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I don't think things have really changed. The games market is saturated, but the IoT is only just beginning, and the next "minecraft" (sorry I don't know a lot of indie games) will probably be something AR or VR.

AR is posing to really take off. I mean, I work for the government and I'm not very creative, so these upcoming things might seem lame to a lot of people, but we can basically cover a 15 km radius with slow "internet" (LoraWAN) for around $1000.

In this you can build all sorts of small devices. You can monitor street temperatures and giving the data to the public via open data. You can monitor if elderly people are alive by tracking whether or not an IoT lightbuilb turns on. You can build tourism apps that emit small stories via Bluetooth.

I mean, the options are endless, and it's basically shaping up to be the Wild West that indie games were 10 years ago.
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> certainly the flavor can't!

Flavour doesn't fare well with the dryness and low pressure of airplanes at altitude.

See e.g. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150112-why-in-flight-food-...
I find it unlikely the tonic you get on an airplane will have quinine.
pREST – A fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database writting in Go
Even open source products still are running on largely closed systems. When has Intel ever let people see what's going on under the covers?

The late 1970's was probably the last time anybody truly understood 100% of what was going on in any system.

The bottom line is that you have to trust some people. I totally understand those that don't trust Google. I happen to trust them today.
You could make dusty toast.
I did a similar thing my freshman year of college, and by junior year I created an API based around the class registration system and an iPhone/Android app for it that sends push notifications to students when the class they want opens up (shameless plug: http://www.eaglescribe.com/).

This past semester, the active users was between 1/3-1/2 of the undergrad students in the school. As you can imagine, popular classes had dozens of people "subscribed" to receive notifications when it opened, so it became a race to sign up once the push went out. On the plus side, this gave us a treasure trove of data on the most popular courses, and we've been in communication with the school to see if they would be interested in this data.
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Frankly, accounting is so old that it might actually be true. Also, it depends on what is meant by "trade": individuals exchange goods between themselves in a free-form setting, like as in sharing a bite off each others' meals or lending each other stuff. But in order to reliably and repeatedly exchange goods through time without any suffering through systematic losses - which is more like the problem of a shopkeeper - people are pretty much required to keep some form of running tally of their previous transactions in order to know what they've done so far and what their bottom-line is.

It's very much like saying that there would be no traveling without maps (or perhaps without navigation). At a glance, it is wrong. But it seems a fair and reasonable statement if it's interpreted as if saying that if people had no way of telling where they are or at least where they're going, then there would be no way of "traveling" from or to anywhere. There would merely be wandering.
To be fair, your “basic privacy rights” have nothing to do with this, it's about simplifying Google's efforts to sell services (which weren't actually effected by this anyway, but perception is a different thing than reality) to enterprise customers.
> last 100 years might have been an anomaly

I should expand on this. The historical returns of the US stock market are about 7% annually over the long haul. The US GDP has grown about 2% annually over the last 150 years. There were a few decades when it was about 3.5% and we felt pretty good, but that's been done for a while now.

So... economic growth is at 2% and capital returns are 7%. As Thomas Piketty pointed out, this is probably unsustainable. I suggest a healthy skepticism when someone uses the last 50 years to predict the next 50 years.
Excellent. Thankyou very much.

I teach basic Maths to adults in the UK, so I tend to use these old faves...

"What did the zero say to the eight?"

"Nice belt"

(even my sister has heard that one)

"Why does noone talk to circles?"

"There's no point"

Thankyou and goodnight
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Personally, I quite like Java. Or, I'd put it somewhere in the category of 'good/proper languages'. Although I view C# as a straightforward upgrade. But hey, it's pretty often I have to work in PHP or R or JavaScript. A few months of that and I'll beg for a chance to work in Java with its sensible collections, its mostly-not-broken type system, and its integers.

However, I do think a lot of the library ecosystem that goes with Java it pretty poor, and I don't think I could ever work with Spring again.

This gist of Java frameworks for me is that they miss the essential problems and important uses and instead construct a massive tower of nonsense around the trivialities.

(I am, however, quite happy with Guava and Joda Time, and if I thought that dependency injection frameworks were useful then Guice is certainly superior to Spring.)

So here's my anecdote illustrating the dark side of Java.

Once upon a time, I needed to parse a CSV with a header row. The project I was working in used Spring, so I decided to try the Spring library. Configuring it to fetch the bean, put it in the right place, and set the header row switch to true took slightly more lines of XML than the lines of code you'd need to write a CSV parser from scratch, but hey at least I didn't need to think about quoting.

After a year or so, we are updating to a newer version of Spring. They have removed the header-row switch from their CSV parser, and replaced it with some sort of general parser extension abstraction. To parse a CSV with a header, I now have to write a class implementing their parser interface, register it with Spring, then write another 10 lines or so of hideous XML to slot it into the right place.

Just...what the hell?

Bean Validation can piss off too.
To play Devil's advocate, the ads benefit you because they make Gmail free.
Most annoying thing ever: instead of "Disable this feature", you get "No not now".

Stop forcing things down peoples throats. If you are making a great feature or product, it wil sell itself without a heavy hand. I've determined this is a way to tell who is struggling with innovation and who is leading the way.
Funny you said that because as soon as I read the article on Algorithmia, I started to see ads for Woldfram, including getting their free eBook on ML.
Won't people keep assuming gmail reads their emails at this point though?
Exactly. From the article: "But instead of scanning a user’s email, the ads will now be targeted with other personal information Google already pulls from sources such as search and YouTube."
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It's useful to stop and ask yourself what exactly do central banks do that is so harmful.

The US situation of those bailouts and "too big to fail" is certainly problematic, but most people pushing that line are really against fractional reserves, but those don't really seem to have the effects people attribute to them. (And if they do have that effect, it's the central bank that sets their fraction, so it's entirely a matter of policy, not structure.)
The Costco chickens taste good.
Last year my desk calendar had a bunch of these sorts of puzzles, so some things I learned:

Any time you see "0..1" you have to have a 0 and 1 between them. This is useful since each row/column must have the same number of 0s and 1s (5 each in your puzzle). So counting from (1,1) as the top left, what does (6,3) have to be? You may not know the position of all the 0s and 1s in row 6, but you have most of them accounted for because of this specific relationship, and one free space. Figure it out and you get at least 5 positions resolved.

Keeping in mind that the number of 0s and 1s have to be the same, find rows where the number of 0s or 1s is near the max but the other is far from it. Your row 3 is one such location. There has to be one more 0 and three more 1s. Since the 1s can't all be together, you get some constraints on the outside of that four space gap "010...010". If you put the 0 on the outside of the gap, the 1s must be all in a row which is invalid.

Your column 2 offers a similar situation. 4x0s and 2x1s. (from the top) ".01001...0". Where can the one remaining 0 go, or where can't it go?

Repeating this I can spot about 15-20 spaces that'll be filled in very quickly, and the rest probably falls into place after that.
Maybe I don't understand google home because I don't have one, but to be able to detect whatever keywords cause it to listen to you doesn't it have to listen to everything you say?

I feel like any device that has a microphone is suspect if you want total privacy, but listening to what you say seems like an integral part of the device. You can only hope (and independently verify) that they don't store everything you say.
Google can't read your post office mail. It can't read your Yahoo mail. But you certainly have no right that says it can't read your Gmail mail.

You're confusing a want with a right.
> As you are a Russian, please provide me access to the GRU's classified intelligence and I'll happily enlighten you on what you want to know.

This is wrong (I mean not morally wrong, but rhetorically, or logically wrong) on so many levels that I don't even know how to begin. I guess I'll just leave it at that.

I totally agree with your point about intelligence being kept secret. Sadly, this is indeed the case. I do not invite US secret services to reveal their sources. I am only saying that if they choose to keep evidence secret, it is not reasonable then to expect people to believe them. In absence of evidence, there is no way of knowing whether you are being told truth, or deliberate lie, or anything in between. Like someone else in the comment above said, this is essentially a matter of trust. And frankly, secret services do not deserve our blind trust (no-one does, but especially not them, because misinformation is, by definition, part of their trade).

Let me be clear: I am not here to defend Russia, or Putin (I am sick and tired of our ossified, unchangeable government, but I prefer not to think about them too much; they are disgusting, like many other politicians, perhaps much more so). I am only trying to defend reason, and critical thinking, and the importance of making valid arguments.
Their response to the front-running issues is great. "B-b-but miners will behave!" and "Hey, ya ok, so that's bad but like, someone will fix it so whatever".
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No faction should force through a marginally popular, sweeping change by the skin of it's teeth.

This is one of the reasons why the Constitution and amendment process exist. The Supreme Court ruled that the passage of the ACA was technically OK (I disagree, but that's moot I guess) but they didn't rule whether it was wise.

I'm saying given the political and practical mess on this issue, it was unwise. I think partisan finger pointing is likewise a bad idea.
I read hndigest every day! Thanks for making it :)

Question: Is there any way you could make the newsletter so that long titles don't text wrap on wide screens? Example: http://imgur.com/a/vlCE8
Prototype for an encrypted Uber
So what the fuck are YOU going to do about it?
64 bytes is a bit arbitrary. Up until now I had not heard any complaints about this since most people I know who would use a 64 character passphrase are using a password manager instead. I am adding a test to the PR today and when I do I'll bump it to 512 bytes. We don't want arbitrary password lengths to prevent crazy amounts of passphrase hashing.

We use PBKDF2 as a key derivation function, which is specifically designed to turn low entropy, arbitrary length strings into fixed length, high entropy keys suitable for encryption. It also has the added bonus of making password brute forcing significantly harder.
Apparently the patient is a teenage boy with hemophilia. I'm fairly confident that it isn't a scam.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/06/01/io...
Not to rain on Algo's parade, but check this out if you're looking for tensor as a service - https://www.floydhub.com

I am not affiliated with those guys in any way, but I just really liked their idea.
OK but will Google stop reading my email for other types of ads?

For example, if I write "I love coffee" in an email, am I more likely to see a Starbucks ad when I visit watch a YouTube video?
What exactly is the important difference between "discussing things in great detail to avoid conflict" and "having a contract"? When problems come up, is a contract more likely to be disregarded because it is written down? Is half an hour on a laptop an "excessive" cost? I don't understand your argument in the slightest.

It may, of course, be true that a contract is only a good idea due to insufficient communication and trust. But, for this to be an increasing problem presupposes that people were ever better communicators and trust-ers than we are today; I think it more likely that people of previous eras were simply better at doing without. Before a couple generations ago, romantic love was a radical idea and nearly all relationship decisions were resolved by deferring to the male's preference. Such simpler times certainly don't require complicated contracts, but these days we're likely to think that that kind of relationship is missing something important.
These companies could sell a product in Russia that is different than the one they sell in the US. Audits by Russia don't mean much unless everyone gets the same binaries.
It's more like your accountant preparing your tax return for free in exchange for aggregating data about your receipts and offering you goods and services you may be interested in.
Thank you. I got my PR some months back. My spouse can work now. We are very happy than being in the US where she was not authorized to work. We enjoy the real freedom here.
Yep, Generic and ML algorithms as a service in the form of APIs, say you have an app and wants image classification in it. Why take the pain of building your own model and then porting it to your app? Simply use this API!
Yep, Generic and ML algorithms as a service in the form of APIs, say you have an app and it wants image classification in it. Why take the pain of building your own model and then porting it to your app? Simply use this API!
It's a balance, if you don't have enough immigration you want more, if you have too much you want less. Which side of the curve the US is on is debatable.
because in a society when most of people don't need to work because there is nothing to do for them. you can't compete by working, you can compete by the amount of your capital.
for example if you use robots to produce X, the only way I can compete with you is having more or better robots (there would be still competition on building better robots as long as people making robots and AIs not AIs generating more AIs). in such a word most of people don't contribute to the economy, allocating resources based on amount of work or capital is going to leave most of society without any resources!
free market is still going to be helpful in making AI and Robot owners compete, but they shouldn't be the sole benefactor of robot's work!
Well yeah. They have to scan content for you to effectively search your own email, which is one of their flagship features.
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To amplify your last statement, I recently had a kid. It was a low-risk pregnancy and in the end a fast and boring birth -- could have had the kid in a clean barn with some qualified attendants, in the end. But to get this boring, normalish (breech) birth I had to spend some hours researching providers and my insurance options to work with someone who practices low-intervention, evidence-based medicine -- and I had to drive to another state to work with this guy. Everyone within 40 miles wanted to throw a lot of resources and a C-section at me -- for no mortality or morbidity benefit that persists after about 10 minutes. (Breech babies born the old-fashioned way generally have low 1-minute Apgar scores.) I saved my insurance company a ton of money, I have to say.

The whole experience of pregnancy was an experience of reading the medical literature and then trying to evade the "care" of obstetricians in the standard US care model. I'm glad we have the facilities to deal with all the complications that arise, but we don't have to use them just because they're there when they're not appropriate care.
> The amount of work to even build the simplest game is monumental.

It's not much different than writing and editing a novel, or composing, rehearsing, and recording an album. The game industry is very much like the music and literal worlds these days.

You have a pack of companies (fewer and larger over time) and employees thereof who have figured out how to reliably generate cash. Think EA, big record labels, and big publishing houses.

Then you have a vanishingly small number of black swans who beat the odds, get huge, and make a ton of money (usually with the help of the above giant corporations). Think Bieber, Notch, and J.K. Rowling.

And then you have an enormous sea of people toiling in anonymity who will never find much money or an audience. That local band you see loading in at your corner bar. Every game not on the front page of Steam. Self-published fiction on Amazon.

As long as everyone recognizes what group they are in and are OK with it, I don't see the system as being intrinsically bad. Unfortunate that things are so skewed towards the small number of celebrities, but not outright cruel.

Where it gets creepy is when you have companies in the first category sucking money from the last category by promising them that they are in the middle one and encouraging them to make shitty life choices based on that.

There's nothing wrong with doing your weird little creative hobbies without reaching fame or fortune. I've been in local bands and made shareware games. I've written and produced goofy videos. It is all super fun, and I highly encourage anyone to do it. But it would not have been fun if I hung my livelihood on income from them, or defined my person sense of "success" in terms of audience size.
I would rather pay and do not share anything with Google (or for that matter all of Google's partners who can purchase our data)
That's what makes them effective though. Otherwise its the same as any other GDN site.
> the system has managed to lift up everyone else as well, right?

By some measures, all of which fail to account for the fact that relative deprivation is a substantial source of experienced disutility.
AI-powered voice assistant platform that don't need to send your data to cloud
Boiling time is a function of air pressure, not strictly elevation. Of course if the airplanes you fly on are not pressurized then you are correct.
>In the olden days, the main force balancing this was taxation.

What? Taxation in the US has never been higher, you are a fucking moron
If you absolutely need to take this offer, draft up a written agreement outlining all the terms you two have verbally agreed to. Have you and the other party sign the form and email yourself and the company a digital copy of the signed form. Also, ask your boss to reply to the email and confirm the agreement to be valid.
That's an excellent use case! I'm on it.
Can we use react without npm ?
At some point though, if major world powers never go to war with each other, then the F35 can't really fail insofar as it will never actually see combat.

It reminds me of the sci fi novels Dread Empire's Fall, in which the galactic civilization's ship fleet has never fought a battle in thousands of years, so nobody can actually know how to do it, and they don't know if a certain tactic, ship, etc is really a failure or not.
I'm unclear - how is this different than an eCommerce system (say Shopify or WooCommerce) that had a plugin to accept Eth?

Is it just that the registrations are handled in contracts too?
If I understand you right, your contention seems to be more with animation and 'fluff' rather than with MV* frameworks like Angular specifically. To which I'll simply say: in some cases animation is as important to the user experience as an additional image would be, and in some cases the additional image just contributes more 'fluff' than the animation or interactivity would. There are many dimensions to the problem (and the article only hints at some of them on the protocol side), and pinning JavaScript frameworks as the cause strikes me as unfair.

What you're really asking for is for the components being used, be they images, animations of frameworks, to be used with a deliberate purpose. Which I think is what everyone is asking for, and what good developers and designers strive for.
Incredibly well done; with screenshots and everything. Really excited for this as it completely relates to what I'm doing. Thanks a million!
Ads benefit both you and the other group that they connect you. You finding out about, say, a product you are interested benefits you.
Do you have a source where Sanders said the Fed should be eliminated, or was that Swartz?

I believe the comment about socialism for the rich -- here is his NYT op-ed on the Fed: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/opinion/bernie-sanders-to...
taxes in the US are far more progressive than they used to be. there are however many new avenues to follow to increase wealth. those below a certain income level are more likely to get eaten up by embedded taxes, regulatory fees and government service fees.

then throw in we are bombarded every day continuously to buy this,buy that, go here, do that. We get told every day of wonderful stuff available for pennies or dollars a day. we have tv shows and advertisements implying status for owning certain products.

besides managing their money we fail to teach kids in school just how well marketing manipulates them into believing what is needed to have them spend money.

still regulation has become the go to tool to prevent competition and when that doesn't work the fear of exploitation of the poor or under privileged is brought to the foreground.

the simple fact is we have too much government for it to be effective for the regular person, it only serves those who can afford to operate on its level
AWS already has an image recognition API.
Only if they tell us what they find.
This took me a total of 5 minutes: http://static.haldean.org/why-is-the-internet-slow.html

The page is 2.3kB on the wire, and the single other request it makes (for the image) adds another 70kB. Taken together, this is a two-order-of-magnitude decrease in page size, with exactly the same content.

Every byte is sacred! This webpage infuriates me.
Maybe it ought to be this way, but it's clearly not. MP3, GIF, patent trolls, and the Eastern District of Texas are all well-known examples of software patents.
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To be more accurate the article says they stopped scanning for ads that appear inside gmail. Whether they still scan emails in the free gmail for use outside gmail is unknown, but I may be being pedantic...
Who exactly assumes it? Driver? Whoever hired him? Whoever owns the medallion? I think it'd be non-trivial to even figure out who to sue, let alone win it.
Isn't this called 'rackateering' and prohibited?
I got a letter from my insurance provider saying they're pulling out of the local market in 2018. I pay full price directly, no subsidy, not through any exchange, it's very expensive and I've poured tens of thousands into premiums over the years.

I can't help but relate the entire industry to a ponzi scheme.