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I'm surprised how many stars Font-Awesome has. If you consider that using fonts for icons is an anti-pattern the fact that a font icon is so popular is mind boggling.

p.s. don't get me wrong I use it myself
This is the key point. People don't care about what it does in detail, they think about the user experience.
"Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it’s fired by a guy who doesn’t make that in a year at a guy who doesn’t make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.”

- Sebastian Junger
I think it's a big difference to Amazon. They just forecast that in a given city x people will likely buy a certain product, so they already ship it there and only have to attach labels when it's ordered.

Google tries to exactly forecast what you will want to respond to a picture, which sounds a lot harder.
Mostly that simplicity and clarity are hard to achieve but very worth it. Learning what it feels like to correct and simplify logic into something that is easy to read and easy to verify is experience that has transferred well.

From my experience:

Everything you publish in science/academia will be read by a wide, potentially hostile audience. It is very easy to be misinterpreted, and misinterpretation wastes a lot of time and effort.

Stating what you mean in clear, precise terms is far more work than writing things that make you sound 'smart'. Good writers make their work seem terribly obvious, but it comes at the labor of many, many drafts. Most of the hardest work in editing is helping an author subtract and simplify to get right to the point. The labor of being precise and explicit exposes errors that the illusion of understanding tends to conceal.

Young/inexperienced writers often have a gigantic blind spot when it comes to their own writing, and correcting that is a very painful process.

Also, sometimes the original author was right, and the only precise way to express something was really ugly and horrific and your attempts to make it simple did violence to a lot of careful thought.
Who's comparing? It is a great book. It both influences and is influenced by other great books. I agree that it's pointless to ask whether "Lord of the Rings" or "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is the best, but I don't think anyone here is doing that.
Topology is useful in robotics and control to define the set of achievable states in a system and their connectivity.
Dare I say that I'm actually a little disappointed by this?

I get where Moxie is coming from, and that he doesn't have the PR machinery that Facebook and Google do to really push Signal to the mainstream, but these are advertising companies.

When OWS takes this work on they're giving a tacit Moxie stamp of approval to the implementation, that could well change after OWS has moved on to other things.

tldr; History tells me not to trust these companies motives in the long term, and I don't see why Moxie should either.
This is a republish of an old paper which was pure, uncritical review of the authors' triumphs.

Look for the part where they identify their responsibility for the fact that after 20 years and thousands of engineer hours at their disposal they still don't have a microkerenel based operating system worth a pinch of anything. I'm not trolling, I'd love it if that statement were false.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." --Richard Feynman
Assuming that everything Assange is saying about this is on the level and that he's not just hiding out in the embassy to dodge both legal problems.
You do realize that's basically what's going to happen with this app yes?

I'm pretty much done with Google IM products. I have a few contacts that will keep using hangouts, but for the rest I either have them on Facebook or iMessage.
This falls in an interesting uncanny valley. If you know the person on the other end is using allo who are you really talking to? The average google bot response powered by deepmind or the actual person on the other end?
The President of the United States earns less than some federal employees.

Same here in New Zealand, the Prime Minister earns less than several public servants.
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This is another reason why I would like to improve my math skills. I sometimes sense that there would be a much more elegant and efficient way to solve a problem if I could apply some math theory to it. 2 examples:

1:When I try to learn a new language I try to work through some of the problems on project Euler. I'm always impressed by some people's one line math solutions to something that took me 50 lines of code.

2: I once try to implement a timetable scheduling Web app (matching available teachers to courses) I could see that a solid understanding of set theory would have allowed me to - a: reason about the problem domain more easily and b: find the best way to set up my SQL queries.
>It is, for the example.

It doesn't even look right for the example. This line:

num += num2 + 3;

Should be:

num += _linqitems[i] + 3;
Settings > Tools > Options > IM > Show emoticons in messages

Of course, the people you're chatting with have to do it as well otherwise they'll still see them, but if you're sending SQL statements, log messages, and such, it makes sense to disable them.
Especially because the two biggest competitors (FB messenger and Whatsapp) have phone calls in their chat apps. I think a lot of people will be disappointed finding out that you can't use voice in Allo.
Static type systems were explicitly designed to get around various inconsistency problems with standard formulations of mathematics (ZFC, etc.). Formal verification generally exploits such type systems. In a nutshell, the incompleteness theorem (and related problems) only apply to sufficiently powerful logical systems (namely, those that can model Robinson arithmetic). Less powerful (or, in some cases, incomparable) axiom schemes exist that are capable of being both consistent and complete. Usually, the cost is that (1) they are not capable of expressing all programs (but many people argue that they are capable of expressing all useful programs), and (2) some programs that are correct in those type systems may require exponentially larger proofs (types) than a less stringent system would require in order to accept the same term (again, many people argue that this does not matter in practice).
Go to http://semantic-ui.com/ and try tabbing through the page. Here are some things you might notice:

1. The menu button doesn't get focused (or they disabled the style that makes focus apparent). It's not possible to open it with the keyboard either by pressing space or by pressing enter.

2. Tab a few more times until you get past the BEM and SMACSS links. Notice how those three tabs can't be selected with the keyboard?

3. Sign up button has no obvious focus.

4. Dropdown menu cannot be accessed with keyboard nor does it have a focus style. The same applies for the buttons in that area as well.

5. Many of the elements in the "Unbelievable Breadth" section either don't allow you to focus or have styled the focus in a really non-obvious way.

Basically, it looks pretty and you can use your clicker, but Semantic "UI" screams to me "works for me so fuck everyone else"
Are you trying to suggest there are employees at Google that don't know what incognito mode is in chrome? More specifically, every employee that worked on this project?
From Wikipedia (and professional photographers I've spoken to mirror this sentiment), “since [giclée] is an unregulated word it has no associated warranty of quality.” It's like “premium”.
That's suspiciously low.

Some questions:

1) What happens if you use bigger block sizes, say 16M?

2) Which filesystem you're using? Can it be fragmented? Can you test with raw disk to eliminate any filesystem influence?

3) Is dd running on same NUMA node (CPU socket) as your ioDrive2 PCI-e link?

4) To expand on 3, is there chance for QPI saturation (traffic between CPU sockets)? Have you ensured all the software uses CPU local RAM whenever possible and not access other CPU socket's RAM?

5) Are you sure all PCI-e lanes are active? (Try lspci)
The assistant can reside on your phone, either integrated in the app or communicating with the app. You will have end-to-end encryption.

It is just a definition of what "end" means. The phone? The app? The screen? Your eyes? With real end-to-end encryption nobody should be able to read over your shoulder and it should be delivered directly to your retina.

Note that such an assistant can itself be connected to the internet again.

Personally I'm not against a setup like this. I have encrypted communication through corporate servers, but would like to open up my end to this or other parties.

Edit: I didn't mean you didn't say this already, just wanted to explore the point you already made.
Do you have a cite for that? I use melatonin regularly and when I skip, I don't really have that many problems (I will stay up an hour or so more).
and their jabber, which used to be useful for desktop IM got converted into an sms replacement forced on everyone against their will who uses android.

Upshot now if you use xmpp like you always did it's received as sms which is probably not what you wanted. Thanks google.

So get into bed with them by all means, but don't be suprised once you're tied up they flip you over.
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Quite often with the RPi, the problem is more failed-to-shutdown than FLASH-failure.

People unplug those things without shutting them down correctly.... quite possibly that was the problem, nothing inherent to FLASH or SD cards.
My guess is that they mean relative to capacity. If the card is simply the same speed at a card 1/4 the capacity, that means you can read out only 1/4 as large part of the unit per unit of time.

Apart from the thermal throttling suggested elsewhere, there's also the bus speed, as well as the controller on the card. It's possible they could speed it up, but it's just as likely that they've just added 4x the same flash with a controller with the same read/write performance.

SD cards != SSDs. The applications they are used in tends to be more limited by capacity than speed, and they evolve accordingly.
So you're saying experience doesn't matter. We just need people who use whatever trendy frameworks this month?

Sounds about right. /s
That's great advice, but it's a pretty big task for someone who might not get a lot of exercise to do 2 hours of intense weightlifting. I lift regularly, and my gym sessions only take an hour.

The good news is that if you are sedentary, older, or sedentary and older, even a little bit of exercise will be extremely effective. Go for that long walk, or maybe a shorter jog, and do some pushups and un-weighted squats. You'll be exhausted, and you'll be less likely to injure yourself. :)
> But then I recall we had working video chat a decade ago with only a few hundred Kbps...

This! Even in appear.in, which is one of the most stable, I encounter connection problems almost daily.

Is it because all these new apps have to go through the browser stack?
> Point being that poor people don't buy Teslas.

True, but here they wouldn't buy cars at all, just use bus. The income extremes don't matter as much if we stick to the cars that are actually on the roads. If we restrict to what lower vs higher middle class buys, calling that 'income inequality' in original sense of the problem is a joke. The gap is not huge and social mobility there is relatively easy (in Norway).

> The net effect on the government's finances (and the customer's finances) is the same.

There are other fiscal effects as well, even if not explicit in annual budgeting. E.g. my town is mostly surrounded by mountains and every winter it has an exhaust cushion over it. Which triggers crises among the asthmatics, so the municipality has to introduce date driving for prolonged periods. E.g. drive with odd number licence plate on odd days and even on even. This has both direct costs and productivity losses.

The whole idea to push for electric was to reduce externalized costs of car pollution on population and the nature. Mind you it's not the first such an effort: in the 1990s, the government here (and in some other countries) promoted diesels vs petrol cars for lower emissions. That is until they learned about particle emissions of diesels.

And how it was done? Correct, import tax rebates on diesel vehicles. Except you never ever hear anyone saying "diesel revolution has not arrived" or "diesel has to be subsidised by government to compete".

> You're welcome to think that expensive cars aren't status symbols if you like, though.

Maybe I misunderstand the concept then, point is these cars are bloody ordinary in Europe. When I singled out A5 I meant it's being bought by people who previously would consider different class vehicles, as Tesla was meant to compete with 7-seaters and top of the line sedans.
This!! All my little dashboards and apps I use bootstrap for them initially. Once they've come to a suitable position where the bootstrap framework gets in the way by being a little clunky/big/not specialised enough in certain ways/just looking boring (:D) I go ahead and rip it out. But that feels like the whole point of a framework called bootstrap right? Like its name is literally its purpose :).
In Japanese, it's "Hana", and in Mandarin it's "Bizi". Seems like they're only talking about IE languages, and those influenced by them.
False. Decisions like this can be made at a higher level than the department. The mandatory courses in my programme were applied univariate calculus and an introduction to statistical modelling (with examples drawn from biology), imposed by the faculty of science on all science majors - all the while the CS professors were screaming for an introduction to logic and discrete maths to be added to the curriculum.
This is a big win for Haskell, since government contracts and approved vendors tend to have long arcs of doing future business. The idea an EDSL in Haskell was used greases the skids for any future Haskell acceptance on jobs. Good luck!
This is ridiculous. If you're Canadian and are smart and ambitious enough, you would move to Toronto.
Oh and encryption. That's not default like it should be, it's a "Mode within" that you have to select. Which people won't because of the hassle and mass surveillance continues.

If they made the bloody thing properly encrypted end to end all the time I could forgive them for their blatant bait and switch, for keeping everyone's email searchable by the nsa in gmail (whether you use it or not, your mail is there) and all the rest. But no, surveillance is what google do and they're addicted to it.

Do no evil, yeah they announced they dropped that, didn't they?
What do you mean? For uniqueness, simple scheme like "Partition ID + SERIAL" will be unique enough (or just guid or similar). For performance, table index is fine, since you already know which partition request is for.
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Yes, but you have to have a facebook account...
According to this: https://www.sem.admin.ch/sem/en/home/themen/arbeit/nicht-eu_... there may be a way for you to get in without a degree. I'm not a Swiss immigration lawyer though. A good one can save you a lot of time and headache (and a potential lost opportunity).
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Applies also to mobile, DevOps, and data engineering. Take the average ~$150K SV software engineering job and you don't need continuous math (just discrete to get in the door and maybe once every 6-12 months after that, when an interesting problem arises like some kind of divine salvation).
+1

I suddenly got hit with a flurry of spam calls today which furthers my distaste for giving out a phone number. If only giving out free limited use phone numbers was a thing.
You're probably thinking of Scott Alexander's nootropics survey. http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/01/2016-nootropics-survey-...
As sympathetic as I am to the idea that housing is too expensive etc., how exactly would you stop a debt jubilee from being gamed? If my mortgage is going to be forgiven, shouldn't I find the biggest, most expensive house possible, take out a huge mortgage to buy it, then wait for my mortgage to be forgiven / paid off by the jubilee?
30 is huge if you don't have a tolerance. I find 5 mg very buzzy on no tolerance.
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Duo competes with Facetime, except it's not integrated in Contacts and I can't imagine why. Duo and Facetime don't compete with Skype because they don't have the IM part which is a very important component of Skype. I used it for all these years as an IM client (business or friends), less as audio and rarely as video. But video is always the least used form of communication. Still I'd like to see some global usage stats of Skype: minutes by chat, voice, video. My customers, friends and I could be the outliers.
I wish that copyright law was different than it is largely because Tolkien's works would then have entered the public domain. And the opportunity to create, play, and profit in Middle-earth sounds amazing.
It sounds like Lenovo's BIOS is using a RAID mode with the internal SSD that Linux does not understand. Lenovo apparently provides a driver for this RAID mode for Windows 10. If you want to install something else (Linux, Windows 8) you are out of luck until someone produces a driver for that operating system.
Does it work with MMS, like Hangouts usually doesn't?
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>Sadly, most later genre fiction succumbed to nostalgia for aristocracy, with heroes like Luke Skywalker or Paul Atreides relying on inherited special powers.

Which by the way I prefer. The cliche of the powerless humble guy who in the end saves the world has become boring and predictable.
If you rely on windows to get vitamin D I have bad news for you. Glass filters out most of UV spectrum of sunlight. It is really hard if not impossible to get a tan behind glass.

Physical exercises and outdoor activities are very helpful with sleep and overall well being.
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I think his conclusion is more subtle than that. It's not that getting out of the way of the economy means it will all work out—far from it. Rather, continuing to buy into the magical thinking of the current priest-kings (i.e. state-directed action) opens the doors to much nastier alt-priests (e.g. totalitarianism).

The specific process? Further buying into our current priest-kings puts pressure on them to make their magic work. Magical thinking eventually fails, inevitably. Then the historical process of succession of priests kicks in because "we need the eggs" (to use the article's phrasing), and the more we need the eggs, the more nasty the alt-priests we'll turn to in search of eggs.
I feel like ICQ 98 was the pinnacle of chat applications. Floating contacts and email style messages... brilliance.
Thanks for the link, I will have a look into it.
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you can call/message a person from contact page directly, I have done that with whatsapp
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I will definitely take that advice to heart. I literally just hit the submit button on my first conference article.
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I think you could do that, but as long as you allow the usual operations on bounded variables (say, multiplication), you would have to ensure that the other operand is also bounded, or else you get an unbounded result nonetheless. Meaning, all variables that are used in any expression would have to be bounded eventually. There's also the problem that the compiler would have to infer that [1-10] - [1-2] can be negative, but does not have to. So with every expression on bounded variables, you increase their bounds' range, likely deleting the system's benefits.
The federation thing is something they explicitly broke. Google talk could talk to other XMPP servers just fine
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True, but by having everything on the same memory space, unless a memory safe language is being used, it means the amount of possible exploits is much higher, thus leading to an higher probability of owning the device.

The isolation helps reducing the attack surface.
It is much worse because Lenovo programmed the BIOS to lock the system so if you try to toggle it to AHCI mode with an EFI variable from EFIshell, it immediately sets itself back to RAID mode.
As usual, google for the title to jump the paywall and read the full article.
Possibly it's difficult for me to express it. Hmmm... Maybe this will be a better approach. Even your modest goal is not modest if you can not accomplish it. You may be thinking that you should be able to get yourself to know a "real" song. You may be thinking that you have failed if you don't accomplish that goal. Personally, I really don't think so. It is too early to have such a goal because you are not playing your guitar.

Walking the entire length of the Champs Elysees is not a difficult task, but it is impossible if I am not in Paris. It is not an unreasonable goal for a Parisian, but it is completely unattainable if I refuse to go to Paris.

What I'm trying to tell you is that it's OK not to have that goal. If you keep focusing on it, no matter how small or insignificant you think it might be, you avoid the more important question. Why are you not playing your guitar?

Similarly, discussing my inability to walk the entire length of the Champs Elysees is useless until I work out why I can't go to Paris. Maybe I can go to Paris, but I don't want to. If that's the case, then it is fine to give up my dream without feeling bad about it. It's a choice. I have other things I want to do.

It would be a bit strange to ask, "How can I force myself to want to go to Paris? It's the only thing holding me back from walking the entire length of the Champs Elysees".

On the other hand, there may be many, many reasons why I can't go to Paris even though I want to. Maybe I need money. Maybe I need time. Maybe I'm just afraid that I'll fail. But without exploring those issues I will never know.

Why aren't you playing your guitar? In fact, why don't you stop reading this post right now and play your guitar? Playing a guitar does not take willpower, unless you would rather not play the guitar.

So my point is: If you don't want to play the guitar, your goal is impossible (and really meaningless). If you do want to play the guitar, then something is getting in your way of having fun. In this scenario, your goal is taking your attention away from finding out what that is and fixing it. So forget the goal and play your guitar. Start setting goals after you figure out the other stuff.

Again, I hope that helps. It's tricky stuff ;-)

Edit: Just to be consistent with my initial post -- there are things like dieting that may seem to be unpleasant but still required. So, exploring why you don't like something can help you find aspects that you do like. Then you can do those things. With dieting, for example, I have found that being a little bit hungry keeps my mind clear and makes me a better programmer. With practice, I can really enjoy that feeling. So being hungry begins to be something that I enjoy and want to do. However, I don't see the point of going to that extent for playing the guitar. Normal people don't require guitar playing in their lives.
I've had sleep problems for years. Few simple things that usually helped me:
1) a glass of whisky.
2) sex.
3) relaxing, silent background music (Dead Can Dance is wonderful, but I guess it's a matter of taste).