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> Masturbatory nonsense

Thank you for your thought provoking analysis.

Why masturbatory nonsense?

Yes, the article is rose-tinted because it doesn't describe issues in German society; it is one-sided. However, that's obviously clear from reading it. It doesn't pretend to be otherwise. There's already at least 2 comments which nuance the article. Furthermore, the article's purpose appears to be meant as a counter-thought of the "American Dream" (apparently that's now called "Silicon Valley" because very little in the article was about technology).
Basically, Full-stack GraphQL
I totally agree. I just wonder if there is some way to take that open space, visual programming which so many people do with Excel and make it more robust. Well, actually, lots of people are working on making a better spreadsheet or putting the table data into a database and making interactive plots, so maybe that's not the angle here. Maybe we can figure out how to make our IDEs more Excel-like in some ways. Not for us regular programmers, but for people who'd like to do serious programming in their subject/domain of expertise but don't want to just do it in Excel with VB.
> The DoD did no better in Haiti.

The DoD is not a disaster relief organization, so that's a pretty low bar.
This is why this has always been confusing to me.

Those aren't the same colors. They're both greens, but different in both exact hue and in brightness. This has nothing to do with words, but with the precision of the human eyeball.
Waterproofing! Drinks near my laptop terrify me. A drop of water in the wrong place means your expensive work critical computer get its warranty voided and needs an immediate replacement.
Thanks for the book recommendation. That looks like a winner. FWIW, primate biology in big organizations or around family formation have much bigger negative impacts on achievement than I would have realized as a younger man. The odd "zero sum games" around mate selection and status seeking can be too real.
I think this was the Holy Grail, a regular PC in a phone form factor. Of course you are left with the problem of needing a monitor and keyboard to plug it into when you want to do any work.
Have you spoken with any charities about this? Frankly it sounds like your problem of identifying how to distribute it and who to is much harder than the manufacturing problem, and they will of course have ideas on the funding side too.

One problem I can envisage is that the electricity costs of running a box fan are potentially high, reducing the likelihood of a lot of the people that would benefit from having a $30 device donated to them from actually using it. The other question would be how your device compares in effectiveness (amount of air filtered and types of particles removed) with other inexpensive air filters. Does it actually pick up the PM2.5 particles people have most reason to be concerned about?
Node8’s util.promisify is so freakin’ awesome
Wow, impressive! The 360 view, LED moving indicator and full BOM shows some attention to details. Also, the UX looks great. Very nice work.
The C++ API that we currently aren't supporting and the Go language bindings that we are working on create native binaries; yes.

The Python version embeds a Python 2.7 interpreter inside a running application. We have C code that acts as an interface between our Pony runtime and the developer's Python code, calling the required framework functions at the correct time.

The event-by-event features in Wallaroo are somewhat analagous to Storm but we had management of in-memory state that allows you to grow the size of the cluster and have the application state redistributed across the cluster. This can be done while an applicaiton is running. In the case of Storm, this would be like:

1- keeping your application state in objects in your bolts (this helps with performance compared to an external store)
2- having a means to add more workers to the running storm topology and have that in bolt state redistributed across the new number of machines.

The 15-minute "scale independence" video shows this in action: https://vimeo.com/234753585

In many ways, Wallaroo looks a lot like the systems that Pat Helland describes in "Beyond Distributed Transactions": http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3025012

One of our engineers is giving a talk at Velocity conf NY next week. He's going to be discussing Pat's paper and how Wallaroo exhibits a number of characteristics he describes.
My work firewall prevents a lot of things from coming through. In this case, I can get to the content itself, but background images don't scroll properly, and such.

Maybe they've got ads, maybe not. I can't tell. What I can tell is that they've stupidly over-complicated "display text and pictures on a scrolling page".

As a work-around, I'm looking at their content through some kind of archive site that someone else in the thread posted. If they'd just hosted their own stuff, it would've come through, ads and all.
^clearly a bot account

(but there are ~hundreds of similar vids if not convinced)
I was wondering if it was a portmanteau of "wallaby" and "kangaroo".
That's roughly the size I was thinking. I was thinking of adding a battery too, less as a storage bank and more as a way of papering over the ideal conditions issue.
Seeing progress on this ticket would be really helpful:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/62051227
I wonder if it works on a dead person in a morgue.
Sans the round part, that's many, many people on their phones.
We had an internal naming contest with voting. My nomination "Wallaroo" won. I like animal mascots and thought that a Wallaroo would make a cool logo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallaroo
Calzone dot org has all the up to date dates of sunrise, trademark, pre-registration and general availability dates for all new TLDs.

GA is not available yet for .dev. See https://icannwiki.org/.dev

About 1300 registrations for .soy https://icannwiki.org/.soy
I believe the parent poster is talking about this:

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red...
People don’t understand how badly Netscape sucked around IE3. I remember seeing an article back in the 90s talking about how badly Netscape crashed on every platform it ran on. Netscape routinely bought down my Mac at the time.
You're right, but I don't think the use case you mentioned (as a competitor to B+ trees for direct lookups) is the target use case for a hash index.

A hash index can be a big win for nested loop joins, especially at high concurrency. It is quite common to build a hash table over a subset of the inner table of an equijoin. This is (a) slow to construct and (b) memory-intensive (especially if many of these queries are run concurrently).

With a hash index, a lot of cases that required building a hash table to speed up a query can just use the hash index directly. Furthermore, every concurrent instance of the query can use the same hash index. This is a big win for both performance of a single query (latency) and query scalability.
It used to be a right of passage for indie gamedevs to implement ui frameworks for their games. There were a whole bunch of them on the Internet for SDL, allegro, OpenGL, etc...

Conversely, most gui frameworks provide an OpenGL widget you can build an app around; qt, swing with jogl or lwjgl, etc. lots of options here.
That's nonsense man. I'm literally referring to a woman in the article who sleeps in a parkingarea because she can't pay rent, but she does work, owns a phone, a car, earns more cash than is necessary to pay for her non-rent living expenses.

You're telling me she can't drive, or take a bus?

Because what, she has to move all her belongings from the parking lot she currently lives in?

Come on. Look, my parents were on welfare since I was 3, never had any financial support, I've hustled plenty of times moving places, never having owned a single car. Not a single piece of furniture in my home is new, everything is second hand and half of it I found on the street.

Look I'm not saying it's as easy as opening an email account. Life is hard. But we're talking about a person who is homeless. She's way more capable than you may think, and I'm telling you, the solution to her problem is NOT staying in SF. You know that and I know that.

But even if people can't move without help from third parties, the solution to this problem still isn't letting people who make little money to stay in the most expensive place on earth that they can't afford, it's just not going to work out. It's governments facilitating them to move. I'd completely support that.

As soon as some people leave, who's quality of life will improve, companies will be forced to pay a living wage for those who stay, who's quality of life will improve, too. Would you stay?
Business is (mostly) about people and relationships. That's probably where Yahoo was lacking - not the engineering part.
Do not donate or help the American Red Cross.

They do almost nothing to help those affected by natural disasters. All they do is setup shelters and feed people in those shelters. They do not help rebuild.

They do an exceptionally poor job at this. Everyone knows about Katrina. In Houston this year, food sat on loading docks downtown while people starved in local shelters. The American Red Cross ran the main shelter so poorly that the city had to build an entirely new shelter and move everyone there...in the middle of a hurricane.

They don’t need your donations. They have a deal with the federal government where they get reimbursed for whatever they spend during a national disaster. The local American Red Cross chapters do this. The national organization does not provide the resources for this.

If you donate to the American Red Cross, you’re throwing your money away. The money won’t go to the local chapters. It won’t go to rebuild. It won’t go to the victims of the natural disaster. Do not donate to the American Red Cross.
I really can't fathom the dogmatic line on vegans/vegetarians when it comes to insect farming for human consumption...

They talk about it toward 2:20 (I do like how they had a full transcript and ToC so you can jump around in the audio).

In any case, my take away was that because there might be some chance of a "net negative" life for insects in farms, we shouldn't be looking to replace some of our protein needs by insects.

Given the sheer amount of ecological damage that is being done to the planet with each season of industrial animal farming, I really don't understand why we're not looking at lab-grown insects as the MVP for "lab-grown meat".

The problems needing to be solved to make crickets/mealworm protein a scaled operation that could reduce the demand on chicken/beef/pork are much easier than growing meat in a lab (feel pretty confident in this claim, open to rebuttal).

How many cows would be saved every year if just 1 major fast-food burger joint switched to 50/50 mealworm-beef burgers? Would anyone even notice if Taco Bell switched their taco meat to be 50% ground crickets?

What resources are required to make lab grown meat anyways? Where are they sourced from? What habitats are collapsing to provide the necessary solvents/catalysts/preservatives/energy/etc for whatever solutions it needs to grow in? What are the negative externalities of this lab-growing process? What does that look like at the scale necessary to take even 20% of the current beef demand?

We're twisting our britches over what a cricket or mealworm might feel in a factory farm setting, yet they are basically the perfect little machines for turning carbohydrates, water and air into essential human-accessible proteins and vitamins (crickets have a ton of B12, just like red meat). They're the perfect stop-gap solution until the lab meat is ready for prime-time.

Also, insect-farming waste products are typically just great compost and fertilizer and you could basically grow insects underground (mealworms love the dark) and grow their substrate/feed above them. I think calories/acre would be another useful measurement to look at when trying to evaluate which direction human agriculture should be headed.

Alright, TL;DR - Insect farming is low hanging fruit for alleviating the ecological pressure of factory animal farming which is being ignored for no good reason.
/rant
Theroux's got a lot of stuff on YouTube. It may be copyright infringement, I don't know. I do know that it sits there, unchallenged, for years. He has lots of good documentaries up. I highly recommend all of them.
Keys and faces don't really matter. It's a 3-part test.
1. You are a government agent
2. You are on a quest for evidence
3. You are searching in a place where there exists a reasonable expectation of privacy

If all 3 of these are true, you need a warrant (at least in the US). Doesn't matter if the keys, or in this case your face, are right there. The fact that you locked your phone with something the cop doesn't normally have is enough to require a warrant.
Just to really emphasize the point -- the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been essentially disproved. It comes up a lot because it's a very attractive idea, but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

> that doesn't use front, behind, left, right, but the cardinal directions

I can't remember where I saw this (maybe Language Log, consider this "citation needed"), but apparently there are some Polynesian Islanders that use a language with different direction concepts (inwards/outwards maybe?).
Hello?

Everybody is on a Low-Carb, High Protein diet. Of course it's going to suck to grow carbs.
But Amazon Prime Video has been available for iOS devices since at least 2010. You have to buy videos on Amazon’s site though.
You're totally right. We'll update the list of countries that support 2-way messaging in the docs in the next few days. It's ~50 or so.
Thanks to the original comments on the blog for setting this ball rolling. They did not hesitate to call the prof out. I love this kind of freedom and knowledge. Big salute. Also, good investigative journalism.
Pony is a compile to native code actor-based language. It's designed to make it easy to write fast, safe applications. It has a unique type system that enforces data race safety at the type system level while not requiring all data to be copied when sending messages from one actor to another.

I'm going to be doing a post within the next couple monthes about why we selected Pony. And the pains and advantages that we got from using it.

I gave a talk at QCon NY in June that covers some of the ground that the forthcoming post will:

https://www.monkeysnatchbanana.com/2017/09/02/qcon-ny-pony/
Why do I want a wire from me to the TV on the other side of the room? I get that it's authentically retro, but...
I'm thinking this is the answer to the Echo Dot - for the Echo Show lines. The name makes it pretty obvious, as does the price point.

These actually fill my needs better, since I don't need the fancy speakers and these look way slicker. The Echo Show is amazingly ugly. And this is a full $100 cheaper.
Millions of people eat at Sonic?!
> I've seen people's eyes gloss over the same why when saying, "It's just a monad" as when saying "It's just an interpreter pattern".

Same. All we can do is try and change education patterns. Neither are that complex.
In the United States, the Supreme Court does not allow warrantless cell phone searches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_v._California
If you have a rooted phone, there is another option: copying off the sqlite database. At that point you can generate QR codes with a tool like WinAuth. Bit of a pain, but very doable (if you rooted your phone.)

Bypassing this with Authy is generally a better idea.
Why did Chrome make it take an extra step or two to look at the issuer of a certificate?
> Brooks says build the first one to throw away

A great theory, but all too often, companies have a hard time scheduling time for a rewrite, and the hacked-together rough-prototype code gets pushed into production in perpetuity.
> I'm not even male.

I sure do wish I could convince people of this, but getting "they" from folks has been impossible.

> But, alternative thought, maybe the "youth obsession" is also partially created because everybody thinks it exists.

If that's the case than it's much worse than simple bias.
It seems the meat and dairy industry is subsidized by the government. One source[1] quote $38 billion yearly while only $17 million goes to the fruit and vegetable industry (The US).

Shifting subsidies to greener and more ethical industries would be a good start. The "fake-meat" improves all the time and if it actually were cheaper (in-store) than the meat option things could start to happen. Typically that's not the case[2]. Probably due to a combination of scale, subsidies, willingness to pay amongst vegans and health concerned customers and store policy (key product might be sold at very low margins/loss to attract customers)

Estimates of the external cost caused by the meat industry (health, pollution) is also quite high. Special taxes can be used here, while cutting taxes on better products.

[1] https://www.peta.org/living/food/10-things-wish-everyone-kne... (admittingly not the most objective source)

[2] Based on Norwegian stores
> I'm not willing to turn off ad blockers, debug this site, or use a different browser to read the story.

Then don't. What are you complaining about?
There are plenty of uses that don't require you to give them as much trust as people do. I'd never suggest banking on a smartphone, but people do. I'd use a separate email, just for the smartphone. I'd not store medical data on there. I'd not put private data on there.

That doesn't mean they are useless, just that I consider them compromised right out of the box. I treat it accordingly and will recommend others do the same until they are much more secure.

They are great for lots of things. Privacy and security are not among those things.
No kidding! I love J, and I find it very easy to troubleshoot, since it is all within a few lines or a page.
Forth is like that too.
Generally the best comments are to describe "why" (sometimes "how") more than "what".

Of course, good writers know their audience. If that code is somehow strange in its organizational context, a few "what" comments and links to references, documentation, and/or tutorials can be great.
Here's the sequence of events:

1. You're walking, with your phone in your pocket.

2. Suddenly, a cop accosts you. You don't have time to react.

3. They detain and restrain you (with handcuffs or otherwise)

4. They pat you down and find your phone

5. They take your hand and place it on the fingerprint sensor.

Ignoring #2 (and the terrible language you used), I don't see how my scenario is significantly more or less likely than yours.
Ah, this reminds me of the Chumby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby) from 2008, I'm sure with voice recognition and video call capabilities, the Echo is hopefully a bit more useful.
I believe solatic means that once a method to crack Face ID is found, all devices are suddenly at risk.
How do they know exact sizes of the 2 black holes, and the remaining size also? Seems like they say it as 100% truth, which maybe it is, but my uneducated mind cannot think how they could calculate that. Only those sizes fit in the mathematical model of the gravitational waves compared to the observations?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think your comment is saying the hypothesis itself has been disproved, and the parent is referring to a book about the hypothesis with the same name that emphasizes criticisms of that hypothesis. Right?
Probably a lowest cost bidder and not helped by the US devolved government if this had happened in say the UK the papers would have a field day and the government would force the telcos to fix it stat!
US Recorded Music Revenues
> In Europe, people's instincts are 'zero sum game' - someone has wealth because they must have 'taken' it, or one of their ancestors had.

Prosperity, well being, ideas etc. those are not zero sum games, but ownership of things can be, and money kind of always is. The only way (for normal people and corporations) to "make" money is to transfer it from somewhere else, after all.

> The state decides who goes to uni and not by the time you're a young teen - and it's kids of well off parents.

Yes, you have to finish a certain schooling level first, but evening schools etc. do exist. You can get the qualifications to go to uni as an adult, too. I'm not saying the education shouldn't be a lot better, or that rich parents don't try to get their kids into schools with other rich kids and whatnot. But the way you phrased it kind of sounds like the state picks rich kids for uni, and I'd really like to hear more context. Not saying you're wrong, maybe I'm just not aware.
Mine was the "Cherrytrail" model. Not sure which that links to, but it was about $80 USD on Amazon
When I filled GDPR (I was only familiar with the Dutch acronym equivalent, AVG) in Duck Duck Go (non-bubble search engine) I easily figured the meaning. No offense intended.
Well, basically "confirmed", nothing more. Einstein’s theories predicted all this.
Didn't know. Thanks!
I haven't read the book the parent mentioned, I'm not sure what the book contains. But I agree with the parent's "TL;DR: no, language doesn't determine how you see the world." There is a lot of literature on Sapir-Whorf, including many pop linguistics books. Note I'm not a linguist, I just know a few and they're very vocal about this :)
No, felons are absolutely not prohibited from having amateur radio licenses or even being ARRL members.

ARC does not conduct background checks on shelter clients and to do so would almost certainly be found to be against the principle of neutrality, however, shelter clients are asked if they are required to register their location with the government (often because they are registered sex criminals) and there are procedures in place if so (although this is not an easy problem and has caused difficulty in the past).
Gaming is also behind the rise of GPUs and companies like Nvidia, long before Deep Learning became a thing.
Sure, for some people. I'd be surprised if you could unlock my phone with my hand without waking me up (light stomach sleeper).

Honestly, the easiest attack would just be to ask me about my dogs. 99.99% chance I'll unlock my phone, pull up pictures and show them to you (easy grab) or just hand you the phone and let you browse through them.
Could be easily put in a SF novel about 3000 something year and I would not blink.
Electric flight with Wright Electric
Google has a separate, proprietary, obfuscated, binary for iOS.

Amazon can’t exactly use this on their Kindle devices.
serious q: isn't transmission unregulated during emergency situations?
It is trivial to obtain the size of objects, so long as you have some information about a satellite orbiting it.

It's how we get the mass of many interstellar objects, and it's how we know that dark matter exists.

http://astro.physics.uiowa.edu/ITU/glossary/keplers-third-la...
Clever but its just symptomatic of a complete lack of ethical constraints and an all out assault on users rights and privacy.

Its like going to your doc for a checkup only to discover they have stolen your genetic information and peddling it to advertisers without your consent.

10 years ago spyware had meaning, now everyone seems to be building it and worse completely indifferent to ethical questions around harvesting user data and build intrusive profiles.

It's only a matter of time before there is a huge backlash against this rampant unethical behavior by the industry and its clear we need tough regulation and consequences.
It's just a strangely worded way of saying it. You can practice these forms without needing to retire and/or you can continue to practice them for however long you want whenever you retire. And it might not be a matter of starting, if you've already started before you retire.

Many people (myself included) practice yoga and other internal martial arts for at least 1-2 hours a day while also having a full-time job and family.
I think hash index help in join as well. "where table1.c1 = table2.c2" A hash index on c2 would let the join be done in O(n) of c1 + O(1) of c2.