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I wonder about the breakdown of pothole causes. Yes, Nature's way will cause potholes and they will naturally expand if not rectified.

But then I think about the construction crew down the street from me, in Philadelphia, that didn't properly fill in and tamp down the trench they dug for a new sewer line. "Just fill it with some stones and dirt, and throw some Home Depot black top down on it," the foreman said, I imagine.

The thing grew, and became a gargantuan pothole. Eventually the city fixed it, and granted this probably has everything to do with the contractor in question, and I've seen larger construction companies doing things right, but I'm convinced we could eliminate a lot of potholes if crews just did the job right.
Detect Visio File Type from Input Stream and Modify Event Cells of a Visio Shape
We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for Java 6.7.0. This release comes with a new feature, enhancements, and bug fixes. It gives a way to detect a Visio file format from an input stream. Developers would also be able to modify event cells of a Visio shape. Besides this, it covers many other regular bug fixes reported by our clients. Aspose.Diagram API allows developers to determine the type of a Visio file from an input stream. Developers can already detect the type of a Visio file by passing a complete local file path which also includes the filename and extension. The detectFileFormat method of FileFormatInfo class now gives both options to pass a complete filename or an input stream of the Visio diagram. In short, there are two overloads of this method, the first one accepts a complete file name, while the second one accepts an input stream. The ShapeSheet of a Visio shape has an Event section. The event section has event cells (TheText, EventDblCick, EventXFMod, EventDrop, EventMultiDrop, and TheDrop) in which formulas can be placed. These cells are being evaluated whenever an event occurs. We have enhanced the way of retrieving and updating the event cells in macro-enabled Visio file formats. We auto port Aspose.Diagram for .NET to Java to give developers perfectly same features on both platforms, so this version also incorporates the bug fixes and enhancements from its equivalent .NET version.
Judge rejects Uber’s $100M class-action settlement, calling it unfair to drivers
Yeah, you'd think they would at least have the common sense to start completely altruistically and gradually boil the frog once they have lock in and a solid moat.
IIRC it took much longer to deliver than expected, didn't improve much upon Haswell, sold in a limited set of SKUs, then was succeeded by Skylake a few months later.
> I thought chemistry operated at a higher level

"Chemistry" as you're using the term here is a name for a set of models made by humans, not something in actual atoms and molecules. The atoms and molecules don't know that they're supposed to be doing "chemistry" instead of "quantum stuff".

When I say chemistry is fundamentally dependent on quantum effects, I mean the things atoms and molecules actually do would be impossible without quantum effects. The very existence of atoms depends on quantum effects; in a purely classical world atoms would be impossible. The chemical properties of atoms--their valences, for example--require quantum mechanics to explain.

Often in human models of chemistry, the details of how things like valences of atoms are produced from quantum effects are left out. But that doesn't mean quantum effects aren't being seen when we observe atoms with particular valences, for example. It just means the details aren't explicitly present in those models.
homeless people might be up for it. Special wing with friendlier guards for the volunteer criminals?
How an early telephone silencer took on AT&T
Doesn't seem to be upvoted very much.
They could have reported on the sex act in question, what got them in trouble was that they showed video footage of it. That's very different than simply reporting it as news.
US$29,000? I think you could probably put that together yourself for quite a bit under that price (including a machine or two signed by Woz...)
This is just heartbreaking.
Not really. I'm for strong typing, but not all mathematical concepts need to be a separate type. Should we have separate type for 'ratio' or 'real' or 'natural'? A radian is still represented as a number -- specifically a float, generally. This is more like Rust building out a standard Math library, a la Node.js or C/C++. Since rust is aiming at being a C replacement, I can understand why they'd include this.
Large swaths of unemployed unskilled workers are already doing wonders for American politics so far, I can't wait to see what happens when 2.8 million more Americans play musical chairs/jobs.
Unfortunately, there are many ways[1] that using block devices for random numbers can go wrong.

[1] https://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-good-idea-with-b...
What could possibly go wrong.
> You're welcome to test it by yourself.

If this is true, please file bugs. They're treated as such.
Part of deliverables is for clients to have a list of IP's and base configurations for the hadoop clusters we deploy for them. I have a WIP Ruby gem that takes my ansible hosts and variables file along with the Ambari blueprint, which turns it into a CSV and a neatly formatted Markdown file (the latter I convert into PDF).

The next few steps is to upload these things to Google Drive for the clients.
Posix_random proposal withdrawn
Deep learning is just a rebranding of "neural networks". When neural nets became unpopular in the 90s and early 2000s, people talked about "multilayer networks" (dropping the "neural") since it wasn't really useful to think about this approach from the neuro perspective (since it's such a cartoonish model of real neural networks anyway).

Now that very deep networks have become possible, and various graphical models and Bayesian approaches have also been folded under "deep learning" (for example, using back-propagation to learn complicated posterior distributions in variational Bayes) deep learning is not just about vanilla feedforward nets.
GOG, I believe is DRM free, and also tends to have a lot of older games, so they have some clear market differentiation.
IMO this is why Google is currently building a new universal OS from scratch. They know the power Microsoft can yield with this. It will take some time to catch on, but when it does, it's going to be so big.
IMO that's not really the point of deep learning. I'm not saying no efforts have been made to work towards better understanding, but the types of problems deep learning is good at I do not believe have easily explainable answers.

There are machine learning methods out there that are much better at explaining why, but fail hard on problems that DNN is good at.

IMHO, this is the nature of the problem, not the solution.
Imgur is filled with just one demographic, and it's the lowest of the youtube-comments-section-tier underage poster milieu.
... because the TCP keepalive is a minimum of 2 hours, per RFC. Which is far too long, so everyone adds one at the application level.
See also this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12262251
T-Mobile's new 'unlimited' One plan is complete nonsense
Homomorphic encryption is currently hilariously slow as I understand it, and even if you solve that it can't branch on data. All paths have to be evaluated and summed.
Yes, the reason the U.S. has historically not ruled out a first use was to deter a conventional attack (mainly in Europe). At the same time, the Soviet union declared that they would not make a first use (because their conventional army was much stronger anyway). However, now the tables are turned, and NATO has more conventional forces than Russia. (And indeed, Russia changed policy and says that they would use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional attack).
Realistically, there is no situation in which the U.S. today would actually make a first use, so they can afford to change their formal policy to reflect that.

At the same time, keeping the policy ambiguous has a cost, namely that the other side will feel more threatened, raising the risk of an accidental nuclear war. (C.f. Able Archer 83).

Ruling out first use is the option that gives the lowest risk of nuclear war. To give the maximal stability, everyone should adopt as restrictive a policy as possible (the ideal example is China, who rule out both first use and use against non-nuclear countries). Such a policy makes the weapons less "useful", in the sense that they only used to deter a nuclear attack and not for "getting away with" weaker conventional forces, but it is safer.
I think NTFS can index alternate data streams¹, but yeah, I agree no filesystems are on the level that BeFS was of easy querying and versatility.

¹ I am not sure about this, but https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3... seems to suggest it
It was George Mallory who is famously quoted as having replied to the question "Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?" with the retort "Because it's there".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory
Why on earth do you think changing proposition 13 would 'fix' the rental market?
Speculating: Yes, but it's probably a bit harder to make a backdoor in an FPGA that can anticipate and manipulate a custom design. The backdoor would have to be smart enough to know it's running a CPU, although if it could just detect that it's running multiple Ethernet ports, it could still act as a silent forwarder for evil packets or a data mangler. It could conceivably also try to send the FPGA design to the backdoor's owner for them to tell the backdoor what to do next.
If you're installing all these apps, you're not actually interested in peak productivity.
right, but once you start writing inline assembly it's no longer a "cross platform assembly" - and I think there is a demand for that. For instance the Linux kernel supports a mind-boggling amount of different architectures and "just write in-line assembly" probably doesn't cut it

"large populations of people who go completely untroubled with it."

Stockholm syndrome.... Or a lack of imagination about how things could be better. There really is a cult-like adoration of C - I think mostly by people that don't use it and learning it in college and long for something as simple
How to GET SHOT BY a COP
What are points good for?
Doesn't archive.org already have everything?
For planetary data, the PDS Imaging Node has pages both at NASA and the USGS. Here is the USGS page pointing to much of it: http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/facilities/cartography-and-imag.... The PDS formats can be difficult but tools like GDAL now deal with it. Here is tool I wrote to search much of it: http://pilot.wr.usgs.gov.
>Ruling out first use is the option that gives the lowest risk of nuclear war.

I don't believe this is true. You lower the risk that an enemy will misinterpret something as a nuclear attack, but you raise the risk of getting involved in a conventional war that goes nuclear.
In addition to the two actually dropped in Japan, the US and Russia have been close to accidentally firing nuclear weapons since then, in each case because they thought they were getting ready to respond to what they thought was an aggressive act. It's just not a good idea to have nuclear weapons at all.

So, instead of "no first use", I would just have a global agreement never to have or use nuclear weapons for any reason, not even for defense.

Nuclear pulse propulsion should be allowed for spacecraft, however. This was outlawed years ago by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treat... but would be much more efficient than other currently used methods and safe if used with clean bombs in space. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion

Weapons by their nature will continue to escalate as long as technology improves, so if nuclear weapons continue to be allowed, time will surely bring a weapon even more destructive to counter them. Whether you believe they've brought peace or not, do you want someone to invent an even greater weapon and test it as the next "weapon of peace"? I don't.
Or it can mean a lot harder to understand and use. With types you get all of the metadata that you might not even have if it was plain text. In addition, every application chooses it's own serialization format. In the end, the only programs that compose well are those that work on text, not structured data (i.e. grep, awk, sed, etc...)
Halloween documents
>Twitter likes to pretend it's single handedly responsible for the Arab Spring

Real credit goes to the CIA.
Yes, "no first use" means a nuclear state can be stymied in conventional proxy wars. That's an acceptable trade-off, since it limits escalation. Better to lose a proxy war than to "win" a nuclear exchange.

Also, only an insane attacker would test the limits of "no first use" by invading a nuclear state's sovereign territory. If there's any time to renege on such a policy, that's it. Not to mention: if an enemy invades, your nukes are at risk of falling into their hands.
5 decades is a long time. Look how far Japan and Germany went 50 yrs from WWII.
Also check out this which has many of the datasets that NASA has for earth facing satellites:

https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
Can't get latest Android patches? New CyanogenMod 13 build could be the answer
Jekyll: The CMS you always wanted
>Occupy Wall St was heavily surveilled as a threat. The FBI worried that it was a front for a violent revolution.

It was, that was what Soros was pushing for when he funded it in part.
I wish more libraries would turn into hacker/maker spaces. :/
No they are saying that the societies best investment in the future is ensuring that the children of that society are nurtured and provided for. I agree with this and I think it's on us all to pitch in.

I also think that those who don't have children should have the opportunity to have the same time away from work that parents who get time to "have the best times of their lives" are allowed.
>Silencing ideas is not a winnable strategy.

It is. You just need to be particularly ruthless and employ gulags and other soviet union style tactics.
I've heard of this phenomena from "The User Illusion"[1], so it was known of (in less detail) years before 2008.

And the thing about it is, the idea that a person reaches a decision unconsciously several moments before they consciously "feel" they "make the decision" is threatening to the idea of "free will"

But what exactly is being threatened? Does a person expect their decision to reached without any physical precursors? Do they expect one magic addition of pros and cons to be registered at the moment they subjectively experience "a decision"? I'm using hyperbole not to discount the importance of this phenomena but to highlight how you have a "highly value experience" that is simultaneously extremely vague. Psychologists would do well to study why people value such experiences.

[1] The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, Tor Nørretranders, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion
It will be funny if this looks like Grav in the end.
I agree completely about MD and don't see why choose that troff other than that it's the new hotness. Troff can be dumb and simple like MD which is fantastic for the writing bit, but has the ability to do rather complicated formatting if you need that. There are macro sets other than man and ms like mom that add features or make the syntax clearer. Most troff implementations are able to output or have tools to output to various formats like ps, pdf, text with control codes, plain text, etc. Plus, on most systems, either groff, heirloom troff, or Plan 9 troff is there by default. It makes a lot of sense to me because of its potential power and the portability of it.
You can always get your underground news from places like 4chan/8chan and various IRC channels.
Well, that's one way to make completely open hardware :-) I wonder if it can run GPG.
I run it at work on Xeon with SSD and 16 GB. Project sizes might be different. I don't have experience how the performance would scale with a project with tens of millions of lines of code, for example. (seems to be fine for me below that).

It does exhibit strange behaviour (including becoming suddenly very tardy) that only goes away by deleting the local cache files (intellisense db and whatnot) so I'm not claiming it's technically perfect.
Also the same people being exposed daily to the govt approved propaganda through school and university.
Forewarning, I am by no means an expert on anything that follows.

Homomorphic encryption would allow for "true security" where the party doing the computation doesn't ever have the encryption keys necessary to see what data they're operating on. This is something more akin to a TPM. The key that can read all of the data is in the possession of the party doing the computation, but it's stored in the CPU and the CPU will not give that key to anyone. Theoretically the key could be read off of the CPU but in practice this would require either a flaw, sidechannel, or a lot of time with an electron microscope.

For practical purposes, I believe that all implementations of secure cloud computing are going to be like this where the key is just secured physically. It's possible with homomorphic encryption to have someone securely do computations on data that they can't see all in software, but I just don't see any major breakthroughs happening that would make this fast enough to be practical.
We need a justice system that is not so focussed on penalties.
> Or the utter lack of care for the poor.

In the United States, compared to all countries I know of, there is huge aggregate care for the poor on the private individual, NFP organization, state and federal level.

The baseline quality of life, again relatively speaking, is enormous even if your income is below the federal poverty line. The environment is great, services “just work", and people are generally pretty friendly.

I think its ok to focus on the shortcomings because you can then improve them. But relatively speaking, I couldnt think of a better place to be poor.
> Hmm, I realize you can't say but when I was there 'Stubby hangs forever ..." was in a painfully large number of bug reports. So gRPC has fixed all that has it? Great to know.

Huh. I don't see bug reports like that. "This RPC with no deadline hangs forever" definitely but I wouldn't call that a Stubby problem. I'd call it a buggy server (one that leaks its reply callback, has a deadlock in some thread pool it's using for request handling, etc.) and a client that isn't properly using deadline propagation.
>The US has invested billions trying to make the world hate Muslims and it's clearly not working well enough.

Muslims do that for themselves, just look at Rotherham and the soon not to be country Sweden.
Comcast begins gigabit internet trial in Chicago
IIRC HN starts new articles that reach a certain threshold somewhere higher on the front page to give them a chance in case they're good.
Things like three months of advertisement-free Outlook, and Amazon/Starbucks gift cards.
>including for spacecraft in space- something which was outlawed years ago.

What are you talking about? NASA is facing a plutonium-238 shortage, but that is because we ran out of our stock-pile that was produced as a by-product of bomb manufacturing. Production of plutonium-238 started again back in 2013.

The only international laws I could find regarding nuclear spacecraft seem to be reasonable safety requirement (eg, not crash into Earth while still radioactive).

>So, instead of "no first use", I would just have a global agreement never to have or use nuclear weapons for any reason, even for a defensive strike.

The problem is that this policy removes the main dynamic that has prevented use of nuclear weapons: the threat of reprisal. If a country (verifiably) agrees to never use nuclear weapons, then a bad actor country can safely break the agreement. Under the current system this does not happen, because that would lead to a nuclear counter attack.
A whole lot of people seem eager to ignore that America arrived where it is today based on tens of millions of voters repeatedly deciding who runs their governments. As if they were the first citizens to look around and find themselves wholly dissatisfied with the state of government.
Using artillery shells to extinguish forest fires – Boeing
Hm, I'm likely thinking about it wrong, but I don't see why you'd even necessarily want a type system to stop that... Is it not similar to running, which I expect to work?:

var s1 = "blah"
var s2 = s1 as string
var s3 = s2 as string

edit: Nevermind, I guess you're wanting like types for units of measurement. Sounds interesting.
A few weeks (months?) ago, I started setting my old iPhone up to do time lapse videos, and once or twice noticed some kind of maintenance tram running between the two towers: https://vimeo.com/179417477
Asia's ecommerce spending to hit record $1 trillion this year
Hadn't see the pictures of the Lorraine prototype before. The article you linked refers to breadboards but that's not what is shown on the picture and it's unlikely that much more than very basic concepts were built using breadboard.

Instead people would use wire a much more reliable technique for building prototypes and very low volume productions.

Wire wrapping involves boards with pre-drilled holes in which you insert IC sockets with elongated pins. You then wrap a few turns of wire around the pin and route your wire to another one.

That's what we see in the picture and others of the same prototype.

http://obligement.free.fr/gfx2/lorraine_cartes_5.jpg
I disagree. Machine learning is more general than AI and therefore should be the outer circle (unless you believe the meme "did a regression - called it AI")

Deep learning is, yes, a subcase of machine learning, and AI may be a circle within machine learning and enclose deep learning.

But truth be told, we will all regret the way we use the term AI now. Eventually the term AI will refer only to general intelligence (aka AGI).
Strawman analogy. There is a key difference

Umbrellas's can't lobby or pay politicians for more rain.
Prison doesn't make deeply disturbed individuals less disturbed.
they just try to get some developers back on board. Did not sork out so well so far i guess.
Decoupled Neural Interfaces Using Synthetic Gradients
Why is Google Docs a toy web app?
Is this just a confirmation of what many of us here suspected all along, that the interview process is way to late in the game to correct for diversity?
Machine learning and AI are two overlapped fields, it's hard to say one completely encompasses the other. So two overlapped circle would be better?
"Other than the death of her husband, Mrs. Lincoln enjoyed the play."
Hillary Clinton Campaign Says She Would Reschedule Marijuana If Elected in Nov
Knock yourself out. For a serious collector that's not a lot of money and could save a lot of time in tracking down, vetting, and arranging for transport of the various pieces involved.
The fire department makes a fire less likely - they inspect buildings and businesses to make sure fire codes are followed. Also, it's likely your property has never been threatened by fire because the fire department put out any fires that would have threatened you.

In terms of public health, I wouldn't consider efforts to control communicable diseases to be charity, but that's not the example in the article.
Whatever the implications of letting the debt just "fall on floor" would have been, it's worth noting that the decision to not allow that outcome was reached years before the events themselves. Ben Bernanke's helicopter money speech was at least one demonstration of this.
It would be cheaper to have a guy in a room watching it on CCTV along with whatever other infrastructure is being monitored. That's how the Copenhagen Metro is - automated and completely unmanned (aside from occasional patrols/ticket checks)
Dubai detains UK man over Facebook charity post