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What will Microsoft do without him? All of Cutlers former team members that worked on WinNT series kernel retired long ago. Less and less devs understand the internals and the Win32 userland. You see new bolted on frameworks, and new apps instead of extending older one. Newer devs want to create new things instead of msintaining decade old code. No one wants to pay QA... the user is now the alpha/beta tester.
I see nothing about bias in this website and knowing that Wales probably has a liberal bent, this makes me worry if he only cares about fake news and not biased news. A true solution has to fix both, the latter being more important imo.
I didn't realize we have so much red-green overlap; like we barely qualify as trichromats.

That Cyanistes Caeruleus sensitivity graph is beautiful, even without the fourth cone.
Examples look nice. Now we just need someone to ask a StackOverflow question for each subject and someone else to post each example as the answer, so I can find these when I need them.
So was GWB right before 9/11...
>That's a worldview you choose to hold because it suits your capitalistic philosophy. I've literally fought for my life in dark alleys and I don't agree with your claim - the fact that competition exists and can even be deadly does not establish it as the baseline norm of human behavior.

It's a baseline norm of biology, which some humans are more willing to accept than others. "Survival of the fittest" implies that some are more fit; that is, some are winners and some are losers.

As long as energy cannot be created ex nihilo, this world will be fundamentally competitive. Wishing really hard won't work until someone wishes hard enough to undo the law of conservation of energy.

If most people are not willing to accept this, that explains a lot about tribe and power dynamics.

>I could just as easily say that people like yourself attempt to indoctrinate people with the notion that Darwinian competition is the unalterable way of the world in order to inculcate a combination of stoicism and paranoia that will inhibit them from coordinating with each other to limit your predatory activities. See, I can make up specious motivations for my interlocutors too.

Sure, there are people who make that assertion. That's fine? I think it's called a disagreement.
This project will hire journalists who will write full time. The crowd is basically supposed to keep them honest - fact checking, criticizing tone, pointing out bias.
"Cable" often means "pole access rights". Very few companies have this, it's very tightly restricted, and by design. Normally it's telecom, cable, electric and nobody else.

If you made access to poles easier you'd have more competition. You'd also have a lot more wiring, pedestals and failure points, but hey.
In enterprise adults are often more useful because understanding, dilevery in schedule and the ability to do what you are told is immensely more valuable than doing things in a fiery passionate way on some new tech.

On top of that, while you might learn slower, you probably attended more classes and played less video games during them than 90% of the twenty year olds.
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I had to put Child of God down for two years and come back to it. I was surprised to see how disturbed I was at Lester's depravity, especially since I enjoy stories that examine the darker side of human nature. I was glad to have gone back and finished it though.
Those are fair criticisms, but they can be addressed without demanding aesthetic judgments as a component of epistemology.
I wonder, what would be better for desktop: traditional SSD or Intel Optane SSD?
dat baguette tho, mmm
Yup: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2017/03/im-looking-for-work.ht...
> ... but I could not find any good documentations on it.

Completely agree. I wanted to set up some simple traffic shaping on gcp and aws nodes my students will be using for some networking projects. I've used both netem and tc in the past, years ago, but I found the documentation still seems just as abysmal. The netem documentation in particular is impenetrable. It seems to sit at just the anti-sweet spot between being "low level", explaining in detail how the implementation actually accomplishes things, and "high level", explaining abstractions and concepts of how one might use the tool. The user is left with a mishmash of both, with no way to see how all the various extremely picky implementation details fit together into any kind of coherent usable system. In the end, I am left with the feeling that the code is probably a collection of hacks and spaghetti with no clear vision or goal of how anything works, and the documentation is just a reflection of that.
Here it pretty much has been but for the last quarter mile. That's still copper because I guess the break-out technology isn't free and they love their existing coax cable infrastructure.

They're also able to get gigabit-type speeds over it, so I guess it's not a huge impediment.
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Shameless plug: I made a wireless network emulator [0] for my dissertation. It's a userspace implementation with a lot of extra user/kernel context switches for every packet, so too slow for emulating latencies and only deals with packet loss. But it takes wireless congestions into consideration, and can emulate CSMA/CA. For one node this wouldn't make a difference, but for multiple nodes where interference is a problem, it's a bit more realistic than just setting arbitrary packet loss.

[0] https://github.com/squirrel-land/squirrel

EDIT: typos
Done in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14190970
Perhaps: having tacitly written a 'compiler' for a natural language, he had aquired a subconscious appreciation for a field for which the artificial language compiler is in part the foundation. :-P
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I've used this to emulate bad dslam uplinks. either on the bras or mitm. It works well.
I don't think it's quite clear at all. What distinguishes observer from observed?

All experience is the working of consciousness. The feeling of subject-object distinction is no more real than the distinction between hot-cold sensation.
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Your comments on schools and Japanese strike me as extremely ironic. As someone who has been sitting in a Japanese school for the better part of a year, I'll take the average American school, any day, any time. Japanese teachers' first love is unquestioning obedience. Their second love is robotic memorization. Creative, effective education is somewhere around the bottom of the priority list.

(I realize that your broader point is that learning the language made you able to learn, but it's still situationally ironic. Also, from the parent comment, I suspect that you believe that "schools in the US" are somehow inherently worse than other places.)
> It's hard to communicate the "essential meaning" of Occam's Razor in simple language

It's really not. Here's a few that don't make the same mistake.

- Plurality must never be posited without necessity.

- Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

- Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

- Whenever possible, substitute constructions out of known entities for inferences to unknown entities.

- favor hypotheses that make the fewest unwarranted assumptions about the data from which they are derived.

All of these are more correct and communicate the principles better than the "simplest" formulation which is just flat-out wrong without extremely heavy clarification of what "simplest" means (at which point you may as well use one of the above).
The same wikipedia has. Algorithms to detect vandalism. People responsible for groups of pages. Wages of such people paid for by donations to ensure they don't yurn biased themselves.
the whole thing is crazy. this is a slap in the face of anyone who has taken an engineering course, let alone anyone who was able to grow up with common sense
To the author: have you ever learned a language?

There will always be people who like to learn languages by using some new methods and individuals who create them.

Since my native language is not English and not even in the same language category, I could say that you don't need all those "methods", apps and tricks.

Language learning is all about having the right mindset.

All you need is 3 things:

1) A good input for listening and reading and a good output in form of writing and speaking. Just find an enthusiastic teacher.

2) Alleviation of psychological blocks and obstacle like "I'm not good at this" or "I don't have a gene" or "I'll never speak like natives".

3) Knowing the big "why" as in "Why do you want to learn that specific language?"
An as another on-and-off artist I find this an infuriating simplistic remark. I quit the art world, not making art, and quite frankly, your attitude is like someone telling me "then you didn't really love her anyway" after leaving an abusive relationship and not really being interested in talking with that person again.

Being an Artist is so much more than just making work. It's living within a context of fellow artists, and art critics. It's hustling. It's playing by very specific social rules and knowing how to sell your work to fit whatever is popular according to the whims of the public and the art critic. Knowing how to, and being willing to play that game, is just as often what determines success or failure. And most of that compromises the artwork itself.
Fake news is not a tech problem. It's better solved by incentive structures than nonexistant AI.
> they love their existing coax cable infrastructure.

I think they should like passive optic networks more. Altice for example plans to upgrade Optimum hybrid fiber-coax network to full fiber optics.
> The previous 3 presidents all had 2 terms.

That's a pretty small universe. Of the most recent 6, only 4 had two terms. Of the most recent 9, still only 4 had two full terms.

> Any reason to thinks Trump or at least the republican party won't too?

Yes.

> Real humans who really wanted him voted him in and they're probably happy with their choice.

Most of the minority that voted for him may, though polling data show that Trump has lost standing with most groups, including those he was strongest with, since the election. With a barely-sufficient minority win, Trump can't lose much ground and hope to be reelected.
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Fascinating. The reason for the mapping is tragic, but I hope some of the families so affected can take some degree of solace from the knowledge gained thus.
This book was on my reading list for many years, and I finally read it a couple years ago. A wonderful book.

Highly recommended to anyone who likes reading. It's not just the philosophy and it's not just the story, it's the way they are part of the same whole, with deep roots in the American landscape, that makes this book so special. Now I want to revisit it and see if I can pick up his later work as well.

If you still haven't read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy.
My favorite is how I was able to guess from Intel's claims that the 915 chipset can't support WDDM because it don't have a "hardware scheduler" that it is probably referring to the "lost devices" in old DirectX that many programmers likely remember.

Edit: Old Slashdot thread: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4123465&cid=44660047
That's... a bit of an over simplification.

It was a common statement of a generally justifiable philosophical tool that happened to be commonly used by theologians like Occam (who wasn't that first to use the idea - Aristotle stated something similar).

The intertwining of philosophy and theology makes it related but I'd say your characterization was simplistic and quite incorrect overall.
But that's sort of is my point, it's all statistical, that's why they have medical trials for years before FDA approves new drugs. We sort of know what is happening in the brain, it's lacking one neurotransmitter or the other and all the drugs/supplements basically either provide it or pretend to be one. Another approach I've seen is to stimulate certain hormones, but again it's individual because some people might have excess of one hormone and lack of the other. Relaxation and meditation is basically natural way to balance certain hormones (reduce cortisol in particular). Or sun exposure gives you vitamin D (which is technically a hormone) and it's been studied to help with depression, but some people need more of it than others etc. I recommend you to pick up a book on nutrition before jumping into this space, one of the easy to read books is Ultramind Solution by Dr Hyman. Hope this helps.
Same situation for me.
I find the philosophy to be too judgemental, and the belief that Quality is the metaphysical key to the understanding of the world seems really overstretched.
I own real estate I rent out. I can deduct all manner of things related to that business from the rental income (insurance, property tax, etc.).

In what way are we talking about different things?
Thank you for that link. This phrase:

>THERE IS A SUBTLE, UNSPOKEN STRATA THAT EXISTS WITHIN THE CLOSE-KNIT COMMUNITY The most striking was between that upper strata of speakers, former speakers, celebrities, and CEOs, and a surprisingly basic TED attendee who operated with a kind of business-like agenda. ‘What can I leave here with besides ideas,’ they seemed to be saying, hungrily scanning every room for their next hit. The gap between these A-list members and the schmooze- and party-hungry B-listers grew more obvious with each awkward encounter I witnessed

sums it up for me. I went to a bunch of the after-parties. All of them feel very exclusive. And while I did see some top-brass, there were lots of people... like me, but that had actually paid the $10k and wanted their money's worth.
That's an exponential increase in resolution, but it's also amazing how the gravity-derived maps fit in so well with the sonar-derived ones. That's some serious validation of the gravity approach, as limited as it is.
Maybe not all, but many of those regulations and permits are there for a reason. The vast majority of the population cares way, way more about not having construction in their yard than they do about enabling a competitive market for ISPs.

If you try to dig up all the sidewalks and driveways on any given block block, most of the residents will raise holy hell with their local elected representatives and try to shut you down any way they can. Much of this regulation is in fact the will of the people, and I'm not sure it's wrong. It is a significant disruption to people's property, and it's silly to lay redundant network infrastructure. It's a bad solution to a stupid problem that only exists because of ideological intransigence.
The talks have zero value for sure. The connections and people you meet are the draw... supposedly.
Retraining cable techs to do fiber splices rather than coax crimps isn't going to be cheap. Can you put a barrel connector on those fiber lines?

I've only done datacentre grade fiber, not the stuff you'd sling outdoors. The only fiber they offer here is in condo buildings in a controlled environment.
They'll just hire contractors. That's where it seems to be moving. Not a good situation IMHO, since quality will be lower.

In practice, they rarely splice fiber optic cables. That's why you see those messy coils[1] on the poles often.

1. http://i48.tinypic.com/mvqkvq.jpg
A good customer support person can save a company millions too. Same for a good engineer or a good sales person.

The purpose of a company should be to support every employee to make those kinds of contributions. If they can only happen at the top it's probably because the employees at the bottom are handcuffed, which totally negates the million dollar contributions the CEO is making.
You know what is scarier than teenagers driving on the freeway? When they fly over your house.

and as others here have noted, and flying car solution would be very very loud.
Are we talking about battery technology leading to that range doubling? Because I was under the impression that energy densities of our current battery technology were already pushing the limits. To double the range I suspect you need to quadruple the energy density. Sounds like the making of a bomb. :/
Part of the problem is that it took way too long for someone like her to be the CEO.
I dispute that Erlang has a huge barrier to entry. Although there is a larger barrier than for, say, Python or Ruby, I feel that Erlang gets an undeservedly bad rap, especially given the ROI.

I am no genius, but I was able circa 2008 to develop a significant production system in Erlang, while learning Erlang on the job over a period of 3-4 months. I had never programmed in a functional language before (C++ was my forte). In 2008, the tooling and environment surrounding Erlang was far less supportive than it is today, so the barrier now should be lower.

If you want to talk about a huge barrier to entry (for me, anyway), it's the Great Wall of Haskell. I found it a great deal harder to learn Haskell. I have only written one small utility in it and still don't claim to know the language. And that's after using Erlang for many years.

Also, these days, Elixir is reputed to lower whatever barrier to entry there is for Erlang.
But my point is that if there is a relation of trust between the PM and the developers, padding is unnecessary.

I had PMs to who I could give optimistic estimations and risks. That way, the PM could plan the different scenarios (like extra features in case we had spare time).

Other PMs, the ones who converted estimations into deadlines, got lots of padding. And the problem of adding padding is that it is time lost, because a developer who adds padding cannot tell that they finished earlier.
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I really want this app. That is all.
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This McCarthy quote from the (linked-to) essay caught my eye:

How the unconscious goes about its work is not so much poorly understood as not understood at all. It is an area pretty much ignored by the artificial intelligence studies, which seem mostly devoted to analytics and to the question of whether the brain is like a computer. They have decided that it’s not

Is that true? Who has decided the brain is not like a computer? That is news to me.
"Of course, the Internet doesn’t remember that he worked on cryptocurrency almost 20 years ago (with Zooko of ZCash) before he started BitTorrent."

Citation needed.
Yes, elec engs are essentially hobbyists until completing their second decade in industry. Then, watch out!

Most places I've been realize this, but a few, hint mainly sw shops, think 5 years exp suffices. And they suffer arching in pain. It hurts to watch.
Yeah, I hope my technical writing skill one day matches his.
Well I've only attended K-12 in the US, so I have nothing to compare to but I can speak from my own experience. I was never thrilled with the administration at the schools I went to but had life-improving encounters with some of the staff, which is my point. Perhaps I over-generalized that to all schools with the US.

As far as growing up in a Japanese school, I totally agree. I'd take the American school over that system any day of the week.
Yes, of course it's political... What isn't ? A business argument is a political statement. The opposite isn't true though of course.
> The high cost is due to regulations, laws, permits, and lawsuits.

No, it's due to private property owners. The regulations are mostly dealing with what it takes to bypass then, but in libertarian utopia, those regulations would be gone and the cost would be higher, not lower, for a new cable layer.
Amazing talent. Unfortunate that many only know of the Zen book. His second book, Lila, which expands on the "Metaphysics of Quality" has much to offer.
Botantical classification is interesting but difficult. Once trained, it's fast enough, but can "deep learning" be anywhere near accurate enough?

I'd guess there'd be a focus on salient botantical features for classification, and perhaps the human can be enlisted to circle them out. There could be a "twenty questions"-type narrowing down, perhaps using images.
Collective bargaining only works when everyone is in, otherwise economic forces move in to undercut you. That's why union workers on strike are so vicious to those who break ranks to go to work.
Haha. that thought leader skit was wonderful. Thank you for sharing that.
Glad to see this as it is something I have been interested in for a while. There are some online tools I have tried in the past but nothing that really seemed to work well.
3x the electricity isn't an issue if transporting the hydrogen were reliable. There's a reason energy-gobbling industries like the aluminum foundries are situated along rivers where hydroelectric power is nearly free.
I wanted this app for a while, but it didn't seem feasible even with modern ML techniques? Also what do I get out of a paid version?
> your software is very likely a daemon on a headless server/cloud somewhere

This is true of every Erlang system I have developed, so, I concur.
Excellent point. I, too, had been wondering about Uber's priorities. Realizing that the stock valuation at the time of IPO is their only guiding metric has made the pieces fall into place for me.
But - in my opinion obviously - if following even someone like me around might be dangerous in certain situations then definitely I can see how it might be dangerous to follow police around?

That said, I am not saying you shouldn't be allowed to folliw police at a safe distance, at a safe speed, recording what you see etc as long as it isn't obvious that they are doing something that temporarily needs to be kept secret.
I wonder too how much geolocation could pare things down, provided it's not invasive/introduced species.
>I'd argue that it crosses the threshold into behavior that should fall outside the bounds of legal competition. We're better off with many weaker competitors than we are with one strong one.

That's the funny thing about this. I completely agree that we're better with many smaller competitors. The CFAA, like most such laws, is routinely used to stop small competitors. The CFAA is a huge reason that tech incumbents are able to keep their de-facto monopolies, exactly because they make up licensing agreements that say "Reading our site means you swear you won't compete against us" and then send out a firm full of $1k/hr lawyers to do their dirty work.

An "even playing field" would not put force of law behind such fantastical, unrealistic, and anti-competitive assertions. Signing up for the other guy's ToS is not something that would fire off moral alarm bells in your average person. It's naive to believe that anyone adheres to these absurdities, and you have to be a huge company to enforce them.

The false belief that businesses actually restrain themselves to align with such regulations instead of fighting hard to get in a winning position is exactly what leads to damaging laws like the CFAA in the first place.

The net effect is that small innovators get obliterated and denounced for trying to get some leverage while companies playing in the hundreds of millions (Lyft and Uber) can squabble in court before deciding to save some dough and draw up a settlement that says they'll stop accessing the other guy's API (at which point they'll find a proxy or replacement).