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"The Birth and Death of Javascript" by Gary Bernhardt (probably the most talented speaker on tech) at https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

I'd mention Bret Victor's work before (maybe Drawing Dynamic Visualizations?), but Bret cheats by writing a lot of amazing code for each of his talks, and most of the awesome comes from the code, not his (great nonetheless) ability as a speaker.

Then you have John Carmack's QuakeCon keynotes, which are just hours and hours of him talking about things that interest him in random order, and it still beats most well prepared talks because of how good he is at what he does. HN will probably like best the one where he talks about his experiments in VR, a bit before he joined Oculus (stuff like when he tried shining a laser into his eyes to project an image, against the recommendations of... well, everyone): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk
actually that's my goal. I will test this a little more and publish an api
If you read pretty much any guide online about 'what lens should i get for my dslr' you'll pretty much always see whatever the 50mm f1.8 for your camera model at the top of the list. So im guessing lots of people just buy them due to that
Thanks for your feedback! Cypht is a thin client that only accesses E-mail using IMAP (or POP3). No E-mail content is maintained locally except in the server side session, and the browser local storage (session only). Cypht does store your E-mail account credentials between logins if you chose to (this behavior can be disabled). Outside of that, we only aggregate content in the browser, not on the server or in any permanent manner. There is a performance price, but it's worth it IMO.
Isn't the Linux kernel tested with a zeroing storage allocator?
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Putting gorgeous device frames around your App Store screenshots
I was commuting between SF & Sunnyvale a year ago for a couple of months. For the whole time I tried to find a service connecting people for carpooling. Found several but none of them had a meaningful number of active users.

It was mind boggling to sit, day after day, in stalled traffic on the 101 with two empty carpool lanes on my left and four lanes filled with lone drivers all the way between San Jose and San Francisco.
kernel security and later mongodb appearing randomly in a comment is like priesthood and pedophilia randomly associated.
It stings of irony.
The huge difference here is that on iOS you don't have random files lying around your home screen. The springboard is for apps, with a dock for the most common ones to persist between screens.

On Windows (and macOS) the desktop is fundamentally different, used differently, and is often obscured by your windowed content.
Because those are the areas they want to destabilize to drum up work.
Not without causing the device that receives the updated key prompting about the change.
As others have pointed out, this article is riddled with errors. To give just one example, the picture he posts of a supposed "temple of the Qin dynasty, circa 200 BCE" appears to actually be the Nanqiao (south bridge) in Chengdu, which seems to have been built in 1878 AD. I can give a list of some of the other errors I noticed if anyone likes (and there are probably many I missed); either way, I wouldn't recommend anyone take any of this as fact.

Beyond the factual errors, there are numerous unsubstantiated claims. I don't know how one would come up with an objective way to measure philosophy and poetry. How much philosophy and poetry from (for example) the Kushan Empire has survived? What's the background for the claim that its philosophy and poetry dwarfed the Roman Empire's?

The idea that we should pay more attention to many of the other polities in history is a valid one. But I don't think an article filled with errors and baseless claims is terribly useful.
Why does IPv6 availability matter here? The amount of users that need, want or even directly benefit from IPv6 is vanishingly small.
> 1) A generally appreciating asset

It's down in the last 5 years. Also, all assets are generally appreciating because of inflation.

> 2) It physically exists (or is backed by exiting material).

This doesn't actually matter. All prices are set by what buyers will pay. Some things, like currencies or bonds, are backed by governments or physical assets like real estate, other commodities, land, etc...

> 3) It is a flight to safety commodity so when things go bad you expect to make money.

As are other assets and securities. Again, nothing inherent to gold.

> Maybe people do attribute more to it than it deserves but its disingenuous to pretend it doesn't have a special place in financial markets.

You could argue every commodity has a 'special' place in financial markets. I'm not arguing gold isn't real or is worthless - it does have value because of its use in electronics as well as in adornment and its historical use as currency.

What I am arguing is that:

> Maybe people do attribute more to it than it deserves
I hope the Pixel phone screens don't have PWM flicker, because of being AMOLED.

I wish flicker free VR existed.
I'm not saying that Google didn't have any input, I'm sure they do the exterior design to some degree and choose which components are in the phones. And while they're not exactly identical, the 6P does have some similarities with the Huawei P8, like the black band on the back. Not as many as the Pixel have with the HTC 10 though.
Have you heard of Surge (https://surge.sh)? Pretty nails the 'low cost and minimal complexity' target for static hosting, although I don't know how well it scales.
It sounds like Squad was taking advantage of employees by forcing them to work very long hours. That's definitely bad behavior. Maybe you or I would quit immediately, but a lot of people don't. They still have a right to complain about it when they finally do get around to quitting. I just don't understand why you are going after the employees. What point does it serve? We know that burnout, being overworked, and being taken advantage of is a huge problem in this industry, so why go after the victims?
What circumstances are needed for this to be exploitable? Wondering if iptables could mitigate for systems where upgrading the kernel is non-trivial.
This is a hard one.. you want a cautious doctor but at the same time you need someone who will order the test when necessary and is not overworked. The balance is in self advocating and not crying wolf. That is the problem AI needs to solve.
I was in Bangkok a few months ago and it's clear that Thailand has very dark times ahead. There is no return to democracy in sight and the military junta has decided to distance themselves from Thailand's traditional international alliances.
Related: A few friends and I built a similar visualization for pathfinding algorithms with OSM data for an AI class:

http://www.kevanahlquist.com/osm_pathfinding/

It shows how nodes are explored on the map with different search algorithms and the optimal path once the search is completed.
Many reasons. Maybe he thinks you're indispensable to the team, but will never fully trust you any more.

Maybe he needs to close a deal with an external customer, and he doesn't have enough time to train up another person to take care of your job responsibilities, and he really needs to close that round of funding.

Maybe his hiring pipeline is dry, either because your skills are hard to find, or maybe because candidates picked up on his managerial faults.

Maybe he needs time to vet external consultants to take over your job, and needs you to stick around to train them, stick around longer than 2 weeks or however long you gave notice for.

All these situations are the worst. He thinks he needs you, but doesn't really want you around. That way you stick around in an environment where management doesn't like you, and whenever there is a viable alternative, they'll dump you for the alternative.

Edit: Another reason why the situation is bad is because management will never let on why exactly they're trying to retain you. They'll string you along until they figure that you're not longer indispensable, and then cut you lose. And you have no idea whether or not that's what he's actually thinking, or "I am an adult and I can respect the logical choices that this guy is going to make to better his career."
In an objective sense, Middle English is very close to modern English. Modern German is also very close to modern English. That means learning either language will be much easier for an English speaker than e.g. learning Japanese would be. But it doesn't mean that knowledge of modern English is sufficient to understand Middle English.
The defensive tone of this comment is unseemly. C is just a tool, and I assure you, one that feels nothing for you.
He's a career politician, it seemed so obvious from the first day I heard him campaign that he was just telling people what they wanted to hear without any intention of implementing the details except for what is needed to keep up his reputation as he campaigns for his next term and then his legacy. It's the same thing from all the presidential candidates in recent history. The system is broken in some ways, and in some ways it's working ok.
I flagged the article. The author exploited clickbait titles and western guilt to craft his own narrative. People are going to read this poor cluster of pop history and get a very wrong idea of the Roman Empire. The second part of the article was quite fascinating but how can I possibly trust the author after statements such as Imperial Rome was a dim backwater by comparison.

The premise of the article is flawed too, we don't know enough about the 'chinese' skeletons yet: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=http://www.forbe...

"The truth is, though, that Rome’s Asian contemporaries completely dwarfed Rome in almost every respect: heritage, population, cultural diversity, technology, architecture, medicine, philosophy, poetry… I could go on, but you get the idea."

Read this article with a grain of salt.
The basics would be a very good start. Here's an educational book that helps you along in creating a computer out of NAND gates: http://www.nand2tetris.org/book.php

I'm still working through the book, but I've learned a ton.
Here's another hypothesis:

Language communities are in an arms race to create the best platform for the Cambrian Explosion of tools necessary to support a dramatically growing and diversifying developer population. Languages with a proliferation of tools, where developers are experiencing choice fatigue, have the incentive and the usage data necessary to design the meta-tools that will make development in such an environment easy. Languages which rely on small selection to solve the problem will remain niche languages.

We're just waiting for some innovations in package/community/docuentation/source control management to crystalize and make the whole problem moot.
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Go, unlikely. It's safer but it has other problems. Haskell is great but it's runtime makes it hard (though not impossible) to use in kernel development.

Rust and ATS seem to be pretty well suited. With Rust getting more and more traction, maybe not all is lost :)
Ever heard of Cydia?
I'm more concerned about this NSA/FBI partnership that secretly forces cooperation somehow. It might apply up to and including forcing a backdoor into the binary. Here's the program for US cooperation:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/leaked-documents-expose-secret-...

The interesting part is in this table from the TS/ECI leaks from Core Secrets:

https://theintercept.com/document/2014/10/10/eci-whipgenie-c...

Notice how the lower levels of secrecy talk about how the companies cooperate or are partners. Then, you hit TS/COMINT and TS/ECI to find additional detail:

"the fact that FBI provides assistance with compelled and cooperative partnerships associated with WHIPGENIE"

"details of FBI assistance with compelled and cooperative partnerships with WHIPGENIE"

So, it's a backdooring program with major U.S. companies that the FBI "compels" assistance with for those that don't willingly cooperate. I have no idea what that entails but it works. It might work better on smaller firm with less resources but also maybe less as I think damaging income stream matters to greedy CEO's at public firms more. So, who knows.

Personally, I think they're pulling a variation of Escobars silver or lead policy. You take generous bribes to do what they want or you take generous donations of lead. In this case, legal fines or imprisonment rather than actual lead.
There have been countless times where courts have told three-letter agencies to stop doing things and they have stoppped. The judiciary has the power to protect us, much more than we give credit for.

There's still rule of law, and the executive mostly listens to what the judiciary tells it to do. For all its flaws, some of our institutions work pretty well compared to most places. I cannot think of another country where judges are able to overtake heads of states in substantial policy outcomes.
That's why I always use military grade encryption.
They both locked enough people in an ecosystem where they control the competition well enough that they can justify asking twice as much as their device is worth...

I was hoping to upgrade a nexus 5 I paid 399 CAD and this year they want to charge 899 CAD for the base model!

This is insane and I just ordered a OnePlus 3 (519CAD) hoping that we'll see more competition instead of reliving the 90s desktop OS situation...
We need another Voltaire. We risk losing so much.
So what can one do about this? What amount of panic is appropriate?
If you require IPv6 so crucially, you probably shouldn't be using consumer grade gear.
The worst part is the Medium comment section. Users are shaming anyone who dares to call out the author on his gross generalizations.
Ubiquity products are available in Europe.
These students are college aged people in US. They are not what I call "educated Chinese people".

The way the classic Chinese was written has always been different from everyday vernacular Chinese. This has been true for every generation of Chinese learners since ancient times.

How people spoke Chinese have changed over the years dramatically. I don't think the ancient ways of speaking Chinese is understandable by modern Chinese. However, the way the language is written in formal setting has changed little up to the end of Qing dynasty in 1912.

An education in Chinese means to learn how to read these traditional Chinese writings. This education is still enforced today in modern China, hence my claim that an educated modern Chinese person can still read them and understand them. For example, a part of the Chinese college entrance exam requires the students to read an unseen piece of traditional Chinese text, and answer questions about it. During the exam, some enterprising students could even write their essays entirely in classic Chinese, garnering wide circulations on the internet.
To address your example directly - we already have holter monitors that would show a case of atrial fibrillation quite easily. They aren't terribly expensive, at least for something that has to have FDA approval, and they are frequently used. Heck, you don't even need "AI," in the sense of neural networks/machine learning/some other buzzword. Current systems will review a strip collected over several days and flag any abnormal rhythms.

The problem comes with determining who to put on a monitor. In the case of the patients you described, it's actually quite likely that the doctors seeing these patients considered the possibility of afib. The symptoms, though, can be very vague, and they are seen nearly every day in the doctor's office. It's simply too expensive to put every patient on a holter monitor - the doc's office has to be paid to maintain the monitors (which people abuse at home), the nurses have to be paid to teach patients how to correctly wear them, the monitor company has to be paid for whatever absurdly expensive and proprietary review software they supply, and the prescribing doctor (oftentimes the prescribing cardiologist) has to be paid to review and confirm the machine's interpretation.

All of this for a transient rhythm which any second year medical student would easily recognize if presented the EKG from across the room.

The sad reality is that the patients you described were experiencing the system as it is "designed" (I use the term loosely) to work. The fact that someone is persistently seeking help for their problem dramatically raises the probability that something is truly wrong, and doctors actually recognize this and take it into account. This is one of the reasons it's considered best practice to establish a long term relationship with one doctor who knows you well, but it's harder and harder to do with insurance companies only reimbursing for 15 minute visits.
Is it possible that the cost of moving (both for techies and for mercenaries) helps create a signalling equilibrium?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)#Job-mar...

In the context of getting a degree: 'Spence discovered that even if education did not contribute anything to an employee's productivity, it could still have value to both the employer and employee. If the appropriate cost/benefit structure exists (or is created), "good" employees will buy more education in order to signal their higher productivity.'

E.g. if communication costs were really zero, then everyone would try to get a job by applying, which lowers the average applicant quality.

But if the cost of applying is high, then only highly committed, self-selected applicants who think they will eventually get the job will apply.
but wifi extenders have been on the market for a long time and are easy to use
It's https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/.

There's a use policy: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim_usage_policy
Warren Buffett on gold [1]:
"I will say this about gold. If you took all the gold in the world, it would roughly make a cube 67 feet on a side…Now for that same cube of gold, it would be worth at today's market prices about $7 trillion – that's probably about a third of the value of all the stocks in the United States…For $7 trillion…you could have all the farmland in the United States, you could have about seven Exxon Mobils (NYSE:XOM) and you could have a trillion dollars of walking-around money…And if you offered me the choice of looking at some 67 foot cube of gold and looking at it all day, and you know me touching it and fondling it occasionally…Call me crazy, but I'll take the farmland and the Exxon Mobils."

[1] http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/commodities...

Gold has no utility. This quote changed the way I think about gold when I first heard it.
The assassination of JFK & RFK put Johnson into power. Power mongers pulled all kinds of schemes from there. The assassination of MLK per testimony in court case was intended to stop overthrow of U.S. government by masses tired of their shit. That didn't happen. Numerous witnesses to various things in intelligence misconduct never lived to say it in court. Those things are still debatable due to missing information. And so on.

Assassinations that have worked so far were done by the power establishment to expand or protect its power. They tend to work. They're rarely needed, though, as they can do things like media spins, disenfranchising voters, regular arrests, and so on.
My Airports work just fine and have worked for years. I think that the WiFi issues are mostly that people are only willing to pay like $50 for their WiFi router. At this price point I'm not sure it changes anything.
Why do lawyers hang around ambulances?
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Seriously, two things: formal verification of correctness is sorely needed and a language platform which has complete, bidirectional C interoperability in targeting both kernel- and user-land which can be gradually migrated to one compilation unit a time and has much more safety, is more succinct, has C feature parity and no/minimal runtime performance hit would be requirements for candidates to change languages, but only after impressing Linus, lieutenants and contributors of undeniable value.

See also: seL4, Isabelle/Coq, Idris
The article puts forth that an inability to distinguish conversation in a loud bar is hearing loss, so blaming American culture for your medical issue is a bit strange.
a = [1 -2]
b = [1 - 2]

and this is why APL and J use 1 ¯2 or 1 _2 for negative numbers
It's not just old buildings, either – at a previous employer we learned that a lot of the interior walls had a similar mesh inside. You could put a Cisco AP set to the highest power levels on one side, move a laptop one foot away on the other side and barely be online. We solved that by adding extra APs, which wasn't a big deal since we had the budget and plenty of Ethernet drops but in a residential building - especially a rental - that'd have been an annoying amount to pay.
People buy shoddy shit and make poor purchasing choices all the time, e.g. fast food leading to obesity and an unhealthy populace. Just because someone will pay for it, doesn't mean it's a good idea, or that they've made a fully informed decision, or that a fully informed decision is possible due to information asymmetry.

Maybe bathrooms should be optional? Some people may prefer to shit out the window or use the local YMCA to shower? Yeah that's a sanitation concern, but parking is a transit concern, both are major issues in cities.

There needs to be some forethought into how the new residents are going to get into and out of the city. Simply leaving it up to profit seeking businesses to sort out doesn't mean a functional solution will actually be found.
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