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Glasses-free 3D has potential in a number of applications and it's surprising to me how little penetration it has in the market at large. Just as adding color to a display is a means of providing more information, adding depth to a display adds information. Just as we don't typically grade a movie or an application on how effectively its color has been used, once the novelty of 3D has worn off and it's become just another tool in the box we'll start to see what sort of impact it really has. Now we seem to be limited to the 3DS, expensive Ultra-D displays, and soon glasses-free cinemas. What about the 3D phones and tablets? (Yes, I know about add-ons like EyeFly3D, but they're still pretty niche at the moment.)
One very important aspect of this paper that I seldom see given proper emphasis is the ability to treat programs algebraically.

Also, check out Manfred von Thun's Joy.
Last I saw, a custom built computer is many many orders of magnitude worse than the brain at playing Go per unit energy. And its not like we evolved to play Go.
> Imagine a world where you could say "Communism is bad" with the same impunity as you can say "Naziism is bad"...

I can imagine a world where "Communism", like "Naziism", was a label for a single system of government implemented by a single group of people in one time and place in history, with no theoretical model (and prior practical advocacy) that shared the same name but had substantial differences.

OTOH, that world is very much different from the real world, so when one wants to criticize one of the things called Communism, one needs to be careful in identifying which it is, since there are multiple of them, and they have different traits.
> I believe cars will just be a shared network of autonomous vehicles for moving people and things

People will leave food, garbage and even used condoms in these cars. They will have to be cleaned up between every ride. It's not going to be easy.
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Sure, he produced work that was foundational to QM. I still think it's fair to say that he was hostile to the consequences of that work.
> fondle-slabs

you mean zombie phones? ;)

Seriously, what you're talking about is one of the reasons I've wanted to get a Blackphone... but I think I saw a blip on my radar that it may be compromised
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You do not need to invoke “spaghetti code”. One file depending on lots of other files that each depend on some library headers (e.g. the standard library) results in these kinds of dependency graphs. See for example this dependency graph for a roguelike written in C: http://daten.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/pics/graphs/redo/plomr...
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> “We got eighty litres, collected over two years, from someone random at Stanford University, who said, ‘I have all this milk. Do you guys want it?’ ”

Wow... that's quite an amount. So human milk doesn't "expire"? Why does cow milk expire then, and what exactly is expiry in the context of milk?
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May well be. I can't shake the feel that all performance we have gotten have been from smaller chip features allowing for more more heat headroom, and thus more "waste" via out-of-order, all branches at once, massive caches, etc etc etc. And once we hit the brick wall that is electron leakage, RISC or CISC will mean crap all for performance pr watt.

Never mind that in recent years both AMD and Intel has taken their offerings into the real of SoCs. AMD have largely lead the way, by moving more and more of what used to be the northbridge onto the CPU die.

The only thing keeping both out of the mobile world seems to be price pr unit. Intel bled money to get Asian OEMs to use their mobile ATOMs rather than Chinese ARM based SoCs.
I think the principle is happening already, just shifted over - companies like Facebook and Google are hiring programmers for 9 hours a day and paying 12 hours a day.

If a programmer is really good and want the lifestyle of 6 hrs work, she is better off freelancing.
> A better fix is to prevent rebinding the 'RunScript' function to some other name, and to prevent rebinding the 'RemoveExtraSpaces' function by anything else.

Or maybe forbid rebinding any system-provided global symbols at all?
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I need about 3 years left of college to earn a CS degree and become a Web developer ?

Is this a viable route for me? I'm mostly interested in Javascript or PHP to make web sites and become freelancer
When I was in second grade, there was a rule in the school library that grades 1-3 were only allowed in section A, grades 4-6 were allowed in section B. I regularly crawled around the barricade so I could read the Hardy Boys books and the Great Brain stories that were squirrelled away there. I got caught several times and bawled out, but I never felt bad.

But I still feel worse about that than this TOS violation.
> It is the media attention given to the situation, not the situation itself, that is terrifying.

In a very real sense, the media is causing the demoralization / fear in the US / West. Given we will spend trillions(?) of dollars fighting the terrorism that we ostensibly believe is causing that demoralization (due to its real harm on the country), why aren't we spending any trillions against the media? Not to censor the media directly, but, say, giving news outlets millions of dollars for every happy or accurate story they write, if we're going to spend that money anyway.
I think this is insightful: Apple doesn't need to sell automated EVs, they just need them to exist, and be Apple-y. Which probably means doing all the design and prototyping in-house, and then outsourcing final manufacturing to a Foxconn-equivalent with Apple QA.

The timeline seems optimistic, but 2025 could be feasible in key cities.
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There must be a limit - otherwise video games like Grand Theft Auto could put photos of say, McDonalds, in their game and not break any laws. I'm not sure where I sit on whether that's right, but currently they shy away from it for a reason.

An interesting corollary may be use of products in TV - at what point does everyone using a MacBook or Windows (and then having problems with beachballs/blue screens) count as copyright infringement?
It is frozen. This can be done for cow milk as well. It changes the taste of cow's milk and (probably) changes the taste of breast milk.

It's not commonly done for cow's milk because (1) fresh milk is usually readily available and (2) adults will complain about the taste.

With breast milk, the supply is more limited and an infant won't tell you the taste is off (but they might refuse to drink it!).
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase Poo[h] Sticks.
9-5 commute? Sign me up for an autonomous car.

The family wagon with 2 child seats, pram, toys, nappies, etc... That one makes sense to own.
I am sure there were also people who opposed asbestos for home construction. We don't sit here with our hindsight telescopes and call them fearful simpletons . This article suffers from a survivor and confirmation bias.
Disagree. Payroll taxes are a percentage so they would see a reduction. The employer would obviously offer less pto if you're not full time. And they'd offer less benefits.
Not to mention, for most engineering jobs, the onboarding/training process is long and expensive. Generally I think an engineer has negative productivity within the first 3 months of employment. So if an employer is willing to put down so much effort upfront for you to work there, you better to willing to work 100%.
Programmers are usually salaried employees therefore (in US and other western labor markets I'm familiar with) are not hourly paid. So they are paying you for the 10 minutes in the shower when you figure out the hard problem.

Also: fewer, not less for discrete quantities.
In the ad business, having won that award, I get it. Clients can be seduced with "we have this award winning guy". I also get it when people get paid more to take on more responsibility and stress. But with someone like Mayer, the reason she cost so much initially was they had to compete with her Google options. I'm sure she's great but her first big job could just as easily have been with someone other that Google. Had that happened does anyone think Google would not be Google today?

I read an article in the Economist years ago about this phenomenon. Why pay so much more, for example, for the "In a World..." guy to narrate your movie preview when there are dozens of voice actors available. They concluded that since the preview was a minor cost no one would take the chance to cheap out on the voiceover guy because if the movie bombed the guy who cheaped out on the coiceover guy might be blamed.
Wasn't the dude Romanian?
For those looking to find such a job, I'd recommend going independent. Though I usually work 40+ hours a week, given my current client base and relationships, I could easily setup the contract to be such that I work for <= 20hrs a week.
Also, I really think that this model only works at an hourly level. We all know that being on salary always equates to 40+ hours a week, emphasis on the +.
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Nor do we know if it has reached the level of "problem" or not. Murders could be up 100% but if it's from "negligible" to "negiligible x2" then it is not "clearly a problem".
Because if you have more free time from a job you don't enjoy doing, its a lot easier to find another job.
A fundamental requirement of a command economy is that either everyone is voluntarily on board or you apply coercion as needed to get everyone to comply with your central planners.

It turns out that at scale it's very hard to get everyone on board, so you start having to apply coercion... and then any time your command economy is locally inefficient black markets spring up and you have to apply more coercion. Obviously this is a matter of degree; there's a good bit of coercion in economic matters that happens in today's "capitalist" economies too. But the point is that if you slip too far off what the vast majority of people agree to, you start running into sedition problems.

Now you also need a not-too-corrupt coercive apparatus (something that was sorely lacking in the places that have tried communism, I agree) _and_ you need quite saintly central planners.

The real litmus test here is whether you could combine a command economy with a political system that replaces the central planners when enough of the population loses faith in their general direction. _This_ is the thing no one has really managed to do yet, and I'm not sure how viable it is given that human nature you talk about.

But the the result is that most discussion of communism just ends up with the No True Scotsman fallacy, pretty much.... because every time attempts at it fail people say it wasn't really "communism". Including the people who claimed it was too "communism" at first.
> ...it's very rare for me to have a fully productive day. If I moved to 6 hours per day, I'm not even sure if I'd become less productive, I'd probably just spend less time chatting at the coffee room, and have a smaller chance to get burnout.

I'm not sure I follow here. You want 75% of the salary to do the same amount of work? That doesn't really make sense to me. You also have to take into account that companies have to manage the overhead of having more employees (more mouths to feed at events, more HR costs, at certain thresholds it triggers new legal requirements for the business). I doubt you're going to find a lot of takers from either employees or employers.

It sounds like you're dealing with a personal issue, which is that you feel like your company is "try[ing] to squeeze all the possible juice" from you. This sounds like you're burned out on your job. Maybe it's time to find a new company, a new position, a new work environment, something that will make you happier than you are now. I'm not sure that less hours and less pay is necessarily the problem here.
Can you expand that argument to work life - as in creative people may be better at dealing with situations such as startups where a constrained environment is often time and money. Are there trends that successful founders often had prior creative outlets in their childhood more often than not?
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Also there is a communication synchronization issue. If people have overlapping patchy schedules where people are not available for questions, talks or whatever, it slows the company down. By having a consistent core hours where everyone is working then you solve this issue.

Also if your still fucking around and not working super productively, your still available to answer questions quickly, meetings and other low energy tasks. While if you're not working and doing stuff at home, it's significantly harder to talk to you.
That's a nice tid-bit of libertarian drivel, but it fails to mention that for innovation to be possible, the thinking class needs to be liberated from the toils of manual and physical labor and be endowed with a surplus of time and costly education at the expense of the (then farmer) worker class.

Meh. I don't buy the idea that there's a special "thinking class" who are solely imbued with the magical power of "innovation", or the idea that education is something that is gained at the expense of the "working class."

Education is something that's attainable by pretty much everyone who at least gets over the bar of being literate, and who has some work ethic and access to a library. Not all education means going off to a small, private, (expensive) liberal arts college for four years. Sometimes it's somebody reading books by candlelight after spending their day plowing fields.
While I tend to shrug off any attack with the idea that I still live in one of the safest corners of the planet (Small-town Norway), I do appreciate that people are, reasonably, more scared of Terrorism(tm) than they've been in the past around here.

I have a couple of ideas why this may be so:

a) Back in the seventies/eighties when media reported on the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the ETA in Spain or the RAF in Germany / BR in Italy, reporting was much more low key (For anything but the most spectacular events, Norwegian papers would typically publish a small note to the effect that "Members of the Basque separatist organization ETA today killed a police officer and two bystanders in whatever Spanish place you've never heard of."

Today if someone for whatever reason kills a couple of people, it is a major story with photos, interviews, analysis and whatnot. Hence, events on a similar scale as was experienced in the past now appear much more significant.

b) Violence today seems a lot more arbitrary; in the seventies, the typical terrorism victim if my recollection of the news back then is anything to go by, was someone who was targeted for something they were; police officers, magistrates, cabinet members, Israelis, whatever.

Hence we'd just shrug it off, as we weren't targets, anyway.

Today, for a significant number of perpetrators, anyone is a target - and that makes it a lot harder to just shrug an attack off as something which does not affect you; three people get blown up in a bar in Elbonia? Could've been you; after all you went to the neighbourhood pub only yesterday!

c) Additionally, as much (if not all) terrorism today appears motivated by religion (or, more precisely, by some perverted interpretation of religion), it is a godsend to anyone of a xenophobic bent. Get rid of the people you do not like; get rid of the terrorism problem at the same time!

Militant islamism basically makes xenophobia legitimate, which in turn can be argued to foster militantism, which further fosters xenophobia and downwards we go.
In the JVM, the start_pc/length of each LocalVariableTable entry lets you have more than one name for a given index in the stack frame, exactly so as to be able to reuse indexes for variables that don't overlap in liveness. So the debugging and non-JIT objections don't pertain.

But if you're really running into the 64k limit on max_locals even with index reuse, then you're out of luck.
If you work 8 hours a day, you are productive 4 hours a day, (So you are basically paid double salary for your 4 hours or productive work). If you work 6 hours a day, you will most likely be productive 3 hours a day.
Well, this discussion started when someone suggested the speed increases fueled by Moore's law held FP back. This is what I've been questioning. If it's not about speed, then what does it have to do with Moore's law?
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Likely no impact, because no facility on earth has the capacity to filter and find information on this scale, especially when simple techniques are employed to hide the meaning of communication

This is a very naive argument.

Of course it is possible. I can search all my Facebook messages now. We know the NSA can search a large proportion of the world's internet traffic.
It is evaluated as code only after the (legitimate) player modified the environment to do exactly that.

If I can convince you to paste some random code from this HN comment into a command interpreter, that could do similar things to your system.
Disclaimer(s): QuantStart.com founder here, background as a quant dev at a small fund.

I should probably nuance my statement that it is easy to find trading strategies by saying that it is easy to find new trading /ideas/. There are a huge number of freely available trading ideas on forums, pre-print servers (arXiv, SSRN), blogs etc. The trick is knowing how to implement them properly, accounting for any transaction costs and adjusting the parameters of the model. This is often where the stated performance falls down. It takes a lot of time to carry out this sort of research.

Long-term profitable strategies are tricky to find, due to the ever-present spectre of "alpha decay". This is where your strategy's edge is "arb'd out" - everyone else knows what you're doing and so there's no tradeable edge anymore. Hence it is necessary to have a portfolio of strategies and gradually phase out the ones that aren't doing well, and bring in new ones over time.

That being said there are a large number of trend following funds (known as Commodity Trading Advisors, or CTAs, in the industry) that all broadly do the same thing (follow "trends" in the commodity futures markets) and have great years every now and then. There are some well-known "retail" quant traders who do well by trend following, but it does require quite a bit of capital to trade in futures.

The philosophy that I do try to emphasise is to always be learning and researching new ideas. Also, as you mention, I'm pretty keen on discussing the math(s)/statistics aspect because once you have a solid math capability, it is easier to see where potential edges might exist and how to really assess whether it is a true "edge" or just a statistical anomaly.

I believe someone else in a grandchild comment below said that there are many areas that bigger quant funds won't touch because of institutional incentives. If you have $10bn assets under management (AUM), then you're not going to care about investing $100-200k, even if the returns are good, because it won't move the needle on your monthly reports.

The trick is to niche down into markets that you can spend a lot of time researching to find a distinct edge, that won't likely be touched by bigger funds. One area that is becoming interesting recently, due to the prevalence of satellite data/AI/deep learning-esque VC-backed startups, is building commodity supply/demand models. A good example is forecasting oil supply/demand by analysing large quantities of storage tank heights in global refineries [1].

Also, a small related-to-Zipline plug: I've recently started a free Python-based MIT-licensed open-source backtester [2], predominantly as a learning tool for programming and quant trading. There's about 4-5 of us working on it at the moment and it's in an early alpha stage, but we're always looking for people willing to help.

[1] - https://orbitalinsight.com/solutions/
[2] - https://github.com/mhallsmoore/qstrader/
So a cronjob should do the trick.
Then the problem isn't GM technology itself--it's an economic system that considers taste to be worth little and diversity nothing.
You can make every website in existence call eval() directly on the contents of a form field if you persuade the user to paste some arbitrary text into the developer tools. The attack here happened to involve hooking an internal helper function, but that hook was in no way necessary for the attack; it could have instead just registered for the incoming chat text event and called eval() on it there.
I think "occupancy" is pretty much a solved problem for purposes of taxation. In the U.S., for example, there are settled rules about which state gets your income taxes if you live or work in multiple states.

A simple solution to the problem at hand would be to let everyone designate any one residence as their primary residence taxed at a lower rate, with any additional property they own being taxed at a higher "secondary/unoccupied residence" rate unless they can prove it is being rented out.
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I marvel at how Lenin (allegedly?) failed to realize that he wasn't implementing Marx, given just how much he studied Marx and how routinely he referred to Marx to justify his policies...
Agreed, and you don't even need a SQL injection. If I steal your password, the server will give me 200 OK responses all day, even though I would obviously not be authorized in any legal or common sense.
Not sure about GopherJS. I'm confused about how App Engine's pricing model relates to whether or not Dart is well-suited to server tasks?
This is the graphics they show:

http://www.nature.com/news/535218a-i2-jpg-7.37680?article=1....

So its about Asians being on their own branch (also out of Africa, earlier) according to this, not Asia as the original origin.

From the text:

> Stringer even suggests that H. heidelbergensis might have originated in Asia and then spread to other continents.

> But many researchers, including most Chinese palaeontologists, contend that the materials from China are different from European and African H. heidelbergensis fossils, despite some apparent similarities.

So I read this that the Chinese opinion is explicitly not that they are the origin for all, only that they are on their own branch.

And this is quite clear:

> Most Chinese palaeontologists — and a few ardent supporters from the West — think that the transitional fossils are evidence that Peking Man was an ancestor of modern Asian people.

It says "of modern Asian people".

> In this model, known as multiregionalism or continuity with hybridization, hominins descended from H. erectus in Asia interbred with incoming groups from Africa and other parts of Eurasia, and their progeny gave rise to the ancestors of modern east Asians, says Wu.
this reminds me of http://rindexmedical.com and they have some device like this or some patent...