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The name?
"Bringschuld" is German for "debt which must be delivered to the creditor". It's an analogy: your tasks have to deliver a check-in to our servers (the creditor).
There are rumors he’s considering going into politics.

With non-sequitur answers coming as naturally as that, I think he’s nearly ready!
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Such a shame. I don't own a gun, and I don't intend to. But I really appreciate some channels and communities, especially those about historical weapons that will be severely damaged by this.
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Go talk to Venezuela about competitive advantage. They purposefully neglected their native food production in favour of food imports from abroad. Now they cannot source enough USD to import enough food and they are fucked.

Food is a national security issue. You cannot become dependent on other countries.
We seem to be moving from an era when internet censorship was considered bad, to one where "It's OK, we're just censoring this".

I have no sympathy towards gun use - but the principle of large monopolies applying their own morals to censor content seems wrong.
I'm afraid I believe that culture that values expertise and scientific decision-making is just that - culture, embedded in people's minds and functioning in a very similar way to religion as a default mindset. Most people who are cheerleaders for science believe scientific "facts" without evidence too. They are not looking at the source data and verifying p-values, discounting cherry-picked studies, etc.

Actual critical thinking takes a lot of effort and most people don't continually question their assumptions. I don't think it's possible to bake that into education. Thus we need to inculcate a decent set of assumptions via educational indoctrination. And this, on its surface, is indistinguishable from religious indoctrination, even if it has the best of intentions.

The fragmentation of national narratives certainly has a part to play as well. Increasing divergence in shared narratives reduces political will for the right kind of indoctrination, while the divergent narratives fight culture wars against one another for control of their kids' minds.
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Hi everyone,

I'm from an electronics background & now have been working on BMC Software tools & technologies for almost the past 2 years now.
One question that has always popped up in my mind is - How can I implement what I do on an FPGA.

Few days ago, the thought came to my mind that since BMC Software uses a lot of plugins & API's to keep its base AR server functional, it would be quite pragmatic to implement them on an FPGA.
As of now, in its 9.1 SP4 version, BMC runs on Intel CPU's & uses a lot of Java-based libraries. Until few years ago, they were based on C.

Any pointers from anyone would be much appreciated. I really want to do this.

Thanks in advance :)
Nice! the first time I've seen speech recognition used properly in augmented reality
> If a few people start using another site

But they don't, because they can't. YouTube recommendations are only ever internal links to other YouTube videos. Where would they go, anyway? Self-hosting and ads? They'd miss out on YouTube's monetization.

Some YouTube personalities are quite vocal in how much they dislike YouTube, but they can't really leave. Perhaps if Vimeo looked into advertising monetisation there'd at least be a rival platform.
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> I doubt it would help if everyone started drowning developers in bug reports that basically state the obvious.

If the bugreport just reads "it's slow", then of course that's not helpful. However, performance issues as drastic as described above are certainly not normal. I'm using Firefox on Windows, Linux and (up until recently) macOS and never encountered anything remotely like this. So it would certainly be helpful to get detailed traces of that abnormal situation.
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All it really takes is awareness. There's a lot of untapped talent in these states where for most most kids CS isn't even on the map as a career path, where I'm from smart kids get told to be doctors or lawyers. I didn't start coding until I was in college and went from nothing to full stack development with some machine learning skills in 12 months through self-teaching. I wish I'd had something like this when I was younger. Even if the implementation is awful some kids will take to it like a sponge and continue learning on their own.
You made a bold claim; do you have an ounce of evidence to back it up?
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You seem to be distracted by terms rather than their meaning.

The primary difference between Windows and Linux (which is the topic at hand, not other Unixes or esoteric OS's) is in terminology. A Windows "process" is not the same as a Linux "process". A Windows "thread" is not the same as a Linux "thread".

However, a Windows "execution resource" ("thread") is quite identical to a Linux "execution resource" ("process"), or the macOS "execution resource" ("Mach task", not "process" or "thread").

Windows and Linux also have "execution resource groups", in the form of "process" and "thread group"/"parent process", respectively. They are implemented slightly differently (dedicated device vs. "master" execution resource), but the end-result is similar.

These constructs implement identical functionality for all intents and purposes (the differences are just in some minor limitations and API choices). The scheduler only operates on the execution resource, but might look at the execution resource group when making scheduling decisions. This is shared between all the OS's, and is a minor implementation detail that can change between releases.

The distinction between "thread-based" and "process-based" does not exist. Linux is a heck of a lot faster to create "resource groups" than Windows is, but that is due to better code, not fundamental design limitations.

(Of course, an esoteric OS might implement something entirely different from the concepts of "processes" and "threads", but that's a fun discussion for another day—the important thing is the contemporary OS's are all the same.)
Silent Spring is interesting because most people miss the nuance of that book — a nuance that was critical to enacting smart pesticide policy — a smart policy that didn’t not include “total” bans. Here’s a doctor elaborating:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-rachel-carson-cost-million...
I totally agree Knuth is a genius, but he does not look like an early adopter at all. He does not use email and I would not be surprised if he does not have a mobile phone (not even a non-smart one).

I think that if I had seen him typing google.com in the yahoo search bar, I'd have just thought: of course.
I didn't find any UI improvements in the roadmap, other than password manager. I also remember that password manager was added to Opera browser around 2000. It wasn't a great sucess since nobody figured out how that's different from regular "remember password".
Works fine on my weak ass thinkpad (i3-4010U) o_0
> It would take quite some time to bootstrap a new video service with even a remotely comparable catalog.

That's true, but it's a question of adoption - it has nothing to do with file size.

Vimeo are a rival streaming service, and they're very good, but they don't offer YouTube-style monetization.
I think this gives those of us who do have that privilege an obligation to be responsible about the ways we speak and write about our experiences. For the majority of Americans who never make it to e.g. Japan, it makes a difference how they hear travelers speak in person, on TV, or in commenters on reddit (or even, gasp, Hacker News).
Not surprised given:

1. A lot of cloud services are abstracting CPU architecture. E.g. you don't care on which CPU AWS S3 runs.

2. ARM is using less power than x86.

3. ARM license fees are so low comparing to Intel high gross margins. Whole mobile world runs on ARMs and little profit is made on CPUs there comparing to Intel cash cow server chips.
It's a little amusing how the controller is a super nes controller
The whole thread, for me at least, is about confirming the Guardian article, that Christianity is declining in Europe. I'd say especially in NW-Europe.

I'm not talking about deist intellectuals and their opinions, or academic theology, or about places other than NW-Europe (New Mexico?), or a few big tourist tickets like Santiago.

I'm talking about the popular Christian day-to-day practice of regular people of NW-European communities, of which I can witness the last strange hours in my own community.

It's hard for me to come up with numbers beyond the kind of polls shown in the Guardian article or the drop in callings. It's not like we have centuries of headcount records for all the local events, cults and customs that used to exist here, the amount of tresses tied to chapel walls, or logs detailing the time and effort the local farmers, notables and grandmas spent decorating chapels. There have been no double blind control studies of how going to the village church made people's daily behavior slightly more mellow or made the community tighter here. By now there's mostly old pictures, living memories (less every year) and a rapid dwindling of what little remains today.

The edited stuff you refer to was a sarcastic quip along the lines of "Now that Christianity is gone, I'm sure celebrities or the state will tell us what to do." I removed it because, reading it back, I thought it detracted both in style and content from my main point.

Namely my prediction that future people in my community will regret current people having turned their back on this heritage so recklessly. They may try to reconstruct some of it, but it will be hard without continuity. I can see that happen even if Christian belief itself never bounces back. (Which would actually put such efforts at risk, by making them prone to political recuperation.)
> will “frustrate and seduce” users of YouTube’s free service

Oh look at Google once again thinking of alienating their users once more
Actually, Linux is very explicit about not being a UNIX.

However, the topic would appear to be Windows, Linux and potentially also macOS. That's what the benchmarks are about. No one mentioned other OS's.
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The claim I've often heard repeated [1] is that there are investors who leave their properties unoccupied rather than renting them out, satisfied to bank the returns from price appreciation without the hassle of tenants. So-called "buy-to-leave" properties. For example, one report found just 19 out of 80 apartments in an expensive development were occupied [2].

This has the pernicious effect that it undermines people's belief that increasing supply/housing density will lower prices. After all, why fight for something you don't think will benefit you?

Instead, people who believe such things prefer policies of government intervention, like social housing, taxes on empty properties and suchlike.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXSUbv3X4AAO-dK.jpg
[2] http://uk.businessinsider.com/property-partner-20000-ghost-h...
> Most CMSs have this functionality built in.

Which is a big problem for German (and potentially European) publishers due to privacy laws. One major German IT publisher therefore developed an open source privacy preserving tool that strikes a balance: https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff

It shows a bunch of buttons but only loads the 3rdparty Javascript when you press them once (ie. show intent to use them) and asks you to press once again (then the native 3rdparty button).
Also, when you can get your hands on a ARM motherboard, will you be able to boot mainline Linux or only some ancient kernel version that the vendor has patched with their own binary drivers?
On my 2012 MBA opening HN spikes very briefly to 25%. As others have pointed out, if you're genuinely hitting performance bugs then record a profile and fill a bug report.
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You cannot generalize scheduling primitives across UNIX implementations.

To quote the FreeBSD manual:
"Traditional UNIX® does not define any API nor implementation for threading, while POSIX® defines its threading API but the implementation is undefined."

macOS was at least temporarily considered a true UNIX, and the scheduling primitive there is a Mach task. I frankly don't remember much about FreeBSD anymore, but I would assume that the unit of scheduling there is somewhat identical to that of Linux... Just implemented nicer.
Looking forward to web components, ES6 modules and shapes path editor.
One of the actual Firefox processes doing that? On my MBP the problem seems to be plugin-container, or most probably one of the third-party plugins running inside. Which is to say, either Cisco's H.264 codec or Google's video DRM module. `killall plugin-container` helps but also crashes basically all pages requiring video support, requiring reload.
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I would put Freelance / Travel Sabbatical as a "job" and then list some highlights of your learning / experience from them if you've also done that for the other jobs you listed.
No, the alternative is changing agriculture, regulating it and helping it be more environmentally friendly, and not alleviating environment taxes on fuel and water. Tax pesticides, too.
This happens all the time at night where I live. People cross the road and you don't see them until you're quite close.

Cars are highly visible to pedestrians (due to headlights). I think pedestrians assume that they themselves are equally as visible to the car driver too - "I can see them, so they must be able to see me." is the subconscious line of thought I think.

Often though pedestrians get "lost" in the lights of oncoming vehicles or the brake lights of cars ahead, or are just in your blind spots.

The other thing is, I've noticed that people who have never learnt to drive often don't really appreciate how cars act and are not very good at estimating the distances involved. You've probably noticed this when crossing streets - some people take some eye-raising risks when crossing the road while others wait ... guess which ones are the drivers who are experienced with how cars/drivers act!

My guess here is the poor woman was stationary in the median thinking "Should I cross?" as the car was approaching. She probably then decided she had time to make it across before the Uber car got there so started to cross the street, perhaps assuming the vehicle was further away than it was, or would slow down since the "driver" would see her. We've all done this I am sure ... sometimes with time to spare, sometimes cutting it a bit close.

Perhaps if this was what happened, the Uber car "saw" her stationary in the median and disregarded her as a stationary road-side object and carried on until it was too late. IIRC these systems need to disregard static objects at the side of the road (e.g. signs, trees etc) otherwise they'd be slamming the brakes on all the time. Perhaps the initial movement she made into the road was disregarded as "sensor noise" (e.g. you can see objects "jumping around" a bit in this video from Uber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkkhlxYNwE) from what it thought was a static object, but that would not explain the apparent total non-reaction from the vehicle when she was clearly in the path.

I've driven a XC90 a few times - it has auto-lane keeping when using cruise control on the highway. Perhaps that was what was driving, not the Uber system.

Tragic stuff regardless of what happened.
> But if by behavior we don't mean movements by the body, and instead the whole state of the brain (the entire thinking process), then the theory is again trivial and useless...

Precisely: the straw man that you chose to tilt at in your previous post is beside the point. You have not found a fundamental logical self-contradiction in physicalism here.
Wow, this really paints a different picture. If Uber cars have video quality like the one in the Tweet they should not be on public roads at all.

Edit: I'm not asserting that this is the only video that car "sees", but if it's not, it seems a bit disingenuous for Uber to share only this crappy low quality video with the police.
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I'd be really interested to know if there have been any 'close calls' before now, where a similar malfunction occurred, but the human driver caught it in time and manually hit the brakes. Not that I blame this driver; I just think that any incident where the human driver had to take control to avoid an accident is really just as bad as this.
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I have seen no proven link between YouTube videos showing proper gun handling and gun violence.

The suggestion that Youtube should wait until there's proof that videos they host cause harm is nonsense. A private corporation needs to be cautious otherwise they're opening themselves up to unnecessary risk from being sued by a plaintiff who manages to demonstrate harm (within the limits of a single specific case). YouTube doesn't have a moral duty to uphold freedom. They have a duty to protect their shareholders value.

The government shouldn't ban things until there's proof that the thing is harmful to society (and even then there's a good argument that they shouldn't), but that's got nothing to do with what's happening here.
Most papers are wrong. Not necessarily wrong in an essential way, but most of them overstate their claims.

There's a rule of thumb in the machine learning community: if you want an algorithm that does X well, find a paper on doing X, and implement the method that the paper compares its proposal against. That way you're near state of the art, but you're also using a method that many people have used and tested.
IMO you are grossily exagerating what he's saying to prove your point.

He's marely saying that compared to when social media didn't exist, it was unthinkable to have people exposing others to what they were doing and with whom, what they were eating and how it looked, etc.

He's absolutely right. The social norm HAS changed.

Now, do I think it's good to use user data like Facebook does? Well, it's a business. It might not be ethical, but are companies that sell cigarettes, alcohol, guns, etc. any better (or potentially any better)?

We need to stop complaining about how evil Facebook is, and start talking about personal responsibility. People need to understand what they're doing, it's not Facebook's fault if people don't know their data will be used for advertising, like it's not a tobacco's manufacture's fault if the user doesn't know cigarettes give you cancer.

You don't like how they use your data? Stop using Facebook! End of story.

No one is complaining to the manufacturer about how cigarettes give you cancer demanding a safer alternative, you just smoke at your own risk.

Personally, I don't smoke, and I don't use Facebook.
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To explain why you're right:

Envy = You have that thing and I want that thing.

Jealousy = I have this thing and I want you not to have this thing.
That is the whole point, Linux != UNIX, yet every time someone discuss some UNIX feature, there comes a Linux example as if Linux would the be representative of how UNIX works.
This looks to me like a standard logging toolchain where you just have programmatic access to the logs.

This is like claiming you save and load a json object (instead of its serialization) in some hashmap / DB for fast lookup.

Am I missing something?
Mass shootings are a drop in the bucket in terms of gun deaths, vast majority are either suicides or inner city gang violence. Majority of homicides are committed with handguns rather than assault rifles. If you account for demographics the US has lower gun violence than many European countries.

Personally I think it's funny how the left and right are so illogical on their chosen issues. When the right doesn't want to take refugees they stoke fears about Islamic terrorism. When the left wants gun control they stoke fear about mass shootings, despite the relative rarity of both.

Both sides of the aisle prefer emotional manipulation to actual facts when it suites them.
The more people that own guns the better, then. That way a minority can't run things.
Are you pissed off because it's insufficiently editorialised? It's undoubtedly news — these are some very rich, influential and/or talented people, and all of them attending an event like this is notable. What it "means" is up to you, and different people will have different takes on it. I'd prefer that they just tell me it happened and let me make up my own mind.

My take is that society has different tribes of elites: You have old-school aristocracy and royalty, ultra-rich businesspeople, celebrity entertainers, politicians, artists, and top scientists. Each tribe is fascinated by, and envious of the different cachet and influence of the others. But the nature of the capitalist system means that it is the ultra-rich who pull the strings, and so they organise events like this in order to rub up against these other types.

In the past, the rich were most interested in rubbing up against the aristocracy, in the hope of acquiring by association the social capital associated with inherited nobility, and eventually becoming aristocrats themselves. Then, as the status of the aristocracy diminished during the 20th century, the rich became more interested associating with celebrities, as their associated glamour was something exotic and interesting.

In the 21st century, celebrity and fame has been demystified and become somewhat vulgar. So, now you have a subset of the very rich who are instead interested in associating with scientists, futurologists and researchers, as their air of intellectual achievement and specialised knowledge offers a new type of cachet that they wish to associate themselves with.
That hasn't been my experience at all since Quantum.

Using Firefox at work, often with more than 100 Tabs and multiple windows open without any issues. And my machine only has 6GB RAM...
The annoying feeling could be triggered by the over-pompousness of a rich networking event that thinks of itself as "the new School of Athens". Some attendants seem to believe they are special human beings in and of themselves so they expect bringing exceptional people together should lead to exceptional, out of this world results.

It's a small scale version of what the guys at Davos have been doing for decades, only with tech toys instead of politicians - an expression of the power shift from politics to tech giants.
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Just add a cowcatcher to the front, right? No biggie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_(locomotive)

(closed captions: that was sarcasm. When colliding with anything, the correct response is not "just keep on driving"; and especially not when you've just hit a person)
Spotify is not live content. You have albums or playlists like YT, but it's made for that and the experience is much better.

Also, you avoid doenloading video content when all you need is audio.
Which is why no one should use it as an example how UNIX works.
I think a more apt analogy is a centralised printing press refusing to print books they don't like. Maybe you could go to another country to read the book there, but that's not possible for most people.
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