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My anecdotes as someone who started to learn programming around 1992:

"Before Google" is probably what you really mean.

For me: Early on (age 7-14) it was how-to/text/learn-X-Y-days books + man pages and lots of playing with Batch files, GW-BASIC, QBASIC & ASM.

Later on in highschool I was lucky my school had AP programming classes (and a small C-S dept!). So that helped me move from BASIC to VBasic/C/C++. Along the way I picked up vbscript as an sysadm intern and bash playing with early desktop Linux.

When I started college, even though stackoverflow didn't exist, you could certainly now Google things, but results were often not as good and often paywalled. During this time using the same methods above + college classes I picked up: Java/Haskell/Scheme/Prolog.

Later on now firmly in the stackoverflow era I picked up C#/Perl/Go while working, but I did this more like I always had done than the "on-line academy/tutorial" ways people seem to do it now days.

My most recent languages are Go (I have been programming fulltime professionally in it since Go 0.8) and Rust (still learning), but I still have eschewed the "on-line academy/tutorial" way of learning. I guess I don't appreciate a highly curated learning path (when I used text books I tended up use them more as references when stuck or for learning theory).

Stackoverflow is of course something has a full time programmer I might use once or twice a month... but it really only shines (IMHO) for the most superficial of issues (glitches in toolchains etc), if you are going their to learn theory your mileage may vary.. all my opinion of course.
I've played with a Mircosoft Hololens dev kit and, even though it's clearly a first version (field of view is tiny, relatively low res, etc), the potential applications for a second or third generation version are immense. It's not hard to imagine AR headsets replacing monitors entirely with a short period of time. That's a big market. If Magic Leap have something better they could well be on to something that justifies a crazy valuation.
I guess that explains your username.
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The ML HQ is in FL, and their investments are overwhelmingly from corporate venture. Other than an office on the peninsula, and Sundar on the board there is nothing Silicon Valley about them.
Does Google use ML to predict the failure of one service?
> $2 trillion spread out over every man, woman, and child in the United States would equal roughly $5000.

Children of course wouldn't need to get the same basic income as adults. $2 trillion is enough for every adult (working-age or otherwise) to get $9k/year, plus $2k per kid.

> In some areas of the country this is one month of living expenses, in other areas it may be a couple months if living cheap.

$9,000 per individual ($20,000 per family) is quite livable in much of the country. You can rent a 2BR house in Macon, GA for $350 per month (close to town!). Under basic income, poor people wouldn't have to live on the outskirts of high-COL areas just to get to their low-paying service jobs downtown. They could move to the vast swathes of this country that are much cheaper. And if they did choose to live near those jobs, the basic income would serve as a supplement, not a total replacement.
That argument stops holding water when the manufacturer starts marketing around the superior power efficiency of their processors based on that same number.
When will The Paris Review run interviews with leading bloggers and other online-first writers?

This is important because they are missing the vast swathe of content that is produced in this day and age. I wouldn't be surprised if 80, 90, or even 95 of written content was digital only these days.

All in all, I think it is time for The Paris Review to interview a writer who is known primarily for their online-only content.

I find it interesting that many of the established literary magazines still haven't extended the definition of literature to capture blogging and tweeting as new forms of media.

They do a good job of including journalism, comedy writing, poetry, and short fiction. But they never extend their interviews to new forms of online-only or online-native writing.

Is there is any justification for stopping the definition of literature short of blogging, tweeting, Tumblr'ing, etc?

There are two that come to mind. Firstly, that The Paris Review considers these forms of media too new. I, of course, understand that it takes a while for the establishment to feel comfortable with new things. But, honestly, online media isn't that new anymore. It was new 20 years ago, but certainly not today.

Secondly, perhaps someone might say that online media is mostly functional and non-creative -- or that it's not a forum for creative media. Surely, that is true for much online writing -- but so is it true for offline writing.

Finally, it feels funny to say that creative writing can exist on some platforms, like Twitter. But, why? Because they are short-form? Doesn't that still give writers the room to produce hyperconcentrated creative forms? Haiku are short -- are they not creative, and worthy of the term 'literature'?
You may be confusing the Google Cloud Vision API with the Google Cloud Prediction API.
This action harms no one but yourself

Paying a ransom is the opposite of this. The action only helps yourself, but harms everyone else, but providing funds to the ransomer.
Did they actually decrypted the files after getting money from victims?

It would be interesting, if some white-hat security researcher, pays the $300 money and gets the solution (reverse engineering) . Make its available for free to everyone :)
That last line is exactly what happened for a while. They maintained and enhanced the products for over a decade, too, since there were profitable sales. Same thing is happening with DO-178B/C. One company even made a robust graphics driver for Radeon on non-Windows and non-Mac platform. Something the private sector can't be expected to do based on my experience. ;)
My guess is that BTC, while not effectively anonymous, does make it easy to use temporary accounts for receipt of extortion money.
no its the direct sum notation. you have no right to tell mathematicians what notation they should or should not use. what you are entitled to is to write a mathematical paper and use some notation and try to market it. but that requires getting a phd, learning mathematics, publishing on the arxiv, going to conferences, going to talks, talking to mathematicians,......... its much easier to say "BUT MUH PLUS OH SCARY GREEK!"
If you get five years before someone disrupts it. That's not a given.
Ok I will reword; there's something very wrong in the tech investment world. I'll edit the post.
Definitely this.

I save >$1000 / paycheck and I work in NYC. If you are childless and scraping by on an engineer's salary, there is (likely) something majorly wrong.

I recommend mrmoneymustache.com (Obviously you don't have to go full Mustache)
they said "most of 690M is profit" in the article. I used bayes theorem to go through all of the numbers out of 690M that I would have said "most" for, and arrived at a guess of 600M. Even if it were the lower bound of values for which the word "most" technically applies that's still earnings of 345M. An 11% a year on an investment of 3 billion. That's still insane. CL revenue is not terribly speculative.
The hype reminds me of the run-up to the launch of the Segway.
I have a friend who buys $20 shoes. They last him a year, and then he has to buy another pair of shoes. He laughs when I buy $70 shoes, but those $70 shoes last me four years. Over that four year period, he's spent $80 on shoes and I spent $70.

I have a friend who buys $500 laptops. They last him a year, and then he has to buy another laptop. He laughs when I buy $1000 laptops, but those $1000 laptops last me three years. Over that three year period, he's spent $1500 on laptops and I spent $1000.

I have a friend who uses Windows XP. Windows XP is better, it's faster, it's leaner, Aero is garbage, Metro is garbage. DirectX 12 is just a scam to get you to upgrade, there's no reason Windows XP isn't the best. But once a month he's calling me about some kind of virus he's gotten even though he runs Symantec every day.

Relying on an outdated piece of software is never the best decision. If Microsoft's updates bother you that much, stop using Microsoft software. Microsoft can't lock you in to anything, and there's very little that Windows offers that OSX, or to a lesser extent Linux, doesn't offer. The arguments against switching come down to "I hate Apple/Linux", in which case you've locked yourself into one vendor for irrational reasons, or "Apple is too expensive", in which case you have to wonder if that's actually true considering you're spending hours complaining about Microsoft updates, or the worst one, "I'm a Windows developer", which... why? If you hate Microsoft enough to want to switch but Visual Studio is the only thing holding you back, I don't feel bad for you. The only slightly legitimate complaint is the lack of games, but there are a ton of games for Mac these days and consoles do exist.

It's not really lock-in if you choose to be locked in.
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I learned to program on an Atari 130XE, which came with a manual that covered basic operation and a full ATARI BASIC reference.

As a ten-year-old armed with thousands of hours of spare time, I devoured this manual in pursuit of making games and drawing pretty pictures. I don't even really remember many details of the process; I just know that I spent a lot of time engaged in trial and error (guided by the manual, without which I would not have even tried).
I remember looking up this exact question a few days ago. I really prefer to sell things like used electronics on Craigslist over eBay.

I really like their business model too. They made enough to keep going, but not enough that they aspire to take over everything. It's a really simple concept, and there are very few business ideas that can pull it off.
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In one of my favorite books, Antifragile, Nassim Taleb argues that health is largely subtractive - if you want to be healthy, remove unnatural things from your body (sugar, medicines, sitting too much, etc), and only undergo surgery, go to the hospital, or take medicine in very serious cases where the harm of not doing something outweighs the potential complications. Especially since hearing more about more about how the American health system is not exactly incentivized to always look out for the best interest of the patient, I'm inclined to agree with him.
Investors get to try it out. They're not trying to mislead investors via leaks.
I'm a bit confused -- I think the point Kenji is making is that the lid as a radiant heat source is much closer than the top of the oven.
Considering most of the U.S. (primary market for self-driving cars) experiences snow and ice several months of the year, why wouldn't engineers spend time to make this work well? Is there something inherent about adverse weather that makes humans better at it?

The evidence is that anti-lock brakes and variable traction controls have lead to a reduction in crashes in adverse weather conditions. Driving in snow and ice is hard. Why wouldn't a system that can make much finer and frequent adjustments outperform people? The only thing that is really holding back self-driving systems is the computer vision aspect, which is mitigated with Lidar and by further research into computer vision improvements.
The purpose of the NSA is the same as the purpose of the military: To apply force in the digital arena, the same way the military applies force in the physical arena.

In the same vein, the NSA isn't about protection. That's not their role, just like the point of the military isn't protection.
UBI decreases productivity because fewer people will choose to work.

UBI decreases government efficiency because now it has to process sending out checks to every citizen (and some non-citizens, and some dead ones, and some fake ones).

UBI increases taxes because citizens will pay for it.

UBI increases poverty because fewer people will choose to work.

UBI increases crime because more people are impoverished.

UBI increases socialism because that's what it is -- income redistribution, formerly known as theft.

UBI increases the risk of tax revolt.
Are there any plans for Node.js to handle WebAssembly? This way we could get native libraries compiled directly to wasm avoiding problems with linking native libraries to current version of node, etc.

Of course not all libraries could be converted to WebAssembly...
Despite generally disagreeing with the comment I upvoted the parent because I think it provides an important counterpoint to the discussion.

I think it's too common to make lazy assumptions and not even read the article when it comes to a stereotype (true or not) such as Google's countless EOL'd services.

And personally I feel like Google's endgame isn't to provide the best consumer/enterprise cloud services a la AWS. They're just subsidizing their own endeavors in mass computing with presumably a tidy profit on the side. They can afford to alienate a customer here and there because they don't need a customer here and there. Which is an entirely rational thing to do for a corporation.
Sure, it's an interesting question, but it's hardly obvious to answer. You're just throwing numbers around to, we could do that all day and not really get anywhere.

Again, I'm not arguing for or against - just for better quality arguments about it. There are at least plausible sounding reworkings of the tax code that could achieve this (far less than your 90% scenario). Far better to argue about those, than straw men. Both pro and con sides of this debate seem to be more fond of the straw men.
A p/e of 5 is NOT reasonable. Has everyone gone mad? Blue chips run at about 20.

Therefore I would pay 10B for craigslist in a heartbeat. I could probably even get a bank to loan me the money.
Unfortunately, as your own choice of word "exceptional" implies, most are not so lucky.

I once sat in a review meeting at the end of a year with members of the faculty responsible for teaching collecting feedback from many of the undergraduate students. When challenged about the poor quality of many lectures, the response was essentially that they can't make the lecturers go and learn how to lecture competently because the lecturers wouldn't stand for it.

Try that attitude in the professional world and you'd be in a remedial programme on your way to getting fired.

Fortunately, I expect that with the advances in modern technology and changes in modern careers, the old-school universities that think a famous name and charging high fees mean they can get away with anything will soon be obsolete, and so will the incompetent parts of the academic community sheltering within them. They will need to find new ways to offer dramatically more value than interested people can find on their own with all the modern resources we have available, or they won't be able to justify people taking several years out of their lives and paying a fortune in fees to attend any more.
Can you add information? Their websites both claim that drivers earn 25% of the fare.
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I just used this for my reddit account... holy crap its kinda scary how accurate it is. All it takes is for you to slip up in a comment here or there, add in a detail somewhere once, and its all there. I think i need to start using temp reddit accounts, and just jump ship every few months.
That doesn't seem like enough. Even things like unemployment benefits typically pay a lot more than that.

You'd basically be robbing the very poorest to pay the lower half of the middle class. A lot of current welfare recipients are getting a lot more than 9k + 2k per kid.

Not sure I see the benefit in a scheme like that.
As someone who works in the industry, this shouldn't be much of a surprise. Most drugs have a very low incidence of serious side effects. Even over the counter products do. The reason they are approved is that they are so rare.

A great example of a serious side effect is Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS). There are many everyday drugs (ibuprofen, antibiotics, etc) that can cause this rare disorder. Your skin basically sloughs off and you end in a burn ward. Super rare, but they happen.
>Tesla's Autopilot already has a fatality on its record because it couldn't differentiate the color of the sky with the color of a truck.

Do you think in your wildest dream that this exact scenario would ever be allowed to happen again by Tesla engineers? It may have crashed causing a fatality in this instance but it doesn't mean the prospect of camera only vision systems need to be written off. What people often overlook is that these systems get stronger with more and more edge cases and objectively the Tesla team are doing outstanding work with the sensor package that they have.
Whether they can continue with what they have remains to be seen. They are and always have been and probably will be in the future at liberty to start from a clean slate, so they're free to 'continue working on self-driving technology'.
Really good technical analysis of WannaCry for hackers (in a good sense): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_j8UUQbJsc
"The developers have blamed the problem on "the current elevation of the sun in the sky," a position Viñoly seems inclined to share."

Like that was a surprise.
Asking to get paid in Bitcoin is already a stiff barrier to entry for most users, so probably not. $300 feels close to the upper threshold where people who already care enough to not balk at the Bitcoin requirement also won't balk at the sticker price.
It can be argued that the very significant changes United made to their training and rebooking procedures are the business impact. Just because they were able to quickly triage and come up with a workable solution I wouldn't say they weren't impacted.
The flaw in their plan is that the intersection of people capable of figuring out how to pay a ransom payment in Bitcoin, and people still using Windows XP, is pretty small.
> why can't they show the public

It doesn't really help them until they need to start marketing. Even oculus/vive mismanaged the expectations of the public so there's no advantage to start doing it until you have to. Given how bad hololens(probably their closest competitor) is, magic leap is probably still a few years away.

And it's not their fault. Humans are biologically very good at vision so it takes a lot to trick our eyes and brains. I am sure no one is going to pop out of their garage with a better solution anytime soon.

Right now it doesn't matter where the capital concentrates at long as it's concentrating somewhere. Throw enough money/R&D/engineers at the problem and it will be polished enough to be declared solved. And at that point the world will change and no one is going to care how we got there.
Everyone deprecates APIs in favor of more evolved ones. It's pretty standard. If they didn't, innovation would falter.

If Google was shutting down the capability of doing something, like reader, that would be a different issue.
I'm sure a lot of Theranos investors had good things to say about the demos they got from them.
I didn't mean to suggest you guys did the wrong thing -- it was just a joke. However Google is known for shutting down services whenever they feel like it and I think that you can see from some of the other comments in this thread that traditionally people expect things to be supported for much longer if they're going to build on top of it for something serious.
Crypto doesn't work like that.
I wonder if this will impact Donald Trump's campaign promise to get the FDA to sign off on all of those drugs awaiting approval.

Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications.

https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102...
My work involves advanced document preparation that includes a lot of sketching. That must mean most laptops aren't work machines either.
This is a bizarre perspective.

Microsoft isn't a victim here. They made decisions that made it difficult or impossible for customers to upgrade their software. They also print money.

Is it a pain in the ass to support a bunch of old software? Yes. Should anyone, anywhere have any sympathy for them? No.
Which is one thing if your product is on a yearly (or quicker) release cycle. But it's a whole different level of pain if the project is in maintenance mode and the development team has already been reassigned to other projects.
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We have implemented smth. like this with sqlite extension, pretty powerful, with all the goodies sqlite (and its extensions) provides...
we shipped a fix for this Friday :)
This is really neat. MacOS has a easy to use smart folder which I use to find recent files and large files. An interface like this is an advantage because it's easy to understand what it's doing and it's cross platform . Other people make the claim it may be verbose (but being verbose makes the operation clearer) and SQL is so familiar to programmers that are power users.
Sounds like you're primed for an executive position at Walmart.
I don't find that very hard to believe considering it's sometimes possible to use something as simple as a mirror to trick the brain into correcting phantom limb pain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_box
My first programming job was in COBOL. I don't even list it on my resume. I taught a class in COBOL at UConn a long time ago. The IBM mainframe instruction set is a practically perfect target for compiled COBOL. As I recall, the 'translate and test' instruction has a COBOL counterpart. And the PIC format is very clever. All in all, a nice language for business-related record processing.

COBOL is one of the easier languages to learn but I have yet to see a job ad for a COBOL programmer.
If the upgrade cycle is so artificial, why aren't you doing more than playing with those older machines? I'm willing to bet you didn't post this comment from a Commodore 64, why not? If upgrades are artificial and computer systems last forever, why are you using a newer computer and not still using the BBC Micro? What's stopping you from watching Netflix and playing Call of Duty on your Atari?