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Gift? Not quite, but I enthusiastically offer my copies of Simon Singh's books up for loan when anyone sounds vaguely interested. "The Code Book" is a great history of cryptography and "Fermat's Last Theorem" is a good history of the problem and its eventual solution.
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Pretty sure he doesn't watch any Hollywood films or any mainstream tv shows, since there's no DRM-free legal way to consume them.

Edit: The theater I guess, but I can't really imagine Stallman going to see the movies honestly.
Google should do the right thing and allow any Linux applications to be installed on Android
Filesystem transactions (in bcachefs)
Stallman has done a great deal of work to move the Overton window [1] in a direction that makes it much easier for EFF and Mozilla to operate, not to mention provided them with the FOSS tools they depend on every day. If Stallman had never existed, Microsoft might have moved the Overton window in the opposite direction and ESR would have sounded too radical for anyone to take seriously.

As long as these other people are winning over more people than Stallman is losing, I'd say Stallman is still making a positive contribution to the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
> China's a sovereign nation, it can set its own rules, but that's worth discussing and not just making some blanket assertion.

While I understand what you're getting at, would you feel the same way if they were taking advantage of cheap labor from a dictatorship? China may be a sovereign nation, but how much choice do the citizens have regarding their working conditions? I realize they're not strictly a dictatorship, but at the same time the question still stands.

And perhaps more to the point: Ignoring that he just focused on the workweek, if your company is well aware that the working conditions are bad in any sense of the imagination, is that really justifiable just because it is legal? Or do you have a certain amount of responsibility to ensure proper and safe working conditions regardless of what is considered sufficient by the law?
"It's a shame that comparing politicians and their actions to Hitler has became a cliche everyone now is quick to ignore."

The trouble is that whenever person Y puts person X and Hitler in the same sentence, there will be news headlines that say, "Y compares X to Hitler". At that point it looks like Y suggested X would do something on the level of the Holocaust. If Y really just meant that X and Hitler provoked distrust of minorities, that nuanced message will get lost.
Examples:

https://www.google.com/#q=+sam+altman+compares+trump+to+hitl...

https://www.google.com/#q=meg+whitman+compares+trump+to+hitl...

https://www.google.com/#q=glenn+beck+compares+trump+to+hitle...
Mac Pro is probably a worse purchase than the old MacBook—much much more expensive for three year old tech. It's way more expensive than the old Mac Pro with the awesome steel case or whatever. I'm still sorta mad about the trash can look.
I've given out several copies of "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson and "Stories of Your Life and Others" by Ted Chiang.
While these patterns are not needed anymore, most of them are not antipatterns in http/2 reducing requests still helps you by getting rid of http headers. Most of the time it is not harmful, it just does not give you the performance plus it gave you in http 1.
If you're at the Rio Olympics, you've probably already been hacked
On Writing Well is entertaining on top of being instructive and informative. Very short read too. Every should get a copy.

http://amzn.to/2aT5qJw
The peripheral by Wiliam Gibson
American Infrastructure Report Card (2013)
I tend to think of Strunk and White like training wheels: eventually you should take them off and break the rules (as George Orwell said in his similarly-maligned "Politics and the English Language", "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous") in pursuit of clear, beautiful prose, but for a beginner the rules can be a lifeline. If nothing else, their constraints provide a new writer a framework on which to hang their thoughts, and force them to think carefully about how their prose is constructed. The experience of thinking about one's writing structurally, and how that structure can be used for stylistic effect, is something that I suspect does not come naturally to new writers, and it's what I found most valuable about Strunk and White when I was taught it in high school.

I also, someday, would love to try my hand at teaching writing style using Freddie de Boer's technique:

http://fredrikdeboer.com/2015/12/07/teaching-style-to-freshm...

But being a CS professor I doubt I'll have that opportunity any time soon :)
The English refer to London as a "town". E.g. Town and Country Magazine (est.1769). [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_Country_Magazine
I also give this book as a gift often. It started when I'd lend it out and never get it back, which, on reflection, I found I was actually fine with. So I found a UK 1st Edition, signed by both authors, which I'm never lending to anyone, and buy whatever copy is to hand for people as I feel moved to.

I've also done this a couple times with Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.
Jason: you and your crew are under-appreciated heroes of our age.
China clearly qualifies as a superpower. Though, it's influence is more economic than military it still wields considerable influence on the global stage.

EX: This is more than a decade out of date, but it's a useful reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower#/media/File:1_AD_to...
>Sex at Dawn

I hate to be that guy, but I thought that book was unreadable. Had some weird obsessive chip on the shoulder about Darwin (mentioned on almost every page). Complete with nearly contentless USA Today style infographics. I'd recommend "Sperm Wars" instead.
Quebec rules landlord can change locks on tenant due to AirBNB abuse
I've given about 30 copies of Kathy Sierra's Badass: Making Users Awesome. It's wonderful.

edit: whoops meant to reply to OP
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> I can't sympathize with plantation owners, since they enslave people. They all deserve to fail.

If he thinks he's a visionary ahead of his time then he doesn't owe it to anyone to be nice about it. I prefer people say what they think.
My current job title is "Data Engineer" I'm not sure how that differs from a "Data Scientist".

My Job basically aligns with Type A above. I mostly work on optimizing our industrial process through a combination of modelling and simulation work. Other than that I do quality/defect investigations when we have issues with defective batches etc and I do yield optimization work. I also oversee various plant trials as required.

I use Business Intelligence software (like SAS and COGNOS) but I use other tools as well (including my own C/C++ code). I lean heavily on my own theoretical knowledge - in particular metallurgy and minerals processing. (I am a Materials Engineer by qualification). I think most BI people would lack the background theory to do my role.

My Job title was more or less arbitrarily chosen by my manager (Other people in my team have 'Automation Engineer', 'Process Engineer' etc. as their role titles). I consider myself an Engineer above anything else.
Stallman has done a great service to OSS. However his personality and stances might be detrimental.
I happened to meet him around 12 years back and that meeting turned me away from associating with anything which he is involved.
I was helping organize the biggest software event in India and as a part of that we had invited him to speak. I was responsible for his arrangements and he was very rude to me throughout. He kept making fun of me because of my accent (which apparently was sufficient to get a leadership role in US at one of the Fortune 15 companies). Needless to say it was very childish and a complete turnoff.
I've received The Brothers Karamazov, and found it to be my new favourite book.
Hyperion by Dan Simmonds. It, and the follow-up Fall of Hyperion, are by far and away my favourite sci-fi books.

Given them to 5+ people over the years and every one has loved them.
Imagine the singularity and you can see that new jobs will not always pop up. absurdum
I second this. A quick Google search didn't reveal the SO post, so now I'm more curious.
Apple’s new TV plan is a TV guide
Check out the "not your grandpa's debhelper" presentation. (http://penta.debconf.org/dc9_schedule/events/418.en.html) The official documentation seems to disregard a lot of the recent (as in, from the last 8 years) improvements.
Human-Level AI Is Coming by 2029
Rio Olympics Games 2016 Opening Ceremony
I watched the video, and I have to say it had pretty poor arguments. Too many to name, but I think the core is this:

If any conceivable software was free, required no human labor, and instantaneous: Would the world be a better or a worse place? (although I'd need to find something else to do)

If computers replace doctors, and I get better care for cheaper, aren't I better off?

...If every job was automated, and you can press a button to have robots make software or do medical tasks, that is the ultimate UBI for every person on earth. Everything is free, and then everyone can do whatever they want to fill their days.

P.S. - I want my own clothes-folding coffee-making robot.

P.P.S. - One tiny thing the video said, that is a piece of incorrect common wisdom: Auto insurance companies will not be helped by automated cars, they'll be hurt greatly. If accident rates decrease, premiums decrease, and so the insurance companies margins (and float) decrease, making less revenue and profits.
> considers-self-Chinese, can't-even-properly-speak-Mandarin

i don't think true ethnic chinese speak mandarin. that language is something that was only recently (in the grand span of chinese history) imposed upon the rest of china by a bunch of mandarins in Peking.

in fact if you look at the chinese diaspora in overseas chinatowns, the predominant language might be something like cantonese. these people have avoided the homogenization that is taking place in their ancestral villages. in the straits settlements, various (mutually intelligible) subdialects of hokkien are the predominant languages among the ethnic chinese, but standardization in mother tongue education among these countries are eroding this uniqueness.

> It wouldn't surprise me if the Michelin star reviewers they used here were

also, the michelin guide does not use local reviewers in the first (or more) years of a guide starting up at a new city.
Thanks for the tip! I worked in Tanjong Pagar before, and went to Maxwell many times, but never knew about the temple cafetaria :)
I had to check to make sure this wasn't some kind of joke, but it is real!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookin%27_with_Coolio
Personally, I am leery of barrowing anyone's smart phone, but not due to software freedom. From what I have seen, nearly everyone uses their phones while sitting on the toilet. Gross.
On one hand, I like that Stallman is opinionated and forward about his politics and how we wants the world to work. So many people are silent or inactive about the things they care about, wishing for people at large to just change. You ruffle some feathers when you open up and say what's on your mind, but hopefully after enough rational argument, you come off better and with a better message.

On the other, I don't really like everything he says, despite being a pretty firm OSS supporter. He conflates so much with open source it's nauseating. People choose a license for all kinds of reasons and I understand he's a cheerleader, I am too, but conflating everything hurts open source as much as it hurts proprietary actors.

It's a market. Some people will want to buy your product because they see its open nature as a benefit they are willing to pay more for, others don't care and will not pay more. The same goes for privacy promises, DRM or which devices you support, the color etc. If people buy or sell things that you would rather not, that's cool. Pointing out that everyone at every level of a proprietary agreement is duped by some nefarious puppet-master and the entire machine should fail is childish. Furthermore, throwing in things like economics and employment fairness into the mix really confuses the message to the determent of OSS developers. In like kind, I may be a vegetarian, but PETA certainly doesn't speak for me.

I realize he thinks the current market is trash and slight deviations from the status quo won't bring real change, but most people just don't care enough about what many of us care about. That's the hard truth. Slinging mud and building straw-men isn't how we fix this problem. It just makes OSS proponents look out of touch.

Also, some people commented on his sometimes hypocritical impurity. eg. making phone calls on locked down phones and using closed source websites occasionally. Being OSS pure in 2016 is crazy hard and getting harder, again due to market forces. I think there's a lot to fault Stallman on, but his deviation from OSS purity is not one of them.
I think I've given "Go Tell It On The Mountain" by James Baldwin more times than any other book.
Bangkok more diverse than Singapore? That doesn't really ring true.

That and the fact that Singaporean students are required to study their mother language in addition to English.

Also—aren't most Chinese-Singaporeans of Hokkien or Cantonese ancestry? Their forbears likely didn't speak Mandarin. For that matter, Hokkien was the dominant Chinese dialect in Singapore until relatively recently.
>Exploitation of the public's fear,
>promises to make the country great again,

So any politician running for an election?

> rejection by their own party once they figured out that they might come to power.

You mean, the basic reason the democrats invented the super delegate to begin with?

Not sure how old you are, but when Bush 2 was in power the same comments were made. I guess Bush didn't turn into Hitler so now it's Trumps turn.
One of the fun parts of working at a mega-enterprise is being able to screw vendors like this to the wall.

Example:

- 15 minute callback from a L2 engineer, 98% compliance or hardware replacement.

- PC vendors had to hit specific targets for failures in the first 90 days -- exceed a certain number of failures and everything gets replaced.

- 72 hour call-to-resolution with penalties that climbed up for SLA misses.

The upshot is that the vendor actually tests our shit in the factory. The downside is that folks like your customer who lack leverage get the reject parts.
I will probably give _Seveneves_ this christmas.
I use Apple Macintosh because, despite the various bugs, it is an outstanding operating system and works extremely well and is built on Unix. Ive followed operating systems closely for more then 30 years and frankly no company or open source effort managed to make anything as good as OSX in a whole range of ways.

I don't care much about principles - Apple made the best OS so I use it. If you want me to use something else then it has to be at least as good.
Economy of scale is a specialization of logistics, so yeah.

Gears or transistors are not required for something to be a technology; a technology is just a bundle of techniques.
I'm confused. I use dozens of iOS apps which are built on react-native (BSD). Signal messenger (which I use daily) is GPLv3 licensed. And I don't know about the client code but I bet 95% of the apps I use depend on GPL code on the servers which power them.

The majority of Apple's stack is opensource, too. Take a look through http://opensource.apple.com/ some time. The kernel and huge swathes of their ecosystem are opensource. I'm writing this comment in chrome, which has millions of lines of opensourced webkit code in it, written by paid Apple engineers. And compiled in clang/llvm, which is developed, maintained by Apple. Oh, and its opensource too.

I'm totally confused by the argument that Apple hates opensource. They depend on it. They give back. They're a good citizen.

They just aren't huge fans of the GPL, but so what? Neither am I. Neither is Rust (MIT), or Golang (BSD) or the NodeJS community (90%+ BSD/ISC). Opensource simply doesn't need the GPL to bloom in today's world.
I donate to the FSF (and favor the GPL) in spite of Stallman. I like what me means, but tend to dislike how he says almost everything.

I've been quietly hoping that a more personable figurehead for the free software movement might emerge for some time.
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Not a very insightful article - you might be better off reading this http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/vahab/resources/signals.html
Get a couple of the collections of Dr. Seuss.

Can't help but think that in addition to "Yertle", that "Sneetches", "Horton Hears a Who", and "The Grinch who Stole Christmas" are all timeless masterpieces.

https://www.amazon.com/Six-Seuss-Treasury-Dr-Classics/dp/067...

https://www.amazon.com/Hatful-Seuss-Favorite-Sneetches-Barth...
I read it in high school and I still remember how enchanting it was some fifteen years on. What a great look through historical epochs. I need to put it on my short list to reread.
I read a lot of Science Fiction for fun. These are a few of my favorites that I've given to other people:

1. Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter. When I think of epic hard science fiction, the Xeelee Sequence books spring to mind. With a story line that spans millions of years (and a few dozen books), this collection of short stories is a good introduction to one of the best and most underrated sci-fi series out there. Baxter's Manifold trilogy (Manifold: Space, Manifold: Time and Manifold: Origin) are also fantastic.

2. Foundation by Isaac Asimov. The whole Foundation series is wonderful, but this book is a landmark of sci-fi that should be on any fan's bookcase.

3. The Martian by Andy Weir. This book is what I've been giving the last couple years to people who don't think they like sci-fi. Everyone I've given it to has loved it.

4. Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. Another hard sci-fi staple. The rest of the Rama books he "co-wrote" with Gentry Lee are decent but become more space opera than hard sci-fi. I enjoyed them but many sci-fi fans find them polarizing.

5. Silver Tower by Dale Brown. More of a military thriller than sci-fi (Flight of the Old Dog is another favorite of mine by him) and terribly dated by modern standards (it was written when the Soviet Union was still a thing). But it's the first "adult" sci-fi book I ever read as a kid, so it'll always have a special place for me.

EDIT: Another one:

6. Coyote by Allen Steele. I love stories like this one: primitive, longshot interstellar exploration and primitive, first generation colonization. Especially for desperate reasons. The first two Coyote books were good, but I just can't get into any of the subsequent ones.
It depends when. 4-5 years ago, Apple techs were great to work with. That started going downhill, probably after people scammed them out of too many phones.

Now you get this bizarre interrogation thing from them. You need to be really firm/aggressive or you'll be stuck there for an hour going through the various scenarios that you device has gotten wet. ("I am running late, get your GM and we can chat about why a failed iMac DIMM has nothing to do with water.")
This.

I'd add that Kaggle is very good for the "other end" of data science: they generally have pretty clean data, and clear problem descriptions.

In real life the data is never clean and the problems are rarely known in advance.
> "SSL decrypting Wi-Fi networks break encryption to look into the encrypted data," Varun Kohli, vice president of marketing at Skycure

Anyone have any idea what's he's talking about? Sounds like BS to me unless you've deliberately configured your browser to trust their proxy or something like that.
Antifragile by Taleb

The Black Swan by Taleb

Thinking Fast & Slow by Kahneman

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Diamond

The World According To Monsanto by Robin

The Organized Mind by Levitin

The Vital Question by Lane

Life Ascending by Lane

Chasing the Scream by Hari

Anything By Gladwell.
I think The Extended Phenotype is a better choice. It contains the central insight of The Selfish Gene, and then adds a lot on top of it.
That book a strange ability to receive credit for ideas and sources that are not in it, which disturbs me but is a testament to its power to generate new memories and views of history in the minds of its readers.
Replay by Ken Grimwood.

https://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X

It's ground hog day, but on a lifetime scale. The search for happiness and what it means to be happy.
...except that Apple ALAC is Free Software released under the Apache License.

And it's no more similar to FLAC than any other lossless audio codec.

It's widely believed that Apple chose to build their codec rather than simply implement FLAC because their goal was to optimise for maximum battery life efficiency on the iPod. (No such optimisations have been open sourced by Apple, but that doesn't in any way imply their non-existence.)
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* > Incredibly, the 51-year-old, who works 17 hours a day*

Could anyone comment on if this is an exaggeration? After commuting plus basic life tasks like bathing etc, this would allow him for a realistic maximum of 5 hours of sleep a day. And that is optimistic as likely this results in about 4 hours a day.

It seems like the story of a person who has gone 35 years on 4 hours of sleep a day is possibly more interesting than a Michelin star if this is true.
Just so you know, the Ender line is very different from Ender's Game and the Shadow series. A lot of people are incredibly disappointed that they're not just like the first book in the series - but I think they're excellent books none-the-less.
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xpinstall.signatures.required is true in about:config on my Firefox. It seems like that doesn't matter. The only other add-ons I have are NoScript, Pocket and LastPass and I trust these. The McAfee add-on only has a "Disable" button and when I disable and restart, it does get disabled. I am unable to remove it and the external McAfee installer/configuration manager does not have any settings to prevent it from getting installed. And every-time McAfee updates itself, it re-enables it's add-on and I have to go in and manually disable it.

I am surprised that no-one else is facing the same problem and is not complaining about it (Google search didn't show me any results regarding this topic and I found only mentions of similar problems (pre 2014) on the Mozilla forums).
How is this different from Jekyl?
It's baffling that the same man who wrote the stories I loved can stand up and with a straight face tell everyone that gays aren't like us, and that gay marriage is destroying civilization.

He literally said that, at a reading I attended. After telling us about the power of stories and humanity, he veered into that as a total non-sequitur.
Is the answer an "Uber for robots"? Rather than an organisation owning all the robots, individuals could own a robot and rent it out though an online marketplace. It would be a continuation of the "owner/driver" model, without the need to actually be a driver.

Maybe the problem is that if it's a lucrative opportunity the group running the marketplace will want to keep all the profits for themselves, by owning the robots and locking out small players?
Maybe this? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3117

There is a lot of "philosophy" about protocol design, which seems mostly sound. Although I wonder what happened to the protocol mentioned (BXXP or BEEP). I think HTTP was "good enough" as a universal application protocol?

This one also talks about HTTP being wildly successful beyond its original design parameters:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5218