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Smartness-as-a-Service – SaaS of a different kind – Please do help with feedback
> I'm gonna read 12 books in 2018... at least.

> More than 100 articles are pending to be read in my Pocket.

I'm sure it's not just me. We all have resolutions like this... Reading 1 book a month. We have hundreds of articles pending to be read.

And apps like Blinkist don't help either. They are very often too shallow. I can't retain. It just doesn't exercise my mental muscle.

And I want to solve that problem. How? Going the old way.

Every month, I will ship you a booklet (max 20 pages) by mail (yeah, physical mail). Think of it as a surprise subscription box. It will have the following:

== PART 1 - BOOK SUMMARY ==

- 2 book summaries with images that will help you retain what you read. These won't be shallow summaries. Each one of them will be of at least 6-7 pages (a middle ground between Blinkist & reading actual books).

- After each of the book summaries, there will be exercises/questions to help you put to use what you read. For instance, imagine you read a summary of Made To Stick book. After the summary, there are 3 questions. Example,

> Imagine, you have to convince your wife not order Chinese food for the next 6 months. How would you use the framework to do that? Write it in the space below.

== PART 2 - THINGS THAT HELP BETTER YOUR INTELLECT ==

This can be something around philosophy, theories or things you didn't know. The idea here is that it's something will make you appear smart (I promise!) in your sales meetings, at a party, etc.

Like, you know what.. When 2 people meet, it's actually 6 people.

Or, how The Economist made the best use of a theory called as "Decoy Effect". How? And how you can use it price your services. To effect influence people's choices.

== HOW MUCH DO I INTEND TO CHARGE ==

Anywhere in the world, a flat $19.99 per month.

So, would you subscribe to a service like this? What are your thoughts?
How would the current price of your house influence the performance of a mortgage? Is there some threshold on the current house price above which mortgage interest stops being deductible?
Does Entrepreneurship Have an Ageism Problem
A person is law abiding until they aren’t. It’s about keeping people from having ready access to so much lethality when that person decides to become a bad actor. Banning guns would lower the likelihood of a bad actor having as much lethality as they currently are easily able to acquire.

Parkland could have been avoided in a 7th way too. Without access to guns it wouldn’t have been as lethal.
Lego TRON: Legacy revealed
That doesn't fit on a piece of paper, either.
I'll try it out. Is the adblocker/s for it open-source?
I generally don’t see the problem of a user being able to share information about himself with apps she wants to use.

That’s a fair product to build and provides lots of great value!

Now can it be abused...of course it can, a rouge app developer could try to use this data for whatever, or sell it. That’s a problem.

I think FB did a great job over the years though to improve UX for users to make it more clear what is happening and what information is being shared.

Back in the day you could for example get a users friend list for example (only public profile information though)...I think they did the right thing in limiting that to only users who also use the app.

It’s what makes apps like Spotify great...the fact that I can easily find my friends on it.

I think there is tradeoff in anything we build. And 2B people believe it’s a good tradeoff! And don’t tell me that users are stupid and don’t know...because then I am gonna flag you as stupid first :)

We also don’t sue Ford or the state that owns the streets for any accident that happens...that be nuts! We ask drivers and pedestrians to be responsible and that works for the most part. Of course there is the occasional deadly accident...but we accept that risk for the benefits of mobility.
I think her pieces are informed by the essential character of the medium, no different than if she had used watercolors instead of oils.
Nice! (Shameless plug follows) I use a similar technique in the notify-run Python package for setting up push notifications to an Android device from Python: https://github.com/paulgb/notify.run/blob/master/py_client/R...
Guilty, thank you :). I was hoping to see it higher.
This other paper [0] seems to indicate that TEC (total electron count) fluctuations are caused by shock waves, not rapid chemical reactions, and can arise from ground explosions as well. IANA ionosphere scientist, so I don't know if the parent paper made a mistake.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0007043.pdf
I am from Brazil, we have largest amount of Japanese when not counting Japan itself. One of the most popular "Japanese" dishes is Tempura that is actually a Portuguese dish seemly introduced in Japan in 1600s or so...

Theory is that Tempura is just corruption of word "Tempero"
Tipp: When you click on the "HD"-Button you get a really high-res version (2500px wide)
Introducing QALM, Uber's QoS Load Management Framework
Maybe that's why the BFR interplanetary version is the focus. Screwing up GPS is less of a deal when you're leaving the planet for good... ;)
I was reading about this recently here: https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay

Even the strongest setting "Document user activation is required" isn't good enough. It means one click in the page will cause the video to start playing, which is annoying and highly game-able. I don't want a click somewhere on the page to cause a video elsewhere on the page to start playing. Every content site is going to do something to require you to click, like not showing the whole article and having "Click to expand".

I've been using AutoplayStopper and it works wonderfully: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoplaystopper/ej...

Once you start using it it's shocking how many (attempted) autoplay videos there are that you never noticed.
What will happen to all of the people whose jobs depend on caring for horses when horses are no longer our primary mode of transportation? We don't have basic income yet! What will happen next?
In absolute numbers, there are probably more contracts executed every day that must be in writing, but there are probably more types of contracts that simply do not require writing.

In any of these types of contracts that do not require writing, you can write your terms down on paper (or memorialize them in any way you agree upon; email, napkins, etc) and still verbally execute the agreement. The writing will then become evidence of the verbal agreement.

For any specific type of contract, you will want to consult a lawyer in your jurisdiction. There is just too much variability to account for.

If your question is, "If someone gives me this written contract, and I don't sign it, but I say, 'yes, I'll do this' -- can this contract be enforced against me even if I didn't mean it and didn't sign it?"

The answer to that could very well be: Yes, you're on the hook. So don't say yes unless you mean it.

Don't ever say yes just to get out of a situation. Say, "I need to think about this for a couple of days." And if they push you, then say you're really sorry but you can't agree without thinking about it.
Isn't all Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger do for a good portion of the day, like 6 hours is 'READ & THINK'. Then do nothing else.
The fractions in the Stern-Brocot tree approximate any real number. There's a statement about this that is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis.
My understanding is that if it weren't for TARP several more publicly traded investment banks would have collapsed not to mention wider collateral damage in the market.
Many commercial GPS systems can get to within 2cm (< 1 inch). They all rely on complex antenna schemes and timing analysis combined with correction signals from another GPS at a known fixed point not far away. Search for differential GPS if you want more information.

I don't know if the correction GPS will see the same error and thus give the correct correction factor or not.
> Even if child porn is a serious issue, I am convinced it is completely negligible compared to the number of children raped by their parents.

This problem is worse than that though. Children abused by parents/caretakers are victims of circumstance. Problems with foster care aside, moving the child out of that environment should stop the abuse.

The problem here is that of commerce. There is an endless stream of Uncle Lesters in the queue. The child is a victim for as long as they have value on the market, and then they're found dead in a ditch somewhere.

> When I read that we should fight child porn, it means that we should give up our freedom and our democracy. Choose your fight.

You're going to have a hard time finding popular support for the notion that freedom protects your right to sexually exploit underage girls.
The people for the most part either don't want to or can't deal with social issues themselves. They want someone else to do it for them. So then the people put pressure on social networks instead, and they do whatever they're going do to police their network.

I guess that's better? In theory at least, people can switch social networks. To some extent you'll get the level of regulation you prefer.

Even that's a bit optimistic, since a lot of people aren't technically competent and just do whatever their friends recommend.
The panel will filter the incoming light; these displays emit light. With high transparency panels you could get something that works well when there is an external light source, although with worse color distorsion.
Just think of any large code base and it should be obvious.

What's simpler, rewriting a massive project, or maintaining a library? For example, OP did the latter himself.
No, I think it was only the actually public stuff
Well hyperthreading can help in the sense that the execution "slots" may not be wasted if the other hyperthread can use the ports that would be otherwise unused if only a single thread were running. That mostly only works if the workloads of each thread have very different port usage.

Consider one workload which saturates on p1, doing integer multiplication, and another one which is load/store heavy. Those two loads run on sibling hyperthreads could perhaps approach the best possible speedup of 2x since they use different ports.
That is the third time this week here I've seen the word "provenance."

I had never encountered it before. Why is everyone now using it constantly on this site?
I do get your point. 100%
I think the point here is that we don't need to define a fitness function for "good music", but a fitness function for e.g. "reconstruction error" for auto-encoders. While the latter is still challenging, it seems slightly easier, although I'm not sure that it's significantly easier than general manifold learning...
I don't buy into all of that particular narrative, as it was obviously started by someone playing divide and conquer games.
Growing up in NC, I was never really exposed to the idea that there were different types of Mexican cuisines in the US. Everything was just "Mexican" food there. Now that I've experienced west coast varieties, I'd definitely say it's Tex-mex dominant in the southeast. Queso is such a staple there. I just couldn't believe it when I arrived in Seattle and couldn't find it anywhere!

I don't think tex-mex will die any time soon though. It definitely is a comfort food that people will always crave. I haven't noticed a downturn in tex-mex style mexican in NC, but it's not competing with Brisket there either. Still, even small towns in NC usually have some sort of mexican restaurant, often staffed by immigrants from Mexico with soccer games playing on the TV, so maybe that makes it feel more authentic. Ultimately it's the portions, the approachable tastes and textures, and the price that will keep Tex-Mex restaurants chugging along. It's not a hip food, and probably wont ever be again.
a,b in news headlines often means "a and b"... this seems to be a vestige of print news, where headline space is limited.
Sounds an awful lot like Microsoft.
I don’t think it would let you see which posts a user liked only the pages they liked
Technical debt is the cost of reworking software not the features or existence of the software.
Yes, I'm not
In my mind, if technology is a big part of your business then running on other people's computers only has one upside: might be cheaper. Everything else is downsides.

Therefore, A) companies that operate at a scale where the only upside disappears, and B) companies where the cloud saving outweights their expected liability cost, both will have their own datacenters. Facebook is clearly in category A, RenTech is clearly in category B. This is my understanding anyway.
EURGBP: Hesitates, Backs Off Lower Prices
There you go again..
Perhaps on other architectures, but today port is used almost exclusively, including by Intel themselves.
the one thing missing is the two mandarin words for 2 (essentially 2 and couple, used in different contents)
I didn't say anything about K8S across regions, it's fundamentally not designed for it anyway.

GKE doesn't support federation because it's not a final feature either, it was beta at best and is now being revised and renamed to "multi-cluster": https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-mult...

If you need to reach services between clusters, that's completely different from ingress. Ingress is about external access to cluster services.

You can still use an authentication layer and expose everything through an ingress, or use internal IPs for the services/containers which are already routable in GCP's network across regions. A headless service to get the IPs and a cron job to sync these to a public DNS system will give you the same thing federation does for cross-cluster service discovery. There are also apps like ExternalDNS that'll do it for you: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns
Much less, for sure.

1. Equifax had a security breach. Facebook just had an instance of a 3rd party misusing data they were known to provide to external developers. Aka, Equifax lost data that should never left their servers, vs Facebook found out some data, amongst the ton that leaves their servers on a usual basis, was misused. Don't get me wrong, that's bad, but not "we got hacked and lost a ton of info that should very much be ket secret" bad.

2. Facebook involved 50 million users. Equifax involved 143 million [1].

3. Equifax leaked credit card numbers for 209k people, and dispute documents with personal identifying information of 182k people [1]. It's unclear exactly what info about users was harvested from facebook, but there's no API access to credit card numbers for example.

4. Repercussions; CA claims huge influence elections because that's what they sell, of course they'll market it like that. There's some debate about their effectiveness [2], and it's worth adding they're not the only or the first ones doing it (Obama used micro-targeting with Facebook data too). The way CA got their data is just more sketchy, and of course, involvement with Bannon makes it all the worse.

One can't pinpoint what exactly happened with the Equifax data, but it's clear it could be sold and used for identity theft and other fraud, since it includes SSNs, addresses, and in some cases credit card and license numbers [3].

It's bad that Facebook wasn't quicker to address the issue, inform users or take actions to find other leaky 3rd party apps, but Equifax was IMO definitely much much worse.

[1]: https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/what-consumers-need-...

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17138854/cambridge-analyt...

[3]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/winniesun/2017/10/02/what-you-s...
PostgreSQL Begins Landing LLVM JIT Support for Faster Performance
It's a newspaper-style headline. I'm not really sure why NPR decided to title it that way on the web, though.
According to grandparent, we should keep horses around so people have jobs to care for them, since not everyone can be a car mechanical engineer.
And the games companies, the ones making the games, disagree. They believe that this toxic behavior is affecting more people than the alternative options are, and so they want to nip it in the bud.
If a star actually 'visited' and had a effect and we found out about it happening and it was so incredibly recent being 70,000 years ago, one assumes 1000's of other stars have done similar and at a much closer distance.

I'd be interested to know how plausible what they are saying is.
Do you subscribe to the RSS feed?
Python 3.7's new builtin breakpoint
Tracking does not seem much to be a problem, Since we all know that we are being recorded by Google and FB. Its when they use the information to Change your beliefs, Behaviour, Ideologies and Thought process it becomes a problem like the author is talking about. Google is not there yet facebook newsfeed already is.
Sure, but this particular problem seems solvable. A self-driving car can have much better sensors than a human. I.e. maybe we should expect self-driving cars to see in total darkness. That's something we, the public, could decide is a minimum requirement.
Belgium. We have a lot of strikes.

To clarify: by something like this I meant legislation that allows behavior like this to be legal. A single company acting badly would lead to a local strike, probably not a general strike (those are for forcing government policy changes).
How a 1930’s Harvard Student Laid the Groundwork for Facebook Likes
> I just really wonder what the team structures are like...

Maybe you're lucky or maybe I'm benighted, but it's rare that an organization consciously decides that this is the quarter to finish off the Java 5 migrations, even if that means delaying the Jabberwocky Project and even if there's a non-zero chance of customer impact.

Partly because it's a really hard problem to attach an accurate and objective number to the value of something like that.

> ...technical debt and the benefits and costs associated with varied approaches...

That's not entirely accurate. Engineers are experts at technical benefits of different approaches. And they should be experts on the entire cost of the systems they are responsible for. But they're not necessarily experts on the benefits. They aren't necessarily qualified to anticipate what different features and different release schedules will do to the revenue for the product. In B2C companies with millions of users, you can run statistics and A/B testing to make this stuff more objective, but a lot of companies live and die by big sales to a smaller number of customers. So determining the benefits of shipping a month early depends a lot on knowing particular people well enough to guess how they'll react to good or bad news.
no, it's a tax on companies who move their profits to low-tax nations
>Would-be bull fighter needs sponsor

Is this gay slang? Urban Dictionary's second definition[0] suggests something like a "beard" (straight cover for a closeted person), but I would not be surprised if it were someone who got a wild hair about becoming a real toreador.

[0]https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bullfighter
Keep in mind that this is also the same game where people will report other players for "choosing the wrong character".
>Rocket exhaust can have impact with atmosphere, we need to study it more on short and long term effects.

Wasn't this already known? We have been sending rockets to space for a while now, right?

EDIT: Found something from 2014, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2014...
On Writing Software (Well): A Video Series by DHH
hmm, I put your "plainest" language answer into XKCD simple writer, and there was some complexity in there.

In most simple language, the space truck was thrown up, not tossed forward, and this caused a sound wave that was followed with some interesting events in one of the high bits of the sky, between the space truck refuse air and the hotter-than-air stuff in the high sky, all of which need further study because of possible bad things like how true your sky-computer computer-map might be in the area around the "hole" caused by these waves.
Snapchat should be on notice. They're in the same business.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-yaverbaum/is-snapchat-pe...
Yes, my expectation is that standard consumer-grade devices with GPS capability (even using tiny chip antennas) can achieve ~2.5M horizontal on L1 when using WAAS/SBAS augmentation.
The UI is much more intuitive to me than the one in GIMP, but it's probably a lack of experience with it from my part.
> Most orbits remain stable but very deeply shifted from where they were (earth's aphelion ends up far out where Jupiter was, with its perihelion much closer than before...)

That's incredibly terrifying. Although from what I see in the book description, it focuses more on the drama aspect.

I wouldn't mind someone exploring the technical aspect in more detail, e.g. what would be possible to do to prepare for such an event (if anything) and how likely it would lead to the extinction of civilization.
Looks useful and fun, however it does not seem to work correctly with ipv6 on mac? I obtain:

2018/03/22 18:46:55 listen tcp: address fe80::XX:XXXX:XXX:XXXX:57532: too many colons in address
Servo is a rendering engine and Firefox has no plans to include it.
There was a time where I’d get super hyped when reading these kinds of promises. Transparent displays, foldable screens. Truth is, we’ve been seeing working prototypes at events like CES for more than 15 years. I’ve come to realize the mechanics of these companies are similar to the car industry. New technologies are presented for the same reason car companies present strange concept cars: PR
slide:

JITing PostgreSQL using LLVM ( by Andres Freund, 2018-02-03 )

http://anarazel.de/talks/fosdem-2018-02-03/jit.pdf
FBI looking into City of Atlanta computer issues
Great question. At least in our algorithms we do this - to adjust the driving speed based on the conditions (e.g., visibility or perception capabilities).

At the end of the day, you can drive only as fast as your perception capabilities. A good example of that is how fast humans can perceive when influenced by drugs/alcohol/medications vs. when uninfluenced.

What is baffling is the fact that the car was driving at 38 mph in a 35 mph zone. This should not happen regardless of how well/poor your sensing/perception capabilities are.
Blanco Cafe is pretty good - I've been there many times, drive by it several times a week. Chuy's is a good Texas chain for Tex-Mex as well. Taco Cabana... meh, but it does it. Pappasitos too.

San Antonio also opened my mind to true Mexican, like Jalisco style food heavy on lard, onion and fried stuff like Carnitas.
I seriously doubt the show has as much effect as some in the article are suggesting. I'd bet that it is largely spillover from Silicon Valley and Seattle.
The difference is that the horse phase out occurred over several decades. Mass automobile production started around 1900. Substantial portion of the Wehrmacht logistics chain still utilized horses in the 1940s.

With a properly run automation program, an entire category of jobs can be eliminated in < 1 year now.

It's time we stop ignoring two things: (1) the pace of technological employment disruption is increasing (in speed, if scale is debatable), (2) the time for an employee to reskill is > 0.

Trump was elected on neo-liberal economics failing to compassionately account for the consequences of and requirements for frictional unemployment (moving from one job to another). It'd be nice not to make the same mistake again.
I had the same thing. You can turn autoplay off in chrome.

http://osxdaily.com/2017/11/20/stop-autoplay-video-audio-chr...