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Linux Kodachi 3.2
I'm happy to announce the general availability of the latest version of Linux Kodachi 3.2. The new version of the Linux Kodachi is available now on the Download site - digi77.com,
Key changes:

- Fixed DNS bug
- Additional show Desktop icon was added to the right
- Battery indicator was removed
- System updated
- Browser plugins updated
- Tor Browser updated

Linux Kodachi is free secure operating system feel free to test it and give us your feedback
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Excellent job at evading the fairly direct question that was asked of you, and lumping it in with a bunch of irrelevant comparisons to slavery.

So, let's try this again.

What are your thoughts on those gentlemen in Oregon who took over an empty building on federal land?

What about the 2011 riots in Vancouver when their hockey team lost?

What about the Trump rally in California this year?

What about Ferguson a couple years back?

Your absolutist position would place all of these events under equal justification.
Name your position at Tock
Tock is a series A funded company with a $75M valuation and has been in existence just over 18 months. We are a small team of 18, with 3 people joining in the last few weeks alone.

We are looking to grow in many different directions–from design and engineering to sales and marketing. We're slowly starting our search and drafting official job descriptions, but if you're eager to help change how restaurants do business and think you'd be a great fit at Tock now, we'd love to hear why. Send us an email to jobs@tockhq.com.
I just bought an 1989 HP48SX, hi.
I don't think anyone's saying that the question "who is x" ever means "give me the contact information for x". They are just arguing as to whether or not Siri's counter-intuitive behavior may be a reasonable response, given that it's a computer and not a human. This is not a hard question for humans.
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My car's map was so out of date when I bought it it instantly became useless to me. My wife sitting in the passenger seat cannot select destinations while we are driving so it is far easier to just use a phone with the added benefits of up-to-date maps and traffic.
Still. I think its a bit absurd.
StealthWalker 2.6
Why would endianness be a problem? VAX, Alpha and x86 all are little endian.
The "memory" in a typical recurrent neural network is akin to a human's short term working memory. It only holds a few things and forgets old things quickly as new things come in. This new memory can hold a large number of things and stores them for an unlimited amount of time, more like a human's long term memory or a computer's RAM.
Linux Kodachi 3.2
I mean, if somebody is logged into YouPorn from work, that's not a problem I expect the developer of a tool like this to solve. What I expect the developer of a tool like this to do is not create problems by just arbitrarily making HTTP requests to porn sites without a prompt or a chance to opt out. That's a dick move.
US government been funding AI for 50 years,just came up with plan for future
I found two: 32.807001, -111.722184 and 32.791790, -111.705250
I'd like to find more to see the 'grid' mentioned in the article.
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Did you forget the /s tag?

It's pretty well understood that population growth curves are logistical, rather than exponential (e.g., https://www.britannica.com/science/population-growth/images-...)

The appearance of exponential growth is always temporary.

As the population increases, negative feedbacks reduce the population growth rate. Examples of these feedbacks include cost to raise children, reduced dependence on large family for security in old age, etc.

Estimates of the "replacement fertility rate" are about 2.1 per woman in a developed society (higher in less-developed societies). Many first world countries are already below this rate, and without immigration, will have declining populations as their native populations age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

Malthus and his disciples have been wrong for 200 years.

Paul Ehrlich in particular, because he used to like giving short-term dates for his predictions, so we could watch them slide by. Then he decided time was different to him than to an "average person".

“How many years do you have to not have the world end” to reach a conclusion that “maybe it didn’t end because that reason was wrong?” -- Steward Brand, former disciple of Ehrlich
Proving Availability and Performance in a Citrix Environment
I can confirm. I just sniped a book about "pressure", the historical pathway with steps and non famous scientists gave a completely different feel than any physics textbooks with models and equations.
Good news everybody. I found the one racist white guy on this site who doesn't give a single fuck about other people.

j/k: Paul Graham supports Peter Thiel's vendetta against women and minorities because Paul Graham is a GUTLESS COWARD who cares more about a cozy relationship with a billionaire than about any sort of morality.

WORSE: Paul Graham is a FUCKING LIAR who claims that it would be MCCARTHYISM just to clearly state that he and YC disagree with Thiel's bigotry. Yes. Paul Graham is such dog shit that he feels FREE to accuse people who are pro-equality of being McCarthists, but he is UNWILLING to assert that Peter Thiel is a bigot.

So good news... you found your people. This site is chock full of utterly worthless fat old rich white men who are fucking full of themselves and actively work to make the world far worse and evil... but have their heads so far up their asses that they pretend it's good instead.

What I'm saying is PAUL GRAHAM IS A FUCKING COWARD and PAUL GRAHAM is respected SOLELY because of his connections and money. HE IS A WORTHLESS FAT FUCK WITH A SHIT STARTUP WHO GOT LUCKY. HE IS GARBAGE.
I noticed a few other French easter eggs, like the names of the city "stive" is visiting during his acid trip, or that "the national train company is on strike, but you managed to reach Lille in less than 15 hours. #WIN".
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There was a company that did this. They don't exist anymore:

https://www.wired.com/2011/10/streaming-movie-service-zediva...
We bought a Gamin GPS for my wife as she prefers it over using a phone for navigation. It has lifetime map updates and costs less than the map update for my car's built in navigation. It's also far superior in several ways including knowing the speed limit on more roads, showing the name of the upcoming cross streets and better multi-lane information.
I personally tend to use Waze on my phone but like the Garmin navigation experience more overall.
yes absolutely.
The claim is that Section 8 vouchers aren't better than public housing, I wonder how either would compare to the equivalent benefit granted through e.g. food stamps or cash.

I was also under the impression that vouchers were cheaper to administer and provide, so for equivalent benefit might still be worthwhile.
But I have been told, by lawyers, never to read patents, because that could triple damages for knowledgeable infringement.

It also doesn't address potential patents that are still within the 18 month filing window and are still secret.
Why does exchange speed matter if your internal model shows profit at the current bid/ask prices and volatility? Is it because in the event of a massive change in the underlying you can't exit the positions fast enough to recover some of the premiums?
You're correct in a way, you can think of neural nets "remembering" the data set they're trained on. Recurrent neural nets even explicitly have a "feedback loop" like you're referring to that allows them to "remember" previous samples. An example of that is in natural language processing where you want to be able to remember the previous words in a sentence to interpret the current word.

Remembering the previous words in a sentence you're currently reading is more like short term memory though, and this paper is talking about long term memories stored as data structures outside of the neural net itself. This graphic from the DeepMind blog post might be helpful: https://i.imgur.com/KwXXCge.png.

The blog post from DeepMind is a bit more accessible than the Nature paper: https://deepmind.com/blog/differentiable-neural-computers/
Thank you for commenting.

Poverty has more to do with a lack of rights, lack of knowledge, lack of connections, lack of opportunity, etc. Those things lead to a lack of money. Giving people money does not tend to resolve those issues, but resolving those issues leads to more money.

I think the UBI is a terrible idea. It is a theoretically easy answer. In reality, it would do more harm than good, for a great many reasons.
Using heat maps to obtain actionable application-user insights
Rubygems.org cuts response time in half with fastly
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The article says the earnings are $500 more future yearly income _per one incremental year in public housing_. For someone in public housing for a number of years, this is significant.
Exactly. If you're actually in a legal dispute with Facebook, the cost of rewriting your frontend to not use React is minimal.

It's not like React is a massive library with a huge surface area. Even a fairly complex application could be migrated to an alternative like Vue.js if the need arose.
Believe it or not, this was tried years ago:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/03/is-zedivas-new-re...

It turned out that the courts were not impressed by this workaround.
Thanks, I'll have a look into it!
Nothing, because I literally don't have an account.
No, it should become "". Animats has his name in his account's "about" for anyone who's interested, and if we had an extension, anyone could annotate the account name as they please. Anyone who isn't interested might not care who's commenting anyhow.

When someone's identity is pertinent, it seems like they tend to state it eventually anyhow.
I believe using private browsing wouldn't matter. The IP I'm browsing from is still going to try pinging all those porn servers, and that's what's getting logged in the filter, not my browser history.
Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Nosferatu-Silent-Max-Schreck/dp/B001O...

https://www.amazon.com/Blowup-Vanessa-Redgrave/dp/B000I157KO

https://www.amazon.com/Knife-Water-Leon-Niemczyk/dp/B004D22R...

Amazon + Netflix + Blueray player has become my perfect combination. The few titles that I can't get streaming I just buy the discs.
> If you end up with enough traffic that it actually becomes a problem, it would have been a problem anyway because you'd be running a lot of servers with persistent connections in a more traditional model.

I think this is the part I disagree with. DB connection pools are much, much smaller than than the total # of functions that touch a database in any reasonably complex application.

Yes, scale is always an issue, but it seems to me that in this serverless world where you have 1 connection per function you run into scale issues a lot(order of magnitude?) faster than the "traditional" way.

> a good abstraction means only one or maybe two functions actually talks to the database

In a serverless world, does this mean you would run a handful of functions with DB connections, and other functions would proxy db requests through them? I can see that working ok I suppose.
> "This [X] we're standing on right now helped protect us from nuclear war," Owen says.

Um no. It just helped the US know where shit is. They didn't keep us safe. Mutually assured destruction did. That's why every war since then has been a proxy war.

If anything, programs like this poured massive amounts of money into expanding out out of control military and probably caused the expansion of wars into areas, leading to the deaths of countless civilians in the former USSR nations.
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Google and Facebook partner on PLCN submarine cable
Couldn't this be fixed by instead of using ?next= in the query string storing a cookie.

For example:

if(!auth) {
setCookie('next', '/url-here', 1h);
}
redirect(login);

Login page action:

if(cookieExists('next')) {
next = getCookie('next');
deleteCookie('next');
redirect(next);
} else {
redirect('dashboard');
}
Just to note, the new compact dicts in Python 3.6 are apparently based on the PyPy dict implementation: https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/3.6.html#other-language...
Declarative Manipulation of Clojure Data Structures
Boston Tech Is Giving Back on 10/20
Well, it has to be said: a mathematician's outlook on physics is completely different from a physicist's. For a mathematician, physics is not much more than a bunch of more or less fixed mathematical models, each describing, approximately, some aspect of the physical world. For a physicist, on the other hand, not only are these models in a perpetual state of flux, but the physical world itself is seen as an indivisible whole, so that these "aspects" - the ones that are being modeled mathematically - are themselves just narrow views into the real physical world in which we live...
Could you infer the orbit of the satellite from the location of the X's?
I wish all the people djb alike could gather in a room and give gifts to the world.
ok, thanks, i was asking since i was playing with simple ASTs myself here http://embeddednodejs.com/compiler/
Thanks for the feedback, and yeah I agree that it's pretty primitive at the moment (it can't even do legato!). I'm working on improving it though, and hopefully it demonstrates some of the potential for Web Audio applications; I actually originally made this for a demo session at this year's Web Audio Conference [0].

Modeling singers using machine learning would be really neat; I'm not too hip to the current research around that, although the idea brings to mind WaveNet [1], which seems like it'd be absolutely fascinating to try with pitched audio / using musical parameters.

[0] http://webaudio.gatech.edu/

[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
A while back I decided it wasn't worth trusting any online service - netflix or otherwise - for my personal favorite content (whatever that may be). For that reason I invested in a nice NAS that can stream to my ps3/ps4, phones/tablets etc and to just rip my own content. Otherwise you may suddenly find Twin Peaks is not available to you (it's on Amazon Prime now btw), or some other such lost classic film or tv show.
The firefox and tor devs are cooperating to upstream a tor browser feature that isolates cookie stores and similar things based on the domain shown in the URL bar[0]. Available in nightly by enabling privacy.firstparty.isolate = true in about:config.

Additionally they're also also working on a more customizable version of that called contextual identities[1], which eventually will also be manageable by extensions[2]

And of course addons that block cookies in cross-origin requests or cross origin requests in general such as µmatrix[3] also plug this hole.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1260931

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identit...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1302697

[3] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
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DVD players are cheap, so that's an easily solved problem.
https://www.vidangel.com/ does something similar. You buy the movie for 20$ and then can stream it whenever, but if you return it within the first 24 hours, you get 19$ back.
Yes, and that is why those apps look and feel better - you use OS native widgets that users are familiar with and feel as their OS does.

Meanwhile you still can share most of the code in the app.
This is a site collecting information for a public petition. By definition your GOAL is to share your information publicly. How is it absurd to do so in the open?
Previously I had used my phone, but after taking a few small trips and the phone's GPS either placed me on an incorrect street, or was unable to get a steady signal - I decided I needed a Garmin.

I've been happy with it thus far, and with the lifetime map updates it's pretty nice. I do with the model I got had weather overlays, but that's just me being picky.
It separates the concern of memorization from those of training and processing. In most current neural architectures, patterns in the training data are implicitly represented in the trained neural weights, and the net is implicitly forced to develop recall of past events by transmitting them from each time step to the next via neural net outputs.

The framework in this paper trains a neural net which interacts with a memory bank in a manner similar to a CPU. That means it can save and recall data on request, which could lead to more flexible architectures (you can give a trained net different data to recall) and easier training (since a memory-based architecture means the neural weights no longer have to learn the data along with the processing algorithm.)
>What does this have to do with anything? Is this supposed to justify the tactics?

Original commenter specifically mentioned "at time..." which I took as an implication that there was something special about today's society.

>Why do you think police need justification to enforce the law without infringing on the rights of protesters?

Because you don't lose your rights when you protest, even if you break the law? The police don't have ultimate power to enforce the law. There are purposeful limits to the power of the police. That's the point of having certain rights enshrined into the legal system. Do you disagree?
Who the hell makes accounts on porn sites?
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I think we have a roughly equivalent picture of what changed for the poor, just different words to describe it. The actual work necessary to keep everyone fed and clothed fell by a factor of at least twenty, while the lot of the poor improved by something like a factor of two to five. They're far better off, sure, but far below the 1:1 ratio that non-systematic analysis will often assume for anti-poverty interventions.
It takes longer to sign the "pledge to delete" than to just delete your account.
But that hurts their brand, long term, as people get the sense that Hulu never has the things they want to watch.
Based on this article at least, this doesn't sound like a big deal? It sounds like the service helped police discover when and where protests were happening. If bad cops used that information to illegally interfere with those protests (or the protesters themselves), that's obviously a bad thing, but that wasn't stated in the article.

I would expect good cops to also want that same information as part of doing their jobs. Protesting isn't illegal, but if a large group of people are legally gathering someplace to vent anger about something (anything really, it doesn't even have to be a political flashpoint), I would expect police would want to know about that too, for non-sinister reasons (like general awareness WRT potentially disruptive events happening in their city that day). To police who are just doing their (non-evil) jobs, protests are important to know about for the same reasons that it's important for them to know about any other potential sources of civic chaos that day (concerts, etc.).

It feels like the article presents the facts with an unstated assumption of "bad cops using intel for nefarious purposes", but if that's true, there wasn't any supporting evidence presented in the article.
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Could easily muddle state with multiple tabs though, query string is clearer.
What is Wireless Components
It's not mentioned in the article, but I guess this means that compass navigation wasn't possible at the time?
I distinctly remember iPhones complaining about "obsolete device" when plugging them into a few years old Audi and VW cars around iPhone 4 era. That was then followed up with connectivity and charging issues.

So what was the deal with that?
Why would I pay hundreds of $currency for a new head unit or thousands for a new car, if I'm already walking around with a device capable doing all that? Android Auto/Car play should just run as a dedicated mode on the phone.
Here is a few more picture more:
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/11/15/the-forgotten-giant...

I also find these kind of things cool. Forgotten structures that once served an important roll but now are mostly forgotten.
Bruce Schneier agrees with you, which lends your argument some credence to me, but I thought "We’ve never received a request like this, and were we to receive it we’d challenge it in a court" was about as broad and clear a statement as could reasonably be made about this. What would you need them to say?
Standards can last a fairly long time. DVI and 802.11b are both over 16 years old and backwards compatibility is still common.

Even if they just default to a remote desktop with touch screen interface, that's still fine for most in car applications.
To anyone screen capturing small fonts as a demonstration, or capturing digital text especially at a small resolution, I don't believe that that is the purpose of this OCR library. (As a specialized problem, that might be easier to solve depending on the typeface.)

A much better example that works quite well is a picture of someone holding a book: http://i.imgur.com/3JWs64x.jpg

Magic .
Read this to yourself. Read it silently
Don't move your lips. Don’t make a suund
Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing
What a wonderfully weird thing, huh?
NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD!
SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND!
DROWN EVERYTHING OUT.
Now, hear a whisper. A tiny whisper.
New, read this next line with your best crotchety—
old-man voice:

“Hello there, sonny. Does your town have apost 0
Awesome! Who was that? Whose voice was that?
It sure wasn’t yours!

How do you do that?
How?!
Must be magic.

Problems with this text: misspelled 'sound' as 'suund', didn't recognize the word 'anything', and mis-recognized 'a post office' as 'apost 0'.

Not bad. Especially since two of three mistakes are on the edge of the page.
> comparing municipal police with infamous clandestine federal investigative agencies borders on conspiracy theory

And yet: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square...

Hoover's FBI is infamous because its practices were exposed. As we begin to look more closely at police departments around the country, we begin to see that there are many that end up using terrible tactics, and the only significant difference is that they're limited to their city and county borders.
In fig. 5a, they compare its performance to that of an LSTM trained on the same problem, and it does seem to do much better.
Instead of a focus on motivating employees, it seems like there should be a focus on not demotivating them. I don't think an employer can or should try to be a therapist for employees by trying to help them find purpose. Throwing a bunch of HR tools at a team of developers is a sure-fire way of getting eye rolling and complaints about upper management wasting developers' time.

Pay your developers well, don't treat them like children, give the technology leaders the respect to make technology decisions, and don't put them in a toxic environment. Be active in getting constant face-to-face feedback and actually listen and be willing to admit faults as an employer.