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How frequently do you travel? Do you work remotely and if so how do you manage to find internet connection? This is something I've been very interested in for some time now.
Arq also supports Amazon Cloud Drive as a target, and if you're in the US, it's a flat $60 per year for unlimited storage.
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From reading the description, I wasn't sure what "AER" meant. After googling a few related keywords I found a site that claims [0] the acronym stands for: address-event representation.

Can anyone explain what this is for and in how it's useful? Not asking in a sarcastic way or anything like that, I just have no familiarity with the subject.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/p/jaer/wiki/About%20jAER/
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I think at some point, we could feasibly reach a point in development where the website could also be the native app. In that case, the app store is essentially a self-contained browser, running the mobile site.

The reality of that situation right now is not pleasant. Some apps already do this (looking at you Wells Fargo) and the experience ranges from awful to passably ok.

Ignoring all of the technical hurdles for the moment, we should also stop to consider some of the real world implications of native apps. Does my calculator really need an internet connection? Couldn't I play flappy bird while in airplane mode? Even apps which depend on an internet connection to function (like an RSS reader) can still serve some functionality out of their caches when offline. But if the app itself is delivered as a mobile web page, those features won't exist.
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>Most people would say this. But then when it comes time to get out their credit card and buy a subscription - they don't actually follow through. Only entities with a highly educated and conscientious readership can get away with firewalls: FT, WSJ, NYT - and not much else.

So maybe the problem is not bad news reporting, but the scarcity of highly educated and/or conscientious readership?

That is, maybe we should fix the education and the citizenry -- else people won't make much out of well written news anyway, if not for anything else, because they wont be able to evaluate them...
Where you are wrong is that it's not just about money, it's about accountability.

Smart investing is the same whether the returns are financial or something else (citizenship, etc.): Someone needs to make good decisions about which investments are good and which aren't. If I believed your romantic notion of the humanities reflected reality in the classroom, that would be a great investment. But I don't believe that's true for many students.
Wait, are you seriously suggesting that all of the polls that were done (http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/n...) were manufactured by leftist media? Seriously? Look at all of them. Up until the final week when it seemed like many republicans decided they could stomach Trump and changed from undecided to Trump, Hilary was indeed an 80% favorite on 538. Sure, some of the other models on other websites had Hilary with a higher percentage chance, but isn't that the whole idea behind data journalism that you build a model and feed data to it? 538 had a good podcast on this topic: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/model-talk-debriefs-the-...

And besides, having a poor model is not at all fake news. Fake news is completely making things up.
I emailed an atmospheric methane professor about the NASA paper a couple of months ago, asking if it could be used for tracking permafrost thawing related methane leaks (in Siberia etc), and got this back:

"Yes, there is a lot of work on finding methane emissions by satellite. This is good as a broad guide to spotting big emissions like the huge US leak: the real problem we have is in quantifying emissions at ground level from a wide range of much smaller sources, and in placing good accurate numbers on the fluxes.

Unfortunately, the emission is from the ground into the boundary layer, at the bottom of the atmosphere, while satellite observation sees through the total column. We use wind back-trajectory analysis to identify the source of the methane (running the weather backwards), but there have been bad examples in the past where the media latched onto claims of major methane anomalies seen from space (e.g. in the Arctic or in S America) and didn’t realise that the methane was in the mid-troposphere in air that had last been in contact with the ground many thousands of miles away.

What is needed is an integrated approach at all levels, using satellite observation, wind-tracking using chemical transport models, and careful ground measurement to identify sources."
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Just for those who aren't aware, the UK[0] system is kind of a mixture between NZ and US.

Firstly, all loans are provided by the government and they do charge interest. With the current system (for loans since 2012), the interest rate is based on how much you earn - it varies from 1.6% to 4.6%.

The amount you repay is based on how much you earn. If you earn under £21k you don't pay anything. Above that you pay 9% of your income (pre-tax) - if you are an employee it's taken directly from your salary.

Although it's a loan, it isn't typically classed as debt the same as a credit card or mortgage. If you want a mortgage to buy a house, the bank will want to know how much you pay each month, but they won't factor in how much you have left to pay, on the decision to give you a mortgage.

The amount a high education institute can charge is capped at £9,000/year, however a lot of universities charge less, and if you are from a poor background you can usually get a good amount of funding from the government.

After 30 years if you haven't repayed everything, the rest of the loan will be written off.

[0] Scotland is different in that they have no fees for Scottish and EU students, where as students from the rest of the UK have to pay the usual fees.
The same concept is behind Viv, the successor to Siri: http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a34630/viv-artificial-intel...

A lot of the recent work here takes advantage of SMT solvers (next generation of SAT solvers), but that's not necessary. As with Viv and Flash Fill, a lot of it is about changing the concept of what it means to write a program, and use alternative approaches to "complete" it. As another example, generating 0-day bug fixes based on how code "should" look, or recommending typed completions to gaps in code.

For my past work in that group, I looked at "sketching" efficient schedules for parallel code, where I only specified the bits I cared about. Nowadays, I think about automatically generating queries for visual analytics.
>made my life a lot easier at work

Was it just an enhancement or complete metamorphosis?
So, to take an example, here's the documentation for a library I maintain:

http://webcolors.readthedocs.io/

Once upon a time, the entire library's documentation was generated from docstrings in the code, but the library very quickly outgrew that as I needed to do things like:

* How to install the library and how to run the tests

* Properly explain the web color model and the history of how it's been implemented in the specifications

* Properly explain how the various ways to specify colors get represented as Python types

* Explain how Python 2/3 compatibility is handled

etc., etc.

There are a ton of things that don't naturally attach to just one function or class, but need to be in the documentation. The hacky compromise solution is a module-level docstring, but now people who want to read source have to scroll through a huge amount of stuff before they see a single line of actual code.

So I'm going to stay far away from auto-generated documentation and "just put it in comments/docstring/etc." for the foreseeable future.
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So total student loan debt is something like 10% of the cost of the Iraq / Afghanistan war. Tell me again how it's not affordable to make college free, when it's affordable to spend so much money on an unnecessary military intervention?
Local news is pretty terrible for being an informed citizen. For example, people who watch it regularly dramatically overestimate the prevalence of crime in their local communities. This alone probably causes immense human suffering through our injustice system and jails
My worst was probably when I rebuilt an old, broken recurring billing system. Unfortunately, in the real world, the retry on failure limit didn't quite work as intended. If a charge failed or was declined, it was supposed to try again a couple of times over the course of several days and send an email to ask the subscriber to enter new payment info. It worked as expected in testing.

Unknown to any of us, the code that triggered it on the production server was being triggered every few minutes by an outside system instead of once a day by the server (as it was supposed to be). So after deployment, thousands of failed transactions were being retried over and over every few minutes. People woke up to scores of emails about the transactions failing and called their banks to find out what was going on. Meanwhile the company that ran the system got some rather unfriendly calls from the banks as it must have looked like they were trying to do something nefarious.

The good news was that no one was overcharged, it was only failed transactions that were repeating (and repeatedly failing). Tripped a lot of alarms though. I added safeguards against the code being triggered by external systems and also explicit chronological limits that didn't rely on the server configuration. It was a learning experience.
This is also why counties that do this also regulate the cost of tuition.
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This new result could push things along, because it provides the solution without lowering production. There would be less lobbying and backlash against such measures if the industry has clear way of dealing with them.
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Wow this is exactly what i've been looking for, can you select slide themes with this library?
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I'd call that juice, not milk.
This is a rich person service. Don't feel bad for them. What they're buying is someone else to watch their credit so they can go do whatever they want. The other customers are corporations that get hacked and then have to pay for credit monitoring.
This was something I always wanted to look into, and I did a while ago. I added options to visualize grid, vectors and make it moving to show the intuition people around. I think it helps discussion a lot. (there might be errors in implementation or it might be completely off if my memory failing me)

https://jsfiddle.net/auselen/6owerdnh/
What does "you can afford" mean? By definition you can't be bankrupted by nonrecourse debt.

On the other hand, I have a fairly significant fraction of my net worth tied up in my home, and a fair amount of equity at this point, so it would be fairly painful to lose it.

That being said, in hindsight I am almost certainly financially in a better position than had I been renting for the past 5 years (I say "almost" because appraisals aren't worth the paper they are printed on as far as I'm concerned; I don't know a single person in this town who has bought or sold a house within 10% of the appraised value in the past decade).

It seems like poor advice to not consider a home as an investment; investments come with risks, as well as opportunity costs. Particularly for smaller units, I've known places where renting was so much cheaper than buying that it should be considered a luxury to buy, and yet people just buy once they have a down-payment without considering the financial repercussions.

Maybe you really mean one must understand that a home is not a risk-free investment, in which case we are in agreement.
My site for learning tricks started making money last month: http://spellogram.com after around 2 years of existence. I didn't put a lot of effort though.
If you're a outspoken Hindu nationalist maybe?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/13/donald-trump...
>Most of MSM has a soft-left bias and a lot of it is hard left

Are you counting by outlets or by readership/viewship? I think by both metrics, most main stream media is on the right or hard right. Which metric are you using that puts most of MSM on the left?

>There was an article in the Guardian today - written by a woman, lambasting how rude and crude and disgusting the male habit of 'stag parties' (UK bachelor parties) are.

That was an opinion piece. That's not really in the same topic as making things up like "NYT columnist calls for assassination of Trump" based on a radio interview for a station that doesn't exist.
> Mass media has mostly lost their grip on manufacturing consent.

Or...have they? They knew Trump's rallies were bursting with supporters while Clinton's were not. They kept up the narrative that Clinton was a shoo-in. And then 46% of all registered voters stayed home instead of voting. Had they told the truth, I believe voter turnout would have been much better. So how are you so certain the MSM didn't manufacture their desired outcome?
> Sometimes people get rich through scams, fraud, theft, and other shady dealings, but in a society with law and order, this is the exception rather than the rule.

How about inherited wealth? Large groups of people are excluded from your wonderful vision of society.
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Fair point. But as a thought experiment, why can't I go down to the supermarket and pick up free packets of rice by the same logic? I'm engaged when I'm walking around the shop and as I'm reading the packet; there's plenty of opportunity for advertising. Rice costs money to grow, quality reporting costs money to produce, what's the difference?
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Very interesting. Makes me wonder if the same techniques which get people hooked to current forms of distracting social media could be used to encourage better habits, focus etc?

Have see some humorous attempts such as http://www.chorewars.com/ and http://code.rpgify.com/ but usually with a focus on motivating groups of people.
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There's a huge difference between criticism (good) and abuse (bad).

You're most probably (I say that in the statistical sense) a white middleclass guy (I am too BTW). For us it's easy to airquote "twitter abuse" and ask what the problem is. However, for a great number of non-white-middleclass-guy-people it's a huge and real problem that we should do our absolute best to help address.
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It depends on a number of factors. For the first four years, or so, I traveled a lot, rarely staying in one place for more than a month at a time, and sometimes less than a week. For the past year, because I'm traveling with a girlfriend who likes more stability, and her cats who hate driving, we've been taking it quite slowly. We've mostly stayed at least a month wherever we stop, and we've been in our current location for about four months.

I work remotely, yes, but always have, even before traveling. Internet has gotten outrageously expensive in recent years, as no one offers unlimited data. I spend about $250 (sometimes as much as $300) a month on Internet (it used to be under $100) from two providers, and still often find myself out of data near the end of the month. So, you should budget for that, unless you want to spend a lot of time in coffee shops and libraries and such. I have friends who travel and spend much less, but they don't work from their RV as much as I do.

It's a pretty flexible lifestyle; one can, and people do, park the whole summer in one location and then move south for winter and spend the whole winter in the desert or southern California, or Mexico. Others travel nearly full-time. It's the benefit of having a fully self-contained home with wheels.
> This is the playbook of virtually every Eastern European nation.

Or pretty much every "business strongman"[0] third-world regime really, Trevor Noah had a bit comparing Trump to South Africa's Jacob Zuma, it was less funny and more uncanny to see the parallels.

And then things get dreadful when you realise a "graft and cronyism" Trump presidency is starting to look like a best-case scenario given his campaign statements and cabinet appointments.

[0] as opposed to "military strongman"
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Fake news is also lying through omission or using logical fallacies in analyzing facts or statements.
Yep, in a sense, buying lifelock is really a "long" position on future data breaches. The money comes from companies buying 100k+ "seats" after they lose a bunch of pii.

Which is interesting right? "security" company essentially betting that security measures won't work.

I suppose they're at least in a good position to have some insight on that.
Jolla's had a fair bit of financial trouble so unfortunately they've stopped making their own hardware for the moment. Instead they've been concentrating on the OS and trying to get third parties interested (the Intex Aqua Fish is one third party phone running Sailfish).

However they have recently released just a few units of a new phone called the Jolla C. So they're not totally out of the hardware arena.

It'll be interesting to see how they go and if they manage to hang on. I had a Nokia N9 and then a Jolla (which is still my phone now), and I do really like the interface. Although the slightly curved screen on the N9 worked beautifully with the swipe-based Meego interface and the flat screen on the Jolla isn't quite the same.
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> every user goes to the app store and enters the name of the service there.

Do you have data for that? I've never seen anyone do that, and it hadn't even occurred to me to do it.
You may want to take a look at https://geizhals.eu/?cat=umtsover&xf=148_Android#gh_filterbo... to figure out which Android phones fit your requirements in these regards (caveat: the website's content is partially machine-translated to English, but that doesn't imply the data isn't very carefully curated).
have similar visual memories from a very early age - I remember two (not too specific) scenes from the house I grew up in, when it was being built (no wallpapers, stairs were simple concrete and not yet with handrail etc). The trouble is, we moved into that house when I was ~18 months old, so I "visited" the construction site with what, 16, 17 months of age? It is hard to believe even for me that I remember images from that time, but my parents clearly never "told" me how it looked. I am not sure what to make of these memories myself, but I have them.
Just to steer this interesting comment slightly back on topic, see

http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/nsa-gchq-tapped-security-sys...

The debate about permissioned vs. permissionless blockchains ties back into Hearn's thoughts on privacy.

It will be fascinating to see how his work on Corda develops compared to its permissionless competitors.
a lot of wishful thinking down those lines about a company that consistently fails to deliver better products than competition (not that it wouldn't be great for us all, just tired of seeing the same missed expectations for last 10 years at least)
RV parks are usually just full of retirees, and they are also expensive ($100/night+ for the centrally located ones in cities). The nice ones usually put a limit on how long you can stay there too. I ended up boondocking most of the time but that gets stressful and old pretty quickly. Parks and BLM land seemed to have more younger people semi-permanently living on it though.

One thing I noticed about budget RVs (newer ones at least) is that they aren't built to last. They are built with really cheap lightweight materials and probably won't last a few years of full time living, never mind water leaks and all of the other mechanical issues of having a home on wheels. The better built ones go up in price very quickly, to the point where you're at the price of a cheap home, but one which is guaranteed to depreciate quickly. A classic, well build RV might be a better bet. However, ultimately, a motorhome might not be a bad bet for some people's situations. Its certainly worth the experience!
That's very similar to what I do now. I was looking for something more systematic than "hope you stumble across cool words" :)

I did not know that energy and lethargy come from the same Greek root, though, thanks!
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After reading a paper, you might want to try getting a pen and paper then recall by writing what have you understood as if you are teaching to it others. If you can't recall what you've read then reread the paper to fill in the gap and test your understanding again. This method is called Feynman Technique.
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Your link http://www.snopes.com/hillary-.. 404s, FYI.
The difference is that the value of one instance of ad engagement (yours) is lower than the cost of a packet of rice. But the value of thousands of engagements (number of readers) is higher than the cost of producing an article.

Distributing articles over the internet scales better than distributing rice packets through stores.
First one is taking more space then it need to read. I normally use second.
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So.. speaking as someone who does some deep learning (but quite a bit of ML more broadly).

Intel are correct that the memory size on GPUs is increasingly becoming a problem in some complex deep learning models. Having access to cheap(ish) DDR4 RAM using the same programming model would be a big win.

Interestingly, AMD is going after a related market (visualization) which is also very RAM hungry by building GPUs with M.2 SSDs onboard[1]. AFAIK no one has tried these for deep learning.

But within the deep learning community there's a fair bit of cynicism about Intel's claims. Over the last few years they have frequently claimed parity with GPUs... any day now. Yet they keep falling further behind in any useful benchmark.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/10518/amd-announces-radeon-pro...
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Native apps are always here. Your browser is a native app. Your dailer is a native app. Your homescreen is a native app... There will always be native apps. And on top of that higher level languages might work. But its not that progressive web apps will replace native apps. Maybe for some apps. But the current tech stack for web apps will never beat the performance of native apps. Their architecture is build for very fast loading, and best graphics performance. Web still has some way togo, and is inherently bound to http request based app loading. Which will always be slower than loading native code into memory.
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I am quite surprised that the BBC ran this piece, which seems to be an advert for Pivotal.

I guess this is just how PR works, but again, the BBC is supposed to be neutral in promoting individual businesses.
Sure, they have their ARM core CPUs that have proven to be decent, but I don't see them blowing anyone out of the water with them

What? Their first iterations were somewhat meh (Tegra K1 with Denver 1 in the Nexus 9), but the latter iterations and reoriented focus (Jetson K1, K1 with A15s, Denver2) having been scoring some excellent design wins.
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