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> A model of the brain in silicon

That'd be nice, but we don't have a model of the brain right now. Artificial neural networks are so far removed from biological ones that the name is nothing more than a historical curiosity.
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The guy threatened to kill a politician and blow up a mosque. I'm not sure "internet troll" is a sane description. It's not like he was posting about emacs on a vim mailing list. He committed real crimes that are illegal whether the internet is involved or not.
Do you? Seems like there should be a xkcd covering this. The usual case as near as I can tell is something like: Make a minor correction to an obvious error, including a link to a source and other wikipedia articles. Edit gets immediately reverted by whoever has declared themselves the guardian of that particular page. Talk page lights up with all sorts of tangential discussion of whether or not this particular subtopic should be corrected or deleted or reworded or something else. Someone else tries making a modification, which again is immediately reverted. People who enjoy the drama have a self-interested desire to perpetuate it. If you are lucky you could go back 6 months later and there's maybe a 50% chance that the original has been corrected (that's if the original topic hasn't come into contact with the non-notable deletionists).

Anyone know when C2 became a javascriptified dumpster fire? Seems like that's a "Day the Music Died" event that should have a date associated with it.
I'm reminded of the initial "processing" scene in The Master between Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix.

Hoffman's character repeatedly asks questions to Phoenix's character, inducing a hypnotic state. Repetition can also be used as a form of mind control.
Consider following markup:

<div>
some text
<foo>first</foo><bar>second</bar>
</div>

There is no way in CSS at the moment to define content flow of the div above. The only possible way is to define `display` on its children.

Say, you want that div to replace content vertically as if all children are blocks and text runs are wrapped into anonymous paragraphs:

<div>
<p.anonymous>some text</p>
<block.foo>first</block>
<block.bar>second</block>
</div>

That's impossible in modern CSS without redefining `display` in children. But usually you cannot blindly say

div > * { display:block;}

What if some child uses `display:flex` ?

Problem is that `display` defines how element is replaced among its siblings. But not how its children are laid out.

At some point it was a proposal to add `display-model` css property. So you can have

div { display: block; display-model:flex | table | etc }

Without it we have ugly semi-solution of combinatorial explosion:

div { display: flex; }
div { display: inline-flex; }
div { display: table }
div { display: inline-table; }
div { display: grid; }
div { display: inline-grid; }
...
They also snuck in some fee hikes to their "policy update".
> It's difficult for knowledgeable people to disagree on these matters...

See eg "Speed of light" for an example of the complications that people get into in writing an article that's readable by the general population, but which is also correct for the 5% of wikipedia editors who have a good grasp on this.

See this thread for an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13468651
Our business uses them to restrict portions of our shared drive to certain groups. They're also used to restrict programmatic access to system folders, by Windows.
Are you really going to nitpick my words? I'm sorry that me saying 'depending on your company and plan' didn't include every possible profession in the US. Your argument is still shit and untrue. If healthcare cost more than a few hundred dollars to thousands 90% of americans wouldn't be able to afford it, which last time I checked wasn't the case.
an american having a master's degree and getting low wages could mean they're indeed poor. a near-lifetime of non-dischargeable debt repayment.
There are lots of ways to go wrong, of course, but make very sure anyone you hire with high social skills also has high ethics (there's an inverse correlation.) Because a good actor can trash almost any tech business, if they have enough knowledge to pass. The truly competent techies will be outmatched.
I read that regarding all your PoS that Paypal is about to enter into direct competition with e.g. Apple Pay and others.

Also, I read that they will raise costs soonish.
People will continue to prefer PayPal alternatives when the costs are so much higher to use paypal and I would assume this is generally difficult to enforce because it relies on a user telling paypal that a vendor asked them to use an alternative method. I would make paypal my last payment option offered to a buyer.
> But to constantly ignore or avoid objective evidence? How do people not become ill at the thought?

Information bubbles. Too many people only consume information that aligns with their beliefs. To many, they don't feel that they are ignoring or avoiding objective evidence because they easily dismiss it as lies without any evidence.
I do a few outdoor sports and I have noticed that when I get into a particularly bad scenario time seems to slow down. Actually I am not sure that it does, but the adrenaline seems to turn off the filtering so I remember it in slow motion and in a lot more detail.
It might be gibberish at a factual or logical level, but at least for a certain portion of the populace, it hits all the right emotional notes and checks all the right boxes in their value and belief systems.

Of course, you won't see it yourself if you don't share their worldview and are unable to empathize and put yourself in their shoes.
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> even though they contain no homeopathic poisons.

Something that is genuinely homoeopathic doesn't contain any of the poisons either. Or at least at such a low concentration that it is insignificant.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathic_dilutions):

Hahnemann advocated 30C dilutions for most purposes (that is, dilution by a factor of 1060).

...

Dilution advocated by Hahnemann for most purposes: on average, this would require giving two billion doses per second to six billion people for 4 billion years to deliver a single molecule of the original material to any patient.
Ah yes, this of course is why urban cores nationwide are so cheap and empty!

Honestly though, this is your experience and nearly decade of car-hostile planning has paid dividends in cities across the country, even if it doesn't work for all use cases. The suburbs and car-centered world only work in a single use case.
Violating copyright is theft:

http://www.copyhype.com/2013/09/why-copyright-infringement-i...
That's interesting. When did you join, and where? There was no such option in 2011; you just ended up wherever you ended up, and were expected to make the best of it.
Oh please. Do you seriously believe that or are you just trolling?
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I prefer to use layer2 bridging in OpenVPN with a separate hardware device (openwrt on a wallwart router, rackmount atom board). This way my client machines have no idea they are on a VPN and everything gets tunneled though the VPN (no DNS leaks unless my router is misconfigured).

In OpenWRT, it's basically:

-setup OpenVPN with a TAP device

-create a VLAN, assign some ports on the switch (optionally, a wifi SSID for VPNed wifi)

-bridge VLAN with TAP device
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really? I cant find that option. How does one sign up?
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I'm shocked - there is no Wikipedia article on this!
That all makes sense, and the immediate return + threads solution you describe sounds like what I was imagining, I just didn't have the context to use the correct parts of the Erlang FFI. I'm glad that there is a pattern for that kind of thing!
Why can't you (work 100% remote)?

I write software so maybe I just have a biased worldview ;)
Kinda sounds like a terrorist to me.
thats untrue.

Look at all the articles written when Beyonce posts her pregnant body on Instagram as an example. we only think twitter has so much influence because thats where a lot of techies hang out.
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So Microsoft, Google and Apple do it, it is bad.

Linux does it, it is me that doesn't understand, I see.
You are welcome. Best of luck with the project.
Palo Alto, because the wierd mix of small town relaxed feel and tech buzz

Berlin, because of the art, free spirit attitude and good startup and hacker scenes.

Amsterdam, due to all european head offices, great people, relaxed living and culture.

Zurich, great university and great outdoors. Nice people. But expensive.

Boulder, for reasons already mentioned.

Melbourne, little Berlin with better weather :)
Why do threads like these talking about a specific aspect of something always devolve into hatejerks about the subject? I've noticed the same thing on threads about Apple as well. It's talking specifically about personal attacks yet people are somehow relating that to the reliability of the site. It's not wrong to criticize Wikipedia, but then you should focus on the topic of the toxic atmosphere instead like how that might compromise neutrality by keeping out editors who are more conflict-averse. (or actually back up how you think the site is unreliable, considering a study in Nature found Wikipedia to be just as reliable as Brittanica)
You are speaking for others and making biased comments to attack a fairly mature technology of which you yourself claim to have no knowledge. Poking at it with the (rationalized) argument "your bandwidth will suck" is the epitome of a zero-substance comment.
Forgive my ignorance but haven't there been experiments that prove quantum theory? Why all the fuss about quantum computers if its just a pie in the sky hypothesis? (It's not a field I am familiar with other than on a very superficial level, so an "explain it like I'm 5" would be most useful in responses to my points).
Yeah, the reality we live in is a binary one where we must go along with exploitation of the poor, or we're killing them. Nothing else is possible.
Seems like a travel guide could be useful for journalists, I'd imagine most people don't even think about something like a travel kit.
This is probably the most important question to be able to answer effectively, though I (and it appears many others) have trouble coming up with a compelling reason why people should be worried. Most of the people I try to convince remain unworried, thinking along the same lines -- why is it bad if they know more about me? I inevitably try to explain that 1) it's not beneficial to you, and 2) more importantly, bad actors could use the information unscrupulously. However, they believe that if this information is helpful in any way in protecting them, and otherwise doesn't really bother them, then it's a positive trend.

I would like to come up with some powerful (frightening) examples of why the data collection going on is so dangerous, and why people should be worried and careful.
"Most software at Google gets rewritten every few years" at incredible expense. That sounds crazy, but the article claims it has benefits including keeping up with product requirements, eliminating complexity, and transferring ownership. Would be interesting to see some kind of metric indicating how much of an outlier Google really is here, and what measures it takes to make sure rewrites aren't worse (second system).
A small college town with at least a handful of tech companies. Boulder, CO was close to that for a while, but it has become far too expensive and is turning into Bay Area Lite. Still a beautiful city if you're rich or well off.

Knoxville, TN always looked like a great place. Great outdoors, decent weather, smallish, good job market for the size.
From my brief experience with (English and Korean) Wikipedia editing many years ago, the problem was not "toxic" editors but more with entrenched ones. They never resorted to personal attacks, but instead used their vast knowledge of WP:this and WP:that to provoke other people until either they left or get banned.

E.g., for a long time, the article title in the Korean wikipedia for Japanese Empire was 대일본제국, literally, Great Empire of Japan. Well, this being Korean wikipedia, you could see how some people took offense at it. The sensible thing would be just to drop the "Great" part: everybody knows which Empire we're talking about, nobody thinks the Empire was particularly Great anyway, and then we could move on to actually talking about the article's content.

But no, some editors would object, because we have to use Official Names(TM) for everything. (For some reason, nobody bothered to change Bangkok's name to the official "Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit", but if anybody did that I'm sure it would be quickly reverted, citing WP:(You can't make an edit just to prove a point) or something like that.) To this day, I suspect some editors' criterion for "Official Names" and other similar policy was maximal likelihood for alienating potential contributors. Classic power game move.
"you agree not to mischaracterize PayPal as a payment method"

English is not my first language, does this mean that by calling PayPal a "payment method" i mischaracterize it? (is it a .. payment service .. whatever?)
Or does it mean that I agree not to "mischaracterize" PayPal in general because I don't like it? (then why would I offer it)
That requires change of existing markup and somehow its semantic changes too, right?

Yet this is not "resolution friendly".
I get your point marcosdumay, if you tell your peons how to game you, some will game you. But others may learn and adapt.
I was confused by this language too. I think it means that in the context of PayPal being a payment method, you agree not to mischaracterize it in any way.
> we go down into so cheap comments

Plenty of people are making the exact same "cheap" comparison to Trump, except to you that's likely ok. You're witnessing a difference of opinion.
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First, income in the US for most jobs has stagnated, inflation adjusted. Second, goods and services that can be produced cheaply due to technical advances get cheaper. This did not affect education, and medicine probably only got more expensive. At the same time, globalization accelerated this process greatly, pushing the "globalizable" products' prices even more, which means the "localized" products must get more expensive. This is known since at least 1996 as the "globalization trap."
It's that what it actually is? Not familiar with the field, so is "neuromorphic chip design" really "we wired a bunch of GPUs together?"

Don't mean to minimize the work involved, just trying to decipher the marketing speak.
Yes. Guaranteed. Like the movie rush about race car driver Nikki launder. He tuned that race car engine down to every last detail to get performance. With server less their will always be big big low hanging fruit optimizations.
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> At the rate in which I encounter inaccurate data on Wikipedia that I can identify

Why haven't you tried to address those inaccuracies? I could sympathize if you said you did and were rebutted, but sounds to me like someone complaining that their local beach is full of trash when they themselves never bothered to help clean it.

> At the rate in which I encounter inaccurate data on Wikipedia that I can identify, it makes me suspicious of nearly everything on the site.

If you don't do that for every source you use, you might be suffering from the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

> but it's hardly a substitution for a legitimate source let alone encyclopedia.

A Nature study (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm) found it to be comparable in accuracy to Brittanica.

> Nonetheless, I know plenty of people who take it as legitimate and cite it as if it's an authority.

Encyclopedias are tertiary sources, they should be used as reference works, not sources in and of themselves.
>> If healthcare cost more than a few hundred dollars to thousands 90% of americans wouldn't be able to afford it, which last time I checked wasn't the case.

A lot of Americans can't afford insurance, which is why many choose to pay the tax penalty and go without insurance.

Edit: removed snarky comment. In a bad mood today, have to stop posting.
Here's a pointer to salaries from 465 developers who tell us they use React.js, by city (but you can break it down in lots of other ways): http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Skill=React.js/Salary#by...

Disclaimer: I work at PayScale
I also have my doubts about 1Password – although I am still a 1Password users, at least of the old approach (pay once, cloud sync but no web-accessible storage with 1Password). I guess I will have to look for an alternative sooner or later! :(
> High tech has this weird duplicity: they want to 'save the world' and 'end disease' - when they fail to realize that the world would be a pretty good place to begin with if all of the actors - people and companies - just behaved conscientiously - and that they have a role to play in this.

Agreed. They fail to realize this and saving the world and ending disease is far more glamorous than actually treating your employees well. Its much the same with organizations that focus on helping people in other countries while ignoring the fact that there are starving, homeless people in their own backyard.
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I said mental labour, not manual.

Yes, most physical labor may be automated... eventually, a lot of that is still fairly far off - we don't even have completely automated farms yet.

I'm more talking things like development, writing, design, marketing and sales. Things like that we'll probably always want some human touch to, even if it can be machine assisted in some ways.
Teleport.org, mate. Designed so you can base your decisions on data.
I'm curious now, mind dissecting this quote?
See also the problem of induction from philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/.

Here induction refers to inductive reasoning rather than mathematical induction. For example if you see a billion white swans you might conclude that "swans are white". It's not "true" but it's not wrong either from a bayesian point of view. We really don't have any other way of doing experimental science.
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But you are not wrong. A technology that is perceived as easier will tend to be low balled. What we should be careful with is letting that affect our judgement towards pricing a project. We should not let cheapskates bias us towards lower prices. Always aim to charge more because you can provide a better service that way.
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I've always been intrigued about how consensually good this book is amongst leaders in business/politics etc. Is there any other book with such a dominant consensus?
Oracle is at that stage where they didn't invent or do anything right in the last 5 years but try to get money from lawsuits.
It has died down a bit in recent years, but the idea that anonymity causes abuse is widely circulated in gaming circles because of this popular Penny Arcade comic: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
I hope Oracle wins. The sooner Java dies, the better.
I think all articles should be at formers level since people with a deeper knowledge will be using sites, books, etc where that deeper knowledge is assumed. If they aren't already they can get started by reading reading the sources in the article
The entire software industry should be boycotting Oracle over this case. If they win it will ruin software development in the US.
The post goes on to explain it, was there something specific about that that's confusing?
Is there anyone that's not on Oracle's payroll that sides with them on this case?
Is Oracle the biggest troll in Silicon Valley right now? Can't think of anyone else that would claim the title. Maybe Theranos.
Many of them seem to be written/edited by people who are more interested in using an equation editor than in trying to explain the topic. I don't necessarily expect ELI5 level but I wonder how many people who don't already understand the topic in depth can decode most of those math pages.

They dive into a lot of jargon and rarely attempt to provide any real context that a non-specialist can understand.

I understand that it's hard to do and it also reflects the fact that Wikipedia pages are wildly variable in the audience they're written for.
Boulder has been very expensive since the late '80s when the Danish plan was enacted (named after local Paul Danish, not Denmark). No more than two or three building permits were issued in Boulder proper over the course of 15 or 20 years, which naturally made the existing housing stock ridiculously expensive. It's actually the textbook example of how to ruin a good thing by trying to prevent it from ever changing with restrictive laws.
> you need two levels of grouping

Not necessarily.

I can define

form { flow:row(label, input select textarea); }

to have typical form's two columns layout with all <label>s go to first column and input, select and textarea go to second. All non-matching elements are replaced as if they span full rows (like <caption> in tables).

People at trying to simulate these things by using float and clear. Ugly, non-reliable, etc.
The anti-table hysteria has vexed me for years. From a purely practical POV tables were simply the only way to achieve things in a broad browser base until only the last few years.

But what really drove me nuts was when that hysteria extended to things that were clearly tabular. I remember trying to copy paste a list of transactions from the Morgan Stanley site and it just didn't work. Confused why I looked at the source and the "table" was in fact just a series of divs with a lot of CSS to make it look like a table. A table could be copied and pasted into a Google spreadsheet trivially. Instead I had to manually reenter the data.

I feel like a lot of this could have been prevent d had we simply created HTML elements called <grid> years ago.
Would be trivial to write a GUI program to do the same.
I think the point is that out of these 90% not so many ones are "sendmail" anymore.
I don't want to get too specific but I did a 20% project that led to a couple of conference abstracts with one subteam. This built relationships which helped when I applied internally to work on a different subteam.

20% time aiding in team transfer is very common I think.
Can someone with understanding of satellite launches explain to a layman how the satellites get into their respective orbits when launched together like this?
Who has better connections with Trump?

Sadly to say, that is not an irrelevant fact anymore. Trump is clearly the kind of president that would reach in to legal rulings he's paid not to like.
Are you thinking of PIC microcontrollers maybe? AFAIK all AVRs are 8-bit and the architecture was designed to be easily targeted by compilers.