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Manafort's Russian ties aren't only known to Trump. The entire Republican Party establishment is well-aware of his background. Manafort is a part of that establishment and he's close to HW Bush.

This isn't Trump using private information to his personal advantage. This is complicity within the entire Republican Party establishment.

It's more likely that the Republican party itself has ties to Russia. Manafort was probably a compromise between the Republican establishment and the Trump campaign when he won the nomination, seeing as he let Lewandowski go and Manafort was tasked with moderating Trump's image. It also was Manafort who allegedly pressured Trump into supporting Ryan.

Trump is probably not using the Presidency to get preferential business treatment in Russia. There are much much much much easier ways to get edge, even in Russia. If he is, it's a goal that is way out there on the periphery, likely not something on which he would base his choice of campaign chairman.
It seems to me that all physics simulation is highly parallelizable because, well, physics is parallel :)

But please correct me if I'm wrong.
Origins of the word dord?
The full opinion in the article goes on to explain that it would be more appropriate to bring the case under nuisance laws, rather than trespass, or indeed vandalism.
Seriously? Ferrari impromptu infernos is an Internet meme. Those things self immolate all the time. New ones too, not old ones with leaky hoses. Google it, it's a thing.
One thing we've done in the past is included the feed name / source in the document (just an fyi...not sure if applicable to your use case or not).
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Indeed but the context here are all the futuristic predictions starting with mass-unemployment of taxi and truck drivers (indeed that's what Uber is selling their market valuation on). If drivers are still needed 60% of the time, they're going nowhere.

The hype right now is so great that even if the reality is amazing it will be disappointing.
Claiming that quantum mechanics (QM) was motivated by semiconductors is bordering on discussing in bad faith.

A glance at [1] will show that people were thinking about issues leading up to QM for several decades. Planck's equation relating energy to frequency of light (in several ways the first "quantum" idea that conceived what we today call Planck's constant) was motivated by understanding the "ultraviolet catastrophe" [2] (which was a purely "theoretical" endeavour as some would call it today). Planck's work preceeded Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect by several years. Even when the photoelectric effect was observed, it was first noticed in zinc (IIRC); it was only in the 1930s that QM was applied to understand the functioning of semiconductors.

You are confusing all the things we use QM for today with all the reasons for which it was first conceived. Moany of those reasons of course spurred development in QM after it was conceived -- but none of those motivations would have conceived QM.

With regards to your comment on the development of probability:

There was always a reason/purpose something was conceived. So claiming that it was "motivated by applications" is tautological. The relevant question to ask is whether the applications today are different from the original motivations. If they are, then frankly, it doesn't matter what the original motivations were... the idea would have been difficult to conceive starting with the eventual application in mind. Eg: Without an understanding of probability, linear algebra and differential equations, there would have been no quantum mechanics. Somebody observing the photoelectric effect could not have developed those tools for their "application".

I notice your other comment on the thread (OP) talks in analogy with physical training. IMHO, such an analogy is misguided for endeavours which cannot be reasonably well specified so as to be manageable (in that it can be managed, with the goal in mind). Basic research is often not amenable to that because it has tons of unknown unknowns [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_quantum_mechanics

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
No, it's not. Binder was designed for Java, and the rest of the Unix family doesn't support it.
ISRG is a 501(c)(3).
Five benefits you get for good user experience (why investment in UX pays off)
Solving problems they didn't even know they had in the first place...
Self-driving trucking startup Otto joins Uber
'Amnesty' was indeed a poor example. Call it a special repatriation tax rebate, or whatever.

Otherwise, you're reading far too much into my comment. With the current tax rules as given, I merely suggested a possible compromise.

At no point did I argue for/against the rules, and at no point did I agree/disagree with what Cook is saying.
One of the points of Coursera is that it isn't just for Americans. It's for everyone everywhere who don't have the same level of access to education that Americans have.

So it doesn't matter if no more Americans want to learn there's billons in other countries who'd love to have access.

I think the American education system is awesome the respect of opening their system up to the world. My native UK has basically nothing. Cambridge and Oxford have a few online courses, but barely even one UK university will even bother to run a course on Coursera.
My favorite form of brainwashing is the fire alarm.

I had a friend in the first year of grad school, we were living in the same building, the fire alarm would go off almost every night. We would stay up late every Sunday doing our electromagnetism homework listening to the first two Black Sabbath albums.

One day he cracked and decided he'd lay in bed during the fire alarm and the RA asked where he was and I said he was still in bed and they punished him.

He started thinking independently and started getting arrested. He got arrested at the supermarket, and then he got arrested cause he was sleeping under the pool table.

Now Scientology mind training is really something. If you pull the fire alarm at a Scientology org they know you're going to dress up like a firefighter and empty out the till and steal the case folders and the e-meters, so Scientologists do intense training so that they do not leave the building when the fire alarm goes off. They spend hours just staring at each other in TR-0 to prepare for that kind of ruse.

You see, if your learned from your experience, you'd learn that when the fire alarm goes off there is never a fire. The things are so unreliable that you know they wouldn't go off in a fire anyway.

In fact actually, leaving the building when the fire alarm goes off and there really is a fire can get you killed:

http://www.newstalk1010.com/news/2015/02/16/should-you-leave...
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I bet they still bought a Tesla.
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I'm also curious. I'm the sole technical person at our company and feel as though I can't go anywhere outside of cell coverage, can't leave my laptop at home, and have to sleep lightly so as to not miss an alarm.
> I have never heard of a regular car spontaneously erupting into flames.

I just passed a car completely engulfed in flames on I-95, yesterday. I pass one every few weeks. It seems to happen more often in summer. Except for local traffic updates it's so common national news doesn't bother to pick it up unless there is a fatality.
> I was wondering there isn't some way to create a system where you earn votes

I am wary of this, especially when it comes to the web. I can see this system being "controlled" by early and/or very active users.
Am I alone here in actually wanting a place of work with a desk and co-workers.

I worked from home for a year and found it very stressful. There was a lack of human interaction and no clear line between home and work.

My current employer gives me a good balance. I usually spend 3 days in the office and 2 days at home. This is mostly because of the 2 hour commute into London. I'd love to work close to home and visit the office every day.

Looking at some of the comments here (for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12311632) it seems that the new work culture is being based around the approach adopted by a proportion of the population whose need's are different. These people thrive in this environment.

There is an assumption that the way that this group works is the future, and that it is just a matter of time before everybody else follows (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12311689).

There are others, like myself, who find this way of working to be unpleasant. We would like to continue working the old way, but that doesn't seem to be an option anymore.

I used to enjoy having my own desk. I had a shelf of reference books and my personal belongings were locked away in the draw.

This is no longer allowed. Every job I've had for the last decade has been 'hot desking' and I have to carry everything with me every day.

Is a desk of my own where I can do a little nesting really too much to ask for?
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As an example of your point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jas9ff0hdFI
How much is insurance for a Tesla S vs a comparable fuel car?
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Why not separate the driver compartment from the battery packs using a fireproof wall? Or surround the batteries in a fireproof "box" with a vent? Or add a gas based fire damping system like data centres use?

Battery bursting into flames, destroying the whole car and putting the driver and passengers at risk just seems so archaic.
I wrote my Ph.D. thesis in FrameMaker on a Mac. Then Adobe went and discontinued it on the Mac, which was much lamented. So now I write stuff in LaTeX instead.
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When I worked in manual labour (warehouses etc) that was certainly the case but in a white-collar job it is much less structured in my experience, we may have a formal fika once a week or just informal coffee breaks every now and then.

Fika IS important to productivity though! Morale boosting if nothing else.
I can also recommend the more in-depth, Academy Award winning, book "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation" [1] by Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys (and Wenzel Jakob for the soon-to-be-released third edition). The book has nearly 1200 pages though so, unlike Shirley's book, you probably won't be able to read it in a single weekend. It covers both the theory and the implementation of rendering techniques which are close to the state of the art and it provides many pointers to interesting papers.

[1] http://pbrt.org/
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Yeah, generally speaking most people are not motivated in their jobs and put the minimum effort needed. Many/most people need to be micromanaged. So doing remote where people work the same hours more-or-less lets you haggle people on Slack that aren't getting shit done.
I thought the interesting part of kdbus was the "memory sealing" - you could take a shared memory buffer, write to it, then "seal" it (so no further changes were allowed) and share it with another process. I believe you cannot efficiently do that in userspace. That doesn't seem to be part of this proposal.
This new app I found which also does the same thing as Poke Radar. Don't know if it is effective or not.
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>computer languages (C++ especially, but also systems built in C) are too complex for the average mind

I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but have you looked at the source code [1] of the Apollo Guidance computer [2]? This software was shipped to production 50 years ago. It literally implements a "self-driving space rocket." It is staggering that this was completed in such a short time and actually worked.

The code is written entirely in the "Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) Assembly" language. The hardware that it was written for had to be invented in at the same time, and was the world's first computer to use Integrated Circuits ("chips"). They also implemented a Real-Time Operating System with a multi-task priority scheduler, as well as a virtual machine and assembly interpreter within the software.

This was mission and life safety critical code, the risk involved boggles the mind. And yet the software was incredibly reliable. It was so reliable that it even saved the Apollo 11 crew and mission during the lunar descent by famously recovering from a peripheral hardware bug.

I honestly do not know how this feat was even humanly possible, but I do know that these programmers did not rely on "code completion."

[1] https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
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> without attribution

Fair enough. I'm not sure why I assumed the NSA would announce exactly what software they were poking around inside of in the first place.
I prefer to look at it the other way, why don't you point out an existing and important chemistry application where KNL bested its contemporary GPUs, say the best of Knight's Corner versus the best of Kepler (K40 or K80). I'm also open to Knight's Landing versus GP100 (vaporware versus no longer vaporware but hard to get)

I'm genuinely interested here because I can't find this anywhere. I don't think it exists personally.
well, hasn't google driven around actual city streets for many millions of miles? I could be wrong, but driving a car doesn't actually require breakthroughs in perception beyond current technology, The issue is that it just isn't economical for individual car ownership at this stage, but it could very well make economic sense for a fleet of taxis. Note, those taxis don't have to have the ability to go just anywhere, they could have predefined routes
Sharex. Holy shit, sharex.

It's a program that's a combination of a universal file sharer, screenshotter, image editor, screen recorder (which can output gif) and a seriously unbelievable suite of tools like OCR, image combiners, a QR generator, etc.

When I say universal file sharer, I mean everything. It uploads to different sites based on the filetype, be it drive for files, gifycat for .mp4's, pastebin for text, whatever. And there isn't a linux equivalent. Which sucks.
There are more UNIX flavours than those ones.
Self promotion is allowed if the post is interesting, but it' very strange that this post get 9 upvotes ...

Anyway, some feedback to the OP: I watched the video and I was clueless about what this does. I read the about page, and it' not very clear, it looks like something between chat and Tweeter. Is this correct? Why is this better than Tweeter?
What a GREAT idea. Thank you!
To add to other anecdotes, there was quite a few fires in new jeeps while parked and off.

http://jalopnik.com/why-jeeps-catch-on-fire-and-why-chrysler...

http://blog.caranddriver.com/jeep-recalls-164000-cherokees-f...

http://www.abcactionnews.com/money/consumer/taking-action-fo...

So far for Tesla, all fires have been determined to be caused by collision damage breaching the battery. I guess we'll see if this case was a manufacturing defect or road debris, but if it was caused by a manufacturing defect then this would be the first case of that for Tesla as far as I'm aware.

As a side note, Tesla claims to have put quite a bit of care into designing the floor pan and battery such that in cases like this, a fire shouldn't breach into the cabin for a while. In theory, even after the fire is well underway, the design of the car should give passengers plenty of time to get out.
That sounds like a horrible relationship, and is certainly not the norm in many cities.

As a property owner, you should not have to request (by means of a "Post No Bills" message or other) that other people don't interfere with your property.
Free PL Workshop: SREPLS-4, Imperial College London, 27 September
Of course.

You don't have to use image-based systems to program in Smalltalk: you can also write unix Smalltalk programs, using gst (GNU Smalltalk).

cf. eg. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/10/smalltalk-hello-world-ex...
Was gonna say that. Gas burners don't give any such warning.

When I was a kid, I remember seeing my neighbors truck going up in flames in mere SECONDS. They got in the truck, turned the key, and it didn't start. They felt the dashboard and it was hot. As soon as they got out, the whole truck went up in flames.

This was an older truck, but still, can't think of any vehicles nowadays besides a high-tech car giving a warning about impending immolation.
I guess we should still be using horse and buggies then. How dare we leave buggy drivers behind.

Change is inevitable. And for many people, painful. If the automation revolution occurs too fast, it will be a pretty economically painful transition period for a large chunk of humanity. On the other hand, if the transition is really really fast, the painful period may not last too long. Most things will become so cheap and abundant that most people won't have to work, or we will transition society to a 10-hour work week or something.
Now you can import consumer goods upto 50,000 INR duty free in India
Defaults matter, see "Effective consent rates, by country" (bottom right) graph...

https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/sites/decisionsciences/files/f...
>context menu on scroll bars - no idea who would use this

It is for accessibility. Alternative input methods, like emulating the mouse by keyboard for instance, might not have mouse-drag functionality, but will have a right-click function.
Why is The New York Times so afraid of my chatbot?
I use Google Analytics to find out! It's pretty easy to set up.

So far there's a 1:1 correlation between viewing my website and sending me a non-automated LinkedIn message.
Because they disagree with that legal opinion? I argue against the Citizens United decision constantly and that decision came down from arguably the most knowledgeable and important legal minds of today.
But isn't "single-click, move mouse, single click" much more work than double-click?
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Must admit, when I first saw the url I started wondering how on earth Mark Zuckerberg has the time to be writing raytracers. Made more sense when I scrolled to the bottom.
The OP lists a specific legal reasoning arguing that it could/should be forbidden, but under nuisanse laws instead of trespass laws - however, they explicitly made a claim only in respect of the trespass laws.
> I often wonder if John Galt ever found himself living alone in a room with no one to take care of him in his old age.

I hope you understand that to Objectivists that sounds like saying "I often wonder if Frederick Douglass ever found himself suffer an accident at work with no master to take care of him because he isn't a slave".

I am sure there are better arguments possible against objectivist position, but the one you made is rather naive one.
My grandfather's car burst into flames in downtown Manhattan.

Although, as with other rare but very bad events, humans are very bad at evaluating the relative risks. For example, you're far more likely to be killed driving a perfectly functional car at highway speed than in an automobile fire.
The South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar (S-REPLS) is a regular and informal meeting based in the South of England for those with an interest in the semantics and implementation of programming languages.

The fourth meeting, S-REPLS 4, will take place at Imperial College London on 27 September, 2016. It will follow the low-overhead formula of the previous meetings at Cambridge, Middlesex, and Canterbury. Christophe Dubach will give an invited talk, and we solicit proposals for 15 or 30 minute talks from attendees.

To submit a talk proposal, please email Alastair Donaldson and Luís Pina with a brief abstract and preferred length as soon as possible. Talks about any PL-related topics are welcome, and at any stage of development (from promising ideas to work submitted for publication, as well as experience reports arising from more mature projects). The workshop will start at 11:30am on the South Kensignton campus in London (Huxley building, room 308), and last until 6pm.

To register to attend the seminar, please fill in this Doodle poll http://doodle.com/poll/3pp26yfmi7uuc9z7 indicating your attendance. We are also organising a dinner afterward: we ask that those interested in attending indicate so on the Doodle poll. Please email us with any dietary restrictions for the provided lunch.

The South Kensington campus of Imperial College London is well served by public transport from nearly anywhere in the London area. To find out how to get there, please visit the directions to the South Kensington campus. The seminar takes place at the Huxley building, up the stairs from the entrance at Queen’s Gate.

For the latest news, more information on the meeting, as well as a full programme of talks (as it becomes available), please visit the S-REPLS 4 website.
Exactly. This is exactly why we have elected representatives. Nothing is destroyed, it can be 'cleaned up' instantly, nobody climbed any fences or can be asked to leave, yet most people would probably say that it is not ok to project messages onto a building that the owner didn't approve of.

Legislators should draft a law that defines what 'it' is (e.g. not ambient light), what is excluded (art? abandoned buildings?), and how bad is it (jail, fine, etc).
Uber acquires Otto to lead Uber’s self-driving car effort
That sounds like you are a good manager. This is more about the remote aspect though. With email, text, phone, and video chat it is easy to find out what somebody is doing and take an interest without physically being there. When management can't do that but instead rely on butts in seats and office rituals is when I worry.
I remember reading a while ago some articles about Lucas Films real-time rendering feature, planed for their future flicks. Actually, here's one (of the articles): http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/09/24/lucasfilm-pushes-the-b...

For open-source, I know that Blender uses Cycles, which fires ray-tracing renderings in the normal views on each change, and this so is for quite a while already.
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There's a link there to a his Shanghai Time nixie clock [1],"a two-tube nixie clock". I wonder how you read a two-tube nixie clock.
From the pictures it looks like it just displays the minutes, but that wouldn't be enough info for me. I'd be like "OK, I see it's 10 past, but 10 past what? Judging from the position of the sun, it may be 10 past 2 or 10 past 3. Not sure though."

[1] http://www.daliborfarny.com/shanghai-time-nixie-clock/
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I like this idea and would love to see it implemented. There has to be some open source solution that you can tweak to create this.
We had something like 40 NodeJS projects that were deployed with git or as tarballs. I wrote this bash script, and now they're all Debian packages.

https://github.com/heartsucker/node-deb
But we do have the right to control the medium. You may print facts in your paper, but that gives you no right to burn them into my lawn, or soap them onto my windows, and by extension, use my private property in any way to broadcast them.
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