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>Americans in college towns probably tolerate or perhaps, yes, even like 'intellectualism'. A bar like that could very well become a community institution and reputable business.

The problem with that idea is that 1) college students don't have a whole lot of money to spend on establishments like that, and 2) the profitability of such places is poor, compared to places that serve a LOT of alcohol and don't require as much floor space. The cost per square foot of commercial real estate these days is very high, so it just isn't profitable to have an establishment where there's plenty of space (so it isn't a crowded, noisy din), people can spend lots of time relaxing, quietly socializing, working on their laptop, etc., and they don't have to spend a lot of money. It's why Starbucks are all small and crowded, and coffee shops that attempt to buck this don't do so well. You can't pay the rent easily when people have nice lounge chairs and camp out with their laptops and only buy a coffee drink and a small snack. By contrast, look at how bars and restaurants operate: bars serve high-priced alcoholic drinks and customers don't usually stay long, and are crowded. Restaurants are fairly crowded, serve high-priced meals and push hard to get you to buy high-priced alcoholic drinks, and are very pushy to get you out the door so they can clear the table for the next customer.

>First off - are you like sixteen years old?

I'm not even going to honor that insult with an answer.
There is roughly 1-2s (after sbt warm-up) penalty to perform compilation to native on iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) with 4 GHz Intel Core i7. The linker is highly parallel so you can throw more hardware at it as your project grows bigger. Barebones project includes nearly 1000 classes and 2000 methods in transitive dependencies that are being compiled due to closed-world nature of the toolchain.
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> This opens the door for Scala to be used in environments where full-blown virtual machine is usually an overkill

Not sure if I get this, don't Java VMs support this use case (J2ME) ?
Or remove it entirely... You don't need to "scan" anything to "get started". So it's not even an accurate piece of guidance for the user. Or am I missing something?
> Predictable latency if desired (optional GC)

Does Scala Native support not using a GC? It seems like it would be difficult to get Scala working without a GC.
As a former UC Berkeley student, I just want to add that besides the public lecture videos, there are also many private, unlisted course videos on YouTube from the last couple years (after it became an issue). The Archive Team has missed these videos as they're only accessible via UC Berkeley's student portal if you're a student in the class. The Archive Team and current/former students need to work together here to retrieve the private YouTube playlists and download the videos.
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Can you qualify that real quick by providing evidence that you are more capable than others at identifying degrees of reality vs illusion in activities?
ICLR 2017 vs. arxiv-sanity
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> And just like you desire, this gives the reader a chance to first absorb the idea being expressed by the function (in clear pseudo-code), without making your expressions later overly verbose.

This is already the case in math, just with a combination of English and algebraic notation and pictures, whatever is best to convey the idea. Either way, it seems orthogonal to your complaints about notation. I'm saying that pseudocode (as I think you mean it, pythonesque) is not nearly expressive enough to convey the ideas that mathematical notation conveys. It really does help reduce cognitive overload to distinguish two parameters, say one depending on time and one depending on position, by putting one in a subscript. (And that's still at the base of the ladder of abstraction) Sigma notation is one particularly helpful example, far more compact and easier to analyze than a for/while loop. (And, for what it's worth, list comprehensions come from mathematical set-builder notation)

I'm not saying math is perfect, but having spent a lot of time doing both math and software, I like to think I understand the reasons for the pitfalls of both fields relatively well.
+ I think the author would put socialism square in his view of 'Eurocentric Modernism' as well.

+ Trump is the farthest thing from a neoliberal. He's a nationalist/protectionist, anti free trade.

I reject a lot of the author's claims about Adam Smith and 'narrow self interest'. Generally, people are concerned about their own well-being more than others, that's just a fact, it doesn't make us greedy. Knowing this, we can model human behaviour and markets etc. with some degree of rationality.

Adam Smith believed the #1 attribute of a CEO was 'benevolence' for gosh sakes :).

So much hardcore capitalist stuff is attributed to Smith, when really he was not. He was explaining how things work, not an ideologue.
Don't forget the ability to distribute binaries. This could be really nice for in-house tools.
In terms of taste testing and actual preference California has plenty of great wines. The real difference is why get's exported from Spain not what the average Spanish wine is like.
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It'll be an interesting day indeed when the people living in my alley are moaning for a little bit of Facebook.
what is "needed" seems more like a post-facto rationalization for each individual. everyone's future is uncertain. extra education generally provides more options and flexibility, while the same doesn't really apply to a more limited education.
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CS189 - I've been going through this course and I like the presentation and content. Specially, all the plots that are brought in to explain and also the notes.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP941GogrXs32AiRNeQKT...
I tend to think that interpretation has a better claim on the basis of its being grassy and wanting wear.

That is to say I think there's a nice irony in the fact that I often hear people espouse that (clearly correct) opinion with the implication it is a better interpretation but has fewer subscribers.
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I don't disagree with your comment (in fact, I face the same issues in my life). My point is that we have to accept we live in a democracy and there is probably nothing we can do. It turns out that this is just our personal preference. To give some examples:

* Cars everywhere. Nobody gives a shit about global warming or pollution.

* Gmail everywhere. Nobody cares that your email gets marked as spam if you pick some other email provider. People will just ask you to switch to gmail.

* Chrome everywhere. Nobody cares that you now use Firefox and their website does not work well.

* Waste and opulence everywhere. Nobody cares about the insane things we dump _every_ day in the oceans.

My point is that this is humanity. All these are individual decisions and not pushed down by corporations. But people are not prepared to make any sacrifice at a personal level.
I would like to point to this enlightening post on Zen and Free will - https://aeon.co/essays/do-i-have-free-will-in-zen-the-questi...

Also the insights of Alan Watts in the book 'The Way of Zen' and others on Free will and Determinism is eye opening.

I think one has to examine whether the feeling of a separate "I" who has to surf through tides of fate is real.

I think in meditation, or in moments of spontainety brought about anything that gets one in the "Flow" helps to fade the distinction of a observer and the observed ?
> Facebook is a fad that will pass.

Facebook is about talking (and texting, and instagraming) to your friends (and family, and acquaintances, and people you can't quite remember). That's not a fad, that's a general human desire.

Facebook the company might fail in the market and be replaced by someone better, just as they did to their early competitors. The desire for this kind of communication is universal though (and Facebook surely did much less to invent the idea than Graham Bell!). It's not going away.
As shitty as XML-DSIG is, it's pervasively used across almost every single language and platform imaginable. The goal of standards like JWT and XML-DSIG is interoperability above security. What good is perfect security if you can only talk to yourself?

PS: libsodium is great but the fact that it requires C bindings to use from a JVM app makes it a non starter for a lot of use cases.
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Absolutely. Docker and Quay.io both offer scanning for repositories they host, there are open source options like vuls and clair that are a bit more work to set up, and we have a free plan for up to 5 hosts and for open source projects and schools.

Happy to help if you need a hand.
I don't think pedestrians are allowed on the roads and cyclists can only use them if there are no separate bicycle paths. We are already there.
Seriously. Anyone who saw me out in public on my phone would see me messing around on Twitter. They don't see me later talking bioethics in Star Trek with my friend, who does the same thing on his phone in public.

People who reduce others to what they can observe in public spaces are probably not as obnoxiously stupid as they seem, but I wouldn't know that by their public behavior.
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> Facebook is a fad that will pass. Pretty soon people will be onto the next big digital media thing and forget all about their facebook accounts.

I used to think Facebook would become a passing fad as well, but we've been saying this for a while and nothing has changed other than Facebook growing larger in size.

> Also facebook isn'really a media company. Yes they have some news stories, but that's not what people really go to facebook for, people go there to keep updated on their friends, which doesn't seem like such a threat.

The Facebook brand is tenacious and it's pivoting into other things. Take for example the recent deal to stream live MLS games [1] or news outlets leveraging Facebook Live for supplementary content. Let's also not forget that, sadly, Facebook is a primary source of news and information for many people. I think the days of Facebook being only about status/friend updates are over.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/10/facebook-scores-a-deal-to-...
My middle school had these, and a typing course. None of our words-per-minute scores improved so much as an iota until Christmas break, when we all started using instant messengers at home. Our teacher was flabbergasted that AIM did more to improve out typing habits than a semester's worth of instruction.

We also used them to make sideways ASCII art that you had to scroll through. Things like city skylines and battle scenes.
I've heard some good things about that.

The rarity is my use of instant messaging (outside of SMS/Google Hangouts and Slack)
> Knowledge about their actions does seem to have an effect on the country.

Can you give me an example?

Take the latest Wikileaks Vault thing for instance. That was a leak that created public discourse, what was the effect?
I still don't trust my iPhone and pretty much most of the software I use, were any 3 letter agency looking to get me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_(population_genetics)
Keras is so good that it is effectively cheating in machine learning, where even Tensorflow tutorials can be replaced with a single line of code. (which is important for iteration; Keras layers are effectively Lego blocks). A simple read of the Keras examples (https://github.com/fchollet/keras/tree/master/examples) and documentation (https://keras.io/getting-started/functional-api-guide/) will let you reverse-engineer most the revolutionary Deep Learning clickbait thought pieces.

It's good to see that backward compatability is a priority in 2.0, since it sounds like a lot had changed.
I deleted Facebook from my phone a while ago, and don't miss it. I've been surprised how much I don't miss it, honestly - I get less notifications and haven't been tempted to reinstall it once.

The website is another matter. I felt reluctant to cut the cord entirely. At least visiting the website feels more deliberate than reacting to all the phone notifications.

But shortly after the election, I did log out, and kept myself logged out for a while. My fingers would still take me to the page, but the login screen would remind me, and I'd close the tab.

I finally logged back in a couple of weeks ago.

I do feel like I've noticed a couple of subtle differences. I think the political discussions are a lot less useful than I used to think. I especially think my friends posting political awareness posts are less useful than I used to think. No sense preaching to the choir unless it's actual surprising information. I think the months off started to make me feel less like a Democrat and more independent (although far from Trumpy-Republican.) I'm more free-speech and less boycotty. I'm less tempted to unfriend people that voted differently than I did.

I generally believe that the most ridiculous opinions I see in comment threads on facebook are... well, I have no way of knowing whether those comments are by real people or by bots. So I feel less like engaging with them.

Facebook is more enjoyable when you use it to connect with your friends - sharing photos, good personal news, etc. Current events, not so much.
You do understand that this is fundamentally the exact underlying mechanic of JWT?
This feeling happens in waves for me. I have gone through it a dozen times every time I feel burnt out.

What I usually do is:

* Unsubscribe from all mailing lists and newsletters

* Unfollow everybody on Twitter/Facebook/etc

* Stop visiting HN

* Find something worthy to replace all that free time (book, meditation, vacation, hobby, etc)

After a while (12-18 months), these things start to creep in again. I don't have a long term solution.

I wish I were more disciplined and could keep meditating and having a hobby but computers and acquiring information is too tempting.
Well, in a world where all the cars were automated and could talk to each other (coordinated merges, for instance), you'd probably be fine with 60 hp motors. Where all the vehicles are hybrid, 30 might be enough for highways.

Hilly neighborhoods might be something else entirely.
Fantastic comment - thanks for summarizing the same thoughts I had reading this review.

In the interesting times we are currently living in, it seems many Anglo-Saxon political philosophers and other analytic academics are creating a theory Continental philosophy already figured out during the second half of the 20th century. (I see something similar with the current developments AI and Heidegger - Dreyfus phenomenology, but that's a bit off topic since this focuses on politics) Why? Is the difference in language the two schools use to communicate ideas too big? Did so many dismiss the esoteric writing as nonsense without even reading it, or worse, believe the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory? The result is now an identity crisis of people disaffected by the machinations they used to defend. The actualization of ideas only modern and post-modern critics used to lament. The things the Frankfurt School[0], Foucault, Derrida and Lacan used to write about in ridiculed corners of academia are now actually affecting these people and they have no idea what is happening.

[0] For anyone wanting to know more, the New York Review of Books just published in their latest edition a great article that summarizes their ideas.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/03/23/frankfurt-school-...
I just called Zerigo's support hotline, they confirmed that Zerigo is EOL with April 30th. 8x8 (Their parent company) wants to go into a different direction.
Ideologues are the real threat to free society.

Nonsense pseudo-intellectual one-liners are fun!
For my service to service requests, I tend to require the token itself be set to an expiration of less than 1 minute from creation. I actually code 2min in the check, but document 1 for access clients. This allows for more than enough drift and with https mitigates the level of risk for replay attacks.

Beyond this a header/signature for the body/payload will reduce the risk of the rest.

As to being able to select the signature algorithm, or set the uri for the public key... ignore this, or whitelist domains or methods. Yes, there's some wholes regarding a "by the books" implementation... that doesn't mean you need to support the entire spec.

I implemented about 1/2 the SCORM spec in an API once, and it was 8 years before a specific course needed a part that was missing. Yes, it isn't 100% compliant, but if it does the job, and is more secure as a result, then I'm in favor of it.
Cheers - this is the #1 item on my excitement checklist.
My birthday is Pi Day. Now I don't feel so special anymore.
Will language support destructors for manual memory management ?
How does this relate to garbage collection?
Does this mean the future of Scala is off the JVM? I ask because the post calls the JVM impl. a "reference implementation".
I think he's talking about the app Sketch[0], which is very popular amongst UI designers.

0. https://www.sketchapp.com/
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I would think this was in reference to Sketch the design and drawing tool. I hear it's rather popular.
that's hardly 'wildly successful'
I remember coming home from the 1982 AAAI AI conference with my "AI, it is for real!" and thinking of how little skepticism about AI that I heard at the conference. Years later I bought Penrose's book "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics" to 'know the enemy', but over the years I have started to agree more with Penrose's position on AI.
I've learned from working in one of the largest companies that there are two kinds of development teams:
(1) the teams that mostly depend on the products of other teams;
(2) the teams that create products that others depend on.
And when the upper management starts rushing the deadlines sacrificing quality for the deliverables guess which team becomes (A) and which team becomes (B)?
I currently work in a (B) team, and I try as hard as I can to "move fast and break things" but there is simply no way of doing that because every significant code change that I make requires changing the code we don't own. Since the code that we don't own is written in such scrappy way that you better don't touch it or else it breaks, our team has to resort to only minor insignificant code changes.

>>As an engineer, I've learned that it's less work and more rewarding to be on the (A) teams than on the (B) teams.
It is certainly more rewarding to be on the (A) team, but do we always have a choice?
https://support.getremarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/21457620...

> Do you provide the reMarkable with a SDK for custom development?

> The reMarkable will not initially ship with an officially supported SDK. We might however release an unsupported SDK for best developers.

Not sure what that's supposed to mean, but it doesn't sound like something that would be hackable.
I think they're meant for different target markets and use-cases.
Well you either need to scan or click the "Preview" button to open up Appetize. We thought it'd be good to push people towards the mobile apps since they have better performance.
"More than a century after their discovery, we still don’t really know what blood types are for. Do they really matter? Carl Zimmer investigates."
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The author talks about this as the last 400 years. Focusing on events of the last two months seems a bit narrower than the author's claim. (Or even the last two decades - how long have we had "neoliberalism"?)
I wonder how much of that has to do with it having been translated by people of that period into a classical style of that period. For recent history, maybe that yields "official" translations that are into an older English form that is harder for modern people to read.

For example, is a 19th century translation of an ancient Greek text also somewhat impenetrable compared to a more contemporary translation? How much of the problem is that the translation may not target English as we expect it in its current common form?

Is it common (possible?) to find "from scratch" translations from the last 30-40 years of classical Russian literature?
Beer is also heavy. The simple math of $ per gram shipped might make it cost-prohibitive.

On the bright side, I got in to homebrewing because I really, really missed Arrogant Bastard. Now I can actually buy it here in Ireland (Stone started exporting it, and opened a brewery in Berlin), but at €6 for a 330ml bottle it's definitely something I only have as a treat.
I built a website around this a while ago just to play around with, complete with index card looks.
Yes. I should have amended the statement in that slot machines, the odds of each outcome are stateless, and the payouts for each outcome must be clearly stated.

For progressive Jackpots, the chances of you hitting the Jackpot on two successive pulls are the same as you hitting the jackpot on two pulls far apart. The payouts are different, but as you said, that is not hidden information.

Slot machines are able to use psychological tricks, I believe, such as showing "almost hits" with a higher probability than them actually occurring. "Oh, if that one symbol had just changed, I'd be a millionaire right now!"
Doesn't change my question a bit.

Remember my question isn't, "Since these NASA scientists say that Climate change isn't real, therefore it isn't real". So don't try to answer THAT question.
Great work. All the best !
I agree with this. Perhaps the 'it's a problem' for me is defined more as 'This is a problem, it just goes to show how much humanity has these wonderful innovations and most people never seem to use them to better themselves'. I bet people said the same thing about books when they first showed up en masse.

In fact, there was mass hysteria around Dime Novels once:

https://timeline.com/from-comic-books-to-video-games-new-for...

I generally agree with the idea though. It seems as if the better we get at sharing honest to god information, learning materials, and the like, the more the technologies to deliver that inevitably get used to deliver entertainment over substance.
I can't speak to ReactVR specifically, but if you've tried and profiled WebVR you realize that it (surprisingly) works in practice.

It's actually not hard to finish executing your Javascript in 11 milliseconds (90 FPS) if you avoid the well-known, profilable tripping hazards such as not blocking on the DOM. 11ms is an eternity in CPU time if you're not running some big-N synchronous algorithm (which you should be doing in a worker), so most of this time is not even going to be spent in your Javascript: it's going to be in blocking GPU drawcalls and uploads, which can be executed in parallel with the garbage collector.

So although it intuitively _seems_ Javascript VR would be killed by garbage collection, you can actually spend a large proportion of your time in garbage collection for free.

And it works for much more than static scenes. You can basically do anything you can imagine. It just requires a bit more thought and learning than copying and pasting jQuery.
My understanding is that IR is designed as though there were a VM to run it, but in practice, IR is immediately used to generate code for a target architecture.