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I cannot agree more.

The discussion with almost anybody on the internet should address the most wider audience as a target.

People learn from discussions tremendously. At the very least, it entertains them.
What I'm really confused about is why Electron is set up such that each app ships the whole runtime, rather than there being something like the JRE or CLR (or Silverlight, or Adobe Air, or...) where each app that wants to use it, prompts for its installation.

Better yet, why not make the architecture into a single shared "Electron windowing server" process that all Electron apps run "on", such that I don't end up running 7 different copies of Chrome?

(Honestly, Chrome itself could have become said runtime with its packaged apps, plus the (only ever experimental) standalone App Launcher install mode. I guess that's not the path they wanted to go down.)
There's a way to slow down:

http://www.lunarsail.com/LightSail/rit-1.pdf

>The lightsail is built in two sections, an outer doughtnut-
shaped ring, and an inner circular section 30 km in diameter.
This 30 km payload section of the sail has a mass of 71 metric
tons, including a science payload of 26 metric tons. The
remaining, ring-shaped "decel" stage has the mass of 714
metric tons, or ten times the smaller payload "stage".
The central payload section of the sail is detached from the
larger stage and turned around so that its reflecting surface
faces the reflecting surface of the ring-shaped portion (see Fig.
4). At a time 4.3 years earlier, the laser power from the solar
system was upgraded to 26 TW (there are 37 years to get ready
for this increase in power). The stronger laser beam travels
across the space to the larger ring sail. The increased power
raises the acceleration of the ring sail to 0.2 m/s2
, and it
continues to gain speed. The light reflected from the ring sail
is focused onto the smaller sail, now some distance behind.
The light rebounds from the 30-km sail, giving it a momentum
push opposite to its velocity, and slowing it down. Since the
smaller sail is 1/10 the mass of the larger one, its deceleration
rate is 2.0 m/s2
, or 0.2 g. The light flux on the smaller sail has
increased considerably, but it is only two-thirds of the
maximum light flux that the sail can handle.
Andrew Ng is a great example.

He's made enormous contributions to human knowledge, but doesn't seem to be interested in the hard work of bringing a product to market.

He even left Coursera to return to theory.
You created an account just to post this asinine comment? How jobless can one be!
Would love to see an example on how to use it with D3. Live refresh is very useful when working on d3 visualizations scripts.
What's the key differences between Electron and Chromium Embedded Framework?
Sure. How much variation do you expect as a function of distance from the terminator? Other sources of variation aren't really relevant.

It does occur to me that the Night Pole might be revealed by the shadow of the planet, if it has a moon.
You should make acceptance of a contract conditional on actually reading the contract.

I know is sounds obvious but I took lots of jobs over the years before I actually read the contract. Live and learn. :-)
I am interested in this as well. Power BI is head and shoulders above anyone else in BI at the moment and I have never seen them make any deceitful claims. Every time it's "easy, but for advanced functionality you need DAX".

They are underselling it if anything, since it just punches so far beyond it's price point that most people who need entry-level BI would not understand how much of a good deal it is.

Self service means that you don't need to go through corporate IT, not that you need grand total of 0 dev skills. And even then, those tools abstract a lot of dev work. In the PowerBI case, DAX feels intuitive to anyone with Excel formulas experience. Other vendors have similar tooling.
You know that, and I know that, but a lot of people drag their kids into the doctor's every time they have the sniffles.

I guess they don't hand out antibiotics like they used to, but I can remember having strep and getting a prescription for penicillin would knock it out in a day or two, whereas suffering along and letting it run its course could take weeks.
>I want the power of a Bugatti but the efficiency of a Prius.

Use a tractor.
Likewise, though I was taught about Macaroni in a course on fashion history before I first even heard the Yankee Doodle song.
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I find that the verbosity can be minimised by type aliasing. E.g:

using Complex = System.Tuple<double, double>;

Edit: Clarity
no significant mortality risk to Europeans.

This is "Whataboutism".

The rational behind being wary about terrorism is as follows.

1. Normal homicides are random individual actions, and they are under reasonable control by standard policing. In other words, if we continue policing as we do now, normal homicide rate will remain constant.

2. Terrorism is not random individual action, but rather organised violence by large groups seeking power. If we continue policing as we do now, terrorism will increase, up to a point where the terrorists take over and are the new rulers.

(Compare for example with the reaction to the AIDS epidemics in the early 1980s. The lazy whatabout-ist could have said (and indeed did say): "Oh AIDS just affects a few gays and needle-sharing heroin addicts, whatabout the orders of magnitude more who die of the flu and cancer, no need to worry about AIDS".)

If you believe the two 'axioms' above, then it's perfectly reasonable to adapt policing in the light of the current wave of terrorism that's been spreading in Europe (and not only there).

Note that I'm not saying that encryption should or should not be banned, or that either way is/isn't a good way of fighting terrorism. I'm just pointing out the weakness of the "but whatabout XYZ" argument.
Yes Minister calls this "politician's logic".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trw1PbQt_Yo

Something must be done; this is something; therefore, we must do it.
There are also very small number of high quality teachers to go around.

Being from India, I had pretty bad teachers in college. If it wasn't for MIT opencourseware, and other videos I found online, I wouldn't have learned anything at all.
A list of steps to follow acts way more like the event model than procedural code.

The state of the world can change between steps and the next set of instructions don't apply til you meet some certain criteria or .. event, if you will.

> drive in your car on this street, turn left on Prune street, turn right on Elm street, the store will be after the second light.

Turn left on Prune street doesn't mean nothing else happened between you driving your car and reaching that street.

You could have stopped on the way to pick groceries, changed a tire, bought a snack ... you get the idea.

It doesn't mean you must drive straight to Prune or could get to the destination if you only drove straight there.

Getting to Prune street is an async call. When you reach it, regardless of how, a callback is fired and a new async task is given to you.
Does anyone know how they measure Wi-Fi signal strength to such an accuracy? Like, from a practical standpoint, I have no idea how to make my Wi-Fi card tell me signal strength with such a high accuracy in any OS. Do they have special Wi-Fi cards? (No, I haven't had the time to read the article yet unfortunately, but hope to soon.)
Well, an alternative (and more charitable) reading is that these are negative rights.

Having the right to internet doesn't mean that someone else has a duty to provide you with a (free) internet connection, it means that forcibly preventing you from procuring an internet connection is not allowed (as opposed to, say, drugs, which you CAN be forcibly prevented from procuring).

Compare freedom of expression: Nobody can forcibly prevent you from expressing yourself, but also, nobody has a duty to enable you to express yourself.
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> I can do anything in my computer.

For that, free access to your computer is required. This isn't the case for the vast majority of smart phones and becomes less true for laptops or desktops as the discussions around Windows 10 show. Even if you install Linux, there is Intel ME and the like.

Using Linux singles you out. Three letter agencies will have to target only the few ones with it via ME or the like. Only if big enterprises will start to adopt Linux this will become infeasible and under scrutiny of big IT organizations.
You can't just ban encryption and expect it to magically go away. I don't think a suicide bomber will care too much if his encryption is illegal, while people with good intentions get to suffer the consequences.

Besides, how do they think this will play out with financial transactions? Government websites? Heck, any website that uses https? Stupid idea.
LMAO

-Anthony D. Green, Program Manager, Visual Basic
But then you might as well declare a class or structure to store the data. The point of tuples is to be self-contained.
It's a silly conclusion. If you are born in the bottom 20% of household income you in the US you are probably from a different ethnicity than the top 20%. Meanwhile in Denmark they're all ... Danish!

So essentially that study discovers that if you are born into ethnicity X you will unlikely end up as ethnicity Y.
Dude, "2.4GHz dystopia", he wasn't being serious. Chill out man.
How does this help?
If a criminal wants a gun, they can get a gun.
Encryption is out of pandora's box - the methods have been published for years. It a terrorist uses encryption - how can this stop them?
And the many failed attempts to do drug discovery have earned such optimistic views the sobriquet "the Andy Grove Fallacy."

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/04/02/sil... and https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Andy-Grove-fallacy for details.
Would you take LSD to give you a boost at work?
I was uncomfortable reading this. I kept waiting for some assurance from the writer that they understood the complexity of the drug manufacturing landscape. Instead I got a blanket statement that the "expensive drug" thing is a myth, and a pro forma contrarian view 80% of the way down the page -- which was quickly shot down.

(By the way, this story format is getting a little old. The writer obvious has a pitch to make. They make the pitch by talking to selected subjects and using their quotes. Then, in order to somehow assure the reader of balance, they bring in a fall guy about 80% of the way in to say something cranky. Then they dismiss it. It's okay in argumentation, I guess, but really should be rare in straight reporting.)

Note that I'm not saying there isn't something cool here. Beats me. I read the article and have no more of an understanding about drug development than when I began. This felt like one of those articles where an editor runs into a booster at a social event and is told how really cool X is. They get excited. So they tell a writer to go write a story telling folks how really cool X is.

Mission accomplished. But not such a good article, sadly.
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The "space" bit is total click bait. They can be seen from space... with a huge Earth Observation telescope. They are crediting DigitalGlobe for the remote sensing so in that sense any random car can be "seen from space": https://www.digitalglobe.com/gallery?category=&page=2#galler...
Με πόσες γυναίκες μπορεί να κάνει σεξ ένας άνδρας; – ESCORTS TOURS
It's VERY memory heavy. When I open 4 channels it could eat as much as 4GB, comparing to 300MB per card when it's open in Chrome. That's why I started writing Chrome App which will simulate native Slack client and be much more memory efficient.
I think you are misrepresenting the issue. 700 would die from homicide in a normal year. +/- 150 died from terrorism in 2015, 2016 is on track to have a slightly lower number (100),

That means the increase in homicide from recent terrorism is anywhere between 14 and 21%. That's not insignificant however you look at it.

Those 600,000 people are going to die either way, but those 150 people a year are still up in the air.

Doesn't mean that cancer isn't a bigger issue on the grand scale, but having people see terrorism as a natural disaster is a bit of a stretch.
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Anyone who knows if they are 2 "rogue" ministers, or if they have some backing ?
Well, another five years until it shows up on http://olduse.net/ (which is worth a nostalgic browse if you haven't tried it)
It seems to exist like a runtime (https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron), but I have not tried it for now and I can't judge the usability in production.
I think its a losing battle. Let's say you ban end-to-end encryption. Maybe the next frontier is steganography, where I post some cat-meme on imgur, except one bit of the blue channel in each pixel is encoding my nefarious secret message. Do you ban posting images?

With the number of spam emails that look like the output from bad Markov Chain generators, you could send messages in clear-text, using a simple traditional code, and it would be drowned in the noise.
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That's like saying if you aren't driving a Veyron you obviously don't care about speed so use a moped.
Actually, banning something doesn't mean to make it impossible, but to declare it illegal.

Hypothetically, they (actually, we, as governments are just representative of the voters) can ban encryption. Which means that any communication with no signal naturally emerging from noise is suspicious, thus they/we can ask you to justify yourself and keep you locked until you demonstrate that what you were hiding doesn't represent a threat for the community. And then give you a fine you anyway, so next time you'll think twice before breaking the law.

PS: it's not "you" you, it's "you" in general :-)
I remember watching William Hague on the news using the fact that two girls had been radicalised via Twitter as justification for more snooping powers. All the tweets were public and they were even showing them on screen while he was saying it. Just demonstrates how little logic there can be behind the extension of snooping powers.
Ahh yes, my old boss was next door neighbours with the Netezza CEO back in the early days circa '06. I worked a little with the platform back then, and i saw this article and was like, thats they they did! Back then, u had to shard ur database to take advantage of the parrallel processing, not sure how far its come now.
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I tend to avoid using switch/case for quite irrational reasons. The break statement just looks wrong and I can't layout the code in a way I find at all pleasing. I'll almost always use a sequence of else if conditions instead.

In my ideal world, it'd look like...

switch (x)
{
case 1:
{
/* ... */
}
case 2:
case 3:
{
/* ... */
}
}

And before anyone points it out, switch is the same as else if when the thing being compared is a simple local variable.
All those Electron apps are extremely slow on my mac (Intel Core 2 Duo mid 2010, 4Gb RAM). I am using Slack web version (in Chrome also) and can't find any difference, except it is just a tab among others.
I don't think that is quite what he's looking for, the Mill is not exactly RISC.

Though it is an awesome architecture and I recommend anyone to check it out.
> If we continue policing as we do now, terrorism will increase, up to a point where the terrorists take over and are the new rulers.

That cannot be accepted as an 'axiom' without proof.
This seems to be confusing proportions with absolute numbers. Newspapers do this all the time about health statistics, going from a very small number of additional deaths to scaremonger about a '300% increase in cancer'.

Terrorism in the last year is a significant proportion of the total number of homicides in France, but the percentage increase doesn't mean the absolute number is relevant. If you didn't worry about being murdered in France before 2015, there's no reason to worry about dying in a terrorist attack after 2015. Moreover, we might expect terrorist attacks to regress to the mean, so 2015 would be unusually bad under that additional assumption.

If the number of homicides increased by 14-20% due to some other cause, it likely wouldn't be seen as an urgent policy issue.

> Those 600,000 people are going to die either way

In fact, many will die from avoidable causes, like medical errors.
Having been in similar situations, I think he means that he does indeed replicate the bug (which isn't usually as bad as you make it sound) and then write different code that doesn't trigger that bug in the browser.

It isn't always possible, and in that case we do blame the browser in the end, but it usually is possible to work around it. It's ugly, but it's necessary to keep your customers happy.
> If we continue policing as we do now, terrorism will increase, up to a point where the terrorists take over and are the new rulers.

I hate to be this guy, but with enough knowledge about our ancestors going far into the past, how do we know similar acts did not take place?? Look at USA alone - they were asian tribes that got wiped by indians with arrows. Indians got wiped by whites with guns.. whoever comes for us now... I say... let it be! We will of course arm to teeth and defend, but if its written somewhere in stars that we are doomed to fail, no amount of policing will change that.

Whatever will happen today, it will happen and those living in year 2,500 would not see it any other way. Just as empires fell before, who says Isis or other ideology will not fail similarly one day?

> Oh AIDS just affects a few gays and needle-sharing heroin addicts

Correct me if I'm wrong but that's still the case today, no?

Unless I have unprotected sex with multitude of partners (stats shows homosexuals tens to spread AIDS more than hetero) and won't inject stuff with borrowed needles, my chances of getting AIDS are still super drastically slim.

I mean sure I can be a virgin and never even smoke a joint, and get affected by riding a subway with infected person who happened to touched a pole with their bloody finger and I happened to touch it after him/her with open wound in a short period of time before the virus dies given there was enough blood to get affected in the first place. But again chances are probably the same as walking in random park in a random European country at a random day and being blown up into peaces by a random person, who happens to randomly stand next to me and turn out to be a terrorist. I sure take my chances.
Timeline of 25 years of Linux
When i see the tool in Github as a developer, i would just think.

Have you found a bug? No, so what are you submitting? Possible bugs.

Okay, this is closed. This isn't a bug, wontfix isn't even required.
Ultimately, this space will operationalize out to the company that can manufacture safe and reliable self-driving cars most efficiently.

Assuming, of course, the fleet cap- and opex makes autonomous vehicles a more profitable proposition than driver share without fleet costs, and it gives them a competitive advantage over smaller autonomous taxi fleets. I'm curious what their internal projections look like in that regard.
I have been using fish as my primary shell for a while and it is pretty good. The development pace is pretty good, happens on Github, bugs are fixed pretty quickly and PRs merged in ASAP. I do recommend having a POSIX compliant shell installed alongside for when it is needed. The interactive shell experience with fish is amazing though.
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The miliseconds bit doesn't look like a bug to me. The truncation is on purpose.
Exactly what would you accept as proof? A deduction in ZFC or Homotopy Type Theory?

Or an empirical experiment, where we split the world into two parts, one were we police terrorism as the french are doing now, and one where terrorists are treated like random robberies and crimes of spurned lovers; then wait for 200 years and see which side does better?
True. I was just pointing out the disconnect between the market and the experts on this one :)
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> in general, a competent meat teacher is better than a competent silicon one

That's true, but it's one that has to be observed modulo the availability of competent meat teachers (skilled in the relevant subject). These are in short supply, certainly in the developing world -- but even in the schools and universities of the developed world, the availability of teachers in any subject is generally limited to a few hours a day, and for enrolled students only.

I think they should be seen a complementary, especially for younger students, but the availability of a competent silicon teacher in any of a wide range of subjects, for anyone, anytime, anywhere is huge.
IMO at least the second example shown is already poor, or at least not much better than what sites like SMMRY[1] have been providing for years.

> hainan to curb spread of diseases

That sentence pretty much conveys no useful information - every city wants to "curb spread of diseases", so what has actually changed? The news here is about restriction on livestock, and even a student journalist would be expected to do better than this headline.

To be clear I'm excited about the idea and believe machine learning has much better potential for enormous refinements compared to SMMRY's method (as described by them[2]), I just don't think it's as "done" as a lot of people here seem to assume it to be.

[1] http://smmry.com/
[2] http://smmry.com/about
Let's not get into a semantic argument. The point is that Vanguard doesn't do fundamentals research or participate in capital allocation (in a meaningful sense; Vanguard does allocate capital but in proportion to existing allocation); they just invest passively and hope to earn the return of the overall market.
It is nodejs vs c++.
Also, everything works out of the box in Electron case. In CEF, instead you have to study examples and dive into Win32 API/GTK/cocoa samples to find out how to run and extend basic "hello world".
AIDS didn't attack humanity seeking to provoke reactions and overreactions.

One of the very goals of terrorism is to provoke. To be in the media. To gain ears and mindshare. No such thing as negative publicity. Putting terrorism's actual impact into context is exactly what we should do, rather than play into the game of lock-down-chicken.
Fact: The attack in November in Paris was coordinated text messages.

Conclusion: Let's ban reading and writing !

Fact: The attackers who attack Paris in November were recruited online by Isis.

Conclusion: Let's ban internet for non commercial use !
Search boxes are a special case. There is one input and the form submit button is usually adjacent to the input and clearly marked with a search glyph or the word search. One a search form has multiple fields it tends to use the labels e.g. google's advanced search forms.
Tried to give this a go (It sounds cool and shipping that scales is a massive pain) but the $5 press kit has $33 shipping to the UK!
Guess this won't be solving my shipping problems after all.
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In a controlled environment this would work, just like any number of other theoretical attacks. In the real world you have to consider people walking through the room, user shifting their computer or tilting the screen. You also have to account for other WiFi transmissions from other devices, and probably a number of other things I can't think off right now. Plus, it would require you to make keystroke maps for all kinds of laptops, since it wouldn't work in a universal way. Every laptop would have it's own pattern.

If you have enough control over the environment and enough information about the subject to make this effective, wouldn't it be easier to simply hide a camera in the room? That said, it's a really cool idea!!! I wonder what kind of other data could be pulled from a laptop by looking at it's EM emissions.