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Announcing NGINX Plus R11
> owning real estate that someone else manages or really owning any business that someone else fully manages for you

If you've ever owned real estate or a business you'd know it can't be 100% passive. Even with a property manager, there are always things to fix, change, or update, and the associated decisions to make about it. One bad tenant or a property manager with bad judgement, and you're 100% back in full-time landlord mode to clean up the mess (literally or figuratively).
Worth noting here for folks that aren't familiar with Plone that compared to more popular CMS systems like Drupal, Joomla, or Wordpress, Plone's security record is rock solid (in fact, the best security record of any popular Open Source CMS) and is an excellent choice for Intranets and Extranets.

ZODB is also the underlying technology of the recently launched ZeroDB, an e2e encrypted NoSQL DB: https://opensource.zerodb.com/
I think it's a lot more reasonable to think of algorithms like this as new media for artists rather than a replacement for them. Obviously the choice of subject matter is important for art, but the subject matter in these examples was chosen by humans was it not? Humans took the original pictures that the algorithms were applied to. Their choice of subject wasn't made for artistic impact though, it was made to give them a base to demonstrate the techniques with. Artists do this will all types of media while they're learning and trying things out. There are already some artists out their doing some really cool things by incorporating neural nets into their work and I expect their will be many more as the tools become more mainstream and available. Why do you feel the need to be so dismissive of new ideas in art?
I'm no graphic professional - but I've just recently started playing at drawing on my i5/8gb Surface pro 4. It's great fun, and there are lots of options.

But trying to draw on an 1200 dpi A3 canvas (unsurprisingly) doesn't really work very well. But if I were to use it professionally, some of the things I'd want to do was draw high resolution A2 to A0 prints.

I've yet to play much with photoshop, so I'm not sure how well it handles a modest 20 megapixel image.
I can't upvote this enough. Ending the War is not just about "let's all get high", it's about ending the bloodshed and corruption it fosters.
Building an Open Source Service
~33% more expensive than an Eizo FlexScan that has the same amount of pixels in 16:9. Not really unreasonable, I agree, but still painful.
> He's creating work for Chinese workers.

Until I expand the market further, I wouldn't really even give myself that much credit. I think most of my business comes from replacing the established middle men with my software solution. Although it is my ultimate goal to give more artists (everywhere in the world) more business!
A better title would have been "Using ML to rank and classify images according to aesthetics." Which in itself is quite impressive. But nowhere do we see indications that these algorithms "understand" the images, in any meaningful sense.
> If by America you mean the citizens, yes we want to do it and have made it quite clear we've wanted it for quite a while.

Did you hear anyone talk about broadband during this year's presidential election?
Totally! I once quit a job because the average temperature in the office was 85F in winter (also really shitty spaghetti code)! Unfortunately, not before I got incredibly sick. When I complained, they said they could do nothing about it because other people were freezing. In the Bay Area, on the other hand, I had a job in a similar place that was always freezing, even when it was warm outside. That was actually not as bad, but still annoying to have to wear a heavy winter coat indoors all the time.

The point is, big giant spaces / warehouses are not offices and using them as such without proper comforts will make your employees hate you. If it's an open office on top of that, they'll hate you twice as much because I've never met a single person who prefers open offices for themselves.
Couldn't agree more on the article. Recently they put next to us a group of people who is 50% of their time on the phone. While some of them try to speak low, other just yell. It is probably the most frustrating work setup I experienced in my career. It is really distracting.
Do you have a few links where I can read more about this design direction?
> Just to show that you're talking out your ass, here's a code snippet where I did the address of address thing in precisely the same "remove from linked list" situation. In a VM and programming language and operating system that I wrote from scratch[1].

I'm no sure what exactly that code/that change is supposed to tell me, so I can't tell whether it's a good argument. Mind condensing it down/pointing out what specifically you mean?

> As a general rule I'd recommend not reaching conclusions about people from things they write in a comment on the internet. You're looking at them through a tiny peephole into their belief system. When in doubt, ask questions. "Excuse me sir, do you have much experience with C?", "Are you saying pointers to pointers are always bad?", and so on.

Well, that depends on whether you want to make a point for other people in the discussion or discuss some issue with a specific person. As such, that was not really a judgement of your person, but rather a general statement about a group of people (which obviously might be wrong in some cases).

> (Clever analogy there about 0. Totally agree with it. Utterly non-applicable in this instance.)

You mean not applicable in the case of your code, or in the code in the article, or what else?

(edit: and yeah, I realize how the wording might give the impression that I was talking specifically to/about you, but I really wasn't, I was just using what you wrote as the opportunity, so I ended up addressing you :-)
> [...] United States, Europe, Canada, Japan [...]

Hey America, Europe is not a country.
There is an infinity of coordinate systems that can be used to describe a roughly axisymmetric rotating body like the Earth (or practically any body in gravitational hydrostatic equilibrium). There are several in widespread use for this planet, some of which are detailed at and below https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Geographic_coordinate_system#/Ca...

When using systems of coordinates that require an arbitrary choice of origin point, one generally has to simply state what the choice is.

For the system of coordinates being discussed in this thread, the origin point is defined as the prime meridian, and it forms half of one of an infinite number of geodesics that bisect Antarctica. But because that particular geodesic is elevated to a special status by an arbitrary choice in the setting of the system of coordinates, when using that system of coordinates, it is perfectly reasonable -- under the conventions of that system -- to discuss masses that would be on one half or the other of the planet if it were divided into two parts through that geodesic.

But nobody seriously argues that the geodesic is in any way special physically compared to the infinity of others passing through the same two points (near the mean rotational poles); the Prime Meridian is a convention, and so an eastern and western hemisphere each bounded by a plane perpendicular to the meridian extended to a great circle.

Moreover, there is nothing special about this particular system of coordinates on the Earth, and the Prime Meridian does not really even have much local meaning more than a few metres away from the Greenwich Observatory, which is firmly set in what locals universally call "East London" or even "South-East London".

So, "Western Antarctica" is simply absorbing a particular choice of coordinate system on the Earth, which in turn has a defined origin point for one axis that was chosen arbitrarily. The label "Western Antarctica" is not invariant under a change of coordinates (whether by changing where there Prime Meridian is by an angle that (in radians) is not an integer factor of \pi, or by changing to a wholly different set of coordinates that use different axes altogether), and so isn't a physical feature of Antarctica, but then there's nothing physical -- in the sense of invariant under change of coordinates -- about the U.S. midwest, or Western Australia either.

However, conventional sets of coordinates on any physical system make descriptions of coordinate-invariant features easy for people who accept the convention, and understand its features and limits. (For instance, the lat-long-alt system is not very useful very close to the coordinate singularity; but that singularity vanishes under change of coordinates, and it is only a deliberate choice in matching the coordinate singularity to a point near the (approximate) line of (approximate) axisymmetry that leads to confusion like the one that appears to be gripping you when dealing with features near the coordinate singularities.)
No, his pays for it with his rent, the same way my rent includes heating.

The owner of the building has probably signed a deal to get a good rate for everyone. Fine if you like it, but a waste of money if you'd prefer a different provider.
no paper and ink metaphor was referring to behavior not look
Hi, I'm a pro artist.

I've been an Apple zombie for a long time. Since like 2000 when I finally retired my beloved Amiga. Windows does everything the "wrong" way from the perspective of my habits. Yet I would be using a Surface 4 for most of my art nowadays if not for the fact that Adobe Illustrator, my main tool, doesn't talk to the Surface's NTrig stylus properly. So I'm still hauling around a four-year-old Air and a Wacom tablet. I have been ready to give Apple money for a new machine to do my work on for about a year now and they haven't put out anything that's worth bothering with for me.

And when's the last time Apple updated their super-high-end desktop machines for the Serious Major Power Users?

They've been focusing on phones and tablets, and that leaves the segment of the market whose work is "using Serious Art Power Tools" unserved.

Unless Apple's announcement tomorrow has something in it like "oh hey we finally decided to build a tablet that can run desktop apps" I'm probably gonna be pretty meh about it. And the rumors all point to "new Pro lappy with a touch panel instead of the f-keys", which is about as exciting to me as a lukewarm glass of milk.

I do not pretend to speak for all artists. Just for myself.
It's elitist to think people are not desperate and only make rational choices.
This has been coming for quite a while. The IARC seems to have its own agenda and it isn't always based on scientific integrity.

Good start for those who want to know what's been going on should check out David Zaruk's site. He's been following the machinations at the IARC (NGO activist engagement) for quite a while.

https://risk-monger.com

He also microblogs at his facebook site
https://www.facebook.com/riskmonger/posts/550309911838746:0

"...IARC is a mess. They do not represent a balanced membership of the research community (for their 50th anniversary event, of the 1000 guests, not a single cancer researcher from industry was invited). Rather than retract their biased glyphosate monograph, they have attacked other science institutions like EFSA and the German BfR; they have publicly criticised scientists, they have allowed an activist from the Environmental Defense Fund to advise their panel and campaign on their behalf, they have provided data to journalists to attack EFSA ... and now this!
Wild, Straif and Guyton continue to attack - they don't see the scandal they have caused - they will not go nor will they retract the glyphosate monograph..."
> I must be missing the value proposition here(...)

Courage.
You're assuming maximizing cashflow is the most important factor.

Some of us would be willing to have a lower standard of living (possibly significantly lower) if a passive income could provide that.
This is discouraging. I thought that Google Fiber was over-hyped for the number of users actually connected, but didn't think they'd just give up.

Perhaps Sonic, which provides gigabit Internet service to parts of San Francisco at a lower price than Google [1], will take over Google's operation there.

[1] https://www.sonic.com/sanfrancisco
What is the game send link
It's obvious to me that drug lords are paying him to do this. Casinos are notorious money laundering enterprises.
The people who stand to lose the most are propping him up to say this, the drug gangs. Funneling money through a casino operator to support your cause make absolute sense.
See also http://ioccc.org/years.html#1984, the 'mullender' entry.
A neural network generating rap lyrics would be trained to contain 'G' in it's vocabulary.
> They make much smaller cameras than mine that still take great pictures.

Mine can't, but there are dozens of great models that can, as I alluded to. http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/120768-best-compact-cameras-...
TrueConf Announces the Release of New Free Video Conferencing Software Room
TrueConf has released TrueConf Terminal 2.0, a new free software room endpoint designed for meeting and conference rooms. The program is installed on Windows PCs, and users can manage their terminals through their web browser.

TrueConf Terminal 2.0 is the first free video conferencing software designed for use with meeting rooms. Users can assemble their own video conferencing terminal on a Windows-based PC or laptop.

TrueConf Terminal 2.0 users are free to choose any peripheral AV devices. To achieve perfect sound and video quality, all you need to do is connect your terminal to a speakerphone, PTZ-camera via USB, and a screen or a TV-panel via HDMI. You can set up and manage your terminal through any browser.

When connected to TrueConf Server, our room endpoint provides interoperability with existing video conferencing endpoints by means of H.323/SIP/BFCP protocols, telephony and Active Directory integration. TrueСonf Terminal 2.0 can also run multipoint conferences for up to 120 participants in Ultra HD resolution. The software room endpoint can be used through TrueConf Online cloud and can be used to run free multipoint conferences over the Internet without considerable investments into infrastructure.

TrueConf Terminal 2.0 is equipped with a built-in API which helps you integrate your endpoint with any conference room control system and offers the potential to create specialized solutions for telemedicine, video banking, kiosks and remote consulting services. The control function is conducted over API using interface created by the customer.
It's not "migrating to" that is the driving force, it's the you have to "migrate from" that is the driving force. Don't get stuck on old tech.
On the other side of the spectrum, we have something like the Qt documentation: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qwidget.html
One (half-) sentence from that article especially caught my eye:

...computer programmers create artifacts that have to stand up to an objective reality.

If we could make this more of a practise than a theory, it might substantially improve the state of things.
JSON = require('json5')

And you can even use comments!! (no comment)

// http://json5.org/
I started OCaml 12 years ago. I really like this language and I appreciate the ML style. Anyway, I am not a expert with OCaml.
I also consider to start with Haskell. Tried it a little but nothing serious for the moment.
Not easy when you are comfortable with Python...

Thank you for the link!
It's square!

Do you know what 1:1 ratio monitors (almost exclusively used for air traffic control) cost ? I think $8-10k IIRC ?
Being located in China, and doing work for less money than your western counterparts does not make you any less of an artist.
I'm hopeful but a bit pessimistic that legalizing marijuana will have much of an impact on the cartel violence in Mexico. There's so much money at stake and it's easy enough for them to switch to trafficking cocaine / heroin / meth. Any reason to think it won't just continue on pace?
Well, I'm from a country where lots of folk music is microtonal.

That said, I don't consider the blues guitar playing a major example of microtonic music, $10 words or not. There are some elements, but you can find much more impressive examples in African music for one (part of which could have been inspiration for early gospel/blues musicians).
No, I don't think any and all experiences under the influence of pot should be dismissed as meaningless.

In my experience, occasional use of high quality weed has been very beneficial. It gives me a chance to step outside my normal routines of daily thinking and self talk for a few hours, and just look around and experience reality in a different way, which in turn reduces stress, improves mood, and makes music sound great and food taste amazing. The improved mood and stress reduction last long after the experience for me.

Of course getting high all the time probably is not good for you generally. Like any drug, it can easily be misused and overused. But that doesn't mean all experiences with it for everyone are meaningless.
Did Prohibition Really Work? Alcohol Prohibition as a Public Health Innovation
Sid Meier knows it better ehehe
> The free market works best when government restricts the freedom to restrict freedom. That's why cartels being illegal is good (they restrict competition), bans on insider trading are good (they restrict fair competition), etc. Non-compete restricts the freedom on the labor markets.

I'm reminded of the old adage "too much capitalism leads to too few capitalists".
This is fantastic. However, it looks like the detailed conclusion is "exactly matching the RFC is a minefield".

About a month ago (for the third time, since I don't own the first two implementations) I made a very forgiving (and very error-unprotected) JSON parser: https://github.com/narfanator/maptionary

The core of JSON parsing, from that experience, seems really simple; it's catching all the edge cases that's hard.

In any event, I look forward to taking the time to test against this test suite!
Something that could help is feeding the NN more paintings in the same style as a style base. Otherwise it seems the NN gets "too fixated" in trying to make a painting that's similar to the original (see suns appearing when transferring from Starry Night, buildings disappearing, etc)
Pour a 40 for me; I shall go wallow in my assembly shame.
The fact that he's doing good business doesn't mean he's not a punchable slimeball. He's stated publicly that he's doing this because he's "anti-addiction". A casino magnate. I suspect there's a special place in hell for those practising hypocrisy at this scale.
> Did you hear anyone talk about broadband during this year's presidential election?

While it's hard to hear much about policy plans over the personal, historical, and character attacks this cycle, yes, I've heard Clinton promoting her "broadband for all" plan, as well as seen some criticism of and debate about it in the press, etc.

Here's an article from earlier this month: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/hillary-clinton-v...
How exactly was the attack mitigated when in the same sentence they confess it STOPPED _on its own_.
Yes, they are the views of a 30 year old.
Details on the Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Joomla
The purpose behind http://onemodel.org is just this. The problem we have stems from working on piles of words, which makes knowledge hard to compute. The idea of http://onemodel.org is to treat knowledge at an atomic level, but still very efficiently for a human, so we don't have the constraints of other systems. More info under the "About" and other links at the web site. It's visually ugly and no mobile support yet but I use it daily and I (the author) think the ideas are needed.
Most people outside tech don't really care. I've built a couple of webshops at a previous company... fancy loses customers.

Material design is merely a set of guidelines, and can be used as a common language for actually designing an application or website. The "actually designing" is usually the missing part.

Noone should expect MD to substitute thoughtful design.
Thank you. I'll be happy to test your Lisp alternative!

Typically OCaml has really good performance.
Founder Story: Micki Krimmel on Superfit Hero
Having glanced at recent hw prices - for a desktop/workstation I'd say a reasonable baseline for new equipment for professional use would be 128gb ram, 1tb ssd and maybe a 10 tb 3.5 inch HD, if more space is needed (or a smaller drive, but the recent seagate offering looks pretty good value - even if you pay the customary ~2x/gb price [ed: for getting the largest capacity/newest drive on market] compared to a ~4tb drive):

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/storag...
Have you tried/considered the screen extension feature in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update?
Even harder for me, since I'm Italian and the g in lasagna is not silent at all.
It is all birthed from the desire of software engineers who play dungeons and dragons and want a programmable gaming table.

When I interviewed at Microsoft I played with one of those tables, and there was definitely a dice roller app.

No lie I would love to own one of those tables.
Hello, Mr. Brooks. Didn't see you coming in.
Perhaps this is less of a problem today, but at the time I made my first purchase from System76 (2012), the sudden absence of video and sound issues after every other system update came as a welcome relief.
Here is what they published. http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-09.p...

Which notes several cases without cancer links, but others with links "For all the
children of the pesticide applicators, risk was
increased for all childhood cancers combined,
for all lymphomas combined, and for Hodgkin
lymphoma, compared with the general population." It also notes there are "there are relatively few studies." So, noting that a link was 'probable' without saying "Yes" or "No" is not making up their minds.

They are basically saying, their is not enough information to declare it safe or dangerous.
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They might pay, if they got to chose their provider freely like they can in Sweden, where they build open access networks where any ISP can provide service.
> assuming you know what to build in the first place

This is the heart of the problem. Nobody knows exactly what to build. Most software development is half initial coding, half bug fixing, and 90% requirements discovery.

Compiler writers actually have it pretty easy once the language is defined, which is a real honest to god spec. Comparing how long it takes (and how much it costs) to write a compiler once the spec is done would be a pretty fair comparison to how long it takes to build a bridge once the design is finalized.

And even bridges can turn into total disasters. Look at the Bay Bridge replacement in San Francisco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland_...

Or the Big Dig in Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
Active noise-cancelling headphones plus a white noise generator, is where it's at.

These are the best headphones I've used: https://amzn.com/B00X9KV0HU
They come in Apple- or Android-compatible versions.

They won't cancel everything. In general they're great with anything constant (hums/motors/fans etc.) but the more impulsive (in the physics sense) a sound wave is, the more of it seeps through. Human speech I find it damps it pretty significantly but not all the way.

That's where white noise comes in. From that dampened state, a very quiet level of white noise is enough to perceptually drown out any loudmouths who have no concept of an "indoor voice." Use something like simplynoise.com or an app. For Android I like Noise Machine - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.synopsia.n...
For iPhone I believe there's an app literally called White Noise.

Not affiliated with any of these people.

Don't use music... that's just as distracting as someone talking. YMMV