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I say this as a non-believer myself. I don't mean that modern western atheists are picking up their moral code directly from religions, I'm saying that the secular western moral code largely grew from Christianity.

Anyhow, my broader point is that religions are a source of moral conviction for people. And moral conviction is totally legitimate basis for political conviction.
>>On Intel's part, it seems kinda... late?

Not exactly AVX512 is used on the Xeon Phi which is Intel's Floating Co-Processor for Deep Learning/OpenCL tasks. But that being said, GPU's blow the Xeon Phi out of the water in terms of FLOPS, local RAM, and RAM bandwidth.
Whole Foods is repackaged Costco crap that people pay markup for.
I kind of want to go home and open up all the cheap Chinese stuff I've bought over the years.
As the other poster mentions, I assume their view is that these types of operations will become increasingly prevalent in consumer software applications. Lots will be powered by the cloud, but it would be useful if some inference can be done on a laptop CPU.
I'm not sure how widespread it is, but Nanex have a breakdown of a single case where Citadel were using this strategy: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4670.html
Mars atmosphere is far from being near-vacuum. Also if you have to extract air, the difference between how much air you have to extract is pretty much irrelevant.
> If you want to argue that crashing into the atmosphere would be an inevitable result of the trip

That's not what I'm arguing FFS, I'm saying that'd be the result of going with the fastest possible trip, which would still leave the target significant time to set up countermeasures.

Here's the rest of the paragraph of my original answer since you apparently stopped at the first period:

> If you want to actually deliver your payload in a useful manner you'll need twice that at the very least. 2+ months is a long lead time, and the engine you'll need will make the craft impossible to miss.

The point is that no matter how you slice it, "the difference between building on Mars and building it in orbit" is the target gets a warning several months in advance in the former case, a few minutes or seconds in the latter. One gives ample opportunity to set up and deploy countermeasures, the other not so much.
Ah I see now. That makes sense. I wasn't aware of those, but it's cool to know people can't mess with the upvotes that easily. Thanks for clarifying.
I'm really surprised (every time!) when someone talks about conscience or discoveries or whatever so human-centric and local and unimportant in the cosmic scale while talking about simulations. If it's simulation, it certainly isn't made because of us.
No, it is very illegal. You can only enter orders you intend to have filled.
> It is becoming increasingly obvious that androgen deprivation has massive neurological effects.

Progesterone USP is both a pro-hormone and a neurosteroid [1]. The science literature commonly confuses Progesterone USP with various "progestins" (xeno-hormones), so there is much confusion on the effects of this substance vs the fakes.

> I seriously think there should be some inquiry into whether it is a driver for the epidemic of post-transition MTF trans suicides

At one point I made a progesterone supplement, which I sold on Amazon - topical progesterone formulas are grandfathered as non-prescription because they are safe, and because the substance was available before the food & drug act was passed. My best customer was "Billie", whom I never met, but who I'm certain was MTF. SHe emailed me recently when she ran out of her last purchase - I told her what to buy instead.

MTF probably usually do poorly post-transition because they only supplement with "the heart attack hormone"/"The Cancer Hormone" - Estrogen. Progesterone USP is essential for balancing the toxic effects of any kind of estrogen/xeno-estrogen. Fertile women are protected from their estrogen load because their bodies produce large amounts of Progesterone during the second half of the cycle.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11108866

edit: gender pronouns
I used to live in France, and would sometimes commute from the south to Paris for the day.

Sure, there are large stretches where it is straight and smooth. But when it's bumpy, it's really bumpy. In a way that a slow train just can't do.
Apropos Qubes and xfce, the award for the most useless battery indicator definitely goes to xfce. They still only have a tiny static tray icon with three or four different images; the battery looks "four fifths full" all the time. To actually know the battery state you have to hover the mouse over it for a couple seconds.

This makes me fairly certain that whoever did this never used it.

Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/HkmkKwk.png

Note how:

- The battery is actually at 30 % in this shot (how'd you know?)

- The black box next to the battery is actually the netvm nm-applet (edit: actually it's the tray of the Qubes VM Manager; looks like nm-applet vanished - again)

- The drowned-in-white-box speaker symbol is the pulseaudio applet

- These are the "neatest" window decorations I could find
> The last part is why this is a problem.

$_POST isn't the problem. The scope of the variable isn't the problem. You've realized this, too, and that's why you're shifting the argument to one about typing instead of superglobals-are-bad (typing and scope are obviously independent features).

> You want to reduce the number of things you have to think about to the absolute minimum

The net effect of type systems seems to actually be to force you to think about a larger number of things very very carefully. The only thing that ends up being reduced is having to think about having to think about them.
I guess every iOS user uses iCloud somehow. But for me it's just backup because it is so limited to the Apple world. Do they even have a public API?
Good question. And the video doesn't explain this well enough, but questions will only show on your profile if you answer. If you do not answer them they are not displayed publicly to anyone. That said, you can also hide previously asked/answered questions from your profile too. Do sign up and give it a chance. We're in beta and we're all ears for feedback.
Okay, there are problems with the case but not the problems you mentioned.

He had negotiated a credit line from Credit Suisse to the tune of 30million. He would then use 30 million to open futures trades with a much much greater notional value.

His real positions would be in the hundreds of thousands long/short the market.

His credit positions would be a little deeper in the order book, knowing that other people and algorithms would front run his order because they think it is an indication of a big buyer or trend happening.

He'd close his real position at the better price to the people trying to front run him, for a profit. And simply remove the super big order from the order book.

This is spoofing

and yes this is what everyone else does.

He is being prosecuted for it.

During the flash crash, liquidity dried up and spreads got super big, front running algorithms were still responding to the spoofing and matching orders at really bad prices with wide spreads. It doesn't matter who "caused" it.
I would love to meet the Chinese factory owner/manager who makes the calculus on this stuff. "No no, walnuts are too expensive. Let's take walnut shells, fake walnut shells, and put rocks in them. That's much easier and cheaper."
Dude realized "hey, you own your content, not Facebook, even after you post it on Facebook. So with users' consent, I can download their data from Facebook and display it on my own website, right?" Thus he wrote something where people would enter their Facebook and other social network logins, and the site would aggregate their data. Basically a cross-platform social network.

Facebook was the only website to respond at all. They sued them for downloading data. (You own it, but when you try to get it out, you can't.) Facebook called it "spamming" and "hacking". The courts didn't really understand the topic (the article claims) but finally in the 9th district court the spam claim got thrown out and Facebook said they won't challenge that decision because there is still the hacking claim to be fought over.

How asking someone to give you a password for a specific purpose and then using that password for that specific purpose is hacking is beyond me. But then the article is fairly one-sided so I don't know the full story. The legal battle continues.
This just in: politicians care about their spiritual leaders' opinion on things.

The reason that story got no legs outside of the far-left press is that nobody who isn't blindingly anti-religion cares if a candidate/official looks to his/her spiritual leaders for guidance. In fact, normal people assume that happens. The Smith video doesn't show anything abnormal.
The tech review summary seems to be saying this super intelligent universe-simulating computer builder doesn't know about Bresenham's line drawing algorithm [0] and as a result it can only walk high energy particles along a limited number of paths.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm
Maybe they should allow the construction of more housing. Seems like if you have supply problems, you should permit supply to grow.
That Musk sure is one big dummy!
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femtometers?
Given AMD's involvement, what is the difference between this and coherent hypertransport?
Nice, I'll give it a try - I currently switch to xfce for this but I'm not overly attached to it
Intel is also adding FPGAs[1] right next to their CPUs, which can possibly become a next big thing in HPC.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184828-intel-unveils-new-...
I don't know what train you've ridden, but Spain's Ave goes 300 km/h and you don't even notice you're moving. And it definitely doesn't bump at all. You cannot notice constant speed but only speed changes (acceleration = force).
It seems like attendant readers understands what the author was doing. They didn't say the definition explicitly, which would violate pep20 (explicit is better than implicit), but, considering this is an article in Outside Online magazine... I think we can accept this violation.

I can understand that you might think other people would be misled by the rhetorical structure... but I encourage you to not get upset at imagined misunderstandings on behalf of others. (Not that it's wrong, it's just makes your life a little less happy)
I think Sir Humphrey said it best, 'no government would change a system that put it there'.

While your initiative is well meant, abandoning parties is actually a step in the wrong direction. Because while parties won't appear on the ballot, the parties will make sure to include their name and their candidate in every advertisement, so only few voters are unsure whom each candidate represents. Likely washing away other parties' chances as they don't maintain the same influence.

No, party-list proportional representation is a much more democracy and fairer system. Because it allows a voter to vote for a party that's not popular in their district, but so that their vote can matter on a state-wide or national-wide level.

Of course, that's a major overhaul of the system, but unfortunately, I personally believe that's what necessary. However, I believe that such an overhaul could start in smaller more progressive states like Vermont or Maine. And if the system catches on, there may be public push for a similar system in neighbouring states.
Not exactly late. There's no physical law that says a CPU can't beat a GPU for a certain family of operations, and in fact in practice, small toy networks with non-dense operations (for instance, if you are doing research on optimization algorithms for DNNs or Bayesian inference algorithms) tend to run faster on the CPU than GPU.
I’ve gone that route in Haskell and it works great. Yes, you need to extract the string again. Not an issue unless you’re golfing all your code. You also don’t need to hide the real constructor if it’s a type your module should be working with.

Subclassing str seems like the most horrible way ever to represent an e-mail address. I would definitely write a wrapper instead – exactly like Haskell.
That's a good direction to pursue, but CWR (continuous welded rail) segments are only a few kilometers long at most. That, plus the fact that the cross-section of a rail is much less than the cross-section of a hyperloop tube, makes the tensile stress at the ends of the rail small enough that they can be managed by anchoring the ends of the rail to the rail bed.

The tensile stress at the ends of a hyperloop track would be orders of magnitude higher if you tried this approach. I haven't done the math, but I'd suspect you'd need an anchoring system comparable to what you see on large suspension bridge cables, if not more. Not only that, but I suspect you'd start to reach the limits of what steel can structurally sustain. With this solution, you've got a O(100km) long tube that is not only under vacuum but now also under enormous tension. Before this can be considered a viable solution someone needs to do the math on that, and AFAIK no one has.

So I still want my put options.
It's not entirely clear what, exactly, it would mean for this to be true. It's also not clear that defining what we mean by "Is the universe a simulation?" has any value if it is not testable.
We did it with senators, we should do it with the President. Curious why you wouldn't want to amend the Constitution for this though and enshrine it there. If it needs to be passed in a majority of states, might as well fight for an amendment.

Also, it is a tired meme that amendments are hard, especially when a majority of Americans agree on something.
I know German IT companies, and I can agree with "boring".
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Can someone explain how we find planets like this? New advancements in telescopes? I also recently read that Hubble has found 10 times more galaxies than expected. How does this happen?

Any reading material on how these discoveries are made?
Do I understand correctly that NPV would just go to whoever got the most votes, even if all were under 50%? Unfortunate if so, although I understand that it's probably a bad idea to try to make two big changes at once.
There are a couple of ways a PDF document could contain actual text that is nevertheless not selectable or searchable. One is that the originator could have protected the document; another (more common) cause is that the originator didn't embed the proper font maps when exporting the document. I see the latter a lot with documents produced from LaTeX originals.
As the parent mentioned, pdftotext can often extract text from such documents without the need for OCR. (Although sometimes if the document contains ligatures those don't get converted.)
Vachani is based in Brazil, where life is more affordable. He flies into San Francisco a lot, though, in an ongoing effort to stay in the tech biz.

So, open question, how much cheaper does it have to be in Brazil to make it worthwhile to live there because it's cheaper, if you are flying into SF a lot? I mean, I know SF is expensive, but presumably if you are willing to make ~$600 flights on a regular basis, you would be willing to commute a few hours. Within two hours of SF, things aren't exactly cheap, but they are cheap relative to SF. How much cheaper does Brazil have to be (living in at least a moderately sized city) for this to effective, assuming he flies into SF 8 times a year?

This of course ignores other reasons he may want to live in Brazil (such as family), because that wasn't how it was presented.
One might wish to amend the Constitution, but the current political climate makes it practically impossible.
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After Power's IP addresses were blocked by Facebook, couldn't Power use the user as proxy to access Facebook instead? In other words, have the user (through some Power provided tool I suppose) access Facebook and feed Power the information it wants to send.
Yep, it's expanding symmetrically in all directions in that the distances may increase between bodies but the masses such as suns and planets do not grow.

http://nautil.us/blog/the-universe-expanding-symmetrically-a...
Exactly. If you're one mistake away from a disaster, you already lost.

Ideally you would have either test gates, or a staged rollout with automated rollback.
Good question. I don't know. But I'm sure the answer is on the site somewhere.
On a semi-serious note, I've always had this nagging feeling ever since I first heard of Planck time and Planck length. Why would there be a lower limit to the resolution of the universe, unless there was something spooky going on?

(I know they're just theoretical, but...)
Given the lawsuites it might make sense to stay out of USA too.
Assuming of course that the world outside our simulation is even remotely similar to our reality, which is not necessarily the case. Our reality could be a gross simplification of the physical systems outside of it, or maybe even one of many separate simulations that has had quantum mechanics added as a sort of "What would happen if..." test.
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> guarantee at compile time

If you’re talking about runtime type checks rather than mypy, well, they’re just verbose static types with less safety. (May as well just embrace the duck typing at that point by accessing email.local_part and letting the AttributeError propagate.)
This demonstrates two principles from "How to Win Friends and Influence People":

- Don't criticize, condemn, or complain.
- If you're wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

There are many good anecdotes like this in the book, including
endymi0n's example.
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Simple. Google makes money from search ad.

Desktop users block ads. Mobile users don't.
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You are correct in that it can be addressed, but I believe the issues people raise are that properly addressing everything makes the project to be (potentially) extraordinarily expensive.
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Likely `Europe` at a geographical level rather than `European Union` as a geopolitical thing.
> What does 'dnf' stand for?

Did not finish, apparently: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...
This is a really odd website for you to be on if you're questioning the appeal of intellectual curiosity.
Sounds like I wouldn't want to work with you anyway. Life isn't rainbows and unicorns.
Even if you don't want to be a CTO, you're better off knowing what the CTO role does. Part of how the World War 2 era German military worked was the idea that subordinates would understand how to do the job of people two levels above him, so that he could understand the intent of the orders he received and carry that out rather than the letter. If you also want to have high levels of autonomy, you need similar abilities.
The difference is mathematical, not physical, so it should still hold.
I hope on Android they support SAF (Storage Access Framework) soon. Since I don't want to include N cloud SDKs for each point-to-point integration, my app only supports what SAF does -- and sadly dropbox support is missing.
Well, in a world where there are probably more pets than wild animals, cigarette smokers, overconsumption, nature can't really survive durably
> High speed rail links LA to SF as well as ALL POINTS IN BETWEEN.

Except when you add the 'all points in between' it stops being high speed rail. The current CA 'bullet train' as planned is projected to be only marginally faster than standard rail over the majority of it's run - 80-100MPH.
I can't for the life of me think of a reason this kind of blog post would make me want to join a company. If anything it shows the opposite quality of a CTO as mentioned in the article. Use what is suited to your needs, don't worry about appealing to the tech crowd. After all, even if PHP is shit, it's not your problem. Let us handle implementation of what you need, we will (or our lead dev will) help you understand pros and cons to certain technologies. Besides, for every article written about why PHP sucks, there's at least 5 PHP devs looking for work :P
/me raises hand

I've been writing php professionally since 2000, and I like it well enough. I know it so much better than any other language that, 20 years into my career, I can't see how I'll ever learn another one well enough to compare them.
> Anything on top of that would be fantastic, I agree with you on that, but I wouldn't ask for or expect it.

Ah, we probably do agree more than it seemed. "The MyPy team has done its job even if that's not possible/reasonable" is a statement I'd endorse - especially in the short-to-medium term.

Discussing the Haskell...

String concatenation actually does associate; in fact String does form a Monoid over concatenation, and has an instance visible from Prelude - specifically the list instance, because Haskell strings are just `[Char]`.

The only really "nonsense" thing about using a string here that I see is that we wind up with quotes and escaping in the result when we `show` the string. If the purpose of this is "gather results and format for logging", that might be fine.

Numeric types don't have an instance of Monoid, because there are two to pick. You can pick them with newtypes, but here that's a bit awkward (`sum_and_stringify . map Sum`? feels redundant), and then the Show will give you something like "Sum { getSum = 3 }", which is probably not what you want either...

Using Num rather than Monoid probably has better ergonomics, and may be closer to intent anyway. That is to say:

sum_and_stringify :: (Show a, Num a, Foldable t) => t a -> String
sum_and_stringify = show . foldl (+) 0

Of course, we have a `sum` defined (basically, perhaps literally) `foldl (+) 0` so why even pull this out into a function? `(show . sum)` is actually substantially shorter than `sum_and_stringify` and no less clear.

I think the biggest issue here is that the example is so devoid of context (probably necessarily) that it's hard to say what good style would be. In actual code, a function with that name should probably have a very general signature - but we likely shouldn't be writing a function with that name. Why are we wanting to "sum and stringify" as one action in this way? Is that something that might change? Will the uses want to change together or are we just Huffman coding? With a domain-relevant name, we'd have a sense of what ways it makes sense to restrict the types.

> Finally, thanks for all your comments - I appreciate the discussion.

Likewise!
From firsthand experience I can tell you the intent is worse than most people realize. The discussion is usually "well of course <company> wants to prioritize mobile, that's where the money is." That's small thinking. Those companies want to kill the non-revenue generating options in favor of the revenue-generating ones. In other words, Google isn't trying to de-prioritize desktop, they're trying to force you away from it (because they make so little money there) onto mobile. Once you realize that their strategy makes a bit more sense.
This article hit too close to home. It hits a lot of points which are all-too-true about many CT positions and how if they're not set up for success, how can the engineering team (and eventually the rest of the company company) also possibly be successful?
It may be leaving the European Union but it's not leaving EUrope any time soon.
What's unsolvable about it? Every bridge I've ever been on has had a little gap for expansion. Just make a little gap every 5km, cover the outside with rubber that stretches across the two sides, boom, you are done. The cars float on a little air pressure cushion and don't normally use their wheels, so there wouldn't even be a bump.
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