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A Japanese friend tells me that on the contrary Japan culture can be more like Socialism. not much individualism, strong social security network, high tax, strong government controls, low social mobility, lots of barriers to entrepreneurs. It's just that technology and blinken lights make it seem modern and capitalist to westerners.
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Both moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, wold be cheaper targets than surface of the Mars itself. They would provide better radiation shielding than Mars-orbiting space station if the crews stay for longer durations.

Few satellites and remote control from the orbit around Mars would speed up robotic missions on the Mars surface.
I have not read the article, but a title like Zero-math introduction to something may attract those who hate math, do not want to work on something involving math, or are too lazy to re-familiarize themselves with it. What they gain from reading such articles is short-lived. They cannot put it to use. This leads to disappointment and a disturbing trend towards math anxiety.

As a kid, I tried to keep away from math not because I hated it but because my math teacher did not know how to teach it. It was my conclusion then that they had not learned the subject thoroughly. As an adult, I decided to take matters into my own hands and started learning it by myself.
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Quite interesting insight. Thanks you for that.
Take a look at https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/12/06/cloud-native-technologie.... It already has, more or less.
And how many things are "signed up for you"? There's a lot of those. It's getting harder to tell what I actually signed up for, and what I thought I was signing up for.
Db2 for z/OS will live on for the life of the IBM mainframe ...

This raises a question which is interesting to me (not knowing anything about mainframes).

How long is the life of the IBM mainframe going to be? Are there specific plans already in place to replace these systems on a known schedule? Or are they going to be around indefinitely?
Of course it's unlikely. Being visited by an alien race is, in fact, highly unlikely.

That's not the point, though, is it? This article said "experts say that creating materials we don't understand is impossible." Not unlikely - impossible.

An alien race with the capability to visit earth would have a grasp of physics that we obviously do not, otherwise we would be visiting habitable planets right now. That's the whole point. The argument this article puts forth is just as silly as the young-earth creationist argument that "abiogenesis is incredibly unlikely, so it must be God". Or in this case "we don't understand it, so it must be impossible".
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"After Christmas" is vague. Its likely people are going to buy a lot right after dec 31 because taxation upcoming this year is about what's owned from before jan 1. The IRS et al is also going to receive some large sums of money over Bitcoins in 2017.

Disclaimer: I don't know any cryptocurrency.
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I suggest they’ll be around indefinitely. While large customers are willing to spend large sums of money to maintain their systems and avoid the risks of new technology upgrades, IBM will continue to serve those customers.
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Some languages are born more out of pragmatism, in which case time will surely tell; others are the embodiment of a new combination of principles and ideas.

The later can be important in spite of their direct utility, I think it's reasonable to assign some value to both though. Those from the first class that appear to have potential; those from the second which are interesting and unique.
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Can you just get a passport with whatever name you want? If not then you clearly do have a legal name.
If you're interested in those, there are at least two other designs you should have a look at:

- couchdb uses a single file for each db, which means the write ahead log _is_ the storage. The atomicity is guaranteed by saying that the latest root is the valid root. If writes are interrupted, everything since the last root is invalid and discarded upon restart. A simple design that just works, although it tends to be wasteful and requires frequent compactions

- lmdb (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Data...) uses copy on write to make sure space is properly used, and atomicity is provided by sharing only the strict minimal pieces of information, so small in fact atomicity is guaranteed by the os. Follow the different links in the wikipedia page, there's a lot of interesting stuff
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> Make it work, then make it better (awesome for very rapid prototypes that evolve into mature products over time)

This! So very true. Or as Donald Knuth says: `Premature optimization is the source of all evil.‘
Morality is a human construct, tied to self-awareness which isn't necessary for (super)intelligence. There are theories that posit self-awareness as an evolutionary dead-end.

If the stars are teeming with "machinic" intelligence, something far more probable than any sort of biological intelligence, then anthropomorphizing is not going to lead you outside the maze.
Though I agree with the theme of what you said (mainly that you shouldn't run away from the math), I don't think it's as mutually exclusive as you paint it. Its always good to get different view points of the same topic, and a lot of the times not having it be do math heavy lets you have nice intuition behind the topic. A good example is 3blue1brown's videos. He gives great intuition without sacrificing rigour in his presentation, while not filling his videos with the daunting formulas and such.
After browsing the website on said iPhone, I still don’t know what your product is, looks like, or does. There’s no screenshots besides the videos but I’d rather not watch videos to learn about something.
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Google hires a key Apple chip designer
Does the Ethereum White Paper count?
But that doesn't mean its new. It just means its stable now.
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I'd love to switch away from gmail, but their 'important mail' function is essentially unique to them, and I love it.

Sadly, this seems like a system that can't really be self-hosted. It requires data.
Even if it's fake and they are not going to release a blockchain they won't directly tell that. Why? Why stop all this free PR?
But it seems to me that it's unlikely, given that in some countries with a lot of users they are on shaky grounds due to encryption. Releasing a currency will only lead to more active blocking
It's a tool. Better than most others in some aspects.

Also, "Best tool" !== "amazing UX" etc. etc.
My question would be: what were the most important programming languages, paradigms & frameworks YOU happily discovered in 2017?
Russian submarines have stepped up activity around vital undersea data cables
Oh, it might still give the same insight -- for example, when people reading assembler today are the same ones who did that 15 years ago.
> Something completely new both released this year and that has reached wide adoption? I doubt any

There are many languages before 2017 that never reached wide adoption which could be considered important.
> Why does there need to be a focus on a specific gender to address a problem?

Because everything is broken and we are mere mortals with limited attention and ability to improve the world and shortcuts are always tempting.

This particular problem probably varies by nation, but it is only bad to stereotype like this when you either assume that the partial solution is a total solution, or when your perspective fails and you cause more harm than good with your solution.

Both of those failure modes happen. Yet, all the evidence I have seen says men are more likely to harass than women are. Same effort should provide a greater benefit by focusing on male harassment… except that this is online, so “does this text look harassing?” is probably how this should be handled specifically by OKC, but now I’m definitely guessing.
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Functional Programming concepts applied to JavaScript (thanks to the @drboolean book and series of videos at egghead).
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My first pro project with Java8. A poor man's programming language for FP gurus, but a real game changer for the average Java programmer (that I am).
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Sorry, correct video link here:
https://dev.gitplex.com/projects/gitplex-docs/raw/1.0/video/...

As to tree display for many branches, GitPlex will abbreviate the line with arrows like below:
https://dev.gitplex.com/projects/gitplex-docs/blob/1.0/image...
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> Now that being said, I think the GPU/SIMT model of vector computing is just much smarter.

I'm not sure. For an argument in favor of vectors, see
https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/riscv-vector-wo...

> Why let me jump through all these hoops of masking and compiler optimizations if all I want is a branch and an early exit for a specific set of values? GPU schedulers and drivers make this easy to use and with somewhat predictable performance results.

If the underlying hw is SIMD (vectors) and not SIMT anyway, as Nvidia hw apparently is, why should I have to go through the effort of rewriting my code in CUDA, and hope that some opaque driver will manage to turn that into efficient vector code?

I mean, ideally I'd just like to write C/C++/Fortran/Julia/Haskell/whatever code, and the compiler would autovectorize it.

> Furthermore (and probably more importantly), why is Intel putting this amount of compute power on a CPU without significantly upgrading memory bandwidth?

Flops are cheap, bw expensive. But yeah, certainly the are many applications that would benefit from a much better bw/flops ratio.

Then again, with the latest Teslas you have 16 GB with awesome bw, after that you're trying to feed the firehose through the PCIe straw.
Read they're docs, they're quite good.

Then just start using it. docker --help, look at the commands available, see what they do.

It truly is quite intuitive and as you hit some barriers just google for answers, which you will find (yay, popularity!).

Then create some Dockerfiles.

After a few weeks you should know more than enough to use it to cover local development needs. If you want to go to prod with it then that can get quite tricky, depending on your scale. But, baby steps :)
> However, we all know that quarks and more exist, so you don't think it's possible that an advanced race could make a material that skips that atom part?

Quarks combine via the strong force into baryons, the most common of which are particles that form the nucleus of atoms and anti-atoms, and mesons, which are unstable and immediately decay into electrons, photons, neutrinos, etc.

Of the baryons, protons are stable, neutrons less-so, and the rest decay immediately. Perhaps there is a configuration of non-nucleon quarks that bond together into a kind of stable matter that we have yet to discover, but it seems more likely to me that if (and that's a big "if") there were exotic matter in a warehouse in Las Vegas, it would consist of novel alloys or other such materials.

Disclaimer: I'm not a nuclear physicist.
Do you have any evidence that Google treats 2FA differently in this scenario?
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Yes, you can get a passport in any name. Passports might require a deed poll - but that's just a piece of paper with a solemn declaration that you no longer use the old name.

Salman Rushdie would be able to get a passport in either his pen name, or his other name.
I wonder if they plan to build an ARM CPU or a RISC-V CPU.

https://riscv.org/membership/999/google/
Are you a Java developer by any chance?

Honestly that sounds disastrous. Idealistically, sure it’s a nice idea. Practically, it’d be unusable.
lol, i saw that but was a bit confused to the extent of explanation you went to "sink" your pun in.
Microsoft's call for a Geneva convention protecting the internet infrastructure is looking very timely https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/02/14/need-di...
Can't disagree with this. Once you've started a project and there's visible work there, it's a hell of a lot easier to get the motivation to finish it.

Similarly, I'd also say that if you're learning something (like say, learning to code), you should try and finish as many small projects as you can. That way, you see the effects of what you're learning as you go along, and don't feel like you're banging your head against a wall for hours on end with nothing to show for it. Helps a lot on the motivation front.
The Bomb was a game changer, everyone working on the Manhattan Project knew it, and they _still_ had spies successfully infiltrating the project and exfiltrating above-top-secret data. Some supposedly alien material wouldn't change human nature. Something that big would leak.
Would not a skype-in number be an option?
https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/manpages/man1/lxc-execute.1.... -> lxc-execute is kind of similar to docker run, UI wise.

But it's not the same thing as the Docker "package".
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Wholeheartedly agree that cryptocurrencies haven't found a good (legitimate) use in the past 10 years. However 10 years is a short period especially in fields that grow exponentially overtime. I feel the real use cases and technological advances in the cryptocurrency field are just starting to take of. We see all kinds of domain specific applications popping up (e.g. IOTA which tries to solve problems in the domain of machine-to-machine economy). I hope cryptocurrencies will be the backbone of the fight against a centralized/walled-garden internet and will help us decentralizing the internet in the next 10/20/30 years.
Can we get rid of the traffic sign image captcha now machines can do it?
> feeling humiliated is your brains way of learning to be more careful in the future.

Yeah, I'm really humiliated here. How could I possibly confuse The Price is Right and The Price is Right Live? Gonna be tough to live that one down.
One such "alien alloy" we still haven't been fully able to analyze or even reproduce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel
It can only be distributed as pure information if you have the tools to convert the information into it's physical form. In this case it's a printer, in your case it's machining tools. In the future we might have capable 3d printers in the home or more commonly at work, but that is a very long way off.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with this thought, however the amount and kind of work needed to change the current situation is revolutionary.
Reminds me of that time a spambot accidentally posted its entire script on a site's comment section. Made for a rather interesting look at how the whole thing worked, or how it used different names/writing styles for different sites.
Troff is great! I started typesetting books in troff, then tried Lout, then LaTeX, and finally came back to troff. It's simple, flexible, predictable, and can typeset formulae, pictures, and tables (via eqn, pic, tbl). I would not want to trade it for anything else!
Being a noob at this, do any of those:

* have a image repo, image layering and versioning so that the community can contribute and reuse existing stuff? If not, that's already a big downside

* do they configure networking by default so that you can access the container? This is very nice for usability
It's baffling to me when you keep denying the reality of sexual violence: the perpetrators are overwhelmingly male. The victims are mostly female.

When we look at online harassment we see more male than female perpetrators, and more female than male victims, especially when we look at the most serious offences.

No one credible disputes these figures.
Unauthorized access? Maybe if the commercial ordered something off Amazon using Alexa on your behalf.
Yes, I'm pushing back. My statement was a response to the article, title of which suggests that "just by switching from TV to Netflix we reduce children's exposure to commercials". This statement is incorrect, as the kids are on YouTube anyways, so little to no savings are done here.
My trick for fixing software is "If you can't fix it, break it more and use effects of your damage to learn about the system and see what you can affect."
You are absolutely right, e.g. I marked Microsoft's MSDN emails as spam. But that was largely due to the fact that the unsubscribe link in their emails redirected me to an unreachable server for weeks and then I gave up.
Or for a more modern thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite
None of those things are socialism. Socialism is the direct control of industry by the workers communally.
Doesn't the word "poaching" in the title imply that the employee was somehow Apple's property? Wouldn't "Google hires a key Apple chip designer" be a clearer, less sensational way to put it?
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It's not so much missing, as it is implicit in the H(current block), since current block includes all transactions, includes the coinbase for the miner. (In reality, only the merkle root of the transaction tree is hashed, with similar effect).
My sister had her broadband slammed (taken over by an ISP without any request or permission whatsoever) which left her with an unreliable and slower service. She stayed with them.

For about three years the router they sent her would kick off the fifth-oldest DHCP lease and the ISP kept refusing to replace it.

It's a truly fascinating psychological effect.
Is it really $310 per head?
That isn't at all how HFT's operate.

We wouldn't generally touch an order type like stop loss, heck we wouldn't generally use stop loss limit order either:)
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Six cans of Red Bull is about 480mg caffeine (assuming six 250ml cans at 32mg/100ml caffeine). Not exactly recommended (and may be unpleasant), but it shouldn't be a serious risk to the average person either (it's about the same as three strong cups of coffee).
I wonder if Altman bought this up when he was in China.
Having read the article, I start to wonder whether GMail is a service for Google, run by the user, where Alphabet are given invaluable personal information about a person, which they can then correlate with their other services in order to build a detailed mine of data about that person.

In the course of this transaction the user may be permitted to read the emails that belong to Alphabet.
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It is a self-hosted Git repository manager. Updated web site to make this explicit.
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>>Actually, I still have no idea why there is a Markov chain. What is the structure of the chain? Where does it come from and why can't we just sample the parameter without using a chain?

If the parameter can be sampled from the posterior directly, then no chain is usually needed, just sample it. However, most often you can not directly sample from the posterior. Note that this is not necessarily because "posterior is hard to analytically compute". Most times you know the analytical expression for the posterior distribution (up to the normalization constant) but this does not mean you can generate samples from it easily.

So, instead, you construct a Markov chain, from which you can sample easily, and which has the property that in the limit its distribution coincides with your posterior. Then you sample the chain for a long time an hope for the best.

Any chain for which you can show that its stationary distribution is the posterior works in principle. But some chains are better than others. There are also some generic ways to construct such chains, most famous are the Gibbs and the Metropolis-Hastings samplers.

Finally, do not sample blogs by "wikipedia researchers". Sample books like "Bayesian Data Analysis" by Gelman et al. They will not lie to you.
I have (had?) a G Suite Legacy Free account, that I used for my personal emails.

Around a week ago Google suspended the account saying it broke terms and conditions. I've appealed it but haven't heard back, I've spoken to support many times but the case always needs to go to 'another team' who never gets in contact.

I've since setup a new paid G Suite account but have been unable to reuse my domain name as it's still locked to my old G Suite account... That I cannot login to. Support seem to be unable to help, so I've just had to point my MX records to Zoho for now until Google can sort this out.

I am a big Google fan, but this is now becoming a bit of a joke.
Ah, the cockroachdb argument. We're rapidly approaching the point where any meaningful names are already in use, and everything uses nonsense names anyway.
Can you expand on this for people who don't have an opinion on the site?
Self-doubt: Am I good enough compared to my coworkers.

Getting people to leave me alone so that I can get some work done.

I doubt anything could be done about the first, but it would be nice if there was something that could be done about the second: I am half considering putting on the DND blinders found elsewhere on the front page.
I read what he said as: 'Since btc dropped 20% in a day I might have trouble to find suckers to participate in mu "fund", I need to lay low for a bit till this all "you can loose on bitcoin" blows over.'
Not sure if completely on topic, but I know of a few friends who every now and then when they go to party do some Ecstacy and they told me a site like https://www.pillreports.net/ is invaluable to them in that they can check the quality of the stuff before they actually buy it, because a bad batch can actually kill you. In such a case, reviews can actually save your life and, I guess, guarantee you a good time.
Yeah... the trust calculus here is problematic. Even if you think Snowden is above-board, his "hosts" definitely aren't.
I've used Amazon's text-to-speech API to create voice-over for my video
Sure, I believe iCloud Drive is $2.99/mo for 200GB. Unless you meant something that was "free".
What did they do with all the bodies?

"Students linked arms but were mown down including soldiers. APCs then ran over bodies time and time again to make 'pie' and remains collected by bulldozer. Remains incinerated and then hosed down drains.“
As a digital nomad who's always on the road, I also have a backup Android phone in my backpack at all times in case I lose my primary phone. Can never be too careful these days.
I have trouble speaking, I don't really like my voice and accent, so I decided to try using Amazon Polly and see if it helps me to create a watchable video.

It ended up working surprisingly well. I have used reveal.js to generate slides, and PhantomJS to automatically render them into images. Then I've edited them together using Kdenlive. The entire process of turning my article into a video took a couple of hours.

I think it turned out pretty cool and I figured I'd share it with you guys. It's imperfect, but it's really impressive how far text-to-speech engines have come.

At this point it still probably makes more sense to spend $10-$20 on fiverr to create a professional voiceover, but I can totally see how in the near future it would be possible to automatically generate high quality videos.

I think I'm onto something here, maybe I'll make a SaaS tool out of this. Very cool stuff.
Maybe I should have asked:

- which new languages look like they might be the most important?

- which languages look the most interesting/surprising/innovative?

- which are your favorite new languages and why?