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> They still sell CDs and I really doubt that individual track/album sales, in some format or another, are going anywhere for quite some time. Buy your music and micromanage your library and tags to your hearts content.

That is getting harder and harder by the year. Both Apple and the music companies go out of their way to make it incredibly difficult to manage my library.

It took two days and third-party tools to move my library from one iPhone to another. In the end I had to resort to manually copying down the name of every single track on my current phone to make sure it gets moved over onto the other phone. This is because the tools couldn't get everything. Getting all the metadata over still hasn't been 100% completed.

The problem is that I don't have a static, well-defined music taste. It changes all the freaking time. My music library needs to be able to keep up with what I want out of it. As it's virtually impossible to easily get tracks in and out of an iPhone, the single source of truth for my music library has become the tracks on the phone itself.

If I don't take painstaking care to ensure that every last file is moved, then some tracks which I really really love to hear, that I can listen to on repeat for hours, can completely fall off my radar and I won't hear them again for months / years.

Managing music files manually is something I absolutely must have. But there's nothing those goddamn assholes want more than to push me onto their shit fucking subscription services where my music life becomes accountable to their greedy whims.
To be fair, we do understand how neurons work, at least on a singular level. Perceptrons model that quite well.
I've used Blue Apron. They don't save any time at all. What I saved in shopping I lost in meal prep. I quickly went back to the prepped food at my local grocery store, which is also much cheaper.

People who really wish to trade money for time would just eat at restaurants.
Wait, isn't this how capitalism works? Can someone explain what I'm missing here?
Building safety and energy regulations are great. Pretty sure they prevent innovation.

Safety regulations are especially important for cheap block housing.
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However, there definitely are analogies! E.g. early work in convnets was inspired by the architecture of cat brains.

I think the fields have useful things to say to each other, but we're getting over a (maybe justified) taboo in talking about machine learning methods being biologically inspired.
Unavailable in my country apparently. It must also be the reason why I don't get ads.
Exactly. When you have a language no one actually realistically speaks, you can stuff whatever highfalutin ideas you want into it.
OP here: thanks for your answer.

My concern is whether obtaining a work through archive.or constitutes theft when that work is no longer directly available from the author.
In the case I have in mind, professors write a book for their class which they post online as a pdf. Later they publish this course book material through Addison or some other textbooK publisher. Old pdf copies are still available although no longer on the course websites.

Another example of such a case is Concepts Techniques and Modes of Computer Programming for which pre-prints are also available.

My assumption is that from a legal point, since these books were first put online with free access, then obtaining them through archive.org shouldn't be illegal. However, this seems to infringe upon the intention of the authors who have de-linked their original work now that the work has formally been published. Archive.org is exempt from certain aspects of copyright; authors who wish their work to no longer be available through archive.or must request it.

I don't see any licensing text in the original pdf used as the course notes.
Yup! And there's even more ways to save today than 30-40 years ago. You have pay per mile insurance (metromile) that costs less than half of traditional drivers insurance. Phone plans that cost 10$ per month or less (www.usmobile.com), 2nd hand places to buy (craigslist, close5, letgo, etc) and countless other ways to save. And yet, people choose not to.
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> some half-assed wiki or medium post

That's... you're woefully out of touch with how people communicate in this space.

Show me where on these companies' sites it says "We run 0.14.2 of the reference client, with this patch set, and don't plan to ever change"?

Anyway, we'll see what happens in the next two weeks I guess. I'm expecting we lock-in SegWit via the SegWit2x client and then have another debate in a few months about the hard fork. Hoping not too many sw2x supporters get cold feet in the meantime.
You're right that this is a fight for control over bitcoin, but you're wrong on who the players are.

There's the corporate faction: BitMain plus Bloq and the ones who want to embed KYC and AML into the bitcoin protocol. Their heavy hitter is Jihan Wu who controls %70 of the hash power, via his mining chips and his pools, and his customers being amenable to his wishes (because they want to remain customers). No visible engineering expertise, and has has backed a series of code projects over the past two years all of which have been spectacular failures: BU, XT, Classic, ABC and BTC1-- all have had significant vulnerabilities.

Their goal: Very large blocks that cannot cross the Great Firewall of China easily, increasing Chinese centralization.

On the other side you have The Engineers: Hundreds of engineers who have contributed to Core, starting with Satoshi Nakamoto and going forward to the present day. They are called "corporate" because Blockstream hired some of them, but the blocksteram engineers are prominent only because of their contributions and smarts, not because they exercise any control.

These engineers for the past 8 years have delivered quality software and 2 years ago delivered Segwit-- a misnomer that covers a large number of improvements for bitcoin that require a soft fork to activate. Segwit enables scaling and so many more applications to be built on Bitcoin, including smart contracts and side chains.

However, Segwit also reveals an exploit. An exploit that Jihan Wu has been using to give him a competitive advantage and which is in part why he has been able to gain centralized control over bitcoin hashing. This exploit is called ASICBOOST and segwit would put a stop to it.

This is why Jihan has opposed it.

Worse the corporates have spent millions on a 50-cent army of shills to spread FUD and misinformation and conspiracy theories to discredit core.

At the end of the day-- its the engineers who know what they are doing vs the corporate shills who sneer and think it can't be that hard to deliver bitcoin software -- but have so far completely failed to deliver anything that wasn't unmitigated crap.

How it's going to play out:

Jihan Wu has declared he will hard fork his own coin (and remove Segwit) because the real bitcoin industry and core agreed on Segwit2X .... he has hash power, so he may be able to make his coin dominant... for awhile. But core has solutions to this, and at the end of the day we will likely see chain split with the hash power on one side and the engineering resources on the other. That hash power advantage can be fixed within a few weeks.... the lack of engineering talent can't be fixed for love nor money-- as any engineer worth a damn understands what is at stake and will never join Jihan's Jihad.
I can't get the link to load, it is available on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20170713203824/sliderulemuseum.c...

I like the footer:

>In the beginning, at the time of the great flood, Noah went thru his ark after it landed, and found two small snakes huddled in a corner. Noah looked at these poor specimens - and said "I told you to go forth and multiply - why haven't you?"

>The poor snakes looked up at Noah and replied "We can't because we are adders....."

>Noah looked a bit perplexed, and then proceeded to tear bits of planking from his ark. He went on to build a beautiful wooden platform. He gathered up the snakes and placed them on the platform, and joyfully told the snakes - "Now go forth and multiply, because even adders can multiply on a log table"
Mostly that. He also has a cell phone, but is quite deaf, so he prefers the loudness possible from a boosted land-line phone over wearing his hearing aids and using his cell.
Some of these are just hacked-together tools, but I can think of several:

Turn on/off Dropcam inside home when security system is armed/disarmed.

Quick way to launch baby announcement website from within delivery room, depending on sex/name of my child, plus birth stats – my wife was thrilled ;)

My best "personal" product that I have also made available for others is http://footballpickempool.net. There are now great mobile apps for a pool like this, which are preferable for scoring and season-long rankings, but some still need paper. I was putting these together for our office each week, so I automated it.

Many webapps used internally for my job, so not personal, but a few that are hosted on their own domains and see public traffic.
Ah this is a really nice feature, really adds to the experience and feel that you are looking for. In your place I would add some simple bar on top, just a bunch of horizontal lines or whatever, so that the UI "affords" to be dragged.
What you are describing has typically been called "the shakedown" by management at companies for which I have worked when the employee shows up with competing offers. When the employee shows up and resigns, it's called a "dive and catch." These are perceived very differently by the people involved even though the basics are the same except for the trappings.

What I find interesting about the article is that an average time-in-place below about two years and absent a few longer stints basically takes a normal-ish resume and turns those short gigs into red flags

The really short work time thing shows lots of potential issues. Employee has never "shipped" and lived with the consequences. Employee flees after making a mess, either personal or professional. Employee has a problem with chasing the new shiny. Employee makes terrible decisions about fit and chooses gigs that aren't a fit for bad, ephemeral, etc. reasons and then when those cease to apply (financial stress alleviated, no longer a dog friendly office, etc.) employee bails. Another variant of poor fit is maybe employee tends toward emotion (desperation - I NEED A JOB NOW) and takes something they never would have taken otherwise. Maybe employee picks fights with other employees. Employee doesn't know how to bond ... the list goes on. Even simple pattern matching: The people everyone has known who are frequent short-time-in-place hoppers tend to be flakes so maybe employee is just a flake.

Someone below has a pretty good comment - "You get about 30 years to make as much money as possible and that's it." At least in technology, that is very true; less so in medicine or dentistry for example, and naturally capital doesn't really benefit from employees understanding that. It's so much more obvious to me 20Y in how true that is.

One thing I think is interesting: the average genXer that I know has never, ever thought strategically about their career and has spent the last 15-20y assuming things would follow a sort of generic life sequence; the sort of "a career is something that happens along the way" mindset. In contrast, while I personally may not like the stereotypical millennial aspirational trappings, at least some of them are viewing career as something they should be piloting instead of being along for the ride; not just waiting for a layoff or firing. At least they give the appearance of being better about it. But then again, so much of their appearances are curated fictions so who can tell.
I'm not disputing the realization of value, I'm only disputing the characterization that the employer "trying to take advantage of me", because it's unlikely to be true.
Maybe, but they have to make a new plastic bag if they don't recycle your old one. Energy is required to make that new bag, which means CO2 is created that way too.

The best thing you can do is to not need so much energy in the first place. If you must travel use high efficiency transport. (shipping counts as travel). Make sure your housing is well insulated.

The next best thing store carbon: start forest and grass fires. A regular forest/grass fire will burn cold enough that a lot of carbon is converted to charcoal - permanently sequestrated carbon. Note that regular is key here. If you don't light a new fire every year fuel builds up until you get a hot fire.
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Every petroleum product was a waste product at some point until they discovered a use for it. If no one used oil for anything but gasoline, I expect drillers would pump the distillation remains back down into old wells.
To me this whole process shows how great cryptocurrencies really are. The process is live, it is public and it is messy.

Compare with how our usual currencies are handled. Behind closed doors with powerful banks or private companies deciding for our governments.
Oh thanks for the answer! I'll definitely take a look at these projects even though I am clinically diagnosed with severe NIH!
I've been in technical management for the last 20years, and it took some years to not take it personal.
Sounds like your issue is primarily with Apple not providing proper access to your iPhone?

Tons of music is available as non-DRMed files, or CDs, and I can move those files around however I want on my devices. I suppose some really popular stuff might be exclusive to streaming or DRMed channels, but I can't say I could name any right now.
Not that difficult.. you can always choose problems with constant difficulty level or gradually increasing ones adjusted for expected increase in computing power.

However all cryptocurrencies are pyramid schemes . I.e. earlier you get in more you make. That's fastest way to grow and make it viral. However like any pyramid scheme it is unsustainable after some point

This is not necessarily the price point we think it should be valued at though. I and am sure many ppl never expected bitcoin to have mcap of 30$ billion . As difficult it is think today It may even grow another say 30x again to 900 billion or even more. However it will crash eventually like all pyramid schemes when growth flattens and new money - in the form of money spent in mining - stops coming in at the expected rate.

Another way to look at it, for mining to be even marginally profitable price needs to keep increasing for bit coin style algorithms. Either ppl will abandon the coin or price __has__ to increase
I'd be really interested in that audiobook script. I have some that are ripped but not stitched together. I want to get to the point where all my audiobooks are one file.
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The "creative" moves may very well come from the search part of the AlphaGo algorithm, though of course the networks have done their jobs of pruning the search space.
Not years. The difficulty is recalculated every 2016 blocks (14 days)[1].

If one chain has 10% hashing power, for less or equal to 14 days the transactions could take 10 times more to validate. But that's assuming markets aren't correcting miners in the "right" direction in the meantime. Who wants to waste electricity on undervalued coins?

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Considering most of BTCs have been mined at the time bitcoin core had no competition; I'd say BTC rich people would tend to side with them. Because of emotional attachment, economic ties, and most importantly the dumb but very real reason of software maintenance.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining
>I do not eat 25 plates full of prime rib for $5.

I'm not going to eat 25 plates of anything but, at a buffet, I have no issue with mostly going light on the cheaper fillers. And I'm not going to worry about it if I end up getting a "good deal" on the meal as a result.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :) agree it serves as a great prep for doing more complicated things with it.
Ahh, yes i did. thanks for letting me know about that!:)
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To the file where is calling `npm-donate`. But instead of hard code the API Key, you use some sort of dotenv to hide the API key from the end users.

When users install your package, they won't see your API key.
Every outside tap here in New Zealand is required to have a back flow preventer (is this a different thing?). They all passed the recent test they had which was required by the local council and they are all pretty old. The 'check valve' is required to be replaced every two years as it can't be tested according to the documentation here. I don't known what this is and don't have one.
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I'm sorry, but I don't understand why wider & deeper networks won't do the job. If it took "sufficiently large" networks and "sufficiently many" examples, I don't understand why it wouldn't just take another order of magnitude of "sufficiency."

If you look at the example with the blue dots on the bottom, would it not just take many more blue dots to fill in what the neural network doesn't know? I understand that adding more blue dots isn't easy - we'll need a huge amount of training data, and huge amounts of compute to follow; but if increasing the scale is what got these to work in the first place, I don't see we shouldn't try to scale it up even more.
If you don't mind answering the usual questions, how'd you get your start, and how do you pick up clients?
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I agree with this. We struggle with how to dispose of the tremendous amount of waste created by our weekly delivery as we don't have a very large trash bin at our house.

Blue Apron and Hello Fresh need to figure out how to make their services more sticky. At some point we've collected enough meals that we like where we can just go to the local grocery store to pick up the ingredients and make it ourselves.

Both of these services sell convenience, but it is hard to keep selling that to existing users who grow weary of the amount of waste and the simplicity of just grabbing everything they need to make these meals on their own. Amazon's meal-kit could help solve this if they just add the ingredients to shopper's grocery list automatically and it's ready to be picked up at their next trip. Delivery is a non-starter in my opinion. It didn't work for grocery.com back in the early dotcom days, and it's not working now.
It's alright, I rarely have to touch it, but I'm no Sysadmin. If I had ops/sysadmin guys to shove onto, I would have no qualms using it long into the future.

I would, ideally, like a hosted build server, and a hosted Octopus - I really like it. Not the biggest fan of team city, but it works, and it's the only thing I know well.
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Writing code is the smartest thing in the world. You teach a machine how to solve your problem and it works for you. Talk about "real world issues"...
"Here's what you should remember: the only real success of deep learning so far has been the ability to map space X to space Y using a continuous geometric transform, given large amounts of human-annotated data."

This statement has a few problems - there is no real reason to interpret the transforms as geometric (they are fundamentally just processing a bunch of numbers into other numbers, in what sense is this geometric), and the focus on human-annotated data is not quite right (Deep RL and other things such as representation learning have also achieved impressive results in Deep Learning). More importantly, saying " a deep learning model is "just" a chain of simple, continuous geometric transformations " is pretty misleading; things like the Neural Turing Machine have shown that enough composed simple functions can do pretty surprisingly complex stuff. It's good to point out that most of deep learning is just fancy input->output mappings, but I feel like this post somewhat overstates the limitations.
Which do you put more stock in? What they are signaling now or what they promise in a blog post?

This makes their opposition to Segwit2X clear:
https://blog.bitmain.com/en/uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip14...

Its clear the opposition is to Segwit-- and Segwit2X contains Segwit.
Most people call that employment =p
Business inertia is a hell of a thing!
Yes, ideally in a competitive market for something that is a "commodity" type of good, profits fall to (near) zero. Not what VC investors are looking for.
This is why I don't know if it will be possible (at current limitations) to let insect like brains to fully drive our cars. It may never be good enough.
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OK, then the boss isn't able to get any specific reports on my performance, they can only ask me directly how well I'm performing or look at standards of performance. Going out and tracking my individual performance takes too much work and shows they don't trust me. Seems fair.
Yes. Fucking Apple.

I don't care where I get my music from. Honestly I just get most of it from the iTunes store. I just need to be able to manage it once I get it.

I tried using iTunes manual management. It's awful. Unless all your music comes from iTunes, then you're back to manual file management. Now I don't even sync my phone to my laptop anymore, I just don't trust it to not fuck with my music collection. iTunes touches the phone only when I have music that I can't buy through the iTunes Store or I'm switching phones.

I am not willing to carry around a third device just for music. I am not willing to devote space in my apartment to CD storage. I'd love to be able to store my music in the cloud, but the difficulties Apple has placed on music file transfers mean that the phone itself has to be the repository for the state of my music library. Even if I do that, I still have to be extremely careful when moving devices, it's not a magic bullet.

If Apple makes this any worse then I will be forced to migrate to Android. I tried it once a few years ago but was burned really badly by the LG Nexus 5, a truly horrid device that could not stream Bluetooth music properly. I was actually happy when that thing took a 5 foot dive onto a tiled floor so I could run back to the Apple Store and beg the ghost of Steve Jobs for forgiveness and absolution.
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We use https://www.manageengine.com/

Up to 5 Technicians it is free, Knowledgebase, Tickets and Projects can be combined.

But with about 100 Colleagues it is a little bit oversized bc actually designed for larger help desk call centers.
Put the cilantro/parsley stems immersed in a glass of water. Cover the leaves with a plastic bag and it will keep in the refrigerator for at least a week without wilting
Are you making the argument for being a shitty employee allaround?
Just look at JavaScript
Building safety and energy regulations are essentially the minimum wage, with the same arguments for and against.

But they don't come free.
well a shell command if you can excuse my nitpicking. Had it been a bash script he wouldn't only have made a really nice easter egg but also found a security hole in curl.
I developed a simple web app that lets you create flashcards.

The nice thing is that it lets you create offline web apps that you can actually print on paper (double sided) and cut.

It is a simple web app that basically wraps the flashcards latex package, while giving you a nearly-complete preview using mathjax.

http://flashcards.dokku.santoro.tk/