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> But jeez, this is one fairly specific industry hoovering up all of this cheap money in our economy

That's not actually happening. VC capital for tech / Internet / software start-ups is a hilariously trivial fraction of capital invested into the US economy and an even smaller fraction of the cheap money sloshing around.

Most of the cheap money in the US economy has gone back into the stock market and real-estate. Raise interest rates to historical norms if you want to know just how much cheap money is in real-estate right now ($10+ trillion?).

The over-valuation just on Google and Amazon right now amounts to a minimum of several hundred billion dollars. Apple's earnings and sales have fallen, rather than climbed, and their market cap expanded by hundreds of billions of dollars for absolutely no good reason other than money is desperately chasing returns due to the Fed's hyper low rates for the better part of a decade.

By itself that over-valuation amount, on just Amazon and Google, is more than all the capital invested by VCs into tech start-ups over the span of years.

But it goes far beyond tech companies in the stock market, it's every company. McDonald's hasn't grown for years - they're sporting a 27 PE ratio with zero growth for five years. Their overvaluation alone matches the total VC put into tech companies in a given year. Why did their stock go up 50% in the last two years, while their business contracted? Cheap money.
Good and Evil are 100% relative to your position. No one ever thinks they are they bad guy.
Patents are public, so there wouldn't have to be a visit or any data under NDA?
Someone should figure out a way how to put these extortionists in prison for protection racket.
This looks really neat. But, I would put a summary of the link you have at the bottom of the README (See https://mlwave.com/kaggle-ensembling-guide/ ) so that people know what stacked machine learning is. People that already know this would be sold on the software. For everything else though you have really clear examples and I can see how user friendly everything looks like.
Oh good, let's continue to vilify the people who are actually trying to live with crippling, chronic pain.
There are various AI techniques you could apply, but I've also used "keyword weight tables" for similar auto-classification tasks. Simplified Example:

(Word) | (Category) | (Weight)

COBOL | Programming | 7

Python | Programming | 3

Python | Animals | 3

Java | Programming | 3

Java | Drinks | 3

("COBOL" is generally unambiguous so we give it a high weight.)

You run all the words of the description thru it and the final "best guess" is the category with the highest score: the weight sum. Book titles may be too open-ended, but I was dealing with domain-specific lingo. For example, it could be used for customer email routing for specialized services or products. It will require human inspection and tuning to get decent results.
I think you're absolutely right about finance being geographically imbalanced. Finance can't operate well at scale, it would seem. Finance can't process "the long tail." And when it attempts to, deployments of capital get riskier, more speculative, frothy, etc. It's a missed opportunity that hurts potential customers as well.

I have to disagree with your take on Keynesian macroeconomics, however. Republican protests against raising the debt limit are for show & they always capitulate. Plus, concerns about inflation from Republicans are not as pressing a problem now that they control the purse strings. :)

I think you could have removed anything about Keynes and had a perfect comment. Your note about Sand Hill Road is spot-on.
He who smelt it dealt it?

Crowdstrike, FireEye ,Cobaltstrike,symantec,etc... are they CIA fronts as well?

As an american, why would I trust the CIA/NSA over the SVR/GRU? I wish I didn't have to ask that. but the fact is, and I'm sure some will agree - It is the CIA/NSA machine that can make my life here in America hell, not the SVR/GRU.

I can understand the concern when it comes to critical infrastructure and government software. However in the private sector and for individuals - "A tyrant 3000 miles away" is less of a threat than "3000 tyrants a mile a way".
If you want to try using the new Skylake chips, DigitalOcean just launched high-CPU droplets that run the Intel Skylake 8168 https://blog.digitalocean.com/introducing-high-cpu-droplets/

<disclaimer, I work for DO>
Revisiting the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
Not sure about how the Chinese patent system works but isn't it the case that these companies having U.S. patents doesn't really matter in China?
Kabam co-founders have new e-sports startup
Nope, a note has interest and a SAFE doesn't.
Relevant and humorous: Did Microsoft steal its fonts from the Turkish Army?

http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2012/10/did-mi...
Octopart Takes Another Big Step in Helping You Find Electronic Parts
FYI, this gag appears exactly as described in Real Genius. I wonder if there are any other movies that use it?
I cited decades of human-computer interaction research that disagrees with you.

EDIT: also, that paragraph is purely discussing the response times for producing the HTML document of a web application, not, say if you added 100ms lag to every JS response (which would compound, like you say).
As you hint at in the last paragraph, IQ isn't the most important factor.

What one can actually accomplish is what matters most. If one is able to improve the layer above raw IQ, the fundamental mental models that provide the base for interpreting, analyzing, and synthesizing everything that happens to them, that would provide immense benefits.

It seems to me that is possible, to an extent. This is something I strive for, and I think I have made a bit of encouraging progress. Of course, evaluating this is... uh... not quite straight-forward, to say the least :)
Copying content (any by extension doing practice like mathematical problems) is scientifically proven to improve recall by orders of magnitude.

There's a reason why people demand you copy stuff down on your own.
Long live patents !
I love that pattern where the pentagons make up hexagons. When I own a house that's going in the kitchen.
At least it was interesting when it was the "Hitler Channel" now it seems to be mostly pseudo-science and quasi-reality TV - like National Enquirer on the air.
A claim of possibility or impossibility are both claims about the nature of the universe and both require evidence.

If you have no evidence for a claim, then any statement made regarding that claim, either in support of or opposed to, is arbitrary and lacks any intellectual value.

For example, any claim about the (non)existence of god is arbitrary and not worth even a moment of consideration, because there is no evidence whatever in support of the claim either way.
Why is improving your handwriting out of the question?
I would prefer if the background color were something other than pure white, though, or even better, if a night mode (light on dark) toggle were offered. Staring at large expanses of white is uncomfortable for my eyes.
And tons of situations where you don't want neither of two (e.g. nfd vs. nfc). Cairo graphics library has utilities for text rendering, explicitly called "toy text" functions in reference, leaving serious rendering to Pango. That's fair. Languages should not call unicode strings "unicode strings" if these are not covered in detail by special libraries with distinct names for ucp/ucs/etc lengths, iterators, etc. There is no such thing as string length or "char" anymore. String is blank or non-blank, anything beyond that is too complex to be part of any stdlib. Even "blank" is not so obvious today.
Uber itself has a network effect.

The more riders there are, the more drivers you induce via price demand. With a large amount of drivers, you have quicker pickup times due to more drivers. With a large enough amount of demand, you make things like uberpool economically possible since the probability of another rider wanting a ride along your route is higher. With probability, you make it a near certainty over large numbers. It's kind of like insurance.

By having a large money stream available, you can create a tech advantage for things like uberpool to be better executed, where a city app competitor could not pool the income streams of many cities to make better tech.
Everything sounds better then shirking responsibilities by the elites.
I'm no fan of Donald Trump but this "buy your own visa" scheme always left me very perplexed. I was trying to figure out who would benefit from it, and aside a few wealthy, mostly Asian citizens, I couldn't see the reason for it.

I'm glad it's dead.

p.s.: Before you call me xenophobe keep in mind I'm a foreign born US citizen, I immigrated through the normal procedures.
Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media [2011]
> As for college kids, best to travel abroad.

15 of the top 20 universities in the world are in the US.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...
Sounds like a normal FAQ list with nested items, I think bots will achieve better customer service ;)
Companies used to provide pensions as an incentive to stay at the company long term and not change employers, but really most of them don't care to plan for employees to stay and be developed long term.. so accordingly no pension plan is offered either.

Even ones that still offer pensions, if the support isn't there then it's in conflict with how a pension matures it's benefits. Many companies treat workers as interchangable cogs and don't provide/encourage for any exceptional wage or career growth or training. So to move upward one has to change companies - dropping (or at best pausing) the pension.

Not all companies are like this, but many (most) are. I thought this all was pretty widely understood?
Why are you busting my chops? You have a partner of multiple decades. You don't actually need any advice on how to start a close relationship.
Korean airlines decades ago had a huge issue with copilots not speaking up to captains when concerned. While not embarrassment - there was a lack of speaking up. IIRC they forced cultural change in order to make it less of an issue.

edit: not speaking up
>At the same spot the skeletal remains of a man and a woman were found with personal effects known to be hers.

I hadn't heard that. Do you have any references?
He sits at the table with Musk etc to work with them.
"web-scale" is a fairly established term (overused sure, but established). Arguing that most sites are not web-scale is beside the point.

As someone who's spent a lot of time scaling up ruby servers (I like to think I know what I'm doing), I can say it's not ideal for any high-scale applications for a few reasons:

1) It's hard to scale: Just look the thousands of stackflow posts on MRI garage collection tuning, unicorn forking, puma clusters and RoR performance to see that people struggle with it long before any huge scale. Other languages/frameworks are often 30x faster out of the box and cause fewer headaches when scaling up (we've been using GoLang lately). Ruby is easier to write and I love it for that, but much harder to scale. It takes more effort in the long run for high-scale apps.

2) The community tends to design for smaller scales. The ruby community is awesome, but as a result of focusing on lower traffic apps and single threaded/process web servers, a lot of the gems aren't designed for high throughput or concurrency. For example, ActiveRecord's connection pooling is often painful. Also, I found a pretty critical concurrency issue in the very popular DelayedJobs gem a few years back which had gone unnoticed for years.

3) MRI has performance issues: the GIL, slow GC, slow threading and other issues make it a slow language. It's fine for a lot of use cases, but try serving images, video or doing a lot of processing and you'll quickly hit its limits.

You absolutely can make Ruby work at huge scale, but it's much harder. I wouldn't recommend it if you hope/plan to require high-scale.
Why Did It Take Devuan Two Years to Replace Systemd?
We really need to begin ditching most studies. We have the ability now to collect vast amount of data and use that to make conclusions based on millions of endpoints, not just 10, 100 or 1000 pieces of information.
> Then put the entire source code required for it into the patent

Some do. But patents already have an enablement requirement. This means that they must teach in sufficient detail for a person skilled in the art to carry out the claimed invention. That's what the whole Detailed description of the invention section is. Skip the claims and read the description. You might want the code; me, I want the design doc. That section should be clear and if it isn't, chances are it isn't enabling.

If you don't enable, you'll probably get an office action (rejection) and if you don't (lazy examiner), you'll definitely lose when the patent gets challenged.
If you happen to be using VS Code for Ruby, https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_14#_auto-indent-on-... is a game changer.

Basically, when you type "end" it will automatically indent it for you, the same way it does for curly braces on C style languages. Seems like a small thing but it's fairly maddening after a while having to press shift+tab or return after typing "end".
I'm a coder, not a designer. I build corpora for natural language processing use. In the last 24 hours I downloaded 62GB of web pages for textual analysis. That represents about 10% of what I plan to download for this one project, but I just hit the pause button on the downloading so I could avoid hitting my home internet provider's monthly data cap. I have probably spent about a solid week in coding time on this, or a few weeks of tinkering time. A point I mention to highlight the fact that this is just one project... I do other things on top of this. This one is English only. There are maybe 50 or so common other languages that I've done at various scales. So yes, disk space is useful. Obviously I don't need all data for all projects loaded locally at once. But working with this scale of data on a cloud drive isn't really a great option, so some off-machine local storage is better, and on-machine local storage for any data that is being processed right now.

You say nothing "fun" but this is fun for me... I think work is allowed to be fun. It's not a day job at the moment, more of a hobby, but it relates to some day jobs I've had and would like to have, and gives me data I can play with to keep my skills up. It's valuable (production quality) data when processed, so it's not mere entertainment.
> USB 3.1 does support DMA

Holy shit where did that come from o_0

> USB 3.0 runs as a binary blob in the BIOS

Is that running on the chipset or the CPU?
I see what you mean, and I agree. I'm sure the Asiana pilot (and many of his colleagues) had lots of uncomfortable but successful visual approaches before that. This event should definitely be investigated to identify any improvements that could be made. The tone of reporting seems to be going well beyond the severity of what actually happened, but it's not nothing.
Ok, then we agree :-)

We just wanted to know so that we wouldn't charge the new owner for things the old owner ordered etc.
Science Guy Bill Nye Teaches You to Tie Your Shoes
Some countries specialize in seriously stupid.
Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC 2017 6.1 and Serial Keys
While the system is not perfect, in the scenario you describe times worked in another country can be recognised within the EU (by filling out form E 301).
Nein, the story is about a crime, why fish or something else?

> Why wouldn't they?
Because it happens all the time and nobody says "Oh, <insert corp> are atheists,that's why they're so bad, hypocrits!" maybe that's just because their beliefs has no moral standards at all.

>"Come on... leave some room to reason." Except that none of the actions or claims by the Hobby Lobby stand up to reason, which is why they lost in court.

I wasn't defending hobby lobby, "reason" in that context means accusing someone of a different crime when the evidence/context is for a present crime. You're calling a thief a hypocrite because he said he doesn't approve of murder. that is unreasonable.
> Would a company find out...

Personal Disclosure is a desirable leadership trait. It's probably fine to leave it off your CV given the short tenure. However, once you start having conversations/interviews with a prospective employer -- do volunteer that information verbally.

Positive Spin: You'll want to share what you've learned in the past month and why that company turned out not to be a good match.
Salman Khan's One World Schoolhouse does a good job exploring this topic I think. On the one hand many students struggle with what he calls a "swiss cheese" understanding of math: lacking mastery of fundamental concepts that leads them to struggle as they grow older. On the other hand he advocates for a more holistic approach to learning overall from the beginning, exposing children to various subjects and exploring how everything is connected.
This is a very slippery slope. Is it also ok to discuss the percentage of religions/ethnic groups, for example among Hollywood executives?
It is...in the same sense that a reduction in the increase of spending is denounced as a "cut": http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/in-trump-budget...
>Big Surprise... If you query 1000 rows and bind them to the controller things will be slow.

Every time I've been involved in a situation where people complained about Rails being slow, this was the problem. It's not the ORM's fault if you're pulling every row from a table and iterating over them to find the record you want. It's not the framework's fault if you're pulling every row from a table to calculate the average value of a column. And it's not the language's fault if you're pulling every model entry into memory and chopping the array by hand to power pagination.

Rails doesn't save you from having to know SQL. No ORM can do that. The best an ORM can do is save you from having to actually write SQL most of the time.
This is the same as laptops not being allowed in meetings. A company where it's common for meeting participants to "take notes" on a laptop is dysfunctional. Laptops need to be banned in meetings (and smartphones in meetings and lectures).

Also re: other comments: A video lecture is to a physical lecture what a conference call is to a proper meeting. A professor rambling for 3h is still miles better than watching the same thing on YouTube. The same holds for tv versus watching a film on a movie screen.

Zero distractions and complete immersion. Maybe VR will allow it some day.
Fun fact: MRI is actually designed more around memory efficiency than speed, because it's major funders are Japanese automobile companies, and Heroku; who (apparently?) care more (sometimes way more) about memory.

It's also (apparently) why MRI has such a fast startup time compared to similar languages and other Ruby implementations.
Why can't one of those big cloud/disk providers (Dropbox or Amazon or Microsoft or Google or Apple) come up with such a Password Manager? In fact, they can integrate it really well too.
If you keep your laptop open during class, you're not just distracting yourself, you're distracting everyone behind you (that's how human attention works - if you see a bright display with moving things, your attention is drawn towards it), and that's not right. That's why at my uni, there was an unspoken (de-facto) policy that if you keep your laptop open during lectures, you're sitting in the backrows, especially if you play games or do stuff like that. It worked great - I was always in the front row with pen & paper.

However, a laptop is very useful to get work done during breaks or labs when you're actually supposed to use it.
While I won't deny that it's possible the question might help multiple people, it's more likely that if it's simple enough to look up online, it's better for everyone to do their own research.

Lectures still serve to help for more difficult questions, and the time is better spent on them instead.
Riiight, because teenagers and young adults are so known for their long-term planning skills and self-control.

We're not animals, we don't get born with instincts. This is why humans require education and upbringing to teach. And yes, this (gasp!) sometimes means you need to make a non-adult person to do something against their first whim.
Even without laptops I see this in the workplace. In a meeting, if there is a PowerPoint presentation with words on it, people instinctively look at the bright and shiny screen. That's why I recommend throwing a few black slides in your presentation when you want people to focus back on the presenter.
ruby is not slow compare with some other languages(python, js, php)
but there are some other languages there, with better PR, and better ecosystem:
- kotlin
- netcore
- swift
- go

All of them have a rails framework clone :)

ruby needs, JIT, concurrency, and some crystal magic
I know. I was replying to the comment and using the his/her terminology. It's actually a blended common core/discovery math hybrid.
Serious question - how is this still the case, or make any sense? Wouldn't it be in the investor's interest that the company doesn't spend $60K out of their raise on this, and instead on hires, product, etc?

No, it would not be in the investors best interest to make that change. Under the current system all of the money spent is used to buy shares in the company. Under a system where the VC firm was responsible for their own legal fees then $25k (or whatever) would go directly to the lawyers instead of buying shares so they would end up with a bit less ownership.

EDIT: To be clear I'm not saying that I am in favor of the status quo. I am not. I'm just saying that it is understandable given the incentives of VC firms.
This looks like a solid if not amazing comeback of AMD into the server market. Sure, single threaded performance may not beat Skylake-SP, nor will the LINPACK (and most wide SIMD/FMA-heavy works) performance, but that still leaves most of the HPC/engineering applications that either do not have workload that lends itself to heavy vectorization or are simply not tuned for it (and won't be overnight).

All in all, whhen you have a server that seems so close in performance to Intel for less money and consuming less power, I can't imagine that EPYC won't see broad adoption and Intel won't be squeezed.

I'm glad AMD is back and there is renewed competition in the server market!
I agree that it's an important part of the process, but I think it works best when it's connected with actual application, and not just a worksheet full of disembodied computations. I saw way too much of that as a student and as a teacher.
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this is untrue for Gnome. Because Gnome made the api available .. its still not in their javascript api . But people have created early redshift forks for wayland: https://github.com/Lourens-Rich/redshift/commit/295c8fa7ef53...
That's really cool, and seems like it would take a lot of the hassle of "understanding" PHP out of the equation. Nicely done!
Yes. Absolutely.