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There are reasons I am 1000% not interested in doing any postdocs. I've seen way too many good people flame out, and the chances of landing a good faculty job at 35 years old in my field, unless you are already a superstar by the time you're 25, are basically nil right now. Not worth it.
> My favorite hard, hard instrument is the tambourine. It's amazing something so small and simple can present such challenges, but it does. And played well, it's extremely expressive.

There's the brazilian "pandeiro"; it's amazing. I've seen some demostrations of skilled pandeiro players and they can sort-of emulate a full drumset with that toy-like instrument.
It's in Google's best interest to keep the price high... it raises the price for any potential competitor who might try to outbid them.

Google knows how much money it makes through iPhone... a potential competitor could only guess how much money could be made by being the new default search engine (especially since the number of people who would be loyal to Google and switch away from the new default is a big unknown).

It's interesting to see exactly how valuable it is (or how valuable people think it is) to be the market leader.

If Google lost the iPhone default position, their customers (i.e. advertisers) would see them differently.
Vulkan titles will overtake them.
Easy file sharing? Shared chat logs across devices? Easy encryption? Easy voice chats? Video chats? Group voice/video chats?

These are all things that I have on Matrix out-of-the-box and that I have some trouble getting on XMPP.

I run my own XMPP server, I have been doing it for a couple of years, but getting some modern features is very difficult, if not impossible. But with Matrix everything is quite easy.
Nuclear waste is nuclear fuel.

Also new reactor types have solved all these problems. They can create very little waste that only has to be stored a far shorter time.

The problem is that anti-nuclear people have created a environment where no more research happens and old technology just limps along.

The science is clear, the needed technology is understood, we just need somebody to build it. There are startups who try, but its very difficult.
The simplicity of the conversion is fantastic, but I am perplexed as to how an anonymous exchange exists when there are KYC requirements.
Glad to see this on here. Really, it's never too late to learn anything, but I can offer context here as I have been playing for 25+ years.

I can say without a doubt that picking up a guitar is one of the best things I've ever done in my life. It is just so rewarding. There are no barriers to your level of achievement. Want to get better? Just play more. In fact, the first thing I do after a bad day at work is pick up my guitar. I know that I have at least something in my day that I can do better at than I could have the day before.

It's also tremendously rewarding to be able to kind of level-up to your heroes. I can play things now that I only dreamed of when I was a kid. Iconic solos and riffs that I thought required some kind of superhuman level of skill. Turns out it just takes a lot of practice. The difference being that those heroes wrote those solos in their early twenties, while I'm merely mimicking them in my late thirties. But I still get to hear those sounds coming out of my amp, created by my fingers.

What other hobby or activity could offer that? Most of us could spend 12 hrs a day in the driveway shooting hoops but could never even dream being the worst player in the NBA.
I don't think most users fully appreciate that it exists purely to log your activity on sites that Google doesn't directly track through ads
Not so much DX12, but Vulkan ones yes. All major engines are now pushing Vulkan support out.
Indeed. I just unsubscribed from Adobe's online Photoshop offering because I don't use it enough to pay $10/mo every month. Instead, I went looking around and found a great alternative with a set price...

And then I decided not to buy that until I actually needed it.

Once I needed something for simple image work, I ended up downloading Krita for free and it works just fine. I may still buy the other software, but not until Krita can't do what I need. (To be fair, the other software looks amazing... But so is Photoshop, if you use it daily. Which I don't.)
Does that have anything to do with Matrix though, or just that one company implemented a nice client? Conversations for Android/XMPP is also very good. There aren't any good desktop options, unfortunately, but I don't think this is necessarily an XMPP problem (although it is a problem that should be fixed), just that all the companies that write good desktop clients for XMPP make them proprietary or locked to their specific chat service.
> Blockchain, however, handles conflict resolution in quite a different way. If there is a net-split between Europe and the USA and two versions of the database emerge, it simply decides on re-connection to keep the entirety of the version that has received more traffic during the disruption (aka the longer chain). This means if the USA version wins, all of the modifications in the European version, even if there aren’t conflicts, are discarded. To reiterate, this means even if most of the interactions in Europe were just with other users in Europe and not in conflict with the USA version, all of those writes are thrown away regardless.

Is this really possible? I can't see why not. If so could a DoS on a specific region of nodes that's large enough to sustain it's own sub chain for a short period be possible? This would be extremely dangerous if transactions were confirmed by the network on a chain that is eventually ignored.
I think it's normal that you would be able to see the filament, no?
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Can't this already be handled by calling out to a C/C++ or FORTRAN procedure that processes the data in multiple threads? For number crunching, Python is almost exclusively used as glue.
More profit? http://sharing.rainforestqa.com/3X1E1h2V1c0d
Not to be the "prodigy" kid, but I began game programming at 10 years old because I wanted to know how games worked. I tried to buy a Visual Basic 5 book from Borders before my parents gave me "Beginning Programming for Dummies" instead.

Not sure why these people don't believe that Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts can't tell the weather.
Is openCL really competitive with Cuda now? I thought it was still basically nvidia or bust for the mainstream libraries because they all depend on cudnn
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>"If I'm reading a paper in Nature I can assume that the editors and reviewers did first checks on content (BS can still get through, but it is rare)"

You think stuff published in nature is better? I found the opposite, that Nature publishes papers with "sexy" results and poorly described methodology. Nature is one of the worst journals, I cringe when info I want is in a Nature article (although with supplements it is getting better).
Why are they so power hungry? Vega looks very promising for Linux gaming, but that power consumption is just way overboard.
I'd imagine that platform companies have greater obligations towards their developers.
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As I can not edit my comment any longer, examples how Tru64 made use of Security Integration Architecture, are described on the "Security Programming" guide, http://h41361.www4.hpe.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51B_...
Elixir is beautiful code, it's not just performance
I don't think of hitting the strings hard as a "bad habit" in and of itself. Being able to play with a broad dynamic range is very useful, but not necessary to have fun and make good music.

I remember seeing a Paul Gilbert instruction video a while back where he talked about the importance of being able to play a single note, while hitting it with a full on rock and roll windmill arms technique. This is mostly a matter of muting the other five strings effectively. But hitting a note like you mean it really matters.
The very concept of functions is calculus.

Kids are in their teens before we even have them solving x=y algebra.
If you believe this, then I'll let you know that there are exactly two ways that I'll pay a subscription fee for your software (generally, not aimed at author):

1. It is providing a service (Spotify).

2. It is open source.

You might not want to try to or know how to monetize the second option, but I'm not paying you a monthly fee for closed source software that you or your company are going to inevitably neglect/abandon/sell to someone who cares even less.

I'm happy to pay a monthly fee so you can make your open software better, though.

Welcome to the way this was always going to play out; the only way it could have played out.

Indeed.
So cash out or grow, but they're already shrinking and cashing out is looking increasingly hard and with diminishing returns. This may not end well, but presents a lot of opprotunities for those with the right eyes.
Yeah, this is just a bunch of "why should I charge a little when I can charge a lot?".

I don't know, people spent a bunch of man-years making my washing machine, but I don't pay a subscription on it.

If the choice is between $120 up-front or $5 a month, maybe it's worth it (e.g. maybe paying $8/mo is better than paying however much for Photoshop+Lightroom), but I have a feeling that this developer is talking about $2 up-front or $5/mo.
Parked electric cars are earning money balancing the grid in Denmark
I'm in the UK so smaller pool unfortunately. And salaries certainly aren't as good as the US! Seems to be a fair amount of C# in city of London/finance etc and fair contracting rates there though.
What if I don't want my transactions to be stopped?

Sure, the powers of the world that want to engage in financial censorship probably don't think of unstoppable transactions as benefit.

But the people that oppose censorship certainly do think of it as a benefit.
No, it must be explicitly released. The GIL must be held to invoke almost all Python runtimes (main exceptions: acquiring the GIL, low-level allocator).
Yes they were. Liquid Fuel Molten Salt reactors had been build and tested. The researches were ready to start building production scale units next.
I have a use case for a new blockchain/cryptocurrency that I think is cool. Feel free to take the idea from me and implement it for an ICO :)

I propose "whatcoin", a cryptocurrency designed to create a market for peer to peer media sharing based on the upload/download ratio model used by what.cd and other private torrent trackers to incentive seeding and penalize leeching.

The whatcoin "blockchain" has a catalogue of all currently available music on the platform, so it doubles as the tracker and transaction ledger. The catalogue can have multiple copies of albums sorted by the specific release and the quality (lossless FLAC, lossy 320kbps, etc).

So let's say you want to download a FLAC formatted 1988 MFSL release of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album. You'll pay a specific amount of whatcoin from your own wallet based on the size of the files being downloaded, which will be distributed to the seeders you peer with. You'll also pay a network transaction cost.

The network transaction costs fund the "miners", or those who upload new, verified releases that are not on the whatcoin network yet. Those who upload the music are also strongly incentivized to continue seeding it, because they will be paid whatcoin inversely proportional to the number of other available seeders for the same files whenever someone chooses to download them. So the more exclusive the media is, the more lucrative it will be to host it.

Seeders will be paid for uploading media and leechers will pay for downloading media; leechers can then earn more whatcoin by continuing to seed the media they've just downloaded. Each upload/download transaction is recorded on the whatcoin network, and the greatest economic opportunity is available to those who can upload popular new media and then seed it very early on.

This proposal is similar to Filecoin, but you're paying to download new media instead of to store your own and retrieve it later. It also adds the extremely high fidelity media cataloguing that some private trackers have achieved. You could market it to the MPAA or RIAA as an "enterprise blockchain" the way banks are currently investigating it. The studios would be paid for new media they bring onto the platform, and indie artists could be paid for bringing their media onto the network instead of, say, SoundCloud or Bandcamp. If the media is popular enough then the original uploaders are heavily compensated and their hosting costs decrease over time, because there will be other seeders to maintain the media.

If large media firms didn't go for this immediately, you could try and take this concept and ICO with it. Then start competing with Bandcamp and SoundCloud to capture the indie market. With the ICO funding and notoriety in that space, try to take on the RIAA.
I think they're looking more for corporate backers. They're probably very aware that their GILless PyPy will not run many of the programs and libraries out there that are not written to be thread-safe. And when the GIL is in place, there's really not much reason to write thread-safe code. At the very least you won't notice much when you're writing code unsafe code.

So I assume they're not doing a kickstarter to prevent the following from happening:

1. The internet at large will assume they're going to get a GILless PyPy that can actually run their code.

2. A separate PyPy is released that doesn't run their code.

3. People are angry that they didn't get what the thought they were gonna get, like what often happens with kickstarter backed projects.

4. With no coporate support and waning public interest due to the uselessness of a GILless PyPy, the separately released project becomes unmaintained.
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QE is good for asset holders as long as there is no inflation in wages to match asset bubbles. Gold standard tends to cause deflation, which is bad for debtors.

I was talking about it from a inflationary perspective. QE didn't lead to inflation in the US example because of the way it was carried out.
Standard Note, which the author is talking about, is open-source btw.

Apparently you can self-host Standard File server [1] yourself if you don't want to sync with their server.

[1]: https://github.com/standardfile
There's a discussion of this on the Bootstrap blog: http://www.bootstrapworld.org/blog/blocks/Block-Getting-Star.... (That's Bootstrap, the teach-scheme-to-middle-school-children project, not Bootstrap the JS library.) They've tried it both ways. I'll quote their bullet points:

> Things we love about blocks

> 1. Blocks lower the barrier for entry
> 2. Less frustration
> 3. Useful hints
> 4. Visual reinforcement of structure

> Things we don't love about blocks

> 1. Penalizes fast typers
> 2. Higher demand on short-term memory
> 3. Small space of visual cues
> 4. Poor Accessibility

They go into detail on each of these.
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I'd love to know if anyone out there could benefit from a prototyping service for their web or mobile apps.

With Proto MVP, I'm targeting startups and seed investors to offer a rapid prototyping service to get ideas quickly validated, marketed and built.

I'd love your feedback on the product, approach, and if there is a market need for this.

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Thanks!
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> Consumers aren't there as a substitute welfare state to provide eternal employment for hungry programmers.

The flip side to this argument is that programmers aren't obligated to continue fixing bugs and adding features to software forever if they aren't being paid. Software subscriptions are the only way I know of to align the incentives properly so that programmers will actually fix things instead of moving on to an entirely new piece of software that they can sell anew and leave the old one to rot, which is a real problem that has plagued small dev shops forever.
If you're going to categorize him, wouldn't he fall into the "People who've controlled countries and called themselves Communist, but who I don't think should represent Communists even though every person who's controlled a country and called themselves Communist was roughly like him?"
I feel like this is something that helped a lot of people learn. The first programming language I started to learn was TI-BASIC on my calculator because I was bored to death. I wouldn't really recommend a BASIC-esqe language as someone's first. I really with we had some easy preinstalled language on Windows machines. Maybe have Python come with it or something, and some way for people to know it's there.
I've taken lessons when I was in kindergarten and when I was in High school, but it has never been an easy instrument to learn. I'd say piano/keyboard easier than violin, but much much harder than a guitar. The 10,000 hours might not be enough to master piano, if you're starting as an adult beginner. However, you can definitely learn to play chords and simple melodies on piano. One thing to note, if you are a developer/programmer, be careful as piano has the same risk of getting carpel tunnel syndrome, so consider the ergonomics, and also don't overplay on piano. PS: I wish there was an ergonomic piano.
Where I grew up in the Midwest United States, football was only available in the late summer and early autumn until you were high-school aged. Baseball could be played from an early age in Spring, Summer, and Fall. There seemed to be more opportunity for skills-focused activities (batting cages for instance) for baseball in the winter than football (at least in central Illinois).

Soccer is available year round and has been since I was a child.
Software companies used to survive through maintenance contracts for enterprise software and upgrades for consumer software. With the Apple App Store model, all upgrades are required to be free. This of course took a huge chunk of revenue away from software shops.

>It's just a case of holding information hostage in the cloud because you can.

Or because they have to.

>Consumers aren't there as a substitute welfare state to provide eternal employment for hungry programmers.

Software is expensive. Developers are expensive. I much prefer the upgrade model to the subscription model, but the marketplace in a round about way, decided it would rather pay eternally rather than one version at a time.

Photoshop use to cost around $800 for a license, now it's $20 a month. That works out to 3.33 years until you pay as much as an outright license. I'm fairly certain that the Photoshop upgrade schedule was shorter than 3.33 years, so in the end, you end up paying less, assuming you constantly upgraded.

*The upgrade prices was usually cheaper than the original full license, but I don't know how that works out long term with the subscription model.
"Consider the nonsensical way software is currently done: developers spend endless hours researching, developing, fixing, and providing support for software, the hardest of which is probably the last of that array of responsibilities. "

None of which matters. Only capitalism and consumer demand for your service.
Do you use the bang system in DDG? I think that more than makes up the difference.
After I left a public facing role I had to deal with stopping a lot of spam. Apparently everyone with something to sell thinks the fact my email address was published on the website meant I was actively trying to subscribe to their nonsense.

I found that a polite email to customer service and/or abuse contacts at the technically-this-side-of-legal spamhouses (constant contact, mailchimp, etc) is usually enough to get yourself on a sitewide blacklist.
And conversely several African states have governments that either took part in the fight against colonialism personally, or are from families where family members fought the colonial powers.

E.g. when looking at Robert Mugabe's hostility towards Britain in particular (without wanting to justify his authoritarianism and violence) it is worth considering that he fought for independence, and though Britain as responsible for allowing Rhodesia to happen.
Different paradigms.

Worker does use process pools with their own thread pools, but they're still not evented/async.

Apache 2.4 (2012) saw the release of 'event', an async variant of worker, which is like the new nginx model.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html
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> Researchers know it is roughly 10-and-a-half hours, but they would like a more precise number.

I find it interesting that something this “basic” is still not known. Couldn’t they just take photos of how long it takes certain features, say storms or clouds, to reappear?
I guess the only difference between these services is pricing... It is very nice concept because of the simplicity. Hope we'll see more competition in this field.
Another fan of that gem. I really wish I could get my hands on a port or emulation.

Spent hours upon hours with that game. The advanced logic required in the harder levels wasn't trivial.

One thing that I remember is that with longer circuits you had to factor in propogation and lag times which basically forced you to refactor down to simpler solutions.

To me the game felt more real or organic than any modern equivalents, although I haven't tried them all.
Today's machine learning and data science students don't know how to code in those languages. They know python, and maybe java.
The best designs can remove hole categories of errors. Different reactor types can be passively save and carry virtually zero risk catastrophic failure.
Ubers legal battles were because they didn't license, and thus got kicked out of multiple cities by violating their requirements.

By working with licensed drivers/companies or licensing their drivers, they would have avoided much of that problem, admittedly that would add to their revenue vs profit/yearly loss issues they have now. Lyft is in a similar boat, trying to lower loss-per-ride and get to a profitable state. It appears based on media reports that Lyft, despite not sharing many of the conflicting business approaches Uber used, is actually ahead of Uber at working its way to profitability.
I ask this question a lot and have put together a few resources.

daily newsletter:

http://www.oppsdaily.com

and archive:

https://www.oppslist.com

Plus here are a few:

1. "I am a research assistant in a clinical science laboratory.
Coordinating and communicating with lab members and collaborators.
It would be nice if there were a secure way of sharing documents in unusual formats (like .pzf) and messages in real-time and that they could be stored on a group server/secure cloud that everyone could see and edit in concert with maybe a admin managing editing and sharing permissions. It would have to be very secure as the nature of the material shared would be extremely sensitive.
An embarrassingly large amount of money. Average lab software for a single user license is $100-$500 USD for a year. If there were a group rate for under $3,000 base, with a lesser yearly cost for security updates, that would be worth it."

2. "Being a long term unemployed person over 50 , I feel the biggest obstacle to completing online applications is the
constant re-keying my job history to every single website I go to to apply for work.
I feel an app or program that a person will enter the data one time then populate
that part of the online application, from the app. This will help greatly and help reduce
the discouraging and redundant task of having to do this repeatedlly.

This should be free to the job seeker and maybe $100. or less to a company.
This would be a text file so not alot of graphics involved.

Thanks."

3. "Project Manager in Healthcare.
Project plan that could be shared with a large audience.
Turn a MS Project plan into an editable and readable format for a large audience that doesn't have access to MS Project.
Yes, $1,000 per month."