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Honestly, I have to respectfully disagree.

I do not believe "...being creative requires solitude, introspection, and deep imaginative thought." In fact, I would argue it very much requires the opposite in that being exposed to different trends, perspectives and ideas forces you to think differently, open your mind and otherwise enables you to approach an idea from numerous angles.

You miss this by seeking solitude.
In that vein, I recommend "The Search for General Ts'o", a documentary about Chinese food in America. It's quite funny and launched me on a quest for the best General Ts'o recipe. I won't spoil the joy of the hunt for you but I assure you, it's out of this world.

http://www.thesearchforgeneraltso.com
Also love how he aliases `str.split` to `Keypad` so you can see the intention of his semantics that much more easily. And the assertion of keypad[2][2], as a quick reference point for himself. The whole thing is just so eminently understandable.
I would be happy with 10-15 minute episodes, like a TED talk. So many podcasts seem to want to fill 45-60 minutes, including 10 minutes of intro banter.

Any recommendations that feature shorter episodes?
Lazy Prime Sequence in Clojure
Maybe yours.
Another tiny new language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona "14 phonemes and 120 root words"
ChromeOS has vetted, high quality drivers and a tightly coupled window manager layer w/fewer layers of indirection.
You need to do more research. Apple says it does have responsibility for workers in its supply chain, and some of your statements are not factually correct.

Here's an example of how Apple actually works. (1) Enough Foxconn workers commit suicide to put pressure on Apple. (2) Foxconn increases pay and improves working conditions. (3) Apple moves some iPhone production from Foxconn to Pegatron, which is cheaper, because Pegatron workers earn less and are treated worse.

Apple moved some production from a company that made real efforts to stop child labor (school-children bussed in for "work experience" on production lines) to one where it still goes on.

Given that Apple has a $200 billion cash mountain and the workers get peanuts, this is a shitty way to behave.

If you want to take the line that Apple can be as unethical as it likes in exploiting Chinese workers and tax loopholes -- because profits -- then I guess you have bigger problems.
> DCF77 (Germany, 77.5 kHz)

Actually DCF77 can be received all over Europe :) I believe reception is even possible in Russia and along the northern African coast.
The Hacker and the Ants
In his 1994 novel "The Hacker and the Ants", Rudy Rucker described a setup for training an AI that uncannily resembles current machine learning approaches.

For example, this passage (though it uses terms related to genetic algorithms rather than neural networks) prefigures OpenAI's Gym and Universe training environments:

“We put a Squidboy instance into each of the 256 Our American Homes, and select out, say, the 64 parameter sets that give the best behavior. Then we replace the worst 64 sets with mutated clones and crossovers of the genes in the top 64,” I explained. “And you leave the 128 medium-scoring guys alone, or maybe mutate them a little. On the next cycle some of the middle guys might do better than average, and some might do worse.” Russ was starting to grin. I was getting over. “So that we don’t have to monitor it, we give all the Squidboys some simple machine-scored task. To begin with, the task will be walking into the living room without killing anybody. And once it can do that, we try a different task. The process works, I promise you.”

And then Rucker makes the leap to a solution strongly reminiscent of Generative Adversarial Networks:

To continue improving the Adze code, we began making the Our American Home test beds more difficult. We began breeding for bad Our American Homes. [...] After a few days of this, the Our American Homes were pretty bizarre-like imagine your worst nightmare of a subdivision to live in. In one house you could see Pat throwing dishes at Walt. In another, Dexter was taking a crap on the front steps. In another, a flipped-out Pat was in the kitchen setting the drapes on fire. In another, drunk Walt hunted the robot with an axe. In another, Scooter was sitting on the ledge of a window holding a carving knife. And in each of the bad Our American Homes, a desperate Squidboy did his best to fit in. Some of the Squidboys did better than others, and those were the ones who would get bred onto the genes of the Squidboys who lost.

Do you know of other examples of art prefiguring current ML approaches?
I highly recommend the book "To mock a mockingbird" for gentle and fun introduction to combinatorial logic.
OLPC started long ago too, at their time a trigger buy price point was way off the map.
* Switch from OpenSSL to LibreSSL

Is there any reason/discussion for this change?
> AWS Premium Support is mandatory

Is Google Cloud support even acceptable? Google is known for poor or no support for most services.
> "I'm wondering why they didn't just use lubuntu"

They could of, and that might have been a great idea. Although not as headline grabby as "we made a new OS!". I think that Debian probably is slightly better on PIs simply because Raspian has been running off Debian from just after the first Pi's came out, and since Debian historically supported more architectures, so maybe makes more sense from stability standpoint to build off of Debian instead of Ubuntu. I recall the creators of Raspbian saying it was actually quite difficult as it was to port Debian to RPi 1 due to the particular architecture, so starting from Lubuntu might have been a little too difficult.
But running a extra 220v line into you garage is not the same as wiring up say 40-50 car parking spaces the extra load will probably trip your breakers for the typical site you suggest.

And you probably are going to want higher amperage 410 V
Even Win10 still has a 32-bit version in fact.
If you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers
We as a society would be better off if those people are provided with growth opportunities.
This is backward thinking. It borders on elitist, although I know it's not meant that way.

Developers everywhere use Paxos without even knowing it, much less having read Lamport's papers, because they're building on top of solid tools that use Paxos (or Raft or what have you). This is more true at Google and Facebook than anywhere.

Same goes for ML. You can study the theory, and you can learn to apply it. In the field's nascency you basically need to understand the theory in order to apply anything, but eventually robust tools are built upon which developers can build systems without having "studied these things for years (by PhD)".
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Actually it's surprisingly good. We use them a lot and even when we were on the silver package (the cheapest) they were pretty quick (under 1 hour for P1 situations [production is impacted]).
Check out HeadSpace if you haven't already. It's a great way to get started with mindfulness practice.
GCE has its own issues. The raw price is different than the real/total cost. In a better world you shouldn't have to choose between just a few cloud peoviders.
The verb might be more obvious but the translation is actually the same: inflammable
> are really close to what the Burp "Intruder" fuzzer does (and I'm not in love with Intruder either).

Have you achieved any good results with the intruder? if yes, an example would be awesome. (Personally I have never used Burp)
"Eventually I switched to Gnome 3 simply because it made configuring wi-fi and power options easier."

I don't understand this comment ... possibly because I have not used modern X (gnome, KDE, whatever) very much at all ...

How is configuring wifi and power a window manager issue ? Isn't there an application for wifi config that everyone on Linux uses, regardless of WM ?

I use FreeBSD and OSX and my FreeBSD wifi config is all done via the command line, but I always assumed there was a nice "wifi config" app for Linux ... you are saying that is part of the window manager and is different for all of them ?
It gives a pretty facinating point of view onto computation in general.

You only the ability to define and call functions. Functions can only recombine their input. And somehow it is still as powerful as, say, python!

Don't need some built in math , invent numbers using function definitions. Don't need built in recursion, just implement it using functions as the y-combinator!

There are also some practical usages of the whole implement-data-as-functions idea. There are some libraries in haskell that do this, for instance, which means that the compiler can optimize dsl's.
previous discussion at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12038298
> What hobbles the web on older hardware is not "2-4GB" but very slow processors (having to handle all that advertising Javascript, over-animated UIs, and bloated front-end frameworks).

^ This, as someone else said in this thread - javascript is the new Flash of the web. At least in the Flash days, many web designers were descent enough to include html only versions. When I'm using my old laptop with js turned off many pages become unaccessible and web makers don't even realize that so many people in the World can't afford buying new computers.
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> how sure are we Microsoft would exist if BG's/PA's parents were illiterate and couldn't afford to give them access to computers?

We can be entirely sure it would not exist. This is not a hard prediction.
Thanks for the reply!

> Everything but browsing WWW.

I meant, are you a developer (backend, front-end, full-stack), sysadmin, designer, DBA, or something completely different.
Gnome 3 users may find refuge in extensions, eg. shellshape provides reasonable tiling experience. Too bad it doesn't work with Wayland.
This is the main criticism of Javascript on the backend. People didn't have choice on the frontend (and largely still don't unless you transpile), and for some reason people thought it was a good idea to bring this "language of necessity" to the backend.

There are plenty of better solutions like PHP, Ruby or Perl.
Didn't know the person who wrote the first Lisp compiler also wrote Spacewar!, two impressive achievements!

However, whilst I respect it's open for interpretation, I would say the first video game was Tennis for Two.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two

There's also OXO, which predates both Spacewar! and Tennis for Two:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OXO
> Other than the educational value of doing so, what would be a reason to write a brand new operating system?

Well an operating system talks to hardware and allocates resources, right? The motivation to write a non-toy operating system must be some strong ideas about how to do those things, and they'd have to be pretty fundamental to give up on the vast advantages of interoperability and pre-existing software that would come from just implementing your ideas on top of Linux or whatever.

Past motivations for writing OSes might be expressed as licensing (GNU/Linux), disagreements about fundamental architecture of operating systems (microkernels), need for hard real-time (vxWorks), or the belief that you have the sheer resources and market power to start again and build something better (Windows NT). Security seems like another likely motivation (There's probably a better example than OpenBSD because I don't think they started from scratch).

I quite like the idea that hardware intended for autonomy might benefit from being implemented on bare metal. Devices that AREN'T general-purpose computers, but communicate only with their own hardware and with the outside world by their actions and by communications protocols, well why shouldn't they run on a custom and highly stripped-down OS? You'd expect to get benefits in performance and a smaller codebase for potential security holes. But I don't think the industry is actually headed in that direction.
Does anyone have a similar guide for ARM, and specifically an Android device? I wrote a small x86 kernel for my class project in school. Being able to run an OS on a phone seems like a lot more fun.
I remember reading about this in the late 90s, open hardware was a fairly new concept then. But you needed to be an electrical engineer to make one yourself, more or less; I wanted to build a pair with a friend so we could play gamed (this was in dialup times). Soon broadband made it obsolete for casual users in urban areas.

There's a modern day equivalent, with up to 10Gbps capability using infrared - http://koruza.net/
It is on my box. I'm running Ubuntu on this one. Like with Windows, there's an icon for networking. It automatically connects if it's Ethernet. If wireless, clicking it displays a list of access points to use. Clicking on a protected one asks for a password. It saves the password then just connects to it anytime it's near. Pretty simple but probably distro-specific app.
What reason is AWS premium support mandatory? I ask because I'm currently building out SaaS offering on AWS and haven't yet hit any issues requiring support. Can I expect to start seeing issues as traffic scales up to a certain level?
A cascade of end or a cascade of } is a bad smell about the code. I try my best to avoid that.

Python has a solution to that problem but I think it's worse than the problem. end and } never gave me as many bugs in 30 years as having to reindent in Python did in one year.
The basic principles are not a great mystery; actually implementing them is hard though. The best ways we know take a lot of time and dedication (e.g. hours per day of 1:1 or 1:few full-attention effort from an adult tutor who is both a subject expert and an expert teacher), more than we’re usually willing or able to spend on a child. Take a look at the Polgar sisters.
Mine was a TI-84, although an 83 would have worked too. I wrote it in native assembly, since TI-BASIC doesn'the give you enough control. You can do clever things with that jack, like play music if you've got a 2.5-to-3.5mm adapter.

And yeah, it was a blast!
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Thanks for the reply!

So what sort of work are you doing on the command line, design, development, admin? Be as vague or detailed as you like.
The blue FUI is quite beautiful. How can I get that look on my Ubuntu machine?
> HandBrake used this part of RAM and could not cope with false data read from RAM

Which in itself alludes to the encoding stream itself (or one of the intermediate streams during the encoding process) having some form of strong channel coding - in error detection - either by design or not. Detect 1-bit error in a gig+ stream, perhaps without easily being able to locate it, beyond saying it's in such or such chunk (the current frame(s) being processed).
When I switched from OpenSuse to MacOS as my primary desktop, I needed a replacement for DVDrip (although, there is a dvdrip for Mac via brew but I had trouble getting it to work.

Handbrake was the top search hit and immediately became my workhorse for ripping DVDs. (Main use case is to rip my own DVDs for more convenient viewing on another device)

Well done, Handbrake.fr
By the way, mine is version 0.10.5 and when I tell it to check for updates, it says:

HandBrake 0.10.5 x86_64 is currently the newest version available.

I guess the update isn't in the queue quite yet.
I use awesome on top of KDE to get the benefits of a full desktop environment with the efficiency of awesome's window management.
My morning routine consists of asking Alexa:

> Stop

To cancel the alarm

> Ask National Rail to get my commute

The clunkiest of commands - the built-in "get my commute" skill only works for road commutes. My journey involves an overground and an underground train. The National Rail skill is good, but has this weird (I think, platform dictated) trap where you have to tell it "No [I don't want any more info]".

> Do I need an umbrella? / Is it going to rain today?

My experience with the weather skills is hit/miss - I'll get a weather report but not an estimate answer to "do I need an umbrella" (probably/unlikely would be fine).

> What time is it?

I don't have a visible clock at the moment, so I ask this repeatedly to keep track of time.

--

Overall, the conversational interface feels a bit clunky, and I'll be building a smart mirror in 2017 because I feel it's a better way to communicate status-y information. That said, having to ask for info has been a great way of discovering what information I really want in the morning.
As a counterpoint, APL was a very popular language in its day. Special symbols, very obtuse and concise syntax, heck, it even had a special keyboard. There are some niches where such choices can work.
Genetic superiority as a trope distinctly lacks the kinds of compassionate loving-kindness, strong moral/ethical codes, and good leadership skills one would want out of the supermen put in place to rule mere mortals such as ourselves, hence Iain Banks' reply, when questioned whether Culture AIs would be what gods are actually like, was "If we're lucky."
For those interested in more, here is a revealing, hard-to-put-down story in the New Yorker on a similar topic:

The Kitchen Network: America's underground Chinese restaurant workers.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/cooka%C2%80%C2%...
I would be more nuanced: I feel like the solitude, introspection and deep thought are needed to gather your creativity so to speak. Being exposed to different trends and perspectives only exposes you to other people's creativity, and while it might allow you to see things from different angles, I would argue that that is independent from being creative, which to me is very much a unique and personal thing, almost tied to identity. Other people might spark your own creativity, but it's still your creativity.
> Haskell is more general purpose than Elixir

why do you say so? elixir seems pretty general-purpose...
Some of them may have made it into master, but not a release, I thought the rust patches had, and the OCaml ones, but not 100% sure.
Yes - it was the classic "big bang" project, the only options were massive worldwide success or total obscurity. It relied on top-down funding to push it to the intended users. Whereas Pi bootstrapped from tiny initial funding.

The main problem of OLPC was Segway-level hubris, in my opinion.
Re-creating the “breathing” LED
I try to convince my teams to use wiki for the first draft and then export to whatever tool you prefer for delivery versions. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I believe a good measure is the likelihood of someone else doing it.

If you're forced to shoot someone innocent, you can do it if it's obvious that someone else (a fellow soldier?!) would be doing it instead and you will suffer from the consequences.

Also as a dev, if you design a user tracking feature, it's clear someone else will do it if you don't.

However, for the first atomic bomb there is probably a time window where you might not be replaceable and hence saying 'no' would have had an actual effect.

I know it's morally questionable (mind though it doesnt tell you what you should do, only what's acceptable) but avoids all avoidable stuff and is just honest enough to acknowledge the situations in which you don't have the power to affect outcomes.
We moved back and forth between AWS and GCE (based on who gave us free credits). Once we ran out, we chose GCE and never regretted it.

GCE has many quirks, for instance the inconsistency between API and the UI, it misses the richness of the services offered by AWS but everything GCE does offer is just faster, more stable and much more consistent.

One of the biggest problems with AWS is that once you outgrow the assigned limits, it becomes a hell to get more resources from them. We're running on average around 25k servers a day, majority of them preemptible (spot). AWS requires that you request exact type and location for your instances. GCE only asks for a region and then overall resources (e.g. number of CPUs).

Also the pricing is much less complicated. 1 core costs y, 32 cores cost 32*y.
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You're conflating your desktop environment with your window manager. For example, I run xmonad on top of xfce and use the standard xfce tray, wifi config, etc. Xmonad just replaces the xfce window manager.
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Far fewer security issues, as much code has been removed.
How many people use APL currently? Is it easy to find APL programmers?
I'm unsure it is possible to translate the Netflix-Marvel series' success to non-Earth stories, let alone to Star Wars. To have the deep stories that you enjoyed they need enough screen time to tell the stories. The 4 individual stories + 1 miniseries of the Defenders is supposed to be about $200 million [1]. That comes out to 26 + 13 + 13 + 13 + 7? = 72, which is $2.7 million per episode. This uses mostly existing sets and straightforward special effects. Star Wars in particular is commonly set aboard complex spaceships or vastly different alien worlds in the company of aliens and robots. Therefore the investment required to initiate this seems like it would be significantly higher.

Game of Thrones, for context of a series with both well known actors and amazing sets and effects, is about $10 million per episode. If we assume that a Star Wars series would cost about the same and it would take approximately a similar number of episodes to tell such a story, that would be $720 million. I might be wrong, but I don't think such an investment in film has never been done before.

I think it will depend greatly on both the continued success of the Marvel TV shows + how the remaining Star Wars films perform.

1: [Marvel’s Netflix Bound TV Shows To Cost A Whopping $200 Million](http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/marvels-netflix-bound-tv...)
I speak Esperanto (at least used to, I grew up with it), but I have come to learn the practicality of a language is in it's usage, and so English wins out (I'm from Germany, so English is not my first language either).

English is also an interesting language, as it's a funny mix of other languages in it's history and shaped out fairly leanable (limited number of weird inflections, usage of an alphabet, etc.).

Furthermore English stopped to be strongly correlated to a single country during the colonization era and England's diminishing influence thereafter. This makes it well suited to be an accepted international language.

Anyway, what I wanted to say is that in most cases the objective of these artificial languages used to be to create an independent and easy to learn language for human communication, but in reality a language that fulfills this purpose grew out of an existing language and at the same time it uproots is origins and becomes this collectively shaped something. History is full of irony indeed. :)
AWS premium support is the best support experience I have encountered so far and should absolutely factor into choosing a cloud provider. Reading frequent stories of Google support nightmares across all their services makes me think twice about using GCE. GCE must find a way to counter this.

Also, the AWS premium support fee is negotiable for some customers from what I have heard. They don't like to negotiate down, though!
Or a more pure, simpler LISP like a member of the Scheme family.
Too many small functions means name collisions. Names like "product" are precious real estate.
Given how many bugs & errors stem from simple fails in range checks etc, I would much rather go with the tried and true way rather than use something "clever".

Quoting http://stackoverflow.com/a/16019052/1470607

Note that this trick will only work in places where `sizeof` would have worked anyway.
What's the best recipe?

I'm a huge fan of General Ts'o chicken so always on the look out for a good one!
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