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Since you're so adept at deciding who to trust and judging people's honesty by watching their facial expressions and body language on television, what do you have to say about Judith Curry blinking continuously at 85 blinks per minute during this FOX News interview?

https://youtu.be/g5LpwL4NKbw

Do you trust what this guy says about blinking and lying?

https://youtu.be/HiTbd4Mc3kk

Have you ever read and listened to the words she's actually written and said? Or did you only listen to Tucker Carlson's leading questions and slanted innuendo while interviewing her on FOX News? And how much do you think they're paying her to come on the show and stare into the camera and lie while blinking at 85 BPM?

She directly contradicts your claims (and her own) in her own words: "Nobody and certainly not myself is claiming that I am persecuted or there is a plot that is out to get me." -Judith Curry http://www.keithkloor.com/?p=3734 -- you're the one who's incorrectly claiming that she was somehow "silenced".

The late great Stephen Schneider said:
"So they make this assertion that they’re being systematically excluded, because they have no other argument, they no have evidence for the assertion. Let them do a study. Let them show us the letters of all the papers that have been rejected. What we did is look at real evidence, independently collected: How many papers, and how many citations. That’s independent, and the only way you can claim it isn’t true is to invoke some massive conspiracy that is frankly laughable." -Stephen Schneider https://thinkprogress.org/interview-with-scientist-stephen-s...

So show us your evidence. Give us the names of scientists who have been silenced, or retract your false claim and conspiracy theory. But there is no doubt: Judith Curry is most certainly not one of those silenced scientists you hypothesize.

And remember what Stephen Schneider also said: "We've seen a lot of strawmen from Judy lately. It is frankly shocking to see such a good scientist take that kind of a turn to sloppy thinking. I have no explanation for it." -Steven Schneider http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101101/full/news.2010.577.ht...
Can you recommend any good RTS games for iOS?

Personally, I use my iPad for games when I travel (and sometimes during my twice-a-week commute) and at home I play games almost exclusively on PS4. I rarely, if ever, play games on my laptop now, despite having over 300 games on Steam.
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Yes, but they won't (or rather shouldn't) be able to get a valid SSL certificate for the domain. This is literally one of the scenarios SSL was created to protect against..
"The Bible predicted the end of the world in the first century."

The Bible explicitly refuses to give a date for the end of the world, and proactively voids the claims of any who would.

If anything the Bible anticipates a long patient delay with a purpose:

"They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” ... But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance."
This is mostly because Linux can't manage Thunderbolt power states. I would be disappointed if MacOS didn't do it however, since the hardware is supposed to be "integrated" with software.
Its not difficult not install, but there are often a few tweaks that are needed to get everything working. Sometimes that can be quite tricky even for experienced people (I can't get both bluetooth and wireless working reliably one one machine I have, despite having tried 3 or 4 disrtos on it).
Ask HN: How to get in to the .NET or Java ecosystems?
Can anyone give an objective summary of tools,apis,libraries that you should be at least briefly familiar with to get hired in your random non-hyped corporation ?

I would say it's way easier to start with something like Ruby and its ecosystem than Java or .NET (or even JS these days).

Which one is easier of the two ? (of course not talking about the grammar and runtime but tools,libs,documentation,apis around it. By doing pet projects and slowly getting familiar with tools like Maven and Spring one cannot expect to be able to pass very specific questions related to them.)
'Nintendo absolutely killed it'

I'm afraid I have to disagree. Here's why:

- price: much more expensive than most people were expecting (£280 vs for example, £200 for a PS4 with a game)

- battery life: potentially only 2.5 hours? Really not good enough for a handheld.

- storage: only 32gb, will run out very quickly

- online offering weak vs ps4/xbox as only NES/SNES games and you only get them for a month

- very few titles on launch and key titles (e.g. Skyrim) delayed until much later in the year

Battery life and price are the real killers for me. I can see Nintendo slashing the price soon, just like they had to with the 3DS.

Edit: It seems like many others weren't impressed either. e.g. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-13-nintendos-preca...
If you struggled with this explanation then I can try another a bit more IT related.

A blockchain is...

A distributed fault tolerant public database that no one owns and everyone can update.

Has this been done before?

Kind of, distributed database are not new. What is new is solving the problem of multiple updates changing the same data at the same time.

So for example let's say the following happens to our distributed database.

User 1 send the following SQL to the network.

Update customer set balance = 1000 where name = 'Customer1'

and User 2 at the exact same time tries

Update customer set balance = 2000 where name = 'Customer1'

A blockchain database will have both statements in a block and execute them on every node in the same order. Other distributed databases would run into race conditions.

So when you hear the statement

Blockchain startup X is going to disrupt industry Y.

You can reorganize the statement into something like.

Startup X is going to disrupt industry Y with a new type of distributed database.
There are whole teams and pipelines dedicated to making sure data is deleted on all media, tapes included. The long tail can be affected by things such as a machine holding a bunch of GFS chunks from your files that went to the hardware repair queue in the meantime. Those chunks might not even be that useful without the others stored on other machines, but in the general case you can't make guarantees that e.g. they don't hold information that a skilled person could use to identify you.
Thanks EFF.

I hope this case exposes Ayyadurai for the fraud he is.
this one certainly doesnt need to occupy your HDMI slot.
Sony was still fighting copyright when they launched DAT (IIRC, the Japanese DAT players that launched before the US didn't have DRM), it was the US record industry that opposed it vehemently, bringing Sony to testify in front of congress. There's a scathing open letter you can find from the US recording industry basically calling the Japanese invaders trying to kill music.

After losing that battle, Sony said, if you can't beat em, join 'em, and acquired Colombia Records.

edit: found the open letter https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=oCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT10&lpg...
Have you seen this video [1] and does that change your opinion? I suggest the full video, but your point is discussed starting at around 3:20

1: https://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml
I thought it's some kind of app store for android phones. Not sure why I made this association. But I guess their name might be one of the reasons of failure. It's simple and short, but doesn't really tell anything about the product.
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Absolutely agree. This whole presentation just shown that Nintendo excels at killing good hype. I know several people(including me) who were going to preorder today as soon as they could, but after the news dropped about the price and how late the games are going to arrive, no one did. I work at a large games publisher, sitting in the office full of people who are full-on gaming enthusiasts, and I haven't yet met a single person who is not disappointed by that presentation.
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Which one has the better screenshot?
I need to point out the obvious because it disappointed me after reading the title: that was not made in MS Paint
Then you have ring species[1] that blow a nice big hole in the interbreeding based definitions of species.

Species and race are vague terms we use for convenience. That's all. I think keeping them vaguely defined is a feature not a bug, because it could help prevent people assigning too much weight or meaning to them. If people get the idea that race and species can be precisely defined, then maybe they can be measured? Maybe we can use that to derive tests or policies? But trying to precisely define race and species is futile, like trying to put light in a box. I'd rather knowingly and consciously keep the ambiguity, to remind myself that the terminology isn't the reality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
Be careful negotiating severance if your company does not like you or has a poor culture.

Making a counter offer can be taken as a refusal of their offer of severance.

Companies can't just not offer you severance if they make a habit of it so they may take advantage of being able to deny you the option.

I am not a lawyer but I know people who have lost their option of a severance simply by trying to negotiate for a better offer.
SystemD was so polarizing for me, I was a Fedora user and RHEL user for work- but it started consuming everything and giving really bizarre issues... I tried reaching out and explaining to people that it wasn't working in the way I expected or, asking them to point me towards the docs so I can at least learn how to use journalling properly so it doesn't hide issues from me.. and was met with some hostility.

When I asked to disable binary logging entirely because it kept getting corrupted and was opaque I was met with "Unlearn your old ways old man"-style responses and "You can just log to rsyslog too".. No, I want it disabled.. I don't have a desire to log twice..

It was then I realised I was at the mercy of systemd, they can push whatever and reject whatever and I'm completely out of control- I cannot introspect their service manager effectively, it's non-deterministic. It just reeks of hubris from the maintainers. It does mostly the right thing for most people, and they compare it to sysvinit which admittedly needed love. (and, was not a process manager, was only a process starter).

So, I adopted *BSD on the server. And christ is it wonderful.

I still use Arch/SystemD on my desktop at home, because it's actually pretty useful on laptops/desktops. But I swore a vow never to manage a server with SystemD on it.

I'm still runing RHEL6 at work, for the next OS, I'm pushing my very large corp to adopt FreeBSD as an alternative. That's a fairly large amount of money that Red Hat will lose and I don't particularly feel bad about it.

They forced my hand.
For an image junkie like me Flickr is still my favorite internet black hole, after all these years. Nothing comes close to it. No matter how much time you have spent on Flickr, you will always find some wonderful collection of images you have never seen before, on any subject imaginable.

I really dread that some day Yahoo will manage to casually destroy it.
If you are not hard up for money you should immediately look for a nice trip somewhere. Be flexible with location instead of time to get a good price. Take three weeks off. Nice places this time of year might be Cuba, Thailand, Costa Rica, Florida, or Big Sky.

Polish your resume on the plane.
All Thiel is doing is admitting that he has no idea how to innovate further in this area.
https://alpha.app.net/ has info
For you (and even then, I doubt you went on Remote Year for the inside information on wireless connectivity...)

I worked from Morocco last month, so I'd be the first to concede their internet isn't particularly good by developing world standards, but there are an awful lot of remote workers for whom a 200 dirham dongle would do the trick. Not to mention an abundance of coworking spaces in London, where domestic wifi tends to be excellent, many of which are geared mostly or exclusively to permanent residents.
Much, much more frightening than website blocking in Australia is this:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-05/telco-industry-pushes-...

Our esteemed government told us universal metadata collection was for fighting terrorism. Then, over the Christmas period when the public is disconnected from politics, a sham enquiry was held to open up metadata to civil courts (i.e. for copyright, divorce cases etc).

Needs a bit more than router DNS changes to protect one's self from this. VPN at a minimum. Given our already rubbish speeds, it's really annoying to cop a further speed and latency hit from a VPN (along with the $$$ it costs).
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I don't mean to pick on you, but this is getting tiring for me. When you say 'marketing' you mean advertising and promotion, because product definition is part of marketing. Sizing up the market and determining what to build is marketing (inbound), advertising and promotion is also marketing (outbound). I realize these definitions have been in flux, but I'm talking traditional MBA definitions. I feel a lot nuance is being lost on people who believe marketing is a sophisticated-sounding term for advertising and promotion.
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I'm not reading into titles. I watched a lot of the videos. Don't dismiss it on your superficial evaluation of titles or prejudice about the conference.

AGI is in fact a developed field with key insights into general intelligence. You should study it.
Especially compared to when VS is getting complete support for C99; which IIRC is sometime between when the sun stops burning and the heat death of the universe.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/11/16/permissiv...

> The Visual C++ Team is excited to announce that the compiler in Visual Studio 2017 RC will feature a mode much closer to ISO C++ standards conformance than any time in its history. This represents a major milestone in our journey to full ISO C++ conformance. The mode is available now as an opt-in via the /permissive- switch but will one day become the default mode for the Visual C++ compiler.

I'm really excited about having MS right up at the front of the pack with GCC and Clang.
Yes! Speed is absolutely archaic. Lack of links can explain some of that (ISP monopoly is another one, lack of investment is so much easier when you control everything...).

I'm amazed by the response times our users get in AU.
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> How is that a problem?

The problem is it has the wrong default. The equivalent in NaCl is crypto_box(), which requires the sender's private key to authenticate the message. If you really wanted anonymous messages then you could generate a new private key for each message and immediately throw it away, which gives you a much stronger signal that you're doing something unusual.

What those OpenSSL functions do is generate a symmetric key, encrypt the symmetric key with the public key (to give to the recipient), and then encrypt the data with a symmetric cipher using the symmetric key. Those are each already basic primitives, so all the combined function is really doing is making it easier to do something insecure that most people would rarely actually want.

It's possible to use it correctly, but it's too easy to use it incorrectly. Doing something uncommon with bad security properties should be possible but not easy.
Stroustrup himself was quite upset with the lack of major things that made C++17. I too am waiting for parallelism to be part of the standard.
1. The transactions.

2. The mechanism used to determine what 'mining' bitcoins means is defined by the bitcoin client software implementation. In case of bitcoin it is about finding a suitable random number by using brute force.

3. I believe the cartoon is using sahti in comparison to bitcoins or ether or any internal currency used in a public blockchain.
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I really wonder how it feels to create user-hostile software like that that is borderline malicious and barely adds any value.
I consider "everyone can read everything" one of the most important parts of Twitter.

I wouldn't use Twitter if it was limited to people I already know, for instance.
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How can something be >100% efficient?

We abide by the rules of thermodynamics here boy.
That's informative, thanks.

Do you know if this is available on any particular distros out of the box?
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The ones who need help are the Aboriginal people. Stop with the aboriginal genocide!
With the NSA's budget, I don't see why they would limit themselves to mail-only attacks. They could compromise any level in the supply chain, especially for targets which are worth the effort. They, or, more likely, the Brits tapped Google's DC-to-DC fiber and reverse engineered all sorts of internal protocols, as seen in Snowden's leaks.
Interesting... according to this paper

http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~salaa/wttm2015/html/abstracts/Hasenplaugh.pdf

it's the opposite. The maximum reliable transaction write capacity if contiguous and well-aligned is small on POWER (63 cache lines) and high with TSX (400 lines). TSX is using L1 cache to buffer writes, and so the number of concurrent transactions only scales with cores. Whereas POWER uses a per-thread buffer which can scale linearly with the number of hardware threads (8 threads per CPU, 80 in their test).

So if I'm understanding this correctly, TSX has better capacity but poor concurrency, and POWER has poor capacity but better concurrency.

That's very cool.
I'd say a bigger one is Youtube. You'd be hard pressed to find a track that isn't an Youtube. In addition there are plenty of live sets and DJ mixes. I don't find the ads too intrusive. It works well enough.
The same argument can be made defending the practice of sweatshops.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this wasn't made in MS Paint. All the edges of the shapes look way too anti-aliasied.

Looks more like something made with paint.NET.

(I have never used the MS paint version that comes with win10, so maybe they improved it a lot)
Plus there is the Newton Project, http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1. One time I looked his alchemy writings were in a code that he had concocted. I recall he had astronomical (astrological) terms for chemicals. Maybe, that ties in with what someone else wrote above about there being a belief at the time that things on earth reflected what was in the heavens.
The comment above yours made me think. If the outline holds, they are about to become even more worlds apart. It's funny to think that our grand children may marvel at how workers of today could move between fields with relative ease which then will be deemed worlds apart. We may all look a bit like renaissance men to them.
Everyone has their own preferences. For exmaple, I have no idea why anyone even likes Facebook ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Twitter is the only Social Network I use.
For anyone interested in old music media types like these, I highly suggest Techmoan on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan
Go is omakase.

"But there's a fine line between a friendly suggestion and a belligerent diner. That line is usually exposed when the suggestion is declined: "I'm sorry, but hotdogs don't really fit our sushi menu, and while you may not care for unagi, we picked it for a reason. But thanks for the suggestions!". If only most arguments about the menu would stop there.

But they don't, do they? They usually carry on and on. BUT I REALLY DON'T LIKE UNAGI!!! IT'S OFFENDING MY TASTE BUDS THAT IT'S PART OF THE DEFAULT COURSE SETTING. TAKE IT OOOOOOFFFFF!! Okay, buddy, sit down and have a sake." http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/rails-is-omakase.htm...

Don't get me wrong, I love the language, however, I think about this everytime I read about language proposals being nuked (cough generics).
Oops! I always thought riflemen had more hit point stats. Your example is much better. Sorry.

About city walls:

The computer loads cities up with a massive amount of units on deity (usually enough to defend against a one-turn attack, I find it difficult to park enough cannons or artillery next to their cities). The only reliable way I have found to take out cities is to spam their cities with diplomats and sabotage until I get their city walls, it is always the very last thing he will sabotage.

It's hard to get a technological advantage for a long time because computer players will always help each other with technologies so in that sense they can get 6x as much science output as the player, although usually less because the computer is not very clever about boosting their trade.

I think the balance would have been better if catapults, cannons, and artillery straight up ignored city walls like the howitzer does.

The pollution from nuclear missiles contributing to global warming make the endgame frustrating too because the computer loves to use nukes, and you are punished for their pollution squares as well as your own. Sigh, time for a new game. lol
> going on vacation, which I believe is a bad idea after a lay-off as your mind constantly replays what has just happened

so true
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How empathetic of you. So any substance which eases crushing symptoms of a mental disorder is a crutch to you? Glad you're Ok.
> Aphex Twin released a recording that took advantage of this.

Did he? I remember Autechre did (under the name Gescom).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minidisc_(album)
The updates are definitely improving the language, so no need to be tired of them.

Many things have become easier, or in some case much, much easier, to do since ++11. And some things that were previously nearly impossible are now intuitive and fluent.
Because success in one field, such as politics, is no indicator whatsoever of aptitude in an completely unrelated field, such as genetics or anthropology.
For me while playing, there is only one subtitle to choose from. The one I chose before starting the movie. No matter how many subtitles the file actually has. I'm using the Apple TV Plex app.
It seems that once the S70 was released it was removed as an optional line-item across the range and was bundled into the final price. However owners of suitable non-S40 vehicles from before that point can still enable access for a fee ( they have the hardware already installed, it's a database flag change ).

"If your vehicle is eligible, the Supercharging upgrade option will be visible in the Available Upgrades section."

http://shop.teslamotors.com/products/enable-supercharging

The S40 has the hardware for Supercharging but is excluded by policy.

I'm only aware of this because a friend in the UK has been trying to work-out what's applicable in this market and Tesla's constant changes to the policy makes that difficult.
The auto manufacturers have numbers showing an advantage to modern automatics. The jury is out on real-life results. My bet is it depends more on the driver than anything.
no, guy that invented calculus independently, but around the same time as someone else did