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My issue with those sites is that most clients seem to expect people doing it fulltime, ie, available for video conference meetings at their chosen time, available during the day for chat, etc. It wasn't something I could do without interfering with my day job.
I'm just guessing but their's probably some cat and mouse involved. If facebook starts filtering one social engineering vector then they'll just shift to another one. It's like banning bots in various video games, you do it in random intervals in waves that obfuscate the exact cause and align nicely with the company's bottom line and PR efforts.
I'm watching the video thinking, wow, this guy has an amazing shed. Then at the end you realise it's in his living room.
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A few off the top of my head:

- Not everyone wants to lock themselves into long term mortgages, renting keeps their future options open

- Getting a deposit together for some is tricky

- Risk-adverse attitudes to getting mortgages after 2008

- Outside the US and the English speaking world, renting is quite popular, perhaps the default option, e.g. continental Europe. Therefore the demand is quite high for renting and lower for buying

The real question is, why aren't banks and hedge funds moving into this area, using their clout to access cheap financing and then buying attractive properties en mass and renting them out. This would take advantage of the current low interest rate environment.
aren't there a bunch of sponsors and game-sites that buy non-exclusive game licences?
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Indeed a product often has value, but an idea without execution is an untested gamble.
This looks great and with such an early release date it does seem the tech is not far away. Interesting that they are making the batteries and not licensing the tech considering it works with existing manufacturing technologies. I wonder how much extra cost if any for this increased energy density
Almost per definition, most of the damage done is the public reaction. In that sense, the US is affected much more than countries who have been targeted much more recently.
Here I'm using "game theory" in the pop-sci sense, no deeper mathematics. Assume you and your opponent commit to the following strategy:

- If attacked by nuclear weapons, retaliate by completely destroying the enemy with nuclear weapons

- Do everything you can to preserve second-strike ability

Then it follows it is rational to not use nuclear weapons.

So far so good and true, but there is one problem with this argument: if your enemy does use nuclear weapons on you for any reason, is it then still rational to stick to your strategy?

Before the war, you do anything you can to cement your retaliation strategy, to preserve deterrence, MAD, and ultimately peace.

But after the war starts, and once you realize you cannot win anymore, it does not make sense anymore to go through with the second strike. You have nothing to gain. You don't punish your enemy so he doesn't attack you again "next time". If your preparations in cementing your strategy haven't been 100% thorough, and you have a way to stop retaliation, then the logical thing would be to do so and surrender unconditionally (assuming you value preserving life over revenge, when there is nothing to gain militarily anymore).

What I meant with "naive" is that the standard story about MAD assumes a steady state - both sides commit to a strategy, there is no time development, from this it follows that you should not use nuclear weapons ("the only winning move is not to play"). But if you allow the strategy to be a function of time, players can change their mind, and this changes the whole situation.

You no longer have to ask, "what is rational before playing the game" (=> not playing), but "what is rational at every time t >= 0". I believe then it is no longer about being able to second-strike, but about being able to abort the second-strike. If your enemy is in any way able to abort the second-strike (and you are already in an escalated global war, and don't value sparing enemy lives over winning), then the most rational step at t > 0 becomes to nuke the enemy as soon as possible, so they can no longer achieve their goals. If they are rational, they should immediately proceed to surrender.

I believe this "alternative story" is somewhat justified, as at least it was believed at some point by certain decision makers in both west and east militaries - I say that because there were many different nuclear strategies floating around during the cold war, and some were very different than the "Dr. Strangelove" scenario. There were ideas to fight a conventional tank war supported by nukes for example. Another rather spectacular one was (declassified one or two years ago I believe), if the soviets were to declare war and to occupy Berlin, to overkill Berlin with nuclear weapons (-> they can no longer achieve their goal, and you'd take out a significant portion of their tanks)... but of course we were never anywhere near a level of escalation where such a crazy, inhuman plan would have been considered.
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Problem is that you need to have the actual photon counts. NASA (for Kepler at least) uses FITS files to store essentially a 2d array of photon counts. So converting to another format is not actually helpful.

But I agree that if someone is using it as an _image_ format they should reconsider their life decisions.
Maybe he should try learning a new language/tech, though; I got $50/hr gigs without much trouble for projects using a Python-based stack. It probably doesn't keep the pipeline full, but it sure moves up the average income.
Isn't it interesting how all these gardens have been walled up with the (stated) purpose of providing a safe place, without the perils of viruses and malware that supposedly thrive on more open platforms.
> Very NICHE apps

You will have like 3 installs per month. I made niche website that used 7 people in it's peak, now only 1~2.
Indeed, it doubled as a beatbox machine, with 99% perfect rhythm! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3wPBcmSb2U

(Unfortunately the small demo isn't doesn't run to completion, perhaps because the source material didn't include it, or because uploading it all would have been nontrivial)
IT support can be a thankless job. People only need you when something goes wrong, which means you can get a lot of unpleasant people. It also doesn't help that non-functioning technology is often amongst the biggest of many peoples pet peeves, so they already start out from an impatient state.

I can't see the same being quite as true for librarians as people aren't starting from a state where something that should be working isn't.
I worked at Tekserve for 2 years. It's quite interesting to hear the strong emotional responses that many people express about its closing.
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Replicate the above without using [Regex]:: (i.e. use -matches and $matches). It forces you to radically depart from a typical Powershell mindset and approach.
That would likely be interesting to quite a few people here, definitely post it if (hopefully when) you get it going.
No, the next gen phones will need twice the power anyway, so no change in size.

They will probably have real-time rendered 3D graphics in the user interface, and more expensive signal processing of their sensors, because of higher resolution of the sensors (especially regarding the camera resolution). And more sensors in total.

/s
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Yeah, the most important thing about deterrence is to make a certain impression to the enemy.

I always found it mind-boggling that the Soviets kept "Perimeter" secret, but the theory you write about makes a lot of sense.
I'm hoping this means running EF migration scripts on Linux will be less of a nightmare. It was one of the biggest issues I ran into developing a Web application in .net hosted on Linux.
> The real question is, why aren't banks and hedge funds moving into this area

Yes, that was implicitly part of my question :)
My experience is similar to freyr's. I've had Friday-from-home periods where usually I'd end up not doing much. Sometimes this was my fault; it's just too easy to see it as an early start tothe weekend. But at other times it was because people/code/decisions I needed were not made because employees in the office also seemed to have much lower output on Fridays.

And my experience with coworkers is no different. I actually checked commit histories at some point to confirm that indeed most of those who worked from home on Fridays didn't produce any significant output. The sneakier ones would commit stuff, but clearly 'little stuff' that I sometimes suspected they had ready on a Thursday specifically to show something on a Friday.

Of course, you're completely correct that this doesn't mean that this is always the case. But if I were an employer, based on my experiences, I'd be hesitant to allow people to work from home on Fridays. Not in general, but specifically only on Fridays.
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It's not just the sound, the departure boards (which are supposed to tell you which train(s) are next) spend a lot of time with those useless warnings showing instead.
Apparently the Computing gallery is closed so it can be replaced with a new Mathematics gallery. Hopefully that will manage to incorporate the Difference Engine somewhere.
Cost of living doesn't increase linearly with the number of people in a residence - usually it's logarithmic (so two people per house is cheaper than one, which is more expensive than three).
Yeah, same here, sucks, interested about the situation in Bay Area from a more 'impartial' point of view.
Presumably if you're used to the BBC's style (and this style is much more common generally in the UK than in the US - many of the major newspapers spell acronyms similarly) it doesn't look like a typo.
I'm not sure I agree about the crime or at least it doesn't match my experience

I think part of the issue might be what crime brings up in your mind.

AFAICT in pretty much any "western" city (Paris, London, Brussels, Hamburg, NYC, LA, SF) the odds of having something stolen are extremely high. In SF if you leave something visible in your car overnight my experience is the odds are greater than 1 in 2 that the next morning you'll find your car window has been bashed in and the item/items stolen. In Paris if you look away from your purse stuff will be stolen. In Brussels if you sit at a bench and put your bag under the bench someone will reach under from the other side and steal your bag.

So far in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Singapore that doesn't seem to be the case.

So while the odds of me getting hurt in one city vs another might be low the odds of me experiencing theft seem much higher in some of those top cities than others.

I'd be curious to know how Australia's and Canada's cities do along that dimension. Can you leave your laptop at a Starbucks unattended for an 10-60 mins and not have it stolen?
Yes it is.

First, efficiency of utilisation: Driverless cars can be driven around the clock (modulo maintenance and refueling time), so car depreciation/maintenance gets amortised amongst more passengers.

Second, efficiency of scale in maintenance: It is extremely unlikely that the maintenance costs that uber drivers take on - buying parts retail and taking their car to the nearest garage for repairs - are lower than what would be a dedicated factory-like maintenance shop for thousands of automatic cabs.

And third of course: direct wage costs of the driver once you subtract car maintenance from fares is still a lot bigger than zero, so eliminating that saves money.
The software is supported by a company in Paris[0] so normally it's possible to get information about their authors. I don't think they are anonymous like TrueCrypt author(s).

[0] https://www.idrix.fr/Root/mos/Contact_Us/Itemid,3/
https://wakatime.com/ full disclosure: I built it, but still use it every day to track my features and productivity.

Trello for closed-source projects and GitHub issues works perfectly for open-source projects.
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Because it doesnt make money and doesn't cost much to ignore?
The story mentioned by the parent seems to be this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebungsrisse_in_Staufen_im_Bre...
He was already sick. And poor. And on disability.

Moving costs money, which he obviously couldn't afford. In addition, not all states will immediately put you on their medicaid because it takes time to establish residency.
Seriously, this. This post is so misleading, hah. All of this assumes traction.
So, your prefer your anecdata to his anecdata?
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It's very easy to recognize a bogus livable cities ranking: if it doesn't include a single Swiss city in its Top 10, like the list above, look elsewhere. Economist Intelligence Unit, a body that compiled the list above tend to be heavily skewed towards Anglo-Saxon countries and doesn't get any money for its lists as far as I know. This means that they can be very much like Monocle and just include in the list the cities they themselves like (Monocle constantly puts Copenhagen very highly in their lists). Fine for them, as long as they don't sell the list for hard currency.

There is a company though that sells their livable cities rankings for hard currency, and this company is Mercer. Mercer has its own very systematic methodology fo measuring livability and because of that multinational companies use Mercer's lists to come up with salaries they pay for the same job description in different countries. Mercer's list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Surve...) for several years in a row is topped with Vienna and only contains less that a third of non-European cities in its top 30, which absolutely correctly reflects the relatively low quality of life anywhere in the world outside of developed parts of Europe.
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In that case, maybe what's actually needed is not battery capacity, but quicker and more convenient recharging systems?

Say solar, kinetic, or wireless charging stations spread throughout a city? Maybe incorporate some kind of "witricity" into the next WiFi proposal? If stuff can be recharged while it's being used, or within seconds, it shouldn't matter how much capacity the battery has.
For this connections number, I now look at connections to skill recommendations ratio. Generally I see someone as genuinely connected if they have ~10% skill recommendation numbers for their top skill as they do connections. If someone have 500+ connections and 10 people have hit a skill recommendation you know they are spammy.
Maybe see if you can turn up old 4U or 8U chassis, and reuse them with old motherboards you have or find lying around. As another commentator said, airflow will be excellent, and you'd have lots of space for local disks too.

If your situation allows it, you could rent out the spare space you have, either by providing standard colocation or by racking old but usable stuff you have spare and making it available (either the real hardware or VMs). Depending on your location and what your pricing could be, this could be a nice side project. One or two cabinets could net a couple hundred (maybe thousand) per month easily, I think.

Another thing: maybe look into engineering-sample (ES) chips (like Xeons) on eBay. For some reason the market is flooded with them, so snap them up while they're around, if you can. You could build some nice kit with them :P

[PS. If the idea of that side project sounds interesting - I wouldn't mind low-scale sysadmin experience, if it would be helpful. My email's in my profile.]
Undoubtedly, but my impression is that it's been more of a gradual refinement of the same technology, rather than a sudden 2x improvement as claimed here.
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Wrote on this topic a bit at the beginning of the year.[1]

I think for most people it really just comes down to a mix of Medium's beautiful design, a strong existing community there, and laziness. You'd be surprised how many times I've been told by friend's to cross-post my stuff to Medium for exposure, but so far I've done my best to hold off.

[1]: https://robertnealan.com/is-self-hosted-blogging-dead/
In all of this I have to wonder what their drivers (current and prospective ) think of these plans.
Unix like shell + Python/Perl/Ruby = car

That being said I really don't mind that MS went the PowerShell route. It improved their ecosystem a lot and I belive was also one of the engines behind the more open minded move towards open source...maybe someone at MS can chime in but I feel like PS was always one of the strong projects pushing that forward from talking to some MS engineers.
no, he hasn't. If he hosts the app on a central server he gets to keep data that needs to be reachable via the internet and may be of varying, to him unknown importance. He's a single developer with no ops team.

Anybody using it may either have an organization that can support hosting or may be in a position to host it on a secure, internal network or may have data that is of low importance anyways. The user of the app is in a much better position to assert the value and evaluate the damage of a breach/loss.
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There's that one iconic image of neurons suspended in space with bolts of electricity flashing between them. We are told that's how our brains work.

We are then shown a diagram by a computer scientist. Instead of cells and thunder, we see circles and arrows. Then we are told there is an algorithm that simulates what the brain does. Viola, we have our artificial neural network. Not only do they look similar, they have two words in common, neural and network!

And so for most of us, there is only one logical conclusion: It does what our brain does, so once our computers have the power our brains do, we'll have the singularity!

Of course, now we know this is complete bullshit.

Basically, computer scientists just took the names and those initial abstractions and ran with it. They never looked back at the biology or how brains actually work. The result is a ton of great research, but they've strayed further and further from neuroscience and from humans. Which is obvious, because they're staring at code and computers all day, not brain meat. If there is one thing AlphaGo proved it is that we've made a ton of progress in computation, but that it's a different direction. Just the fact that average people generally suck at Go should be enough to show that AlphaGo is not human (in many ways it's beyond human).

In the meantime, our neuroscientist have made progress also, except, they've done it staring at the actual brain. And now it's to the point where our brains look nothing like that original image our computer scientists were inspired with.

Now there is this (Harvard research): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YM7-Od9Wr8

And this (MIT research): https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung?language=en

With advancement comes new vocabulary, and the new word this time is connectome.

Some incredibly smart computer scientists will, again, take the term and all the diagrams, and start programming based on it. The result will be Artifical Connectomes, and they will blow our socks off. Now, don't get me wrong. I am not trying to be sarcastic here. This is what _should_ happen. And with every iteration, we will get closer to AGI.

It's just that whenever I see articles about machine learning and neural networks, I can't help but think of that classic artist's rendition of neurons firing, and how it's basically complete bullshit. Like Bohr's atom, it's an illustration based on a theory, not reality. Now we have wave function diagrams and connectomes. But as a physicist would tell you, anyone caught with a Bohr's atom is stuck in the 20th century.
And it works really great! I've been serving my personal web page for months now at /ipns/pablo.rauzy.name :).

The only catch is that you need to republish regularly (I do it using cron two times a day) otherwise the IPNS do not work after some time, but I'm not sure it still is the case.
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What is it like at MIT's Global Entrepreneur's bootcamp?
> They will probably have real-time rendered 3D graphics in the user interface

They already do.
If the game is fully encrypted, and the DRM uses PSP or ME to keep the RAM of the game itself at all time encrypted so I can not read or debug it, it directly does prevent that.
No need to make it more complicated than it it:

The problem can be simple modeled as the prisoner's dilemma or more commonly known as the "Tragedy of the Commons".

Its quite unfair to ask Europeans and Americans to cut back on having kids when we are not setting some limits to the Pakistanis, Nigerians, Indians .. etc.
> “Microsoft loves Linux”

Not really sure. Does Microsoft really treat C#, F# compilers on Linux as first-class citizens?

What has MS done to bring MS office on Linux? Alternatively, has it contributed to other efforts like OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
I didn't read the article. I do have an honest question. This is probally not the time to take a half ass survey, but here goes:

To Facebook members; what exactly have you gotten out of the site. This question is mainly geared towards Americans. I know in some countries FB is your only way to get onto any Internet--FB version of the Internet, but it's free--kind of--ads are not free.

So these questions are really directed towards U.S. Citizens; did you make any physical friends by being on FB? Did you get any job offers? Did you get that invite to the party? And the most important question, did you meet that special someone you only would have meet through the social elite site of FB?

I know a lot of you keep in touch with friends/family, and they have news feed, and that's a given, and wonderful--I guess?

I'm asking these questions because I am really not in FB demographics, and really want to know. I know this will not be a balanced review of Facbook. I just didn't think FB would still be growing in America at this date. I actually shocked we are still talking about it. I know a handful of people who deactivated, but not the numbers I was expecting.

(If offended, or feel this post is off topic-- I will remove it, and you have my apologies. And yes--I know they are buying up competition.)
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This is very much work in progress but every submission contributes to the DB which will be used to help improve the algorithm and thus make matching better.

The idea being that this will over time develop a community of people who will help tag various job descriptions to companies, helping people find the real companies behind the various jobs masked by recruiters out there.

Thoughts & suggestions welcome.