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Look at a magazine stand, these are the things people actually care about. If you think of something people care about that isn't on the magazine stand, consider starting one and filling the niche.

Why is it that we would focus on all the things people do not actually care about, as opposed to the things they actually do? Let learning be a pull process, not a push process. You pull in the skills you need to do things well, you don't learn all the things you might need, only to discover you didn't need them.

Shoving information into peoples heads and hoping that it leads to utility somehow in the future is a long shot when compared to using utility itself to pull the required knowledge as needed, and you then have a 100 percent hit rate on the cache. You're never filling your cache up with junk.

Some exceptions to this exist, obviously, such as language, speech, writing, math up to algebra, some geometry, logic, ethics, hygiene, and success tactics such as delayed gratification, goal setting, teamwork, etc.

Those subjects have the largest amplification effect on other subjects. Some other subjects are better endpoints than starting points, and it would be great if the people that loved those subjects wouldn't try and pretend they were good amplification starting points.

The mastery learning you linked to seems to beat a dead horse? More profit can be had by giving up on some hard things and returning to them after you've tried learning things you weren't burnt out on yet. Some people will just always hate a certain subject. If you require 90 percent performance before you move on to the next thing, you lose the profit of task switching for freshness.

Also, this seems to unrelated to the point of better subjects. If teaching technology doubled in effectiveness overnight, you're still learning things you can't make money with and are unlikely to ever use, no matter how well you know it.
But they aren't supposed to be unflinching propaganda machines in the style of Stalin, Goebbels, or the Kim Il Sung either.

And yet, based on the blatant counterfactuals the President's lieutenants have offered in regard to crowd sizes and fraudulent voters -- and various things that Trump himself has said, since the start of his campaign -- that's precisely what we're up against.
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There is an absolute ton of open land on Manhattan island, waiting to be built on. It's the hilariously-too-wide streets and especially our Avenues. We should infill these like crazy, leaving little ten-foot wide streets basically where the current sidewalks are.

This would have the effect of 1) reducing rents, 2) giving us Really Narrow Streets (tm), an excellent idea I stole from [0], and 3) sending property tax revenue through the roof while reducing road-maintenance expenditures so we can spend more money on subways.

Density doesn't have to mean expensive vertical construction. Instead we could just make better use of our existing land by not wasting so much of it on low-bandwidth automobile transit infrastructure. (Side rant: Have you ever counted how many humans in cars get through a crosstown intersection in one traffic light cycle? It's literally ones or tens of people, a pathetically low number).

[0] http://newworldeconomics.com/the-eco-metropolis/
I think it would be interesting to have an init system and/or package manager configured using a logic programming language, such as a Prolog dialect.

For instance, one could write "is_installed(X11) :- is_installed (KDE)" to specify that X11 must be installed if KDE is installed.
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Wouldn't it be nice to have the same level of visibility as AppDynamics without worrying about agent compatibility?

Disclaimer: I work at a startup that is in the same space as AppDynamics
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Hey man, c'mon. Your supposed to search for things with Google.

That's like, what their specialty is.
I think it's becoming a more commonly held opinion in the Scala community that people often tend to go off the deep end with Akka and I tend to agree with that. In particular, I think that most of what people use Actors for can be done with Futures, and what can't be done with Futures can most of the time be done with Akka Agents (http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala/agents.html).

And when I use Actors, I tend to want o wall them off in their own place in the codebase, instead of letting the actor-ness touch multiple parts of the code.
It's a bad bet because Tesla doesn't sell out of lots, and Google won't either.

If you reformulate the bet as "it will be possible to legally ride in a driverless cab without a license somewhere in the world by the end of 2027" I'll take the bet for $20.

I think you might win your original bet on the technicality of car sales lots being averse to selling these kinds of things and ride sharing services being early movers, and more amenable to insurance. Being able to keep cars in a specific service area will help.
Objective-C is a dead end. Swift.
People should NOT trust free VPN services at all, as you don't pay level of service is not guaranteed. What's worse, who knows what the service provide is doing with the data flowing through the tunnels (to)? cover the operational cost (and goal for profits)

Install and configure your own VPN services (IPsec or OpenVPN), use strongSwan (Android native client which works great with RSA authentication with x509 certs, now supports importing VPN profiles in json format, cool) and OpenVPN.

Several past discussions on hacker news to start with:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13351211

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13425728
"To your latter point regarding the fired ambassadors, it's the most scandalous thing since 2008, when Obama did the exact same thing"

Don't all new presidents appoint a fresh new batch of ambassadors ? I assumed it was always done that way ...

Are there cases of cross-presidency ambassadors ?
Wine is at least distinct from emulators for recent consoles in that Wine is purely HLE techniques, without a low-level emulation component (although there was some work to integrate Wine and QEMU during the Mac Power PC days). Wine works on the level of the dynamic loader to handle a foreign object file format and intercept library calls, but all the machine code executes natively.
Except that if his administration wasn't so far behind on staffing up the department, they'd already have their communications people in place and wouldn't need to put in a "gag order". On top of that, it's Washington, DC, if you tell them not to talk, that's probably the best way to get civil servants to start leaking. And then good luck trying to control the message.
Not all passwords are alike. Some are meant to be remembered (your password manager one, the mail account for recovering passwords, and/or a few more) while others can be stored in a password manager and just pasted in the password field without ever thinking on what they actually are.

The first group is the one that should be easy to remember for you but very hard to guess, specially with brute force/automated attacks (and if you want, have measures to be shared with your loved ones on your death). The xkcd approach is a good default for picking them, but you can do your own variation as long you remember it.

And the second one shouldn't be generated with a fixed schema that could be figured out if one or even several of the sites you have an account on gets hacked and retrieved your plain text password.
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About time.

Although I avoid them like the plague the subjective "feeling" of malls has always seemed to me like a succession of gimicks to get people to buy more stuff they dont need. Often, and this is really being presumptive, these gimicks seem most effective on those least able to afford them.

Less malls means less in-your-face marketing for the suceptible masses....unless of course someone built a massive online search engine that was equally effective at pumping ads in people's faces....
Myself, I'm currently working on a game that targets both the web and the desktop. I like the accessibility of the former (just go to the site and play, nearly frictionless), but the latter has better FPS by an order of magnitude[0] for the same C codebase, so I'd rather keep my options open.

[0] Mind you, said order of magnitude applies to uncapped framerate.
Much of it has to do with the preposterous price of real estate and pent up demand in Boston. Finding a condo anywhere near a transit station 20 minutes out will cost you north of 400K. 10 minutes and you're looking at 600K.
a "final" declaration (in Java) would have pointed that out through a compilation error ;)
> that can be interpreted as anti-feminist or has an anti-refugees sentiment

This is a lie.
Also https://www.google.com/search?q=timer
I suppose you could always bring your own polarized glasses with both eyes polarized at the same angle.
FYI, some people rate apps down when the apps beg for for reviews like that.
> But they aren't supposed to be propaganda machines in the style of Stalin, Goebbels, or the Kim Il Sung either.

If this was the goal then banning them from social media would be counter productive.
I actually upvoted @DanielBMarkham, because I thought his comment added value, and he did explain very well that it wasn't aimed directly at my post! :)
No one dismissed your complaint. I presented the developer point of view.

If you honestly think that a single popup makes an app deserve of a 1 star rating regardless of anything else, I disagree. It's like being a single issue voter. It's also more damaging than you know to the app developers who's work you are using (in most cases for free) and I'd encourage you to reconsider. Apple could fix this issue. A few vigilantes can't
I appreciate the link. I haven't used it in a couple of years. It will be a good refresher and will look forward to the course.

Thx :)
It almost entirely depends on the willingness of Congress to enforce the rules, and more importantly the spirit of the rules.

I say "amost" because the Supreme Court has a part to play, but it's in a bad shape right now (highly polarized, split 50-50, with an opening for just about any old stooge to be helicoptered in).
And how much of a benefit it gives vs requiring to make a completely different set of shaders which you can't even reuse? That's a strong claim that you can't have good performance, after SPIR-V is translated by the compiler.
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Tools like Yeoman can help here, but they're also relatively obscure and there's a lot of yak shaving involved in getting them working correctly.

In a sense complaining about this the Node world is like asking fish how they can stand being wet all the time. It's just part of the terrain.

I'm not saying what Node is doing is fundamentally wrong, but that this almost absurd aversion to making decisions for users is sometimes a bad thing.

For example, I'd love to be able to declare dependencies for an NPM module that are open-eneded, like "any one of A, B, or C will do", but like it is with Ruby, Python, etc. you must declare all or none.

I'm not trying to restrict choice, just cover the base condition of when you don't care of providing a sane default.

To a degree Rails has this: The first thing I do in a new project is jettison all the garbage I don't want (see you later turbolinks) and drop in all the things I do want. It's actually just a few lines to manipulate, so I can hardly complain.

In the Node world there's a lot of hand-holding required to get even the most basic application up and running. I can see this getting cut down dramatically if you had things like "npm install express +extras" where there was some way of saying "plus whatever other stuff you think is a good idea", or even an "express-fully-loaded" version of the package that comes with a bunch of stuff out of the box.

I really like Gulp and when configured it gives you an amazing amount of control over your build process. Although the Rails Asset Pipeline system works as a pretty good default out-of-the-box they really should steal some ideas from Gulp on configurability for those occasions where you want to change the default behaviour.

Vinyl.fs (https://github.com/gulpjs/vinyl-fs) is an amazing thing that the Ruby world desperately needs.
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Yes. Where a new admin hasnt lined up a new ambassador, normal practice is to have the old one continue until the replacement is worked out. This admin, for whatever reasons, is months behind the normal schedual. A list of names should have already have been circulated on the hill so that they could be vetted and agreed upon asap. To leave such a post unfilled breaks diplomatic protocols and can be taken as a slight.
If you run `~` before any command, sbt watches the directory for any source changes, and on detecting source changes, redoes the command. So `sbt ~compile` will re-compile any new sources as soon as they are saved.
I'm not sure how much of it is left today, but there is precedent for Prolog in OS startup:

http://www.redditmirror.cc/cache/websites/web.archive.org_84...
> less usable on mobile

To be fair, there really wasn't any "mobile" to speak of back then, so the developers couldn't even try to make it look good on mobile.
The Internet of Mysterious Things
Lisa Seacat DeLuca, a mother of two sets of twins and IBM’s most prolific female inventor, has launched her second children’s book on Kickstarter. The book, titled The Internet of Mysterious Things is a children’s book that uses mysterious creatures to explain common technologies used in everyday life. From Amazon’s Alexa to iPhone applications, children are exposed to an infinite amount of technology. Press an app to turn on a light, ask a question to a personal agent, count steps with a wearable activity tracker, children wonder how these devices work and communicate with one another. The book uses mysterious creatures to help children understand the technology through their imaginations.

“Without imagination there wouldn’t be innovation,” said Author, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, “and that is why I wrote this book, so that children never stray from that innate ability to look at things in a pure imaginative way. Children and technology are our future.”

Each book has ten Near Field Communication (NFC) tags embedded - the same technology used to make mobile payments. Tap the page and more information about how each technology actually works is launched on your device. Parents can decide how deep to dive with their children. All content is located on the internet and as the technologies evolve, the content will too. The Kickstarter campaign goes through the end of February. Click here to support the publication of the book.

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Visit http://bit.ly/iomt to preorder your copy today.
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"Simple" and "systemd" are two things that really don't belong in the same room.

While sysvinit had a lot of short-comings, at least it was simple.
Unless you run Debian stable (or probably any LTS distro), in which case they don't want your reports because "your software is too out of date".

I find this attitude odd, because there are (at least) tens of thousands of wine installs under Debian alone. Surely the information is relevant and useful to people, even if the version is no longer officially supported.

As a result, I've stopped wasting my time filing reports only to have them rejected.
Depends on what you're doing. My current work project is an embedded device that collects various sensor data. It does a lot of math. The data needs to be filtered, unit converted, averaged, and integrated all in real-time. I don't have the luxury of a fast processor and have to employ efficient numeric algorithms that can save clock cycles. I use regression analysis to approximate curves from datasheets and statistical methods to check my results.

Some people actually do need to use math for their professional work. Is this capital-H hard? No. But you do need an education in the fundamentals to know what you're doing.
I understand and will try to reproduce in R what I learn in the course as I have an interest in R, too.

Thx for the info.
I assume they mean same quality in the browser versus on the desktop. The difference is noticeable. Yes, there's differences between machines, but if you're offering only the browser version, the people with the least powerful machines could get a bad experience.
It is okay to write clever code if necessary. Solutions to some problems require it.

Clever code for the sake of being clever is rarely worthy it.
I remember, but it was really quite different than what you'd think of as a chat. I'd write something on your wall and you'd reply by posting something on my wall two days later. Everyone saw both. That was the only chat available. There was very little interactivity.

The wall was mostly equivalent to scrawling something in a public bathroom, hence the name.
I have kind of reduced it to 15 minutes as well. Earlier, I used to read everything. I see that there are increasingly long posts on biology and other topics that can be easily skipped if you read for technology news.
The way you overthrow an overlord you no longer like is by knuckling down, working hard, kicking out a replacement. This is how LibreSSL came around (http://libressl.org).

There's nothing especially wrong with the idea of systemd or the way it's been deployed, but if the code-base is suffering from neglect one way to fix that is to either support the core team, or barring that due to hostility, fork and/or make a work-alike.
Back when the labor movements were stronger it could be a good thing for (almost) everyone because in order to introduce new automation, management would have to offer employees something in return (high wages, benefits, shorter working hours, etc).

The end result is that everyone up and down the income distribution benefited from gains in efficiency. And those who were displaced had little problem finding new work because their former coworkers now had more money and/or leisure time to spend on new economic activity.
Only wish invert y-axis was in settings... I may be old school but can't do first person views when moving up makes you look up. Gotta invert the axis for me to be able to play around without messing me up.
> Mind you, for movies where the majority of many shots are CGI-composited (or for works that are just plain-old digital animation in their entirety), the 3D is "free": you have a 3D master whether you want one or not, and any 2D release is a post-processed edit.

It's not free because although the assets are in 3D, the final render still needs to be done, and for stereo you need to render every frame twice, once for each eye. When I was working on animated features the extra production cost for stereo was ~10% of the total production budget.
Does anyone know where these mall closures are happening? I feel the article barely skims the surface of why these malls are closing.
I'm sure the systemd people are working on one.
https://www.google.com/search?q=3*cos(sqrt(x*x%2By*y))%2B5#q...)
I actually think the fact that many people in the US coming from less free/developed countries is a problem (not the fact that they are here). They might come here thinking..wow this is great..this must be how it's supposed to be (together with the existing citizens who constantly hear they live in the greatest/free-est country on the planet). While when e.g. a Northern European comes here they are amazed by what kind of shit-show it sometimes is in this country.

I think it prevents real change from happening. Questioning why things are they way they are. Should some of the fundamental just be changed/replaced? What country do we want to live in? Do we want people worrying about going bankrupt because they got sick or went to school? Do we want to worry about drinking lead poisoned water? etc etc.

Sorry, I went way off topic. Trump apparently also want to defund PBS/NPR. I see a clear pattern here. None of these ideas will save substantial money and will erode democracy. Who else is going to educate the busy citizen about world events? CNN/Fox?
The suit is b... Err, does anyone know how old the "malls are dying" meme is? I seem to recall hearing this for about the last 20 years or so.
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Sure it was bad, but not for those specific 5 years. When IE6 came out it was a really good browser. The real problem was that people were still using IE6 when IE7 was already out, and even when IE9 was already out.
Please explain.

My point is that stereoscopic vision lets our brains ignore more information by identifying the depth of interest and ignoring the rest.

Similarly, trying to identify the direction of a sound using only one ear is very difficult, and there is inferior signal to noise ratio available to our perceptual system. The same applies to stereoscopic vision.
Dude, not sure what sort of math you dud:

2.5M * 0.99 = 2.47M.

It's 2.47 millon years, not "~200k". How would you do 2.5M light years in ten times LESS than 2.5M years without FTL?

cryogenics does not alter the time it takes to colonize galaxies -- it just seems less to the person travelling, but that's irrelevant in this context, since we care about people NOT travelling (eg: us).
Firefox was released in 2004. It did a great deal to break up IE's market share at that time. I remember it very well, and I liked it a lot back then.

But it is now 2017, and when I decide which browser I should use, I choose one that is good today, and I don't care about the blows its parent company struck for or against freedom 13 years ago.

I also disagree with the assertion that Firefox is better for security or privacy than Chrome is. They are comparable in their security and privacy features.
> The original Facebook didn't have a status to update; that didn't come until around late 2007 or early 2008

It wasn't that late. At early as 2005, there was a form with the prompt "John Doe is:" and you had to squeeze whatever thoughts you needed your friends to know into that format.
"Anti-immigration voters aren't driven by actual immigration."

"and vote accordingly in places where there are few immigrants, in comparison to places where there are lot of immigrants."

No. The number of migrants to the UK is well publicized, and it's quite high, moreover, EU migrants have considerable privileges within other EU nations (i.e. benefits, voting), which would be truly odd for most citizens of the world. (Imagine Canadians voting in US elections).

The population is well aware.

As far as 'those in areas with fewer migrants' voting more for reduction as evidence of 'lack of knowledge' is not quite right either.

People in non-urban areas simply have very different attitudes towards migration - and this is avoiding the fact that many people in Western urban areas are themselves immigrants - or children of immigrants.

Toronto, for example is 49% immigrants, and 75% first generation Canadian. Imagine how they would feel differently than say, Hamilton, Ontario, which has considerably fewer immigrants?

Clearly, there will be differing attitudes.

I'd urge us not to belittle those with whom we may disagree, or else the pendulum will just swing further: were the EU to have effectuated more sensible immigration reform over the years, consistent with the will of the vast majority of EU citizens, then there'd be a lot less turmoil, no Brexit, and there wouldn't be this massive rise of nationalist parties.
The departments weren't told to withdraw from social media permanently. They were just told to hold off for a few days until suitable Inner Party operatives could be installed.
To all those with teenageish children: do kids nowadays still hang out at the mall?
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I couldn't see it in the French version of google.ca, but when I opened the English version in a private window it worked.