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This is something I have thought about.

I think that the expectations have changed though - my first computer was a C64, and loading and starting a game was a several minutes long wait. I don't remember that I was bothered that much by that, but when I tried playing an old game even 15 years ago, I couldn't believe how much time it took.

The same for my Amiga, starting it took a really long time, but I don't think I did mind. The Workbench was never slow though. Unfortunately both my A1200 and C64 have died so I can't test my patience anymore. I remember that on the A500, flood fill in Deluxe Paint was a visible process though :-)

I used the A1200 with a MC68030 expansions while going to the university up to about 1995 and it wasn't much slower to work with than the DEC Alphas that we had there - except for things requiring raw CPU power. Most of the time waiting was for I/O, and my crappy small hard drive was probably faster than the NFS mounts anyway. The Alphas had 384 MB if I remember correctly though, which was just crazy.

The Amiga wasn't fast enough to play 16 bit mp3-files in stereo even with the 68030 cpu though.

In 1995 I replaced the Amiga with a PC with Linux on it, and computing was still amazingly fast. Installing slackware was a two week project however, mostly because I had to download everything in the university and use floppies and partly because the floppies were reused and flaky so I had to go back and redownload many disks.

The internet was crazy-slow outside the university until about 1998 when I was lucky enough to live in a block that got fiber for some reason. It was still slow at most workplaces for a another decade.

At around 1998 I got a job and a laptop for work. I installed Linux and Window Maker (or was it Afterstep?) and it was totally fine to work on. It might have had a Pentium with 32 or possibly 64 MB memory. All in all it was really fast, once it had booted, and I mainly used emacs and gcc. I remember that booting Windows on that machine was much slower.

As far as I can remember it was also possible to use a browser without having 1 GB or RAM at that time.

A full compile of our product took 6 hours though. It wasn't always necessary but it had to be done occasionally. A few years later it took 30 minutes to compile.

Today, I get irritated if I have to wait more than 30 seconds before I can test a line of code.
While I agree with your overall point, that's not the way I would express it. Mistakes that make a big difference are by definition not tiny. It's just that a less sophisticated practitioners don't realize that it matters. Being better at something is often realizing what does and what doesn't matter.
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3am saturday morning. Big critical system goes down, multiple teams involved to fix the mess so conference call needed, I get paged into it too.

My phone wouldn't have lasted the 4-5 hours that call lasted without being connected to the USB port at the same time, I fear. :)
I've kinda liked Windows 10 but the updates have been introducing small problems for me now.

First, some update introduced a bug for me where file Explorer will sometimes not update the files when changed. For example, if I paste a file in a folder, the folder view will not show the new file until I press F5 to refresh the view. This sometimes causes Explorer yo crash.

Now, after having to download the the Anniversary update three times over my crappy 1mbps connection, it's stuck in an endless reboot loop. Windows tells me to reboot to finish installing I'll reboot, it gets stuck on "Configuring update ", I have to do a hard reset and the loop starts again.

Very frustrating.
do they even make car stereos anymore that do not have Bluetooth?
> The idea is to know someone's celebrity status in order to ingratiate them to the club.

Restaurants at least don't have a problem with this right now. High-end restaurants will have pre-service meetings where they discuss all the VIPs coming in that day to make sure that both back of house and front of house know exactly who's coming and what they want.

The real step forward, which they mentioned in the last sentence of the article, will be when you can treat the random Joe like you can a VIP. Let's I've been to two different properties that you own and spent a total of $300. I walk in to a new restaurant and your sommelier says "I see you like jammy pinot noirs from Oregon at the $50 price point, let me recommend this bottle" then you can make everyone feel like a VIP.
So I looked at the /img directory and found this: http://9front.org/img/9cat.gif

Terrifying...
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Anecdotes are anecdotes. I've never seen Firefly or spoken to a person to has told me they have.
Installed in two of my laptops w/o problems two days ago.
You can set wired connections as metered too.
It was mentioned in a book I read about talent, which I believe sourced it from an old Mozart biography. Like many stories about legends, it could certainly be apocryphal.
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OK, so now every time Windows 10 decides it is time to force an update it becomes a kind of Sci-Fi thriller ... you watch it and watch it and hope the hero doesn't die at the end.

I know people that simply disabled the Windows Update service to avoid this hassle, with the risk of ending up with a non secure system in the long run.
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How do they identify the clients across multiple visits? (What unique and always present identifier they use?)
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MacOS I'll buy, but a desktop Linux system feels more brittle than any windows install ever did. Maybe that's just my lack of knowledge with the platform outside of servers, but if you stick to the "Main" GUI screens on macOS and Windows you are pretty foot-gun safe. On Linux this is not the case, and to me its always very difficult to tell if a change you are about to make will open a Pandora's box you can't close again.
Short answer is no. I'm a Google employee, so I'm biased.

The Container-VM is just a Linux distro optimized for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As a former CoreOS employee, I can tell you first hand that a lot of effort goes into shipping and maintaining CoreOS Linux so it works well across every cloud provider and bare-metal target. This is not a goal of the Container-VM.

The Container-VM also reduces the bootstrapping overhead required to run containers on GCP by including Docker, Kubernetes, and any patches required to run container workloads well, and securely, on GCP.

Why not use distro X?

While the majority of Linux distros do a great job of reviewing and accepting patches, there is a ton of value in producing a custom Linux distro and controlling the release cycle. A custom Linux distro gives the GCP team the ability to:

* Enable kernel features, by default, that support Docker, Kubernetes and other GCP offerings; even if those kernel features offer little value on other platforms. This ability also extends to other tools and utilities commonly found on a Linux distribution.

* Provide a better security and support story. When critical patches are required, Google has full control over when, and how, we roll them out. This is not to say other Linux distros are doing a poor job, it's to say Google should be in position to support GCP customers at this level.

The Container-VM simply provides GCP customers another option with deeper support from Google.

So how does this not result in lock-in?

Here are a few reasons:

* The Container-VM is built using common open source technologies such as the Linux kernel, Docker, and Kubernetes, with minor patches for stability and performance. These patches are usually cherrypicked from upstream or being proposed for acceptance.

* Just about every Linux distro must be customized for each cloud provider. For example, on AWS you'll want to optimize for Xen and ship the AWS SDK. On GCP your target will be KVM and the Google Cloud SDK.

Virtual machine (VM) images have never been portable, which is one reason so many people are pushing for containers to deliver workload portability across providers. The Container-VM is all about running containers, the same containers you'd run on any platform, we're just aiming to be the best platform to do that on.
wow, seems neural networks are going into everything
48 hours is 6 days in my book.
That feels a bit like a cop-out to me. Part of the job of a television creative is effectively working inside of your network.

Although it's better today, with Netflix and the free reign a lot of producers get, I think there is an art of show business maneuvering that shaped so much TV and kind of added to it's character. The classic "medium with a limitation" theory.
The article doesn't go out on that limb and try to say what anyone should have done.

Firefly had decent ratings when it first aired, so a lot of people were really confused that they canceled it. Those people apparently failed to understand television as a business, as in addition to those decent ratings, it was also expensive to produce, far more expensive than was justified by the decent viewership it was getting (there's a lot of shows now spending millions of dollars per episode on big name stars, but they have a lot more viewers than Firefly was getting...).
Interesting the apparent legal (and social) distinction between streaming and downloading, where technically the distinction is mostly in whether the data continues to be stored after it's been watched -- the decision about whether the data transfer is a 'stream' or a 'download' is pretty much entirely down to the client.
I really liked Firefly too but it's sad to see Adam Baldwin (Jayne) is so vicious and crazy in real life. Too bad Wash died instead of Jayne.
Sure and actually that is where mobile OSes are moving.

We now have bitcode on iDevices, DEX on Android and MSIL/MDIL on WinRT.

Still, both iDevices and Windows Store take, what I consider the best approach, to do AOT on the store for each supported target.

As Google found out, using AOT on the device doesn't scale. I just don't get why they went back to an overly complicated architecture of Interpreter/JIT/PGO → AOT, instead of following the same path as the competition and serve freshly baked AOT binaries.
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> innate intelligence

The anthropology Issue the GP mentioned is with this. There is no doubt about the need for nurture, not just nature. The mentioned standard deviation which evolution derives from is a compelling argument for intelligence to come neither just from the nurturing.
That's why I'm leaning more and more towards the idea that paying taxes is immoral and wrong in our current system.

And that is because a good chunk of the taxes we pay go towards arming young people and sending them to kill other young people - military/war/defence.

Another chunk goes towards arming your own people against your own people, thus making dissent and protest hard and dangerous.

And another chunk goes towards maintaining big and powerful institutions, like the IRS, threatening us with violence if we don't pay up.

Centralised taxation systems should be replaced with citizen crowdfunding, in which everyone can choose where his tax money goes.

I'm curious if we'd still be spending as much on police and military if we could choose how we spend our taxes.
I love this idea, but I'm also worried this is papering over a lot of the truly hard parts of building products on machine learning - the hard part isn't crunching the numbers.
You are confusing a fresh install, which almost always works, with upgrading a system.
It seems the main threat from a Saudi collapse is a takeover from Iran-Russian-Syria coalition. That's a tough one because both Saudi and Russia are hostile to US. But it's doubtful Russia can launch a full-scaled invasion into a soverign country.
Part of the problem is that if you admit the idea talent plays a primary role in success, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Research by Carol Dweck has shown that people's own belief in their ability to improve strongly predicts their actual improvement.

Given things like talent hot zones and the Polgar sisters, which to me demonstrate talent isn't a big deal, the level of evidence needed to change my mind is going to be very high. Particularly since believing in talent is so maladaptive. The only benefit to a belief in talent is ego protection for those who live in mediocrity.
I wonder how Nim's cycle detection work? It is said in the docs that Nim never scans the whole heap, but I believe in worst cases you have to scan the whole heap to detect cycles.

Also how does the gc trace variables on the stack? How do you determine if a value is a pointer to an object or an integer?
just went through the ACQ training this week, IOC means the plane has passed operational testing (IOT&E). Meaning there should be very few, if any, bugs left. The Full Rate Production (FRP) decision milestone was already passed and the contract should already be awarded for production - within the lifecycle of the product we are now in the Operations and Support phase, meaning fielding.

FOC just means all unit lots are fielded.
The system was upgraded,it was not a fresh install.
Hey, I wanted to thank you personally, too. As far as I know, yours is the only completely open source implementation of the “shazam algorithm”, and it helped me a lot during my thesis work. The blog post was also great.

Actually, I encourage anyone interested to look up Panako[1], which is meant to be a framework for comparison of different audio fingerprinting techniques.

[1]: http://panako.be/releases/Panako-latest/readme.html
Why did Yahoo take so long to disclose its massive security breach?
Seems like another flavor of the month authentication schema that won't catch on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQRL

I think we need to work within the existing schema of passwords because that's what people are used to. They have muscle memory for entering passwords that is very hard to wipe. They have entire ecosystems based around passwords-for-profit (1password, Lastpass, and any number of 2FA solutions).

I think the general consensus now is that passwords only serve the threat model behind them. If I use a sixteen character password with at least 3 emojis, numbers, and no dictionary words for storing 4chan memes on Imgur, then something is desperately wrong with my threat model.

Likewise if I'm using a six letter alphanumeric password to get access to my email account (which might be tied to all my other accounts), then there's something awry with my threat model.

SQRL on the other hand could serve other threat models and seems useful for quick-and-dirty interaction with the Internet. If I want to leave a single anonymous comment for example, on Hackernews/Reddit, I shouldn't have to do the password dance each time.
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I thought copyright was about distribution of content not acquiring content.
If I may add my 2 cents, I almost never interacted positively with teachers at the College level. Mostly because I became borderline sociophobic tbh. MOOCs removed a big barrier between teacher judgement and politics (they're human, they can be prejudiced). Also gave me way more opportunity to collaborate and exchange with other students (mostly through IRC channels).
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Post Vietnam, in the eighties, almost half of US were veterans.

This has been going down ever since. At least in my area, new officers are usually straight out of college with a criminal justice major and no military service. (Though I do know several officers who have joined the national guard or the reserves later on.)
Unfortunately, taxes are difficult to avoid. For that reason, disrupt or damage at least as much as you contribute so it balances out.
I totally agree, and indeed the help that Neural Redis attempts to provide is mainly in the data collection function and the simplicity to experiment. Actually for the number crunching part there are a lot of stellar alternatives (that we can just "connect" to Neural Redis as NN implementation later). The problem is to find a good API for the programmer that allows to easily make experiments.
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I guess you are lucky to have a hardware that is well supported by the OS.
I'm not sure if that is the right metric for research groups. If someone said "the startup has a promising cure for cancer in trials" would you ask if it had produced revenue yet?
Australia doesn't technically have "freedom of speech" as America or other countries may have.
oh silly Americans, its just tits
Nowadays cops are a lot less likely to tussle and mix it up. It's all a sort of antiseptic interaction where commands are shouted from afar.

It used to be cops were willing to take a punch and punch back at someone who didn't cooperate. If that happens now it's resisting arrest, assaulting an officer, etc.

Not sure if it's a legacy of needles and aids which lead police to avoid any physical contact with a suspect or perp. It's a change that has led to much less "give" on the part of cops.
"One weird barcode trick.."
from the article "The decision by ACC certifies 15 QF-16s ready and available for target operations, according to an ACC release."

As throwanem said these are target drone which we have been doing with the F-4 and other planes for a long time. They have gone beyond their service hours for the airframes.

Nobody loads nukes on a target drone. Nobody uses target drones near civilians.
At the risk of being facile, I think it was an attempt to deter peaceful dissent that provoked violent protest. Like the execution of Louis Antoine, it was worse than a crime -- it was a blunder.

Edit: It's also worth noting that Ferguson is a particularly pernicious example: an exclusively white power structure that functioned as a rentier class, using its government monopoly on force to forcibly extract revenue from an impoverished, ethnically-minority and, for voting purposes, transient population. It's like a midcentury European Marxist's fever dream of problematic class relations embedded in a matrix of structural racism.
High-throughput mapping of single neuron projections by sequencing of barcoded RNA http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/High-throughput%20mapp...

Rosetta brains: A strategy for molecularly-annotated connectomics http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/Rosetta%20brains:%20A%...

Conneconomics: The economics of large-scale neural connectomics http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/Conneconomics:%20The%2...

On optical detection of densely labeled synapses in neuropil and mapping connectivity with combinatorially multiplexed fluorescent synaptic markers http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/On%20optical%20detecti...

Rapidly evolving homing CRISPR barcodes http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/Rapidly%20evolving%20hom...

Molecular recordings by directed CRISPR spacer acquisition http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/Molecular%20recordings%2...

Massively parallel whole-organism lineage tracing using CRISPR-Cas9 induced genetic scars http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/Massively%20parallel%20w...

Neuroanatomy goes viral http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/Neuroanatomy%20goes%20...

some FISSEQ stuff - http://gnusha.org/logs/html/2016-07-14.log.html http://gnusha.org/logs/html/2016-07-13.log.html http://gnusha.org/logs/html/2016-08-19.log.html

(.ots timestamps available..)
My mind jumped to an image of the people in vats from The Matrix.
I hate the word performant. People may argue that "fast" is a simpleton of a word, however "performant" is ambiguous as to what characteristic is performing well.
Google wants to educate students about universities right from search results
Can someone explain why the West doesn't have such a thing?
Awesome, I'll check both of them out. Thanks so much!
I suppose, both of my laptops are HP.
The police started the lawlessness.
I think Bing deserves some mention here since they have had this feature for over a year
I agree that the natural variability in potential is such that an average person isn't going to ever get sufficiently good to medal at an olympics, or even attend one (except perhaps in unpopular sports). You shouldn't let the fact that your natural limit is only the 99th percentile instead of the 99.99th percentile make you feel like a failure though, you're still awesome.

One thing I have noticed is that some people learn a skill much faster than others. That being said, the people who learn more slowly seem to reach about the same level eventually, it just takes them longer.
> Ok without reading the manual, tell me what the 'Correction' slider under 'Gather' does

That's a weird approach to using software. Most people do not launch an application to twiddle with sliders and buttons but to accomplish a task. You can safely leave the correction slider alone until the day you need it (Googling will help), or until you read the manual.

Several posters have already compared Blender with vim - incidentally, vim also has zero discoverability, but once you're familiar with the vernacular, you will be unstoppable.
We probably wouldn't be paying so much towards the military, but god only knows what idiocy would be receiving the money instead. The whims of the people would probably deliver super-unstable funding, making it confusing as to what programs really were effective and which ones just became scapegoats. Hard to say if that system would be more or less wasteful, especially with the low bar of what's currently happening.

Honestly, there's a leadership gap right now, but I'm not convinced that that means leadership as an institution is dead. We need good leadership that people can respect, which does it's job, and is ultimately accountable without endless redirection and blame for "the other guy being the bad one"
http://www.boeing.com/defense/support/qf-16/index.page

http://www.boeing.com/features/2013/09/bds-qf16-09-23-13.pag...
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Not sure what makes you say that about Desktop Linux. I moved away from Windows because the Desktop experience was horrible in the first place. Linux desktops are not perfect but you have choice, they usually have implemented ideas earlier and better than Windows and you can bet your system is going to feel more responsive, too.
They will mostly be researching Andriod devices to see what they can copy/re-invent.
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I know one group is experimenting with Apple Watches, which still seems very awkward for multiple reasons.

I'm wondering if the Airpods with a conversational system is a better way to go. Still not the greatest appearance-wise, but eventually these things are going to slip into an ear canal and be invisible.

There's also a downside to deep data-mining, as related in the Target "your daughter is pregnant" story. Things could backfire if you action on too much data (e.g. a diner visiting with his wife instead of his usual mistress)
How is this not being downrated into oblivion? Is this the kind of discussion that HN wants to foster?
Bro, get a life. Your thoughts and mind have been corrupted deeply, and I fear if that could be repaired.

You seem too depressed by the kind of life that you live. Stop being negative about everything and finding reasons that are not even remotely related to this.

Hope you save yourself from decaying.
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