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Engineered 3D-printed artificial axons
> Action-Domain-Responder or ADR is a rather refinement of the term MVC than a brand new architectural pattern.

There's nothing new here other than renaming.
There are going to be some people who read this and assume she must have interviewed poorly, or have really bad grades or something. I read this and go “yep, luck is a huge factor in whether or not your hard work will pay off”.

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t work hard — you’re essentially playing the lottery otherwise. You also have to decide how much of an asshole you’re willing to be (hate to say it, but if you’re willing to behave without morals, your chances of making money go up in the short term). I’m personally not wired to behave like an asshole, so it’s been hard work and a few lucky breaks that could be parlayed into more opportunities that in turn paid off, sometimes handsomely.

Looking back over 25 years, I can point at exactly where and how I got lucky many times. I needed to be in position to take advantage of those lucky breaks, and I needed to make the most of them (I didn’t always succeed at that!), but some essentially stochastic event has almost always been straight-line connected to an eventual outcome.
Such short gigs that are easy to get into could actually be good for a lot of people.

Right now it's often "all or nothing", meaning companies are very careful about who they hire and some people just have a hard time getting to prove themselves in the act. Even if they don't get the job, a 3-month paid gig is better than unemployment.

But it really depends on what the position in question is.
I guess by your standards I'm an IT entertainer. I will update my CV accordingly, thank you for the correction.
Millennial Compliments That Would Be Insults to Someone Older Than 28
Developing an Application with Open Liberty and Docker
It's quite common to pave them here for that reason. Common enough that in some areas it's beginning to cause drainage issues; grass-covered ground is apparently better at draining water than paved.
Batching is the important distinguisher here. The downstream should read as many events as possible and handle them together.

If you have 1:1 producer/consumer and they are doing 1:1 events to output, almost always I think people have gone concurrent when they shouldn't.
with PostGraphile you pretty much are in complete control. You're free to write your own postgres functions/views which postgraphile will expose as endpoints. you can do so such that they are standalone endpoints or sub-queries to the auto-generated table queries. you can also basically bypass all the auto-generated table queries by creating them in a schema that postgraphile doesn't introspect, and then write all the functionality you want in a schema that it will, thus getting only endpoints/queries that you wrote yourself exposed in the api.
Actually it is starting to work on SF: with 1000s of new units, my apartment is now 20% lower rent vs this time last year.
In case anyone is curious, this is a rename of PostGraphQL.
Same with me and I wish I would have been exposed to philosophy earlier in my life. Science provides us with the tools to denounce certain religious facts but it can not give us our confidence back. This also explains the rise of pseudo-intellectuals (people publicly arguing outside of their field of expertise) who are filling this gap with nonsense.
Wikepedia article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock

Seems the EU implemented a ban in 2006 that was NOT very well enforced.
It's shocking it doesn't happen more often then.
US CPA Tax Advice for Foreigners In/Out of US
I have an LLC on US where I do my contracting work. Currently, I am not living in the US. But I want to know what is a good CPA/TAX service for cases like me.
Most services have focused on people that reside in the US and don't know the details of a Foreigner paying US Taxes.
And of course, an good CPA/TAX may provide me tax breaks or advice.
I am aware of stripe/Atlas, but I am not their customer. (and still not have enough reason to be).
Please share your contacts or services.
Why don't we just redesign the system with good UX? I want to send a copy of "The Design of Everyday Things" to the Hawaiian government now.
Does this have any benefits whatsoever over Proof of Stake?

(I admit, I couldn't finish reading. The writing style was awful and seemed technically incompetent, though that's probably an unfair assessment from the style.)
This is what I wanted to know when I saw the renaming announcement, but that announcement really didn't explain this.
The miners must set a rough minimum fee though. If energy costs rise enough at some point the miners will need to slow/shut down unless the sum value of the fees (in whatever currency is used to pay for the energy) rise above some threshold.
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Yeah, I fail to understand the purpose of the dispatcher thingy aswell. This also can run out of memory as he keeps spawning routines indefinately with each request in the dispatcher.
The argument can be used for both or either purpose. However, the modern popularizer of the term, ecologist Garret Hardin, lamented that the idea is widely misinterpreted. He claimed that he should have called it "the tragedy of the unregulated commons."

I suppose if you just hear about the idea briefly during a single lecture of an intro econ course, it's easy to grasp the benefits of private ownership without recognizing the limitations. Specifically that some common resources are not susceptible to private ownership, such as those you list, but are still susceptible to the tragedy of the commons when left unregulated. Hence the widespread misreading of the hypothetical.
Computer science!
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I wonder if there are similar "anomalies" to be found when training statistical/machine-learning models on top of other statistical/machine-learning models. That basically amounts to greedy search: optimize step 1, then optimize step 2 conditional on step 1 already being optimized. The "right way" would be to train both modeling stages simultaneously, but in many cases that's either mathematically or computationally intractable.
It wasn’t Amazon giving those discounts. It was the apartment companies themselves, and they were often available to employees of any major employer in the area, including Google or Boeing.

http://time.com/money/4018717/seattle-rent-discounts-tech/
I'll second the book recommendation above (mind illuminated).
You can't resell a git patch that fixes a bug in an existing codebase.

This isn't an act of creation, usually. I'm thinking more around creating UI components, or developing libraries that add whole new facets of functionality, or enable new ways of working with data. Things that could be reused elsewhere, or enable higher-level programming of application features.

But it's not realistically possible for an individual contributor at a medium to large tech company

I wouldn't agree to being an individual contributor on a wage-only basis, at this point, without major compensation. A possible exception would be something vocational: going back to working on developer tools, perhaps.
Yes, as long as there is no controller of the commons that prevents these abuses they probably would happen; interestingly the first time I heard about it was in Junior High when it was definitely sold as "This is why socialism doesn't work kids!" and I remember being confused because my media-fed understanding of rural England in the timeframe was that whoever tried something like would end up inside the Wicker-Man.
The Guardian, Britain’s Left-Wing News Power, Goes Tabloid
Just because rent is decreasing on the high end doesnt mean it’s decreasing on the low end apartments.

There is a knock-on effect although depending on the spread it might be small.

Ontario (Canada) just raised minimum wage by 20%+ in one shot to $15/hr. Lots of drama happening now as business owners try to adjust.

What I found interesting is that workers who were making $15/hr before the increase are now asking for a raise. It was a restaurant where the front-end made $15 and the dish washers $12. Now the front end says "I should be making more than the dish washers" and it goes all the way up the chain.
My approach has been to keep everything as modular as possible, to create wrappers around major packages, so that I can switch to a different package once a major bug is found.

Unfortunately fixing unmaintained open source packages is often a waste of time since your improvements won't be merged to upstream (since the owner is gone), and it's unlikely that your fork will take off. Even if the owner add contributors to the repo, the changes still won't make it to npm.

Maybe for very large projects it makes sense since then a group of multiple dev can start a fork, and it's more likely to get some traction.
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I haven't read the paper, so although this response applies to your criticism, it may not apply to the paper in question.

A linear model has only two parameters, which cuts down a lot on the overfitting problem, and since it's the default thing to try, you can be reasonably sure that it isn't the product of a "garden of forking paths". More sophisticated models, such as exponential, logistic, or quadratic — which may in fact be more appropriate on theoretical grounds — can easily be the product of researchers choosing among a large number of possible models based on what the data looks like.

I do not think that your suggested approach of removing science from social sciences, reducing them to a sort of literary criticism or scholasticism, would be an improvement.
"There’s a way in which you could say that Emacs is a place whereas vi is a tool."

As an Emacs user, I agree with this. The author's preference for more tools and fewer immersive applications still resonates with me because I see Emacs as a place for all the tools I need for development and writing.
Sone of what your saying is kind of making the point of the parent though.

Yes, you can make the software deployment go easier, and resin looks like an interesting project from that front. But that really is only a small part of the problen, and those hardware problems you described aren't trivial. The testing you described to convincingly show that your device can handle the environmental requirements isn't trivial. (And by environmental, I dont just mean weather, but also things like available power quality, vibration, etc.)

These industrial devices aren't expensive just because the suppliers aren't aware of RasPi, or are looking to gouge you. Its because they put in a lot of work to qualify these devices for their intended conditions. The RasPi, hacked up solution might actually be the WAY more expensive option over it's lifetime, if I have to roll maintenance crews every couple of months to replace SD cards or fix a flaky connector. And god forbid our code hangs in a way that makes all of the lights at an intersection green. "Oh you have a way to prevent that? Prove it." Designed to fail works fine for microservices where I can spin up a new instance rapidly, but it isn't the best match for industrial or infrastructure in most cases.

Apologies if I'm coming across overly snarky here. I genuinely love the RaspPi, and its got a great niche for prototyping, hacking up one-off projects, or even as the base for many types of connected projects. But I've also worked on industrial and infrastructure types of systems, and more than once I've seen someone say that they've got a cheaper solution to X, when really they've got something that may look cheaper if your only looking at upfront costs, but they are completely ignoring the lifetime costs of the solution.
AFAIK, ocean fisheries are clear evidence of what you are saying. In this article, and even more so in its follow-on, the author seems to be mostly occupied with criticizing Hardin's paper, as if that alone was the only word on the issue.
Not just girls. I've shown her stuff to kids of all sexes and they universally love it and ask about how they can do something like that themselves.
I wish more people though this way.

If something is a rule then the majority decided it should be that way. If you don't like it, then you are in the minority. If that surprises you, then you may not be accurately measuring the real majorities and minorities, and it would benefit all of to try to understand what the real rules are.
The Universal Gifting Protocol
Then they just aren't building enough. To be sure, if Vancouver added ten million units, vacancy rates would go up. If vacancy rates are staying flat now, that just means the number of units being added now is insufficiently close to ten million to effectively meet the demand for housing
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I'd actually be interested to hear how the "taxation is theft" people consider protection money. The mafia is a voluntary association, one can choose to pay protection money or not. From the anarcho-libertarian standpoint there should not be objections.
I'm curious about the details? Are you in a newer building? When did you start renting?

I keep an eye on rents in SF and I've definitely noticed the trend downward over the past year or so. It was common to see 1-beds go for $3000+ and now most seem to be in the high $2000s.

Just my observation so I didn't know if it went as far as people renegotiating their rents down yet.
If we had as of precise data on both energy & resource consumption as we have on Bitcoin mining we could remove all taxes and create a consumption/VAT tax based on how much resources and energy something used. That could go a long way in shifting costs that are socialized back in to their consumers and producers.
> annoying boilerplate just to pass parameter values, map buffers, copy results out, etc. Sure it's all straightforward to write, but it's friction

Agree. It's quite a lot of work to orchestrate even a simple kernel.

> I assume it's free to do either

Looks that way - it seems AMD's engine lets you configure it. There are bunch of 'non-native' representations:

* the OpenCL C source itself (which may end up getting stored in the ELF)

* LLVM IR

* AMDIL (based on LLVM IR but not identical)

* HSAIL (again, like LLVM IR but not identical)

* SPIR (yet again, except that later versions of this IR aren't directly based on LLVM)

http://openwall.info/wiki/john/development/AMD-IL

The poorly-documented "-fbin-exe" flag gets you the real native code.

http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2013/07/AMD_Acceler...

I believe there's a way to get it to build for GPUs other than your own. Whether it's exposed through the API, I'm not sure, but I'm fairly sure it can be done with the dev tools.

(That took quite a bit of digging, which I suppose proves your point.)
For me, the link doesn't work. I need to add ".html" to the end: https://openliberty.io/guides/docker.html
I dunno, I've never met someone that does pen-testing for a living that wasn't extremely good at their job.

I'm sure those people exist, but this article isn't proof of anything other than that someone can make a webpage and put some words on it.
If they don't have an engineering degree, they aren't engineers.
The Hawaii Missile Alert Was the Software Developer's Fault
Yeah, you’re probably right. I stay involved with the startup universe by advising CTOs. It’s fun and helps me appreciate my life.

I _am_ considering startups for the future, but the options I’m thinking about will be things I need to see exist in the world. I’m direly concerned about climate change, and I’ve come to the conclusion that carbon capture is the only thing that is going to save us from species suicide. Current carbon capture technology doesn’t scale up very well, and with only one exception that I’ve found, only works when you put it in a power plant. I’m spending a lot of spare time right now investigating alternative approaches and what skills I need to pick up to do something meaningful here.
(...) we need to separate the usefulness of the underlying technology called “blockchain” from the mania of people turning bitcoin into a big dumb lottery. Blockchain is simply a nifty software invention (which is open-source and free for anyone to use), whereas bitcoin is just one well-known way to use it. (...)

Will just comment on this sentence: careful here, blockchain is just one of the technologies that Bitcoin uses. But there are other important elements to Bitcoin, such as the concept of decentralization. A company or a bank can use blockchain in a centralized manner.
This video by Andreas Antonopoulos (bitcoin advocate) helps make the distinction: Bitcoin vs. blockchain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHbtp7pOftU).

From the video description: "Blockchains are only one of the foundational technologies. In an attempt to co-opt the interest around Bitcoin, companies and governments are trying to circle the square by creating centralised and permissioned versions while entirely missing the point: decentralization."

PS: That being said, Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency using blockchain and decentralization.
Spotify Disrupted the Music World, Now It’s Doing the Same to Wall Street
So... Ethereum sucks and Bitcoin is great?
Fucking this https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-ar...

"Build baby build" / reforming zoning and the massive influence disparity of current homeowners is the only way to fix housing in major cities.
A buffered channel can be implemented with two unbuffered channels + a goroutine + an array.
"But a clean-room reimplementation of the bits that people actually care about surely couldn't cost more than $1bn."

Well, let's do some back of the envelope calculations. Let's say you can tap an incredibly cheap source of programmers, so that you can employ large numbers of them for 100k / year - this includes buildings, equipment, but also support staff and managers and what not. That would give you 10k man years of work. Star Office/Open Office/LibreOffice has existed for what, 20 years? So that's say 500 programmers. I'm not sure what the head counts on the various teams working on that have been, probably less than 500, but not an order of magnitude less. So considering that OO hasn't been able to replicate anywhere near the functionality of Office (I'm talking not just basic document processor here, but things like the VBA environment, and Outlook, and Access, and all the programmable components, etc.), I don't think you can say that 1bn is all that much.

Of course you could say oh but we don't need all the legacy stuff Star Office once did, and we'd just be a 100 coders with no managers working from our bedrooms eating pizzas, and we'd only build the 20% of things people would actually use, and we have much better tooling now so it'll be faster, etc. You'd still have to convince people to switch, in order to save what - $100 / year? 150? That's what, 1/2 day of work, if that, per user for a company? Sure a saving is a saving, but I don't see how you can claim that Office or Windows are 'expensive', in the overall scheme of things.
Electric Vehicles Cost Less Than Half as Much to Drive
If I understand correctly, the main difference is that the controller no longer calls the view (templating system or what-have-you) to output the result, but rather outputs the model and the responder figures out how to render that data.

I find this useful because it allows you to reuse a controller (action). In most applications you'll have at least 2 views on the system: UI and API. Sometimes, they're the same, but very often they're not.
I don't think it will. Smart luggage market is tiny [1] to put any pressure on Li-Ion batteries [2].

[1] Projected to be $2b in 2024 - https://www.gminsights.com/pressrelease/smart-luggage-market

[2] Projected to be $67b in 2022 - http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Global-Size-f...
Alibaba bests human performance in Stanford reading comprehension test
First mechanical keyboard for a professional writer, translator
The Universal Typeface Project Averages the World's Handwriting (2014)
Yes, fallback is Spanish indeed. But I'm a young guy, I got to clubs a lot and most people I meet there are between 20 and 30 and having very hard time speaking in English. Which makes me amazed, especially in Barcelona, which is a very international city. The same problem is in France. It might be due the fact that most of the media never displays any English. Movies are over-voiced in Spanish and so forth. I have no sources to back this claim, it's just my theory.
Sorry for not reading the article. Apart from that: Did you read the RaiBlocks whitepaper? Did you try the technology? Sure there's a lot of room for improvement but the foundation seems to be working just fine. In contrast to many other coins. Furthermore there are projects using (https://brainblocks.io/) and shops accepting (https://www.spendraiblocks.com/) it.
The energy invested in adding transaction blocks to the Bitcoin blockchain (which requires iterating through nonces until one is found that can partially reverse a cryptographic hashing algorithm, consuming computing power) is what makes the blockchain immutable.

Consider: Modifying a transaction block from, say, 3 days ago, is practically impossible, because it would require burning the same amount of energy the entire network has burned over the past 3 days in an instant, before the network invests even more energy adding more transaction blocks. Forget about trying to modify or revert transactions from more than a few days ago.[a]

The energy invested in Bitcoin is securing the transaction history.

There is value in that, no?

[a] Edit: I mean modifying a transaction right now, without forking the blockchain. Please see maxerickson's comments and my responses below.
Yeah, Prometheus Rising is a good starting-point for sure.

His work can be usefully classified into three categories: loose essay collections, fiction, and conventionally-structured non-fiction. Prometheus Rising & Quantum Psychology are the closest to conventionally-structured non-fiction (though they both flirt with the loose-essay-collection format) and so, for new readers coming at it from a self-help perspective, they're less off-putting. In particular, Prometheus Rising does a pretty good job of explaining RAW's 8-circuit model (which was also helpful for my emotional self-regulation) in an accessible way -- showing its origins as a doctoral thesis reworked into a textbook.

Of course, almost everybody starts with the Illuminatus! trilogy (and so did I). This isn't necessarily a good idea. There's been at least one casualty from somebody starting with the Illuminatus! trilogy and missing the point (documented in The Cuckoo's Egg), though I guess you can blame cocaine and soviet espionage in that case!
In reality, you would be very hard pressed to get 51% of all global wealth to agree on anything. Today, it is pockets of ~1% wealth screwing over their regional 0.00001% constituents.

Ethereum forces a global authority :)
Apple Tackles Smartphone Addictions, iCloud Data in China
Proof of work was a mistake.
The biggest hacks and data breaches of 2018 (so far) UK
fortune favors the prepared mind. The converse is not guaranteed.
"as long as there is no controller of the commons that prevents these abuses they probably would happen"

That is exactly the opposite of what the article argues.
Relevant:

* "Quebec's hydro surplus to lure companies into data hub initiative"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-...

* "Chinese bitcoin miners eye sites in energy-rich Canada"

https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKBN1F10BU-OC...
Sounds like what FubuMVC used to do.