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I use morning train commute time to think of logic instead of actual coding. I usually have a set of tasks I want to work on during the day, and on the train, I'm usually scribbling down algorithmic ideas on a notebook, trying to come up with alternate solutions to different problems and the tradeoffs involved. That way once I'm at work, I can simply get my morning cup of Joe and then get straight to work! Productivity is high for me this way :)

Using a notebook helps me structure my tasks (there is a certain indescribable goodness to actually writing on paper) and avoid more screen time (I spend waaay too much time in front of a screen anyway)
I was wondering the same thing? These are just remote controlled machines. I mean, your average robot vacuum cleaner is more autonomous it seems to me. Is it the fact that it moves on legs instead of wheels?
yeah id say that DHS is bumbling - but I would say that the FAA & NTSB, for all their faults, has a freaking stellar track record.

I admire them, but CMV
Setup is very simple, just 13" MacAir which is my main computer as well (I do have it docked to big monitor and keyboard/mouse on other occasions), there is reliable and fast wifi on our trains so I dont need anything else then seat with a table.

Main thing is knowing what I have to work on that morning, so when I open computer I just jump on writing code and don't have to think about it.

I usually try to do simple things on my commute: maybe little refactoring or trying to replicate some edge case, I rarely do anything complex as my journey is just 30 minutes.
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A major hack like this, in which all planes or even a large percentage of them were vulnerable, could severely constrict the world economy and lead to a stock market crash. It is basically a matter of when, not if that happens.
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That's a different convoy, from Lebanon and it's in southern Syria.
I ended up in a situation like that too, except the update auto-downloaded taking up most of my free space, but not leaving enough to install it. I didn't figure out how to reclaim the space so I spent months stuck without being able to install apps or updates before I gave in and bought a higher end phone.
In old Europe we dug a lot of such old wells from hill tops down to the ground water level during the middle ages. Actually prisoners of war dug most of them. Hundred of meters usually. It secured water from being poisoned with dead animals, the usual tactics then.

Hills in town centers were fortified to withstand longer sieges and rescue the town folks.
Famous is eg. the well at the Königstein castle near Dresden, which was never conquered, with a depth of 152 metres. Such wells needed decades to be built.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_well
Seriously? Isn’t that a very dystopian view of the future?
So there are factors causing suffering and people forget their medication that alleviates that suffering, but the first sane thought in your head should never be 'let's start chipping people and confirm the nightmare scenario of the patients we're supposed to be treating'
Apparently it's not too hard to evaluate the security, it's just costly to publicize it:

> The initial response from experts [I assume in the aerospace industry?] was, “’We’ve known that for years,’” and, “It’s not a big deal,” Hickey said.

> But in March 2017, at a technical exchange meeting, he said seven airline pilot captains from American Airlines and Delta Air Lines in the room had no clue.

> “All seven of them broke their jaw hitting the table when they said, ‘You guys have known about this for years and haven’t bothered to let us know because we depend on this stuff to be absolutely the bible,'” Hickey said.
How do would you recharge the batteries?
Think about the cost of not following up. Personal health, productivity, life quality.

Also here in the Netherlands we have healthcare. I'd rather see these emerging devices offer good warnings to go see a doctor then people not going at all or going to often for every little thing that they feel and googled on the internet because they are to unsure.
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This whole thread is based on an article about Aus. I think it's reasonable to take people's comments in that context unless otherwise specified.
Eric Raymond is not a fan of Rust. See "Rust severely disappoints me"(http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7294). On one level, he's clearly right. Go was designed to be an simple language that is easy to pick up. Rust had a very different design space. On the other hand, when picking a language for your long-term project, I think there are other factors beyond how proficient you can be in your first few days that should come into play.

Personally, I'm not very bullish on Golang moving into the lowest levels of the stack (the space currently dominated by C and C++). It just doesn't seem like an area where the language designers of Golang are interesting in competing. Swift, on the other hand, definitely has aspirations in this area and it is actively being developed by a company that writes a lot of low-level system software.

I think Go, Swift, and Rust each are interesting in their own way and see them jostling to become the next generation of industry standard languages in the next 10 years.
"When Satoshi Nakamoto designed the system, he made the block size of each block in the bitcoin blockchain to be 1MB. There was a very technical reason for why he did this (I’m not going into the details, but it’s to maintain a decentralized control of the system at a high level)"

There is no way to know why the size limit was reduced from 32 MB to 1MB. There was only a commit but not an explanation. Over the years people have come up with different theories including the one that says it was to stop attacks against the network - many of the early blocks are empty and given blockchain is essentially an empty book, people could fill it with garbage data and bloat the size of blocks to size limit of 32 MB.

I thought this part in the cancellation notice somehow pointed to this result -

"As fees rise on the blockchain, we believe it will eventually become
obvious that on-chain capacity increases are necessary. When that happens,
we hope the community will come together and find a solution, possibly with
a blocksize increase. Until then, we are suspending our plans for the
upcoming 2MB upgrade."
I think this is a great feature provided Apple won't collect the data.

[edit]
Btw, I really don't mind getting down voted, but would appreciate to see your opinion on why you think Apple collecting that data is a good idea.
No, the OP means any new phone will just be obsolete again in a couple of years, so why bother if their current obsolete phone is good enough anyway.
It is maintained by Red Hat (and it's the suggested OTP soft token for RH employees).
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I use my train commute each way to nap as well. I don't think it's a terrible thing. Unfortunately having a long commute means less time either at home after work to unwind or less time to sleep. So I just try to catch up a bit. Plus it helps recharge me mentally, so that's good.
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Banks add money to the money supply daily. Money that didn't exist before a loan is approved suddenly appears out of thin air, due to the fractional reserve system. Billions of dollars in loans are created every single day in this way, and even before they are paid, more is created. Where is the inflation? Instead, we live in a deflationary world. Countries, through their development banks do exactly the same. No inflation is created because of this, stop believing in what has been proven untrue.
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Fully agreed. Running a smartphone and worrying about its security seems at odds. Rather, we should treat our "phablets" like public, insecure terminals, with "spy" sensors anyone can access given sufficient effort.
One fact I was not completely aware about: Even if you have updated your Android device with a Custom ROM (e.g. Lineage/Cyanogen) to a newer Android Version you most likely still have an old Kernel.

So yes, I am very happy that I can still run Android 7.1.2 on my 5 year old S3, but at the same time it runs on a 3.0 Linux kernel which was originally release in July 2011. As far as I know, that is because some drivers (e.g. the graphics driver) are closed source and are only available as binaries. Therefore, they were never properly integrated into the Linux kernel source and when the kernel changes nobody cares about them.

Yes, I know about the discussion about stable ABIs, but even with a stable ABI, I would still be stuck with an outdated buggy graphics drivers, because the kernel developers only care about source they can access.

To sum it up: I would like to have a product which does not only have an up-to-date userland software, but also a more or less current kernel.
I've been doing this for nearly five years now, so I've gradually built up a system that works for me. Usually I'll use one of two devices:

* Asus Chromebook Flip (C100PA)

* iPad Pro 10.5 with keyboard cover

When I'm developing, I use ssh or mosh to access my workstation in the office and then tmux+vim. Mosh works pretty great with poor connectivity. I've pretty much mentally mapped the signal quality along my route, so I know when to look out the window for a couple of minutes to wait for signal to come back...

When I'm not developing, I'm usually using Gmail+Google Docs/Sheets/etc to get stuff done. They all work relatively well offline/online.

For connectivity, I use a Raspberry Pi Zero with a 4G data stick as a WiFi hotspot (the on-train WiFi is terrible, and tethering to my phone kills the phone battery way too quickly). That setup can run for 6-8 hours on a little Anker USB battery pack.
This seems like an egregiously fearmongering article. Notice that it never actually says what the hackers accomplished, what controls they were able to access, or what impact it would have. All it says is they they accomplished "a penetration", and a really vague sentence saying "you can guess what we did" (aka: we want people to assume the worst even though that may not be the case).

We've known for awhile that avionic systems are vulnerable. Anyone working in the cyber space that has half a brain will tell you that any system can be hacked, and there's no reason to think that airplanes are the exception.

However, there's no reason to believe that any airplanes are currently in any danger. Modern aircraft do not have any systems that allow "remote control" of the aircraft. It's not like a hacker could use an RF penetration to shut down engines or cause a plane to crash into a mountain. The worst I can imagine them doing is confusing the navigation system or impersonating air traffic controllers, but at that point the pilots in the cockpit would still be able to safely fly the plane without issue.
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Dell laptop w/mobile broadband sim. Docking station at work.

Old Bose QC headset or just the headset that came with my phone.

3M screen filter (I'm not the only programmer on that train.)

I can get up to around >1 hour productive work depending on the task at hand.
Well OK, but first maybe they might want to stop using name that's not theirs.
It's not a "narrow mindset", but a formal basis that fosters analysis.

It's true that drive by black hats could be looking to snarf up all the personal information they can, and selling it into the corporate surveillance databases. I just think it's less likely than they're looking for a quick hit to defraud some banks.

It's not a matter of "paranoia" (there we go again with the handwavey maligning subjectivity!), but of looking at the outcomes. It's paradoxical - the things we think of as "bad" really are not that worrisome, because the shared goal is to correct them. Meanwhile the things we think are "just the way it is" form an insidious creeping trend.

I have very little fear of say my bank account being drained, because if that actually were to happen, then we're in general agreement that it will be made right - from bank policy on up to common law. Whereas if my de-facto mandatory insurance rates mysteriously double, there is both little immediate recourse and many people will even argue in support based on the just world fallacy!
https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03385 Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition Citation 4000+. Milestone of image recognition.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01852 Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification. Also known as PreLU, citation 1600+. The initialization scheme is widely adapted by a lot of following works.

Those are the most influential ones, all come from Kaiming He. He is now in FAIR, and keeps very good publication record, with works like MASK-RCNN, but that doesn't really count as purely Chinese contribution, so we skipped here.

Some recent memory:
1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06211

2. https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01507

3. https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01083

4. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.06993

5. https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01088

Those are all good papers.
Some of us just don't care that much about the newest fastest shiniest thing, or if we do, we care more about all the money spent and/or physical waste that goes into churning through devices all the time.

If companies are dropping support after two years and forcing users to buy a new device or face major security issues, I say the complaints shouldn't be directed at the users not constantly buying new devices, but at the companies creating devices with such a short planned obsolescence.
There is no such thing.

Cessna makes light attack aircraft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_A-37_Dragonfly) and variants of its unarmed aircraft for tasks like forward air control and reconnaissance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_O-2_Skymaster)

Beechcraft (formerly a Raytheon subdivision) makes utility aircraft (usually variants of civilian models), trainers, and target drones. They also have a light attack variant (AT-6) of one of their trainers, which as far as I know has not managed to get adopted; and have proposed a from-scratch jet-powered light attack aircraft as part of a USAF competition.

EDIT: And they also use this class of commercial jetliners; the main USAF mid-air refueler is a 767 variant, and the military has a dozen or so C-40s (a 737 variant) for logistics and airborne command posts.
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It's my most productive coding time!

XPS 13 9360 which has great battery time and a form factor of 11" but a monitor of 13". I also have an unlimited cellular internet plan that I use for ssh and rdp. It helps that I know vim well enough that I can code adequately on a remote machine if needed.

I just ordered this week a mobile charging station so I should even have more juice.
no, this seems to be all:
https://www.facebook.com/harvardunion/posts/1498854990434255

and this:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/10/07/harvar...
I've been in a non-tech work environment (specifically, publishing) where management followed this philosophy. In that case it yielded a disgruntled workforce with terrible leadership who were variously ignored and exploited by the divas. Ultimately the place would have done better with a boatload of knaves and no more than 2 divas.
Sudbury and Montessori schools offer a model that seems to encourage students to learn at their own pace

Provides a positive feedback loop that seemed to have positive results in the real world as well
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As another comment mentions; security is not binary.

Binary Security is a sign you failed at security. You can be not secure at all, somewhat secure, etc, against a set of threat models or anywhere in between those steps.

Whether or not you have properly prepared against a threat model and you are confident in defending against it is a binary property (or rather, two binary properties) but the underlying security is not.
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> Machines to diagnose apnea have lots of sensors including electrodes, "chest-band" pulsometers, and "saturationmeters".

It seems like a fallacy to claim that since diagnosis required complicated equipment in the past, that it will be necessary going forward. Machine learning is going to make tons of current diagnostic equipment look archaic in comparison.

> I have asked doctors about capabilities of smart devices for apnea control or detection, all I got was laughs.

Medical doctors are rarely up to date on the latest technology. I wouldn't be surprised if my doctor has never heard the term machine learning before in his life.

Also, their livelihood kind of depends on this technology not being available. Just food for thought.
This actually blow my mind. Here's the gist:

The issue was found last year but the response of "experts" was that it was known issue? But then turns out pilots didn't know about this. To top it, there is no concept of patching and cost of change per line is $1 million along and will take years to implement.

Such critical infrastructure but so poorly maintained. I wonder what is the excuse?
oooh thats gotta suck, my whole world uses crypto in the digital asset context
There is a shortage of trades workers, and it's only going to get worse because the bulk of the workers are currently older and are retiring much, much faster than they are being replaced. We are just at the beginning of a crises level shortage. Labor prices will continue to rise and this will be absorbed by everyone.
Productivity is not the end all measure for the society. Suppose the Moser productive society would be made out of robots working 24/7 at high efficiency. Is that superior to a society where "inefficient" research happens?

Likewise GDP (even PPP) does not matter if it is distributed highly unequally. You get a handful of people with huge economic power, that's it.

Albeit in the case of Germany you're somewhat right (protectionism mostly designed to force manufacturing to happen locally), US productivity has not brought improved living standards where it should have.
I'm skeptical about the accuracy of applications like this running on Apple Watch. I bought the Apple Watch Series 3 precisely because of articles like this. I now routinely get messages about how I've achieved my standing goal - while lying in bed watching TV or working on my laptop. If it can't accurately tell whether you're lying down or standing, it is unimaginable to me that it could be remotely accurate in detecting far more complex conditions.
Just a nit: beer never had loads of NO2. So-called "nitro" pours are pushed with nitrogen gas (N2), not NO2. This is a good thing, since NO2 is rather toxic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_dioxide
I'd like to propose an alternative: doing nothing. That works best when you are at window-side and watching the views. When I had 2 hours of roundtrip commute back in 2000, the travel itself was extremely soothing and mind healing. I think it worked pretty much like meditation. I used to think about the work, code, new ideas and they faded into other thoughts, then drift away. I didn't have a cell phone to distract me either.

We normally don't give our brains some idle thinking time. I think it's helpful in organizing thoughts, achieving peace of mind, reducing anxiety, improving creativity. Long commutes are perfect for that.
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Unless you have a heart murmur like I do.

Then: it just lies.
I love coding on a train (long-distance, rather than short commute). The whole concept of being productive WHILE also being transported is somehow very energizing.

I use an MBP 15", typically using train-wifi or tethering to my phone (4G subscription with unlimited data (and no throttling) for $35/month (299 SEK)). However, I try to optimize to not depend too much on wifi, just in case.

Overall I've tried to optimize my workflow to just use my MBP 15" instead of being dependent on an external monitor, external keyboard, etc. Does really help when traveling and avoiding office to be productive.
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I'd love to be able to do this, however ever since I was young I've found that I get motion sickness when I focus on a book/screen while travelling.

I don't generally get this effect when just being a passenger. I can travel for literally days in a car (or hours on a train) without feeling ill, but the second I look down to focus on some text, my stomach turns. User interfaces in the vehicle (such as the head-unit's screen, or the dashboard displays) don't do this to me, nor do things like posters on the train wall. It's only when I look down and focus on something close to me.

Does anyone else find this? What do you do about it (other than, you know, just not looking at small print when travelling)?
They are rising all across the country because there is a big shortage, and it's only going to get worse. Boomers are retiring faster than they are being replaced.

Optimum employment? When someone wants to get a project built in Portland Oregon the wait time this past year was about 3 months until you were lucky enough to land a contractor. Contractors can't find enough skilled help so everything takes longer.
we did have physics to help build those machines, models that describe the world in which planes can fly.

we are lacking 'mind physics' at the moment, all we have is brute force trial and error
Refs might be but they aren't inherent to GC, you can have Refs without GC.

I would love to see a benchmark of GC vs non-GC using the same compiler and language for an accurate comparison. Probably also GC vs non-GC naive vs non-GC optimized.
The same problem occurs with avg pooling. Strided conv also allows to "pool" neurons in the layer below to reduce the number of neurons in subsequent layers, but, in practice, deeper neurons then also have trouble learning precise representations of the locations of the things below (but much more info is retained compared to avg/max pooling). Capsules can presumably learn such things much more accurately because they can, in principle, learn precise geometric mappings to infer positions independently of the viewpoint. However, the results so far are not much better than scalar output neurons. Capsules do perform a bit better in terms of robustness against adversarial examples and overlapping objects.
Yes, with good results. Anything specific you're curious about?
>OCaml seems to perform worse than Go in most interesting singlethreaded cases

Could you provide an example?
"Thank you for having me senators, we were able to maintain a .... presence ... on the aircraft remotely."

Later that day

"l33t h4xx0r buxx for ODNI, Shadowbrokered the sht out of Congress w00t w00t"

really guys thats what just happened, this is how they get down in intelligence
Then what do you do at the boundaries? In their example, a single battle raging across adjacent areas.
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listening to the sound of your programs and data at a few hundred (dozens?) bytes per second :)
Might by survivorship bias. You only remember old furniture that survived long enough for you to see it...
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In a supposed American model this means there should be more competition, right?
And the companies will be happy to pay those increased wages to US workers?

(I'm being facetious devil advocate here.)
Wow! Does that include the sintering equipment?