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Agreed, and I still prefer Moo for my own projects because of how it extends javascript instead of replacing it (like jquery does).

Back when I was learning javascript (2006/2007) it seemed like Mootools was for people who had a good grasp on the language and wanted more from it. I appreciated this, and still think it's better at this than jquery.

I wish Moo had gotten more attention over the years. I get why jquery has done so well, but I don't like its methods.
It says "reason to believe" which means they will have evidence (the "reason"). You might need to sue them in order to see it, but that's usually how these things go.

If they wanted to give themselves free reign to remove repos they would say something like "we have the right to remove private repos at any time, for any reason, at our sole discretion."
Probably about as good/bad as kernel-level filesystems.
This is not my field, but a serious question--I once read that part of the motivation of pharmaceutical companies in hiring researchers was not so that they would all produce ground breaking independent research, but rather because they would be capable of reading the literature (again, not my field). Is that true at all for machine learning? Would companies hire people who would be up to date with the literature so that they could implement algorithms that others have developed in an academic context and put them into production?
Downloads have always been available, as this project was started by taking an existing one - then trying to cut down on things that were insecure, bad, outdated, or similar.

In short this project is very like the forked openssl project. Progress has been made, I can see it, but I think taking two years to turn some existing code into something cleaner is .. surprising.

Especially now that the focus seems to be throwing it away, and starting anew in rust / go (though based on recent updates go seems to be the choice).
The why of it goes back to Feynman's explanation of magnetism to me.

At some point we should be able to reach a set of fundamental laws that may be themselves be a manifestation of an unmeasurable set of fundamental laws. The takeaway I had from quantum mechanics was that, given infinite time and resources, we will reach a point where the answer is: "we can't know" or "that's the most basic truth we can ever show"

Why time is unidirectional may be answered, but questions about why there is time in the first place or what came "before" it will forever be fundamentally beyond the grasp of our science.
It would be a tautology if they defined it as the fastest car and excluded only the cars which were faster than it.

No car produced in greater volumes is quicker, and many which are produced in smaller volumes and/or for a lot more money are slower. That's a significant fact that's not diminished by shed-built customs.
No one knows why space is expanding. The dark energy is just the 'label' they give to whatever is causing it to expand. Both dark matter and dark energy are postulated to be whatever shape of puzzle piece fits into the puzzle slot where the error in our formulas exists. What i'm saying is that it's more likely that the formula itself is wrong than it is that something magically exists to conveniently fit that slot.
And the vast majority of webapps are shitty UI/UX from a consumer perspective. Doing just fine with shitty UI/EX, because the platform is crippled does not equal the best solution for the user.
This is cool. One thing that keeps me from using Slack, &c is that I don't trust my information to be stored on their servers. Keybase's combination of private keys and open source tools and protocols makes me comfortable with your server-side storage.

Your post does a good job describing what is stored in a readable format on your servers. One thing I didn't understand is where the data sent to users not yet on Keybase is stored. It sounds like my client is responsible for storing this unsent message, either locally or on Keybase's server encrypted for myself, and occasionally querying the DB to see if the target user exists and re-encrypting it. Is that right?

Finally, any thoughts on spam prevention for this protocol?
I'm not familiar with all the details but the Pirate Bay trial seems analogous.
aha! apologies
I think you have the cart before the horse regarding understanding and prediction. Prediction precedes understanding in importance and sometimes methodology, since if you can't predict outcomes correctly your understanding, however well fleshed-out, will be inaccurate.

Interestingly, the parsimony principle is lent empirical weight by bad results obtained from overfitting.

Machine learning enables us to multiply many more entities than we can using our conscious thought processes. The various image recognition models use many variables that enable results impossible with other techniques. It does not violate parsimony if you can obtain better results on a large data set.

I can predict that if a car drives by it will not teleport to some other location, but will rather continue along its path. I've been able to predict this since I was a child. I did not need to study the laws of motion to do so. I would not take such a prediction with a grain of salt.
“Unit testing” makes no sense
Again, not defending systemd, but if you have a structured header in your file which is following a standard (even if no one is using your header or that standard yet), and your header is wrong, is it really anyone else's fault but yours?

Shouldn't the fix simply be to remove the header (if you don't want anyone using it) or fixing it (if you do)?

Why ask tools, which interpret the header according to the standard, to do something different because your header is wrong?
"Sebastian: My dad used to code C++ games for the Commodore 64,"

Huh?
Verlinde's work is exciting, but it's just a hypothesis for now.

Just be careful to not confuse it with the old MOND theories, which don't work at all.
i wrote a letter to mr. Kelly
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Even one who is incapable of feeling fear probably should fear the means by which he could be caught.
Worths mentioning that it works only in Google Chrome for the moment. In other browsers it's either reduced experience (Safari) or a danger of crash (Custom browsers or Nightly versions). But as you use Google Chrome, you may do tons of awesome things :).
Common API Errors
Nice to have side-by-side implementations in Go and Java that can work together.

It does appear to deliberately disable pipelining / connection pooling though (setting Connection: close) : https://github.com/Sixt/java-micro/blob/389a7ee4da2e50888bf4...

That would make each new rpc call a new socket connection, which would limit how well it could scale.
I did get some interviews through networking but I couldn't clear those. Till now I couldn't understand why, till my last interviewer told me since I'm from small company operating at small scale I'm not suitable for senior position.
Regression is great if your output is a linear function of your inputs. Neural networks don't have that limitation. For a long time people have assumed that linear functions are the rule and nonlinearity is the exception, but the fact that nonlinear predictors are trouncing linear ones in many domains seems to be proving that false.

As for deep neural networks, in my opinion they are just an ensemble of neural networks, and ensemble methods have been shown to produce best-in-class results almost regardless of the base learning algorithm.
By "platform support," I was not referring to the number of platforms supported by the API, but the quality of support for the API provided by the platform(s). Vulkan objectively loses to D3D and Metal here.

We absolutely know the implementation quality of D3D- you don't have to see the source to see its performance, its stability, or its adherence to the spec. On the whole, it's far more consistent and stable than OpenGL and there is no reason to believe Vulkan will change any of that as it uses the same process for specification, development, and deployment.
Alternatively it's interpreted as a prophecy of his plan to wipe out mankind in a flood in 120 years, which is the subject of the rest of the chapter. This is more consistent with Genesis recording Noah's descendants, like their forebears, living multiple centuries.

As such, Genesis is far better evidence for the idea that its authors believed that human lifespans could extend centuries beyond the ages they actually lived to and died at.
I agree that Cuban is being foolish here, I was just talking about the technical perspective.
Giving GP the benefit of the doubt means interpreting the comment as "Much oil that currently moves by rail will move by the pipeline", which is valid.

Still that seems like a relatively small business interest, relative to the overwhelming behemoth implied by "astroturfing". The presence of some amount of self-interested business funding cannot invalidate the legitimacy of a point of view, or there would be no such thing as a legitimate point of view. So what I look for is a severe power disparity between the two sides which would swamp the smaller side's point of view.

In this situation, that seems like the oil companies and the legible-business-interest preference of state and federal governments. Railroads being on the opposing side doesn't really alter my appraisal of that balance. But I'd be interested in hearing the involvement of a larger entity that I've missed.
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> If it is particles, the distribution of dark matter in a galaxy has to be highly dependent on the distribution of ordinary matter, or vica versa, and yet there is no interaction.

Incorrect. The distributions do appear to be interdependent, in exactly the way you'd expect if the two kinds of "matter" interacted only gravitationally.
I just installed the app but still get asked for an invitation code.
The chat sounds great, looking forward to try it out!
edit:
Nevermind, on the website I wasn't asked.
The only "Trump effect" here is Intel furiously signalling their "American-friendliness" over something they were going to do anyway. They have a strong presence in the Phoenix metro area already.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibil...
After trying pretty much every BI tool we went with http://modeanalytics.com/ and have been pretty happy!
I was trying to convert gallons of Jet A per hour into something comparable with battery packs which have capacity measured in kWh, and derped hard. Thanks for the correction.
It's probably due to the higher number of YC backed companies that it's losing that exclusive nature coupled with the market correction in the startup labor market-people are becoming increasingly less obsessed with playing lottery with their time and more likely to bootstrap to control their own destiny or find a stable job-we've seen enough of what "acquisition" really means.
Slack is great, but it's adoption by popular opensource communities is problematic.

Why? Because opensource communities are on the free plan, which limits search once you have 10k messages. I've had experiences where I wanted to revisit a question I had asked in a Slack channel the previous week, and been unable to find it.

As a result, everyone burns out faster b/c the same questions get asked and answered over, and over.

Couple this with the fact that channels are not indexed by Google and you get a black box where valuable Q&A content and discussion goes to die.
Assuming untrue things about the mathematical properties of your regular expression engine which are not supported by the documentation and allowing that to be exploited by user input is a different beast entirely than a bug in that library. The first, with careful examination of the properties may be preventable through sanitation of the input to exclude certain edge cases. You can't assume you'll be able to sanitize input ahead of time for bugs nobody knows about yet, which might be hidden in normally safe features.
Car and Driver obtained Otto's internal description of how the system works.[1] It turns out that the Otto delivery of Budweiser beer publicity stunt[2] wasn't entirely real. They tried different roads until they found one their system could handle well. They ran the route five times, debugging. For the actual event, the truck was surrounded by chase cars and lead cars to make sure nothing unexpected happened.

In typical Uber style, it now comes out that Otto has been testing on California roads without getting a CA autonomous vehicle testing permit and reporting their accidents and disconnects. Car and Driver reports they get a lot of disconnects.

[1] http://blog.caranddriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Otto...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb0Kzb3haK8
Uhm, I think you're overthinking it. There's million other challenges and reasons why you might not like Singapore (or another similar city). If you can and want to go you should go.
Couldn't you donate with prepaid credit cards or is that a violation of the law?
Finally, a real Catch-22: give the password, you violate the Facebook ToS and potentially the CFAA as a result. Don't give the password, you get held by DHS (and possibly sexually assaulted in a "strip search") as punishment before being sent back at your expense.

America, I think our relationship is over.
The worst part for me is getting the time off work. I have limited days off so taking a day off to go interview is less than ideal, especially if I don't get the job.
Yeah, they had problems with the 14nm process and are delaying the 7nm process. I think it's actually 10nm now. It seems like there is some concern that we will get to 7nm.

This announcement is Trump PR. It's smart business. Get out of the way.
There certianly is when choosing where to work.

>It's typically not an accepted proposition to offer to work 4 days for proportionally less pay

I currently have a 40 hour work where I can set my own hours and earn "flex time" (future PTO) for any hours over 40.

I am paid well now, but I could certainly earn more by switching to company that would expect me to work more than 40 hours.

The people complaining about working extra are absolutely choosing more time and more money.
IPO proposes to rewrite US law in order to make software patents great again
I've downvoted your comment because your tone isn't constructive and you're making a rather illogical jump to the philosophical arguments of Spinoza in comparison to questions around modern measurable/observable phenomena in science.

If you'd like to make a less hostile post with a clearer justification of your reasoning I'd be more than happy to debate the subject with you.
I find this mindset baffling. I mean that earnestly. Can you try to explain why other people making money bothers you?

It seems pretty clear that amazon thinks affiliates provide a useful service. And if you go to amazon because someone shared something that interested you enough to buy it, they've provided you with a service. What exactly is the problem?
Often. I have, occasionally, actually implemented what I dreamt of. To date it's only worked once. Which, when you think about it, is pretty damn amazing.
I really like Ghost (https://ghost.org/). Currently I'm self-hosting but there's a hosted version for non-devs for $19 / month. I'm pretty happy with it.

Svbtle (https://svbtle.com/) would be my next choice and one I'm considering switching to now that it's open to anyone. Though it doesn't quite have the community and support that Ghost does.
The debate is because the pipeline got rerouted - was going to threaten a mostly-white area, now will threaten a native american reserveation.

The "symbolism" is - if you're poor or under-represented you will be poisoned. Why did we even create reservations if we can poison them at will for the profits of the greedy?
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Would you please like to add some reasoning to make it easier for others to understand how you came to that conclusion?

Why do you think that it seems like a very good approach?

What information is your analysis based on?

And what is your competence that allows for a public verdict, if I may ask?

POTUS-style "it is very good" posts should not invade this discussion space.
Which was summarizing the premise of the article.

> People are always going to take drugs, and by and large, they are harmless.
Yea it seems like they're possibly breaching AGPL on the AGPL licensed repositories.
W.E.B. DuBois Hand Drawn Data Visualizations (1900)
> I am just using my imagination to attempt to grasp a possible version of grand unified theory, which as far as I know is still something we are trying to work on.

You're attempting to write a super-duper machine learning giant app without having bothered previously to even learn how to code. Start by learning how to turn on the computer first, and go from there.

It's easy to kick back and dream about grand theories. It's also easy to forget the steep road of learning that would allow you to even approach that realm.
If you think a gradually warming Earth with a few polluted patches and a small hole in the Ozone layer is becoming inhospitable to human life, just wait until you get into space.

It's more akin to the residents of Easter Island devoting their efforts to reaching the South Pole or building a house under the sea.
I think you dont quite remember the context -- before Half Life 1's continuous 3D story telling, games would cut to video to move the story forward.

It was actually a revolutionary new story telling technique at the time that did "keep the action going" because you could explore the room as the characters talked.
It would be more honest to call it the "packed full of ads" subscription and the "no ads on some things, but still a few ads on anything you probably want to watch" subscription.
Pretty expensive, and governments won't be more reluctant to tap the undersea parts and try to compel people to help them tap third parties, right?
It dramatically changes how you run a business when people who invest in your startup treat it like an ICO (initial coin offering)-"if my 1,000,000 shares today is worth a cent imagine when I find another dumbass to buy it for a few dollars in a few quarters and I sell half to cover my initial investment and let it run I'll be rich".

You aren't in the business of solving problems and making money anymore but how to inflate share price as quickly as possible by focusing on KPI that will get other suckers wet.
There is some serious tone-deafness in calling IT work slavery.
A language service is for people with poor memory. A terminal window is what turns a text editor into a code editor.
Businesses extracting profit from the labor of its workforce isn't a conspiracy. It's fully disclosed to children in school and I don't think anyone challenges it.

Now if the question is whether they try to maximize profits, once again, this is not a secret or a back room conspiracy, this is how it works.

As an employee, enter into every negotiation knowing this.
I hope you'll be pleasantly surprised by what we release. It's going beyond a traditional MOOC.
It's not modern, it's C++98.
Comcast should stop claiming it has “fastest Internet,” ad board rules
I don't think the fundamental question is how these branes exist.

The fundamental question is: what's the most basic truths that we can ever know?

If there are hyperdimensional branes the likelihood is that we wont be able to learn much about their origins because of their relationship to our universe. An acceptable answer then becomes "We can't know how they exist..."
> The true metric for success for something like ntpsec is the number of meaningful security problems ntpd has been vulnerable to since ntpsec's inception that ntpsec hasn't been.

They talk about 3 areas where bugs have been removed, including:

Much of ntpd’s most convoluted code lives in ntp_proto.c, which
implements the state machine central to the protocol. Of the 29
vulnerabilities that have received CVEs so far in 2016, a couple
of multi-KLOC functions in ntp_proto.c are responsible for 15 of
them — just over half. Of course, "just rip it out" wouldn’t
suffice in this case: this is core business logic, not junk code.
So we rewrote those functions from scratch, cutting line count
considerably and yielding a far more readable result.

https://blog.ntpsec.org/2016/12/13/fantastic-bugs-and-where-...

The other two areas are guaranteed bug-free because they removed the code.
While it is amazing in its comprehension, it feels incredibly slow. Even just saying "OK, Google" takes a bit too long for it to respond, while saying "OK, vijucat" would probably elicit an immediate response.

This is just my experience however on my Nexus 5 with very good wifi. Hopefully others are having a better experience, or there is a fix for the lag, because despite these problems, I use OK Google (Google Now?) quite often.
They support mostly the same hardware with Vulkan, and they already ship Vulkan drivers by default through Windows Update. If they're on Windows 7, they'll have working Vulkan. If they move to Windows 10, they'll still have it.

NVIDIA provides Vulkan back to Fermi (April 2010). AMD provides Vulkan on all GCN models (January 2012). They provide this support on all supported versions of Windows. For Fermi cards, I believe NVIDIA may have shipped Vulkan drivers all the way back to Windows XP (though I think they stopped doing XP releases in June last year).
Now out of diplomatic reciprocity other countries can do it to us
Protein Science Deserves More from Big Data
Do you have more of these examples?
Intel had frozen development of this fab for years. Their CEO just said that the reason they decided to finally go ahead with it now is due to expectations on things like changes in tax policy. For you to be right requires the premise that Intel's CEO is lying, while you have zero evidence to support that.
Arctic 2.0: What happens after all the ice goes?
Don't these types of fabs lead to things like all the EPA superfund sites around Silicon Valley? I personally hope we don't do that anywhere in this country again. Visit Guangzhou sometime to see what a city / country looks like with lax environmental regulations and a bustling manufacturing industry. You can still see the skyline from most parts of the city most days when the "fog" isn't so bad. Sure you and everyone you care about will die of cancer, but at least it would be better than damn socialism, right? And with all that money (just look at how rich they all are), surely everyone can afford hospital-grade whole-home air filtration systems like the rich there have.

Edit: s/fans/fabs
The point I was trying to make (rather obliquely, I admit) was that as mechanical technology improves the difference between variations ceases to matter. If air transport goes from $500 to $5, compared to ground transport making an even bigger drop from $5 to $0.01, people aren't necessarily going to choose ground over air. An infinitely more efficient $0 walking option exists in both cases. They're going to chose air because $5 isn't enough to care; their time is worth an order of magnitude more than the cost of the transport.
This is a byproduct of the early implementation of go-micro which did not handle keepalives. Basically go-micro would handle a request and then close its side of the connection. It now handles that more gracefully so pipelining/connection pooling could be enabled. One for someone to PR ;)