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>> 2. Tests can only ever answer close-ended questions: "does this work?", but not "how does this work?", "what does this look like?" etc.

> I fail to understand this point. I mean you can obviously write tests that just run stuff and not throw an exception or error. Furthermore you can share how you set stuff up with other developers.... and again you can just delete it if its obnoxious.

Yes, but the point is that a test mostly gives you a Yes/No answer, not a visualization. What's more, sometimes you need to set up a fair amount of state as you explore (think of the examples in the video, where you call an external API based on a previous result of that external API etc.) - not something that is convenient to do in a test.

> > 3. Tests typically won't run in real-world conditions: they'll use simple, artificial data and mocks of services such as databases or API clients. As a result, they don't typically help you understand a problem that only happens on real-life data, nor do they give you confidence that the real-life implementations of the services they emulate do work.

> This is exactly what I do not like about REPLs. You setup a custom environment and its hard to keep track of what you have done. I don't like the "not repeatable" nature of it. I do think you make excellent points about how immutability helps that problem as stuff basically becomes a log but for other languages this is not the case.

It's not that the environment is custom, is that it's real. Do you call your payment service or your mail sending service from your tests? This is exactly the kind of thing you want to experiment with in a supervised, non-repeatable way.

You can put stuff in the REPL, or in your test suite, or both, and there are pitfalls in each case, but at least you have a choice; indeed, you have to use your best judgement to decide what will be persisted, repeated and shared with your team and what will be forgotten after your REPL session end, but I wouldn't call making the wrong choice a deficiency of the REPL, rather an error on the programmer's side.
> However, it turns out that neither chemistry nor physics are "tech" and the gender ratios in the physical sciences are fairly even (even for chemistry, slight male skew for physics last I checked).

I don't understand what it is that you're arguing.

> And when the underrepresentation is stronger

Again, I don't think you understand what the topic is, so I don't see the relevance of your citations. What kind of bias do you think we're talking about?

Even though I hate doing this (b/c if you haven't bothered clicking through the links I posted, then you're not interested in the subject), but just to break the monotony of repeatedly pointing out the absurdity of debating a subject you know little about and wish to learn of even less, let me give the elevator-pitch summary:

It is not about participation in arbitrary professions; it is not about bias in tests; it is not about biological differences; it is about the easily verified fact that women have been marginalized from positions of power[1] at least for centuries. Test scores have little to do with power; Participation in being psychology lab assistants has little to do with power; bias in promotion in certain power-conferring occupation has a lot to do with power.

Studies in the field may, therefore, focus on two things: either on the status or process of said power imbalance, or on the mechanism of its creation. The paper which is the focus of this article (the last one), is of the second kind.

Next you're going to show me research showing bias in favor of women when it comes to smiling. That may be nice, but is not relevant to the discussion.

If you show me research showing how socitey confers more power on women than men, then that would be something to consider.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)
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> Thats my point is that the REPL case of using Emacs to run and evaluate your code is almost hardly different than letting an IDE run your unit test. With Java this evident because the IDE compiles incrementally and the debugger can hot code swap.

Using a REPL vs. an IDE like you describe is the difference between a conversation and sending somebody a letter with instructions.

This is more visible when we use more dynamic languages/runtimes than Java/JVM. Since the changes one can do and how they need to be done is not very advanced, the usefulness of a REPL is reduced.
"The company has already been working with outside fact-checkers like Snopes and the AP to flag inaccurate news stories. (These aren’t supposed to be stories that are disputed for reasons of opinion or partisanship, but rather outright hoaxes and lies.) It also says that when a story is marked as disputed, the link can can no longer be promoted through Facebook ads."

If Snopes/AP tells me something is false, I'm perfectly willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps this will change in the coming decade, but for now, this seems like a perfectly reasonable heuristic.
I was a bit disappointed by the lack of a real scenario implementation. While the data suggests it might work, I wanted to see how precise it would be in a simple implementation like the author described towards the end, where a simple game of tapping trains the NN and then uses the information to try and capture a typed password.

If I got that close to making something as cool as this, I would not stop experimenting until I found out whether it worked or not.

That is, unless I tested it, found that the imprecisions made it impossible to obtain reliable data, and decided to not write about it to not discredit all the work I had done.

I really hope someone takes the idea and tries it out to assess how viable it is, then I can be paranoid about 2 more sensors spying on me.
It's one thing to have a line in a paper saying 'this research was funded in part by the NSF' and another thing entirely to have people talking to the media about said work.
This sort of microcontroller for bringup and/or power in a large processor/SoC is not surprising at all. Intel ME is used for large scale setup and provisioning of new machines and is probably worth every penny to their OEM customers.

I'm not saying that the NSA isn't possibly using it as a backdoor, but to say that the whole ME subsystem was created because they were paid off by the NSA is a bit far fetched.
You're not addressing the problem of how a system could reliably distinguish fake news from real news.
That's not what sql injection is. Your statements may seem a little odd, but it will work.
There's at least internal conflict in Napoleon Dynamite. Napoleon is struggling with his confidence, both to start a relationship with Deb, and to stand up to Uncle Rico's bullying.

I don't disagree in general that stories can be conflict-free. But, good stories usually have character development, and character development almost always entails overcoming some internal conflict.
The funny(?) part is that a lot of customers won't mind if they got a meal voucher for the future. When they don't mind it for air travel they will surely mind it even less for food where there are a ton of other options available.
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The article suggests that a higher percentage of people choosing the "cooperate" option means that the model in question does a better job explaining. Explaining is the article author's chosen word. But maybe you are right that the author is missing the point, I'm not sure.

But even that's a tough sell for me, since the ideas you suggest as substitutes for the term "explain" are things I would put under the umbrella of what is meant by explaining.
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Which tells you what?
I bet Casey already has the new longer lasting battery
I'd rather drive a Lexus (and I actually do own one).

I'd rather drive a car that I can use, not a car that needs to spend time in the mechanics garage being repaired.

BTW, BMW is not going out of business any time soon (unless we have a massive move towards all-electric cars in a short period of time), because there will always be people who will want to drive a "beemer".
Spot on. You could locate the 'conflict' of a story at one of two levels:
Within the content (traditional conflict between characters, etc.)
Within the form (conflict between the text itself and the reader, e.g. something like a riddle, or as others have mentioned, a joke--the opponents are the text itself and the reader's preconceptions, e.g. a joke usually works when it refutes our expectations.)

The author's first example is an instance of formal conflict. Once we reach panel three we question where the panel is going because it introduces a radical element (as the author observes) that seems disconnected from the first two elements of the sequence. This is enough to establish a formal conflict for us as it subverts the form established prior--it creates a narrative question, 'why is this here, what is the point, where is this going?' The final panel then resolves this conflict by reintegrating the material from the first two panels with the third.

And so even though there's no 'conflict' in the western traditional sense of the characters of the story combating, conflict still drives the story. It's actually pretty difficult to argue that stories don't require any conflict, as conflict is often an imprecise and overloaded category (think of all its different varieties) and really when people advocate for conflict they are advocating more generally for flux and change--e.g. the idea is you couldn't tell a story if every panel were the same image--you'd perhaps be saying something--making a statement or a proposition, but it wouldn't be a story. While a poem or a painting can often take the form of a one-line proposition, a story as I conceive of it is something more like an argument--it operates on the premise that certain bits of information are out of scope as we read and that patterns are interrupted then resolved into different forms as we glean new information--all narrative arts are necessarily time bound arts and thus more often called experiences rather than objects (e.g. a film is an experience b/c it relies necessarily on a time factor, where as the totality of an object might be consumed at a singular moment T, ignoring history--)
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I really wish frameworks offering SQL would upfront say what level of SQL compatibility they have, is it SQL 2011, is it Postgres etc...

Anyways, if anyone's wondering, here's the Github page. [1]

Also from FAQ [2]:

Is KSQL fully compliant to ANSI SQL?

KSQL is a dialect inspired by ANSI SQL. It has some differences because it is geared at processing streaming data. For example, ANSI SQL has no notion of “windowing” for use cases such as performing aggregations on data grouped into 5-minute windows, which is a commonly required functionality in the streaming world.

[1] https://github.com/confluentinc/ksql/blob/0.1.x/docs/syntax-...

[2] https://github.com/confluentinc/ksql/blob/0.1.x/docs/faq.md#...
>After 2003, each young officer was issued a set of 21 CD-ROMs for computer-based training — jokingly called “SWOS in a Box” — to take with them to sea and learn. Young officers were required to complete this instructor-less course in between earning their shipboard qualifications, management of their divisions and collateral duties.

I'm trying to find the "seaman's schedule" someone in the navy posted on reddit, but it basically demonstrated that between watches and other ship duties, there was on average 5 hours of sleep a day a seaman could get, usually at random hours, and not always consecutively. Curious when in that schedule they could slot in "watching video lectures," and whether they'd be able to even stay awake during them, let alone focus.
> I thought to survive in tough times a restaurant just needed to provide great food at a reasonable price.

Right, so tough times means you can either do the great food or the reasonable price, but not both, and it's very hard to choose one of the two.
The maintainance of a vacuum tube this long and the consequences of a failure are a main theme in most hyperloop "debunking" videos on YouTube.
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A lot of classic British TV shows from the 70s and 80s hold up really well today. After all, Fawlty Towers was a 1975 and 1979 series, with other greats from the era including Dad's Army (1968-1977) and Steptoe and Son (1968-1972). Blackadder and Only Fools and Horses were good in the next decade as well, and that's only counting some of the comedy ones.

As for whether TV now is better or worse... well, probably the same to be honest. Sturgeon's Law reigns supreme where any fiction is concerned, so every generation will have about 90% utterly forgettable crap and 10% amazing classics. The crap just gets filtered out over time as people choose to preserve the stuff that truly matters.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NostalgiaFilter

Either way, there's really not any one era where 'no TV shows' or 'all TV shows' hold up well.
I'm guessing that any leak is likely to be small, and thus slow. And depending on how many vehicles are 'in flight' at once, and how easy it is to detect, they could be slowed down before hitting atmospheric pressure to avoid shocks or vehicle damage.
There's an argument people make, that they ought to seek profit wherever it lies, without questioning who's paying that bill. I can see a whole bunch of scenarios where adopting that course of action would lead to some ridiculously disastrous results, quite a lot worse than doing nothing at all.

For specifics, look at entities in the world that are already known to spend lots of money in advancement of their narratives. We don't even have to look to Russia first. Try the fossil fuel industry.

I'm pretty sure the notion of a 'marketplace of influencers' through buying idea distribution on Facebook (with or without pseudo-grassroots camouflage) almost defaults to those who are up to no good: that's who has the money, in 2017.
Curious, why not use Lyft then? The experiences for me have been virtually indistinguishable between them.
Change your surroundings regularly.

I joined a co-working space and split my time pretty evenly between my home office and the co-working office.

This enables me to get some of the day-to-day human interaction of an onsite job (feels more normal). Remote work can be isolating and this is (in my opinion) one of the cures.
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Local restaurants that have been open for decades have been struggling over the past few years in my area (east side of Indianapolis). From talking to one owner, meat prices in particular took a dramatic jump ~5 years ago, but I don't know how accurate/relevant that is.

One was bought, moved, and closed a few months later. Another eliminated dinner. A third, open 24x7 for 40+ years, reduced their hours and then closed entirely, although that appears to be as much poor management as anything.

Quite depressing. I like supporting local restaurants, but painful to get attached to something that's likely going to die.
Agencies have no understanding of how to estimate a software project, and arbitrage underpaying moderately skilled workers who don't know any better working 50-60 hour weeks to compensate for bad schedules and lowballed estimates. I've never worked at an agency where a 40 hour week was remotely the norm.
Go outside

I understand why Wework works so well. There must be a non negligible percentage of their clients who get a desk just so they can leave their homes and be around others.
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Ciméma du look [1] does something other than conflict in a sense. The movies still have conflict (I'm really thinking of Diva [2] as my exemplar) but it is entirely secondary to the style and texture of the movie

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinéma_du_look
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva_(1981_film)
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Would you be able to access screen taps from another app in the background?
So: buy Snopes, and the AP.

These are not wealthy or powerful entities.
Meanwhile, they probably take 100 hours a year of stupid compliance training about drug use, not killing sea turtles, etc.
The old joke is "How do you make a small fortune in the restaurant business? Start with a large one".
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That's like saying what works for a motel does not work for the Presidential suite at The Ritz-Carlton. True but not insightful and not relevant. There are far more motels serving far more people than presidential suites, so if anything, things they do affect a much wider swath of the population.
Also the new trackpoint that Lenovo offers isn't decent.
This short trackpoint they offer now that doesn't support concave nubs sucks.
Few people can make sense out of Lisp and fewer actually like it.
AFAIK, the FAA requires a certain number of flight attendants for safety reasons.
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Oculus CV1 and the Vive are commonly considered to be "first gen" headsets in the modern VR community, with anything older than that (including recent stuff like the Oculus DK1) being essentially just experiments leading up to the development of gen 1.

Though as with anything involving multiple "generations" of products, the exact definition is pretty fuzzy.
An officer's schedule shouldn't be compared to an enlisted persons's
I think step counters depend on being able to read accelerometer data. You might be able to add enough noise to the signal to make tap localization impossible while still keeping steps detectable, but that requires careful tuning.
One thing I love about the Boosted board is the modular design. For example, if the belt from the motor to the wheel breaks, you can buy a relatively inexpensive kit from their website that contains a new belt, four screws, an Alan key, and a link to a 10 minute Youtube video guiding you through the repair process. Their customer service is also outstanding and super responsive, which is especially important when your customers are shelling out over a thousand dollars for your product.
How can a restaurant have such service (limo from- and to- home??) and have bad food?

I mean, I can imagine the food being "just good" (not great). But sucky food? With such a great wine list?

Something sounds terribly off with the.management of that buisness.

Can you share the name? Or is it something like a chain restaurant?
Why not? Because while a small number of individuals can make the choice, humanity as a whole can not. We can certainly reduce needless waste, but without industrial food production most of the planet would quickly starve, and that's not an acceptable option. We don't need to like the situation, but there are simply too many people to make non-industrial production of food and other material needs possible.
You're only accessing accelerometer / gyro data here, so yes this could occur in the background.

On iPhone it restricts background activity after 10 minutes, but on Android you'd have free reign until they manually close the app.
> Whether it works well ?

You must be kidding, right ? I would be happy if it works at all.
At the very least they should have included an "America's Navy" simulation game.
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If you know what you're doing go ahead. I certainly won't stop a hacker from hacking. Don't expect your insurance company to share my general liberalism towards DIY.

If you don't know what you're doing, go right ahead anyways. It's not my house and my family in there.

But this is hard.

Did you know that DC can't use AC switches rated for the same voltage?

How about cooling the packs? whats the appropriate distance between the packs as the geometry of the heat dissipation changes from 1D to 2D to 3D?

Are you going to cool with forced air or passively? If forced, what if there's a power outage during battery bank failure (highly correlated know that you wired the bank to the mains). If passive, how do you ensure that the environment is always providing suitable cooling?

That's a bit of domain knowledge that most ppl who know how to wire a socket don't know. That's also a house fire type mistake when your dealing with a battery bank.
Boosted board owner here, I did a market research survey a while back asking me about my opinion on electric skateboards, scooters, bikes etc. Pure speculation here, but there's a chance they go into bikes. Bikes are a much bigger market segment than longboards.
> I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime you miss out on so much

Let me fix that for you, [I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime I feel I missed out on so much because I discovered I'm really more social than introverted]
I've always wondered, is performance an issue with your colleague? Does he need to put extra hours or effort to finish some jobs? Or maybe he can be faster than the average developer with other tasks?
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This isn't necessarily true:
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/techftc/2016/10/dmca-s...

Of the four criteria in the exemption, I wouldn't put it past the government trying to make the case that exposing a NSA spy program somehow falls afoul of good faith investigation - but the general view that "any DRM research is a crime" is no longer accurate.
> With today's generation of statically typed languages, these two advantages no longer apply and there is really no good reason to start a large project with a dynamically typed language.

There is lack of evidence for it, especially given that 'today's generation of statically typed languages' is mostly unused and there is very little practical experience. Most of the industry hasn't heard about it and doesn't use it.
Although the tech to achieve both are somewhat similar, AR and VR solve completely different problems.

The core value of VR is to replace our real life. Graphics to convince you of this new reality is a hard requirement.

The core value of AR(or MR?) is to augment our real life. Being able to surface information about the world around you is the hard requirement. For example while cooking if it can tell you what and how much of the next ingredient you need in a recipe, it doesn't matter if the displaying of that information on top of the item is a bit laggy. The stepwise jump in utility is still there.
Well, off the top of my head...

Add some ML, get luggage/groceries/whatever that follows you.

Use omni-wheels, correct for user error, make safer devices that are harder to fall off of.

Self-balancing fold-away rollerblades? How does the market change when your wheels are something you put on in the morning and don't take off all day? Like shoes.

Use a rocker-bogies to make curb-climbing practical (electric skateboards that can climb right up a flight of steps?).

Dynamic shock absorbers that read the terrain in front of it, and provide steady performance over rough ground. Maybe curb and stair-climbing.

Those wheels from snowcrash.