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> Translation is not secondary or incidental to these works. It is a condition of their production.”

If something is written in language A and then translated, then the translation is secondary. It doesn't matter that it happens very soon or that it's a condition of the production. Secondary means not primary; derived from. Cheese is still secondary to milk, even as we milk the cow under a contract to product cheese; the milk is not "born curdled and ripened".

To be "born translated" would mean that a polyglot author writes each sentence or paragraph in several languages at once, directly from the meaning to each language, without translating among them. Or that multiple collaborating authors come up with the semantics for each element of the book, discussing and coming to an agreement about each idea and then rendering it into their respective languages. In these cases, each book is then secondary only to the raw ideas; it is not secondary to another version of the book in a different language.

We can regard it as a book being a body of ideas which are "born translated" to language. So all books are "born translated", but usually to just one language. Additional translations are secondary book-to-book translations. But we could have an intriguing situation in which a book is "born translated" directly from ideas to two or more languages.
It's taboo in npm culture (as in, the actual npm employees) to stop anyone at the gate. In fact, they actively encourage experiments of all kinds into it.
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> But why cash or at least 100% cash? Just seems weird to me that at least some of it wasn't in stock. Is it because Jet was still private, so any stock in the deal would have been immediately liquidated by the VCs?

Because Wal Mart has lots of cash and that's what Jet.com shareholders wanted instead of WMT shares? Lots of deals by established companies are in cash and in the current environment where you're not getting any meaningful interest on cash that will continue to be a common thing.
> As I see it, npm appears to be acting like there are a lot of unsolved problems in this realm, and in doing so are endangering a developer community that is absolutely full of amateurs.
> The problem with npm is that the cost of entry of your "cool stuff" into the hands of a thousand trusting others is too low; there is no delineation between what is authoritative and what isn't.

I agree that npm has been a bit slow with a bunch of important features like package signing, sandboxing post-install scripts, etc. but as a counterpoint to the authoritativeness issue, I would argue that vetting and defining "authoritative" packages is a difficult problem. I'm not aware of any open/semi-open package ecosystem that has solved this problem (please do correct me if I'm wrong).

As an example in the JS world, which of lodash/ramda/underscore/functionaljs should be the/an authoritative javascript FP library? Should they all be marked authoritative? If so, what is the criteria for a new library to also be authoritative? What happens when a library is abandoned? How do you even define abandoned in an open ecosystem?

These are solvable problems, but not easy ones to reach consensus on.

The Redhat-like alternative is to have a central entity employ/pay contributors to audit and maintain libraries, but it's debatable whether npm would have grown to its current size with that model.
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No credible argument could be made for Bush (or any other Republican) being a fascist, but Trump's campaign follows many fascist criteria.

You must be young, or lack memory, because plenty of people said the exact same thing about Bush a decade ago. If Trump wins, lame as that will be, he won't become Hitler. "Many fascist criteria" is not the same as fascist.
But if you design things ahead of time, then you're not "agile"!
And identified there as from 2010.
Ok, so if I go to Sichuan and eat Sichuanese food which is widely different from the food in Beijing or Shanghai which one is the correct "mainland Chinese" food? It's rather difficult to call any food traditional mainland Chinese food when there's so much differences between regions even.

And on your comment on language, go to Sichuan and then tell me if the chef in a food stall speaks decent Mandarin? What about people in Xinjiang? or people in Wenzhou?

Of course, educated professionals tend to speak relatively good Mandarin (they have to) but don't tell me that the Mandarin of people working in food stalls in the country side is any better than the Mandarin of people working in food stalls in Singapore.

People in Singapore are mostly Hokkien, Teo Chew and Cantonese, they claim to be oversea Chinese but definitely do not claim to be Mainland Chinese but, they've kept a big part of the Chinese culture and customs from their regions (and yes, the food in Chaozhou is much more similar to Teo Chew food in Singapore than to food in Shanghai or most regions in China).

I think you're just unfairly biased against Singapore for various reasons and don't want to admit it...
There is a high negative correlation between ecological and monetary wealth. Time to choose.

btw southern hemisphere looks good on this measure. As a bonus, zero nukes, and low likelihood of being an attractive target.
So only 65% of Android phones (100% on Verizon/Sprint?).
Right, but when you are running npm install you know you are installing and so you know you should be careful, and only hit return if you are sure it is right.

With this, you have to be careful the WHOLE time you are typing. You normally don't worry about hitting return in your editor causing RCE.
We've only had the rule since 1886. Also: it's pretty debatable that we have the rule because we're more attentive to limited government; other countries simply use other, more direct remedies to this problem.

The question isn't "why do we have 4A" or "why should we be concerned about due process". It's "why do we have this idiosyncratic rule, as opposed to the other obvious remedies to illegal searches, and how does the rule follow directly from the Constitution, which mentions it never?"
I could be wrong, but I think he might mean that people should take care not to add too many dependencies to their project - if it's too easy, then it might result in unnecessary dependencies and brittle code.

However, I'm not sure I agree with the statement - you could use this tool and still have the discipline not to pull in random packages.
Let us know how that works out for you by age 17.
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Sorry, I should have been more clear. I'm aware that it's not trivial to implement since they rely so much on the aforementioned OpenPGPjs library and that they're also working on implementing IMAP support. I just meant that the lack of desktop client support killed it for me currently. Once I can plug it into Thunderbird, preferably with an extension of some kind to keep things encrypted, I'll switch to it as my primary email.
Though I am curious as to why you think that's their problem. From what I can tell Protonmail promises that the mail is encrypted on their servers and that accessing it through the official methods (i.e. the website and mobile apps) is also encrypted. While I admire their apparent commitment to extending such promises to the desktop, I'm also surprised they didn't whip up an IMAP interface (which I image would be simpler; send the passphrase to decrypt the mailbox then send the emails like normal) and say "This is for unofficial access, we make no promises".
I'm also iffy on the fact that they don't have an export function. Especially with GhostMail switching to enterprise-only, I am very wary about trusting a webmail service that won't let me back up my emails locally in case they "disappear".
Security updates need to be for the lifetime of the /device/ through all parties. Think of it the same way you would an airbag or break recall for a car.

Feature updates? Sure those can go away as the manufacturer feels like it (though they should be required to be upfront about this).
From what I've read, Wolfram is a very micromanaging [1], so he probably did have his input in all of the features.

He mostly states it himself:

Hundreds of us have been energetically working on building this for the past two years—and in fact I’ve personally put several thousand hours into it.

[1] Read some of the comments from Glassdoor (https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Wolfram-Re...)
The trick is the Xeons are an older generation and/or Engineering Samples rather than retail processors.

The result is more, slower threads.

For some workloads, that's a good trade-off. Probably not for videogames, though, where single-thread performance is still very important. Games haven't really utilized more than one CPU well until quite recently. Even a quad core is overkill.
Carmack had a 28" Widescreen CRT, 1920x1080 in 1995 !

http://www.geek.com/games/john-carmack-coded-quake-on-a-28-i...
how do your methods compare to the standard active learning approaches in the academic literature e.g. http://people.stern.nyu.edu/ddzyabur/index_files/Active_Mach...
In practice regex gets all the require calls. And in many situations the very small percent of errors is outweighed by the huge advantage in performance that a simple regex provides.

So i wouldn't call regex a 'very naive' choice, since people making it are aware of tradeoffs and pick regex intentionally.
>An open question independent of the author: What do people use Mathematica for that can't be done in R, SAS, Matlab, SPSS or Python libraries.

All those don't offer a seamless environment, that's hassle free, easy to setup, with commercial support, a great GUI, great documentation and works across so many science domains and with different approaches.

So, the question is quite (but not that severely) like "what people do with excavators that you can't do with spades".

The answer is, nothing much, except tons.
Exactly my question, why was there no failover? This outage is going to cost them substantially.

Even on classic DBs, setting up a failover with a lag of 15 minutes isn't a herculean effort. It's expensive, yes, but probably worth it...
Amazon sells more than the next 10 biggest websites, combined.

It's useful to note that those 10 biggest websites are operated by large retailers with a physical presence, so it doesn't necessarily mean they're in trouble (walmart, macy's, home depot, etc.)

But the gap between Amazon and the next biggest e-tail site is huge. It's more of a canyon than a gap, really.
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You downloading megabytes over network and performing disk IO with it. What's the problem with 100 milliseconds of file parsing?
I always assumed it was more about boasting than lack of self-awareness. Like how people post the same comment over again, I presume just to show they also thought of it.
And what good would that be? Besides being single purpose and not running tons of other software?
If you want to know more about the neural network stuff specifically there is a gallery of marketing examples at http://www.wolfram.com/language/11/neural-networks/?product=... and quite a few examples at http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NetTrain.html (look under Applications near the bottom of the page).

The current selection of layers is biased a bit towards vision, but my colleague and I are working on recurrent networks as we speak, which will unlock networks that operate on text, audio, and other data of a sequential or temporal character. Hopefully that will land in a few months with 11.1.
At least Wolfram's Pokémon statistics are accurate.

http://www.wolfram.com/language/11/knowledgebase-expansion/f...
If you understand what is going on, you will get rid of points altogether, and look at the git log from time to time.

If you are a leader, and not just a manager, you will help your programmers improve their skill, so over time you spend less and less time managing them. Your programmers will appreciate it because with greater self-management comes greater happiness and job satisfaction.
Given sufficiently many operations, an operation that fails rarely will fail frequently. So if something fails 'one in a million' times, and you do ten million things, it'll fail ten times. Large distributed systems press on this.
Southwest had an outage two weeks ago. Its starting to feel fishy.
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A 99% Invisible podcast, The Devil's Rope, discusses this. As a result of already having barbed wire run all over the West to control Texas Longhorn cattle, it was far easier to provide phone service using it, than it was to run new cable. So farmers ended up being the most wired group of people in the late 19th, early 20th century.
I doubt it. I think the big take away lesson from the language specific machines was that it's not worth it. LOTS of money is spent on the R&D that goes into making x86, ARM, etc. faster and better each iteration, and without the economies of scale that come with a huge install base, it's basically just a money pit. Even if a dedicated Mathematica CPU was faster now, the x86 version will be faster in a few years anyway.

It might make sense one day when when processor improvements level off even more than they already have.

On the other hand, it might be a neat idea to OEM a high end x86 system and sell it as a purpose built "mathematica machine," with Mathematica pre-installed, the best supported GPU, optimal RAM and CPU, etc.
I guess I misunderstood your usage of "have become" to mean that this is a new state of affairs, and it didn't use to be this way in the past.
I think everyone will be pretty happy. This isn't Marc's first company (he sold Quidsi to Amazon for $500M) and everyone I know was happy with that deal.
Good point, any ideas on handling this better?

Opened an issue here: https://github.com/siddharthkp/auto-install/issues/2
Advanced Installer has been pretty good at making MSIs for over 10 years now. Easy to use, updated often, lately with AppV and AppX support.

Not open source though and the free version is not full-featured.
You'd love this https://medium.com/modern-agile
> it would have sufficed to explain that accessing a larger cache takes more time and resources than accessing a small cache.

I think the point of the long analogy is to hammer in the intuition that physical locality has a concrete price in the real world, and the cache hierarchy is simply a consequence.
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Exactly how is any of this different than installing via the command line?
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Would be Jet.com's issue, not the guy.
As far as quoting, I'd do one of these:

- Prefix each line with ">".

- Surround the quotation with triple quotes, like Python:

"""

My long
quotation

"""
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If he can they'll quote him a figure in the 10's of thousands, and of course expect him to pay normal prices even after paying to build out their network for them.
Because they aren't free, there is always a cost. Not only that, a single Gmail tab can take up 350-500 mb RAM. Lastly, getting Gmail on a custom domain is not "free" anymore.
Perhaps there were nefarious purposes behind that lobbying.

But the stated purpose was more benign: they couldn't add "share" buttons that would let you one-click-post "I'm watching House of Cards on Netflix" because they were supposed to have written consent to release that information.

I am OK with Netflix getting permission to build useful features. And I am absolutely OK with Netflix using my anonymized viewing data to, for example, build better content predictors to make my experience with their service better.

The law protected judges with sketchy video rentals from nosy journalists. It has almost nothing to do with protecting Netflix viewers from ISP and government surveillance. This measure deals with the latter.
Even though WiX isnt point and click I'm still impressed how easy it is to add uninstalling of old versions with a few lines of XML
Successful big waterfall engineering projects where waterfall is actually applied exist. Want to construct a bridge or a rocket, design a microprocessor? You are not going to do that with "stories".

It remains to be seen if big Scrum engineering projects where Scrum is actually applied even exist. I can't even think about one on the top of my head. I'm not even sure Scrum is that well defined for us to be able to judge if is correctly applied or not. And it's yet another story to judge if they are successful or not.

In the end it does not matter much. The theoretical vision that nobody ever uses has almost no interest if you are concerned with real world efficiencies.
> It used to only be available in Nijiya Markets

I'm going to anal-retentively nitpick you and proclaim that Pocky was available in places like Yaohan (now defunct) [1] before Nijiya [2] even existed. ;)

[1] First US store in 1979 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaohan

[2] First store in 1986 http://www.nijiya.com/about-us
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It's a step backwards that distribution is being dealt with at the application level. Tandem Computers [1] had distribution at the OS and database level working well in the 1980s. The technology is still available from HP.

Tandem's NonStop OS is fundamentally different from UNIX-like OSs. UNIX is a time-sharing system with a file system. NonStop is a transaction system with a database system. There's very little state outside the database.
Programs are started, do one transaction, and exit. If there's a problem during a transaction, the entire transaction aborts and does not commit.

Tandem was running an average system uptime of about 10 years across their installed base, with the main cause of failure being human errors during hardware maintenance. One of their people wrote a paper on how to get the uptime up to 50 years. Tandem's own hardware had heavy self-checking. The goal was to detect errors and abort, not fix them. Failing a transaction would result in a fallover to the paired backup machine, which would result in a retry and recovery.

Tandem's main problem was high hardware cost; you needed several of anything. Also, because of a series of acquisitions, the system had to be ported from Tandem to MIPS to Alpha to HP-RISC to Itanium to, finally, x86. X86 lacks the checking hardware, so it's not as good for this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers
Save states would solve a lot of problems :)
This is true... but what do we do about it? Outlaw click-bait? That will work even worse than outlawing heroin has.... at least heroin is fairly easy to define and identify.

Click-bait is such a nebulous term, that anyone can classify articles they think are vapid and pointless as click-bait, while someone else might find it informative and interesting.
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Not sure I'd call myself financially literate, but I do have an MBA and computer science degree for whatever that's worth.

The short answer to that is it's necessary to encourage people to invest. $10,000,0000 is only a meaningful figure if it is spendable ... which means that people want to receive that money and others want to spend it. In order for someone with excess money to spend it, they need to be incentivized to do so. If they get no return on their money, then why would they spend? If on the other hand, they can grow their money by spending it, they will. That's why, for example, a VC would take the risk of spending it on a startup (or someone more risk averse would spend on bonds). If you're just stashing money under your mattress, then the economy comes to a halt. For the most part, people don't need $10,000,000 to live a happy life so the excess money they have will not be spent unless there is a growth opportunity to use it.

Having said that, I agree with many others on here that "growth for the sake of growth" is dangerous and I'd like to see more focus on happiness (rather than money) and sustainability rather than growth. The growth spurt we had in the 20th century is likely not going to be reproduced in this century (the industrial revolution is a rare and unusual event). We need to find some way to keep this world moving forward in a low growth era, but I don't necessarily know how that will happen.
It's amazing how political maps are. I wonder what method Google uses to determine borders. Disputed borders and states must be a nightmare to deal with.

I remember reading a while back that if two states have a border dispute, Google rendered the border differently based on your IP address. I wonder if that is still going on here.
> the stories are always articulated in terms of user facing features

Reminder: the "User" doesn't have to be an external person to the team. It can be internal for tools, or a tech debt task for internal issues like the ones you mention.

Thinking Scrum is just about end/paying User stories is mistake #2 I see when people do Scrum (#1 is the classic "We're going to not actually do Scrum but call it Scrum" that leads to a lot of "Scrum doesn't work" articles itself).
sick like, 'against the grain is dope yo'

or sick like, 'the decadence on display in against the grain is revolting'
And gaming or workstation loads are exactly what the -E(nthusiast) CPU's target, lower core counts than the Xeon equivalents, higher clock speeds of the mainstream counterparts, but also has the additional I/O capabilities of the Xeon chips (more PCIe lanes is important for multi-GPU setups or where you have loads of PCIe cards installed, like NVMe SSD's).
A fair solution would be to remove both states.
Not that hard if you're willing to part with lots of cash for IBM.
4 or 5 years ago, JC Penny (a retail clothing chain in the US) tried a pricing experiment. Round numbers ($20 instead of $19.99) and no bullshit sales. Things were priced as marked. It was wonderful and made the experience of shopping for clothes much more enjoyable because it didn't feel like the retailer was trying to fuck with me.

It was a total failure financially. It turns out too many people love to "feel" like they're saving 30%.
> And desks are as large as people are comfortable to produce and use.

Think about what this implies though -- a desk that is too large becomes difficult for a person to use (for one, the person would have to start walking to access certain parts of it).

Likewise, L1 cache sizes are bounded, because the larger the cache becomes, the more difficult it is to address a particular location, and the cache also becomes physically larger such that speed-of-light propagation delays will slow the entire cache down.
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