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>.. there are many things that are complex and can't be made simpler without destroying the functionality of the program.

This is because we haven't figured out how to make them simple yet. I believe all problems can be made simple, once we come up with the proper system. Maybe we don't have the correct abstractions yet or just haven't figured out the best data layout. We've only been collectively programming for a few years now I think we have plenty of room left to advance the field. I'm not ready to just throw in the towel and say impossible.
> It's interesting that nothing like this seems to happen for any other language and culture combination, most notably Chinese for this article.

False. It has happened. Chinese culture has spread to neighboring countries, but that's almost a millennium ago. Ever wonder why in the Unicode BMP there's a huge block of "CJK ideographs"? It's because historically the Japanese, Korean, (and Vietnamese) all use Chinese characters in their communication. Sure their respective languages are very different but the script is the same. And at that time China had plenty of influence over these neighboring countries.
You forgot logic programming -> I don't care how, just walk all feasible paths
> Seems to be a natural tendency for troubled industries to lean into their obsolescence and actually kill their value adds in a futile quest for rent.

Yes. They seem to be more willing to spend $10X on lobbying to prolong their obsolete business model than $X to pivot to a new one.

I don't know if the number is actually 10, but it certainly appears to be greater than 1.
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And Napster before that et al.

However, I would still rather use Spotify than go through the bother of downloading dodgy MP3s and synching them to all my devices. I think Spotify's model killed music piracy much more than legal action ever did.
The repeated use of the word "pirate" here is absurd. From a moral standpoint, the argument against piracy is that it deprives creators of their livelihood. In scientific publishing, creators (and even reviewers!) are not compensated by publishers, and "piracy" actually helps their careers (this is why scientists are, in general, so strongly in favor of Sci-hub). But by abusing emotionally laden language and false comparisons with the music industry, the author hopes to win sympathy for an industry that, honestly, needs to radically change or die.
People learn many things by being told a set of rules and/or objectives. Over time they can self-evaluate their performance against those rules and objective.

I suppose an animal may have a need - it feel hungry. If it can satisfy that need then it should reinforce whatever it did to get not-hungry. I suppose that doesn't require conscious awareness. But at some level of complexity we have to be able to plan more complex actions (hunting, tracking) and be able to self-evaluate performance on the sub-tasks used to get food.
"what tech could we be subsidizing today so we can get it faster?"

That's one of Apple's brilliant strategies: instantly commoditize new technology, paying cash for new factories that produce next-gen tech components at such high volume that prices immediately drop to commodity levels immediately.
Of course, or a GPS-synchronized smart watch. But where's the fun in that?
true. happily paying netflix and spotify. if there were a better one to pay for a larger catalogue internationally, I'd be on that. if all you've left is handcuffing customers, your business is already dead.
Where I'm from, it's "inarguable" that [1,0,1] > [0,2,0]; that is, that a gold and a bronze is better than two silvers. This would break some of the ties shown in the diagram.
On OpenBSD, you can do something like:

"sysctl hw.disknames"
>well-known repos

I think it's clear at this point that you should be using internal mirrors of both programming language and OS package repos, so there is no need for build or production machines (other than those responsible for syncing the mirrors) to have outbound internet access at all.
I would. A common thing I like to do is start working on top of work that's in a Pull Request. For example, maybe a coworker is adding an API that I want to use. So long as I'm confident the API won't have drastic changes, and there's just smaller polish or testing to be added, I can branch off of their branch and start working without delay. This also gives me a window to live on top of the changes and give feedback from usage even faster (maybe even before it officially lands).
For Poland WWII last around 50y not 6y. Animation
The issue though is that optimizing for performance is, in most cases, optimizing for the wrong thing if it makes your code harder to understand, maintain and test.
> An interesting development is that there is generally an increased acceptance for psychiatric diagnoses.

Psychiatry is the only medical specialty that has a resistance movement and survivors groups. I think psychiatrists do okay with diagnosis, but commonly-used treatments frequently make the patients' condition worse. Ref: Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic

> More are accepting that just as the pancreas may stop delivering insulin, the brain may fail to uphold the proper seretonin levels.

The MAOIs were reasonably effective as anti-depressants, but fell out of favor as newer & less-effective patent medicines were approved. The SSRIs are slightly better than a placebo, for some patients. I think the Paxil hawkers recently lost a lawsuit over a lawyer who rapidly became suicidal after starting that drug. He threw himself in front of a train: https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/05/change-in-chicago-playi...
A counterpoint could be

https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...

Basically, a question about this article and other articles in this vein is who the audience is and what they feel they've learned. I think it's super-great to encourage people to learn and experiment with this stuff, but there's a risk of leading readers to the impression of "oh, that's how I add crypto to my application" rather than "oh, now I know a little bit more about how crypto works".

After hearing so much about risks of naive (and even expert) implementations and application choices, I'd like to see introductory crypto articles separate themselves more clearly and explicitly along these lines.
I don't think most people were using grooveshark BECAUSE it was a pirate-solution. They had paid plans as well that allowed you to do more than the free ones. I don't think most people knew there was any real difference between grooveshark and spotify.
Typically I use it to create illustration style renders that I use within pages. I create a lot of complex isometric diagrams for my current job that are interactive. So I create them in blender, chop them up, then load them in with WebGL or just slice them into image layers that allow me to create interactive elements.
Chinese is here to stay. There are enough people who speak it. Characters are not the problem. Simplified characters made it twice as complicated.

What Chinese and Japanese need are spaces.

I struggled for 2 years to study Chinese here in Taiwan. I tried many ways (see the blog), and wasn't picking it up.

Then I wrote Pingtype, which puts spaces between the words, colours for tones, and a literal translation. I started reading the Bible every day using it, and also listening to music and reading the lyrics. Since then I've learned so much more.

https://pingtype.github.io

The problem is not the language. It's the education materials. Now I think that traditional characters are better, because I can rebuild a character from typing only the parts I know into Pingtype's keyboard and searching for a suitable match. I had to build my own tools, but I wish these could be popularised to help the thousands of foreigners who give up learning Chinese.

Support for Taiwanese Hokkien is also included in Pingtype, thanks to the Taigi dictionary for POJ transcription. See the Advanced -> Regional section. It is very different to Mandarin, but learning Chinese is a necessary stepping stone. I'm working on a lyrics video of some popular songs by Fire Ex as some educational materials.

Please give me feedback on Pingtype; only a few hundred people have visited the page and it's kind of depressing. I don't know how to do marketing, so it's not catching on. Even if the tone colours and pinyin don't become widely used, I really wish that spaces between words could be introduced to this beautiful language.
Had to get the 2x so you could get realtime audio! 1x would stutter.
That's the underlying issue to DMCA and how it's implemented: they can DMCA everything, even if they are in the wrong doing so, since it doesn't really have bad consequences for them.
Agreed. Our field is still incredibly young, speaking as if we've tried everything that can be tried sounds a lot like when physicists were figuring out relativity. Many believed that the problems were simply unsolvable, that all of physics had been figured out in the late 1800s. Obviously they were wrong, and I think many of today's computer scientists will be wrong as well. Our field has a long way to go before it matures, in the meantime we need to find better abstractions.

Claiming that it's "all a cycle" is incredibly short sighted considering the time-scale.
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The business model of journals seem to be particularly perverse and artificial. The universities not only have more brand value and credibility but also the resources to publish journals themselves.

It's interesting how the journals managed to get a monopoly on this over 50 years. There seems to little reason for a private entity to be able to inject themselves here and take control of public output.

It's like the public paying for oil exploration with private companies like Exxon Mobil stepping in when it is found to take control and sell the oil. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with capitalism or any ism, it looks like pure theft.
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http://www.eclipse.org/openj9/

"Shared classes and Ahead-of-Time (AOT) technologies typically provide a 20-40% reduction in start-up time while improving the overall ramp-up time of applications. This capability is crucial for short-running Java applications or for horizontal scalability solutions that rely on the frequent provisioning and deprovisioning of JVM instances to manage workloads."
>I mean, you were wrong then, and you're wrong now, and if you read the law you'd see that.

Wrong about what, exactly? Images of children in sexual situations, or rather, as is described in the act, is illegal even to possess. Unless you know something about the act that I don't, or I've completely misread it - in which case I'm very open to corrections - I'm an optimist that the law isn't as hideous as I am reading it out to be.

>The OPA isn't new law, it's very old law.

I was talking about that section of CAJA, I know that OPA is old, but the "lolicon law" is only from 2009.

>he's an admitted paedophile

So what? That's completely irrelevant to any point that's being made. The fact is that he was imprisoned for spreading stories, fiction, and it was through UK law enacted by parliament that this happened.
Its easy to choose data structures, its hard to choose a good flexible data structure.
Okay but you can do stuff like that in qt or qml just as easy as javascript (if you know how to use it of course)
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There are a lot of faulty, manipulated or statistically underpowered studies out there. Some are doing real damage and the only way to stop it is to look at the details and discredit them.

Worse there are people out there who specialize in selective quoting and manipulating our understanding of science. Case in point "The plant paradox" book telling everyone that egg yokes reduce cholesterol and citing a paper which said the exact opposite: https://youtu.be/7NT4q_5dfLs?t=216

People wielding science have a lot of power - without transparency there is no accountability.
What new ideas are there though? Social networking I guess. Have you seen the mother of all demos? Engelbart's team invented, like, everything.

On the programming side, dependent types maybe. Everything else is from ml or lisp.

Neural networks are old old ideas as well. Computers have finally gotten fast enough to make use of the ideas.
Both local and AWS deployment guides mention needing to get a Google API key, but not what for. I'm guessing it's for this bullet point:

> Track bounce rate and other standard metrics. You can also insert tracking pixels and unsubcribe links a click of a button.
There are so many assumptions here:
a. People reading ToS? Unfortunately people just gloss over. As for newsletter, only your subscribers might have got that. How do you know the avast thing dint happen from a non-subscriber who never bothered to read ToS?
b. Did you have a popup or statement in the header stating the mining experiment? Something which clearly showed the user what you were doing?
c. I surely would like to see an Ad which is as CPU or memory intensive as the JS miner. I can't speak for the one you used but the one in question here can spike up to 70-80% of my CPU without my consent. Most sites I visit like HN, WSJ, Bloomberg etc don't have that heavy ads.
Epidemiology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow)
What you ask is what many outside the Linux community are so annoyed and frustrated with. The Linux communities complete inability to look outside their echo chamber. Constantly reinventing the wheel poorly and in a broken screw portability way. Instead of hacking together cgroups and namespaces they should have simply ported the jail framework. Instead of epoll they should have simply adopted kqueue. All they see is Linux only.
DMI is a pure software table provided by the BIOS and maintained by the system vendor. The linked tool looks like the output of CPUID reads, which are a processor hardware interface.

Obviously they should match, but if they don't, DMI is going to be the one lying.
Could you provide a link? I wasn't able to find anything.
> What has helped since then is massaging my glutes thoroughly with a lacrosse ball regularly. Foam rolling my back, glutes, ITB and quads. Strength training for the back, core and upper body in general.

For the record, this is what a good physical therapist would have prescribed.
The hard drive you been waiting for...

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youtube link? thanks
Not really a network effect. More a reputation effect.
That is essentially what qml does
I have a new alternative called Tree Notation:

https://github.com/breck7/treenotation

A sample from an HTML replacement:

@html
@body
@div Hello world

A sample from a CSS replacement:

@a
cursor pointer
text-decoration none

It is not HAML, though that was one of my first inspirations many years ago.
Numba and Loopy cover all the possible use cases for accelerated loop oriented code you could possibly want in Julia.
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In the 50s, that might have worked. But today, I imagine the effect would be to jack up investment in gaming the procurement procedures so the contracts would go to the most well connected "suppliers", who would actually cut corners since they know how to game the acceptance tests, and 90% wouldn't even work.
Excellent post. I'd add two things (quoting TFA, not you):

> copyediting

In my experience, that's a bad joke. The last paper I had edited by professional Springer editors came out with more errors that I had put in. The process achieved the exact opposite of what it was meant to achieve.

> when allowed, just 13% of authors posted green versions on their institutional repository, and allowed or not, just over half posted full-text versions on ResearchGate

Besides the factor mentioned in the article, that universities are bad at communicating their services to their own employees, there is also the fact that these institutional repositories simply suck. They suck because they are a large heap of "not-invented-here", they suck because they are bureaucratic and usability nightmares. But even without all that, and even 20 years into the age of Google, one centralized repository is easier to search and explore than 1000 little ones.

Authors know this, which is why they prefer putting their work literally anywhere else. This is not about aversion to change, it's about aversion to bad systems.
What about platforms that don't support DMI?
What do you not get with Numba that you'd want?
> The content distribution problem is capital-s Solved. The reason why publishers are floundering is because their product doesn't add value anymore.

Yep. If you don't add value, don't expect laws to protect you forever.
Those Glutius Medii (sp?) are tough cookies!!! Core and stability work are often more important than just strength. Also the hip flexors are really key too. My adductors and I have a love/hate relationship. :)
Yep. I forgot that the Saturn system has lots of opportunities for energy boosts from the moons.
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Wouldn’t that render it useless though? The purpose of tourbillon is specifically to cancel the effect gravity has on watches or clocks that are stationary. This was a problem with pocket watches that had a mechanism always in the same direction. Tourbillons in wrist watches are largely only for decorative purpose as the hands move and thus the gravity effect averages out.
I have total respect for Alan Kay but I hope he stops criticizing other people and actually shows his vision through his own execution (and by execution I don't just mean invention of a prototype but actual productization and distribution)

If you're building something visionary and are not the one who's making tons of money off of it, you have two solutions:

1. IF you're interested in making money: Try to figure out what you're doing wrong and fix it so you actually CAN capitalize on your original invention

2. IF you're NOT interested in making money: Enjoy the respect these people pay you and please don't badmouth others who worked hard to build important products that changed the world.

I feel like Alan Kay is on the second boat, so my heart breaks whenever he badmouths other people who worked hard to build cool things.

It doesn't matter what came first. What matters is what actually managed to pull off the ultimate success.
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I definitely have issue with the fact that so many papers are behind Paywalls, and I don't really have a problem with SciHub, since I think research should be open, but don't most of the major professional organizations/communities give you a Spotify-like access to papers?

I know my ACM membership, which is ~$200 a year has given me access to a ton of compsci papers. Maybe ACM is the exception on this?
Sometimes you're just physically fucked. In my case it took a microdiscectomy to end the agony.
> Al Khwarizmi should not be credited with the development of algebra. Al Khwarizmi wrote a compendium, and algebra was used at least 2,000 years prior to Al Khwarizmi.

He formalized it from what I recall. Formalization is as important as the initial discovery.

> but one shouldn't classify compendium's as great intellectual achievements.

You seem to be quite certain that both of these compendiums lacked any original contributions from their authors. May I ask why that is the case?
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I had a Mac IIC with a 40mb internal hard drive in the late 80s. It was much better than swapping floppy disks or even worse using the audio tape drive on my vic20 I had before that.
And once the publishing, movie and music industries have 'gone away, together with the authors, artist and producers who rely on them for a living, what kind of world will that be?
The "Welcome to the Eclipse OpenJ9 repository" is just brilliant. So many product blogs and source code repositories fail to introduce the product first.
Journals and publishers should start focusing on creating value out of their community: the authors and readers they've attracted.

http://hypothes.is/ is a nonprofit that makes annotation tech that some are using to publish peer-reviews, not just the article. I think that's pretty cool. Give the content away for free (you have to/should), but focus on having the best community around it.
This is like carbon dating.
Gold means the author pays the cost of publishing, potentially several thousand dollars.

Green means "arxiv": the author uploads a "preprint" version to a website. The "official" version is in a conventional reader-pays journal.

"Black" does indeed mean sci-hub piracy.
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Unless your sound card had the ide interface or you managed to have the right audio cable to connect the drive to it and let the drive do the playing with not controls for yourself.
No one cares about your narrow focus... bitcoin mining, just as with gold mining a century ago, drives other technological developments which end up benefiting everyone.
Do you live in Jamaica or New Zealand?
A possible rationnal explanation :

In France some scratchcard are sold to merchants in packages containing a proportional number of winning cards. For example, on a lot of 100 cards, sixty are null, 20 allows you to earn five euros, 10 allows you to earn ten euros ...

So the cheat is easy for a merchant (or his complices) : he just needs scratching each cards of a packages until find the maximum earnings. The others cards are sold to customers.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2008/11/26/01016-200...

sfmbe
What is your organizational culture: Pathological, Bureaucratic or Generative?
How do you have "clients" and you can't afford 10$ a month to not have to think about it?
Oh, I figured that that was the case; it's easier to make desktop apps with Electron, so it's attractive to companies because they can hire JS developers, which are almost certainly cheaper than Cocoa/Qt/GTK+/Whatever-Windows-Uses-Now developers. They're able to deliver a good-enough product with Electron, and don't really see it as a prototyping tool.
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Except Spotify doesn't pay artists. I'd be glad to pay them if they paid artists.
Bill Tutte breaking the Lorenz cipher in a fortnight using only pen and paper, and having never even seen the machine surely has to at least count as impressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._Tutte#Diagnosing_the_cip...