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"4K 32" monitor is quite crappy."

You must have really good eyes. When I sit a normal distance away from my 32" I really have to make an effort to see the pixels. Unless you are a graphics professional I would say it's more than enough. I also work on a 40" 4K and there you can really see it's pixelated, but if you use your computer for coding/mail/browsing, it's still fine.
Gosh I use Xfce when on desktop mode, reminds me it's time to get a kitten again
It seems like the NRO build and operate the platforms, and the NGA has the analysts that task them and look at the results.
What could be an appropriate use case for this OS at its current state?
No, Star Citizen is not "way overdue". You can login and play it, and you've been able to for years now. That is disingenuous, because it's always been understood that the game would be under development for some time. As a November 2012 High Admiral backer, I think things are going extremely well for Star Citizen. Unlike a lot of other projects on Kickstarter.
How on earth is Motorola Lapdock not prior art to that?
Do you have a reference for that - the UK did a lot to try and stop Argentina getting more Exocets during the Falklands War (which is presumably what you are referring to) but I don't recall any references to the UK exploiting any explicit backdoors that the French had put in the missiles.
Although you understood how the technology works, I think you misunderstand the intent . Noise cancellation in headphones exist to cancel out the ambient noise around the cups of the headphones so that effectively only a subset of the total sound waves directed at the ear are in the audible range (everything else is cancelled out to a lower frequency).

Speakers otoh direct sounds outwards in a larger space and do not have the neat separation of the direction where the sound is sent and everything else (the direction where the sound is sent is also the direction of origin of the noise). How will the microphone prevent picking up the sounds coming from the speakers? And even if you do manage to cancel the noise and send it out of the speakers, the listener exists in the same space as the origin of the noise and would still hear the original noise besides the noise cancelled sounds coming from the speakers.

Now all that said there are way for speakers to adapt the sound based on the space that they are placed in. For example

http://worldwide.bose.com/productsupport/en_us/web/article_1...
The problem exists already on the visual level, since there are pairs of distinct Unicode characters that look very much alike.

I think the only thing you can really do about that is restricting to ASCII minus control characters. Probably many programmers would be willing to accept that, but non-technical users not.

The next best thing would be to enforce a canonical (code-point?) encoding. But given the complexities of Unicode that will get us only so far...
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The stock ROM is full of garbage. This is true of any phone. For a while I kept an image of my phone with the stock ROM in case I needed to restore it, which I had stripped down of most of the crap by rooting it and removing a bunch of stuff. There are well over 200 unnecessary packages installed that include spyware, bloatware, adware, and uselessware. The only explanation I have is planned obsolecense. LineageOS is as fast for me today as it was when I first installed it (back when it was still CM).
It is a common misunderstanding to assume that the laws of the old testament are applicable to all humanity.

A contemporary Jewish reader would have been amazed at an idea that "though shall not kill" for example, applies to gentiles.
It is mostly we hold automated machines to a higher standard. If 5% of all flights would not arrive would you fly?
> Which part of it is relevant to pathnames?

All parts regarding identifiers and names, if you see pathnames as publicly identifiable information. See below.

> In what circumstances does Python 3 normalize pathnames?

None. Python 3 normalizes identifiers to the shorter non-canonical NFKC form.
Apple HFS+ normalizes pathnames to the longer D canonical form. Which is faster but takes more space. Usually space is more important than CPU.

> What do you mean by "encoded as bytes"?

What everyone else means on byte encodings: 1-1 mapping of bytes, without any further knowledge of the encoding.

> This is about programming language identifies, not about pathnames, which are very different beasts.

Partially. pathnames can also be argued to be identifiers, similar to domain names, email names, user names, language identifiers. Apple does so. Ask plan9 what they think about pathname semantics.
Not everyone is in the garbage in - garbage out camp. Many systems do encode pathnames and have character restrictions.
Esp. important is the popular / spoof, which people from the garbage camp don't care about.
Julia is recent proponent of the garbage camp, btw.
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>Slavery (as well as private enterprises) is a form to coordinate efforts of an enterprise that requires more than one worker to function.

I'm not arguing against coordination of efforts; rather I am talking about coordinating efforts on a small and preferably ad-hoc basis as a form of project management. Abolishing the class which appropriates surplus is by no means abolishing project managers and engineers. People partake voluntarily, and how much work is done is decided by direct democracy beforehand, either with delegates subject to instant recall or in person.

Yes, some people may need to work nights, though working nights is usually an effect of the fact that a product needs to be finished by a certain point in time in order to meet profit expectations. However even when there is a deadline, working nights need not be something involuntary as it almost is nowadays.

Businesses collaborate on projects at a small scale, and many projects can be put into 'monastery-size' collaborative teams. My main point is that the participation has to be voluntary, and that no surplus should be appropriated at any stage.
>There are workers now who would love to have others provide for their needs, but not have to do anything in return?

Where did I talk about others providing for your needs? My point was that you work for yourself, you don't have to sell your time to someone else. It may be decided, as a form of charity, to give to those who do not wish to work or especially those who are unable to. But it is by far not what I am advocating for; I advocate that each worker receives the full value of their labour.

I can't really see a way around being forced to work for oneself. I wish there were a way which would mean that work is not unevenly distributed, but there isn't in my knowledge. So in my opinion the best move is to work to massively reduce with automation the number of hours required to work, and to reward people with the products they make rather than wages. How this applies to service jobs, I'm not so sure.
This is not a language issue.
I am not proposing a hunter-gatherer society; rather, I am proposing that the automation and materials needed to make socially necessary goods be collectively owned. This way, automation can be used in favour of the people, not for profit. Automation is used to massively reduce the required number of hours of work. Those who work receive the product of their labour. Democratic voluntary institutions are set up in which the workers collectively decide what to do with surplus product - whether to give it to those who are unwilling or unable to work, for example.

I'm no anarcho-primitivist. Abolishing the class system does not revert us to primitive times; rather it moves us beyond the need for profit and into the need of uses for products. We make things to be used, not exchanged.

Abolishing the class of people who hold capital does not revert us to a base state of survival, at least not in my judgement. Sorry if you weren't making that point.
I wonder if that is actually going to happen. Since going to school I'm aware that autonomous systems that "take over responsibility" are an unsolved ethical problem. Delegating this away to the manufacturer or maybe even the 3rd party who delivered the code doesn't make it better. Adding many layers to responsibility usually s*cks. At least for me it's also why I don't like corporates, it's not only that you have less control over your work - you don't even know who pushes the buttons. As it turns out, in many cases it's nobody concrete. It's some kind of weird group dynamic that is oftentimes in control. In case autonomous cars become common, analysing this kind of complexity will be an awesome kind of busywork.
How do we justify killing animals, including their young, in giant torture factories where rivers of blood flow amidst the cries and horror of the victims, while the killers laugh and laugh, as spy videos show repeatedly?

We don't think about it.

How do we justify letting refugees die on sinking ships in the Mediterranean sea, or on the shores of Europe, including young children?

We don't think about it.

How do we justify bombing civilians, hospitals, wedding parties in remote countries we're not even at war with?

We don't think about it.

It's easy, really. The only thing easier than this, is thinking we're morally superior to the Romans, or to modern slave owners, because we don't "own slaves".

We're not (I'm not vegan btw, and do nothing to stop wars or help refugees). We're worse in many respects.
The problem with word changing, which seems all the rage, is intelligent, logical people see through it and get put off.

And to make it worse the dumb dumbs start saying stuff like there are more slaves today than ever.

Not understanding comparing real slaves numbers in the old days to indentured servitude today, leaves out the fact most people were in indentured servitude for most of history.

But the dumb dumbs have the numbers, I guess playing them might be the best tactic to eradicate this awful practice.
This doesn't do texture packing, does it?

The name might be a slight bit confusing
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>It sounds like you've set yourself up in a dichotomy between yourself and "the capitalists"

It is between the proletariat and bourgeoisie. This turns out to be quite a useful distinction, applicable in most cases, to the current mode of production.

>You, on the other hand, have the choice between serving your employer, serving other members of society, serving a master as a voluntary slave, or foraging in the wilderness.

I disagree with this. Generally the options for most workers is that they must serve an employer. These employers are by definition capitalists. Most people don't have enough capital or are unable to amass enough capital to become capitalists themselves, and usually even then cannot out-compete large businesses with many more employees and advanced automation.

Foraging in the wilderness is quite a sad state to be in, especially when the alternative is selling your labour time for wages. With the amount of capital able to serve humanity, it is quite a shame that the solution is to forage in the wilderness rather than have it available for all. On top of this, most of the wilderness is private property or people have, thanks to the State, limited rights to do as they please on that land.

Bear in mind that a lot of people don't even have that choice. Sweatshop workers are an example.

>Your employer works for somebody too.

What labour does the employer apply? Where is it applied? And how many hours? Does it justify the amount he is paid, if wages are in proportion to labour?

To resign ourselves to individual hunting-gathering as an alternative to wage slavery is, as I'm sure you would agree, a poor way of living when so much more could be accomplished.
> Google no longer supports the Nexus 5 - so it will be stuck on Android 6 indefinitely

Sounds like it's time to upgrade to Lineage, they still even support Nougat on Nexus 4.
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I feel like this is more an argument against the efficiency of flat (non-hierarchical, not model-based) Deep Reinforcement Learning than an argument for Genetic/Evolutionary Algorithms. As in, if you're not solving a task more efficiently than Evolutionary Algorithms or more difficult than they can handle, you're not doing something right. Similar to how Deep PCA and Deep Random Forests blew ConvNets out of the water on basic benchmarks like MNIST, but couldn't compete on larger datasets, indicated the proof we should require before getting excited about a new technique.
What even is an "escort-karaoke bar?" Karaoke and prostitution don't seem like a remotely believeable mix.

Whatever the case, it seems creepy, I am glad to have deleted my Uber account.
That's a very interesting solution. I've been curious about Ada for a long time, but never found a reason to use it for anything - this might be it!

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Depends how depressed I was
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The first part of your comment above was perfectly logical.
I wasn't talking generally but I'm interested to hear about any purported benefits of conflated responsibilities.
Parent comment:

I mean don't get me wrong, the data is valuable. But this is a company that constantly says "fuck you" to the law and fair work practices. Let's keep that in mind.

Your comment:

I mean, don't get me wrong, this civil rights movement is valuable. But this is a movement that constantly says "fuck you" to the law (c.f. Rosa Parks) and fair work practices (the civil rights movement favored a "race to the bottom" between white and negro workers).

"Mocking" was too harsh, so I apologize for saying that's what you were doing. But people generally don't like it when you quote them, then alter the quote.

In other words, there seems to be little reason to echo the parent by saying "I mean, don't get me wrong, ..." except to put everyone on the defensive. Why intentionally make it a "the world vs you" exchange? When it's a delicate topic, of course you have to bring it up tactfully.

If you're asking whether intellectual discussion will result if you don't bring it up tactfully, then I'd have to say no, it won't. But it's all about how you frame it.

Here's an alternate way to phrase the point:

"Flouting the law is also known as civil disobedience. What's the difference between, say, Rosa Parks doing it and Uber? Certainly the magnitude is different: the civil rights movement was much more important than breaking up a taxi monopoly. But was it a difference in degree, or in kind?"

I think an intellectual discussion would result from that. You'd get one or two replies along the lines of "If you can't see the difference between Rosa Parks and Uber, then I don't know what to say," but those can be ignored. People would be much more likely to engage with the point.

I was mainly hoping to see more examples of contrarian viewpoints, though.
Deep PCA: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3606

Deep Forest: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08835
The angle in radians apply at any distance - if I understand correctly it is about when light from two adjacent points would have to "hit" the aperture so close as to interference with each other. Another random link from the Internet makes the connection between the definition of 20/20 vision and Rayleigh limit:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/phyopt/Raylei.htm...
Maybe it's thinking in BCD
That's a defeatist attitude. If you care about changing something, you must discuss it and take action against it.
>"Exploited" workers have a better quality of life.

Why does that mean that it's the best quality of life that could be had? I do not disagree that capitalism is better than the feudalism and slavery that preceeded it.
What they describe is actually (very) shallow feature engineering and these methods have been used for decades. These techniques can hardly help in really difficult data analysis tasks where abstract features need to be either manually defined or automatically mined.
I take it you've never been to Asia? I would usually refrain from continent-wide generalisations, but the KTV lounge/brothel combo is pretty ubiquitous.

http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/phpbbforum/what-is-a-ktv-t11299...
Selling the data on would be my primary concern.
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This exactly is why I am glad the US Constitution forbids states from charging interstate taxes, and why I oppose all of the efforts by congress to allow states to collect interstate sales taxes.

My State 1 tax, for the entire state, and outside an few industry specific taxes (hotels, rental cars ) there is only 1 sales tax to collect. We do not have sales taxes at the city or county level those are forbidden at the state level.

makes it so much simpler
This is why I try to stay away from frontend webdev and JS in general.
What does this actually mean?
>If the capitalist does not offer compensation at a profit, then there is no reason for the capital.

Altruism is a reason.

There's no reason founded on greed; and the rich person would then need to provide productive labour.
Something like this?

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2347628/computex-as...
This is ridiculous.

Give it another name, then.

You can't get people to adopt your framework, stop developing it leaving millions of projects in shit, and then expect people to do it all over again.

I'm glad that Google paid this strategic error dearly, having a huge percentage of people switching to React. Perhaps next time they'll think about it more deeply.
I think the underlying point of contention is that in Lisp, your code is basically a serialized AST. That gives you considerable power (macros, the ease of "compiling to Lisp" even in a running program), but working that close to the compiler can also be a pretty raw experience.
There is plenty of room for more efficient ways to communicate than just choosing between verbose natural language and terse (and often ambiguous) mathematical notation. For example functional programming languages could be used to represent mathematics in an unambiguous way and an interactive programming environment (e.g. Mathematica) can provide context-sensitive help, further facilitating understanding. Better communication methods would help advance science, but alas there seems to be little effort in improving the way we communicate complex ideas.
Last time I checked, science and technology had already solved problems like clean water, sanitation and medicine. In fact, they were solved decades ago. The failure of political and social institutions to consistently implement and maintain these solutions isn't the fault of the the inventors.

What's more, when tech people like Zuckerberg and Thiel start trying to get involved in politics, they're crucified in the media by writers just like the author of this article, depicted as arrogant, inhuman idiots, who shouldn't dare to step outside the technology ghetto.

Articles like this having nothing to do with the issues they're supposedly championing, as the author's complete lack of insight into said issues demonstrates. Rather, they're part of a campaign by entrenched elites to resist the shift in power away from members of old industries to newer ones.

Executives from the oil, finance, legal, etc. industries have long enjoyed privileged access to power, and a smooth route from the private sector into politics. Now technology execs are starting to do the same thing, and the establishment is fighting back. This kind of astroturfing is an attempt to reassert the traditional dominance of STEM by non-STEM interests: E.g. "These people and companies should work on what we [non-STEM observers] think they should work on, because we understand the world better, and we know better than them what is needed. And we'll do whatever it takes to turn wider society against them if they don't obey us."
I know many people who do think about it, don't justify it, and are quite vocal about all those things being terrible. Not everyone is as indifferent as you describe.
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That's legacy projects I bet. Of course, big projects have to stay with a technology for at least 2 years, can't keep rewriting things every time a new framework comes out. In this case, they unfortunately picked a framework that was discontinued.

I talked to many devs who didn't accept a job because it was Angular instead of React.
Eh I don't think that we're "worse in many respects". We're not perfect, but definitely objectively morally superior to the Romans.
"Accidental complexity" and "incidental complexity" are usually taken to be synonymous, to be contrasted with "inherent complexity".
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Yes, it is Python. Python has become a lingua franca in the programming world, and you'd be well-advised to learn it. It creates a list but that is inconsequential. Here is the fixed code (to actually generate permutations) and examples:

>>> from itertools import *
>>> [s for s in product(range(2), repeat=2) if len(set(s))==2]
[(0, 1), (1, 0)]
>>> [s for s in product(range(3), repeat=3) if len(set(s))==3]
[(0, 1, 2), (0, 2, 1), (1, 0, 2), (1, 2, 0), (2, 0, 1), (2, 1, 0)]
>>> len([s for s in product(range(4), repeat=4) if len(set(s))==4])
24
>>> len([s for s in product(range(5), repeat=5) if len(set(s))==5])
120
There are some things which fighting against is not worth the effort. Concentrating on things which can create significant positive change is much more fruitful.
In a discussion of "the most expensive weapon ever," why does this $4 billion a year draw your criticism?
It seems to me thay moral standards are relative to the cultural/contemporary context.
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Not sure where you're getting this from, but CNNs are definitely still state of the art on MNIST. Papers often cite outdated CNN numbers; in fact the best published CNN accuracy numbers are probably lower than they could be - vanilla MNIST for supervised learning is a pretty useless benchmark for computer vision researchers now.
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