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>"Art" in its various forms, on the other hand, is widely appreciated by people who are not artists, or art critics, or art dealers, or art students.

Warning: I don't know shit about the arts

That's not really true. Much of the high arts is intended to be appreciated by those with sufficient background to do so. For example, when a piece makes a joke on another artist's trademarks. In Chicago, the IIT campus is mostly done by Mies; A more recent building on the campus (MTCC) was designed by Rem Koolhaas, and features Mies's iconic I-Beams. But for no real purpose as far as I can tell. I'm quite positive he did it in jest (he also placed extremely ugly victorian-style furniture made of excess metal from the construction, also I think, for humor). Of course, anyone unaware of Mies's work would entirely miss this. The building is obviously still useful even if you do not appreciate this facet, but its easy to imagine a work the ceases to be appreciable without any background.

Interestingly, Russian abstract art was originally intended to avoid this; they attempted to remove reference from everything in the real world, to be purely emotional and evocative, and could thus be appreciated by even the most uninformed of persons. It was then rejected by the proletariat, interpreted as only being appreciable by those with a background they did not have; pretentious, masturbatory works only for those educated, useless artists.

I imagine you're thinking more of like the realist styles, which often feature technical skill immediately appreciable; but it's not hard to see The Birth of Venus is depicting a scene, with particular emotions and characters that can only be appreciated to a lackluster degree if one has no knowledge of the mythos behind it (as I do).

In the same way, near-anyone can appreciate the immediate benefit of a computer; but without sufficient background, appreciate ends at the screen. The deeper you understand the machine, the better you can appreciate the complexity underlying it.
One piece at a time, every large system is comprised of smaller parts and components. One thing always leads to another. Start small, and build your way up.
Not serious people in any near-term way. Even bullish AI folks think general AI is MINIMUM of 10, more likely 50-100 years away.
Assassinat.io is not an assassination service.

It's just a social network, whose premium users get to sponsor surprise meet-ups between its other users.

If it walks like a duck...
Did you even read my post?

Please, compare the costs of:

* Widow(er) raising two kids

With:

* Married couple raising two kids, while one of the adults has a severe permanent disability, requiring constant care, huge medical bills, etc.

Do you understand now why disability insurance is more important than life insurance?
And what is your solution to this dilemma? As soon as you become leader, you are the establishment. Trump is the establishment now, and he's certainly elite.

There have always been leaders in society. We have parents, bosses, and presidents. It's just the way things are. You can still work to change your own situation.
This part is key:

> "I do not have a need ‘all the time’ to take myself away from the oppressive facts of my life, however oppressive they may be, in order to go somewhere where I have control. I need to stay here and take control."

The idea is that great art should lead you back to life, not pull you into fantasies. Ebert clearly felt that authorial control is the only way to achieve that, but I think he might have agreed that video games are art, if he saw even a single example where player choice was used to lead the player back to life. That's a very tall order though.
This seems to be mentioned in the very first sentence of the article:

> PostgreSQL supports Hash Index from a long time, but they are not much used in production mainly because they are not durable.

And there's a good reason for bringing them up anyway in the second sentence:

> Now, with the next version of PostgreSQL, they will be durable.
Oh, I see. Sorry. Dense very I was being. :-)
I am not using it and reddit is more suitable than it.
I also have some very serious doubts about Tim Cook's abilities as a CEO.

However, it's quite obvious that AR is the next UX frontier:

Historic UX frontiers:

#1: text/console/terminal

#2: Graphical UI with a mouse (Apple sorta owned this at first)

#3: Mobile graphical UI with a capacitive touch screen (Apple owned this, at first)

#3.5 VR (but putting on a helmet is quite a bit too hardcore for mass adoption)

#4: AR

This progression is because of the 3.5 VR step quite obvious even to Tim Cook. So, I don't really doubt the claims that he's been doubling down on AR @ Apple. It all makes sense.

And once he has given the command, I have no doubt that the Apple company has enough talented people in each of the required competency areas to pull it off.

Perhaps the most important thing here is that a) Apple has lots of money, b) Apple/Cook has lots and lots of pressure to come up with the new thing.

I think we currently are in that particular place that doesn't require lots and lots of executive vision and taste.
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As I said in Rob's thingy, I hope you get the tenure committees and job committees, because they don't have to respect it but they're the ones you have to get to respect
Certainly this is an interesting note: "the crippling remorse he will feel following her death in 1866, when he discovers, from her writing, how unhappy she had been".

It's fascinating to learn that a couple so verbal never (successfully) communicated this unhappiness. I had assumed from the introduction that these were people who did not care about one another's wellbeing, but Thomas at least was seemingly unaware of the problem.
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But the premiums are tied to the size of the loss, which is what the payout is supposed to cover.

The loss you're supposed to be covering is your lost income and other less tangible but quantifiable benefits to your family. Although I'm no expert, I'm guessing underwriting becomes more difficult for policies that are completely out-of-line with your income. There has to be some justification for the payout to meet underwriting standards, which in essence is considering the size of the loss. If you're asking for a policy that is very unusual, it will be much more expensive, if you can get one at all.
there used to be an article about this

https://www.techinasia.com/software-development-china-great-...
Of course it is. We have plenty of space here in Europe.

Also, why should borders really matter? Protectionism?
> should society devote its limited resources to reversing past wrongs, or on preventing future extinctions?

This needs to be called out as the idiotic fallacy that it is. Not sure if "straw man" quite covers it, but it's close.

Take any two things and posit a zero-sum game between them -- nothing good ever comes out of this kind of analysis. "Given society's limited resources, should we be educating our children, or feeding them? A careful analysis doesn't favor the former."

Oh, sod off. We can do both. If you're going to frame your argument as a zero sum, then you need to have a very valid reason why it's actually zero-sum. Otherwise that's just a manipulative way of doing a terrible analysis.
Could you add a simple description of the practical usecase for the lessons?
I know what "image recognition" is useful for.
I have no idea whether I need to or want to learn "CNN", "overfitting" "embedding" "NLP" or "RNN".
I am interested mostly in image recognition and text classification.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-gamblers-wind-up-signing-t...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-banned-gamblers-2...

http://www.stltoday.com/news/self-banned-gamblers-get-a-loop...
But they're cheaper, by something like 75% (and even more when you take energy efficiency into account). [1]

For people who move every few years, whose requirements change (from solo to 4-person family), and so on, the current situation is pretty ideal.

Spend less money, change models more frequently to fit your changing needs, and often it's even cheaper to buy a new one than to get it fixed -- which for consumers is amazing! (Because repair costs certainly aren't getting cheaper.)

Of course, the negative externalities on the environment are pretty clear and potentially horrific. As well as what it means for cultural values where more and more things are disposable.

But that's the answer, that's why they don't last 50 years -- because consumers actually prefer something that lasts only a few years at 25% of the price.

[1] http://www.aei.org/publication/the-good-old-days-are-now-tod...
They prey on prejudices. In my case, all I remember is seeing it on reddit a long time ago. I don't think I even read the article, but I remembered the headline. Then, when I saw he died, I just googled it real quick, picked out the closest link, and reposted AQAP.
A fast copying collector for D would require write barriers: using memory barriers everytime a pointer is written. This has a runtime cost.

> which runs at every allocation.

The article explains in great depth that this is not the case.
gambling sometimes provides a huge payout after a small
loss, whereas insurance provides a payout roughly equal
to the loss. Insurance isn't supposed to have big
paydays, it's just supposed to make you whole.

Not at all! You're conflating "loss" with "payout" in your insurance example. My homeowners insurance might pay me a million dollars ("payout"), but I only pay $5k/yr ("loss") for the policy.

To compare apples-to-apples, gambling sometimes provides a huge payout ("winnings") after a small loss ("bet"), whereas insurance sometimes provides a payout ("winnings") in the event of a loss in return for insurance payments/deductible ("bet").
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That doesn't mean that she didn't do anything. It doesn't even mean she didn't do anything worthy of note.
Why there will never be human-equivalent AI
It's done manually. They have editors who select news. You can tip news stories via Twitter.
I'm still waiting for the Apple TV set that jobs invented on his deathbed.
It's intellectually dishonest to dismiss any ethical controversy about your behaviour with "Well, I'm making a lot of money by helping a government do what it wants, so surely I'm in the clear."

Palantir assists with quite a number of... Ethically controversial government activities.
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This is not really an article about "How the D garbage collector works", rather an article "How to avoid garbage in D".

I think the latter is of greater interest to the general programmer, however. Initial hubris seems to be the rule for new tools in programming, and in retrospect, this seems to have been true for GC technology. The original motivation was to offload the most painful part of memory management work from the coder, but it somehow morphed into, "Takes care of everything to do with memory management." This resulted in a misguided quest for a "magical" GC that had super throughput, or super low latency. (Or somehow both.) This in turn resulted in numerous GC knobs that were hard to understand and tune.

A recent trend seems to take the approach that GC allows development to get to a correctly running program faster, at which point, good profiling and language/library tools can be used to minimize memory churn. To this end, GC should be optimized by default for latency -- as this is the most likely optimization for a better development environment.
Like many industries, it's a great jobs program for those who would be unable to do anything else (think middle aged insurance peddlers with no technical skills and poor enough health to be unable to do manual labor jobs).

The entire car insurance industry, for example, could easily function with a fraction of its current workforce. We have the statistics on car crashes, we have the statistics on driver demographics. All that's required is to aggregate the data and target some number to achieve, say, 3% economic profit.

You could eliminate the jobs of many risk analysts and sales and have the entire industry function without the overhead of having to pay 90% of useless workforce.

Is it a cruel way to look at it? Absolutely. Killing jobs is political suicide. But could it be done? The risks are known.
Well, you may not like this answer, but:

If cosine is just sine rotated by 90°, then we really just use sines. Except we write cosine instead of a sine with a 90° rotation because it looks less confusing :)

The real goal is to arrive at the exponential representation, where the sines and cosines are absorbed into the exponential functions, which is later needed to write down the fourier integrals.

Your question boils down to preference. The two things you name are, in fact, equal. Math people just choose to write cos(x) instead of sin(x+pi/2)
Oh no deeply liquid markets that span borders, the horror

Lets bring back a Europe with 27 different bond and stock markets in 27 different volatile currencies
Learning platform architecture and devops at scale is sort of a chicken and egg scenario. You can certainly learn and practice on your own but the best way to get good is get hired by companies that actually practice it.
> tends to undermine welfare states.

Not if we realize we share this planet and ought to be collectively interested in its health.
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Undertale? The Stanley Parable? Doom? Bloodborne?

It's quite hard to come up with nominees for consideration as 'Sublime Art'.

It seems so hard to really find the difference between "Sublime Art" and "A Really Good Game"

The end bit of the article states: "But when I feel the need for reflection, for insight, wisdom or consolation, I turn my computers off.

These needs are the ambit of the sublime arts, which are inspired and informed by philosophy, and by faith."

But this immediately brings my mind to games like Proteus, No Man's Sky, or Breath of the Wild.
I'm starting to take great pride in getting downvoted here at "hack" news. There seems be a group think here on this site, in addition to people just commenting on things they have no knowledge about especially when it comes to economics.

I guess I'm just blessed with not running with herd.

The affiliated link, that was my bad. But money is fiat...
Maybe we can invent a word for this like, say, zeroneous.
> Ask yourself if you think you just said is empathatic towards people in rural America?

It's not a matter of empathy. There are laws of economics at play. The free market chooses the most competitive products and the most competitive products are made in economic centers. Capitalism favors cities. These economic forces are forces of nature, and opposing them is like opposing the laws of physics.

Now, the government can step in to pump money into rural areas in various ways (direct investment, tax credits, etc.), to make their products more competitive. But that's unsustainable, and once you turn on the spigot you can't turn it off without hurting people even more. You want to know what it looks like when the government makes a determination on which areas are going to make which things, market competition be damned, for social reasons? It looks like the Soviet Union.

We live in some very weird times if Republicans are getting elected to promote Soviet economic policy in America.
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I'm very glad I read this article. I once heard a handyman say that "they don't build 'em like they used to" about my parents' old washing machine. Now I can see that this isn't just anecdotal nostalgia.
> I could probably talk for days about all the different ways every subject can be reduced to transformations and invariants and how they are used to solve problems.

I find myself partial to this type of world view too. I believe it is part of the appeal of functional programming, at the basest level, to shape the programming model into transformations (functions) and invariants (state).
> I could probably talk for days about all the different ways every subject can be reduced to transformations and invariants and how they are used to solve problems.

I find myself partial to this type of world view too. I believe it is part of the appeal of functional programming to, at the basest level, shape the programming model into transformations (functions) and invariants (state).
Probably because that kind of statement doesn't pass all the tests
It's not that osteopaths were so well organized. It's that John D. was a devoted Osteopath for most of his life.

If you haven't read Titan, it's a fascinating bio.
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You might be interested in a Freakonomics episode[1] that covers this to some degree. There's a wide range in care based on many factors, but unless you have quite a bit of experience in the healthcare industry in both countries, for similar ailments, I'm not sure what you experienced falls outside the normal variation for the field.

The TL;DL is that the medical field changes quite a bit in the years since Docters graduate, and depending on the types of work they are doing, it seems to be fairly easy for them to get behind with the latest consensus unless they make a concerted effort. To that effect, relatively new doctors often have better patient health outcomes than doctors that have been out of school for longer. This is, to some degree, obvious after stated, as any field that sees rapid change will have some percentage of practitioners that are out of date.

1: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/bad-medicine-part-3-death-di...
Yes, "The Men Who Built America". Great show.
I live in Seattle and have family in Sacramento, so I travel back and forth a couple of times a year, 750 miles each way. Driving takes three times longer than flying, door-to-door: but I still choose to drive whenever I can afford the time, which I generally can if it's more than just an overnight trip, because I don't want to deal with the hassle of air travel anymore. Flying was already inconvenient and uncomfortable; with the TSA involved, it's also become insulting.
I'm still waiting for the Apple TV to have gigibit ethernet. Its wireless is faster than its wired interface.
That's easy to get around. I don't want Duke to win the NCAA Tournament. I will pay you $X to insure against that happening, but if it does, my insurance policy kicks in to the tune of $Y.
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thereby making sure that there's always been a shortage
of doctors [2]
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report

I'm sorry but I prefer the people operating one me are part of a well regulated profession guided by scientific research.

The Osteopathic profession was the only group that was organized
enough to survive the Medical Guild's purge of non-Rockefeller-approved
approaches to medicine.

Yeah because Blood Letting, Leaches, Heroin, Electro-Shock, and Drinking Mercury were _so good_ for your health. Turn of the last century Osteopathy is the stuff of Nightmares.

Today D.O.s are more likely to take up Primary Care, where doctors
take time to get to know their patients and figure out what's
actually causing their complaints

Modern D.O.'s aren't _exactly_ descended from Osteopathic of the 1870-1900's. Really in philosophy only. The only real relation is that the "Philosphy" of Osteopathy is the body will try to heal itself, and medicine should compliment this... Not be the only process by-which the body can.

Modern D.O.'s following the training and principles laid out in the Flexner Report. Their decisions are still based on research.

There are _non-approved_ Osteopathic """Doctors""", but we commonly refer to them as faith healers.
I hope that you do not act on your ideas or you will almost certainly spend some time in prison. While a house guest of the state should you continue to act on your ideas there, then daily you will be rather forcefully reminded of their inadequacy.
If you're in Cambridge (UK), Demis Hassabis (CEO of DeepMind) will be giving a talk to CSAR as part of the Cambridge Science Festival at 7:30 this evening:
http://www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/events/towards-general-...
The "loss" has to include the destruction of your home in addition to the cost of the insurance.
They called it Sodium Hydroxide in the article as well. :)
See, the original post about white boarding in LISP was original with certain humor to it.

I can't say this was even close in terms of enjoyment or originality. Maybe I missed the point?
Vincent Vanhoucke deserves a lot of credit for his naming skills... Bloaty McBloatface[1] is the best name I've seen in ages.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
The latest Zelda may prove to be such an experience for a whole new generation of players. It's essentially the go-anywhere, do-anything of the first game, writ even larger.
Rich people like to hang out with other rich people. People enjoy shared backgrounds. That explains 95%+ of the "conspiracies," as David alludes to.
My family (incl german wirehaired pointer) got to enjoy Little Long Pond in Seal Harbor because of David Rockefeller. The Rockefellers own a tremendous estate in Mount Desert Island.
Even funnier: If this wasn't a dumb fallacy and we grant them that it's zero sum. Just how many man-hours will be wasted by people reading this NYT article as opposed to say curing cancer, or actually reviving mammoths?
Didn't Socrates have this figured out ~2500 years ago?
In my 20 or so manual tries of billboard top 100 songs and some other random ones, Genius is top 1-2 in results, so they might have recovered fine in the SEO sense...

That is a really interesting example. They had the best product by far. Google penalizing them is almost like penalizing its own users because they provide a much better product for lyric searches, in my own opinion. Every other lyric site before them was generally full of spammy ads with no added value, but Genius actually tries to add to the experience. Some songs more than others, but still a world away from the old lyric sites.
The high tax nations should figure out how to fund themselves more competitively. Many low tax countries have democratically elected representatives that looked at their budget and realized "no we dont need to fund roads and schools by taking a piece of other peoples productivity". Despite any pressure from high tax nations they simply realized they dont need it.
> a very slow and conservative stop the world Mark & Sweep, which runs at every allocation

It doesn't run on every allocation. It can only run during an allocation, but that doesn't mean it will, and it's hard to think of a standard use case in which it would run on every allocation. FTA:

"The first thing to understand about D’s garbage collector is that it only runs during allocation, and only if there is no memory available to allocate."
look, if i walk up to somebody and say alphago is not AI, they'll understand what I'm saying, because the layperson doesn't distinguish AI and strong AI. Only techies do.

I think that's what the author was thinking when he wrote the title, and I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.

I'm being flexible, not picky. Disagree with me? Fine, I really don't care.