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Yes, computers are not Turing machines but finite state machines. But in practice, this is not very useful since the number of states of a computer is huge, so, Turing machine is a good model for computers. In math, we're not interested in physical objects but models and it turns out the study of Turing machines can be applied to physical computers. When you think of computer, you do not think it as finite state machine, but as a Turing machine. Maybe if you had a machine with 1KB memory, you could think it as a finite state machine, if it's more useful.

Another thing is, most algorithms people deal with are O(1) since people are interested in ints which can represent -2^63 to 2^63-1. But this is just an abuse of terminology, an algorithm that tries all 2^64 combinations would be a very impractical O(1) algorithm. So, we instead use a different model, and pretend integers are arbitrarily long and their length is O(logn) bits. This is now a better model for physical computers.
First ever cross-chain swap between Bitcoin/Litecoin
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John McClane: Come on. Government's gonna have dozens of departments dedicated to that shit!

Matt Farrell: It took FEMA five days to get water to the Superdome.
The new Facebook may be kinder and gentler and not designed to exploit you.

The killer feature may be that it does not exploit your human flaws.

People are always surprised what new needs we have for technology. Now we need software and services that respect us as humans.
The answer really depends on what kind of software development you're doing. So much of the software development that most recent, modern, web (or ML\data-science) focused developers do only works in a Unix environment that it might as well be impossible (even though things have improved greatly) to make software in Windows. As this kind of software development encompasses all work that happens at SV tech startups and most of the work at most big tech companies, most developers will not be exposed to other workflows. Game development, real-time graphics (most PC demos are Windows only), enterprise desktop software development, and I imagine a few other niches, are generally only possible or much better on Windows. For example good luck building and running a console game on Mac OS X or even Linux, even if the tooling and the OS running on the console is sometimes Unix based (Clang and BSD in the case of PS4 for example).
We're talking CPU idle and hibernate being nearly essentially the same. Instant.
I predict it will be a remake, or a prequel, or a sequel, or a teenage-comic spinoff.

In other words, a frothy flick that is meaningless except as a source of teenage-male cash.
What a trash article. Its a puff opinion piece on the writers agenda with little credible comment.

I presume the people who upvoted this garbage either upvoted for the word tom clancy.
> Netflix has peering agreements with Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and a lot more

Comcast's anticompetitive rent seeking behavior was a strategy of deliberately degrading Netflix's network access to Comcast customers to the point where Netflix was forced to pay Comcast or start losing customers.

This is the EXACT reason we we need better net neutrality protections, so that this type of oligopolic rent-seeking behavior is illegal.

>Comcast was the first large terminating access network to successfully implement a “congest transit pipes” peering strategy to extract direct payment from Netflix, but it is not the only one to do so. Since agreeing to pay Comcast, Netflix also has agreed to pay TWC, AT&T and Verlzon for interconnection. [Redacted section.] Netflix is not the only edge provider to encounter Comcast’s peering strategy. In a 2011 filing with the Commission, Voxel, a hosting company relying on Tata for interconnection with Comcast’s network, noted that “[w]here broadband ISPS typically ensure that links connecting their customers to outside networks are relatively free from congestion, Comcast appears to be taking the opposite approach: maintaining highly-congested links between its network and external ISP.” The letter concludes that Comcast, through its “interconnection relations,” had “deployed an ecosystem in which hosting companies such as Voxel are effectively forced to pay Comcast to serve its broadband subscribers.”
https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...

> It really doesn't matter. Since NN really only matters in the content delivery game this is just more directly giving ISPs what they've been asking for. It might make some people feel better but it's still a surcharge for competing video services.

What are you talking about? Charging customers more to a specific streaming provide is anti-competitive since they are at a disadvantage compared to other streaming providers. Charging customers more to access any streaming provider directly benefits Comcast's competing cable bundles and is also anti competitive.

Network neutrality is important for all kinds of stuff. From allowing the development of new P2P protocols, to the experience people have on different websites. Latency in browsing has a HUGE effect on how people perceive the comparative quality of sites.

>> In what way...

>Because it's still just as political,

You said it was NOT POSSIBLE, please back that up. Nothing you have said about negotiating peering agreement negotiationss and network interconnections makes dumb pipes not possible.
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> Train stations are in prime locations

In Japan, in general, the closer your land is to the station, the more expensive it is. So, therefore, the stations are on the most expensive land of each area. ;)

Population density is also proportional, a lot of times, to the distance to the nearest station.
If the non-NN techniques are faster, but the NN techniques are more accurate, couldn't they be combined to provide both speed and accuracy?

Use the NN to find the faces, and the non-NN to track faces once the NN has found them, and use the NN to periodically check to see that the non-NN is still locked on.
Python gilectomy seems to be unlikely to happen
I don't have the time at the moment to check whether or not Apple uses this approach, however, Google went about solving offline-functionality in a clever way.
https://research.googleblog.com/2015/07/how-google-translate...
No wonder the north is angry. Here’s a plan to bridge the bitter Brexit divide
Did you just in a very roundabout way equate libertarians with fascists?
When you have a cache, and even a resultset you're going to get discrepancies between your program state and the database state. If you need to maintain one side over the other that is where locking the records come into play.

I find it a bit disappointing in the Java world owned currently by Oracle why the they haven't added extensions to the language so I can write bloody SQL statement and PL/SQL procedures naively in the language!
What's the physics justification for doing a backflip? Obviously it's scripted, the same way a gymnast's tumble is scripted. The robot isn't sentiently deciding that it wants to do some flips today. The interesting part is that it is capable of doing the flip.
One: you have a long row to hoe before asserting that the Washington Post supplies "liberal-friendly news." They may (I would say do) have a moderately liberal-friendly editorial board. Much as the WSJ may (and again, I would say does) have an extremely conservative-friendly editorial board. To conflate the editorial board and reporting is, frankly, either disingenuous or bordering on it.

Two: you have an even longer row to hoe to tie together buying one paper and buying as many TV stations as one can to blanket an area. We all know about what Sinclair's up to--given the levels of handwringing put out by the folks on Pai's side of the aisle about the (non-existent, but whatever) suppression of right-wing speech, maybe the notion of choking off differing voices under the Sinclair umbrella rings just a little bit hollow?
It'd be nice if SQL Management Studio and Visual Studio from the same generations were based upon the same platform, although I can understand why that's difficult and why SQLMS lags behind. I did get a little sick of having VS 2010 components kicking around for years after I'd moved on.
What I'd like to know is if any other place is substantially different. I lived in Texas for a while, and met relatively few people who behaved like stereotypical Texans.

I live in Wisconsin, and it is a divided state. There is heavy racial segregation, plus strong red/blue and city/rural divisions. That makes it pretty hard to identify a single unifying culture.

Perhaps all the Midwest lacks is branding.
The whole point of venture capital is to make money.
It's perhaps less than optimally correct to assume that intelligence is infinitely flexible. The same minds that are brilliant at technology may not always be equally brilliant at politics, policies, and campaigning. It's even perhaps possible that both fields, and many others, have genuinely interesting problems.

I don't think tech has nothing to offer. Just that a lack of tech is not what keeps the political problems unsolved. Be not guided by the beauty of your weapons, they are but tools fit to serve a purpose. That my stovetop cannot comfort the bereaved does not render it impotent - merely unsuitable for that purpose.
>and has a huge violent crime problem

I hope you're not comparing it to San Francisco where I'm 1.2x as likely to be jumped with a deadly weapon, 1.3x as likely to have my house broken into, 2.3x as likely to have my phone stolen and 2.2x as likely to have my car stolen.

And the best part is the worst neighborhoods in SFBA aren't even in San Francisco, and it's still scary as shit.

Let me know when they finish cleaning all the human shit out of the escalators on the train.
Wow. America's future murder machines really are getting spritely.
Again, I fail to see the relevance. There are undergraduates who work that much. Not to mention that no one forces you to do graduate school.

Why should graduate students alone get this benefit? For doing work they signed up for? Should university employees also not be taxed? There are tons of low paid researchers. Adjunct professors, etc.

Graduate students can just take loans out like everyone else (not that I like loans) You literally haven't given a reason for their special treatment. I think you're blind to the reality because you happened to go through grad school.

Finally, only top stem programs are funded. Most grad students, even phds, get loans. There's zero reason to discriminate on this.
Hello, everyone. I would have responded sooner but I spend most of my workday in a closed network for security reasons (defense contractor), and don't have much internet access over the course of the day.

There is nothing stopping Forsh from being used that way. The convenience words from the README use a global variable to tell them where to build commands and overwrite the memory for every new command because the common case is that you as a user don't really care much about having arbitrary history (In any case, gforth already uses readline, so I get history for free). The words underneath all take that location as an argument on the stack. You could write some words that allocate space for each new command without changing the underlying libraries.

The key to thinking about pipe words in Forsh is that they execute a given command and consume and/or leave a file pointer to a command's stdout on the stack. This is why there are multiple pipe words. They have different stack effects.

`>|` (begin pipeline) only leaves a file pointer.
`|` (continue pipeline) consumes and leaves a file pointer.
`|>` (end pipeline) only consumes a file pointer.

This allows the pipe words to interoperate with any file I/O words in gforth.

If you want to "save a command to a variable", you just use a regular Forth word. [bracket] words make things work in compile mode.

`: hack [c] echo [p] hack! $ ;`

Executing hack will then build and execute the command. This also works with arbitrary pipeline fragments.

I did my best with syntax, but existing shells have already aggressively minimized typing for short commands. The most I could do was have people type `l ` instead of `--` for long options and `s ` instead of `-` for short options. However, I find quoting much improved over existing shells. You specify the quote character when you type the command, so there is no escaping. You just pick a character that doesn't exist in the string. You are ok as long as your string does not included every printable ASCII character.
How Futura Became the Most Ripped-Off Typeface in History
Is there a possibility for a private company to help business in compliance for a very small fee? Some kind of startup?
Every time I've returned from Japan, I've always felt compelled to do my best where every I could. Sounds cheesy, but there is something about how well everything runs and has a place that makes you feel energised.

がんばって ^^
I use UberConference and love it.
>For now the unavailable features that I miss the most are tag browsing and code folding.

And the unavailable features that I miss the most are another set. And that some other person misses the most is yet another set.

Vim doesn't have 'feature bloat'. It has a lot of optional features that you can turn on if you want them and compile out if you don't want them. Big difference.
I don't see how they're at all different, let alone very different. How would you legally have proprietary software without copyright law?
>For a long period of time in the (not too distant) past, one of the the main purposes of a company was to pay employees.

I don't really disagree with your sentiment, but I don't think that statement has been ever true.
An alternative explanation is that Trump is making his best effort to bring back the spoils system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
Drugs are easy, but you would have to be able to run books to fix it, maybe in Vegas. You set up a site where you post pictures and a bio of the drug addict. People then place wagers on how long you think they will stay clean and build odds based on that. Said drug abuser gets a cut of the house at 3 months, 6 months and a year and has to submit to drug tests during that period. This cut allows them to rebuild their life and gives them a hell of an incentive to get clean. If they relapse the remaining cut of the house goes into a pool and get's distributed to the rest of the drug addicts that are still on the road to recovery and ups their cuts.

It's a win-win, you don't feel like you are gambling if you loose because at least your money is going to a good cause, and if you do win well you still put money towards a good cause. As well you are building an incentiveised safety net for some of the most at risk people.
Wow awesome awesome. Why did Google sell this to softbank?
LA council just passed approval for armed police drones. When I look at Atlas, I'm prod how far technology is coming and I am not afraid of this machine; but I am afraid of what our government will eventually do with them.
> We know this from the number of people who are working and claiming benefit.

For how long do they claim benefits?

This could actually be a bad sign.
> Part of the original pitch was that landlords would pass the savings on to tenants

Trickle down fails again. Or succeeds wildly, depending on how much wealth you have invested.
check out https://gryd.us - they have a matlab kernel (octave) enabled by default as well
> Well, they probably have scholarships.

Some do. More have loans.

> Well, they won't be cheap if they have to pay them more!

Compared to professors? They'll still be cheap - just not as cheap as before.

> And it's somehow reasonable to tax discounts like income?

Maybe? If I work for a car dealership, and they give me a car as part of my employment there, it seems reasonable to me that the car counts as part of my compensation, and therefore is taxable. If they sell me the car for $1 because I'm employed there, it seems reasonable to me that that "discount" is part of my compensation, and is therefore taxable. On the other hand, if I work anywhere, and my company pays for my health insurance, that is not taxable, and nobody wants it to be.

So which is the "normal" case, the car or the health insurance?
There's a body of research on this, and it suggests that ratings are more meaningful if you add options, up to about 5 or 6 ratings.

That is, if you asked people to do the ratings once, and then asked them 1 hour later, there would be more consistency across time as you add options from 2 to 3 to 4, up to about 5 or 6.

The problem with binary ratings is that, as much as you might think otherwise, you're forcing a kind of hazy, grey experiential assessment into 0 or 1. And in doing so, people near the boundary (whatever that might be) will vacillate between them. E.g., people who feel "meh" about something are forced to choose something else, and sometimes they'll say 0 and sometimes 1. The more options you give, the more reliable / meaningful the ratings will be.

This example is interesting to me because it's something most people can relate to and illustrates the complications of utility-based and Bayesian formulations of the problem. You end up having to decide on utilities and/or priors.

To me the answer is to weight the data maximally in forming a posterior, in which case you end up using a reference prior. Similar kinds of arguments about utilities lead to reference priors. Reference priors can be complicated to compute, but for things like multinomials over ordinal ratings, reference priors have been worked out fairly well.

To me it always made sense to allow people to sort by the center of the estimate, or the lower bound (maybe using different language).
Yeah, here's the competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEJeIUTValE Not even close.
I am a Christian and was describing the sacrifice of Christ on The Cross in terms of the earlier conception of child sacrifice, tying in Girard's insights.

I very much admire Orthodoxy. I haven't read any formal orthodox theology, but Dostoevsky is perhaps my favorite author.

I wish you well with your studies and I hope some day to perhaps read your work.
> AR Debt Collector

Have you ever tried to get an invoice paid by an a*hole customer?

It's not exactly that. The post names it "Accounts Receivables as a Service". The idea is to make sure the invoice does not become a bad debt.

The willingness to pay small vendors and contractors varies across countries, industries, and cultures. Often, it involves a ridiculous amount of haggling and bickering.

For a small business, it is a lot of pain and loss of productivity (let alone actual revenue in some cases).

It's not technically ambitious but definitely a real problem to be solved.
To address that last paragraph, I don't believe it is anything special about Linux. I know a business that still keeps a small army of Windows 2000 servers in virtual machines due to software that simply won't run in any newer version (not even Windows 2003, despite being the last NT 5.x, it's just incompatible enough).
The fundamental problem is this: without breaking undo, prevent memory usage from simply increasing forever.

They don't solve that problem, because they break undo when you hide a buffer.
First, as I said in another comment, Rust is great tech, written by great engineers. Puffs is still different (with different trade-offs).

And, yes, memory access patterns, cache usage, etc. affect performance.

And, yes, in general, Rust performs comparably to C/C++. As I noted elsewhere, Rust with runtime arithmetic overflow checks currently performs worse than Rust without such checks. So, yes, Rust without those checks is as fast as C, and in general, arithmetic overflow isn't the biggest concern.

steveklabnik, a Rust expert, commented on this page that, in the future, "if the runtime checks get cheap enough, we can do them in release mode as well". If so, that's great, I'm happy to be proven wrong. Cheap still isn't zero, though, and see "nanoseconds become milliseconds" at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puffslang/2z61mNTAMn...

In contrast, Puffs today performs as fast as C, with arithmetic overflow checks. They just happen to be compile time checks. And sometimes overflow is indeed a concern (search for "underflow" in https://blog.chromium.org/2012/05/tale-of-two-pwnies-part-1....).

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by bounds checks being done at the slice level and not per-element access. A statement like "pixels[y * stride + x] = etc" is per-element, right?
Mashable, notably, is often credited with kicking off the much-derided "pivot to video" trend: https://www.recode.net/2016/4/7/11585950/mashable-fires-news...

But the buyout is sad to me because, if you break it down, it was a really great example of technology blog getting launched by a guy in his bedroom and that guy finding major success with it. There was a time that Mashable was so prominent in the social sphere that a new article of theirs could trend on Twitter just because of the source.

Certainly, the company's never gone away (and it's produced some pretty amazing alums in the journalism world, it should be said—Christina Warren and Alex Fitzpatrick come to mind immediately), but the site's original model—which was effectively a pitch to the masses of "Web 2.0 is awesome, don't you agree?"—had a certain charm to it that got lost when it decided its competition was BuzzFeed.

Certainly Mashable is no longer that kind of blog anymore, but this is sort of the death knell of the big Web 2.0 blog—a list that includes sites like ReadWriteWeb and GigaOm. Barring The Next Web (which I believe is still owned by its original team), the ones that are still with us (like TechCrunch and now Mashable) are largely conglomerate-owned.

Unfortunate that Cashmore put all that work into the site only to basically break even.
I feel my cold emails are spammy when the value I'm proposed is not a good deal for the reader. Either a still bad product or a overpriced offer.
The video is amazing, but let's be honest: fluid motion without falling is something you can expect from a minimum wage employee. And big robots are physical machines that are likely to cost rather more than a minimum wage scrub to hire/acquire and pay/maintain.

This is a different world from, say, machine learning. It's equally true that we're just now reaching the point where ML is as good as we are at recognizing photos of our children or transcribing our voice mail. But those ML algorithms can be deployed at cloud scale for pennies, so it's worthwhile where physical things aren't yet.
The GP means "performing the flip in a pre-programmed manner", rather than dynamically reacting to actual sensor input. However, that strikes me much harder than actually doing it for real, which is still amazingly hard.
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