll realize that living in a world where people think like that would be horrifying.
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Obviously important?

I actually didn't feel comfortable sharing that since it didn't really matter but I did it indirectly in a reply just out of curtesy.
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Why not the tenant invest the lump sum themselves and give the interest to the landlord?
Kind of, yes.
Isn't that the point of UBI? Getting us past the local maxima of "this job is soul-crushing and a waste of a person's intelligence, but economics make it cheaper to use a body than a robot"?