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> 10 minutes of ads in 5 minute increments for a 20 minute show

So just about like broadcast TV

> Sometimes it'll run ads AFTER the show ends so you watch ads to see the credits, or in order to see the next episode!

Also just like broadcast TV. The horror!!!

> They have literally made streaming worse than regular TV

Sounds more like they've just foolishly brought the worst of broadcast to the web.

I'm sure you realize Hulu has an ad-free option, right? So in order to save yourself the $2-$3 it would cost you to go ad-free on hulu you've decided to just take it instead. Why? Because you deserve to get it for free? Does Hollywood simply exist to entertain you at no cost?

That's a hell of a sense of entitlement you've got yourself there kiddo...
It talks a little about it, but it's not called out as a specific pattern with a chapter all its own.
In three years? No way.

A lot of white-collar jobs may be automated (or otherwise changed beyond recognition due to technology) after about thirty years maybe, but not three.
Just call it "statistical machine learning" or some other vacuous term and people who know enough will respect it (maybe after rolling their eyes a bit), and people who don't will be happy to hear you are using machine learning.
They've made this web for themselves, by lobbying for longer and more restrictive copyright.

The most pathetic irony here, is Disney, who made a small fortune milking public domain fairy-tales and yet have fought to prevent their extremely popular figures to become part of that same public domain - even after they clearly are part of a common world-spanning culture - much like 1001 nights, or the Greek mythos.
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I think part of the reason this happens is Java has wider support out of the box for most data sources via JDBC than Windows has with ODBC/ADO.NET. I mean, it's a close race, but most new open source databases have Java/JDBC drivers first and then ODBC second, for example. I think this may change a little with .NET being opened and cross platform, but it might take a while.

Of course you can make Java/JDBC connections from Windows to databases but many users somehow find it more difficult and I've noticed an annoying trend among large enterprises running Windows on the desktop to not want to support Java/JDBC tools on the desktop, unless they are invested in it.
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Not that weird I think the net force on the Captain's stick was probably still forward with the camera jammed there with him trying to pull back.
Word macro malware found targeting MacOS
It takes a little bit of time for other trackers to gain traction. Right now I think the most promising public tracker I know is idope.se, enjoy :)
Every single Advantage patient is enrolled in "oringinal medicare" parts A and B, the only difference is those parts are administered by private insurance...and all the additional benefits and cost savings by law on these plans. That is to say the benefits and cost savings of advantage aren't there because the private market they are mandated.

Take my 1 example MTM, Medicare Advantage patients don't get that benefit because the private market is driving competition and better care, it's because by law the Avantage plans have to provide MTM under penalty of losing their Medicare contacts.

I'm not denying Avantage is better than original Medicare, but to claim the reason Advantage may be better is insurance companies and not the legally mandated benefits and costs of Advantage plans isn't good faith, especially when you already minimized >80% of the patients get mandated drug coverage. Yes it's good but is has nothing to do with insurance creating the market conditions that created the drug coverage, its law and subsidies. Though it will become clearer as the insurance continues to consolidate and Medicare patients will only be able to go to doctors, hospitals and pharmacies owned by the insurer, because that's where it's going for Medicare Avantage patients, costs will go down but I'll be damned if I call that a "good outcome".
In Firefox, I just right-click on the back button, and select.
Oh, my mistake. I was under the impression that sed/awk/grep/ack/etc etc were part of the POSIX standard toolchain, rather than the GNU toolchain.
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The notion that you can only do "serious ML" if you have a PhD/published papers is a No True Scotsman fallacy.

The modern tools for ML/deep learning are accessible to all open source and well documented. And as I note in my top-level comment, old-fashioned statistical methods like linear regression are more than sufficient for real-world business problems, and definitely do not require a PhD to grok.
> if it mentions GEB, off it goes into the circular file

Why?
A crazy $15 experiment kit
The operative word here being "unknown", as opposed to "non-existing".
That's due to financialization of housing, it's a subject of scholarly work; do a web search for a nice rabbit hole.
None of that stuff matters in reality.

You should think about ISA implementations as verification problems instead of problems in building a silicon implementation of the ISA. From that perspective it should be obvious that intel has the best, richest, deepest verification set that exists in the CPU space and since it is tied to x86, that is an advantage for the two x86 vendors. Verification is incredibly hard for complex CPUs and building up verification is time intensive. This is part of the reason that the brainiac end of the design spectrum has pretty much become just x86 and POWER which has nearly the same history.
Leary was tapping into an existing techno-utopian dream in that part of the world.

FTA:
>First published in his book Terra II (1974), it’s a neat summary of Leary’s vision of the future of the human species, the next step in human evolution.

Yet we have poems like 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'[0] by Richard Brautigan written in 1967. The same year Brautigan was made Poet-in-Residence at CalTech.

This isn't to say that Leary didn't help shape the modern and stable form of west coast techno-utopianism we see today. I think he did, however he did this by amplifying a subset of the already existing techno-utopian ideas into the greater sphere of American culture.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...
The Linux kernel does the same thing. Run htop and run a single threaded workload. You'll see it migrate around between all the cores.
Date: 1997
I could not disagree more. I often have to write without syntax highlighting at work, and there are zero positives and many significant negatives. It's not there as "training wheels" or to look pretty, it's there to help you avoid trivial mistakes and easily navigate through the code. There was discussion here recently about why we still edit code as text rather than as a tree, and syntax highlighting helps bridge that gap slightly, so you can think of the code as a tree rather than a long series of meaningful letters.

Seriously, have you tried this for more than a few minutes? I've been doing it for a year and a half and I've never seen any benefit. You're only "free from the ball and chain of syntax" until you try to run the code, when you realize the syntax is still there, and you're only "free" from being able to clearly see it.
Can you expand on that?

I don't know too much about Canada, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Ontario indicates that it at least sanity checks.
> Swedes typically do 9h days because we take long, unpaid lunches

This is a habit I've carried over from Switzerland and I couldn't defend it more forcefully. Full-hour+ lunches, preferably offline.
Stage plays have some 'research' into this area. People want some separation between the 'action' and where they are sitting so they don't have to move their necks much. This is one of the reasons why the orchestra pit is where it is, acoustics also plays a significant role.
Machine learning would imply the machine needs to learn it not me. Knowing something about it and actually using it are quite different. While it might appear "everywhere" most of programming is still not ML and probably won't me. When I started in 1981 I didn't know C yet, that did not make me a dinosaur then either.
Gaben did nothing wrong. Hail gaben.
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A 15 character 64 to 32-bit generator I devised which passes dieharder:

(x+=x*x+9)>>32;
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Personally I think that there needs to be a separate "layer" for UI elements in 360* video encodings.

the whole thing of "show the title in 4 different places around you so you won't miss it" seems like a poor hack, and it feels like being able to include a separate "stream" which will be pinned to your view would alleviate a lot of the problems.

If you want to get fancy you could allow some programmatic interaction between the "view" and the "world" to give some kind of stylistic hint on where the user should look, but i'm not really sure how that would work, and at what point do you stop making a movie and start making a videogame?
This was in my .signature for a long time back in the 1990s.
Omg, hilarious, I laughed the entire way through. Your creativity was/is genius. I love the animal sounds in the background. Were they real?

Edit: you said in another post further down it was a recording.
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What percentage of people doing this (or the "This is Lenny!" thing) would it take to make the scam unprofitable? Is there any work on that topic, like "what percentage of honeypots makes scammers quit"?

I don't get many "Windows Support" scam calls, the two I have gotten I was unable to play them for long, as I am a poor Linux user, not Windows knowledgeable at all, but I generally keep the "Card Services" people on the line for a few minutes.
I've finished and very much enjoyed the first volume, which is equivalent to the curriculum in any first year compsci course from what I've seen of university lecture schedules (Data Structures such as Lists/Stacks/Queues/Trees/Arrays,GC,'helper functions' and program design,O-notation analysis,testing and debugging w/trace routines, I/O algorithms) but of course in much more detail with much harder problems.

To understand the first few hundred pages on mathematical preliminaries, the books "The Art and Craft of Problem Solving" by Zeitz and "Concepts of Modern Mathematics" by Stewart, were essential, both of which were recommended here in other book list posts. I also had already read the CS:APP book which covers x86-64 assembly so the MIX introduction was fairly straight forward. http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/

A book for me that was hard to read, is this book: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl.html Practical Foundations for Programming Languages each page I have to translate with the notation guide, and is a research exercise searching Wikipedia for additional material.
Trump’s energyplan doesn’t mention solar,an industry that just added 51,000 jobs
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Have we already ruled out the possibility of dark matter just being huge numbers of black holes without notable accretion disks?
Last night I dreamt about having to work in a programming environment where objects appears horizontally and operations appeared vertically like a timeline. On second thought it was more of a nightmare.
This reminded me of a dream I used to have of getting into the car, opening up the Chrome developer tools, and using Javascript to drive.
Feelings of worker insecurity helps the economy. It reduces our ability to shop around, and ask for higher wages.

Job losses from automation, or really just the simple idea that there isn't enough truly valuable industrial work for 7 billion+ people, help keep the employed in line.
>Or buy it and wait hours to download it?

How it it streamable on Kodi, but takes so long to download from a legitimate source?
I'm not into the 'zombie apocalypse' type scenarios, but you can't be serious in thinking that hammers are as efective as a shotgun.

Plus, note that we only make it easier to get a permit if you're a sane, law-abiding adult.
>> "The boxes are specifically marketed for copyright violation, sure. But Kodi is a general-purpose media player."

They're not just marketed for it. They come setup so that you go to the TV shows section and see a list of every TV show and every episode that you can play with one click. So comparing to a computer marketed the same way doesn't make much sense. A more accurate comparison would be selling a laptop that is locked down to the Kodi software setup to stream any TV show or movie the user wants illegally. I'm 99% sure all of the features the fully-loaded boxes come with access to in the UI are illegal.
Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach http://matrixeditions.com/5thUnifiedApproach.html Thick, but after this book you ll be well prepared to ML.
Here's my suggestion to people worried about this: Learn about how to use bayesian models and clustering methods, and how to recognise where they may be applicable, and you will already be able to produce things that will astound executives out there, and deliver very real value for your employer / customers, and those methods are simple - you don't even need to understand the maths to be able to make use of them, though it helps.

By all means, start learning actual machine learning methods too, rather than just statistical methods, but as I pointed out elsewhere on this thread: there is low hanging fruit everywhere.

Not nearly all of those will need "proper" machine learning, and even fewer will be willing to pay what it will cost to hire people with in-depth machine learning experience or pay the development costs or computational costs anytime soon. But a lot of them will buy into the buzzwords and look for a cheaper halfway-house or be open to pitches.
> Any place doing serious ML will require the person to have a PhD or have publications and presentations at conferences like NIPS/ICML.

Stop spouting this bullshit. You don't need a PhD, and you don't need to advance the field to be doing 'serious ML'. All you need to be able to do is know how and when to apply it to solve crucial business problems.
When O'Reilly mentioned Putin, the person, being a killer, Trump answered that the U.S. (not a person) isn't so innocent either, which yes true, also clearly deflecting and avoiding saying or acknowledging anything bad about Putin. What immediately came to my mind was O'Reilly could have followed up with "is the President of the U.S. a killer?". I thought missed opportunity, but of course, that could have never aired.
>Prime has a boat-load of movies and tv shows available for free or pay to watch on demand.

...in the US.
> responsible for more atrocious over-abstracted, unreadable, hard to maintain Java code

I have the misfortune to remember what some object-oriented codebases looked like before "Design Patterns".

While people—generally those who haven't read the book or completely glossed over the section on the consequences of each pattern—have certainly over-used design patterns, I'll still take that over under-use of them.

An over-engineered too-many-design-patterns codebase is annoying and tedious. A hundred thousand lines of code filled with half-way-reinvented design patterns with its own made up terminology, hard coupling everywhere, piles of global state, and no real architecture to speak of at all is a nightmare.
I'll place this in the same folder as the articles claiming Wix will eventually replace web developers.
I don't think he was complaining about the lack of a syntactic token reading "const", but rather the inability to protect values from modification (in certain contexts) without incurring the overhead of hiding them behind an interface.
Late to this thread, but what sibling comments fail to mention is that employer-provided healthcare also benefits from a tax advantage: healthcare benefits are paid for with before-tax money and are not taxed as income.

So a middle-salary employee is looking at a 25% increase in healthcare costs due to paying with after-tax money.
Link without going to google.com:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38901498

Still has a dependency on resources from ampproject.org, though.
> Space migration: an obscenely expensive way to sideline earth's environmental problems

What‽‽‽ There are so, so many reasons for space migration that have nothing to do with earth's environmental problems – assuming you mean global warming/dimming/<things humans are affecting>. Asteroid. Super volcano. Gamma ray burst. Magnetic field reversal. Pandemic. Super fungus. Artificial super intelligence. Nuclear war.

Our understanding of life, geology, climatology, astronomy, etc., has improved much in the last 6000 years, but at a fundamental level, we are extremely rudimentary. We don't really know what's normal on a galactic/universal scale.

It's like saying having a failover server is just an expensive way to sideline taking good care of your primary server. Huh? No, having a backup plan is what you do when something is important, because shit happens. On a long enough timeline, shit that you can't predict always happens.
Yeah, this is actually an overlooked variable which is significant.

Millenials are't getting married and having kids like previous generation. Lot of professionals living by themselves.

I thought hard about how to fix this social isolation plague that is especially bad in city core. Especially for people who are on the autism spectrum disorder, ptsd, add and severe social anxiety.

I don't see any solution. This is the outcome of our free market capitalism experiment. It explains why communal and group orientated cultures suffer under the weight of isolation and work stress. South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China all suffer from high rate of suicides probably in that order.

I often wonder if this capitalist system that structurally oppresses a large chunk of the population with our things, wants, race to obtain scarce goods, was purposefully installed to keep people in-line.

Take a look around next time you are packed into a tiny Skytrain box. Everyone is a slave to this tiny screen in their hands. A lot of those people probably live by themselves and not talk to anyone at work or outside. They wear fancy clothes or cars or new condo but these are ephemeral they add diminishing returns to the quality of our life which is tied to human connections.

We've replaced humane aspects of our society with things and I feel like none of the cities they listed in that article really is a good fit for "human quality of life"
I believe your branding hypothesis is correct, and all of this hype around neural nets and machine learning is creating a startup ecosystem ripe for market correction. I've heard a million times that most machine learning problems are solvable by regression, and I expect to hear that a million times more.
ntpsec isn't a project to revamp or cryptographically improve the NTP protocol; it's an attempt to do for ntpd what BoringSSL and LibreSSL are doing for OpenSSL.
Yes, even if your license says you have to quack like a duck when you view the source, if you intentionally upload it to github... they have a right to host on their servers it without quacking. This is not malicious. And is kind of obvious?

Here's what bitbucket says:

>Subject to the terms of this Agreement, you hereby grant to Atlassian a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to (a) collect, use, copy, store, transmit, modify and create derivative works of Your Data, in each case solely to the extent necessary to provide the applicable Hosted Service to you and (b) for Hosted Services that enable you to share Your Data or interact with other people....
I always wonder what's the best way to assess environmental impact of the oil pipeline. Sure, it's going to leak at some point, and create a mess that may never get cleaned up. However, is it safer (or energy efficient) than carrying the oil on trains/trucks?
> You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It's worked for many people, and it can work for you. - Ron Minnich
I'm almost in the same boat. I'm putting all new repos in Fossil.

I like being able to have complete control over the web interface. I like that it's lightweight, unlike say Gitlab, yet provides a full website. I like that the bug tracker is part of the repo rather than part of a company's proprietary infrastructure.

The biggest advantage, by far, is that it's not Git. I agree that Git is good for a lot of projects. It's an unnecessarily complicated beast for small projects with a couple of collaborators, neither of whom are willing to spend hours dealing with weird commands to handle a repo that got messed up for unknown reasons. Fossil, unlike Git, is version control that others are willing to use.
Cram into a shoebox apartment in SF with a bunch of roommates and live it up! Young single people can get more creative than couples/families with finding housing, which makes the bay area more appealing as an option.