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> Earning a high level of income in general already signifies that a person is contributing to society in a meaningful way. Their income is reflective of the service provided to others.

Yeahhh no, income is a laughable measure of one's contribution to society.
Labor is a market as any other, and salary is a function both of the value provided as well as supply vs. demand.
In the Valley, VC-funded technology companies can afford to pay exorbitant salaries but are a gamble as to whether they will provide any net value, as evidenced by their ability or inability to develop a sustainable business.
Other distortions exist like rent-seeking or manufactured demand require serious mental gymnastics to see as a contribution to the world but can support high incomes.

> All corporations exist to better the lives of people. Their purpose is to earn profit for shareholders (ultimately, people), but how do they accomplish that? Mostly, by making useful goods or selling useful services.

Taking a page out of Ayn Rand?
Corporations exist to enrich their owners, which is great; however providing a useful good or service is a sufficient but not necessary condition of doing so.
So if the government stops wasteful funding of those fields considered to be not profitable, then these problems will be fixed?
I live in Germany where I guess the situation is quite different in that regard from the States.

One thing that comes to mind is that shitholes are also usually located in shit areas - the whole neighbourhood situation is there usually rather depressing and less secure.

The idea of a tiny house is that you can place it anywhere - at least in theory. And that allows you to choose an especially calm, quiet, peaceful environment.

I'd love to live in a tiny house - a shit hole on the other hand does not seem so appealing. Also b/c the additional square meters wouldn't be of much use. A nicer less is for me more than a shittier cheap more.
Their best bet it to increase support for OpenCL rather than invent something new. And then improve / create OpenCL support for TensorFlow and other popular toolkits.
Betting that security won't work is called defense in depth. Security people are paid to be paranoid, so if one level fails you hopefully have another. It's like keeping a gun by your bed, even though you feel confident in your lock.
I think the biggest problem is photoshop. I can't imagine many people wanting that to happen to them.
> On a whole it's not doomed, but it's a bit silly to have 2-3 dev teams that have to keep platform parity in native apps instead of just having one app that has the same experience across all platforms. Even solutions like Xamarin haven't really removed this rigidity with continual delivery and feature parity.

That's only true if you want to support the platform idiosyncracies in the app. Certainly not needed for a game or a line of business app, where one team can perfectly suffice.

In a webapp, however, you can't do this. Not with 30 dev teams.
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If you are able to acquire and isolate what you're trying to copy. How would you go about recreating smallpox, or a synthetic virus engineered to only affect a specific ethnicity?

Conversely, if you're interested in a common pathogen, why bother sequencing it?
Actually used this throughout university and it works really well, specially when you already have a go-to template. Nowadays I use Keynote but if I didn't have it LaTeX would still be my first pick.
That was basically the premise of s02e06 of "Nathan For You", but he let them choose an embarrassing / incriminating pic.

https://vimeo.com/104358402
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There is a great book called "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin who were (are ?) US Navy SEALs.

I think it has a much better approach for management.

Well worth reading.
It sounds like you're somehow equating you can afford with does not lead to bankruptcy.

It's a credit-driven world, and the damage done by defaulting on a mortgage can be quite massive. For a large chunk of the US population, losing your house almost certainly leads to losing your job[1], as seemingly backwards as that sounds.

Without going off on a pedantic tangent, I think the general notion behind treating a home as an investment is an overarching intent to sell for profit in the near future. Play space and risk considerations are very different for turning profit vs. laying down roots.

Consider home = sustainable commitment.

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/10/29/foreclosures.govt...
Yes. And "Chad and Brad" tend to programming, because they subconsciously feel that by doing the work they are wielding power (even though they are not consciously aware of implications), while they'd be losers otherwise.

Giving a feeling of power to the losers is a #1 step to creating an obedient army. Ask any dicator, populist, or army leader.
I see your point but I think a more accurate analogy would be a safety company buying shares in hospitals.

This is not so much defense in depth as the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. Funded by a company that makes fences.

I think this supports your point of view, but it's kind of a 2.3bn dollar statement about how well fences are working out for people.
I would like to have information if all apps can be uninstalled.
Why? By the sound of it they are totally fraudulent. The CEO invited people to steal his identity to promote his company, it was stolen 13 times[0]. They have repeatedly been fined by the FTC for lying about the effectiveness of their product totaling $112m, with the FTC chairman saying:

"the protection they provided left such a large hole ... that you could drive that truck through it."

and they

"falsely advertised that it protected consumers’ sensitive data".

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20100521030228/http://www.wired....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeLock#Controversies
We use the .NET framework on quite a large eCommerce site. We use microservices using NServiceBus. Works quite well for us.

Don't want to link up my account to where i work, so not going mention where I work.
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I mean you can't expect a new CPU founder company to just open and compete directly...

That's exactly what the Mill CPU folks are trying. I have hopes for a RISC-V vendor to do this too.
Thanks; I did not mean to criticize too much. The idea of having a list of the devices is good.
Because you generally want to put declarations close to their uses to minimize their scope? Reduce cognitive load and improve local reasoning?
Some of you guys really need to lighten up.
Don't forget OS changes can introduce browser changes which can break app functionality in a web app
In what dimension is a square peg in a round hole just as good as vice versa?
> If we allowed student loans to be shed through bankruptcy then companies would stop giving out $100k loans for art degrees and history degrees.

> Why don't we let them?

You've answered your own question, no ? Or at least pointed out one big center of opposition. Additionally, universities themselves will vehemently oppose this of course.
Automation could be one reason. For example you might have a weekly meeting and wish to show some relevant metrics and graphs updated for every week, then you could generate such a set of slides using a script triggered by cron.
The delete button is broken: it changes size when dragging/hovering (which is totally unnecessary), but then when you move to the left before releasing it shrinks again.

The download button is counter-intuitive. Instead of letting you download your tasks, it downloads the source code instead.

Double-clicking on an item does not let you edit it.

Opening the app in two different tabs simultaneously does not work. When moving tasks in one tab, the changes are not reflected in the other tab.
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The purpose of a system is what it does

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_w...
Thanks for the replies - I guess just because I don't find something useful doesn't mean that others wont - its always nice to have additional tools
> So we thought, 'let's provide breakfast for everyone.' It gives them a reason to get here.

Oh well...
The purpose of a system is what it does
I did not realise this was a tech blog by kickstarter themselves. I kept looking for where do I back this project. I thought maybe this was a new "back a howto or integration example" feature... Its early, my brain is not yet awake.
I think this is as good a time as any to reflect on the news industry and their business model. I think the word 'news' itself is becoming somewhat nebulous and this is important as it relates to the value that news organizations can extract from a paying readership.

Traditionally information was power and the ability to influence large numbers people was valuable and this unique power was what made the news industry important and also made it prone to abuse and control.

The free press is supposed to play a critical role in a democracy but as a business it can't perform that function and is reduced to currying favours, pushing agendas and journalists trying to be part of an inner circle so it can't play the role we think it plays or should play. Best case they are just vehicles for advertisements but worst case they are colluding to manipulate the public.

Journalists don't go out randomly on the road to get news, various government departments, public organizations and businesses reach out and brief reporters. 'News' comes to them. Their power has tradionally come from having exclusive access to eyeballs which could fund having more reporters and thus 'more news' but that has become irrelevant with the internet.

I don't think people are willing anymore to pay for briefings from various public departments and private businesses with some opinion thrown in. If it comes free, they may choose to consume it for amusement but as a business model or a pillar of democracy it seem the 'press' has challenges and 'news' itself is going to need defining to give it value. And as citizens we need to find new modes of accountability for democracy because the press can't deliver it.
> 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?

In the run-up to the Brexit referendum, some hedge funds did private polls, rather than relying on the publicly disseminated ones (which of course predicted a Remain victory). Those same hedge funds bet on Brexit and made a lot of money. What does this tell you about the quality of the public polls?

Fact is, polls can be used as a tool to bludgeon a minority opposition, by sowing disunity amongst the opposition, and by demoralizing them through the strong suggestion that victory is impossible (NYT: 15% chance Trump victory).

We have evidence that the Clinton campaign aggressively pressured a multitude of actors into bending the rules. (See Wasserstein-Schulz and Donna Brazile scandals.) We have strong evidence of quasi-universal, vehement opposition to Trump in the mainstream media, and therefore of the willingness of those actors to succumb to such pressures.

In addition, if you understand how stratified sampling works, you can convince yourself that it is not so difficult to skew the results in one direction while still maintaining plausible deniability.

So why do you think the proposition that polls were systematically biased is so unserious?

> Fake news is completely making things up.

Sure, but the professor who typed up the widely-shared hit-list of "fake" news sites included Breitbart and Drudge Report, which are manifestly not fake news sites.
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It's a bit hard to understand where you're trying to go here but assuming that you state it doesn't take fuel to "counter engine braking", you're wrong.

Engine braking is just that, using the engine as a brake. If no fuel is added, pumping losses will make it act as a (relatively weak) brake. If you want to coast without braking, with the clutch engaged, you will need to inject fuel to counter the pumping losses of the engine, losses which are higher if the engine is not idle. Losses in the power train add to the braking effect, which must further be counted with additional fuel.

If you're going downhill with clutch disengaged and maintaining your speed, engaging the clutch will very likely increase your fuel consumption for the same task (maintaining speed). Automatics have a coasting gear (usually the last or only overdrive gear) for this very reason.

(Sorry, I had to do that.)

Side notes:
1. Coasting is not braking. People seem to be mixing "coasting to a stop" and "coasting" in general. Engine braking, when your intention is to reduce your speed, is more efficient than friction brakes, but coasting does not mean that you intend to reduce your speed.
2. Who drives a car with a 2-stroke petrol engine? :)
In particular, a good challenge is the 2-state solution. Decrease the number of states to 2 and try figuring out the rules (toggle "Instructions") that make the 2-state Busy Beaver. 1-state is somewhat trivial, 3-state isn't really possible by hand unless you have a lot of time.
They'd been working on Maemo for years and it was still at the level of being a tech demo. A fairly basic Linux distro ported to a mobile platform, but no real unified development framework like iOS, Android and WP. They needed something world class immediately, but just flat out didn't have the relevant resources internally to do it.
When you put it like that, Lifelock sounds like a perfect fit for Symantec, no?
His election does not change the liberal conspiracy of man influence climate change being a scientific consensus.
I mean just about every thing was AI at one point; program synthesis was seen as AI (like in the 70s) right up until it wasn't after we effectively encoded it into programming languages. For example lisp it self was effectively AI research as well. In computer science it's pretty typical to refer to things as AI right up until we understand how to engineer it; the history of email that was posted recently is a great example (at first we just had computers extracting features and learning things, and it was vague and generic; these days we understand the system as a reputation network, and we understand the details of each of the features because it required a bunch of engineering to make that specific solution scale and fast).
This article raises an important and interesting problem, but would benefit from a lot more nuance. It seems to claim there is only one ubiquitous way people teach, learn and do mathematics, but that is not the case.

In my view, using abstract notions for describing is in no way incompatible to motivating them with concrete, visual notions, and that is what good teachers do and good students seek. This is done imperfectly by many teachers, but there is nothing new in stating that not everyone teaches perfectly.

It also really depends on the particular skills and desires of the student. I'm a more abstraction-oriented person, and as such when studying physics I often wished the teachers would rely more on abstract mathematics because in my view it made the phenomena clearer; I have no doubt that many students feel otherwise.
I'd stipulate, frequent exposure to strong photostimuli burns the eyes. You should look at the eyes and how those are changed. You here me, people in an old thread?
Interesting comments but you seem to have an outdated view of the company. Google is an incredible advertising machine that is far from running around "without a head."

They have an immense amount of data, easily matching and beating Facebook, with control at every layer including Android, Chrome, Google Analytics, Maps, Gmail and more, while also running the adtech infrastructure for 90% of the web. Publishers like CNN are not big enough to have their own networks and are constantly fighting a losing battle where Google is controlling ever more of the adtech supply chain. Even NYTimes runs Google's ad stack.

Sites today are really only left with custom executions using their production talents which is seen in the rise of sponsored/branded content, and Google is already making inroads there.

Search will always exist and always be massive, just as the open web will always exist and continues to grow. There will not be a consolidation into a single walled-garden, what you're seeing with Facebook is just another cycle that was repeated in the past with AOL and others. And search is still one of the best performing channels and will continue to get a majority of ad dollars online.

Google is also ramping up their Cloud Platform and have already overtaken AWS in some areas. Cloud computing stands to be an even bigger revenue source than their entire current ad business so they are well poised for the future.

I wouldn't underestimate this company anytime soon. They might have missed social (although not as much as you think, see Youtube) but there is plenty of opportunity out there.
I too sing on my way at to work. I'm using public trains so I usually can't sing with full voice. I have several exercises I can do quietly.
Also, whenever I need to learn scores for a gig or an upcoming production, I do this on the train. Here I'm more productive than at home on the piano.
I was an employee on those days and Symbian C++ really required an extra dose of love, even PIPS didn't make it much better.

Symbian architecture was quite interesting but the tooling was horrendous, first the Codewarrior IDE, then the two iterations of Eclipse based tooling, all having a pile of Perl and Bash scripts underneath.

This one reason why external developers went to more pleasant pastures, where programming didn't meant a daily fight with the tools.
Because LifeLock is an identity theft insurance company. They help to get your identity back and pay for all the cost, up to $1M. People buy that.
Thanks for your reply - useful idea. However, going through their process it appears that I need to have a Google account. I don't have one, and don't want one.

I can find no way to proceed.
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Another great markdown->slides project is madoko https://www.madoko.net/ . Also really good for writing markdown based latex papers.
Could this working of the brain be related to how, when you're sleeping, something happening in the real world is incorporated in real time into a dream you're having? That always amazes me, how our brains do that.
>iPhone, far ahead???
>Blasted thing was a featurephone with a fancy screen.

Which is why they never caught on. All the competitors had to do was put equally fancy screens on their phones as well and the iPhone was toast. Or something.
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> who thinks Darth Vader is a role model (ain't making that up, either)

Although you forgot to mention the other two role models of his are Satan and fucking Dick Cheney (source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steve-bannon-trump-tow...)
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Your version is probably more accurate. They converge in the long term, but absolutely not immediately.
I actually visited Yiwu to tour a painting factory as part of a China trip to visit artists.

The infamous painting of the rows upon rows of identical paintings and one painter walking down the isles is from a factory in Yiwu.
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which of course predicted a Remain victory

Not really. The polls indicated that it was basically 50-50. The media chose to interpreted the polls to predict a Remain victory. The difference is subtle but important.

suggestion that victory is impossible (NYT: 15% chance Trump victory).

This annoys me no end. In what possible world is 15% an "impossibility". Is rolling a 6 on a fair dice or getting heads three times in a row when flipping a fair coin also an impossibility?
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What would an effective social safety net look like in this case, without Republican party interference?
No desktop env for me. I use the i3 tiling window manager and I love everything about it.

Most of the configuration stuff I do on the command line, but I do have a status bar with some basic info .
So I would like someone to correct my understanding if possible

Reading the Wikipedia explanation (ok, I have been ill recently) I see a process that given say a 2D grid, can assign for each cell in the grid a single number, that number is derived from a function applied to each of its corner nodes.

The function basically assigns a random number around the node (i.e. 360 degrees) and then merges that random with the distance to the point, and then merge that with all four points auchbthat one cell now has one number that is affected by distance, it's neighbours and randomness

I think that pretty clearly gives a smoothed map that will not have the junpiness of random map placements

Seems fairly good way to make a procedural map.

What else is it useful for?
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> Sadly the board grew impatient and brought in Elop.

With a mandate to sell the company, which many seem to be unaware of.

http://bgr.com/2013/09/24/nokia-ceo-elop-contract-details/
Yeah this.
I believe a huge reason college education is already so expensive is that so much "easy" money can flow from the government to cover tuition costs through students (and their parents) who don't always understand the long-term consequences of their decisions.
Its only later that the people left holding the bag (graduates) realize that the money is not so easy.

Increased subsidizing of college education will only make the overall costs (whether to students or to the government) rise unless additional controls to reduce tuition are in place.
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> income is a laughable measure of one's contribution to society.

Whilst you're currently correct I think we should be constraining our markets so that you are not.
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