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We don't ignore it. There's just not very much high quality evidence, and — unlike climate change — knowing that the distribution curve for blue vs green people is shifted over 5 IQ points gives virtually nobody any actionable information. Generally, in fact, it's leapt upon by people who don't understand the evidence or enough statistics as a cover for their prejudice.
I think the slow refresh rate would make coding impossible.
Is that quote a real statement or an exaggeration? I can't phantom how people could blame mass transportation for increasing robberies.
A modern GPU has 720 GB/s of memory throughput. To achieve even a fifth of that in the environment typical of an AAA game titles, you need to efficiently invoke the host ogl drawing commands. Nvidia has some discussion of this in their bindless texture white papers. Essentially, the bind/unbind steps in OGL and similar have started to degrade performance.

This is not going to be easy to do in javascript, although VR/4k is not the limiting factor, rather it is the complexity of the scene.
> often the bottleneck is the size of the dataset rather than computation time

That's generally true for DNNs, which is a good place to be if you have lots of data. This typically isn't true for tree based approaches, which is why they fell out of fashion in some problem domains; they don't generalize as well. This paper doesn't seem to change what we already know in this respect.
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While I don't use Facebook, I've been on several other platforms and seen either threats, or actual suicides, by multiple contacts amongst them.

Facebook has, by some measures, 1.8 billion active users, roughly 1/4 of the global population. If there is a suicide every 40 seconds, there's a good chance that there's one every 2-3 minutes among Facebook's users. Strictly by standard mortality tables, there are tens of thousands of deaths amongst FB users per day.

In the case of one friend -- deeply troubled, I knew -- there were two periods in which she'd threatened suicide. The first time, I managed to get through to local authorities in her area, though that was suprisingly difficult itself. The second time, it was simply too late. For another friend, I'd had no idea until after it was all over.

The feeling of absolute impotence one can feel behind a screen, and realising the impractiality of a large systems provider of being able to reach out directly is numbing. Heroic interventions, particularly via online systems, are unlikely at best.

Far more critical would be to strengthen mental health, physical health, and social welfare (in the broadest sense) systems. There are so many people, in all parts of the world and all stations of life, in precarious straits, and often only the flimsiest of support, if that, available.

I appreciate Facebook's efforts, but a committment to substantive, early, and ongoing support strikes me as vastly more meaningful and effective. This initiative could have some impact, but without a deeper committment, strongly risks being seen as cosmetic and ultimately self-serving.

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> necessity of several cities to ban it

Uber has not been banned in Germany. They provided an illegal service and have never applied for a permit. They have never been legal. They also had drivers operate without the required health certificates and without the required insurance. (The usual "independent contractor and we're just an intermediary" dance didn't fly either - if you're soliciting an illegal service you're not protected by law just be because you're not directly providing the service.)

Please also note that not all of Ubers services in Germany have been illegal and some still operate. Notably, the classic car-for-hire service is legal, but seems to be making losses, so yes, they failed.

> As a taxi your only (and important benefit) is the monopolization of your business by the local government.

The following describes the situation in Berlin. Since Taxi regulation is partly local, things will differ slightly elsewhere, but the gist applies. Data is from 2012, so somewhat outdated but nothing major changed.

Monopoly is not an important benefit for the local taxi industry. There are about 3000 Taxi companies in Berlin, of which the large majority owns 1 car and only about 10% own three or more cars (about 7000 cars, one per 500 inhabitants). Taxi licenses in Berlin are effectively unrestricted. If you want one, prove that you're not convicted of a crime that makes you ineligible, fill in a 6 page form and hand proof of insurance and some papers, pay a fee, wait. Drivers need to pass a health check every few years (vision test etc) and a one-time knowledge test. All in all, a few hundred to a low thousand EUR and you're in business.

However, Uber didn't even consider applying for a local license here, well, "because". They consciously chose to run an unlicensed Taxi service and spin it as if they'd be unfairly treated by authorities. (Eine Runde Mitleid)

Licenses may be restricted in other jurisdictions or even - since it's a part of the public transport network, Taxis may even be subsidized (Ruftaxi for example)

Benefits that Taxis enjoy is that they're allowed to use lanes restricted for public transport (they are public transport) and may stop on any road at any time to pick up passengers. There are restricted parking spaces at airports, train stations and in central locations that are reserved for taxis.
Yes, I was talking about full-fledged debugger. Even VC++ quite often prints the whole stack when there is an error in template code, but the messages can be tens of lines long, and sometimes do not contain all the necessary information. This and long compile times are the reason why many people tend to avoid templates and template metaprogramming.
Are we? I don't see the similarity yet.

What I had in mind was an information source for individual decision-making (what to work on to best tackle problem X, how things are going), whereas politics is more about deciding as a group what problems are worth solving and then ordering resources to be directed into them.
That means you don't have a clean "domain model" (or business logic layer) and a data filtering layer that creates the domain objects. You should apply business logic on the pure objects/entities, and you should make sure that the filtering handles the representational problems (parsing, data integrity, partial data, and so on).

And ideally if something makes it through the data filtering layer into the logic layer and does not make sense there, then that should be handled. And that's where strong types help. It forces you to handle these cases, even if that means logging/alerting/ignoring, but at least you'll have to make a decision when you write the logic, instead of 3AM in the morning.
James Hansen is the Doctor Oz of climate change. Dude will release study after study before they hit peer review. He's a god damn charlatan.

https://theconversation.com/study-predicts-multi-meter-sea-l...
Maybe I used the wrong word, "government" ?

I mean, joining forces to fix or improve the place we live in is the root of ideal politics/government.
$100 a month for bus? Hahah
Try North Jersey to Port Authority NYC - it will cost you $250+

A typical round trip pass for the day costs $23 ($11.50 each way).
This is very interesting, the current price of VR hardware is too high for the average consumer (based on research from EEDAR). $299 is a move further towards mass adoption for PC based VR - excellent!
What's so supposedly obvious? The best sprinters and marathon runners both are "black" according to conventional racial categorization. If you want to tell whether someone is likely to be a good sprinter, looking at their "race" alone is practically useless.
Yes. And if they can patch out the connecting to steam requirement for TF2, it can be preserved even if Steam dies eventually.

Unfortunately for Overwatch, a battle.net account / connection and their centralized servers makes it a far harder task. They've moved toward a model where the reverse engineering and ingenuity involved to get it to work outside of their control is increasingly prohibitive.

These things often take volunteers hundreds of hours to figure out and are illegal according to terms of service agreements (followed by lawsuits no less--if you look into "bnetd" and "fsgs" starcraft alt servers, and WoW bots, Blizzard is not afraid to go this route). If it's just too much work for said hackers, it likely will not get done, especially if legal action against the volunteers is a probability.
Exactly! It's maddening.

You can start paying off your CO2 right now. This is a side project of mine: https://earthboost.org
I live in the suburbs.
Used to not being able to come back because of a delay at the airport, trains incidents, and no one available to lift you.

Thus, staying in a gloomy airport or train station being jet lagged and having hallucination because of sleep depravation while waiting for the first train, and urging to not sleep to be sure I will neither miss my stop nor get robbed while sleeping.

Once you experienced your fears and survived them, you lose them and gain confidence.

I now kind of enjoy this «voyage au bout de la Nuit».
Regarding your second paragraph: I find the English word "cunt" extremely interesting, because my own native languages (French and Portuguese) simply do not have any words that convey the level of offensiveness that seems to be communicated by it.

I guess this probably has to do with English speaking societies being, generally, way more prudish than French or Portuguese speaking societies.
I couldn't disagree more. The defaults don't just work, and the architecture of the network could also be considered a hyper parameter in which case what would be a reasonable default for all the types of problems ANN are used for?
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This gives me an inferiority complex, when comparing me versus some of the people I follow on github
If you want an initial overview without all the hype, try:http://www.amplifier.gatech.edu/contributors/blogs/posts/201...
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I've been meaning to blog about all of the stuff I'm learning here (doing it fulltime and there's a lot to write). Drop me an email if you want to be added to the mailing list; email in proifile.

But quickly re: canvas2D and JS based VR, you really want to keep your textures (canvas) small, and your updates minimal. Texture uploads to the GPU kill you because you have a per-frame bandwidth budget, and with current THREE.js and WebGL that budget is quite low. You also want to avoid some gotchas like y-flipping.

This is all going to get better though, with faster WebGL and more intelligent THREE.js optimizations with e.g. subtexture updates [0], which currently require you to know your WebGL hacks and OffscreenCanvas [1], which is a very nice for squeezing things out of the main loop, but isn't yet available in most browsers.

As they say the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet. I'm trying to distribute it.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRender...
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OffscreenCa...
Hey Daniel,

We've been experimenting with a lot of best practices around serverless development with StdLib [1]. Everything from versioning, project and team management, to authentication and billing. Basically --- we acknowledged that a lot of these aspects were surprisingly difficult and created a "git-esque" workflow for serverless function management ("lib up" to deploy, "lib get" to retrieve a current version of a function, etc.) - would love your feedback if you have time.

(Disclaimer: Founder.)

[1] https://stdlib.com/
it's not a copy. logo.pizza offered premade logos. here you have a briefing after purchase and you get a custom made one.

however, i dislike this kind of "services". it does not reflect the real value and work behind a logo. therefor future customer will have a distoreted idea on what a logo is worth.
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He/she is quoting "these average race differences in brain-size/IQ relations were not due to body size", i.e. it is an average within a population group rather than amongst population groups so you appear to be making and attacking a straw man argument.
Also post inflection point, if standardization happens it often becomes a matter of just documenting de facto standards – warts and all. This can make bugs not just a curiosity of the standard but hard requirements, and a difficult corner to paint yourself out of.

Case in point: HTML. (And in particular the WHATWG living standard.)

Counter case: HTTP. Through my rose tinted glasses I think it's a beautiful after-the-fact standardization effort. It's not without warts of course, nothing is, but still a great example of carefully turning the state of the world into a solid standard.
> Arguing that the creation of money was tied to the creation of armies sounds like a political view that someone might push alongside the promise of peace on earth.

I wasn't penning some Marxist screed or making a value judgment about the nature of money. It's awesome because it means I don't have to farm the food that i eat. I specifically stated where that statement came from. You may try to call it political, but coin money was tied to the raising of armies. Before that, people just relied on an elaborate credit system. Coins originally were not used as a medium of exchange, they were just a way to represent quantity.

> Yet, animals fight over food. If humans didn't have money, we'd fight over that or something else that maintains our health and well being.

Eh, history and anthropology are murky on this subject. Personally, I think we focus too much on the role of competition in history and discount the role of cooperation.
I've seen this company (http://www.specdev.com) demoing AR visualizations for wind farm development here in the Netherlands. I've also seen another company (which I don't recall the name) demonstrating a hololens app for maintaining wind turbines.
> That would be principled but not in Snapchat's interest.

It would definetly be in Snapchat's interests. The best thing for an arms dealer is a war, the best thing for a place of discussion is a clash of ideology.

They'd just sell the space to both sides, run the ads, say "We are a neutral party who doesn't get involved in politics; if we give one side a stand we're fine with giving the other side a stand. Complain to the NRA if you think it's poor taste, we just sell bilboard space"

> Their audience demographics would probably hate to see an NRA ad in a story about gun control, and it would hurt Snapchat's reputation, brand, and loyalty

Sadly, a lot of pro 2a people use Snapchat despite my, and many others, protestings.

Also, we need to ask a few questions about this "brand loyalty" and "repuation". What "reputation" does Snapchat have? What "brand" does Snapchat have? Their a service to send small clips of your life to other people. Wheather that's to send videos of you speeding at >100MPH, of crying people talking about how guns killed their relatives, or the NRA saying that it wasn't the guns but instead was a criminal who killed their relative.

That perception of their essential function is not damaged and in fact, if anything, a lot of pro-gun people would just be happy that their willing to be unbias in their ad-space.

> You might even see hashtags trending about it, calling them "insensitive" and worse.

I'd surely hope the anti-gun crowd can come up with a worse insult then "insensitive". Even still, I've never seen something come of the hash-tag-nag that happens after every major screw-up of a company. The demographics we're talking about come from a time when voting with your wallet isn't even a faint idea in the back of their head.

If Snapchat came out pro-Hitler, financially supporting neo-Nazis, I'd bet good money that after the initial hash-tag-nag craze the same crowd would still use the app.

The fact is that Snapchat has poised itself as a key piece of the communication networks that the younger generations are forming. It would need a suitible replacement for them to think about leaving it.

That's why it's an advertisers gold mine. All you have to do is keep the market clean and you'll be able to reach this century's bread-and-butter demographic.
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Is JavaFX okay? Or maybe even good? What's wrong with it? (Not polished enough, not maintained enough? Not updated fast enough?) RxJava seems pretty okay.
The most annoying thing is not dedicating the time to cultivate playlist with your favorite tracks, but to LOSE ALL of them, when you move or rename a file. And that is something that happens in 99,99% (I'd say) of all cases with any music library over time.

Example: I just moved all mp3, m4a files to the microSD card on my android phone, keeping names and folders identical, but my playlists are all empty now. Thank you Samsung! grr..

Making a path independent, p-hash independent (but utilizing, if available, or requested) playlist format is what I'd really want. The metadata should always be saved inside the file because metadata get's lost when you change the program. Filling up an sqlite db with all the metadata saved in your audio files would only speed up meta-data management and sync, but remove it's control from you.

Features I think make sense to expect from a perfect music player (without vendor-lock-in), be it run on mobile, web, desktop, cli or as a daemon:

• Path independant, file-name independant (thanks to p-hash) playlist import & export

• Playlist export options for ie. Samsung Music Player, iTunes or whatever crap we're locked-in currently

• Save Metadata incl. rating always inside audio files, because metadata get's lost when you change the program

• Extract Metdata from audio files into a database for speed, management and easier sync into the files

• Audio-Fingerprint may allow detection of: duplicates (hash independant), similars, classify genre and map mood-maps

• Batch-Convert between flac,mp3,ogg,mp4,m4a if user wishes without stupid dialogues. 128Kbit LAME-encoded MP3s don't sound converted to "best quality ogg"..

• Create P-Hashes (or another perceptual hash) initially, when idle, periodically or when requested

Example playlist format:

estelle.mp3, audio-fingerprint, House-Playlist

wu-tang.mp3, audio-fingerprint, PartyNight
Thanks for these remarks Stephen.

IIUC you're speculating that the relevant constraint they faced was that multiplication was very burdensome. I agree; it seems plausible this was the reason they found this an attractive approach.

Also agreed about Newton-Raphson; that was a thinko on my part. It would be an unusual situation if NR were the right tool for estimating log.
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If anyone has an AP in a repeater/client mode it might also be affected so better update.
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KDE is my favorite DE by far and it is very much the most advanced environment I know. The integration is the best and the ability to tweak everything is great.

Personally I use i3 90% of the time and use many KDE applications. KDiff, Dolphin and Gwenview are my go to for me, well that and ranger the console file manager.
Awesome idea. I wonder if this could be generalized to a chrome extension, to override styles on Wikipedia or whatever.
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In Czech Republic (and I would assume other countries as well) there is a law requirement that you have to deposit copies of a newly published books (and perhaps other works) into a library.

This should be requirement for games, too, I think.
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Not to put words in the parent's mouth, but I think he is suggesting that we (developers) should spend less time creating / analyzing / debating / choosing frameworks and more time thinking about actual end user functionality.
Many excellent fonts are under SIL Open Font License (OFL), you don't have to pay anyone.
> 95% of jobs are temp jobs

False. At best 40% are - and given that a full-time worker has only one job and a part-time temp can have half a dozen at a time, even this is an upward distortion.

> The definition of when someone is said to have a job have been widened substantially since Bush

Also false.
What is the point of using Github for something like this?
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The first problem I see is that it's relatively easy to track an existing company that fires ten people and replaces them with machines; it's not so easy with the new company someone creates today. How many people are they not employing? How the hell do you determine that?

If you don't get it exactly right, and new companies are at an advantage, old companies will be replaced by new ones. If, on the other end, new companies are at a disadvantage, you risk stagnation.