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Dear Swarm, Could you please update your map?
Hello there,
I am living at the "North Side" of Cyprus. I am using Swarm, and I can check in any place that is located in North Cyprus. When I list my check-ins, Swarm shows the whole Cyprus as you can see from this link: http://imgur.com/a/4DSdT

But when I list my checked-in countries, swarm shows just the South (Greek) side of Cyprus as you can see from this link: http://imgur.com/a/tjOrI

So Dear Swarm, Could you please update the map for Cyprus? (Show the whole Cyprus please.)
Robot production lines need robot technicians to support them. I doubt you'll find many of those in Bangladesh any time soon.
None of those radically changed the way you use it. Windows 10 changes many features but most users only use the browser anyway (plus Office at work).
For a desert on a planet, but not for an entire planet.
You sound ridiculous claiming Mars is bone-dry.
It is not a "very good description". It is false.
I applied last year in May, and haven't heard anything since then.
Why will the machines need to be located in Bangladesh? Cheaper repairmen?
Of course most people are going to support editing it to "treat medical conditions or improve health" the question becomes what precisely are "medical conditions" and when should they be treated.

Very few people are going to say that those people with cancer should die because we shouldn't do something to save them.
Could it be cargo cult science (language)? By making it sound like an academic paper, it passes for scientific.
Completely unrelated issues, it seems to me. Even unintegrated Muslims and persecuted Jews benefit from a cooler city.

Prices could probably rise even more, though, if the sponge approach makes the city more attractive.
What's the best way to apply the suggested solution to a numeric 5-star rating system (the author mentions Amazon's 5-star system using the wrong approach, yet the solution is specific to a rating system of binary positive/negative ratings)?

I suppose one could arbitrarily assign ratings above a certain threshold to "positive" and those below to "negative", and use the same algorithm, but I imagine there's probably a similar algorithm that works directly on numeric ratings. Anyone know? Or if you must convert the numeric ratings to positive/negative, how does one find the best cutoff value?
So the federal regulatory agencies actually have fairly unchecked power; it's one of their flaws. Lawyer boyfriend has remarked that they are actually rather unconstitutional in the sense that they have broad powers to make what are effectively laws, and constitutionally, only Congress can do that.

That being said, Congress has rightly delegated the ability to manage things like radio transmissions, the environment, food and drugs, etc. to bodies that have more time and domain knowledge, and under a decent president and Congress, we wouldn't have to worry about bad actors making their way to the tops of these organizations. And frankly, do you really have faith that Americans would do any better having to elect tens or hundreds of people to various positions in regulatory bodies?
Imgix is down again
https://status.imgix.com/

imgix is down again - 2hr+ outage and growing, only minimal details

What's the quickest image CDN ~plugin replacement? Something we can append w/h querystring and sign the URLs. We've been patient since April with all CEO promises (it's all going to change my friend, we're sorry and we'll be great again) but too many significant downtimes is not on, we don't believe they have the require devops skills no longer. We have more issues with imgix than anything else, patience exhausted, real explanations never anywhere to be seen.
>The whole premise is a bit flawed - it's putting most of the blame on Google.

The premise is that Eric Schmidt's displeasure lead to some people getting fired. I don't know how else you could make that argument without blaming Google when the entire argument is about blaming Google.
I feel like there is a strong emotional component at play in these approval rates. There are many people who have been touched and directly impacted by disease, terminal or otherwise. It changes your life in a really stark and eye-opening way, whether you're the afflicted or it is someone you love or care about. While GMO's certainly draw concern and ridicule from swaths of the public, many aren't impacted by them in the same immediate (read:empirical I see it with my own eyes without a shred of doubt) way a serious disease is capable of. Probably part of the reason, anyway.
The mention of sibyl, which is rarely discussed outside of Google (https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~niejiazhong/slides/chandra.pdf) is interesting. Most people really do not understand how effective simple, straightforward linear and logistic regression done on large scale data is. The Brain stuff and deep learning is nice, but the meat and potatos is still basic regression.
>I really can barely perceive a difference between 0.096s and 0.001s. Since it really is a one-time startup cost, it's not like we can even say that this difference accumulates and that hg is overall 45 times slower than git.

It's bad for many things -- like showing VCS status on your shell prompt or IDE status line, where you repeatedly start hg.

100ms+ delay every time you hit enter in your shell is noticeable (and that's just the version, now doing an actual "dirty" check takes more).
No way, the rates on TopTal are terrible. I was using them for a while but won't go back unless I really need some work.

I think you can get paid much, much more on platforms such as Gigster and 10X Management.
I don't understand how this is considered an autopsy, what was he selling? what was his conversion rate? what was customer acquisition? what was retention?

Paid high salaries and burned through investment without closing sales? That's probably a little more indicative of why this one failed.
I think that is only true of a subset of NoSQL users.

And even if it is true that Django's ORM is very nice, there are tradeoffs to using an ORM that mean you don't get "all the power" of whatever database you are using. Maybe all the power you care about; for instance, power in expressiveness and easy cross platform support, at the expense of performance optimizations that aren't important to you. But it's still a tradeoff.
I agree with optimizing Python's startup time, and I agree that namedtuple is weird and should be changed.

But I doubt that the namedtuple change will noticeably decrease startup time for most applications (after having experience with this problem for 10+ years).

From a comment over 3 years ago:

[Python interpreter startup does] random access I/O (the slowest thing your computer can do) proportional to (large constant factor) x (num imports in program) x (length of PYTHONPATH).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842873

I don't think that instantiating a Python parser 100 times for exec() is going to compare to that. I guess the difference is that I'm thinking about the cold cache case -- namedtuple might be noticeable in the warm cache case.

And there are many many command line tools that start slow because they're written in Python, not just Mercurial.

Mercurial is actually one of the best because they care about it (demandimport) and they don't have too many dependencies. IIRC some of the Google Cloud tools take 500-1000+ ms to start because they are crawling tons of dependencies with long PYTHONPATH.
Cool use of eval. I wonder if there are metaprogramming aimed libraries for generating eval'd code.
That is a fairly ridiculous argument. Many people try to portray the Sokal Hoax as a broad indictment of the wide field of everything that is considered "pomo," when really it is at most the indictment of a single journal. To say all editors of all postmodern journals are unable to distinguish crock is an insane extrapolation.

I feel a more apt metaphor for the Sokal Hoax is a security researcher purposely submitting a backdoor to a random driver. If the commit gets accepted, the failure is not a result of code review being a flawed process or Linux itself being a failed project, but the driver maintainer who did not catch the vulnerability. Even then, mistakes happen.

One can also put some of the burden of responsibility on the security researcher herself, since code review/peer review is generally faulty when one acts in bad faith. Similarly, the Sokal Hoax is a great example of bad faith used to justify an ideological position through point scoring rather than legitimate criticism.
For a fixed confidence level, it looks computationally light weight: a dozen or so multiplications and divisions plus one square root, which could be approximated if needed. There is no inverse normal needed at run time.
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So you're saying that Gigster pays their subs ~$180/h? That's over $330,000 per year. So how much do they charge clients then? ~$300/h?

I doubt it. Their prices are probably similar to TopTals.
But if the energy is finite, soesnt it mean that you can only produce so much virtual particles?
There are processes that you might need to run frequently. I gave an example above: showing the output of a Python script on your shell prompt (e.g. mercurial status).
Why do a study in the first place? Particularly when the outcome of the study is a foregone conclusion as far as the author is concerned. Just go to professional conferences and say "researchers say this works, but those of us with clinical experience know it doesn't. We write the diagnostic manuals, let's write a diagnostic procedure that actually makes sense to us"
I built a simple REST API that wraps this call for my other projects and it's been working great the past few months. If this would be useful to you my contact info is in my profile.
"start with a pile of sand, and eventually run Skyrim on it".

Well done. A lot of people forget where silicon comes from. :-)
Ah usually I'd give the benefit of the doubt, but look at that email sent by Slaughter. Besides it's not just Barry Lynn departing, it's the whole Open Markets program aka anyone in a position to question Google's market dominance. The statement by New America is going to be sufficiently vague to avoid saying that there was any connection between Google's funding and the cutting of this program but the email lays out quite clearly that's exactly what it was. Sometimes it's better to ignore the PR.
The Oatmeal isn't necessarily an authority, but explicitly lists "use semicolons as a super comma!" as one of their uses:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon
The fire ants damage many more species than ticks. They've all but destroyed the Texas horned lizard, for example.
>You literally have to will something to work in multi-month long pushes where you iterate again and again until you figure it out.

Or instead of iterating 5 times, you take your time and do it right on the 2nd attempt, figuring it out in 1/3 of the time. Hurrying only leads to mistakes. It makes no more sense than attempting to continue working when you really need to go to the bathroom. You are are a human being and have biological limitations. Ignoring them is of no benefit and usually significant detriment.
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Ugh, I hate these P2P "CDNs". A few years back, CNN tried this for their streaming video with technology from a company called Octoshape. Users (including myself) were unwittingly conned into accepting the plugin in order to watch live video. This created a huge mess for big corporate IT departments, who suddenly had hundreds or thousands of desktop machines streaming out video whenever there was a major news event.

I realize that this is a server-side option now, however. Still, it's a crappy deal. A decently-sized deployment of public cloud boxes to support your private CDN is going to cost far, far more than an actual CDN. Public cloud bandwidth is obscenely priced compared to what you can get it for on the CDN market.
Yeah, unless you are at Cambridge or Oxford, getting a PhD in Europe about equates to a masters in the US.
Why do I have an image of "feed" as in cows being fed corn mush?

In light of recent transgressions against speech on their platform, I wouldn't use the word "perfect" to describe YouTube feed.
Americans are already paying a shit ton for internet access. Any increase in price is artificial.
It's also not the only thing tick bites can make you allergic to. Lifelong issues are a possibility from a tick bite.
I'll repeat what I said: Keynes never said we should tax people who rent their homes 'out of existence'. To imply otherwise is disingenuous.

I find it bizarre that you think renting out your home doesn't count as a 'service'. It certainly is a service by any reasonable definition of the word (including the one economists use).
Still requires a X server, which docker containers won't necessarily have.
Maybe start with what the Chinese are trying to achieve and do screening and selection before inception? Should be a lot lower risk and easier to accomplish.
Most over-used adjective in internet journalism - 'quietly'.
I've never used it myself, but Richard Muller's Berkely Earth project publish their datasets online.
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Why did the ML-style languages (SML/OCaml/F#) fail to gain any traction?
Because they think they still have an option to pass the cost to companies like Google and Netflix and then use that money to increase their business and hence have an opportunity to provide good service... which is much better than investing in better infrastructure and customer service and then trying to get customers to pay more. Once they realize that internet companies will continue to use propaganda and not let it happen, they will have to take another route... which will be to keep providing the same service and keep maintaining their monopoly.
It depends on what services you are providing. Try looking at the market and see what your competitors/peers are charging for similar services that you want to sell, it's a good starting point.

In theory you should try to charge as much as your clients are willing to pay for your service. That might be very different amount based on how valuable the service you provide is to them.
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If you look at the trace, the failure is an NPE in String. No amount of 'thread unsafety' in a caller should cause String.length() to NPE out.
A lot of research shows that forcing yourself to smile makes you happier.
What about the rest of that paragraph?

> Someone who finds the forks, crashes, etc. a personal offense, and will repeatedly risk annoying management by fighting to stop these things. Especially someone who spends their own political capital, hard earned doing things management truly values, on doing work they don't truly value – such a person can keep fighting for a long time. Some people manage to make a career out of it by persisting until management truly changes their mind and rewards them. Whatever the odds of that, the average person cannot comprehend the motivation of someone attempting such a feat.

In answer to your question: yes, I do. Just like the rest of your link states, it pays off.
What do you think should be called a robot? From watching the video, this seems like a scaled down version of the sort of industrial robot systems you'd see in other manufacturing fields (albeit meant for sewing, and not assembling cars or other things).
Small rodents/birds are also one of the primary food supplies for larval ticks, so reducing these populations should help to disrupt their life-cycle[0]. The smaller ticks are the ones more likely to infect you as well, since they are harder to spot.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/images/lifecycle.jpg
Is this the smallest ASP.NET Core 2.0 Hello World app
It’s going to be weird, because much like we have standards for what constitutes a USB cable, we may soon have standards for what a baseline genetically modified human is. Treating disease is no threshold, the real question will be IQ or strength - even if you assume equal opportunity to access peak genetics for everyone.

On one hand, society will be far better off with having smarter people (imagine what society would be like where everyone had an IQ of 120 - I’d be very curious). On the other hand, you’ll probably get a Gattaca-like situation. Interesting times...
Setting default values for the namedtuple requires subclassing it, though, which is its own little bag of fun. See all the wailing and gnashing of teeth on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=namedtuple+subclass
As to your first paragraph, many companies and founders would say the the same thing, no? "We want to change the world by doing X (through their business)". Also, what other metric for success is there in the current culture of the USA other than business success? Not that I'm saying that's bad or good...
Its a system for commenting, not voting. Of course any American with an opinion should be encouraged to comment but if all 323 million actually did, that would not be productive.

The bot programmers and TV programs on both sides don't seem to respect this.
The killer application for gene therapy is enhancement, not disease treatment. Genetic diseases are present in only a tiny number of people, and so the markets that will form there will be miniscule in comparison to those that improve healthy people.

This will play out over the next decade or two.

Look at, e.g. gene therapy for inherited disorders (lysosomal storage diseases, DNA repair deficiencies, etc, etc) versus myostatin / follistatin gene therapy that increases muscle mass, reduces fat tissue, and generally adjusts metabolism into a better direction.

The first companies to commercialize the former will be successful mid-sized biotech concerns. The first companies to commercialize the latter will be behemoths.

The state of development in this field is dependent on methods of delivering genes that are reliable, tissue specific, and achieve high degrees of cell coverage. Once that happens, which seems fairly close at hand, then we'll see a very interesting expansion of the medical tourism marketplace into enhancement technologies, a market hundreds of times as large as therapies for sick people.
Measuring code authorship in GitHub projects
What we do with 5-star rating system is completely ignore 2,3,4 stars which in a lot of ways just skew our analysis, hence ending up with a new score similar to Nps (5-star minus 1-star) / total stars
Almost any reissue of material that has already appeared on CD in an earlier generation. Compare the post-millennial CD remasters of Slowdive's Souvlaki or the Cocteau Twins discography to the original CD issues of those albums in the early 1990s. Generally anytime an album is announced as "newly remastered" these days, the sole significant change is decreasing its dynamic range.
Nailed it. Thank you.
Tech is cheap and ubiquitous. Perhaps people in SE Asia and Africa might want to invest in a T-shirt sewing robot and an Internet connection such that they can run absolute circles around every major developed-world company by keeping their overhead low. Those multi-hundred-million-dollar CEOs from those American (or Chinese) companies are a tremendous drain. And that's not even to mention their absurd gigantic office complexes which aggressively destroy value at every turn...
Fulltext: https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/2017-scheufele.pdf

See also https://www.nature.com/news/china-s-embrace-of-embryo-select... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15039941
> Schmidt was pretty clear in his book that he believes his business success is an indicator of virtue, and that he believes he should use Google and his wealth to intentionally seek to manipulate modern culture.

Which book, and could you perhaps share some excerpts, or a link with more information?
> the very active and loud anti-corporate voices

Could you clarify which voices you mean?
Accidentally stepping in or standing on a fire ant mound is a terrible rite of passage for kids in Florida. Even if you just step on one, which when inactive can look like just another a patch of sand, those little bastards swarm out crazy fast. They'll easily be halfway up your leg before you realize what's happening. One moment, you're tossing a ball or frisbee with friends and waiting for the next throw, the next: horrible child screaming.
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Very good point. Also, off topic just checked you 175g.com
Love the site. Also I lived in Madison for a while. Good stuff!
It is. If diagnosed early (i.e., during the "bulls eye" stage) about a 2-3 week course of antibiotics will take care of it.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Treatment
Maybe the word unlimited should just be expunged from the dictionary, because so many real-world uses of it are vulnerable to deconstruction.
> Not sure what your definition of bribe is

Well, if it's the actual definition[1], then you didn't exactly prove anything.

1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bribe
College wasn't as expensive just a few decades ago. That is definitely a problem. Forgoing an education isn't the solution.

As for sounding twee, I don't disagree. College has been viewed as a path to a career for quite some time now. Which is fine, other than that shouldn't be the sole reason for an education. Or the sole focus of a person's early adulthood.
I know what Google and Netflix want to tell you what it is but I also know what it actually is (https://www.fcc.gov/document/restoring-internet-freedom-noti...).
I was using them as an example of a large company that would be reasonably familiar to the audience here.
The issue as I see it is that this is effectively an advanced form of eugenics. The idea behind eugenics (improving the lives of future people) is probably not bad, as you say, what is the downside in increasing the number of geniuses and reducing the incidence of defects? Who doesn't want their children to be strong, beautiful, smart, and happy? The problem is that people are dicks and we will probably end up in an arms race to some sort of superhuman masterrace. It will be like going to college, where before not everyone needed to go to college, but now you have to get a 4 year degree to compete for entry level jobs (I realize there are exceptions, but you know what I mean). We need to be cautious not to end up in a GATTACA situation.
Here's some benchmarks i've come across - http://onetom.rebol.info/2013/08/18/startup-time-of-interpre...
I've used wkhtmltopdf for years and it's really great. However, having a browser (headless Chrome and now Firefox) render the page closes the gap between what we build in HTML and what we want to output in a PDF, without having to deal with nuances of the wkhtmltopdf rendering engine.
From what I have read (I do not have the references handy), while they are called deer ticks the primary hosts/transport are mice.
In this context, I think he really talks about taxing capital (or capital investments that displace workers).
No, I agree with eesmith: I've been bitten multiple times by bugs from namedtuple objects providing the tuple interface which I'd never intended to use. So I stopped using namedtuple in favor of a new more-restricted module I wrote to replace it.
Ten day water fast sounds like a great way to die of a starvation-induced heart attack.

What is the significance behind ten days of starvation? Why not 1 or 2 or 3? 10 sounds 100% arbitrary.
I am having a hard time digging it up, but I remember reading some reporting on the Netflix Prize that said (before Netflix abandoned the star system) that many users rated things only one-star or five-star.

But, counter to the OP's point, I wouldn't assume this is an attempt to move the average; I would guess this is for a number of reasons, including because it's too much mental energy to decide if a product (film) is worth four or five stars, if you rate something you are often just trying to say "liked it" or "didn't like it."