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The two examples you mention as "user error" are things that happened on my last try, which was last week. I don't get why "Applications can't just register themselves without distro specific tweaks so half don't bother, so every install I was firing up alacarte" is out of date when no less than 4 times that I installed software I had to fire up alacarte to add it. The closest Linux has to Windows-style "Start Menu/Programs" is the "applications" folders for .desktop files, but if I had to guess why applications weren't installing .desktop shortcuts like I'd like them to it's because there's nothing forcing the application menu to load from there, where OSX and Windows both have a singular application menu that installers know end users will have, and expect to see an entry in. A lot more software I installed didn't bother with .desktop files. I'm sure people would blame the software's creators for not including a .desktop file in the right location as part of installation, but to me it's just a symptom of the "freedom" you get with replacing DEs.

And the shell problem is just me describing a situation exactly as it happened, chsh would not change the terminal that Gnome Terminal used, I had to manually change another setting. It's not that chsh didn't work, it's that the default terminal application installed in the DE didn't respect it. OSX's default terminal respected it just fine. It's not a major gripe, I just thought it was suboptimal.

And on a somewhat unrelated note, I've always noticed if I say something is broken in OSX or Windows I get the usual "Well what do you expect, it's OSX/Windows" (usually with a "What are you doing in X install `whatispetdistro`"). With Linux I get "Well I don't know what you're doing wrong because X has worked for me just fine". Half the time what they considered fine is what I consider broken or suboptimal. But that's anecdotal, it might just be the people I've interacted with in the past.
(Currently work in progress, but working. Some of these statements are forward-looking.)

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Why partner with Uber when you can keep the margins yourself (Like GM, Ford, BMW, and Tesla, all who can build the vehicles and have signaled they will be offering autonomous vehicles). Without a factory to make their own vehicles, Uber has no advantage.
Actually the last two `.iter()` aren't needed at all because of IntoIter. All three can all be removed if you use Itertools' izip!

let codes: Vec<_> =
izip!(&data_table, code_lengths, code_table)
.map(|(&value, length, code)| {
HuffmanCode {
length: length,
code: code,
value: value,
}
})
.collect();

(If HuffmanCode was a tuple type, this could even be

#![feature(fn_traits)]

let codes: Vec<_> =
izip!(data_table.iter().cloned(), code_lengths, code_table)
.map(|args| (&HuffmanCode).call(args))
.collect();

but now I'm just playing around.)
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To me it doesn't seem hard to believe that people will click on ads (mistakenly or purposefully), nor that bot traffic is so significant, nor that advertisers are willing to pay for brand presence even without clicks.

What does continue to amaze me is that users tolerate how much data FB collects, how they use the data, how duplicitous they have been over time with users, and how they manipulate your feeds/user experience to benefit their revenue/advertising income. But I have come to realize most people just don't seem to care about privacy that much.
> Goodness gracious, I cannot think of a single movie I would like to "own".

Aww, c'mon. Not even this?

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-smokey-and-the-bandit-th...

Ah wait, you said single movie. Wink! Gotcha.
Super Bowl is sort of a good point, but what do you mean by magazines? Given a choice between a magazine with and without ads, are you saying some people would choose the one with ads? I don't think anybody seeks out ads, especially when they're paying for something. Super Bowl ads are only popular because they're essentially comedy skits and short films, they're basically free, and they're part of a cultural event that everyone you know watches. Almost nobody likes them because they appreciate quality marketing content or something.
The argument is way more nuanced than whether something is on torrent or not. Which is why it appears that I'm arguing against myself. I'm not.

I originally brought up that without DRM, someone could rip netflix's entire catalog and publish it straight to bittorrent. Thats a concern to IP stakeholders and likely a big reason they require DRM from Netflix.

He's saying "they're on torrent already, so why should netflix use DRM?". I'm countering that argument with the fact that just because something is available DRM-free on torrent doesn't mean it's as easy to access as Netflix, which requires DRM.

The broader point is that DRM can be technically ineffective, as in it can be circumvented, but it can still be "functional", as in fulfilling its originally intended function. DeCSS was published in '99, yet it's still not easy for an average user (grandma) to duplicate a DVD.
Nah, who needs all these version-controlled configs?

Just look how google runs stuff! https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/setup-joomla
Any ideas how Facebook acquires information about things like home ownership? I don't recall filling that out as part of my profile.

Do they perhaps match users' identities to public records? Is it possible to look up home ownership given just a name, demographic information, and contact information?
> Contrary to popular opinion, people want to see ads.

Yes, but they want to see other things too.

Looking at the same banners upon viewing any page on a website; or looking at more ads than the actual content; or waiting for the content to show up because ads haven't downloaded yet doesn't help.
I'd love to do email in the console, but I have the impression that it just wouldn't work with my corporate email servers
Is that really the consensus for small artists on Spotify? If I get a band recommendation or stumble across someone (online or happen to see them live) the first place I am going to look for more of their stuff is Spotify.

Sure a small act is going to make no money out of it but I think that they would have more chance of increasing their fan base which will pay for things in the future.
I know it's not a popular position to take but I still think if the worst trolls were starved of oxygen they would crawl back under their bridge and die. An ignored troll is a defeated troll. Nasty people will always exist of course online and in the material world and thankfully even the meanest, nastiest button pushing trolls very rarely act on their threats to harm or kill the people they target.

A more important question is what drives so many people to attack non-white people and women online? Is it simply a reaction to a drop in status as traditionally oppressed groups assert themselves or is there more to this? We likely won't know anytime soon as the trend today is to dissect and discuss symptoms to the point of absurdity but talking about the causes or possible causes is almost taboo. E.g. Trump. Endless articles and opinion pieces bullshitting about how "evil" and "fascist" he is but serious discussions asking if, say, widespread economic disenfranchisement and the Democrats alienating the white working class in favor of identity politics has something to do with it.

The culture of outrage that identity politics has morphs into treats words as the fotemost evil in our world. "OMG Drumpf SAYS he's going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it and HE SAYS he will "ban" Muslims from entering the US!! He must be stopped!" Meanwhile Obama is deporting so many illegal immigrants he earned another nickname from it (Depoter in Chief) and firing Hellfire missiles on wedding parties and other funny acting Muslim civilians. Thousands have been killed or injured by "mistakes". But never mind about that because Trump. And don't ask if the economic lot of black people has improved during Obama's eight years in office or what he has done to stop the deaths of young black men at the hands of police. That would destroy the fantasy of America's first black president as a hip, progressive dude who really cares...and we can't have that.

Back to trolls "ruining" the Internet. Instead of cutting off their oxygen (the only proven way to kill trolls) Time gives them a massive infusion of the stuff and a hysterical headline to go with it. Of course possible root causes won't be explored and government surveillance, censorship etc. of the Internet in conjunction with business interests (the MPAA and RIAA to name two very prominent ones) that sends American LEA to foreign lands to violate the liberies of people suspected of...sharing links to pirated movies/music and running a cloud storage service that may have been used to store and share the aforementioned files.

It does sometimes feel like the world has gone over a cliff and the media, the establishment political parties and their wealthy owners/donors have glumped together into a mass of crazy that is stealth infecting people around the world.
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My quest for a dream job
In three months time, I will be completing 13 years as a software professional, and my quest for that “dream” job still continues. As a student of computer science, and while I was a fresher in the industry, I always had a vision of a dream job. The vision has only got sharper over the years, but I have got nowhere near to landing that job.
It does not mean I am unhappy with my current job. I have seen many ups and downs in my career, and finally, since the last few years, I have the feeling of being in control. I am quite content in what I am doing.
So, why this ongoing quest for a dream job. Why not be happy with what I have got and let life continue like this.
The answer is quite clear. I have always wanted a career that I would be proud of. Some day, when I look back at my career, I should feel that I have achieved something, that I was part of something special, something extra-ordinary. My career is just not about earning money, just not about getting jobs done, but being a part of something which affects millions of lives, being part of something which is ground-breaking. That is my dream, that is where I always wanted to reach, and I know I am quite far off from there. I have gained good knowledge, I have grown as a professional, I have earned the respect and trust of my peers and superiors, but haven’t really “achieved” what I wanted to.
When I use Windows, I wonder how proud the developers who have designed and worked on it, would be. Those engineers who are working on Project Loon would be so excited. Or those lucky software engineers, who work in CERN, how challenging and satisfying their jobs must be.
Developing an OS, working in path breaking research teams, working on developing of new standards or being part of a kick-ass start-up, those are some jobs that would be my “dream”. That is where I want to reach, and not there yet. I don’t know if I will ever make it there, but my quest will continue.
Even if you don't click on ads, it's not possible for you to cut them out of your sight. People see ads. They learn about the brand. If they are interested, they click on it to see more about it and if not, the brand getting registered in someone's mind is in itself a valuable asset. I believe that's the genius of Facebook, they have made the ad experience so seamless and intuitive.

Note that, people generally don't buy things the first time they see a banner about it. The process of today's digital marketing involves nurturing at multiple levels. For eg, I learned about the brand from Facebook. Then, I stumbled upon a blog post written by them. "Wow. Who are these guys? Why do I keep hearing about them?". I learned more about them and maybe bought something from them after a while. Undoubtedly, Facebook uninterrupted ads will (have?) become a major part of this funnel.
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>My original comment was about how people shift the goal posts about what AI is. My opinion is that in the same way you'd struggle to call a human intelligent if literally all they could do was play genius level Go, most people would not call a computer program intelligent if all it could do was play Go.

I totally agree with you on that one.

>Hmm, I think we're misunderstanding each other. Is your view that RL and CNN have been or can be applied to create a machine you'd call intelligent right now?

Not really. I was making a point to this:

>I don't think anyone would call an algorithm that in theory can apply to lots of domains intelligent. You need a concrete implementation to demonstrate this.

I was saying that even the human mind is one complex algorithm and we consider that intelligence. Something being understandable and us being able to apply to multiple domains can be intelligence as we see it today. It's just that we don't know what the complex algorithm is.

>If the machine could play many other games and adapt to games it hasn't seen before that's more convincing, but you would expect an intelligent machine to be able to adapt to more varied tasks as well (e.g. having conversations, writing stories, doing maths, recognising objects). Right now, we have AIs that are genius level at one task that cannot even attempt other tasks e.g. genius level at Chess or even a whole category of games but couldn't have a basic conversation.

This is exactly what I'm getting at. If we do find out the algorithm that effective replicates human intelligence, isn't that intelligence according to the definition of intelligence? If we find out the complex human algorithm, then we'd be able to do all the things that you just described

I think where our misunderstanding arises is that I'm saying you're disconnecting the working of human brain and algorithms. I'm saying human brain is one big algorithm and your statement :

>I don't think anyone would call an algorithm that in theory can apply to lots of domains intelligent

Wouldn't hold true in the case where we find out the algorithm for emulating the brain effectively. This disconnect in separating human intelligence from being anything other than an algorithm will make us see human brain as an un-understandable mystery box, which I think it is not.
Everyone but the mainstream gets squeezed out, choice is reduced, and we're all worse off for it.

But we're not all worse off for it. In fact, only a small minority who choose to be outside the mainstream are worse off for it. Making unusual choices sometimes means you don't enjoy the same opportunities as those who go with the flow, even as you perhaps enjoy advantages in other respects, and as unfortunate as it might be, that's life.

In cases where we're talking about something important or even essential to living an otherwise normal life, there are arguments for regulatory intervention, public services, and so on to protect those who choose to follow a different path, and indeed those who have no choice.

But here we're talking about being able to enjoy certain entertainment via one particular channel. If that doesn't suit you, you can enjoy the same entertainment by various other means, such as watching a movie in a theatre or buying it on a disc, and there is a whole world of other entertainment you can enjoy instead if none of the alternatives suits you.

But if I want to watch DRM content and HTML5 with EME is the accepted standard for that, then I need a browser and platform that support it. That limits my choices, purely for the benefit of others.

That is true, but it limits you no more than not having that content available online at all.
Not much difference:

<?= escape($var) ?>
{{ var | escape }}

Nevertheless, I used DOM/libxml on the server side in PHP/C, since 10 years ago, and was happy about it. It avoids all the other the template issues (balancing open/close tags, etc.) very well.

A few helper functions and you're good to go, with simplicity, flexibility and speed you will not get from any templating library in PHP.

Though, some coding customers don't know what to make of it. Some people have trouble with not being able to see HTML in the code, because "where do I paste my Google Analytics code?".
Curiously, a stereotypical infant directed speech instance that seems distinctly "oral" [0] is the union of those three options: "coo-chee, goo-chee, [k|g]oo".

[0] Perhaps only idiosyncratically.
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One pays money in order to buy GQ or Vogue and gets both content and ads in return.

On the internet, you usually don't pay anything for the content. In return, (1) you get to see ads, (2) whatever information about you can be harvested is potentially made use of in order to make money (other than that obtained by publishing ads).

To be clear: advertising is ok, but using the information somehow obtained by an individual for further advertising is not.
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The ability to sustain losses is very different to what the GP was discussing - learning from the past to deal with the present. Of course the US can sustain losses easily - that has been a hallmark of the industrialised world. However the US did not pay attention to the experiences of others with experiences when occupying Afghanistan or Iraq. This did not appear to be an easy learning experience with IEDs, suicide bombing and insurgency being a departure from what the US expected to face. At least that's what it looked like from afar.
I built a website for a monthly trade newspaper. They have 40 - 60 companies that advertise on the website. It's is a useful connecting companies and people who really need to purchase their services and products for their occupation.

Clearly you don't want what GQ or Vogue is selling. If GQ or Vogue targets your demographic and the ad is ignored, not interacted with, or the X is clicked, Facebook will still show the ad but will charge much, much more.

Facebook does try to encourage advertisers to show you content that you might have been happy to see if a friend or business associate posted it. Facebook by it's incentives to advertisers wants to blur the line between interesting content posted by friends and interesting content posted by advertisers.
When I used to buy computer magazines a big reason was the ads from computer parts dealers inside. Nowadays a lot of that is on the internet, but ads are still a way to find out about products and prices.
There must be because I get all kinds of junk mail since I bought a home. Some of the prescreened credit offers know the initial balance of my mortgage, too.

And this is paper mail!
hey argonaut, we meet again. I think you'd be interested in the parent comments of this[0] thread.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12322536
One of my favorite ways to waste time on the internet is to watch the sales ticker on the Bandcamp homepage go by, and click on any album people pay more than the minimum for. Found some pretty good music that way.
That's why you see services with lots of pictographic functions eclipse pure test-based ones in Asia, because they are very used to that kind of symbolic communication. And why complex emoji using text characters in creative ways were developed in Asia in the first place.

For example, Twitter never really took off in southeast Asia, but Line is incredibly popular. Why? Stickers. Line offers endless little pictures you can use with your messages, while Twitter doesn't.

Now stickers (and emoji) are taking off a lot more in the West, because they are super compact and effective communication symbols. I think we'll see more and more of it.
A friend working with inmates says that they laugh at the idea of the prisoner dilemma. They say there is no dilemma: everybody knows that one must never confess or there will be consequences.

These are not occasional criminals but people for which crime is a career path, exactly the mobsters of the example in the article. They have rules to follow which affect all their professional life in the same way we have contracts with our customers.
It is progress, but because of the price-enabled technology switch, there are many misconceptions the kind of progress and its expected continuation. Outside of fixed installations, price only translates to capacity when there is a next level technology available at a higher price point. I don't see that now.

We might be left to forever squeeze out the last remaining bits of inefficiency from current technology (non-reacting mass fraction due to insufficient surface area per mass?)
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If it works in other email clients, it should work in Mutt. Personally setting up Mutt was easier than most email clients for me.
> This is good. I don't understand why people hate on it so much.

I think following quote by Banksy/Sean Tejaratchi[1] explains why there are so strong feelings about advertizing. Of course, not _all_ advertizing is bad, as your example shows. Only the vast majority...

"People are taking the piss out of you every day. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."

[1]https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Banksy
I thought Ruby ensured there was only one symbol with given contents, so that equality testing for symbols reduces to pointer equality. I don't Python strings behave that way.

But at any rate I wasn't thinking of performance characteristics but rather the stereotypical uses of symbols vs strings in languages that have both, so you are right that one can use Python strings in place of symbols, as SpaceManiac already pointed out above.
I guess there must be a fine line between data with personal character like social security number for instance and private information as your current location.

Every coin had two faces, wonder how many faces bitcoin will have in the future
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It's actually not uncommon when speaking to have to either draw a kanji in the air, or refer to the symbol you mean by cross-referencing another word that uses it to disambiguate.
> Almost nobody likes them because they appreciate quality marketing content or something.

Quality marketing is fun to watch.

Hence the people (including myself) who only watch the ads. It's hardly isolated to the Superbowl—look at the millions of views which some better ads get on YouTube.

Likewise, I definitely think for many people advertising is part of the magazine experience. I certainly don't mind some of the nicer ads in The New Yorker.