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Great questions!

Re: FFI. In general, using the C FFI and creating C wrappers is not a major issue (aside from them possibly not being idiomatic) and, as you mentioned, required for a language as young as Pony. In fact, Pony Kafka internally relies on a number of C libraries via FFI. However, for the Pony Kafka use case, performance was a key driver. This meant that the risk of contention between the librdkafka thread pool and the Pony thread pool was one that had to be taken into account for long term performance goals. Same regarding the polling nature of getting data from librdkafka. Neither of these would have been a major issue had performance not been a high priority for Wallaroo. In regards to the idiomatic C wrappers, I think it's possible to wrap C libraries in an idiomatic way. It's not easy though because it's hard to figure out the right abstractions in Pony and map them to the C functionality. I don't think that's a problem though because not everything has to be idiomatic from day one. Over time, the C wrappers can be improved to be more idiomatic and/or phased out via native implementations.

Re: Ponylang direction. My personal experience on this is that the Pony community has been very receptive to our ideas. I've mainly focused one the Pony runtime side of things and less on the compiler/language design side of things though.
It's really comparing apples and oranges. If you want a 30x whole genome for genotyping, you'll use short read technologies and it'll be way less expensive.

The enormous reads offer a different window into genomes, by spanning repetitive regions where short reads can't be accurately placed. For lots of applications, the sweet spot is to use long reads for "scaffolding", then build up coverage with short reads.
That's how you get healthcare lobbyists to get laws passed that screw over patients and how you end-up with medicine that rises 100x in price.

Healthcare should be nationalized. Then the government would also have other positive incentives meant to lower healthcare costs, like reducing pollution, sugar in foods, other dangerous foods on the market, and so on.
There are no separate boxes for images as of now. I'll definitely think about adding it soon! But for now, you can resize images inside the rich text box to the same size as the box and it'll replicate what you are asking for. Also, you can directly copy paste imgur links in (like for videos) text box and it will fetch the images automatically in a separate box like this: https://imgur.com/a/LcUpk
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Neat! I also suggest: https://regexr.com/
I was always pretty good at these questions, honestly enjoyed them and I would never tell you my actual thought process. Of course I would answer questions (which are basically fun side quests), but especially if you interrupt me with them, you are not getting anything remotely resembling my thought process. You have me answering your questions and my thinking+behavior are heavily influenced by them and by what I see in socially appropriate behavior.
TwinGalaxies had quite the extensive writeup on Todd's various cheating [1].

There was a staggering amount of evidence, including TAS (Tool Assisted Speedruns) proving that Todd's time is physically impossible. That blew up in a 274-page thread, but ultimately I believe it took Robert T Mruczek's writeup to finally ban Todd.[1] Not surprising as Mcruzek is part of the "old guard".

I think this reflected very poorly on TG and I have no intention of using them in the future.

[1]: http://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/175364-Dispute-Di...
One might have scrolled by headlines at some point and only subconsciously registered it.
Quality ads would be like "hey see that you are buying Topo Chico. Why don't you try these new flavors as well at a discounted rate?". Instead of "Buy Nestle water" ads. Or something very unrelated. Basically a win-win situation for both parties.

But to be honest I would be very much reluctant at seeing a lot of ads. They do this already with "Sponsored" products and most of the time it serves as distraction instead of convincing buyer into even at least clicking their ad.
You're exactly correct about the kind of analysis that was done. The code was analyzed, and the game was played frame-by-frame in an emulator to demonstrate perfect play. I believe some members of the speedrunning community also ran brute-force searches of the input space to make sure there wasn't some kind of obscure glitch that could trigger that wasn't obvious from the code.

The reason that Twin Galaxies didn't accept that analysis is because they're run by members of a clique of old-school gamers who stayed behind when the speedrunning community abandoned TG, and Todd Rogers is part of that clique. The analysis was largely done by Omnigamer, who is a well-respected speedrunner outside of TG but isn't part of the clique. TG's staff chose to believe their own in-group rather than a evidence-based challenge from an outsider until their hand was forced by a viral Youtube video[1] calling them out.

This kind of behavior isn't new for Twin Galaxies. They have a long history of mismanagement and corruption. Most of the times/scores posted on their site lack any publicly-viewable proof because until very recently, proof only had to be shown to TG staff "referees" so that people could keep their special techniques secret from the competition. Modern speedrunning eschews secrecy and requires publicly-viewable video proof for all runs.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-H4sEHB54
If he didn't care about the Mac Mini at all he wouldn't have said anything.
They mentioned "25 cities" in the article though. I wonder when they'll release the complete list.

> Takeaway number two: You may come in contact with these cars sooner than you think, especially if you live in one of the 25 cities where Waymo is currently testing the tech.
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Back in school professors used to add goofy questions like this, which could only be answered if you actually attended the classes. It was a way to account for diligence, according to the professor anyway.
It's worth posting the long version. I've been following the various Pony blog posts with interest (I'm a both language geek and a distributed systems geek), but I always come away with the notion "Huh, kinda cool, but why didn't they just use Erlang, it'd be a great fit for this".

So either:

a) Erlang is not a good fit, and I'm wrong. Then I'd really like to know why I'm wrong!

b) Your friends at Basho led you astray. Would also be interesting to know what happened in this case!

Either way, without knowing more details, the short version you just posted is inconsistent with the claim that you guys did serious research into existing language ecosystems before going your own way.
Add z, profit, to your calculation on top of your rates.

Monthly is good, weekly might be more flexible for the client without getting into task tracking.
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His quote may be hyperbolic, but the article says he lost confidence after the conflict with their LIDAR provider. Which isn't an unreasonable view. Tesla may crack level 5 autonomous driving with their current hardware, but their solution requires also cracking problems in computer vision. An impediment none of the major competitors have.
As a Tesla skeptic myself, I'm surprised at the visibility this "article" is getting. It reads like something you'd see in a celebrity gossip rag. "You won't BELIEVE what Steve Wozniak just said about Elon!" There are far better articles making a bear case against Tesla, and it's unfortunate that this is the one picking up clicks.
Well, it would be highly illegal (and immoral) to create such a program, regardless of who did it.
In a retail environment, the choice of product position on a shelf or display is often not entirely the random choice of the retailer; the producer may be paying for that. IN publishing, where I work, there's a system known as 'coop' (cooperative marketing) in which the publisher credits the bookseller in exchange for favorable positions on a table or other visible spot (it's legal as long as the deal is clear to all and terms are offered to all). Normally these sorts of promotional considerations are hidden from the consumer. Recall that back when Amazon was still primarily a bookseller, they had actual category editors who chose books to be featured on the category's opening page.

So just having paid advertising is just an extension of this. As Amazon acts less like a department store and more like the operator of a bazaar with thousands of merchants hawking their wares in the street, I guess it makes sense.
No, its not an edge case. If you have a rapport with a doctor/care provider, you would want to stay with them. I have a genetic disease and an endocrinologist who helps me manage it. I wouldn't want to leave that doctor, who has seen me multiple times, has my charts, understands what Im working with, and so much more.
After this deal was worked out, I could no longer fill prescriptions at Walgreens. Not what I would call an improvement.
> huge potential upside arguments... are equivalent to Pascal's wager

I see this a lot, and I continue to disagree with it.

Bitcoin was comparable to long-odds betting or penny stocks. $10,000/btc is a large number, but it's completely tractable. The risks of Bitcoin were a high chance of failure and an unbounded context where calculating odds was harder than, say, making long-odds sports books.

Pascal's wager (and in rationalist terms "Pascal's mugging") is about generating a number so large it can't be reasoned with. More specifically, about arbitrarily increasing value until something beats any other consideration. Heaven and hell are infinites, duplicate simulations of a mind are unbounded, human extinction 'kills' an arbitrary number of future humans. And so you start getting nonsense results where risks are literally incomparable.

If someone in 2009 told you 1 BTC was going to be worth $10,000, you'd have said that sounds very unlikely. If they told you it would be worth $10,000,000, you'd have noticed that this would make the value of BTC comparable to the gross output of the entire planet, and declared that no, this was impossible. It's not Pascal's wager if you can slap an upper bound on it and start doing meaningful odds calculations.

(Roko's Basilisk is such a case, but I should reiterate that it was written to display why such claims don't make sense.)
Does it have the plates? There is a long list of names at the end, maybe that's them.

God sometimes I love the internet. I can only imagine how hard it was to do scientific research before, when the journals were all paper and you had to get the library to search articles for you. Now it takes me a few minutes to access anything. Or most of it at least. We have to work on that.
Wouldn't it then be a drone?
So that node communication can be effectively squelched with minimal impact on other network services (rather than, say, playing port whackamole)
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To be honest, I just charge an hourly rate, and am completely honest about not knowing how long it will take, and committing to nothing in that regard. Some customers walk, the others I do work for. There is little more common than a software project that had an unexpected complication which greatly increased the time it took.
It would be irresponsible at best for Amazon to tackle the medical supply/device market before they can learn to ship 20 items from the same fulfillment center on the same day in the same box instead of in 20 oversized but mostly empty boxes.
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Bokeh vs. Dash, which is the alternative for Shiny in Python?
Also don't forget the US largely financed the WW2 efforts of Germany exactly to fight communism, in Germany and Russia. Without the US-backed german industry Hitler never would have been able to attack Russia.
E.g. from the 7 IG Farben board members 4 were US industrialists. You won't learn that at school in this century, maybe in the next.

The large fascism homefront in the US consisted of the industry, the press (William Hearst) and the banks, the government was largely fascist (after the business plot and Roosevelt's death), and it took a lot of (british) efforts and some sunken ships to turn the public around, against the Nazis.
More here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-brief-history-of-fascism-in-...
Yeah because businesses and the wealthy always disregard financial liability and the potential PR disasters of robots killing people on public streets /s
I’m pretty sure they were making a Giorgio joke.
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It's a bit of an aside, but this whole issue, the bare knuckle fight about health care brings about an interesting deeper rooted issue that clearly and uniquely differentiates the two primary perspectives; one side always tends towards the heavy handed, imposing, authoritarian approach to force things they deem self-evident as desirable or have determined to be "good" and are thereby inherently inefficient and wasteful due to it's centrally planned, waterfall type approach ... and the other side tends to want to set up incentive structures that create pressures for efficiency and allows for free will and self-determination and discrimination to both succeed or fail on their own accord.

It is an eternal struggle of authoritarianism and imposition trying to subdue self-determination and self-governance.
> Confirmation bias. How many things were discussed on rationalist websites that people were sure were going to be yuge, petered out, and were forgotten? You can't claim victory for rationalists without factoring in the ratio of failed predictions.

If there are indeed more than 10,000 of these, then I agree it's selection bias to only look at the successful one. Do you think there were? Personally, I'm having trouble coming up with even a single equivalent case, though I'm sure there are at least a few.
Yeah, I agree, that page was terrible.
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But we're talking about courts deciding to put politicians in prison here.

And if somehow a political leader has managed to corrupt/threaten 3 court levels, then you've got bigger things to worry about, and chances are such a person would take other measures to get rid of his political opponents that are much faster.

Also, it's not like you can't ever arrest a politician. There are laws and countries that do put politicians in prison, especially in cases on corruption.
They don't get into the nitty-gritty of train manufacture either. And they last a long time. I'm not buying that, sorry.
I suppose you're right, I never really thought of an "identity hash" as being a thing, but if it's commonly accepted nomenclature then there you go.
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Hype is fine but I don't how Tesla is legally getting away with selling it and not delivering on its vaporware (full self driving)
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Seconded.

Also, the conceit inherent in some of the replies is absolutely disgusting to say the least. The gall of these people to imagine that we, mankind, actually know what's best for the planet. The planet is not the problem, we are. I say we plant these trees, and let Nature take over. We can barely predict an earthquake and these cretins have the gall to suggest that we implement a comprehensive algorithm to optimise the benefits for Nature. Get the fuck out of here!
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The title says ‘I don’t believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says’.

The article says ‘I don’t believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says but I already have 2 Teslas and I'll probably buy the next one’.
> they clearly don’t believe in fair taxation or comprehensive education

I disagree on that. Some of them do, some of them don't. The work they've done on Panama Papers and other stuff was pretty good, and overall unmatched in the UK. I have my complaints with the Guardian, but I wouldn't brand them with a scarlet letter.
And probably many of them don't even speak English
I am not sure it's because they are charged more, but because they are willing to pay more to have it done properly. In my experience, those coming to you looking for a minimum price to get something done, will always be the ones who end up screaming at you and making demands.
> It doesn't make sense to dump all your resources onto every new coin that pops up.

No, but if the odds work out, then it definitely makes sense to dump a _small_ amount of money into the ones you think have a shot.

This is exactly how startup investing works: http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
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Hey everyone! PUBG is an automatic environment (actually, a battleground) where several alrogithms fight in the real time. Each algorithm controls a creature (which can be bull, rhino, slug etc.) with an aim to grab bullets and hurt other creatures with it. By killing enemies your creature increases it's IQ, the smartest creatures lists in the leaderboard.
This product originally was our internal fun challenging project for programmers, but we think that other IT companies or educational organization can use it for learning programming or other things. It's absolutely free for use and distributed under the MIT license.
How it can be used:
1. If you're learning programming you can use PUBG to train your projection (from abstract thoughts to certain commands) skill.
2. If you works in a team you can organize weekly battles and give pizza, beer or iPhone X to a winner.
3. If you're a teacher you can use PUBG as a small lab to demonstrate basic algorithms and applied samples of programming knowledge. It's much more interesting to make a brain for a creature rather than to draw a parabola on a screen (in most cases).
We'll be glad if you try it on http://appcraft.pro/pubg :)

Here is the tutorial how to start: http://appcraft.pro/pubg/docs/en/rules.html
> In /r/spacex they joke about "Elon time." Take "Elon years" and double them.

There used to be a Valve time.
I strongly feel that what needs to be changed is employer-based healthcare itself. It is really kind of crazy, if you think about it, how closely the quality of our healthcare and the healthcare of our dependents is tied to the company we choose to be working for at the moment.

If you or a dependent take a very specific expensive medication that isn't covered by a plan a new employer might offer, then you pretty much can't take that job unless you want to pay out of pocket.

Employers can change the plans they offer every year as well, so really even at the same company you might face the same dilemma at the next open enrollment.
Reminds me of the ol' poker advice: "If you're almost never caught bluffing, then you're just not bluffing often enough".
Sure; you're reducing variance at the cost of reducing expected gains in ranking.
Car software is designed with safety in mind. While there is some overlap in techniques with security, they are not the same goal. It is possible to be (and I think most cars are) very safe, but not very secure.
I was wrong, replace dividends with stock buybacks and buying up other companies, it's the same impact on the policy holder, who will still see no financial gain from holding the policy. Did you consider that some of those less fortunate people that he donates to might be less fortunate because they've been paying into an insurance system that for 40+ years years has provided them no return?
> Most hype artists are full of shit and never deliver anything. Elon is full of shit but then ends up actually delivering something rather amazing--

Ergo, by your own logic, Elon is not full of shit.
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Pure anecdote and likely shaded by the Cold War, but I remember my WWII veteran grandfather (European theater) telling me how after the war he had talked to fellow US and British officers responsible for turning POWs over to the Soviets. (I don't recall if he said whether they were the soliders of Axis powers being turned over to the Russians under some agreement, or soldiers from Russia or from Soviet occupied countries.) He recounted how the Soviets made no secret of the fact that the POWs were executed en masse, and the Allied officers responded by helping their own prisoners escape rather than hand them over to certain death.
So they're calling "finding Zelle already on your phone" a "signup"?
I work for a healthcare services company. The industry is ripe for disruption just in the way data is handled and managed. What I found interesting in the article is that the new firm would not be “profit seeking”. Interesting. I wonder if Amazon would do what they did for years and put any and all profits back into the new company. But then why partner with an investment bank?
The ECJ has ruled less awful laws than this to be invalid under the fundamental charter of rights. I wouldn't be worried about them. It's the UK courts you have to worry about when deciding such cases, especially when the UK doesn't even have a constitution and they kind of play it by ear.
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Cryptanalysis has been able to reliably identify traffic despite encryption for quite some time. No, they can't extract secrets (as far as we know), but they can certainly identify the type of traffic being transmitted.
I wouldn't use virtualbox in any situation where security is a concern nor Qubes OS unless you know what you're doing. Your best option for minimal effort is to use VMware workstation or Fusion, avoid shared folders and transfer data using SSH over a host-only interface that you disconnect when not in use.

Bonus: If you don't need two-way transfers, you can even setup a one-way transfer system that only allows the client to write drop files to specific directory.
I've found that tuning some of the SMB options ("man nsmb.conf") has dramatically increased my recent Macs' SMB network throughput and the responsiveness of finder in huge/deep shared directory hierarchies (due to caching).

I don't know if any of those apply to using OSX as an SMB drive host, but they might.

None of this should be taken as disagreement with your post; just ideas for improvements if you find yourself thus frustrated again.
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> because if Waymo fails, while the press will say it's Google owned

Google has failed sooo hard in so many things it should be trading for $10 if it mattered.

The real effect is that, when google starts the in-car ad attack, people will act surprised.
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There’s a reason that a “hustle”
is a synonym for a con or grift;
once you’re hustling, it’s a
foregone conclusion that you’ll
bend the norms to achieve the
gain they would otherwise
prohibit.

Wait, what?

Edit: yes, I understand the many meanings of the word “hustle”. What I’m reacting to is the “forgone conclusion” that engaging in a side hustle will lead to bending norms, instead of, you know, “working really hard on the side.”
I think you do have the skills already. I was like you and started building stock trading robots long time ago (today generating a lot more money than my "real" job)... One exception: I don't love math (actually I did before starting primary school) :-)

The books I would recommend are more for motivation and inspiration:

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Money_Than_God

A Man For All Markets by Edward O. Thorp

http://www.edwardothorp.com/books/a-man-for-all-markets/

If you are asking about finding a "Wall Street job", than it is completely different matter and the degree from prestigious school would be the most important "skill"