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The custodian example is a good one to look at. We tend to think of the automation as a sort of Rosie the Robot coming in and doing all the things the custodian once did. That's probably not the way the janitor's job gets automated, though. Think of self-cleaning toilets and sinks, industrial Roombas mopping and vacuuming the halls, glass-cleaning robots moving from window to window, and a trash-collecting robot emptying the bins.

There's still the edge cases of course. Clogged toilets or adhesive gunk on the windows for example. But where a janitorial crew was required before, now just one janitor handles those while all the routine cleaning is automated by specialized tools.
Money transfers can be rolled back rather easily and unless that maniac has an offshore account, wants to be on the run for quite some time and get close enough to someone with enough money to actually make it worthwhile, it's hardly going to work out or be worth the trouble.

Being coerced into voting for a certain party is a whole different problem, with different actors. You're not going to run the election again when the spouse of someone pressured them into voting against their will. How would you even want to prove it had happened in the first place? There's not going to be a paper trail without giving up voter secrecy, which is yet another problem.
Unfortunately Sullivan ignores one huge factor: the deliberate and deceitful marketing of opioids to doctors by pharma companies as effective and safe for chronic pain management despite the fact that studies have repeatedly failed to show it is either.
Yeah, I got confused by HSM and Secure Enclave. I still think it is crackable given it is all secured by a user’s pin which can be verified on device by software Apple controls.
perhaps, but if you sold the equipment without telling the new owner they were running your code and they got hurt or killed, as I said above, companies don't want tie up their resources fighting these claims or dealing with it in the first place.
I don't get it. Maybe I'm missing something, but how is this in any way novel?

You can get a cheapish acoustic levitation kit from Tindie[1], and inductive power transmission is hardly a rare technology these days, so where's the innovation? It seems to me all they've done is made a tiny LED with a tiny coil attached to it, right?

And how the hell do they expect to achieve any of the ridiculously speculative things they talk about in the article anyway? Fleets of these things flying around drawing messages in the sky isn't particularly useful if you need to position a massive bank of ultrasonic speakers and a power coil underneath them.

It all smacks of the Hendo Hoverboard[2] bullshit which bad "science" "journalists" breathlessly obsessed over a few years ago, which was similarly just a rebadging of existing technology that was utterly impractical in any context except marketing, coupled with thoroughly nonsensical claims of future utility (levitating buildings during earthquakes, for instance.)

[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/Makerfabs/acoustic-levitator...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZ2cyNxPwg
Which first sentence? The first sentence doesn’t have anything to do with that argument. Neither does the second.
You also can't buy a cup of coffee with TCP/IP. But with PayPal you can.

Bitcoin is not ment to be used for buying coffee. But software based on it is.
While the US does seem to be leading the pack, it is a common trend in other developed nations especially in older demographics.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstrac...

> Conclusions and Relevance - New persistent opioid use after surgery is common and is not significantly different between minor and major surgical procedures but rather associated with behavioral and pain disorders.

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/09/26/1132719/0/...

> Nearly 3 million individuals who had surgery in 2016 became persistent opioid users, continuing to take opioids three to six months after their procedure
Would the old Celtic root luto-/luteuo- (marsh, swamp) mentioned there be related to Latin lutum (mud, loam, sand, dust)?
Not if you weren’t a security researcher though, assuming this was a targeted attack.
Sure: It's designed, like any qualitative model, to yield leverage. Know the laws, understand the principles, and soon you can pull off something amazing. Maybe it guides you into a career path within the broad field of CS, or perhaps you use the principles as metaphor-templates for your personal CS education. "In what way could this Hello World program be described as a mathematical object? Is it an axiomatic theory? What is that?" etc.

What I find problematic about the design here, however, is that it is overly referential at the cost of direct information transfer to the reader. Rather than communicate a logical chain of thought regarding a principle, it communicates that such-and-such a thing is thought by so-and-so to be a this-or-that. It seems to have been produced within a system that prioritizes thought-originator-referencing. Which would be fine except I'd imagine that most people who read "The Philosophy of Computer Science" probably aren't expecting what seems a lot like an extended bibliography.
Is there a theory of operations available? Hard to judge its utility from the current README.
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I think this is overly reductionist.

Plenty of “theorists at heart” still think it’s boring to do lots of rote drills. :-)

It’s not like doing drills really helps you develop new models/tools/concepts from first principles especially more than it helps you adapt existing models/tools/concepts to new situations.

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I think the article under discussion here misses the point in a different way. He assumes that it’s impossible to get meaningful fast feedback about various particular aspects of your work (and focusing on those deliberately) while working on “projects”. But at least in computing (and probably most fields if you look around), that’s not necessarily true.

We have tons of quality feedback available in computing, starting with tools like a REPL or a debugger which interactively show you the results of small actions, and then compilers and static analyzers and profilers and ....

Then there’s IRC and mailing lists and open source ticket trackers etc., where expert strangers will spend tons of their time helping you out for free just to pass the time. If your project happens to be something that other people are interested in and you are working in the open, there’s feedback from customers, other programmers, etc. If working in a group of mixed ability, there are the other group members or possibly a skilled mentor/tutor, and if working in a company there are coworkers.

There is oodles of open source code, documentation, free textbooks, targeted videos of people demonstrating how to use particular development tools or their general method, or showing off particular tricks, much of which is reasonably searchable and can be called up from the internet on demand when a particular problem/roadblock is stuck. You can relatively easily try to implement parts of projects yourself, then go find an example project where someone else implemented the same thing, and compare the two. Typically you can find both toy examples and production code, with their entire version history, internal project discussions, bug tracker history, ....

Arguably you could learn a whole lot by coding up 30 different examples of data structures in C, one after another, getting expert feedback after each one. And then moving on to coding solutions to 20 different dynamic programming problems. And then 10 compilers for different little languages. And then 10 different CRUD apps for made up restaur. Or whatever....

But you could also get lots of good experience by building a whole project that you personally care about from bottom to top, using it for a while and watching where the bugs come up, seeing what parts are completely wrongly architected, etc., and then trying again several times (ideally with a bit of introspection and research in between) until you have a better idea what to do.
Expressing impatience regarding a project that is supposed to inspire long-term thinking is pretty much ironic in my book.
If you are interested in multi-language text analysis, you might be interested in Freeling [1],
a full-fledged, open source library for language analysis written in C++ (which also happens to include a simple interface for working with word vectors).

[1] http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling/node/1
This is so true, and boy do I wish I had known this before choosing a CS program. I think there is much more education (or counseling) that could be done for high school students who are unfamiliar with CS and software engineering.
> Just give me one good economic use case outside of illegal markets for cryptocurrencies that is better than current technological solutions.

Transfer $1000 from your Coinbase (or other electronic) account in the US to cash in Indonesia, in less than 20 minutes, at a better rate than spot. I did it yesterday with ETH and even made $20 on the spread after all the fees.

The cheapest conventional alternative would have been a Visa or Plus ATM card which would have cost around $14-$47 depending on how good your card is.
You don’t need to have a group of apathetic students in an organized course in order to learn via projects.

Lots of people have taught themselves to program (and many other subjects and skills) by doing their own individual projects.
Google downloads the content in the background before you click on it, so that is why it is fast.

I agree hacker news is super fast (and the back button works perfectly!), as long as you have a reliable internet connection. I use it as my anti-example as to why we don’t need single page apps to read the news.

So I agree: if google can determine your internet seems reliable and the page loads as fast as hacker news from the user’s location, the site should get an amp-style lightening bolt.
It was so nice of them to, out of the goodness of their hearts, provide such a competitively priced service. It sure seems unlikely that it was at all motivated by competition with alternative financial systems.
The measurement that really needs to be considered is "quality of life" and that is easy to overlook.

I wouldn't live in DC or New York for those wages but Vancouver might not be too bad for the pay there and I know of places where you could get by on less than 60k and live quite a bit better than any of those for the wages listed. I live in one.
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You might try Nature's Select. My great dane is allergic to almost every traditional protein except fish, so he's on a diet of wild salmon and sweet potatoes.

http://naturalpetfooddelivery.com/select-cold-water-recipe/
Okay, so whatver CTO thinks this is acceptable needs to be shown the door.
The nice thing about project-based learning is that it is well grounded, by definition. Theory is useless without some form of grounding.

Group projects... well, that is a another thing entirely.
This reads like a very thinly veiled ad for the author's $500 Software Design web class.

Project based learning won't work, traditional learning won't work, only my class will work. In fact the source he quotes (himself) claims he can give you a year's worth of experience in an hour.

But why doesn't project based learning fail? Well, in his example Bob, who wants to learn network programming, pairs with Alice, who somehow mysteriously takes over the entire project and does all the networking code so Bob learns nothing. That's sort of like arguing that you can't learn guitar from a teacher because a velociraptor might stroll by and eat the teacher.

I don't know what type of learning is best, but I know you need a little more evidence then that for a post titled "Why project-based learning fails".
In Denmark we have a two universities that almost exclusively do project based learning. Basically students are put in groups and attached a mentor who is responsible for teaching them CS.

To this is coupled traditional courses in basic math/algorithms/scientific theory.

These lines produce candidates that are wasted supperior to our traditional universities. Well, if you need them to actually work with CS in the real world, I’m an employeer not a scientist, so I have no idea if they produce better candidates for research. But for real world jobs, these kinds of candidates are the only ones coming out of the universities that I can safely put in a position and expect to see them become productive after 1-3 months.

Traditional candidates take 6 months of mentoring before they start earning their salaries. They’ve often never even deployed a project in anything resembling a real world project. They’ve never worked in teams, and simply don’t know how to do so. They don’t know how to communicate with non-IT people. And so on.

As I said, project based teaching may not produce better CS candidates in terms of how good they are at CS, but it does produce candidates that can deliver a finished quality product on time.
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The human races net work output might be fixed - but through the spawned creations and mechanics - the work one does and thus the spawn they create, can be vastly consequential. Energy consumption is not fixed. Human work is fixed but when augmented by technokogy it is wildly divergent. There is a difference between using millions of watt hours for mining versus using it to create things that have a far longer shelf life..things like crops or PCs which will continue to provide further value. Bitcoin mining is short sighted.
I keep it for family. It does allow me to connect with relatives I otherwise wouldn't hear from. However, I've deleted my Facebook before (for over a year even), and I'm waiting for a good time to wipe mine officially. I'll lose touch with a lot of relatives is the downside. Facebook makes it almost effortless to communicate with family.
What I'm saying regarding rote drills is, when you tell a theorist that developing a model by yourself isn't interesting or helpful to you, their only other thought is, "you must be one of those weirdos who benefits from rote learning?"

Project-based learning simply doesn't come to their mind; it's completely off their radar because it is, as op implies, potentially full of little all-consuming rabbit holes that are unrelated to the CS principles in question. Look at the great theorist Feynman and his "computer disease" theory. He had a deep aversion to getting sucked into things like IT concerns, because theoretical model-detecting was his core motivator.
Update: that link points to the right page now.
Hey I used to drive a lamborghini, Aston martin and Ferrari to work when I headed up Sql Server at Microsoft. I didn't really need the money to be honest.
Chris Moody knows more about this than anyone in the world, and everything he writes about on the Stitch Fix blog seems so far ahead of what other people are talking about I really do believe that they have a real technology advantage.

It seems similar to talking to people at Google in the early days. The thing that they cared about from an engineering point of view seemed weird and they language was alien. 3 years later the rest of the world hits the same problem and I remember the conversations and think "oh so this is what they were talking about".
If bitcoin has zero value, DRM has negative value.

DRM doesn't make it harder to pirate. DRM makes it infinitely more attractive to pirate.
Ask them for access to their Facebook photos, get them to tag themselves and then build an embedding of their fashion choices.
I am curious if android has the ability to quickly disable fingerprint unlock if you are in adversarial situation. So it only asks for passcode.
> Dazzle was adopted by the Admiralty in the UK, and then by the United States Navy, with little evaluation. Each ship's dazzle pattern was unique to avoid making classes of ships instantly recognisable to the enemy. The result was that a profusion of dazzle schemes was tried, and the evidence for their success was at best mixed. So many factors were involved that it was impossible to determine which were important, and whether any of the colour schemes were effective.
That's indeed interesting and something I've thought about a lot. Here's a data point. I run a very small, 3-card (all XFX Vega 64) mining rig, which I was lucky to have started buying around early November before the price of graphics cards really started to explode.

As a miner, you want to use as little power and generate as little heat as possible. This means in my case that my cards are run underclocked and undervolted.

Two cards in my rig run at 1250MHz core clock and 1085MHz memory clock, at a voltage setting of 0.810V.

I haven't been quite as lucky with the remaining third card in my rig - I can only run that at a core clock of 1220MHz and a memory clock of 950MHz, at a voltage setting of 0.850V.

I have what some might consider rather aggressively low temperature targets for the cards - 54 degrees C. My two good cards can achieve this temperature with fan speeds around 3650 RPM. The fan on the not-so-lucky card needs to spin around 4500-4650 RPM to achieve this. This is on a hot day and these fan speeds are lower if I'm running my air-conditioner. I haven't seen what the rig is like in winter yet. These numbers are likely the worst-case, since it's summer right now.

In my mind, these cards are subjected to much less stress than cards that have been used for gaming, which will run hotter, at higher voltages, with much more thermal cycling, often overclocked. The lifetime of the fans is probably my only concern when it comes to a card that's been used for mining and is what I'd watch out for if buying used. Otherwise, I feel far more confident buying an ex-mining card than an ex-gaming card. Mining done properly seems like it should be far less stressful on a card than gaming, to me.

It would be interesting to see if any kind of concrete data has been collected on this actually - anyone know if any of the big mining farms have published any reliability data (akin to those data centre hard drive reliability reports that get released occasionally)?
This is the exact attitude that has resulted in the war on drugs.
Yes evolution still applies.

Unless the middle class is a separate population to the rest of humanity then the evolution that is happening in the human population right now is selection against traits that lead to being middle class.

This selection is probably the strongest of any in human history looking at the demographic trends. When looked at dispassionately it is truely breath taking how huge this is.
I'm not sure how you can lift and not get rough hands without using gloves. I also don't see why someone would care about their baby hands in the gym.

It reminds me of Costanza's hand modeling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxX3-rJoNI
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With sound he means it's verifyable. All currency is accounted for
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I didn't like the Tines stuff. I'd have rather read more about the Qeng Ho.
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This is also a good argument for the wealthy to pay their taxes. The roads people use to get to the store cost real money. But that doesn't really happen either.
Y in X: who holds the keys? The alphabet agencies in X.

Where Y is any corporation, and X any nation. At this point, I believe any assumption otherwise is naive.
> There's an unfortunate dearth of critical thinking and examination of ideas these days. I have theories as to why that is, but it's out of scope for this discussion so I will abstain.

As someone who sees the same things but has no theories, I for one would like to hear a few of yours.
They also have about 28%+ of the whole network https://qz.com/1053799/chinas-bitmain-dominates-bitcoin-mini...
Most of those merchant fees are passed backed to the consumer through credit card incentive programs.

Granted, Visa still makes a nice 33% profit margin but they also offer tons of other benefits which cryptocurrencies provide none of.
I don't think comparing this to a high-end restaurant is fair.

For $300, I can get an incredible several-hours long meal in a fantastic space, with devoted, engaging service. I'll have a great experience, memories forever, and inspiration for my own cooking. My friends will want to hear all about it. It's practically a half-day vacation.

It's reasonable for people that aren't super wealthy to save a bit and splurge for an experience like that every now and then.

This is a fucking chocolate bar. If I tell me friends I spent $300 on a chocolate bar, they will think I'm a crazy person.
Looking back isn't super useful, I suppose, but I had hopes for a "third option" in the phone space, with Firefox OS. (I carry a Windows Mobile device currently, which is also a third option, but one with only about a year of security updates left.) As with most early development alternative OSes, there literally wasn't even a phone I could buy that worked on my carrier. PWAs seem to hold some promise to prevent app gap issues, Microsoft seems to be leaning hard on them to even potentially make their own mobile push viable again.

But in terms of outright litigation such as the headline, why not cover how Google mandates manufacturers include Chrome as the default web browser on Android, say, over Firefox, a better option that protects it's users better? (Particularly by tying that requirement to get the Play Store, this is one of the most flagrantly illegal business plays in our time.) The "new Microsoft" has become far worse than the old one.

In a more ethereal way, it'd be nice if it felt like Mozilla was pushing harder to lead the way on web standards too. It seems like everything new in web is coming from El Goog, and comes with strings attached (namely, heavily cloud service-dependent design). It's hard to really define this one, but I hope you get the gist.

This all being said, I am super happy with Mozilla's recent work to bring Firefox back to being the best browser, a status I'm not sure I felt it had since 4.0 or so, but one I feel it definitely has earned back.
You're telling me that executives get paid more than rank-and-file employees? Shocking.
That's a bit of an exaggeration, no? The high-end graphics card market isn't that big and consumers (as in "not PC games fanatics") have plenty of low-end cards to choose from that perfectly suit their need.
The conversation is about recovery of data stored off-device e.g.: on Apple's servers. There wasn't a discussion about recovery of information when the physical device is present.

HSM is a term used exclusively for server hardware, I believe. I know Apple devices (and some Android) use secure enclaves, but I don't believe they are referred to as "HSM"s.
Group project communication and work communication are different. I have rarely had problem to communicate in work, but group projects were usually crap.

The worst about group project is when one person picks all the interesting tasks and learns, others don't. Which means that people who know least and need practice most, are the ones that are pushed to anciliary roles with only little practice happening.
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> If you're trying to stay below the magic $99 retail price point though

What are you imagining using this for? That seems like a really low price.