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> Black Mirror often takes little details that we add in software, like a rating system, and takes them to their extreme and logical conclusion.

I can't tell if you're dismissing the logical conclusion as unlikely. The proliferation of ratings systems, from Facebook likes to Tinder swipes to Uber drivers who have to stay above 4.7 just to keep their job, tells me that we're a lot closer to that logical conclusion than you think. And it is far from logical, sane, healthy or kind!
WikiLeaks has a very good track record in that respect. Nothing they've ever published has been claimed to have been fake, so I'd say it seem they're doing a good job, let them keep doing it.
Why is it that some lack the discipline to just do things that they want to do?

Because levels of motivation matter. A lot of times, people want to have things, not necessarily make them; it's the difference between being interested vs driven to do something. E.g. A person wanting and daydreaming about having a wooden scale model yacht may want to design it but not actually want go through the building process.

There is also the issue of discipline and temperament: A person driven by nautical design or related toys may not go far if they often lack the discipline to finish what they start and/or get bored easily.

Ultimately, successful side-projects require a combination of factors, not just desire.
Lots of the low latency options require driver and Hardware cooperation, busy polling, BQL, essentially all of the ethtool options, even the IRQ affinity.

Intel has been a driving force behind many kernel networking improvements but they naturally don't care for other manufacturers, so they implement a little bit of kernel infrastructure and put the rest into their drivers.
I've also seen a fair amount of people actually cognizant of the dangers our technological society poses. It's not the majority, but there are far more people here than most discussion-centered places on the internet.
I for one don't want a UX in my car. I have a phone, and I use that for navigation. I don't need that duplicated in my car.

I want tactile controls (knobs and levers and pushbuttons) I can use by feel without taking my eyes off the road.

And, of course the UX of a Tesla is something that just can be bought from a third-party supplier and bolted on like a fuel injector or axle or radio. It's just a matter of hiring some smart developers. Many readers here could probably do it in a weekend ;-).
I heard about IPFS at the Decentralized Web Conference in SF last spring. It sounded promising, long term. Anyone here using it right now? What are the costs for running it on a VPS, for example, bandwidth, storage, and CPU load?
100% agreed on facebook.

TV is more complex, I can definitely waste lots of time trying to figure out what to watch, but, having a pre-made playlist of lots of fluffy TV (think 40+ seasons of law&order reruns all mixed up) provides a good background noise for me to work.
% youtube-dl 'https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/9146-building-a-microservices-with-kubernetes'
[generic] 9146-building-a-microservices-with-kubernetes: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 9146-building-a-microservices-with-kubernetes: Downloading webpage
[generic] 9146-building-a-microservices-with-kubernetes: Extracting information
[vimeo] 188042022: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 188042022: Extracting information
[vimeo] 188042022: Downloading JSON metadata
[vimeo] 188042022: Downloading m3u8 information
[download] Destination: Meetups_Oct19_19-43-44-188042022.mp4
[download] 7.9% of 152.75MiB at 82.49KiB/s ETA 29:05
Netflix outbid the original broadcasters for broadcast/streaming rights. The same producers (Zeppotron /Endemol Shine) have made all three seasons.
Can you please share some URLs of faster Magento stores?

I'm working on a similar project that will offer optimization as a service for e-commerce. I'm curious to see what others are doing.
So, yes, we have done a good job of combating "extreme poverty" -- the chart shows a marvelous decrease in that. And that's a good thing.

Feel good! https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...

But we've also done a horrible job of combating wealth inequality. The top 1% get 30%, the top 20% get 80%... blah blah, you should have voted for Bernie.

Feel meh! http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5162e54469bedd0b220...

So yeah, hooray... when you describe "extreme poverty" as like $1.90 a day the chart looks pretty good. Now... what if you were to define it as like making less than $10k / year... still feel warm and fuzzy?
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Helpfully fueled by some of the Wikileaks crowd, who are active tin-foilers.

For example, Gavin MacFadyan, a WikiLeaks staffer, was diagnosed with an illness a while back.

A few weeks ago, WikiLeaks said as much, and sent him best wishes in a Tweet.

He died the other day.

WikiLeaks response was to go back and delete the tweet, and now the flames of his "mysterious and sudden death" are being fanned in those subreddits - "how long before JA dies from a sudden and mysterious illness?"

Not to mention the other wing nuts:

"There is a wireless telephone bug .This has been caught by my bug detector. Active on the frequency 400 kilo Hertz. Other people also have verified this. This needs stopped immediately check out my timeline.
This signal is all across the U.S.A."

This is just after the claims of the military raid on the embassy in broad daylight that no-one could get photos of because (they couldn't decide): a) the military were telling people they'd be prosecuted if they did, or b) the military were using technology to "obfuscate" any photos people did take.
The solution might be how you spend your weekdays, finding out what you "really" enjoy doing and how you approach the weekend project.

If your stress level steadily rises from Monday to Friday, you'll need the weekend to wind down. This is the first problem to solve. Do fun things in the week days to wind down before the weekend (ideally wind down every day). What are fun things? I can recommend some ideas, but its different for everyone, but getting some form of physical execise is a BIG plus. Walk, run, swim, play... whatever floats your boat.

How to approach the weekend project? This is what works for me. Breakdown the weekend project into really small pieces. I don't mean you make a project plan for the weekend project. Just find the first one or two mini goals, something you can accomplish in an hour. Hit the mini goals. If you don't feel motivated to hit the mini goals. Find out why and iterate. Maybe try a 15 minute goal. Maybe a different project. The point is make really small nudges in the direction you want to go. If it doesn't work, find out why and fix it. When small nudges start working, it'll build up momentum and will eventually become a full weekend project! Have fun! That's the whole point of weekend projects!
Right, but companies like Sabre [1] solved this in the 60s. If its gotten progressively easier over ~55 years, why should we be wowed now that anyone can spin up a travel aggregator that scales (just as I'm not impressed that Simple/BankSimple exists when they ride on top of a real bank, Bancorp; I'm actually deeply disappointed as one of the first Simple customers that ended up leaving because it took 5 years for them to implement joint checking accounts. At a bank). Amazon, airlines, Ticketmaster, all online companies that have to maintain "truth" about shared inventory and its pricing up to the second.

If you're breaking ground, awesome, you're doing something truly revolutionary. Would you be wowed if I built a Shopify clone off of Stripe and Squarespace? Or an app and site that performed ridesharing while simply talking to Uber or Tesla's backend? Probably not.

Ahh! There! Perfect example. I eagerly await the video, with baited breath, of a presentation from the team at Tesla rolling out autonomous driving using Nvidia's deep learning chipset. But if you build another Kayak, Hipmunk, etc, I do give you credit for grinding away on it if its a successful business. Grinding away on a business day after day for years is fucking hard. I'd just argue its not revolutionary or breaking new ground.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Corporation

Disclaimer: Satisfied HotelTonight app user.
I just checked then. Say you write a book with the title "Cooking with Buttermilk" and built a unique book page you are likely to rank on the first page pretty easily for the search "cooking with buttermilk book".

With a book you can always pull out excerpts for SEO value too.

I would image if you could churn reasonable content for a low price this might be a sustainable business model, assuming you can pick the right topics.
Is the paper available in public domain? If not, I won't regret much. Looks like it's badly written and filled with un-idiomatic C++ code.
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PyMC3 (http://pymc-devs.github.io/pymc3/) has all the powerful samplers that Stan has (i.e. NUTS) as well as support for discrete priors. It allows you to specify your models in pure Python, supports matrix algebra, and also has variational inference which allows for large-ish scale machine learning (e.g. here is a blog post where I train a Bayesian Neural Net on MNIST http://twiecki.github.io/blog/2016/07/05/bayesian-deep-learn...). Under the hood, it uses theano for JIT compilation to C or GPU.

I'm one of the core devs.
My favorite "SciFi-Like" power storage concept is a PowerLoop [1]

Someone could take the old Superconducting Supercollider tunnel in Texas, put in the theoretical PowerLoop infrastructure for about $500m and then it would be able to store enough power for the entire state of Texas to operate for over a day. The money it would make on the arbitrage between cheap power generated from solar & wind and times where demand exceeded baseline generation capacities would pay for the system, according to the designer, within a few weeks.

[1] http://launchloop.com/PowerLoop
I'm pretty critical of technology and modernity in general, and this Cult of Elon is a large part of the reason I dislike the man and his endeavors.

It has nothing to do with his intelligence or person. He's clearly intelligent, and I'm not quite sure he's a person (ha) but I don't know the dude.

It's just that he has revived so much technological optimism in a time when skepticism is pretty important, at least imo. He seems to bandy about these technical solutions that are dazzling, for sure --- and extremely interesting --- but just don't cut it, or come with a slew of potentially unintended consequences, or simply aren't putting the focus in the right place.

For example, his talk of Mars colonization as an escape hatch to our degradation of biodiversity / carbon emissions / etc. is just awful. What kind of idea is that?

It's infuriating because when I say things like, "I'm not convinced that collapse or technical decline would be a bad thing," people can immediately see the criticisms, chief among them being "Won't a lot of people die?" Which is fair.

But there is little to no skepticism when Musk presents his idea, when there certainly should be. How many people do you think will make it on those spaceships, and who do you think those people will be? At least in a case of economic or technical decline, many people will have a fighting chance at it not being totally awful.
your adjusted rating on amazon is 4.5. It is still very good. http://reviewmeta.com/amazon/1517293146?utm_source=extension...
The weird language of SV
So.. I've been here a couple of months now, and here's a few things I learnt about the language in Silicon Valley:

- Full-stack engineer: fancy name for a true engineer that actually went to college and studied for at least 4-5 years to become one...

- Engineer: apparently anyone who can do a little programming on a computer?

- Fundraising: a process that everybody knows and says that takes at least a couple of months, but you are not supposed to say that you are fundraising when you actually start talking with people about fundraising, because if you’ve been “fundraising” for a couple of months, it will be frowned upon.

- Hacker: basically anybody that can do a little programming, or can do a little of anything I guess, like marketing if you are a “growth hacker” (WTF?!)

- UX expert: good graphic designer that actually studied for a few years (not someone who just knows how to use photoshop)

- Entrepreneur: someone who no matter what he/she is doing, is “changing the world” (as if the world wasn’t constantly changing?)

I definitely appreciate suggestions of how to make best use of the language here for non-natives ;)
Or Iraqis, Afghans, etc etc etc. I can't even list all the countries the USA occupied since 2000 anymore.
All the HLL to HDL converters I know of require you to structure you HLL code as if it were HDL code. In other words, you are not absolved of understanding how things work at the hardware level and you can't just feed regular code into it and have it pop out hardware.

If you have to write stilted HLL to implement your design anyway, you might as well do it properly and write it in one of the HDLs instead.
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I know the type of situation you're talking about but it's also a cop-out of an excuse.

Firstly because there are plenty of westerners in China that are perfectly happy getting by completely in English regardless of anything else. 'Not wanting to turn in to a part time English teacher' doesn't account for the large number of westerners who have been in China a few years but still can't communicate in Chinese beyond 'knee how' and 'shay shay'.

Secondly, it's easy enough to say no to those situations, you just need to learn to say it the Chinese way, with a non-committal 'maybe' sometime at some undetermined point in the future.

Finally it's also possible to build a local social circle with people who aren't interested in English - my Chinese improved the most when I did this.
> Use something productive and ship it.
This! Can't agree with it more.

Your clients don't care if your backend is written in PHP, Rails, or Go. Use whatever is your best tool in order to ship it quickly. It's "acceptable" to have a reasonable amount of fun, but don't waste time learning a whole new stack at the risk of validated learning.

Unless it's supposed to be a fun project to begin with.
The new agar.io , before that game became bloated :)
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Try this rephrasing and see if it makes more sense: "They are good at what they do, but aren't doing enough."
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The drug was sold for decades at 1/28th the current price. Do you believe they were losing money hand over fist?

Also, this seems like something a compounding pharmacy could make.
I don't think it has to be either or. For example, you can implement a Deep Net in a probabilistic programming framework (http://twiecki.github.io/blog/2016/07/05/bayesian-deep-learn...) like PyMC3. The inference here is not using sampling but rather ADVI (http://pymc-devs.github.io/pymc3/api.html#advi) which is almost as general but much much faster, and can be run on sub-samples of the data (similar to stochastic gradient descent used in deep learning). Once we bridge these two domains we can get the best of both worlds, like a deep net HMM.
You seem to have extensive knowledge about the subject, if you can off the top of your head know that 600 bases were welcomes by local governments. I personally know of only 1, and no one wanted it there. Local government was bullied with thinly veiled suggestions of tariffs (or was it sanctions, I don't remember).

It's not a coincidence at all, the US gained more and more power, and the USSR broke down. If you think there's a coincidence there you're not smart enough to be here.
> but that's not how it works in practise

As someone who has actually worked on a browser's network stack, I can assure that it _is_ how it works in practice.
Considering it was a pretty basic question that every Democratic primary candidate is asked about, not really.

It's like asking a Republican in a primary debate if they want to control guns.
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you read that from the word 'extreme'? I don't think 'unlikely' follows at all from that classification. Of course this is subjective, but I'd argue looking at world history, what we deem 'extreme' has shown its face again and again - may actually even be humanity's natural (i.e. lower energy) state that we have to constantly push back against. From the perspective of a person or cabal in power, keeping everyone under control with the threat of extreme physical or psychological violence is probably easier, i.e. lower energy, than to allow a free society. What makes Black Mirror so scary is that it hints at us being on a trajectory to actually make such mass control effective and feasible, through technology.
Shazam and asr are very different problems. The things that work for one don't work for the other.
Does he order his big macs some special way so that the buns don't slide?
No amount of prep was going to help that train wreck -- Johnson never had a reputation as a particularly smart politician (he was rather proud of his ignorance, actually), but he showed less knowledge of world affairs than the average evening news viewer. And he's still the most credible candidate the Libertarian party has posted!

If you want libertarian views to gain political credibility, you'd probably be better advised to try to start within the GOP, especially given the state of factional conflict likely to follow Election Day. Libertarian, moderate and the few remaining Rockefeller-style Republicans are the only ones who have kept their hands clean when it comes to Trump, and who have an arguable basis for reconstructing the party -- though it would be a long slog to do so.
> you can't practically log/monitor/IPS/SIEM...or am I misinformed?

It depends the hardware you're using (specifically router), but using netflow / sflow / ipfix [0] you can get pretty high visibility even for high bandwidth networks. This only gets you "metadata" and not a full packet capture - but for monitoring and the like, the metadata can be far more useful.

I'm not entirely sure what level of traffic you're talking about, but I know it's possible with the right hardware to use netflow with 100GbE links without having to sample (ie: Recording flows for every packet, not 1 in every n packets)

[0]: Good sflow vs. netflow beakdown: http://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/a/1335
But many people don't realize that this kind of idiosyncratic asshole-ishness is how a lot of successful rebels / revolutionaries work, cultural and political.

Lenin is a great example, and the most illustrative for me because I spent so much time studying him. The man was factionalistic to the point of absurdity. Always he was dreaming of a new epithet to throw: economism, leftism, opportunism, etc. But because of this he insulated a radical minority and made them disloyal to anything but the ideology he was using to direct their political action. And in the end it worked.

Steve Jobs did a similar thing, but I'm sure I don't have to explain that one here.
It's scary how relevant some of Black Mirror's themes actually are. This one in particular is so close, I wonder whether the show's creators used it as a template.

Edit: Apparently not, as this information is only publicly available since this September. Zeitgeist at work?
Not having control over your own currency is a death sentence for your economy. Not to mention, cash realistically offers more freedom than any crypto-currency, as it's untraceable.
The PP is a fringe radical party that if they somehow become the majority party in Iceland, they're not going to retain it for very long. I would not recommend that famous dissidents like Snowden move there immediately.

I like visiting Iceland too, the few Icelanders I know can't wait to move though. The winter weather and high price of everything is a bit of a drag.

I am not an expert on Iceland but I have read that it's really controlled by interests behind the two main industries of fishing and smelting. Iceland is really pushing tourism these days, since flights to Iceland are incredibly cheap.

I recommend reading The Grapevine

http://grapevine.is/
Someone gets a leaks about something that the government of Haiti is doing. So they can't publish it unless they have something equally bad about every single government on the planet? You have to go find 200+ other leaks, only then you can publish them altogether, because otherwise it would be one-sided. What a stupid argument. Think, don't just repeat talking points.
Yup. I've encountered it before.

Side note: The attitude interacts oddly with such things as incentives and nepotism (ie. the person working themselves to the bone is a relative of the CEO and was given a lot more equity than their position or seniority merit, but they don't get any of it because they burned themselves out before the vesting cliff).
The Mark Ames Media Empire are not big fans of Johnson

https://pando.com/2016/01/08/interview-weed-nazi-mark-ames-a...
The chief concern I have about being "submerged under the waves" of the 'net, as this article puts it, is that we will lose the lone creative genius.

Hard to have a lot of truly original thoughts when you spend every waking moment chatting with someone, instagramming everything you experience etc.

Design by committee is frequently inferior to having one expert with a strong vision sit down in relative isolation and create. But it's getting harder and harder to be isolated. We're raising an entire generation that doesn't even understand the virtue of that concept.
That would be very nice indeed. And on a laptop that comes in less than €2k also would be doubly nice.
It can be called: "How we built 'x' with Kubernetes".

Really the only thing that is specific to a bank (as I see it) is that they use separate linkerd in order to do the secure stuff. Which is essentially what banks have been doing for ages.

I commented before on how Kube has just taken over and beat mesos/marathon stack. This talk is an example to that. You can see how many people jumped on the Kube stack and running successful deployments on it.
Did this useable continue indefinitely? I would hope that there was a socket throttling option.
There are open FPGA toolchains now, some links here:

https://wiki.debian.org/FPGA
I'm not sure how this would benefit Iceland. Just about everything needs to be imported.

If the Grapvevine is to be believed, they're importing ice cubes!

http://grapevine.is/news/2016/10/20/imported-ice-cubes-in-ic...
In any organization whoever pays the bills tends to get what they value - because they can decide to pay someone else if they feel they're not getting it. All the "arms-length", "neutral" stuff - even if truly well intentioned - get impacted by whatever the payer wants.

In case of mortgage bonds, the bill payers were bond creators who wanted to get the loans off their books as quickly as possible. The buyers should really know better but they too were largely managers whose salary was paid
on % of assets basis with no real downside impact on their own wealth.
Understood, agreed. Thanks for the clarification.
Sehnsucht

This is a word that describes a complex set of emotions. It comes from sehnen, which means “to yearn or long for,” and Sucht, an obsession, craving or addiction.

Literally, it would mean something like “an obsessive yearning” for something, but that doesn’t quite capture it. It could be used to describe an inconsolable yearning for happiness and the unattainable. It could illustrate that you’re intensely missing something or someone. It may also express a longing for a far-off place.

Either way, it’s a pretty profound emotion to be boiled down into just two syllables.