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I found the talk cool

Things that stuck in my mind -

Self driving LA - NY without touching the controls coming about Nov 2017 (15m)

Hoping to build the Mars rocket in about 8 years (34m)

4 or so new gigafactories being planned. He figures we need about 100 to get the planet electric (27:40)

Semi truck on its way shortly - Musk has been driving the prototype around the car park (19:40)

Trying to make a tunnel boring machine go faster than a snail - presently they are about 14x slower (5:30)
Meet the megalith of Al-Naslaa–split in half with LASER-LIKE precision
Reading this the engineer in me was impressed at their thoroughness. I believe it's easy to fall into a trap of thinking of the North Korean government as grossly incompetent, and this isn't necessarily true. If these assumptions extend to Western leaders, it could one day have a disastrous result.
Or when you do discuss/question it, people try to paint you as a quack.
Ok. I apologize. I should have been clearer.

By "stick around" I really meant stay/work for a few years (like 5 or 6 years) not settle down permanently in Germany.
And yes, I agree if you going to live permanently in a country you should know the local language and also imbibe the local culture to a certain point.

Thanks.
Try standing on a balance board at your standing desk. That works really well for me.
The Future of Energy Isn't Fossil Fuels or Renewables, It's Nuclear Fusion
I don't know. While there's no literal comparison, I concede, it's possible the OP had a figurative one in mind.

Reading his argument charitably: the Snowden revelations showed us that the penetration of the tentacles of our surveillance is at least an order of magnitude greater than we imagined, and that many things we thought rendered it technically or economically infeasible are in fact quite feasible if the resources of the NSA are thrown at it. More significantly: our surveillance is fantastically disproportionate to the lyrical encomiums we sing to our free society and democracy and so forth. At least in North Korea it's par for the course.
You must all be very popular people since you have to have a strategy to get out of doing things with others. Most people have the opposite problem. You'll seem very unsincere after a while though, if your strategy is to not tell the truth.

Is it that you don't want to hurt the feelings of others that you lie? It's a little immature.
Practical Racket: Using a JSON REST API
Thanks flohofwoe, thats' kind of what I was really curious to know.
Google had search and used that to prop the rest. Simple.

And Google is making money by removing more and more "free" listings and replacing them ads and their content. Morality aside, eventually they'll lose their effectiveness.
This is one of the few things about Ruby idioms that drive me a bit nuts--improper use of `attr_accessor` when `attr_reader` creates better and cleaner code is one of the leading code smells in the library ecosystem.
I do wonder where they source the talent and expertise with these platforms necessary to pull something like this off. I understand that's kind of a naive question—any functional state has sufficient resources to solve such problems for itself—but one does wonder. I can only assume there was extensive Chinese help. They definitely have the critical mass of engineering ecosystem for that sort of endeavour.
Your beautiful automobile is also a multi-ton death machine. Worldwide around 1.3 MILLION people are killed by them every year. At that rate they should be banned, or, at a minimum, have much stricter licensing and renewal requirements (every year a challenging written and driving test, much easier to lose license and have car impounded).
Comparing tech firm operational costs to universities is a bit ridiculous -- Facebook runs multiple private datacenters globally. Most universities get by with a dozen clustered on campus serving administrative, educational and research objectives. It also serves more or less the planet, whereas the Harvards and Berkeleys of the world exist to serve a few dozen thousand at at time.

$1.5B pays for quite a bit of research. Or, more accurately, a lot of real estate speculation for the board of trustees to play.
How do you deal with those problems when developing Octave? Do you stick to one 'dialect', for example? Or is it somehow a non-issue?
Looks like what I was remembering as being an appendix was actually the last chapter of that volume: "Inside Turbo Pascal"
Being based in tokyo...I see that a lot at various starbucks. I don't know where you frequent but I see a ton of people working on laptops in cafes.

Granted, there are folks who do the "talk to your friend" thing but I don't see much of a difference between SF and Tokyo in that respect.

I usually see this in the more typical local chains like Doutour, Pronto, and even excelsior (despite them usually lacking outlets) as well.
I call them robots.

The robots are great at doing one thing well by hook or crook. Problem is with scale and speed that come with large orgs, the good little robots follow their programming and over optimize the heck out of one little variable. The environment has no time to adapt. Massive unrecoverable collateral damage happens. But the robots are all very pleased with themselves cause their one little self worth defining metric has been met.
But as nature already demonstrates highly virulent viruses like these cannot sustain themselves long term. This robot class will die out sooner or later cause the cost for destabilizing the ecosystem every couple days is just too high.
Yes. The deadlift is probably the most universally useful exercise, when executed properly. It really is worth the effort to learn. (Closely followed by the squats.)
My view is that Google is insanely good at products that demand performance at scale. Google search, YouTube, Google Docs, Google Maps, Gmail, and anything that supplements their usage Android, Chrome. Their failures like Google+, Google Glass indicate a product-market misfit than a result of being engineer led. An engineer (software related) is no less fit to lead a tech firm than a doctor is fit to lead a Medical service facility than a musician leading a record company than a sportsman managing a sport team than a chef leading a restaurant.

Sure it could be the next Xerox PARC, but the next Apple (following the bad metaphor) will very likely be a division of Google itself.

And finally, if anything, Google's ability to kill products that it does not think valuable, is what keeps it innovating, exploring and yet not be a dinosaur search company. (I do miss Google Reader though. Did they really have to kill it so bad ? )
I did the same thing with my ZX Spectrum - writing programs in assembly language on paper, then manually looking up each opcode in the table at the back of the manual.

After writing out all the opcodes I'd then have to work out the values to use for any relative jumps, once I knew how long each instruction had been.

Finally the whole thing would be POKEd into memory, and tested.

Writing code like that, without a compiler/assembler was simultaneously a lot of fun and utterly exhausting. I know I got into the habit of putting in random "nops" just in case I had to add new functionality in later revisions - that would allow some unconditional jumps to be patched into place to avoid having to change offsets, etc.
And all those zero and ones are still translated into electrons. Decomposing abstractions is often not very useful.
Monday Night Football has been very popular for years, and rarely does it feature your favorite team.
The only times I've ever heard of this involved abuse / compromised machines that the customer couldn't or wouldn't fix.
Plans in the 15-30 GB/month range aren't terribly expensive.
That doesn't change the usefulness of being able to create new data types from existing ones. With operator overloading or operators as methods, you can treat user your new data types as primitives.

That's very convenient when you want your complex numbers to work just like ints and floats.
> Unfortunately for a public library more footfall doesn't equal more revenue

That seems...backward. It would seem that with more footfall and circulation, the library should be able to justify a larger budget from the city. And unless the city is struggling financially, they should get it. Are there some other issues also?
So playing devils advocate, what would you say about American capitalism?
Simplifications are just ordered letters!
You mean to say that all we've been doing so far is just pretty printing our mundane thoughts since the invention of the written word and true value will only be unlocked by throwing away typographic knowledge accumulated over centuries and writing documents for the machines instead? Maybe you're right. Perhaps typography and the print media is finally truly obsolete. But you're not the first to make such a claim and you won't be the last. In the meantime, there's still a valid case for learning LaTeX well enough to be able to produce a correctly typeset document. Perhaps you should consider this viewpoint instead of dismissing TeX as an unwanted bastard child in your website's workflow?
I've seen objects recreated in Scheme and Clojure. They are really much more common than most FP people appreciate, just look for noun-ish naming conventions in your abstractions.
Exactly! But because this is how objects are implemented, everything you can do with objects, you can do using structures and function pointers -- there's nothing magical about objects. Which means that as long as you understand structures and function pointers you don't need objects.
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This seems like one of those things that you'd really want as a plan A but absolutely require sensible plan B as a backup.
Many of the plans you see advertised on TV explicitly exclude tethering (always ask)

Some areas just have really bad speeds (in Houston and just north, I get great speeds, but when I go to the upscale city a bit further - The Woodlands - it's like I'm on a 14.4 modem)
The Great DSM Hoax (2012)
> The Nation is not exactly a great source to use on this particular topic

Agreed, they have a clear bias.

> I know a lot of moderate people that stopped watching ESPN

How many? 10? A statistically significant number?
Mnesia-based Job Processing in Elixir
C4A and over-pruning are both very interesting takes from the article. Any recommended further reading?
It's amazing that there are people that cannot accept that trade is not a zero sum proposition.

If country A produces rice and country B produces meat, country A can trade some rice for some meat from country B. Now both country A and B can enjoy meat with rice which is better than just eating meat or just eating rice. They are both better off than when they started by engaging in trade (the sum is greater than zero).

Now add country C who only produces salt and country C trades salt to both countries A and B in exchange for meat and rice and now they can all enjoy seasoned meat with rice.
We are, by nature, gluttons and that gluttony is insatiable in whatever infinite forms it takes (expansion, desire, fame, being the first, etc...) Explains pretty much our entire history.
Con cell is just a 2-tuple node in a singly linked list. When do the definitions all end?
Launching a startup does not equal R&D. They have things in common but they aren't the same. And the only convenient thing, I believe, a full time MBA provides is a starting point to build your network.
> I don't want to hear the scratching of a spoon in an empty joghurt cup

Well sheesh where did you grow up, Silenceville? Peaceful Springs? ;)

> Your body tells you very directly what it needs and how much.

True in the case of severe deficiencies. Otherwise it'll at best signal "give me all the essential aminos and" (depending on mitochondrial preference / adaptation) "fatty acids / glucose you have, in whatever hopefully digestable format".. =)

> But you got to listen to it while you're eating. It is already a series of sensations that require being mindful. Just think of the texture, smell, and taste of a leaf of basil. Of olive oil.

All these "sensations" are pure acculturation. The only signal I get from "a leaf of basil" (any leaf, really) or any vegetable oil is rejection. We're not born with any taste, just with a sucking reflex, the rest is shaped by our moms and the others around us. You can of course enjoy this situation mindfully and perceptably, more power to you! =)
So, basically Android? Except, you don't get shot in the back.
With Android, it automatically syncs Contacts and photos to the "Cloud", unless you disable it. But, you cannot do it 100%, because it's turn on by default when you first sign in. Also, it's not a secret that Google logs your locations history.
If that's all true then why did Harvard open a school to train middle managers?
It's not that I think it's a bad thing, but that it's irrelevant in the context of trying to use quantum mechanics for "practical" purposes.

Sure, maybe we don't have free will but I still want to figure out how to build quantum computers.
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I'll echo sibling comment. On the exact same device, tethering isn't related to device, but related to plan - typically tethering is an extra $50 or so.

You can often tether for a very short time using a rooted phone without explicitly paying for it, but most carriers are very hip to that traffic.
Objects require at least an identity. Immutable data structures necessarily don't have identity (well, to say identity isn't meaningful because aliases can simply be seen as copies). There is more to it than identity, and you can always use a mutable variable or rebound parameter to recreate an identity for an immutable object (I.e. the world as an input and output).
Semi unrelated but I like the art of manliness podcast
Understanding App Store Optimisation (ASO)
Well the giants were on Fox before (at least in 2001 when I followed them religiously) and tbh ESPN has never carried MLB games in the home region since the network (non cable) channels with bigger viewership can outbid them?
I didn't mean to say it's not useful, just that it's much simpler than actually defining a new primitive type, which is how I originally interpreted the term.
> I think it's led to Google having institutional ADD and has left them with countless failed products and others that have been neglected for years

You're missing the point. I think this is part of what defines their existence and probably their success; experiment with many different products/services (and do it quickly too), doesn't matter if you have 1 killer product for every 10,000 experiments.
> I do regret not opening up a place where young people could dance, and drink. The amount of money people spend in their twenties drinking, looking for that special someone is staggering. If I had what I spent in my twenties on essentially looking for a mate; I could retire.

Hehe as someone in their twenties looking for a mate, I can relate. I try to rationalize the expense as "having good experiences" and to be fair, I've had quite a few remarkable ones. And I do honestly think that hanging out with close friends over a beer is very relaxing, when done occasionally (e.g. over the weekend to catch up). But the financially minded part of me can't believe how much I spend on rideshare, cover, drinks, food etc.
> bias against white males?

IME, the premise that such a thing exists (with any meaningful impact at any meaningful scale) almost defines the white nationalists (alt-right). The racists with some intelligence rarely will outright say something socially unpopular; they try to make themselves palatable - 'we don't hate people based on their skin color, we just want to protect people like you with white skin from the victimization we are facing'. It's an old tactic: Adolph invaded other countries to protect Germans; Russia recently invaded Ukraine to protect Russians; everyone is a victim.
I know the feeling, although I think I might be (almost) as happy to be one of the folks here on earth helping to facilitate others' travel to mars.

I believe the importance of truly new frontiers like Mars is much higher than most think. They give a productive outlet to the most daring and restless, supply inspiration and drive for countless people, and generally help to move everything in a more positive direction. Factoring that in, the return on investment for such endeavors is unbeatable.
From reading the documentation [0] I can't help but feel a bit underwhelmed by the feature set of a GIST index. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but what index provide near mathes (fuzzy, prefix) as well as exact term matches?
"Watching professional sports is just watching other people have the time of their lives".

If you have cable, you are paying for that privilege.
It's Official. Humans Are Going to Mars. NASA Has Unveiled Their Mission
That sounds awesome, and too bad there's not more of these around. Though I can see how it requires certain density of potential clients to work, may not be that workable outside of dense cities (so OK in San Francisco, iffy in San Jose). But I'd use such service, provided I can get comfortable seating, good Wifi and some tea, etc. and booths for calls. If one was near me, I'd seriously think about a monthly subscription (provided it's suitably discounted from the hourly rate).

OTOH, when I am using coffee shop for its intended purpose, I also like to browse the internet. So of two coffeeshops one of which offers wifi and another doesn't, I'd probably go to the former even if I don't plan to work there.
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It's harder to follow this advice when you're self-employed—in the bootstrapped, struggle-with-bills, glorified one-man-show sense, not the funded-with-plenty-of-runway sense. In addition to the guilt and social pressure to "look busy", there's the knowledge that making rent really is tied to how much you work. That leaves one feeling not only guilty for doing not-work in the abstract, diffuse sense related to societal messaging, but indeed, it feels financially irresponsible and often financially deleterious.

It's not that grinding away at the PC makes one any more productive than folk who follow the article's advice. It's just an even bigger weight on one's shoulders. Instead of feeling like you owe society, your coworkers or your employer something, you think about owing people paychecks that don't bounce and owing the bank account balances that aren't negative.

Seeing past that and becoming aware that taking a walk now and again won't change any of that in the big picture, because the big picture depends on the more cosmological success or failure of your business model to grow/scale, is hard when life is that kind of constant struggle. And then you constantly feel like a moral failure—I mean a real piece of shit, not just a slacker getting away with slacking—when you binge-watch something on Netflix or cruise HN or YouTube because you're constantly burned out.
> he made several speeches where he called the politicians of multiple countries "descendants of nazis"

Whoever cries wolf is a wolf himself.
I have experience with Oracle, Postgres, MS SQL Server and DB2.

Postgres is in the same range of relational enterise SQL database engines. Postgres offers even Oracle PL/SQL compatible syntax, so you can think of Postgres as the Linux of relational databases. (Linux is a clone of Unix). If you need advanced SQL syntax, XML support, complex triggers, inlined procedural code, GIS, etc look no further than this and choose Postgres. If you just want to hit your DB with thousends of connections from your web application frameworks and public APIs or think of easy clustering, it might be a good idea to add a caching layer in-front like memcached/redis or read on... (as the forking model doesn't scale that good)

And then there is a unique database-software with a common SQL dialect that supports dozends of database engines. It's called MySQL and it supports plugin-engines like InnoDB (default, true web scale, very fast), ISAM (old 1980s style features, very fast), etc. MySQL can handle many concurrent connections and InnoDB is really good, that's why it's a very good fit for web apps, using basic SQL features and used by Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc as a main production database.

And there are NoSQL databases that have different kinds of features like MongoDB/RethinkDB, Lucene (Solr/ElasticSearch), Hadoop (HBase, etc), Cassandra, etc. - they have often just basic SQL-like query language or non at all, but a custom API to interact with the datastore. Those domain specific solutions are often very fast for certain use cases. Some have limited index support, limited join support, transactions, etc. so the it really depends. E.g. for JSON datastore and full text search, those are ideal solutions.

We would need a database guide that highlights the common open source database engines. And provide a transition guide and compatibility matrix compared to legacy binary blob database engines - the real competitors to open source. People in the open source communities are often fishing in other communities and try to convert them - instead look no further than your corporate colleagues and enterprise fellows and try to convert them away from their rusty databases.
Study Shows Black Coders Are More Likely to Get Job Offers, but for Less Money
> A zero-sum game is one in which summation of utility among participants is fixed [...]

[...] at zero. Otherwise it would be a constant-sum game. Otherwise, agree!
How about directing funding toward creationism, or alternative views of the causes of climate change (i.e., non-human ones), or the benefits of authoritarianism? How about when the Koch brothers fund research into the benefits of their brand of libertarianism?

Anything can be used politically.
Comes close to what my father-in-law says about porn, 'why watch other people having fun ?'
The "least worst" I've ever used to SSRS (Microsoft), not sure if the 2000 pages will cause an issue or if the images outside the borders are possible though. Apparently it supports other data sources but I'm not sure how well, I've got an upcoming task at work to investigate this.

But 2000 pages? That's a data dump, not a report.
I implemented the Towers Game on iOS a few years ago: https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/%E6%95%B0%E5%A1%94%E6%B8%B8%...

Very few downloads. Maybe it's the crappy graphics.

I am always wondering why some puzzle games get popular (Sudoku, 2048) whereas others don't .
Isn't PWT saying "well if you saw the entire state of the universe you could know the answer" the physics equivalent of "every terminating calculation is O(1) relative to the heat death of the universe"?

Because the interpretation still leads to the "wave function collapse" interpretation in the expermienttal scope anyways, how does it feel less impossible?

Is the theory equivalent to other quantum theories? If so, the value of that interpretation is purely philosophical right? Personally I'm not super satisfied. It's brought up as an interpretation that removes the non-determinism, but in reality it hides the non-determinism to the "practically invisible" by extending out to the entire universe.

To bring back the stats thing... I could either say I have a 50/50 chance to get heads or tails on a flip, or I could say "well, if I could see through time I'd know all the results and they'd be knowable, so the results are 100% likely to be known". Sure, that's true but that's not happening.

Granted, there's no local deterministic theory... but what's the value of determinism if the non-locality extends to the universe?