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>everyone here pays using paywave

No we don't, or at least I don't. I still use eftpos with a PIN because I don't trust wireless tech.
Why the Airline Industry Could Keep Suffering System Failures Like Delta's
I suppose they could connect the two clocks via fibers following different paths, to create a large interferometer. For that matter, it might be possible to cover a very large area with a bunch of clocks interconnected by a "web" of fibers.

But fibers do have problems. Their optical path length depends on temperature, and on how much the fiber is stretched. Understanding those issues is probably good for a dissertation or two. ;-)
As others said AdAway is the first step to prevent ads to load the next step is MinMinGuard on an Xposed android it removes the ads fragments/view the same way Ublock/Adblock do it on your computer.
https://i.imgur.com/qhmJx2w.png

I use both and I've not seen ads for years.
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I think the interesting observation is: if you are using ML chances are 80% of your algorithms are already published somewhere and available to all, so one should tune in that 20% of his/her own field, some field which is not a common research topic.
I also think that a huge difference, once you have the same algorithmic machine, is the quality of data you collect. That is also quite differentiating, I mean, respect to your own business problem, gathering data a way or the other may really destroy or boost your ML performances.
>You list 40 positions on your resume?

On one version. I also have a standard one-pager, a 6-pager, and a 12-pager resume for those HR/recruiters looking for depth + breadth experience. Per one 'job board', I actually get about 30% more contracts from my 12-pager than the other two versions combined: keywords and keyword density I am sure.

I have a 2-pager "Contracts" list that just lists companies, dates, position, and a 1-2 sentence blurb about each...and this is just for SharePoint/MS Project/O365 contracts since 2008...not even my whole career, nor oddball stuff [Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management Config: WTF?, Clarity PM Development, custom map software, etc.], nor short <30 day issues if the client wasn't "notable".

I have seen other Consultants with significantly more experience than me that have multiple pages just for publications, books, courses taught, etc. and/or patents on their resume. Due to the enterprise market that SharePoint once exclusively targeted, most of my clients are large Fortune 500/1000 companies and listing the numerous ones I have worked with has not been a noticeable, or even real, detriment.

My line of thought: "Would $hiringManager hire someone that only worked at 2 or 3 places [no gaps though!] to solve this problem, or would $hiringManager hire the consultant that has blasted problems away at over 40 notable companies, wrote/taught courses on x, wrote the book on x, etc." My gaps are [invisibly: not listed] filled with 'smaller' work/contracts, that if listed, would multiply my resume's page count by some factor of ridiculous and, to some uninitiated, dilute my value. First world problems.

I do see that Architect/Administrator work for on-premise SharePoint/Project is declining while more SMBs are buying into Office 365/SharePoint Online/Project Online. Yet, just today, no less than 3 contracts/RFQs came in for on-prem SP2013 to SP2016 migrations. One contract I cannot take because it is in NYC and for a City government migration (not top fees and typically difficult to work with, and too far away); a largish Seattle company (~7B revenue FY15) that is qualified and has an interesting business and requirements; and a consulting company in Hollywood that needs someone 'yesterday' to fix/correct workflows in their large studio client's workflow manager farm prior to the SP2016 migration.

I digressed.
Your linked version also doesn't mess up the units: 3.2°Kelvin is incorrect, it's 3.2 K. Kelvin is never used with the degree prefix.

I could understand that in copying the quote one might have not noticed the superscripts were messed up, except it is evident deliberate alterations were made. Very strange.
I've used and experienced Apple Pay. It's certainly convenient. Don't see how it's more convenient than tapping my credit card, an object I would still be carrying even if I had Apple Pay.
I'd be happy if the laws were simply self-consistent, and checkably so. enforcement/judgement I would leave to people.

And be self-consistent I mean that it doesn't contradict itself.
Revealed: How a weather forecast in 1967 stopped nuclear war
Einstein demonstrated, from both sides of the coin, that people prefer things to make sense and be reasonable.

Relativity challenges that. Quantum mechanics challenges that. The seeming lack of naturalness challenges that.
"everyone". Of course nothing will be ever 100%. But it's close enough. It's universal and it's universally accepted.
Like explained elsewhere here, it may be that our brains share a genetically coded "decryption key", and that many of the things we talk about are too poorly and noisily expressed for a purely text based computer AI to ever truly replicate the processes going on inside our brains. Insufficient data, simply put, and no way to get it.

It may sure look indistinguishable, but on the inside it just wouldn't be the same.
Considering it was designed and hosted by IBM who are trying to recreate themselves as a primarily cloud PaaS company (see IBM BlueMix), I'd say it was a matter of IBM's engineers poorly configuring the scalability of the deployment, which I think also reflects poorly on their ability to service the cloud hosting market.

ABS shouldn't have outsourced the entire project to IBM, they could have just developed the application in-house and deployed it to an autoscaling CE instance group on Google Cloud, they probably would have saved $7-8 million paid to IBM while also avoiding this catastrophic failure.
PDF of report is at [1]

[1] "The May 1967 Great Storm and Radio Disruption Event: Extreme Space Weather and Extraordinary Responses" [ https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/08/10/swe20344.pdf ]
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It's a huge improvement in security. You mentioned how the majority of contactless payments don't require a PIN. Apple Pay secures 100% of transactions with a PIN, made convenient with touch ID.

There are also behind-the-scenes protections against identity theft. E.g. if a merchant has a data breach, your Apple Pay card number can't be used to buy things online.
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As an American living in Australia, you quickly see the lack of innovation on payments in the US. Contact-less payments have been prevalent since moving here in 2012. The ability to pay bills via a common protocol is so nice, BPAY. The ability to move money between people electronically without third parties is also refreshing, direct bank transfers.

I have a Nexus 5 and use NFC payments via Google Pay and Bank Apps. In my opinion, they both are terrible from ease of use standpoint. Tapping my card on the terminal is far superior to opening an app and fumbling with it. As far as Apple is concerned, I think they are completely in the wrong in not letting other apps use NFC. Ideally, they win market share by creating the better experience. The banks getting together to negotiate terms is ridiculous too. In my opinion, an ideal outcome would be open NFC use on Apple devices. The better experience wins. I do not think collectively negotiating terms does anything for the consumer.
Make it a button, so the customer can apply updates, but they need to press a button to make it happen. Add another button which, using only software stored in ROM, reloads the firmware from ROM. Then you have updates, but only when the customer knows and wants it, and if they ever screw it up then they can get back to a known good state.
Old school: x86 task state segments
I downloaded their albums when they gave them away. Some of the tracks are truly excellent.
Yeah, that's still 255 bits worth.
Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
> you never leave your home without your phone even while running.

He literally just said he does leave his home without his phone while running.
That's also a key question that I ask, but I don't think a side project is necessarily important as simply finding out how they invest in themselves.

I want to invest in people that invest in themselves.

It may be a side project. It may be challenging themselves with new languages. It may be learning marketing or working on their writing. But they should be hungry. I don't run a large enough company to have to hire people that punch in and punch out [1].

Edit: [1] by punch in punch out - I mean no ongoing personal time invested in their professional skillset. I'm fine investing in people that only want to do 40 hours per week so long as they continue to spend personal time learning something.
Our growing population will be constrained by resources long before we invent a way to colonize other planets.
I'm not the original poster, but unless you're talking about a very simple embedded system, most computing devices have lots of areas for malware to live that will survive power cycles. HDD firmware, graphics card firmware, various controllers have their own firmware, NIC cards have their own firmware, etc.

Even if the boot device is read-only, it would be a huge challenge to build any kind of system without these vulnerable components.
After seeing enough of these "alternative internets" to make your eyes water, I have to wonder; at this point, is it even possible to implement these at scale? As well designed as the technologies may be, how could these be possible marketed to the layperson, who is happy with the current infrastructure?

The only recent/ongoing shifts in internet technology are IPv6 and the https push, and they are both built on top of existing technology, and have been extremely logistically challenging to implement. How could a total revamp possibly fare?
The point, or perhaps a corollary of the point here, is that famous people can't think in public because "every comment to every discussion is fair game for dissection, scrutiny, applause, or ridicule."

So you need to think privately so you're free to make mistakes, think poorly sometimes, be creative or whatever.
To be fair, torrents were always a fantastic vector for malware.
Nima Arkani-Hamed is an amazing speaker, and if you're interested in modern physics I highly recommend watching his talks. A great place to start is his 5 part Messenger lecture series. It starts with the discovery of quantum mechanics, and the last 3 talks all cover different frontiers of fundamental physics today.

http://www.cornell.edu/video/playlist/nima-arkani-hamed-on-f...

Introduction ends and Nima starts about 4 minutes into the first lecture. :)
The original IBM PC switch was like the back switch on current PSUs. If it were on it would be booting anyway, right?
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-11-11/meet-bernard-lodge...
Since every dataframe has a lazy instance of rdd, and several methods on dataframes simply call the corresponding method on rdd ( eg. foreach ), I am not sure about the faster bit of your assertion.
That would work for speed tests, but users will still get full HD streams suddenly (and reliably) downgrading to 320p after 20 minutes.
That's still more likely to reflect negatively on the ISP than Netflix, I strongly suspect ;)
> Report your card stolen and the thief can still keep using PayPass.

That's the bank's problem, not yours.

> The burden of proof on unauthorized transactions is on the consumer.

Same as with chip + pin.
They may also just unthrottle for the first x MB of video.
> The burden of proof on unauthorized transactions is on the consumer.

The burden of proof for unauthorised transactions is _never_ on the consumer.

> In the case of disputed transactions the merchant is on the hook

It is always the merchant who's on the hook for disputed transactions. The banks/issuer is _never_ on the hook.

Contactless payment is literally just a more convenient version of magnetic/chip payment, with everything else being the same.
I was at the conference but missed this talk. I would love to see the slides. Congrats on speaking at Defcon.
My favorite quote:

> Everybody, already, is a part of history. Writing here is just like spray painting "I was here" in Machu Picchu.
PYMNTS.com reckons about 3.5M people used Apple Pay at least once last year.

http://www.pymnts.com/in-depth/2015/wanna-know-how-many-appl...

Australia has a mature chip-and-pin and contactless payment model, to the point where we basically can't function when PayWave terminals go down ("you mean I need cash?" … out comes the phone to figure out where the nearest ATM is).

Comparing the two markets is not informative, especially given the rollout problems the USA has with any new transaction processing system.

In Australia almost half the population were using contactless payment in 2014. No better reference than News Corp. but that does put the number at least as high as 14M users.

Note that the paymen handling market in the USA us three-tiered. My understanding is a little fuzzy but they have the card issuer, the payment processor who authorises payments, and the payment settler who handles the money.

In Australia we only have issuers and banks, with banks filling the role of the bottom two tiers of the US model.

As a result, the entry of Apple Pay into the Australian market involves taking half of the credit card payment settling cash flow away from the banks.

So the banks are holding out and fighting Apple any way they can.

None of the banks have the expertise to safely implement NFC on my phone. They deploy equipment built by others, using transaction models designed by others, and simply collect money for making sure the systems are functioning.

Apple is entirely correct in not allowing third parties to access the NFC circuitry in order to protect the security of Apple Pay.

The banks can prove their competence in Android first, but they recognise that the money they are hungry for mostly lives in Appke users' pockets.
Most people in the US don't consider the death penalty cruel and unusual.
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And I'm sure there's a few people who keep money in their mattress. Don't see how the paranoid delusions of less than 0.1% of the marketplace are relevant to this discussion.
I was trying a little to hard to be succinct, I've also used CoreBluetooth, I was lumping it into an awfully generic group by categorising that as part of the "services" provided by iOS, but I was thinking from the point of view that all the things the iOS frameworks provide are the ones Apple has allowed them to provide on iOS. Effectively the framework is a way to access the limited set of allowed services, as opposed to direct hardware access. Otherwise we could do much more interesting things with Bluetooth such as implement new Bluetooth profiles and create things like apps where the iPhone functioned as a Bluetooth keyboard for another device.
Nice quote, although like Smolin, and the thoughts expressed in the backreaction.com article [1], I am skeptical of the manner in which physics is being carried out with a potential disregard for the scientific method - lack of experimental evidence - in string theory, and surprisingly in particle physics too.

Funding, and self-motivating research also has proven to be detrimental to research in the social sciences of late, but that seems to be with misapplication of statistical principles, and insufficient peer review, but a whole lot of citations.

[1] http://backreaction.blogspot.co.id/2016/08/the-lhc-nightmare...
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This is why Turing invented his famous test. At the time people were arguing about what it would take to prove a machine is intelligent. People argued that the internal properties of the machine mattered, that it needed to feel emotions and qualia just like humans.

But Turing argued that if the machine could be shown to do the same tasks that humans can do, and act indistinguishable from a real human, then surely it's intelligent. Its internal properties don't matter, at least not to judge intelligence.
Agreed. It's especially important for smaller companies where each hire has a big impact. You're trying to minimize risk and have a good to great hire (technically and culturally), not hire the absolute best.
Really? Damn. Brings Firefox to its knees on my machine.
I loved how they were just zips of files downloaded from a torrent. They didn't even rip them themselves!
I also like it when after the standup updates, most of us stick around and shoot the shit for 10 minutes. Good way to build camaraderie.
We already have our phone in our hands.

The efficiency of Apple Pay with a phone already in your hand over cards in a wallet in your pocket is night and day.
I can imagine a Dyson Swarm, although intuitively I wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of computational limit created by the fact that the bigger a swarm gets, the more computation is needed to keep it gravitationally stable

But I think a Dyson Sphere - something as solid as a planet, but with a radius the size of a planetary orbit - is physically impossible, even with unimagined magic alien super-materials.

The physical configuration of a Dyson sphere is inherently unstable. It's the astronomical equivalent of balancing a pencil on its tip. Any asymmetry at all - including proper motion and radiational asymmetry from the star - would need active correction. Without it, the entire structure will fall apart catastrophically. (It might take a while, but there's not much point building something that big unless it lasts.)

Active correction implies movement, which is not what you want on an inhabitable surface, or even on a computing machine.

And it probably wouldn't be much use as a computing machine. The bigger the system, the longer it takes information to propagate across it. A system with propagation delays on the order of minutes isn't going to run nearly as fast as its energy budget might suggest.

That's still true even if you imagine some kind of ultimate limit system where the computation happens directly on a spherical spacetime shell instead of on tangible hardware.

I suppose it's possible that if it turns out that KIC 8462852 is showing evidence of alien action, the aliens are somehow dimming the star directly instead of by building screens around it.
Why is Silicon Valley of all places struggling to get reasonably fast Internet?
China's Weibo is ahead of Twitter when it comes to mobile
It's not just about NFC access, it's about ensuring the whole system is implemented securely all the way from the customer to the bank. That includes things like tokenization and privacy controls. If they let 3rd parties do it, they could do it wrong, and then users wouldn't trust or like iPhones as much for payments, and then they'd still use cards. That's the thinking at least.
Maybe I'm just a third level contrarian, but I don't think one can reject mainstream advice on, for example, saturated fat simply because the USDA changed their mind on cholesterol.

Mainstream medical sources have never claimed to have strong evidence on the link between dietary cholesterol and heart disease, mortality etc. However since the link between serum cholesterol and these things is so string, it seemed prudent to advise limiting dietary cholesterol. However no, with more negative studies, this advice no longer makes sense. But at no point was limiting dietary cholesterol claimed to be as high of a priority as limiting saturated and trans fats.

That said, apart from saturated fats, total calories and protein (for people looking to build muscle) I don't think the rest of the label is useful for most people.
Also not to mention they need to be seen fair doing it. Wouldn't look good if the USMS was seen passing the coins off to their mates.
The landowner with how she describes her rigorous selection of tenants. She does not reek of naiveté or gullibility. She failed to read the extensive guides presented by the website which is working hard against human nature. She could have googled the safety/assurance tell-tale signs and how to set a set of rules as the accommodation being your house. Politeness and seriousness with a smile could have at least made her a bit less wild.

You have been the monster in this case. You literally did nit follow the delicate verification and protection rules of the website. Instead you thought judging her looks, because hey, she wears the mascara right and the shoes are gorgeous. Would you have accepted an overweight lady, clean and professional? I doubt it. You chose glamour girl, so taken, you seriously had no 30 seconds for the questions of the game.

Again, your roommates (who you did not care for their safety in case there was another bloody nut. They found her interesting? I would say that for a nice lady. She can throw my PC, let my food. Anyway, you leave and the roommates seem invested in her more than the foundation of the second floor. I am nearly sure that your roommates were cool or happy with the coffee nakedness enchantress.

Summary: You judged a book by its cover. If you hate exciting books it's on you. I am sure you had no sites since you you selected the nice lady physically and funnily you still think that hygiene is beauty. You should have expected an accident in the paid hosting world. Your pics were disgusting and demeaning. You have no right to post her pictures and anything related to her. You are a lady and I know you knew that she is a special lady the moment you met.

I hosted a couchsurfer guy. I swear to God he left because he was weirded out how I was taking a mysterious drug from the closet. I swear it was Advil. I felt disgusted to my boned. You are asking for help during winter. I do not feel comfortable but happy to help others. Reward: paranoia. I ended it because it turned to matching nights. Years ago, we roamed Europe.
While enjoying a beer.
Why add static typing to a language long stood for duck typing? There should really be one way to write in Python.
Normally I lean towards the more cynical viewpoint with these matters. But I think you're right here, only in that the records still exist and are very old.
Apple have technology that reduces fraud rates and they ask for a very tiny cut of the merchant fees in return. Fraud is an expensive element of the cost of handling credit transactions.

That is not rent-seeking, it's payment for services rendered.
They are faster in the sense that many thing you previously had to do in a RDD lambda are now Dataframe operations (which are optimized by the Catalyst compiler).

So if you want to do one of the operations in the sql.functions package[1] then Dataframes (and Datasets) are very valuable.

If not, then they won't give you much benefit. However, you will get a little improvement because the Tachyon out-of-JVM-memory framework[2] which I don't think RDD version has access to.

[1] http://spark.apache.org/docs/2.0.0/api/python/pyspark.sql.ht...

[2] https://dzone.com/articles/Accelerate-In-Memory-Processing-w...