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Some concrete things that B5 contributed and innovated on (as I understand it, perhaps I'm missing some things):

Extensive use of CGI to drastically reduce set costs. The core of the B5 show takes place on relatively extensive sets that are reused throughout the series, with one-off locations presented with large amounts of composited CG backgrounds. All of the space and planetary footage is rendered, and this choice of setting (simplified lighting and shot composition) played heavily to the favor of the tech at the time--I think most if not all of the work was done on Amigas and Video Toaster.

Heavy interaction with the fanbase using Usenet. I think that B5 was probably one of the first times, if not the first time, that fans got to significantly interact with the folks who were creating a show in a meaningful way. These days, it's pretty obvious and common to have shows use their online presence and discussion panels and whatnot to create organic advertising, but back in the day having JMS show up and answer questions and explain why things happened the way they did was pretty amazing.

Tightly and long-plotted series storyline. Compared with basically any of the Star Treks (and DS9 is quite arguable because reasons), Doctor Who, Buffy, X-Files, or other contemporary shows, B5 Had 5 years of plot to get through and managed to do so. Every episode (barring some crap chunks of season 1) brings in a new plot line, advances an existing plot line, or closes up a plot line. This is a series that really bears watching twice specifically so that you can see how seemingly little things telegraph well in advance important later points. At least through season 4 I never felt that there was an ass-pull or a moment where the narrative didn't know where the hell it was going. I felt like the writer(s) respected me and were going to take their time to weave a good narrative, however long that took.

Genuinely terrible characters and no-win situations. Nowadays it's become somewhat in-vogue to have darker and edgier storylines, but at the time seeing a show willing to do just really evil things (killing children) and having horrible tragedies occur (depicting the permanent loss of at least one alien race that we'd gotten used to seeing around) was rare. Not only was it rare, but it did so in conjunction with a fundamentally optimistic view about people and the future--which is exceptionally rare these days.

Displaying competent and important women and LGBT characters. Delenn is an obvious example for her work with the Minbari and later actions, but Susan Ivanova is probably one of the most capable yet human characters I've seen in television science-fiction. Additionally, the way the show explored her interactions with Talia Winters was basically pushing those themes about as far as you could in television at the time it came out.

Honestly, the only show I'd put in the same ballpark would be the anime epic Legend of Galactic Heroes. I'd strongly suggest, if you enjoy these things, treating yourself to B5 seasons 1-4 and seeing just how well done this material can be even in the absence of large budgets or well-known actors.
You would need a lot less rail cars than that. Rails cars move the weights between the low and the high point, but they are re-used multiple times in a cycle, going back and forth constantly.

It wouldn't be very efficient to have a mobile piece of tech sitting idle for 99% of the time.

The main constraint would be to make the maximum use of cheap technology that is standard today. 100t freight cars are pretty standard.
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Obviously is a very strong word.
Oh, yes. When exploring a new domain, the "call us for pricing" people get put at the end of the line. We're not an enterprise, and we're not going to waste our time with sales small-talk before we've even seen what the product can do.
> That's the same element that just got an SEO finger wag

They are not going to wag themselves, so it only makes sense to include Google's ad template into Google's editor for creating Google Ads :)

(I guess half of this comment that's not a joke is it looks like internal tool gone public for mostly PR opportunity.)
Yep - you need the ID number, and if its not there, it doesn't count.
Those looks much more in-depth than we are looking for. Sharepoint datasheets lets you create, manage, and view datasets completely inside sharepoint. An end user, for instance, could create dataset of (for instance) company inventory. They can add custom columns with datatype, like inventory count, cost, status, condition, date purchased, etc. They can then create views to filter/sort/group data and display this in different places in a workspace. Data is entered and manage in sharepoint. Has lots of handy uses and you could train non-technical users with it. Replaced lots of excel spreadsheets.
>If there was no wrongdoing, why would they promise not to misrepresent prospects going forward?

Federal Rules of Evidence Rule 407 (subsequent remedial measures) may be applicable here. For example, say you were at MartWal and slip and fall, then sue. They Answer the lawsuit denying liability, but they immediately replace the floor with a new non-slip material. Rules of evidence does not allow you to introduce the subsequent remedial measure as evidence of liability on the under lying claim. Why? Mostly it is entirely possible in my hypothetical MartWal was not negligent, but we wouldn't want a chilling effect on improvements during the case, just so the improvement isn't used as evidence of liability.

But more importantly to your point, its a settlement. You can basically include any provision you want, even if inconsistent, for example, I maintain no wrong doing but agree to issue a formal written apology. Why apologize if you maintain you did nothing wrong? Because its cheaper for everyone, and usually a better outcome for everyone (one side denies wrong doing the other still gets an apology), at least usually better than dragging it out and gambling the outcome on principle of a finding liability.
> Good journals, in theory, are more selective about what they publish, so the assumption is that if you have publications in a good one you must have done more groundbreaking research.

I wonder why nobody created a single peer-reviewed platform for all scientists to use? Elsevier is just piggybacking on other people's work and funds.
Phabricator definitely has a superior sense of humor. (If anyone reading this hasn't checked out their website, I highly recommend it)

I was, of course, not trying to say that Phab was regressing but rather that GitHub had picked up the pace. There have absolutely been good improvements to Phab this year too!
FWIW the phrasing I use with clients is "fixed-price for successful completion of the following objectives" so it's a bit of a moot point.

I do think you're overstating the research though. Many studies of unconscious priming haven't been replicated, and psychology as a whole is very subject to publication bias. [1]

Anchoring is a real effect, and I'm a fan of Kahneman (especially prospect theory), but the evidence about "incidental" influences is very weak.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...
That is true there is a cost to managing remote workers. But after 1 or 2 workers the cost diminishes as there are established practices in place to ensure productivity: Slack, Skype or appear.in, join.me, Google Hangouts.

For more tips on managing remote workers, check out remotive.io (disclaimer: I am not affiliated with them at all)
Google pays substantially more than that - matching that number does not put you at the top of the market. Companies paying that much include many of the largest tech employers in the area. Compensation for job switchers has been increasing rapidly since the no-poaching ring was busted, but you have to know to ask for it. Lots of people are anchored from that period and don't know what they are missing.
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The subtext to this (at least why this made it to the front page) is "github is lighting money on fire, can't last forever, but github is infrastructure-status now what if it disappears?"

I think this anxiety is why there's a lot of work being done in the decentralized space right now. The UX-side of "web 3.0" is sorely lacking but I think it's only a matter of time before people begin to crack it.

I'd love to see some research into what it would take (in terms of network size) to provide robust, decentralized replacements for service-as-infrastructure products like Github.
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n=1 tho
Interesting. The big catch on buying an Apple Watch right now is that depending on the model you want you can still face a pretty decent delay in being able to get one. All things being equal I wonder how that would affect the rankings.
How would you respond if someone replied with:

Yeah, but isn't it in the private roads' owners benefit to reduce congestion, so they create HOV lanes? And what if they want to promote certain kinds of cars like electric and hybrid and therefore allow them to drive in the HOV lanes? Shouldn't they be allowed to?

Edit: Not that I necessarily agree, but this seems like a flaw in the analogy.
Adobe is going after this space with Muse:
http://muse.adobe.com

We've used WebFlow for a couple of years; it doesn't suck and you can actually build an early stage [pre-rev] business with it before committing to a full stack team/budget.
But github has a monetization strategy, they're a paid service. This is more about their headcount expanding and possibly losing paying customers because they decided to get political.
I do ultramarathons, and my Garmin GPS watch is a necessity.
> The company paid to send employees jetting across the globe to Amsterdam, London, New York and elsewhere.

If a company as vitally important to an industry as Github is to software can't do this... it's time to really worry.
Trains are not reducing in price like lithium batteries are. Lithium battery prices are coming down yearly. If it continues at this rate, I think we'll have a story like this about energy storage in 5-10 years where the price makes renewable storage the goto choice for general energy needs. That would be awesome, planet earth could use some good news like that.
If it convinced any Amazon customers to buy a Roku instead of an AppleTV, then it was most definitely good for the customer [rimshot].
> building a few towers to broadcast WiMAX

Easier said than done. It might be workable in dense urban areas where there are already lots of tall buildings, but getting approval to build towers in many residential areas is like pulling teeth. To support peak usage hours when everyone is at home HD streaming hulu and netflix, even with WiMax, you will need way more (i.e. smaller) cells than wireless carriers have today, which means lots more towers. Plus you'll need fiber going to all of these small cell towers, which means you're half way to FTTN anyway.

I think wireless internet might fit some niche situations well, but I'm skeptical there is significant capital or long terms savings in the general case. Not to mention that it will never be able to compete with fiber on latency or bandwidth.
The other problem is that "cloud services" have taught people not to back up their data.
Once you have great FTTH internet you don't want to give it up. It's like a drug. But it creates a kind of scarcity in that I could never live somewhere without it and there are yet too few places with it.

I really like the approach that places like Longmont, CO are taking [http://www.longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/...] or Greenlight in Rochester, NY. Love their pricing page:https://greenlightnetworks.com/pricing

I'm in Pittsburgh and have FIOS and that's set the price-performance bar at which I am not willing to drop below.
Same here, I felt pretty let down. I was thinking that Pokemon Go was such a hit that this was a natural follow-on to that, and that it really _might_ have people running down the streets (and hopefully not into traffic) with smiles on their faces.

Admittedly my AR vision got weirder and weirder along with the various parkour moves, and when the guy jumped an impossible distance my brain felt like it was going to collapse, wondering how this game could possibly work.

lol, all that mental effort and then: Touch platformer.
This is pretty neat! It's nice to see something new/innovative in a distro these days.
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The use of Hemingway as an example is unfortunate. Something less literary would be a better example maybe?:

Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

Near the top of the west there is a dry and frozen dead body of leopard. No one has ever explained what leopard wanted at that altitude.

One of those is pretty stilted and not much better than lot of machine translations. The uncanny valley of being good enough but not optimal is probably something that's going to plague AI for a long time.

Google’s decision to reorganize itself around A.I. was the first major manifestation of what has become an industrywide machine-learning delirium. Over the past four years, six companies in particular — Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and the Chinese firm Baidu — have touched off an arms race for A.I. talent, particularly within universities. Corporate promises of resources and freedom have thinned out top academic departments. It has become widely known in Silicon Valley that Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, personally oversees, with phone calls and video-chat blandishments, his company’s overtures to the most desirable graduate students. Starting salaries of seven figures are not unheard-of. Attendance at the field’s most important academic conference has nearly quadrupled. What is at stake is not just one more piecemeal innovation but control over what very well could represent an entirely new computational platform: pervasive, ambient artificial intelligence.

That's...worrying. Given all of these companies lack of respect for privacy and consumers, it should trouble us that one of them may end up with such a world-changing innovation. Throw enough money into one place, stick a bunch of PhDs in a building, and eventually you'll get something. It's just numbers. Bodies + money. What's inspiring about that?

Does the prospect of Mark Zuckerberg having control over AI for the next five decades trouble you? Even more remarkable is he'd do it on the back of having made a marginally better social networking site in PHP in 2004 and spreading it via the best social network in the world - Ivy League universities. And now those same universities are being raided for talent by these companies...

Is this how we should be picking winners? The distinct lack of diversity and their past stances and actions are troubling. This seems to be mostly a hype piece without any regard for practical effects.

If these same companies can't anticipate or mitigate the impact of issues like fake news until after an election, what makes you think they understand the consequences and impact of something much more complex? And even if they do anticipate it, how do they hold back the pressures of shareholders?
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While I use some Google products (AppEngine, GCP, Play movies+music), I don't think they compete with Office 365 where for $99/year family plan my wife and I each get 1 TB cloud storage and all the Office apps that we use on Mac laptops, Android phones, and our iPads. Such a good deal, and once when I needed customer service it was there and someone helped within a few minutes.
Maybe Trump is just actually good at negotiating like you'd expect a NY real-estate mogul to be. He might say dumb stuff but you have to admit, it isn't easy succeeding the Manhattan 5th ave. type real-estate.
So does the definition of racism.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?414145-1/fcc-robocall-strike-f...

Watch starting at the 3 minute mark. He's over the top & kind of babbling. Compared to IRS tax threat scams, the idea the robocalling is the biggest threat is offensive.

(IRS Tax threat scams: https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/dont-be-fooled-phone-scams-...)
This is such a frustrating misconception. The annual peak is far more important than the daily peak for capacity planning.

There are two capacity issues being confounded here:

(1) Generation capacity. The idea here is that if solar doesn't generate during peak loads, then building solar will not displace power plant capacity. But solar does generate during peak loads, so building solar does reduce the number of natural gas plants you need. At higher levels of PV penetration this will be a concern, but we're not there yet.

(2) Ramping capacity. The idea here is that solar generation is correlated and non-dispatchable, so dispatchable generation must be able to match the swings in solar output. Again, this will be a concern at higher penetrations, but right now the grid can handle it.

Philipkglass's replies are excellent.
Edit: nevermind, I was wrong
You're paying for Internet service, yet without Net Neutrality the ISP can opt to not give you the service you're paying for until they get protection money from someone else.

It's fraud.
Birding is very popular in India. I think it was brought in by the British, which is perhaps why Hong Kong was the only Birding place in China.

A somewhat obscure trivia: the Indian National Congress party was established by the British Civil Servant A. O. Hume [1], who was an avid birder, ran a magazine called "Stray Feathers", and published "The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds". [2] A. O. Hume was expelled from the British Civil Service for his sympathy and support for the cause of the Indians.

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

[2] https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Hume%2C+Al...
Do we know it's unconnected? I know I've canceled my paid account over their political shenanigans.
Was also discussed (more in terms of carbon footprint) in The Economist this week:

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2171130...
Spot on analysis. The complexity of the human factor, for want of a better term, in healthcare is so hard to measure. I can only relate it to what I know. That is, I work with several paramedics that are just "good" at differential diagnosis. They would probably be excellent doctors, but life didn't deal those cards in. I also work with "meh" paramedics that, if given the choice, I wouldn't want taking care of my family. They do an adequate job to the bare minimum standard set, but they are not great by any stretch of the imagination. Both paramedics charge the same and carry the same title. Both could miss something critical, or not. The fact is they are both humans practicing paramedicine.

Until we automate the variability out of healthcare, we are stuck with inconsistent results. Consider that roughly 70 years ago, lobotomies were considered a valid medical procedure for psychiatric problems including anxiety and depression.
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I bought an Apple Watch 2 with hopes of it being a good enough running watch at least for casual runs (an upgrade to my 310xt). Instead I returned it and got a Fenix 3. Bring on the ultras.
This should read:

> What happens when you assemble a group of people? You have an assembly. The same can be said for other objects.
They really nailed this from an advertising and marketing perspective. From what I can see the gameplay is spot on too. Looks like Nintendo took a crowded genre, the runner, and completely pwnd it. Looking forward to the android release though as I own 0 iDevices.
I don't have javascript enabled. I saw a totally blank screen.

(Enabled javascript, did not get much more useful information...)
There are 5 videos on that page. The intro video, titled 'Introduction to Super Mario Run' introduced me to what the app is, and what it does
To add to this list my favorite perceived uses are managing car features remotely such as locking doors (relevant here), closing the trunk, rolling up the windows, etc. Perhaps putting up the top on an automatic convertible would be nifty as well in inclement weather.
More than half of new generation built in the US is now renewable. You are correct that a 100% renewable grid is going to be more expensive than a 100% fossil fuel grid, but on a marginal basis (the one by which we make investment decisions), renewables have gotten amazingly cheap. Most grids have plenty of room before expensive storage is needed.
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B5 also suffered from the whims of syndication, and god help you if you were in a market like mine where it came on at literally midnight.
I can't speak for other browsers, but keeping a GitLab tab open in a background tab consistently causes my CPU dedicate 15-25% of its cycles to Firefox.

I do file bugs against GitLab every now and then, but I haven't done so for this one because I assume that there's an existing item on file for this (and I don't care to look for it) and that this is all part of the the longstanding, "Yeah, we really need to work on our frontend story, especially for mobile."

The end result is that just don't keep GitLab tabs open. Which is a little obnoxious, given the well-known issues with how slow GitLab is to complete requests.
"If you want the Internet to continue working exactly as it has since it was created, a fair and level playing field for both Google and Grandma, then you're in favor of Net Neutrality.

If instead you want the telecom natural monopolies to take more control of the Internet and change how it works to bias whoever can pay them more, then you're against Net Neutrality."
Minimalism, DSLs, and embeddability. It's got a very good API for binding with C, and is small enough to reasonably be included whole in any project if you don't want to have external dependencies. It's also extremely modifiable due to the minimalism - it's got a few primitive types, basic control-flow, and one structured type, the table (a key-value store) which is used for everything else from lists (integer keys, sugar exists for this) to sets (values as keys, "true" for values) to classes. Dotted attribute access is just sugar on string-key access, so methods are just functions with a "self" parameter (there's sugar to hide that) that you put in the table. Default-values and operator overloading - just specific keys mapping to appropriately-defined functions. I haven't looked much at JavaScript but I think it's a bit like JS's prototypes?

Again, though - unless you need it tiny, you probably want Penlight or something like it to provide all the utilities that weren't quite basic enough to be core. In that case, you've got a good chunk of, effectively, the Python core libraries to work with.
I played through the first couple of levels and was instantly hit by how much better the level design, gameplay and characters were than the usual mobile game. I happily plonked down my ten bucks.

I cleared the game in a single lunch hour, but I'm not disappointed. The game design easily surpasses anything I've ever played on my phone, and there's a bucket of replayability. Pink/purple/black coins to get, speed runs on rally to try, etc.

Giving the first 3 levels for free was a good move - the install is essentially a demo that is enough to let a customer decide if they want to front for the whole game.

I didn't have a problem paying, but I've read a lot of whining on twitter and other places. Younger gamers have an expectation that everything on mobile should be free, but kudos to Nintendo on having the balls to stay away from cheap pay2win tricks and stick to an old school pricing model.

I don't know if it's going to turn a profit, but I really hope so. This race to the bottom amongst mobile game devs is madness and has to stop.
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