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Very interesting.

> I guess they're put at the beginning in the English translation to achieve that "Here's a foreign culture" effect.

I wouldn't assume the motive, however. Perhaps they thought English-speaking audiences are much less familiar with the abuses of the Cultural Revolution and needed more context. Perhaps they thought the scenes wouldn't pass Chinese censors or would attract too much negative attention if those scenes were featured so prominently. Perhaps ...
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Points off for not saluting.
New evidence could prove that Amelia Earhart died as a castaway
Instagram's new shoppable photos are a glimpse at its e-commerce future
Shouldn't this be called, "All it takes to protect your face from theft is a special pair of glasses" ?
Have you tried sandstorm?
The Real Cost of Freedom
Regarding accessibility aspects, Pocket provides a great "Listen" (Text to Speech) function (at least on iOS) with maximum speeds far faster than Instapaper. It's pretty much the biggest reason that I use Pocket.
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"functional pearls" == "design patterns" without the architectural garbage.
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Charles Stross in his Laundry Files series may have pioneered that path (although no movies that I know of).

Do the wrong transform in, say, a Hilbert space and something quite horrible may come after you.
Almost no one can be intellectually honest & disagree with your statement. However, when both candidates are indisputably criminals who are self-serving, dishonest and utterly treacherous, the debate is what is "less wrong". I honestly go back and forth and will probably write in vote "No Confidence" as it is the only morally justifiable thing I find possible.
SSDs store in large blocks, say 64k or 2m. The seek to get to such a block is constant if it's not in cache; the read time is constant if not in cache; so 'SSD seeks are free' is basically correct. However, sequential IO is likely to land on the same block, in cache, in which case the seek time is essentially 0.

In practice, on hardware I have tested on, HDD's have a 10x or more slowdown from random IO relative to sequential, while SSD's have a 3x slowdown. Your hardware is definitely not mine, take this with a Hummer-sized grain of salt.
Get one of those really thick Linux books (you know the Linux Bible ones) I think any edition may work fine (though later ones will cover new technologies like systemd) Read it from cover to cover - not every word, take in what you can of what you see, glance over the complex parts and go back later, bookmark the interesting ones (you'll have a lot of bookmarks). This helps quite a lot to get an idea of the Linux big picture.

Now pick up an administrators guide, and use a spare machine to play with and start working through it. I'd probably start on the basics like installing Linux, compiling programs (compile a a game to play if you find it boring) configuration (change Internet settings, set up a web server, file server) make a backup script, restore your backup, etc.

Learn to document what you do so you: a) can see what you did later on and b) can do it again if you need to.

I'm gonna say its going to take at least a 1/2 dozen linux installs and configures before you get the hang of how all that works and other things will be a little trial and error till you hit on the right way to do it.
I'm surprised to see that the ambient artist Stars of the Lid hasn't been mentioned.

It makes for good music to sleep, study, program and/or read a book to (most ambient music are unless they delve into the more abstract, avant garde realm).

I also like Hakobune and Chihei Hatakeyama. Nice warm tones.

And if I'm looking to get my blood pumping a bit, I've never gone wrong from recommendations from here: http://316144.tumblr.com/

Dance music can be meditative too :)
This was the good-old-days when critical features were crammed in just days before a release

We did a quick security review but at the time no one really understood the seriousness or types of vulnerabilities that anything shipping could cause

Explains the horrendous level of quality of all Microsoft products at that time! I find the honesty in these statements very refreshing.
Depends on whether you think science can answer all the metaphysical questions. Is there a real world, independent of our minds? If so, what is it made of, independent of our models? Can we know? Scientists themselves have stated their own positions on these kinds of questions from anti-realist to idealist to instrumentalist, to various varieties of realism, to math as what's fundamentally real, the universe is computing itself, we live inside a simulation, etc.

Ethics, politics, art, and values are judgements we make as humans. Science can inform our values, but it cannot tell us which values to adopt, or what system of government or economics we should want. You might think that equality and justice for all are the right sort of values, but other groups and societies have (and still do) thought otherwise. For some pleasure is the highest (and only true good). For others, it's a cause, it's family, it's power, it's money, etc.
Certainly. I think science, and more objective areas of philosophy, are great at providing information about the world. And that should certainly factor into the discussions of how we should live in that world. They just can't determine it.
The Lane-Finding Project is a fun introduction to see how quickly students can get something working.

There are longer and more in-depth modules on both Deep Learning and Computer Vision later in the program.
I'm really looking forward to not having to debug my code compiled to state machines.

Is there a good way to get Babel/Webpack to emit multiple versions of your code compiled with different features enabled, then load the right bundle?
Origin, steam, battle net, uplay...

And now gameroom.

Is steam so profitable this makes sense? What possible motive does FB, one of the largest companies in the world, have to compete? The revenues should be paltry.
Science is unlikely to fill in gaps of subjective experience and values, because it explicitly rules out subjective experience as part of its method. Which it should do. But then it can't very well claim that subjective experience has no value simply because it has no scientific value.
Everyone seems to be making money to me?
Explicitness. << This is key. Ruby/Rails just feels really implicit and magical for someone who spent the first 15 years of his career in C++, C#, and JavaScript. (I've only been doing Rails professionally for a year, though, so maybe my opinion will change with more experience.)
I've never seen an actual fair comparison in all that time though. People always skip the cost of/quality of the screen when comparing laptops, or the trackpad, or the battery life. They almost always look at cpu, gpu, memory, hdd/sdd size as if that tells the whole story.
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No, this isn't true.

Ethics is a huge part of academic philosophy, some would say too large a part. We have regular ethics, bio-ethics, environmental ethics, meta-ethics, and on and on.

The question "how ought we live" can be studied objectively and philosophy does just that. Do not confuse this with the subjective and value-laden responses to the question which themselves can be studied and analysed dispassionately.

In general it is best not to throw around terms like subjective and objective because they are fraught with historical baggage and misconception.
> What Web2.0 did is that it removed the need of certain type of desktop software.

The commonly held belief at the time was that Microsoft's dominance rested in large part on that desktop software. Think how hard it would be today if you wanted to start a new mobile OS (let's call it "windows phone") years after entire software ecosystems have been established for iPhone and Android.

It's safe to say that Microsoft is not the shining star they once were. If we were to pick a single moment in history that lead to their undoing, I think this would be it.

> BTW if Microsoft didn't invent XmlHttpRequest, somebody else had done it.

"Somebody else" didn't have the market share IE did. Something that was incompatible with IE at the time was a non-starter. What's remarkable about this story is that when Microsoft saw the browser coming in the Netscape years, their entire strategy was to head that shit off by ensuring that their own browser become market dominant so that they could keep the web in a place that wouldn't hurt MS.

After all that effort, the anti-trust suit, etc, etc... and they'd gotten themselves in the place where they controlled the future of the web, it was some random developer at Microsoft itself that invented the very thing which was their undoing.
I believe this one does not addresses async-await in any of its implementations directly, does it?
But it looks pretty interesting to cover other concurrency models.
you don't have to you can await on settle() then deal with it
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Its ugly in my opinion. I dont know whats up with all that black.
Gruber is absolutely unable of even the most modest form of critical thinking as it might be even loosely defined when it comes to Apple. Given that his heavy readership and deeply biased writing gives him lots of access to Apple it's charitable to call him a naked shill and I usually just flag posts to his blog in the same vein as if they're links to Apple advertisements. Outside of the most partisan politics on the planet, you'll not find such an absurd twisting of ideas anywhere. At this point he's just writing really really shitty satire.

Strangely, his public talks are actually quite enjoyable and much more interesting and entertaining.
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Markets consistently under-assess complexity, in both value and const components.

Simple systems are easy to assess and communicate. Complex systems are hard (expensive) to assess and communicate. This results in several asymmetries:

1. Complex systems are communicated in an oversimplified mode.

2. Asymmetries exist between buyers and sellers of products (Akerloff's "Market for Lemons".

3. Asymmetries exist for all parties over time in realising the long-term costs (or benefits) of systems. In the most pathological instance, a party (or parties) actively frustrate the process of widespread awareness of these costs -- lead, asbestos, tobacco, sugar, CO2, etc., etc.

Corollary: security is a complex product.
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That's exactly what I meant.
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My first book was "SaltStack For DevOps" (https://leanpub.com/saltstackfordevops) and it had a success that I didn't expect. That's the main reason why I started my second book.

The second reason is that I saw many people confused by the rapidly growing containers' ecosystem. Docker development is going fast and will probably know many changes in the future. Since I am following these changes and since I am using leanpub for publishing, I had the idea to "continuously publish" this book and keep it up-to-date from a technical pov.

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Of course on the other hand

sudo apt-get install gnat
I develop in C++ and have been happy with a combination of Qt Creator and XCode.
Agreed, but some philosophers, notably of the analytic tradition who closely align their views with science, have tried to eliminate subjective experience so that science can explain everything about the mind.
"Don't break the web" is a hard constraint. Any solution you propose that violates this constraint is unacceptable.

There is nothing you can do to change this.

Your comments are getting downvoted to hell and back because you either don't understand or are unwilling to accept this constraint.
Your site is blocked by uBlock Origin.
120 employees is a "small startup"?
What data does an artist consider when he paints? He does sort of an optimization procedure very similar to what something like Deep Dream does. But rather than doing response optimization to make random-noise more "dog-like" or "cat-like" or "human-like" (as Deep Dream does) the optimization is done to evoke a certain feeling within the artist himself. To create more extreme feelings than just a photo-realistic rendering.

The mapping between feeling and images are correlated to each other through experience. Certain images are fundamental to human experience and the human brain through evolution( a mother smiling, scary monsters). Others are learned (ever been hit by a car? bet that every time you see that exact model and color of car you'll feel an emotion)

Here's a thought experiment:

What if we fed the deep learning "painter" tons of 3D animation. Each point in time would be a full 3D Scene. Each point in time would be labelled with emotions "scary", "happy" , "angry"

I bet the algorithm could generate original art and learn new artistic styles by maximizing response to certain permutations of feelings.
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> at least one scripting language (e.g., Ruby, Python, etc.) and at least one compiled language (e.g., Java, C/C++)

You do realize that Python and Ruby both get compiled too?
I doubt this is about direct revenue. This is about further cementing that "Facebook is The Internet" to as many people as possible. Facebook wants to know and control everything you do on your computer, on your mobile device, and on the internet at large. From all of that, they then earn the real revenue via advertisements.
Aw maaaan. No homebrew yet?
The point is that it still costs more, on average, to hire the person who understands how to avoid SQL injection by using the right tools/syntax. The person who only understands string concatenation and basic SQL will always be available to hire.
I dunno lately I've been seeing some actually flying demos (many in mock-up form) but its better than some static concept model. The drone/car concept looks interesting (lots of smaller fans instead of huge rotors/ducted fans). I think it provides better control (a big factor for layman pilots) though it may loose on efficiency.

Seems more active now than has been in the past decades...
Sounds like a problem for inpainting.

Here's a paper around synthesizing human faces. It includes inpainting http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/seminar2009/papers/VisioFa...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.07379.pdf this uses a GAN to inpaint with arbitrary data. This is probably a couple of iterations from being easy to implement, as training GANs efficiently and accurately is still a technical challenge.
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I just installed average camera pro. Very blurry. Not useful for indoor photography. Does not allow for adjustment of the shutter speed. Don't buy.

It's Nothing like what the paper describes.
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I'd prefer it was an SSA representation, like SPIR-V in Vulkan, or LLVM IR. Missed opportunity IMO.
Eeeek we getting fixing this asap. Until then iOS app is best bet.
One theory: Facebook most important metric is session duration, the only part where a big chunk of people spend more time than on Facebook, is on videogames.
Eh, the new run might be a failover, or part of an autoscaling setup, so maybe there could be some downtime? I think the default setting has to be to start anyway, although of course any particular service could be configured not to. Intentional failure seems kind of a blunt instrument?
This is probably too large of a topic to debate on a message board, but I would claim that the subject of "how ought we to live" is much larger than the small subset of issues discussed in academic philosophy under the rubric of "ethics." And while I agree that subjective/objective is a murky distinction, I still think it's useful.
So how about showing us a demo of what you mean? (from the playbook wherein "he who criticizes, volunteers")

Yes, most people working on deep learning are making small incremental improvements, and yes it's a little tiresome to see each one trumpeted as some big advance.

But its really hard to make fundamental advances. Which shouldn't stop you from working on it.
I believe they are discussing at the call site of an asynchronous function
All the alternatives I've seen lose authentication, so it's at least not so clear cut.
Do you see this as competing with or complimenting ResearcherID?
Agreed. I hope it won't end up with another platform I don't want to own/be part of thet gets exclusives. It probably will.
Facebook made a lot of its early revenue off games people were playing via their platform. Over time that dropped off and now they make the revenue pushing ios/android apps.

I guess that it is a long term play to try and get some of that control back.
FTL is a big problem for hard sci fi. What we know about the physical world is amazing and beautiful, and it's hard to see novels butcher it by adding in FTL. On the other hand, without FTL the theme of every novel becomes "I travelled to another star and now everyone I know is dead", or the light-speed limit otherwise ends up dominating the plot and squeezing out everything else.
that would be a revolutionary business model

it's a tiny bug, fixing now!
Is this what makes the google pixel phone camera so outstanding? it would explain why a technically inferior camera (slower aperture, no optical image stabilisation) outperforms both apple and Samsung flagship phones.
I'm with you, I just want to get work done, I don't customize anything, the last thing I want to do is waste time configuring every machine I use (i.e. work provided machine and personal dev machines). Since I usually work in big dumb corps I use Cygwin on Windows (it has been really good for a few years now). I've been using Ubuntu for personal use since 2008. Desktop Linux has been good enough for a long time in imo. With caveats that you should research your hardware before you buy.

Nowadays a lot stuff just works, like tonight I just connected a bluetooth key board to my dechromed acer c720 running xubuntu 14.04. It paired and everything worked first time. Even reconnected after restart. I even exclaimed to my wife how surprised I was. Dechroming and getting xubuntu on there was a bit of work, but the guides online were good enough. Ymmv of course.
People Delight sells outsourced (mostly) offshore customer support, so the source is only a little biased.

Though having direct experience with this, these numbers are pretty good. Few places will need a dedicated VP/Director level for a 6 person team though, and if they did, that would apply to outsourced teams as well.
9 Underutilized Features in CSS
Are you sure you don't mean CoreStorage's encryption? APFS isn't even finished yet.
This is great, I'm really looking forward to playing along with this when time permits. I've been using Alpine docker containers + openvpn + squid, but it's not the most stable solution. Plus openvpn is a complex PITA to use (at least for me).
Free speech does not mean consequence free speech. It's not some gross injustice that saying racist things or supporting racist candidates makes people think you're racist.
> One can now block execution to return a value, but no longer know if the innards of a function is blocking, which could mean that your function execution is blocked by an async execution.

Huh? I think you're misunderstanding how these functions work. You can't call an async function from a normal function and have it block the normal function. You specifically have to await the Promise returned by any async function.
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This perspective actually made sense of this release for me
I feel as though 1:1 threading is underrated nowadays. Most of the cited benefits of async or M:N—especially small stacks—are actually properties that can apply equally well to plain old 1:1 threading as well. Linux thread spawning is really fast nowadays.
You have both intuited where I was coming from and missed the point I was making.

Yes, the last 150 years could be characterised by the "rise of science" as you put it. But not only science, huge technological advances that have allowed us to manipulate those very things that were once abstract notions. Technology is what is important here, not science. The things that are drawn together under a scientific heading are those things that are amenable to the scientific method and our understanding of this method is grounded in the philosophy of science. It's a two way street. The more the we discover the more there is to know. For now there is plenty of space and technology advances dictate for now that the spaces are not shrinking but growing.

Regarding brain-drain, make of it what you will but studies have shown that in terms of IQ those who choose philosophy are comparable to their peers. So quality is not lacking, quantity-wise I could not say.

Where I think that philosophy has lost its way is in believing the very things you put forward, the sort of tired old false narratives that circulate in academia and in wider society.