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Sort of related: JS is officially written as "JavaScript" (yeah, ikr) and surprisingly the trademark is owned by Oracle.
Was the claim not "doing n-back helps working memory"? Hardly "become smarter". Whether or not it works is worthy of discussion, but straw-man-ing a hyperbolic claim that wasn't made doesn't add to the discussion.
Indeed. Moving to the opposite direction though I wonder when will we discover the first pseudo-historical artifacts generated by AI (speeches, art, photos, and even videos).

This is the greatest weapon ever, the ministry of truth would never dream of something like this!
your image shows that almost half of the page content is under the fold.
DNF into C initiative started
Thanks to the wonders of the free market, you can choose which global intelligence service you want your software to be compromised to!

(I'm not even sure if this is a joke)
China is racing ahead of the US so quickly. I wonder if the US will notice or just argue over election results for the rest of its existence.
What efforts have you actually made? How many jobs have you applied to? Have you polished your online portfolio and CV the best you could? Does googling you get high-quality results across various social media/news outlets?

The above are just a few questions to start off with. You'll find better answers once you give a better idea of what you've got going and what you're already doing.
California vs Montreal is cherry picking the data. You could easily say Chicago (cheap) vs Vancouver (not cheap).

The major economic tech centres in Canada are Toronto and less so, Vancouver. Montreal and Ottawa (because that's where Shopify is HQ'd) are the next biggest.

Toronto and Vancouver are hugely unaffordable when it comes to housing; Montreal and Ottawa are much more affordable.
The learner presumably doesn't know maths or what the symbols in maths are yet, so perhaps they haven't understood yet, rather than they misunderstood something.

Symbols are in fact intimidating to some people. Not after you learn them, but before.

Your argument is abstract and theoretical. It doesn't make any difference to a computer which symbols you use, because it's a lookup table. But to a human, learning new characters takes effort. That effort could be used to learn the concepts, but instead we take time learning new symbols.

Try typing your reply in trinary. It shouldn't make any difference if the symbols are ascii or trinary. You should be able to type just as fast.
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> Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not an impossible goal, but we are simply not there. But saying we never will needs a great evidence which we don't have afaik.

"AGI is not an impossible goal" also has no evidence afaik.
Those bold fonts and titles with black background are not working for me :\ Hopefully i'll get used to them.
thank you for the explanation.
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I think you need to explain why you think an entrepreneur is "indentured" to a VC.

The entrepreneur has a lot more leeway in making decisions than an employee, and has more freedom in how to spend the company's money.

Do you think that a VC would choose a foreign entrepreneur just because they are foreign? Don't you think other factors (product, team, strategy etc) would play a larger role?
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> I think we all remember that 6 month period where Microsoft decided to shove VSCode down every ones throat.

Not me. I don't remember hearing about VSCode until a few months back. I had no idea it was first released two years ago.

Maybe I just wasn't reading the right places. But I subscribe to /r/programming, and I think I would expect that to get hit, if they're going to be astroturfing on reddit?

I'm not saying this definitely didn't happen, but I'm skeptical.
Horrible!!!! I have been using this product for years, suddenly they make this change without the option to rollback. I can't search, I can't filter. If these options are there I can't find them. These usability experts... how can they fail so miserably at times.
This is something I've been pondering quite a bit recently. It is my firm belief that mathematical skill and general numeracy are actually a small subset of abstract thought. Am I wrong in thinking that school math is the closest to deliberate training in abstract reasoning that one would find in public education?

Abstract reasoning, intuition, and creativity, to me, represent the underpinnings of software engineering, and really, most engineering and science, but are taught more by osmosis along side the unintuitive often boring mechanics of subjects. The difference between a good engineer of any sort and one that 'just knows the formulas' is the ability to fluently manipulate and reason with symbols and effects that don't necessarily have any relation or simple metaphor in the tangible world. And taking it further, creativity and intuition beyond dull calculation are the crucial art behind choosing the right hypothesis to investigate. Essentially, learning to 'see' in this non-spacial space of relations.
When I'm doing system engineering work, I don't think in terms of X Gb/s throughput and Y FLOPS... (until later at least) but in my mind I have a model of the information and data structures clicking and buzzing, like watching the gears of a clock, and I sort of visualize working with this, playing with changes. It wouldn't surprise me of most knowledge workers arrive have similar mental models of their own. But what I have observed is that people who have trouble with mathematics or coding aren't primed at all to 'see' abstractions in their minds eye. This skill takes years to cultivate, but, it seems that its cultivation is left entirely to chance by orthodox STEM education.

I was just thinking that this sort of thing could be approached a lot more deliberately and could yield very broad positive results in STEM teaching.
Shared memory? Is that also maybe going to be implemented on chrome? I would not have expected shared with code running on the web/in a browser. I'm confused about the goals of ECMA and how ECMA relates to JavaScript.
Mobile friendly:

> It should be noted that our dipping scheme assumes that the object has no vertical _caps_ in any orientation. A cap is a vertical cavity that forms a vessel, in which water can be accumulated if the object is elevated vertically and air can be trapped, generating air pockets when the object is dipped in the opposite orientation. Most caps, if they exist, would be small and would have a minor effect akin to noise on the dip transform. Nevertheless, caps can be detected by dipping and then lifting back the object with the liquid trapped in the cap, yielding two different water levels. Flipping the object vertically allows detecting air pockets as they become caps.
Yeah, I think to summarize what I most dislike about what reddit has become is that it's too partisan. Places like /r/conspiracy have become very pro-republican/trump, ridiculous considering the purpose of the sub, and there are also now like 25 different anti-trump subreddits that constantly get to the front page (and I believe many of these, especially the ones that spring up seemingly out of nowhere to front-page status in weeks, are the toys of astroturfing marketing campaigns).

It's a pretty toxic environment and by constantly focusing on Trump they're crowding out a lot of content that could actually make users happier.
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Shelved? It was never proposed. It was just another empty promise by our lying and incompetent president that for some reason NY Times still treats with respect.
Though, having human judgment manage the approval is another form of organizational immaturity..

When the decision is in the domain of the actor, you should make it your organization's goal that though computers, policy documents, or documentation process that they can try to make the decision without outside human intervention. Outside of very unusual requests, escalation up management or other stakeholders shouldn't even be required.

Places where I've seen pushback on actually documenting these choices have usually fallen into one of two camps:

- too much approval required for just about anything, to document it is to admit they have a problem and would take a long long time (hint: this is a lot of engineering groups).

- making the policies public would be embarrassing to management in some form (prejudice, illogical, half-baked, etc).

Both of these are "fish rots from the head first" type of problems, and unfortunately I haven't seen good ways for people down the ladder to fix them.
But then the "programmer" becomes the one who answers the questions. That's not going to be a trivial job.
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I like how they're using the logo font for the headlines. As someone who already knows the new logo, this helps me connect MDN to the Mozilla brand more intuitively.

However, I'm just as concerned about the huge font sizes and high font weight as the majority here. It really distracts from the actual content.
And SSD costs still 10x per GB... Hoping that comes down.
I find it almost required to try and jolt these people out of it if they move between organizations. There is definitely a value to procedure but it often comes up that the underlying assumptions have moved as well. You have to encourage people to reevaluate eventually or the third or four generation handling the bureaucracy does not understand the why and does the same thing covered by the first procedure on some grand new thing that looks about the same.
Or simply an increase in fat.
And at a proper rate. Having a credit cosigner to get you that 4% loan can mean the difference between spending a lifetime paying interest, and paying down your principal in 10 years.
Honestly, I didn't even know my first remote job was going to be remote. I applied for it like any other job, and it wasn't until the end of the 1st phone interview that they told me it was a remote position. Their take on it was they wanted people applying because they wanted the job, not because they wanted remote work.

In other words -- if you are looking too hard for remote work, that could be exactly what is holding you back. Look for the jobs that match your skills and background first. Then from those jobs that you know are a good match, prioritize the ones that are remote.
The title (of the article, not this post) is misleading.

Americans are leaving New York City. The numbers they use followed by

"That means that, since 2010, almost a million more people have left New York for somewhere else in America than have moved to New York from another U.S. metro—more than any other metro in the country"

indicate that people are leaving NYC. They don't say where these people are moving to, or if they are moving to other cities or rural communities.

NYC, SF, LA, etc are dying. Other cities are booming. People aren't leaving behind City life, they're leaving behind city life in a few cities that are too expensive, too competitive, and offer very little in return.

Why pay $1500 / month for a shoebox in NYC when you can spend 1/3 of that in a smaller (albeit less romanticized) city?

There is a middle ground between the rat race of the Big Cities and the classical 60s American dream house, and people are going there.
http://www.techweez.com/2017/07/11/ushahidi-needs-to-act/
Not sure, I read an article some years ago that said as much. I expect you could identify natural diamonds by impurities and subtle imperfections in the cut, but I don't know how you could conclusively prove a too-perfect diamond was synthetic.
It's already possible to do this in a basic sense with Canvas (uses Structure sensor) and floorplans have been done since 2014 with RoomScan app.

What apple and these apps don't want to say is that they absolutely can't be used for measuring correctness, the calibration and accuracy is just not that good.
Erik Hersman is on holiday as this mess unfolds...
Presumably this would detect both, but I think they are operating on the assumption that the shield would be just enough to shield the planet and that finding a moon sitting in L1 orbit that also has that shape would be unlikely. I didn't read the whole thing yet, but maybe they cover this.

As with a lot of stuff in space, we assume a lot to be unlikely until we find out that it's not :)
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A video of a violent AirBnB host: fears of racism in the sharing economy
Great post. So many things that are touted as evidence of our open-mindedness and generosity are actually motivated by the financial incentives they create for corporate owners at the expense of non-owners everywhere, including domestic workers, consumers, and the slave labor used to circumvent first-world labor and environmental standards (whether imported under restrictive visas, exploited due to their undocumented status, or employed in their native "lower-cost" nations).

While the plight of illegal immigrants and the stories of the lonely technical geniuses sorrowing as they fail to gain entry to the U.S. may be heartwrenching, make no mistake that the true interest of the powerful is keeping a labor force that is cheap and easily exploited. If you take away dubious immigration status, their employers lose that much authority over them.

I see correcting such conditions as Trump's primary interest. He is the epitome of "Don't hate the player, hate the game", and as a businessman who has tried many different things, he knows that there is a lowest common denominator effect in business. If your competitor is going to China and getting stuff made for a few cents, you are putting yourself at a major disadvantage by not doing so. You can't effectively compete if your manufacturing costs are significantly higher. Consumers assume that legal structures prevent unfair competition and exploitation by default, but this been slowly degraded under false political doctrines pushed by MegaCorps and wrapped neatly in the bow of egalitarianism.

Trump ran and won so that he could level the playing field. Trump's position, IMO, is "Make the rules bar exploitation of consumers and workers without breaking competition and entrepreneurship". This is a credible counter to the "trickle-down economics" theory of "Give owners as much money as possible and you'll get a share somewhere along the line", and that's the primary reason that the Republican power players hate him. Trump is offering a more fair route not by proposing government seizure/control, regimentation, or handouts (which are easy arguments to discredit), but simply by restoring the baseline rules of the marketplace that consumers take for granted.
The font is Zilla Slab: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Zilla+Slab

In the "highlight bold" variant, if you type out "mozilla" it becomes the new wordmark: https://ffp4g1ylyit3jdyti1hqcvtb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/ope...
Think about a financial trader (stock, commodities, etc) that place big, but risky, bets on their own initiative. The times we know about this sort of thing happening have all been disastrous to the companies they work at. Of course, what we hear about in this regard selects out all but the disasters (nature of news reporting)... and as far as I know were almost certainly not the de facto sanctioned actions of a bottom-up culture. But these cases of autonomy were anything but profitable.
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Let's be honest here. The proposed rule was more about allowing bringing people into the US through startups than it was about bringing startups into the US through immigration.
Exactly. Most the crypto guys I know are now 50%+ in fiat due to the Aug 1st. Bitcoin fiasco. I basically won't refresh my portfolio until mid-August.
Not to mention on-prem means support becomes much more difficult
"Only well qualified writers should tackle technical topics in depth" seems like a much more reasonable proposition, and is (I believe) more what mikulas_florek meant.
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Thinking back to my first startup job, the founder was exactly such a person who was in a place where according to you he probably wouldn't see the value in the startup path. Because he was eminently employable with the quality of his credentials and skills, so, why not just get a high paying job working for someone else? Why bother with all the work of a startup, right?

And yet he did see the value in the startup path. Which led to him starting a company that grew to a decent size and got acquired and continued to provide innovations and value for the new parent company. And kept many people employed. All because of what this one founder started.

So, from a jobs standpoint, and from an innovation and business expansion standpoint, I would say the visa made plenty of sense.
I recall watching a documentary where the reporters got diamond merchants to test some diamonds. Many of the synthetics were easily spotted but one - from a new technique or something - was only spotted because it was "too pure".
If the server has internet access, you could use a third-party service like https://keygen.sh to handle licensing. You could validate their license periodically e.g. on application boot, etc. and even lock it down to only be valid on a single machine/server via domain/IP (or some other form of fingerprinting).

I'm the founder of Keygen, so happy to answer any questions and help out in any way!
Notably, with shared memory and atomics, pthreads support is on the horizon.

https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/pthre...

Granted it may be limited to consumption via Emscripten, it is nevertheless now within the realm of possibility.

For this that cannot grok the gravity of this -- proper concurrent/parallel execution just got a lot closer for those targeting the browser.
I have to agree. The Talon looked amazing, but the crowdfunding price was way out there.

They should have offered a bare version with just the board, ram and maybe video card (to ensure comparability). They needed the ~$1k USD hobbyist market.

It seems like the goals were way too high, like the Ubuntu Edge.
You only need two camera angles and information about camera lens distortion to make a very good estimate. Look up "3d reconstruction".
If you're a Brit, this is a funny misspelling of Kent's name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Dodd
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Literally after seeing this on #1 felt like, "Wtf? I just started learning ES6"
Sadly, this has been a known fact for a long time, and it never gets a lot of attention. Joshua Wright, the former FTC Commissioner, was one of the professors previously paid to write 'academic studies' for Google.
CO2 is invisible.

Pictures makes articles more appealing, easier to understand and profitable.

It's not like they are even lying, you agree there is some smoke an pollutants in there.

What should they take a picture of?

Can't smokestacks, a long time symbol of industry, be just that a symbol? It's not like they are lying about the numbers in the article or even make claims about the picture.
It is worth noting that productivity and innovation are a team sport.

If you place a single bitcoin programmer in the middle of, say, Yemen, that person would be a lot less productive than they would in the US.

This might be marginally improved with the internet (at least the person doesn't have to physically ask questions or purchase books), but only marginally.

Consider:

1. Tough time understanding the needs of paying business customers because the business are smaller and less tech savvy.

2. Tough time hiring other workers to expand because they are fewer schools that produce programmers, managers etc.

3. Tough time with internet, electricity and so forth because the infrastructure isn't there.

4. Tough time with knowing what the legal hoops are for setting up a company and a contract because the institutions have been weakened.

And so on.

Of course there are smart and innovative people there who can do useful work in that context. But that is not the same as the US context.
Think of it as JS 8 came out in 2017 and is defined in a document with an irrelevant ID.
A rationalization that's likely to get you fired if you were to own up to it publicly. Although it's true, the company would benefit from you feeling excited about the task at hand.
I've used the KDE spin since GNOME 3 came out, and I love it. I wouldn't dream of going back.
It is a bad analogy, because the problem with studying marathon runners is that they've already used the fitness technique you want to study. They're runners because they walk and run a a lot. (And not necessarily because they're young! People run marathons in their 80s.)

This study is about people who've never used Luminosity's techniques, but are in unrelated good (brain) health. There are a lot of known ways to mitigate or undo damage to the brain. Luminosity made a much bolder claim, that they could raise IQ in healthy, high-functioning adult brains. That's the Holy Grail of intelligence research, because no one has ever found a way to do it.

It's like claiming a two mile walk each day will make literally anyone a much better runner. If you claim that, it's relevant that your offering is no good to marathoners.
You couldn't finish your tests in high school, but you're good at math? Have you ever been evaluated for test anxiety?

https://www.adaa.org/living-with-anxiety/children/test-anxie...

There's no shame in it (although high schoolers can be assholes), and it can help your school accommodate your needs eg extra time to take your exams.
It is a major cause of potential social instability.

The conflict in Donbass also has a similar interpretation: coal production there peaked in the late 70 and by the 90 it was an endlessly subsidized rust belt, with a significant minority of the population being born outside Ukraine. It is a backwater hopelessly reliant on outside help, with widespread violent crime, alcoholism, drug use and corruption. It is these rust belts that lower the statistics for the whole Eastern Europe. Young people were leaving it in droves long before the current conflict began.

The disruption by current separatist governments (commanded and supplied by the Russian Federation) have made the decay much quicker - around half the population has left, with a big part of the people remaining being seniors who cross checkpoints to collect their pensions.
Do people have strong opinions on building ARKit apps with XCode vs using a Unity plugin? Does it matter if I'm coming mostly from a JavaScript / web dev background?