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This is why I am not a fan of some of the extremist views on Free Open Source movements. There is a world where you need to work in both proprietary and open source. Just as we work real jobs and may also volunteer on our time off. Open source isn't intended for people to make their living and income from. It's meant to be a sort of volunteer work or otherwise for gratis. In other words, done for the greater good of society. You still have to have a working job in a commercial business whether as an employee or as business owners.

I've heard sentiments demonizing commercial business and business activity where they're trying to earn an income from the work. Duh. Businesses have to legally pay for the hours employees worked. It's not optional. There is no such thing as volunteering for a for-profit entity. It is not legal. If an employee worked on a project of your business, you have to pay for it. If you object to the employee spending too much time, then you may have to consider laying off that employee, terminating that employee's employment, or shifting them down to part-time status or otherwise make decisions to control or limit hours spent. Sometimes, employees are salaried to a level where overtime rates no longer apply and they are paid a fixed salary whether they work 40 hours a week or they work 100 hours a week.

When I look at WebAssembly, this is a system that can facilitate various interests of proprietary works but also if you want to open source something, you can release it in a similar manner as other open-source software where you have a binary release and also the source. Provide a link for people to download the source code if they so want it.

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> ESP8266 is fine with 5V

Yes and no. ESP8266 would typically survive 5V applied on any pin, and sometimes even sort-of work with 5V power applied (although with much higher power consumption and no WiFI).

But there is a catch. Pretty much all CMOS chips (ESP8266 inclided) have body diodes from each IO pin to power/ground. This means - you can't have voltage higher than VCC+0.6v or lower than GND-0.6v on any pin. So what happens when you have ESP8266 powered from 3.3v and connected to 5V I/O is - ESP will get (partially) powered via I/O pin. Depending on what 5V part is connected to that I/O, that might be bad for that part (excess of I/O sink current). And in extreme cases (5V I/O pin that can deliver high current, or ESP is in deep sleep), this will supply current into 3.3V VCC rail, bringing it up as high as 5 - 0.6 = 4.4v potentially. Which could be bad for anything else on that rail.

As a practical example - let's say we have ESP8266 powered by a switching supply with MP2307DN [1] chip delivering 3.3v, and connected to a 5v AVR. In normal operation, ESP takes ~70mA, which exceeds 40mA driving capability of AVR, so it's all good [2]. However once ESP8266 goes to deep sleep, all 40mA from AVR's I/O go via ESP's body diode back to MP2307DN switch, which usually would fail catastrophically and end up shorting input to output, supplying 12 (or whatever the input is) volts to ESP's VCC. Which is likely to fail as well, sending 12v further and frying the whole thing.

[1] MP2307DN is widely and cheaply available on "Mini360 DC-DC buck convertor" boards and it really doesn't like current being back-fed into its output

[2] Except I/O drive transistor in AVR is overloaded, which might or might not lead to its failure eventually.
"allegedly involved"? He was caught bang to rights guarding the explosives under the House of Lords.

The recent BBC 3-part series about it is a good potted history http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05j1bc9 It also stars Jon Snow from Game of Thrones (Kit Harington). Spoiler: He dies again!
If people are having trouble putting their carry-on bags in the overhead storage, the bags are either too big or too heavy, or both. They should have been spotted by the crew and told to gate check their bags and probably pay an over-size fee.

If people would actually respect the size and weight limits, and realize that you can also put bags underneath the seat in front, it wouldn't be an issue.
>First of all it's too loaded and it doesn't seem to work at all without Javascript enabled.
with noscript turned on, quant.com redirects me to lite.quant.com

>Second, no easy way to add it in my Firefox search engine list. This is really something obvious they should fix, come on.
I see a green plus in the corner of the magnifying glass icon in the search box and when you click it, at the bottom of the search engines I have installed I see "Add quant."
The internet is full of data you can use. Just crawl it, like everyone does. There are thousands of open datasets, some gigantic in size. If you have sensors (camera, GPS, orientation, etc) you can generate a shitload of data. If you can create a game that is related to the data you want to collect, then you can collect data for 'free'.

On the other hand, think about it: what do Google and FB have that we don't? Personal data. What they have is data that is useful to target ads. If your interest in AI goes beyond ads, then you don't need that data.
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The title is "First-ever fiber optic cable between U.S. and India via Brazil and South Africa". You explain the individual segments. I still don't see the appeal of the entire route.
Maybe I don't want to release source inadvertently without appropriate license. Maybe I don't want people to do with my code however they want without some stipulations or restrictions. There are reasons for anything.

Sometimes people are a little cavalier and think it is just public domain and they can legally do whatever they want.

In my opinion, I don't want some artificial force forcing my work to be effectively public domain without my approval. If I use some part that is GPL then it is an approval that any part subjected to GPL must follow the GPL but I wouldn't necessarily want everything to be auto-assumed.

Websites under law in many countries are automatically copyrighted by virtue of the Berne Convention and international treaties and inter-nation policies and agreements regarding copyright. Therefore, even if the source is visible, copying parts of if not significant portions of a website maybe a copyright violation. A web-based video game (site and video game service) for example as well as the overall business websites and other portions of a website is usually copyrighted yet people often steal or plagiarize or otherwise disregard the copyright because they don't care. If it is easy for them to re-implement, they will do so. Mix, advance client-side and advance server side elements will help impede full copying over because they don't get all of the pieces to successfully duplicate your work.

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Video game industry is pushing these tactics to new heights with loot box gamification, even better the target consumers are young, mentally underdeveloped children who are much easier to addict to gambling. China/Japan have regulated these practices for years already (with minimal effectiveness because money wins and publishers have found loopholes), but at least they're trying. Over here we just let companies go to town on our youth, mental health and stability be damned.

They are printing money at the expense of hooking children into gambling. This is no different than tobacco companies targeting children with advertisement which was rightfully outlawed. - Corporations encouraging and nourishing gambling addiction in underage consumers (with the help of trained psychologists) for profit is despicable. Don'tunderstand why more people aren't upset about this.
I thought that the point of a liberal arts education was 'knowing how' to live a good life, and then possibly knowing how to communicate effectively through speech and the written word.

One of the most cutting arguments I've heard from liberal arts education advocates is that STEM extremists want to turn college into a high-level trade school.
It's not just micro-controllers that are amazing: using a cheap phone can give you a screen, a battery, 3G & sensors.
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Cyber Security Threats to Businesses
For a business, it is quite critical mitigating the cyber security threats that may affect organisation’s goodwill or businesses financially. An enterprise and its top management should be well aware of taking necessary actions.

Misuse of Company Assets:

It is very common that employees maliciously misuse the company assets, which remains an on-going threat to the organisation. Such misuses occur during the normal course of duties being performed by the employees, which is difficult to prevent. Monetary personal gains inspire guilty employees performing such acts irrespective of any cadre i.e. from top executives to the lowest level...

Read full news here ==> http://www.thepsi.com/cyber-security-threats-to-businesses/
I've lucked out with my carry-on bag, it's only 1.8kg (3.9lbs) despite the wheels, and the handle doesn't intrude too much.

The wheels on two-wheeled models don't intrude very much, I would definitely avoid the 4-wheeled models, you lose so much space to those caster wheels.

I thought about getting a backpack, but my back gets sweaty within a few minutes of walking with it.
It's like switching from Assembler to C or Python. You don't need to do a lot of the tedious low level stuff by hand any more, and probably the computer can do it better than you. This will make AI more accessible, not less.
Because a search engine must run on the widest array of web browsers possible. For being a European search engine and based in France to boot, they should very well be aware of platforms which have minimal or no JavaScript support in their web browsers, like for example the classic AmigaOS. If someone with a platform like that tries to use their search engine to perhaps find a JavaScript enabled client, they couldn’t. Lots of TV sets nowadays have built-in web browsers with no or incomplete JavaScript support, as another example.

However the worst offense is that JavaScript is utterly unnecessary in a web search application, so that would be introducing an artificial dependency, one of the worst crimes in software development. Software should be designed with minimal dependencies it needs to do the job and the extras should be the users’ choice. Developers who made this choice for users historically lost their user base as soon as a competing application which had less dependencies showed up; there is a lesson to be learned from that.
I spoke too loosely here. What I mean to say is that, even if the First Amendment didn’t exist, the President must obviously be immune from any restriction on any of his speech that would be even a barely plausible basis for making policy, persuading voters and other elected officials, exercising his authority over the executive branch (especially the parts closest to him), wielding the country’s international leverage. His immunity probably cuts into some areas currently prohibited despite the First Amendment as well, like obscenity, some kinds of financial crimes (e.g. improper disclosures about public companies), workplace harassment, discrimination in hiring and managing the White House Office and cabinet, etc.

He can of course be impeached for any of those things. The President can be impeached for any reason. The only real requirement is that 1/2 of the House and 2/3 of the Senate agree to it. They are the only and final arbiters of impeachment.
> If you jump jobs every year or every two-three years, companies that value stability would never consider you

And that would be which companies exactly?
Actually, three times, since you still need to go to your destination. They have you over a barrel.
I find that proper IDE (intellij for example) is way better for statically typed languages, not so much for dynamic ones
Travelled in the US earlier this year on 3 regional carriers. I realise this is only an anecdote, but I was surprised by a number of things:

- tickets stated as direct included a hidden stop and change of plane.

- there was an extra charge for a checked bag.

- the checked bag was promptly lost on my first flight and returned to me after 5 days.

- on one united flight, we had to wait on the tarmac for 1hr45 min while a guy sat each wing of the plane in turn refuelling it with a gas-pump style hose through a port on the wing. This was because the central rapid-fuelling system on the plane was broken.

- interior of aircraft was shabby. In one plane they had retrofitted LED lighting in the cabin, but it was too narrow and so exposed hull insulation and other structures in the gap.

- seats felt much closer together than usual. What on earth do you do if you're above average height in the US?

- price! Unbelievably expensive to fly between cities in the US. In SE Asia or Europe I have travelled between similar sized cities and similar distances for well under half the price in the US and at shorter notice.

What ever the airlines may tell you in the US, from the perspective of an outsider, I'm pretty sure they're ripping you off!

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Hey Omar, let me know if you require some help on QA side i should be able to help you out.
For googlers, how does this differ from datalore.io?
They are abusing kids to get their money printed
Job hopping could harm one in the future, it can raise some red flags.
It’s Not Too Soon to Debate Gun Control
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That's the wrong focus. You're trying to reverse engineer success. Start from the bottom. Have a problem you want to solve with software. Then gather people together to solve that problem together, create a product out of the solution, market it and sell it.
AT&T Joins the Open-Source Artificial-Intelligence Arms Race
You have to do PoW when submitting a transaction. So DDOSing will not be trivial.
How to Combat Workplace Stress and Become More Productive
General A.I. building general A.I. would be frightening, yes. That isn't what this article is about. We're still just talking about ML image classifiers here.
That's an awful font.
Numbeo is an important site to keep in mind. It really makes a difference in decision making what the goals are :) Berlin is an interesting, exciting city with lots of potential. I have a friend who lived in Dubai for 10 years and he now moves back to Hungary. Another friend left Dubai after a few months, he said that place is nuts.
Saudi Arabia’s unprecedented shake-up
It's only creepy when your employer does it, not when your social media platform does ;)
Since these projects are merely for recreation, why are you trying to juggle them? Don't. Just focus on one at a time. Reach the point you want to reach and then move onto the next. You will make more progress this way too. Context switching has a lot of cognitive costs. Focus!
Why wait for the rest of humanity? I decided to try out universal timekeeping myself. I'm setting my clocks to UTC (GMT). My calendar is next..
Web hosted version of Signal-Desktop
The Suez canal is full of fibre optic cables [1], don't think reliability is a big issue.

Latency through existing cables US<->Europe<->India is likely lower.

[1] https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
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Can you give an example of a random error message where the results do not match?
We hit a nice little trap while booking our tickets for Christmas (Copenhagen to Stuttgart). The outgoing flight was Lufthansa "Economy Basic", which includes checked luggage. But the return flight was "Economy Light", which doesn't include checked luggage.

Since we would actually like to take our bags home with us, it effectively added a hidden fee on top of the original price, just so it would show as "luggage included" in the aggregator.
looks promising, qwanting 'java concurrency' gives a nice set of relevant results
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Europe is so much behind the US in the IT-Sector.

Isn’t that a sad truth, only made worse by the irony that a lot of us went to work in the States. A lot of Europe is still conceptually stuck in the pre-UNIX, lone desktop Windows/MS-DOS, early ’90’s era, while the rest of the world runs them by with macOS PC’s and iPads. Lots of European UNIX talent left for the States right at the cusp of the dot-com era and helped build the Internet because that’s where all the action was. We never really recovered from that.
Thanks, "lite" should be the default really. Much better.

I don't see that green plus you are talking about, I stared and stared.
“Happy Birthday Virat” was trending before the clock Struck 12
Robot-assisted surgery associated with longer operating times, higher cost
Oh cmon
Introduction to React VR
I wonder how hard it would be to ship tor as a bundle with qemu and a very thin Linux image that provided just enough functionality to run it, then when you click on the start icon, it opens the emulator, which opens up the browser in a environment that's thin enough you don't even really need to pay attention to it because you've just got a window containing window containing your browser. With the right wm inside, you wouldn't even need that; it just happens that this browser window is actually running inside of the VM that shows up on your physical system.
More Perfect:  Citizens United
Sadly, the article does disservice to a lot of actual mechanics of the industry. And the amount of hard work that goes on to actually makes these games addictive. It is not for no reason that these are called one-armed bandits.

* This industry is highly regulated; but it rarely does help those really in need. If the regulations were very strictly implemented (player wager limits, player time controls, self-regulation), none of the gambling / gaming companies would make any money. For eg: the wager limit are compulsory to be implemented on a daily / weekly / monthly basis; however these numbers are so high, that it rarely makes sense but for the most serious addicts

* Most of the victims are from the already high-risk demographics, as is with tobacco, alcohol, payday loans and drug abuse, the low income, unstable jobs, low literacy, blue collar jobs or are already on social support. The offers by data-analysis is always to target them. I think most of the time - these addicts are just there to get that one chance to make a big win (which almost never happens).

* Near miss is a very old tactic. The interplay of sounds, music, imagery has been very well polished to really give a feel of high end experience (vs plain gameplay). Gamble rounds (double or nothing) at the end of a game are targeted at those twitchy fingers.

* Slot machines work at payouts of 94% - 97% (ie when wagering 1000$ the player will only get 94 - 97$) on a long timeline. So yes, the house edge is quite small. What is problematic is not the money lost but the fact that addiction over a long time, is definitely at the cost of a small fortune.

* I am pretty sure no one has any idea why some slots work and some don't. When they do work, they earn the makers millions though.

However, whenever such numbers come up, I am always sure that these tactics are no different from any industry that is fighting for coveting the attention of the user. I am pretty sure Facebook (or Zynga) has a bigger data science time and data analysis team that these casino companies have to identify the psyches of players and customize the experience to the users / players.

* Disclosure: I have worked in the technical design & implementation of these games.
This is a fantastic article, a thesis-length piece of work covering the subject from every possible angle. And it's all on a single page, not an ad-encumbered pagethrough like some review sites.

Ecosystem is an interesting area. It seems that everyone has converged on Eclipse, which is probably better than trying to write their own environment but can still be infuriatingly clunky at times.

I'm impressed with the breadth of this review and the commitment to including everything that fits in the $1 parameter - which is now quite a lot, I hadn't expected to see Cypress PSOC there.
Ah, that's very informative, thank you.
How Chief Justice John Roberts Orchestrated the Citizens United Decision (2012)
The Facebook feed is necessarily long (in fact infinite) and low-density, so scrolling it is a necessity.

But individual entries are definitely advanced examples of "above the fold" design that is good for advertisements, not for pages.
| On the other hand, think about it: what do Google and FB have that we don't? Personal data. What they have is data that is useful to target ads.

Yeah ? like the tons of photos they harvest from people. Most of the progress they did in training computer vision is based on that. Should I build facebook or google to get access to it ?

What about language modeling ? They have access to conversational data and billions of search queries, both of which there is no way to access them from outside.

What about health ? Well if I'm not somehow working with some big pharma how could I access this kind of data ?

I can go on and on. The point is, yes I can crawl the web, but what "web" is there left ? everything is locked behind paywalls and private clouds. If the real vision of an open internet was fulfilled, all data generated on it would be accessible to crawl indeed.

I'm not saying it's not possible to get data and use it. I'm saying you cannot get the kind of data only monopolies have and you will never be able to compete with them.
If a workplace implemented this, this would create anxiety in their workers causing them to leave.
Why I Swapped My Doctor for an App
I think your points are correct but there's another which you might be disregarding and which is causing GP poster's feelings: The volume of knowledge to be learned if you want to do anything meaningful from anywhere near 'first principles' is orders of magnitude greater than it used to be. If you just want to be cutting edge using a "magical API" then sure, download Keras or TensorFlow and play with some DNNs. But if you want to understand everything you're doing at the theory level then you've got to learn so much more than you did back in the 90s.
Alex Tapscott's crypto VC firm aborts public listing after falsehoods revealed
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For developers, information breadth and quality was excellent when I first onlined in '98, and has improved by leaps and bounds year by year.

For other stuff, I agree with that OP article, that was a uniquely rich caleidoscope that got "blandened" (now lost/gone/fully-transitioned) as the types of folks who'd craft such little labour-of-love sites mostly did so for lack of easier / more-convenient options that soon popped up first with prefab forums and prefab Wordpress / Blogger, then Tumblr/Medium/social-media.
As far as I know, Google isn't very accurate with Chinese content.
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