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> The one aspect of the film that doesn’t seem to be coming true is its central premise. The idea is that no human beings have been born in the last 18 years, so when Theo meets Kee, an African woman who is miraculously pregnant, he has to protect her from the various groups who want to exploit her condition. Obviously, we know that this infertility pandemic hasn’t happened: in Children of Men, the youngest person on the planet was born in 2009. But even as a concept, this particular one doesn’t resonate with our current anxieties, because overpopulation is more worrying than population decline.

It's not really about population -- it's about having no future, which is something a lot of people constantly worry about.
Sounds like there's room for a startup to provide a satisfactory internet service in your city.

Maybe also room for a startup that could keep your train station free of rats, monkeys and feces and trash.
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Couldn't you use face recognition and skip the deep learning part.
I was playing with the Sonos Python API and I found one where if the camera spotted an office worker it played their theme music.
It used some face recognition API.
But good work nonetheless
it looks like responsive view does not work
Yeah Michael Caine's "Pull my finger" scene - it gets me every time.
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Isn't Venus almost devoid of hydrogen? We're going need a lot of it to make water.
The Mandelbrot Set equation, just for the infinite cool visuals, given its simplicity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set
Assuming you read Dear Abby with your pants on, I suppose.
I'm failing to understand. President Obama kills off the muslim registry because it's obsolete? It looks like some sort of PR move, because I'm sure the NSA tracks and holds the same exact data.
Give Squalor (https://github.com/square/squalor) a shot.

You might find https://github.com/relops/sqlc really nice from an API design point of view (inspird by jOOQ, a Java sql library).

Sqlc is no longer under development, but you can easily use it as a reference to adapt other libraries to have a similar API.
I should have been more clear - I'm not defending demonetization. I'm really, really tired of standing in ATM queues. Just pointing out that black money is a real and serious problem at an almost intractable scale.
> what if there was a fact checking organization whose fact checkers were all drawn from the ranks of Breitbart and Infowars?

Bravo. This is nice a blend of a counterfactual with equivocation. Liberal sites are not the equivalent of Breitbart and Infowars. And liberals (and pretty much everyone else) generally ignores Conservapedia.
Submitted this a while back, the Morning Paper did a good write up of BTrDB which is another very fast TSDB written in Go, storing 2.1 trillion data points, and supporting 119M queries per second (53M inserts per second) in a four-node cluster

https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/05/04/btrdb-optimizing-storage...
This is the part I don't understand... the Yubikey U2F-only option (1/2 the price) is not listed as supported by this application.

As best I can tell, U2F as it is used today isn't supported by Windows Hello; this is a custom app to support the more advanced Yubikey products.

Apparently there is some v2 of U2F coming down the pike that vendors are waiting for before implementing support; however, I couldn't find much information on how this currently affects Windows Hello:

https://groups.google.com/a/fidoalliance.org/forum/#!topic/f...
I didn't realize "wicked" was still slang. Regardless, Wickedly Prime strikes me the wrong way as a name -- it's almost too self-conscious.
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Great reference. The shellphone is one of my favorite parts of that movie.
The pay phone definitely reveals you're dealing with an old Law & Order episode. But it's not an anachronism. Law & Order doesn't purport to display a period of time different from the one in which it was made. When you watch a 1990's Law & Order you see the world as it was in the 1990's. For it to show a scene where someone bums quarters for a pay phone is no more anachronistic than it would be for a film/tv-show depicting a scene from the 1890's to show people riding around in a horse and buggy.

Much different when you're watching a 1990's film that purports to display life in 2020, 2050, or 2100. Then the use of 1990's technology in the film is a true anachronism.
I love this film and at a certain level, it is plausible (and even natural) that in times of existential fear, societies lash out against outsiders/immigrants.

And yet I have economic quibbles!

In an actual fertility collapse, a highly-developed country like the UK would have an immense surplus of infrastructure, housing, machinery, etc – capital – compared to the dwindling number of new, young workers. Immigrants (of all ages, cultures, and skill levels) could become incredibly economically valuable. In comparison, reliable 'guard labor' to try to hunt and confine immigrants would become very expensive.

Compare, for example, the depopulation of the 'Black Death' in Europe in the 1300's. For those who survived, wages and opportunity grew, and attempts to enforce older rules which bound people to undesirable situations collapsed. Wikipedia suggests that "[p]lague brought an eventual end of Serfdom in Western Europe":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_Deat...
Answer to my question: https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-...
Dividend paying stocks.
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At that point, you can just use Apache Drill over raw JSON files:

https://drill.apache.org/
Our IT guy used to refer to SMTP as Satanic Mail Transfer Protocol. I think he was joking -- it doesn't look too bad.
Want to optimize those 10,000 (or fewer) steps? Walk faster, sit less
i remember many old-school DOS games featured a "boss key". with a single key-press, the screen would instantly hide the game and show some innocuous "business app" instead.

this is taking it to a whole new level. i love it
These days a lot of the money in Hedge Funds is institutional. Typically institutional investors coming to funds already have a specific allocation to an investment style, market, or asset class that they are trying to fill. So they already have an idea of whether they want market exposure, which would be benchmark oriented and should have high correlation to the benchmark/market, or whether they want no market exposure, which would would have low to zero correlation to the market (they also could want exposure anywhere in between). So in long only (no shorting) funds benchmarks can be arbitrary (though are usually indexes), but they are fixed and agreed upon by manager and investor.

The mandate for the manager in benchmark oriented strategies is to track the agreed upon benchmark with a correlation (or more accurately Beta) of as close to 1 as possible, while still beating it by a certain margin. So if the benchmark is up 10, the fund should be up 15. If the benchmark is down -10 the fund should be down -5. Technically, this margin is often measured not as the difference between the fund and the benchmark but as the annualized standard deviation of the difference, known as the Tracking Error(TE). The TE is typically agreed upon between the fund and investor(s).

It's very common for a fund to charge only a management fee in benchmark oriented strategies. In a benchmark oriented fund with a target TE it would not really make sense to charge performance fee on the magnitude total fund performance since that will largely (or completely) be a function of the benchmark/market - remember correlation should be 1. It also would not make sense to charge performance fee on the excess return over the benchmark because that is incorporated into the TE and should be relatively constant over time (in the example earlier the fund should always beat the benchmark by %5.

So usually there is just the management fee. The reasoning is that if a fund can yield consistently high returns with a consistently low risk (as measured by vol/std. dev. of excess returns a.k.a. TE) then they have some skill and should be compensated accordingly. The excess returns adjusted by risk of excess returns is called Information Ratio (IR). IR is analogous to Sharpe Ratio(SR) in non benchmark oriented funds. In a long/short fund, the higher the SR the higher the fees usually. Similarly, in the long only benchmark oriented fund, the higher the IR the higher the management fee.

This is how fees usually are determined for funds that have benchmarks.
Engineering is much more of a blue collar profession than say, private equity. Many of my classmates, like myself, came from the midwest, and we studied engineering because we love what we do, not for the money.
How does FB expose people to real-life bullying? I'm not seeing that connection. (Or are you saying that bullying still occurs on FB using real names?)
> It's not really about population -- it's about having no future, which is something a lot of people constantly worry about.

One thing the movie (unintentionally) got right was how absurd this is. It really ruined the movie to me, TBH, because it was laughably implausible. Reproduction is what life does best.

I'll obviously have to watch again for the world building....
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>There's no such thing as objectivity

Obama being born in Kenya is objectively false.

Podesta running a child-trafficking ring in pizza places around Chicago is objectively false.

Moon landing and flat earth conspiracies are objectively false.

Thinking that Global warming is a hoax created by China is objectively false.

I hate to bring up the cliché of "post-truth" but when you say things like "there is no such thing as objectivity" it is difficult not to do so.

I'm not directing this at you in particular, but it's a common line of argument. Say Snopes write that the claim that Global Warming is a hoax is false, or that Obama isn't a secret Islamic radical. When they dispute something that many people believe in, the argument from a depressingly high number of people is not to scrutinise the facts that Snopes used and come up with flaws in their reasoning.

It is to vaguely accuse them of being "globalist", say that their argument is not valid because their founder did something, and that there is no objective truth.

Reality is complex, but the problem arises when people use this complexity to mean that any belief they hold, however unsubstantiated, cannot be falsified because everyone has an (((agenda))), which is defined as holding any view, on any subject, slightly different from their own.

Sure, I think Snopes should be looked into, like any institution with influence. But I am far more interested in journalism that extensively rebuts many of their arguments- and they have made a lot of arguments, rather than providing fodder for the inevitable future ad-hominem rebuttals.
Doesn't that just fall under libel?
I don't think the BIOS is responsible for this kind of stuff.
On your website, create a section where describe your process in processing the visas and indicate within that process what you will do to keep their data secure.
A limit on the number of lawsuits you can file is a limitation of your Constitutional right
He means people discriminate on many other qualities and factors: age, class, profession, religion, appearance, language, grammar, accent, weight, education, political party, musical taste, programming language, text editor, etc...
How would vitamin B supplementation compare? I know there has been a lot of shitposting in the last few years how "multivitamins don't work", but I have a hard time actually believing it.
Yeah, good luck with that. One would prefer jumping off the top of Burj Khalifa rather than deal with the bureaucracy and the illiterate government officials who control these things.

In my opinion, an ISP startup over here is only possible if either the government wakes up (not gonna happen) or if someone with millions of dollars to spend on infrastructure and bribes is willing to do it.
The anxiety from the film is very close to Europe's anxiety, I think. In the story, England is relatively stable and prosperous in a world full of chaos, but there's a sense that if refugees were allowed in, the stability would be upended and the limited resources of the country would be unable to support the onslaught. Sure, in the world of the film, the English are trying to enjoy the last decades of human existence while clinging to their privilege, whereas in real-world Europe there's a feeling they'll be demographically out-competed by immigrants. Without the pressure from low fertility among natives, European countries wouldn't feel so threatened by immigration.

Ironically, of course, the only workable solution to the demographic crises in Europe and Japan is immigration. Otherwise, pension responsibilities will overwhelm the working-age population and the whole society will collapse.
Your loss buddy.
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or see which apps people are playing with:

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Heh, one time the boss walked back into the lab, looked at one of my workmates computers and said "Ah, I see you're running lookbusy" (for the younger amongst us, lookbusy was a program that would intercept a hot key and display a fake Lotus 123 spreadsheet on your screen)
Damn, Gitlab always crushing it.
But carrying a concealed micro-sd card with encrypted data would be a lot more convenient. Heck, you could fit many times as much data as in Johnny Mnemonic (40GB, I think?) inside your head too by shoving a micro-sd card up your nose or into your ear.
I cringe on anything that uses MySQL to store information, but looks like something I wished I made, so I will definitely check this out, thanks for posting.
We can't forget that Boltzmann was purely thinking of (near) equilibrium structures. Structure emerges spontaneously minimizing free-energy, totally OK with LBs high entropy laws.
It's no secret that foreign intelligence agencies of all nations, not just the CIA, can't fully decouple their charters (effectively to simply gather information to paint a clear picture of what's going on in the world to help inform national security decision makers) from the reality that their directors are appointed by partisans with agendas. This has been a contributing factor to bad things happening in the past, many of which you mentioned, many of which involved the CIA, and many of which occurred during the Cold War. But to suggest that the policies and practices of that time are standard operating procedure now, and that the CIA is orchestrating destabilization efforts in Syria for profit, is to disregard public information concerning the evolution of the role of the CIA in US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. That nations back certain players in international conflicts to advance their own agendas (like the proxy war in Syria now) isn't equivalent to intelligence agencies of said nations deliberately destabilizing regimes for profit or other nefarious ends. That nations (at least the military industrial complex within nations) generally profit from war does not necessarily mean that all war is started for profit. I will concede, however, that I believe this played an outsize role in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
yes, you can tell that to the technology illiterate people, who are of course the majority.
can we maybe make a new sort of Godwin guideline where we stop taking people seriously once they've shown they can't tell apart legal rights from moral rights?
The fact is overpopulation isn't an issue, it's a myth.

World population is decellerating at a rapid pace and will begin decreasing within decades. It's painfully obvious to anybody who looks at the numbers. But science fiction has convinced everyone otherwise.

Just look at all the countries with programs trying to entice their citizens to start families and make babies. Governments know its going to be a catastrophe.

Our governments spend money at a rate that only a larger population in the future can afford to pay for. If families aren't producing above the replacement rate, we're doomed.
Original blog post author here. Thanks to everyone for their comments, I've tried to answer as much of the issues raised as I can in a new blog post, here.

http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2016/12/medical-ultraso...

TL;DR summary - ultrasound engineers are not stupid, are adding capabilities as they can, and driving costs down, but demands keep rising as new applications are found, and there is not yet the "killer app" demand for ultrasound that will drive smartphone sized economies of scale to lower prices massively. Regulation is not a huge cost driver (and you seriously do not want no regulation), and there is no cartel action in ultrasound conspiring to keep prices high, it's actually an incredibly competitive industry.
Why are planetary orbits roughly circular? Is it because

(a) if they were any other shape (e.g. very long isosceles triangles) conditions wouldn't be suitable for intelligent life to evolve, and we wouldn't be around to observe it, or

(b) Newton's law of gravity constrains them to conic sections. Stable orbit of single planets must be circular or elliptical. Any planets with highly eccentric orbits would have been ejected from the early solar system, leaving only those which are roughly circular?

Of course, the answer is (b), i.e. instead of the emergence of intelligent life determining the laws of physics, the laws of physics allow the evolution of intelligent life. But we only agree on that because we already know Newton's law of gravity. If we didn't know it, some people would believe (a) while others would think that one day a law of gravity would be found which determines planetary motion.
>Sounds like there's room for a startup to provide a satisfactory internet service in your city.

Unfortunately in most cities, Airtel (India's biggest ISP) has a monopoly and the other local cable providers either cut the cables for other ISPs or either simply steal them (it was/is a major problem for BSNL, the state-owned ISP).

>Maybe also room for a startup that could keep your train station free of rats, monkeys and feces and trash.

The trouble here is that the railway contracts usually go to people who throw in a bribe to the station-master and the higher ups in the Railway Board. And of course, the contractors don't do their jobs properly because, well, people gotta earn some money.
Memory capacity limit? The Intel Xeon E7-4809 supports 3 terabytes of memory. I don't know servers, but does anyone have a need for more than a terabyte of memory outside of supercomputing?
Here's another way to look at the Anthropic Principle: https://goo.gl/O6c0Zi
I have been thinking about doing office hours for a while. The proper hacker spirit would be to do it at like 10pm at Happy Donuts in Palo Alto.
LinkNYC is still rolling out, but, in my experience so far in Manhattan has been pretty great. They have strong backhaul, good radios in the devices themselves, and enough of them to make a mostly-continuous network on heavily traveled avenues.

https://www.link.nyc/

TransitWireless, the in-subway wifi in many train stations here, is comparatively much worse - but tbey also provide underground cellular service, which is almost always usable.
Fair enough, I guess.

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/seven-nobe... might change your mind on whether there are smart YECs. Apparently the inventor of the MRI machine was one.
I have been thinking of doing office hours as well. Are you thinking of using software to help scheduling?
How exactly do you handle a null pointer exception?
Cool bot. I am Philz lover and love this idea.
The VM they both run on is the same - so you'd have to know some basics about that regardless. You'll also have to learn how to read Erlang syntax since there are many 3rd party Erlang libraries you can use from Elixir. The syntax is slightly different from Elixir, but the mental models are pretty much the same, so it's really not that difficult to get a working knowledge of reading Erlang.
> "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" no longer resonates with anyone born the last 20 years or so

when reading that my mind conjures a gray sky, but then again when I was young TVs displayed static if you turned them to a dead channel, not solid blue...
If you asked for Theorems, god the conversation we'd be having.

For equation, probably, Maxwell's equations, because I use them in my research.
I know engineers at Facebook who only have high school educations.
It is less a question of censorship and more a question of removing egregiously bad "news" that is explicitly written to collect views.

If you believe flagging false headlines like

“Michelle Obama DEMANDS Americans PAY UP To Give Her Mom A Cushy $160k Pension”

is fascism, and that advocating war-crimes and bringing back libel laws like Trump did is not, I don't know what to say.

There is a whole industry set up to profit from making fake news that they know is false: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/in-macedonias-fa...

If you think any attempt to reduce profiteering by knowingly generating fake news that gets millions of shares is fascism, I'm not sure what isn't.

I'm not sure if there has been any 'transition' from accusations of racism to fake news. The "birther" controversy, especially the way it treated by places like Brietbart was both racist and fake, I doubt that you dispute that. Trump retweeting Stormfront infographics that claim ridiculous stuff like 90% of white murder victims were killed by black people is both racist and fake. This is hardly a "liberal" or globalist position, even Fox news called out Trump on that.

Regardless of political orientation, objective facts do exist. I don't believe in censorship, but I think if a site wants to flag a post saying "reasons why the moon landing is a globalist conspiracy" as false, I'm not going to cry that it's literally fascism.
So you "cringe on" Wikipedia?
im already talking about this

vaccines are little ufos
(that cause cancer, breast cancer testicle cancer and vagina cancer specifically). and a host of other birth mutations. article with ~25 graphs (disease rates post vaccine boom 1975) coming soon. if you dont want to wait google '4chan/sci/ archive' and search that archive ' Vaccines are devolving people?'

additionaly the sperm count avg has bombed since 1975 when they 4x'd the vaxx rate every 5 years
Is there any case law on this subject?

Instructions for building a GPS receiver (which is what source code is) seems like a logical extension of Bernstein v. US.
Why would they be triangular? There is nothing apparently unparsimonious about elliptical orbits, thus there is nothing that requires explaining.

The anthropic principle is not about intelligent life determining the laws of physics. There is no magic there. You have the causality backwards.
Nose, ear, really?

On a more realistic note, what is the maximum microsdxc card capacity of a human rectum?