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Microsoft has a serious and ongoing PR crisis, and not just for historical reasons (90s antitrust, etc).

There are undoubtedly many highly intelligent, well-meaning people working there, but the ongoing occurrence of highly-publicized customer screwage - such as the aggressive telemetry in W10 - and the ongoing security negligence (e.g. in failing to properly audit & fully close SMB RCEs) seems to totally undermine any goodwill created by specific products or teams within the company.

As a result the press cuts them little to no slack, and they do get hammered for things that AAPL/GOOG/FB/... could probably quietly get away with.
> I'm no joke starting to see the value of Chinese, Singaporean, etc. and maybe even North Korean (!!) censorship - people can't be fucking idiots and destroy the country over stuff on the news if it's not on the news.

Sounds like you assume that state based censorship will remove/limit fear from the news. States are the main beneficiary from a fear-based population. It's a tool to direct anger away from relevant areas that could threaten established structures towards areas that has little or no significance (or even better: other parts of its own population)

If you don't fear anything, there is no reason for a state
I tried to be explicit about saying USA more then once, specifically because what I'm saying is not about other countries in the world, and wouldn't apply.

Certain countries have vastly different distributions, with most unreasonable people on the left instead. Others have an equal split, etc.

Oh, and I actually feel like you can very easilly model politics with two categories of reasonable and unreasonable. It's a much better model then the right vs left one.
In a short time? Forget about it. No one who doesn't know you first hand will engage you in a $10-20k contract. Let alone the fact that there is such a position available on short notice.

So your options are really limited: Credit card debt? Family debt? Low paying jobs?

In the longer run, there is no way around building a network. If you want high quality work, you have to build a network. It's like some guy coming to a big city and want to hit the high-end clubs, meet with high-quality people and get back home with a 9/10 girl to sleep with. Not gonna happen.

He's probably going to fail at entering the clubs (first step) and then blame it on the clubs having bad policies and stuff. If you want high paid work, you have to establish yourself first.

Establishing yourself in a certain market/niche take years of hard work on establishing yourself. It can happen on different dimensions and will depend on your style (blogging? Forums? Conferences? How about writing a book? Contributing to a popular open source project? How about becoming a main contributor of a popular open source project?).

Good luck. Tough times but I'm pretty sure you'll come out of it and it'll shape your perception down the road.
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Hi guys,
I am working on a user-board for VR enthusiasts.

It's different from other social apps because:
1. It works as overlay alongside any other VR app.
2. It sends you notifications every time something new is posted.
3. It fills feed with content from RSS and from users.

Any piece of advice on how we can make our landing page better will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.
Brainstorming with you:

Maybe we could have another queue /possiblespam like we have for /newest?

Or we could make a competition out of it:

1point for a correct spam identification

-10 for false positive
This is just bullshit. What makes you think Zamenhof thought "world" meant "Europe" or didn't know about asian languages?
What about this kid (supposedly 8 years old) teaching Haskell and uni level math? Sadly, non-english video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLLm8JaLqq8
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One advantage would be not having to write "ln -s ..." for every file you want to link. Stow handles file trees as well.
If you sit down and run the numbers, it's not even close. Going to work to pay other people to do things for you to "free up time" simply does not work. You will work a lot more than you would if you just did things for yourself. Money is an extremely inefficient middle-man, given taxes and everyone wanting their cut.

Keep in mind you have to deduct taxes from your income, and the expenses it costs you to earn your income (clothes, transport, bought food, parking, car & maintenance, expensive housing, etc.).

Also keep in mind you must pay others with after-tax dollars. So when you pay that mechanic or plumber $85 per hour, that's a LOT of money, not even similar to you EARNING $85/hr.

I wrote a book about it, and in all my research and calculations, it roughly works out that most people earn only around 30-50% as much as they think they do.. so even if your salary is $120k, you're only earning something like $30/hr at absolute best, which is much lower than you pay a plumber or mechanic.
At least averaging out means it's easier to account for those pizzas in th eocming days. But wait, that's just ordinary calorie-controlled dieting, not sexy enough for a book...!
There's a net of dieting resorts around Poland doing "Dieta Dąbrowskiej" among some other health-oriented stuff.

In essence it's calorie restriction on veggies for 2-6 weeks at a time supplemented with blood tests and physical activity. She (Dąbrowska) states that it resets the immune system, restricts cancer growth (or even puts cancers into recession), helps with diabetes and cures food intolerance.

Proof for it is provided as "I've seen people that improved". I'm highly skeptical about it as my vegan-celiac-fit family part got hyped for it and went through a 3 week run. They came back with anecdotal self-healing miracles.

The diet is around 600-700 kcal a day, low on sugar. Supposedly it stimulates autophagy giving all of the stated benefits (on top of cleansing out "toxins").

As a side note I found that food intolerance is in fashion recently. There's one (!) test offered in my area for it called the Food Detective (made by Cambridge Nutritional Sciences Ltd.). I'm highly skeptical of it too as there's no competition and I couldn't find any studies confirming it's effectiveness.

My main concern is the potential impact on the brain. I vaguely recall some study observing neuron loss during extended periods of starvation.

Also having some sensible studies to back it up (or debunk it) would be nice.
> running installers is restricted to admin accounts by group policy.

Hence the popularity of portable apps which don't use installers. The just unzip to any folder and run.
If you don't mind me asking, what do you do now? Are you still freelancing?
Money "is" a form of religion its called Mammon. I care about creativity and fair play, if that was a religion I would probably join. Surely we must believe something is worthwhile or worth fighting for? A lot of what I say is to generate debate which is something else I care about
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Is anyone making money on Ethereum in ways that are unrelated to just currency appreciation/speculation?

Is Ethereum actually being used for something meaningful?

(I guess in a way though Ethereum found its first killer app, pure currency speculation/appreciation. That gives it time and money to find something more useful.)
What is this?

Anyone here made it?

(Tried to figure out by looking at the page but couldn't find and about page or anything.)

The one comment so far looks really spammy.
"weird c like language on the Amiga"

Was that BCPL?
An excellent example on how to generate media buzz. You would have to pay a decent amount of money if you wanted to achieve something similar with ads.
* Douglas Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

* Fred Brooks - Design Of Design

* Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man month

* Eric J. Evans - Domain Driven Design

* Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

* Kent Beck - Extreme Programming Explained

* Kent Beck - Planning Extreme Programming

* Michael C. Feathers - Working Effectively with Legacy Code

* Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow

[EDIT] Correct the author for legacy code
Absolutely, and for Bitcoin that's a big problem for a thief. But for a private currency like ZCash or Monero, nobody can tell where the coins came from. They can't prove you stole them.

E.g. with one scheme, you destroy your coins and get a proof that you destroyed them. Later you can submit your proof to the blockchain and get new coins minted for you. But it's provably impossible to for anyone to figure out which coins you destroyed.
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The article uses three terms: "gifted", "intelligence", and "high performance", but it seem to be as doing a rather poor job at distinguishing them in the beginning. The article seems to acknowledge that intelligence is a spectrum where people are born with everything from intellectual disability to intellectual giftedness, but then focus primarily on performance. A gifted child, as define by the article, is a high performing child.

Seems similar to people who would look at a tall child and proclaim that they will be high performing baseball player, and then get disappointed when they don't end up in major league. I find it rather obvious that most of the tallest children in the world won't end up as professional baseball players, similar to how most of the highest intellectual gifted children won't end up with a Nobel prize. Instead I predict that children on any extreme end of a spectrum will face a long list of unique challenges in a society which is designed for the median, resulting in a wide range of performance results.
So what's the evidence that exponential growth of AI will continue at this rate for the next few decades ?
What gives? Do you have experience with DS who don’t deliver?

I have experience of DS who define what they do by the tools they use, not the results they deliver, it's a pet peeve of mine :-)

Thanks for going back and making the edit!
I remember way before Electron there was XULRunner, and there were a few ridiculously bloated non-Mozilla apps that were based on it. Like Songbird[1] -- anyone remember that?

I suppose the idea was largely ahead of its time; in 2006 computers just didn't have enough RAM/CPU to get away with running a full web browser stack for every app like we (sort of) can today.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)
Thanks for this link!

I tried to play around with the Web Audio API but never went very far; still searching for a good "getting started" tutorial, esp. how to control timing / tempo.

Your app is really slick; been listening to it all morning! ;-)

Will look at the instrument on GitHub.
Esperanto is already far easier than natural languages for anyone to learn; it's about 10x easier than English or German for French speakers. I'm not sure how much easier it can get.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperant...
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If you do go the ML route, I recommend TensorFlow + Google Cloud (Both for the cost performance, and the irony).
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Neither does Bitcoin
shuf is not a crypto tool, and the GNU coreutils are written to be cross-platform, even where /dev/urandom doesn't exist, or is unreliable. That's my guess, at least.
Of course there is another way for retailers to re-sell customer returns. They can list them with labels such as "Used - Like New" or "Open Box" or whatever applies.

For example, go into any Best Buy and ask them where the open box deals are, or look on their website.

Or go to a Fry's Electronics store. They put returned items on the shelf with new ones, but there is a special label on the package noting this and generally offering a small discount.

Lenovo has a factory outlet separate from their main website where they sell customer returns. Unopened returns may be listed as new; opened returns are listed as used or refurbished.

Amazon lists returned products under "Amazon Warehouse Deals" in the New and Used section of a product listing, with the product condition noted in the description.

For most product categories, Amazon prohibits a returned item from being resold as "New":

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

> New: Just like it sounds. A brand-new, unused, unopened item in its original packaging, with all original packaging materials included. Original protective wrapping, if any, is intact. Original manufacturer's warranty, if any, still applies, with warranty details included in the listing comments.

There are some different policies in certain product categories; the page above lists them.

Of course, third-party sellers on Amazon may well re-sell customer returns as "new". But if they don't comply with the rules on this page, they are violating their seller agreement.
The money is released to the home owner 24h after the arrival date if no complaint has been raised by the renter. Luckily haven't had a reason to test this though.
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> Tell me again about imagination and its distinctly human nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
If you want those things why not use Snip? 90% of my use cases involve pasting a screenshot into an editor, though, so the no nonsense win+shift+s is perfect for this.
Too bad that Windows 10 barely usable on itself.

Every application looks different (yes they used to blame Linux/X11 on that one). It has two control panels (or three maybe), two web browsers shipped with it.

Takes more than a minute to boot on a new and pretty formidable laptop. This is the fresh factory install.

Can freeze the desktop while apparently doing something under the hood (installing updates? scanning malware? summoning the devil?), without any indication as to why, and not come back in five minutes.

Seriously considering overwriting it with Ubuntu even when it's aimed for a non-technical user.
Anything really that is an improvement from "You have not reached your goal. You need to code more" or something along those lines. Any graph or even a summary would be an awesome improvement!
Why are you limiting the possible technologies through government regulation?

No other city is full because at some point people decide not to live so tightly packed together, and demand dries up.

Current laws raise prices to enforce low density. That's wrong.
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> particularly in programs like AlphaGo, which use an ‘internal model’ to analyse how actions lead to future outcomes in order to to reason and plan.

I was under the impression that AlphaGo makes no plan but responds to the current board state with expert move probabilites that prunes MCTS random playouts.

There is no plan (AFAIK) or strategy in the AlphaGo papers so I find this statement that AlphaGo is an imaginative planner quite curious.

Perhaps someone can reconcile these statements or correct my knowledge of AlphaGo ?

Very interesting papers, it will be nice to see the imagination encoder methods applied to highly stochastic enviroments or indeed a robot in the real world.
Netlify CMS can be a good choice if you are looking for admin section, it nicely integrates with GitHub.
There is. You click on the "X minutes ago" link, then click flag. The comments are already dead by now, meaning no one sees them unless they have "showdead" turned on in their profile.
It is, it's just hard to track what's going on in a way. The browser saw new ideas, and rollbacks (hello ? IIRC). There's the XUL layers, Electrolysis, the actual engine. I have to admit If you clean your mind from memories of high latency Firefox GUI, it's now near chrome-fast on the UX side. Memory use is adequate if not #1. Tabs are well handled too.
Thats if you dont mind the hugely privacy invasive win10 environment to begin with.
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Everything using Qt Quick uses GPU-based rendering, though that's not exactly intensive. (Much like compositing, it requires graphics hardware that tolerates light use without consuming an inordinate amount of power).

Some Qt Quick applications can be quite heavy on the GPU, though, but that depends more on the application.
I don't think it's a matter of vintage point. It's all about intention. You can work to be more reasonable if you choose to. You can teach people to be more reasonable. Its a skill, a quality that everyone healthy can choose to practice or not.

I don't even know what right or left leaning imply. That whole categorization is a joke. Tell me what you want, why you want it and how you believe will work best to get it. Only after that's been cleared up can we start discussing meaningfully.

What I do know though is that in the media, in the USA, in 2017 (it hasn't always been this way), most unreasonable people making noise associsate themselves with the right and like to associate reasonable people with the left.
I cannot see a privacy policy, or any statement regarding the handling of the data flowing through this tool, nor any code which could be audited.
> * Bob Martin - Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Author is Michael C. Feathers
With you on the scepticism esp. about the detox-thing.

That said fasting in some form seems to have been with us for a few thousand years and it seems unlikely that it would be so widely documented and practiced across cultures and religions if there wasn't some benefits to it.
With a handy built-in evidence trail complete with time stamps?
correction
Working Effectively with Legacy Code is by Michael Feathers
Of course. This is extremely annoying, esp. now that the Internets are choke-full of counter examples. Descartes wrote many stupid things about animals being "automatons", but at least he had the excuse of living in a pre-Youtube erra.

> When placing a glass on the edge of a table, for example, we will likely pause to consider how stable it is and whether it might fall. On the basis of that imagined consequence we might readjust the glass to prevent it from falling and breaking.

Or, if you're a cat, you might push it over the edge for the fun of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI1rv3re7as

In fact, the cat in this video appears to have more imagination than the paper's authors.
Thanks for the inputs. My experience with Foxit is mostly good, like yours has been. Will still check out SumatraPDF too.
Well yes, and it behaves as expected, don't it? They are very open with what they are doing and you can build from the sources if you do not trust the binaries.

The point is, I understand why people dont want telemetry. I don't. I think they should ask before they do it, a lot of people are probably willing to share the data. BUT I also understand why they are doing it and I think they've done it in a good manner still.

You should also think about your expectations, one shouldn't have to expect that every site is trying to track you.
This is a good guide to solid timing and tempo: https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/audio/scheduling/
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haha, this is similar to what JD do in China.
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Nice catch, thanks :)
> J. K. Rowling has said that Veritaserum "works best upon the unsuspecting, the vulnerable and those insufficiently skilled (in one way or another) to protect themselves against it...

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Veritaserum

Hmmm.
What would your alternative suggestion be though? Toil on a farm growing your own vegetables? (nb for me this is in the "don't like doing" and "I'm bad at it" quadrant).

And if the implied alternative is to be workable for everyone, we have to magic roads, healthcare etc out of nowhere with no tax dollars.
We're doing something like that.

The problem is that you need a lot more volume to be able to use the feedback loop mechanisms ( https://blog.returnpath.com/what-is-a-feedback-loop/ ) efficiently.

Sure, it all works, but it's still the old piece of shit SMTP wild wild west, because when it stops working, you can do nothing. (But usually going to the saloon, having a rough night and waiting will solve things.)
If you're looking for additional sources of events, you could try adding the events from http://techmeme.com/. They have a sidebar which is always current. They also have: http://www.techmeme.com/events which would add a lot of flow.
I've just recently bought "Gödel, Escher, Bach" -- looking shortly to start it. Curious, how did it influenced you in connection to programming?
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You totally can. This is a misconception. And it has been that way for a long time now. Everything that is free can be downloaded without account.
https://www.nayuki.io/

Lots of high quality code examples in a variety of languages.
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"Kumar also noted that many enterprises were looking for an alternative to Oracle’s database products."

Does this translate to enterprises wanting a stick to beat Oracle with when negotiating license fees?
And MS Paint got laughed at for the best part of its lifecycle, and for good reasons too. But now that it's gone, everybody goes mad.

Really, if you dig deep enough you might find people decrying the demise of f'ing Clippy. Well maybe that's hyperbole, but you get my point.
2% represent the $360M(market cap, in circulation). 100% is 50 times that, $18B (total supply), i.e. 100M tokens.

What is stolen is 0.07% of 100M tokens which is 70K tokens, which is roughly $12M for current market price.
Writing Basic Adventure Programs for the TRS-80. [1]

It contains this gem [2], which is pretty much how every program works. I occasionally riff off this diagram for work as an inside joke with myself.

1: http://www.trs-80.org/writing-basic-adventure-programs-for-t...

2: https://imgur.com/gallery/Vz63D
I realised Trump would win when I saw an interview with a Republican campaign chair who said there was "no racism before Obama":

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/trump-ohio-c...

The video she said it on, was part of a series that toured the states and asked people what they thought. It became clear that many people were unmoored from reality.

NPR viewers are outside the right-wing media bubbble. People responds to the "crazy" things that Trump says because he's just repeating what he heard on Fox News. So it's not an out of the blue statement to them, it would be like Clinton saying "of course climate change is a problem", they're already accepted facts in their worldview.
To anyone reading this, I wouldn't infer that privacy and fungibility in Bitcoin are not improving. The recent activation of segwit enables practical lightning networks, which do provide a layer of privacy, and also makes it easier to add a feature called schnorr signatures.

Schnorr signatures will lead to something dubbed by some as "incentivized privacy".
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-power-of-schnorr-th...
Sorry, “expression-oriented” was what I meant to write.
You really just have one browser installed?
My point is:

> and basically any site today does more intrusive telemetry

has absolutely nothing to do with a local application.