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This reminds me of when Oracle purchased BEA for their Weblogic platform 10 years ago. Oracle destroyed that product and company. Importantly it didn't solve their integration problems as all the best people left within the year as they discovered how hard it was to get anything done in a company of that size.

It does confuse me that Mulesoft, a tool that only the best java developers can get value out of, would be purchased by a company that focuses on ease of use or no software. Salesforce likely has its own internal integration problems and needs an enterprise class platform to integrate its own clouds. In which case Mulesoft would be a good choice. I do not see Mulesoft causing much of a problem for the leaders like Informatica or Boomi. Maybe the Salesforce reps will force Mulesoft down their customers throats but not everyone can manage a java based ESB.

Price wise, its obscene at 22x, so congrats to the mulesoft exec team for getting out while the going was good. I know they were struggling to grow beyond being a 1 product company and many execs/staff were burnt out from staying ahead of Wall St. There has been a lot of attrition from the company over the last year. I know because I hired many of their PMs.

Maybe Salesforce fell for the cool aid of Blockchain, as there was a rumor Mule had some kind of blockchain based tech they were working on.
A Google employee points out a problem with FB that’s also very much a problem with Google. That’s rich. Someone is about to receive a STFU email from HR.
I remember some documentary with Jack White talking about how he tries to make music composition more difficult on purpose. I had a very similar reaction to yours--the example they played under his voice over wasn't very impressive to me and I'm not much of a Jack White fan to begin with.

Now that I'm writing this, I suppose one useful concept is that of constraints promoting creativity by forcing you to come at the blank canvas from a different mindset than you're used to.

I suppose there are some times to struggle and grow but other times, like a competitive swimmer shedding his 'drags', to engage our full unhindered capacity free of such artificial handicaps.

Another musical example for me is the band Amaranthe. They usually make extensive use of modern production techniques but their talent is also very evident when they're unplugged:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/J4Jhpx2Qmz4?start=61&end=290

Music video for the same song:
https://youtu.be/D8lV1To-_fU
I think it's a good plan but I hope you know that most people won't achieve this.
>If there were less political intervention into financial markets then solid financial analysis would win almost every time

What empirical evidence exists to support this belief?
Putting Japanese at such a low complexity shows a lot about the author's criteria and bias.

Japanese numerals are quite easy, but when it comes to actually counting things, it is quite complex. There are two series of numeral words that are used in different contexts, as well as dozens of counter words that pair with a variety of semantic categories. Many combinations or number + noun have quite irregular combinations, like "hatachi" (20 years of age) or "hatsuka" (20th day of the month).
I guess the thing is tho.. Obama campaign wasnt using it to damage democracy.
Then you have to use scl, which kind of sucks. Better to just install the fedora packages. Or compile it yourself (but you should really package it if you're deploying it on a lot of servers)
But they get all your location data. They'll know that you met for coffee.
Or could it be that you just prefer what you got at home?

I grew up in Phoenix and love going back for the amazing Mexican food. From more established places like Los Dos Molinos to the little out of the way dives, there is no way you can convince me that Phoenix doesn't have good Mexican food. Tex-Mex I don't care about but I've spent plenty of time in Mexico too and Phoenix has great Mexican.
I backed this computer science education board game, Turing Tumble, on Kickstarter months ago. It had some exposure here when it was still fundraising, but the updates from the creator have been fascinating. They should be required reading for anyone looking to take a product from prototype to mass production.
Well, I took it for an example (and I am a little Fanboy concerning Texas, forgive me having chosen it). There exist regions for about any taste in the US, it's such a diverse country.
A "scientifically-supportable theory"* is one that describes a phenomenon that can be observed sufficiently to form a hypothesis and then test that hypothesis by experiment.

In what way would you propose to test the simulation hypothesis by experiment?

(* I'm assuming you're using the word "theory" loosely here.)
> This law is not good for the internet.

The law is good for people.

“The internet” is not a member of society. It is “infrastructure”. If the law allows roads to be built in a way that systematically hurt people, you change the law.

Well done US Congress!
A government will always its power. That is why you give it as little as possible and let the people tackle the social issues.
Seeking authenticity in cuisine is often about seeking to escape familiar uniformity, rather than avoiding the unfamiliar.
> the theory that we're actually living in a simulation, ... It's basically Creationism in modern form.

It's not even modern. It is basically Plato's Cave, which is classic Greek philosophy.

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

The religious touch of that idea did not become popular until the movie "The Matrix", which originally had allusions to many different religions, but specialized to Christianity / Creationism with the second and especially the third movie "The Matrix Revolutions".
Hey there fellow Texan. If you're planning on releasing it on a permissive license I'll help with what I can. Do you already have high quality scans of the pages you could upload to GitHub?
> Serif fonts have objectively better readability

Actually, for reading long books some serif fonts will tire my sight faster than sans-serif fonts.

It seems to me font readability design is a lot more complex than simply serif vs sans-serif.
No. Retirement implies the intent to no longer participate in an activity professionally, competitively, or as a contributor. It means ceasing one's work.

Working for oneself or for something one believes in to any extent might not be the same grind, but also wouldn't be retirement.
I'm not sure whether you're agreeing with me or not, because, while I don't think it's possible to solve this problem using a central authority, it is a problem that affects a very large portion of the playerbase, so your dichotomy is false. It is not a problem that affects a "small subset of players"
Quintessential means "perfect example", not "most".
I have no experience with LaTeX, but if you setup a GH repo for the open-source chapters and privately send me a scan of the book, I and/or others could submit PR requests on a chapter-by-chapter basis with some plaintext transcriptions. Someone could mark up the recipe sections to LaTeX from there.
Which is ironic, no?
It was better when people hosting their own servers was the focus (CS:S and CS1.6). This way you could find a nice community, with good moderators and rules that you liked, and settle in.

Nowadays you are just thrown in a blender with every other player.
My guess is that they searched all cell phone data on local towers for location data. Then once they had a small enough pool of potentials they searched using humint
I wonder if this could be automated to get a measure of validation performance.
Even though that’s very impressive I can’t help but think that the end result would look so much better if she used a more reasonable tool to do it.
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Investor visas (aka Golden Visa) aren't really a loophole, they're quite intentionally designed to bring money into a country and provide employment for existing citizens.
Can someone ELI5 how this would cause GPS errors?
And what should the people whose jobs were stocking shelves move on to? They need to eat. They need a roof over their heads. They're not going to be curing cancer. Take everything from someone and give them no options is not only unkind it's unwise.
This is already against the rules in many online games.

It is called "intentional feeding".

If you are playing a game and purposefully f stuff up, you will be banned.

It has to be pretty egregious, but yes this is ALREADY against the rules in the vast majority of online competitive games.
My interpretation of the 2nd is that not only does it make explicit the right to own and carry arms, but also the right to own any and all arms of military relevance. You can't fight off King George XXIII if he has war machines imaginable only by the likes of Tyssot, Swift, Mercier, or Restif, and you still only have your musket from the 1770s.

At the time of drafting, the founders hadn't yet encountered the Pawnee vs. Cheyenne/Lakota style of total warfare, and had barely even invented hit-and-run tactics. As such, it would have been prudent to amend the amendment at least once in the last 230 years. I'd prefer that laws banning chemical, nuclear, radiological, and biological weapons would have constitutional backing, that torture and other war crimes be banned explicitly, and there be some concession for denying deadly munitions to antisocial maniacs and bellicose outlaws.

Reinterpretation is not the proper channel towards rational arms policy, or to resolve any other problem with the document not anticipating societal progress. Amendment is the prescribed remedy. There have been calls in the past to convene an Article 5 Amendments Convention, as it is the only way to propose an amendment when the Congress won't, but we've never actually had one. Perhaps it is time?
Yeah, agreed -- evolution doesn't produce best, just good enough. But for large classes of 'problems', we can't (from a computational complexity standpoint) find best outcomes efficiently.

'Evolutionary' techniques, are, in some sense, 'trial and error'. For many tasks where we already have efficient algorithms, this isn't particularly useful. However, where we DONT have efficient algorithms, or know what the concept of what an 'efficient' algorithm even is, trial and error techniques, like evolutionary algorithms, seem like great choices.
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Sure but how about Pixel. Or Google Analytics, Clicky, Alexa (analytics not the talking thing), Adroll , ... I mean the amount of trackers I can toss on a website is mind boggling and super easy, all hoovering as much data as possible. This is not exclusive to Facebook nor do I think they gather the most data.

After sorting through this guys first half dozen tweets I finally realized he's talking about AI and advertising. As an ecommerceguy here's my take. I'd love to be able to upload a product feed, have FB or whomever evaluate those products and push them to whomever the adbot/algorithm/ai/hall9k whatever we're calling it today; as long as it returns good ROI, happy customers and less work for me I'm happy.

This is already somewhat possible with Google Shopping Feed.

So again, besides this helped Trump, why the outrage? All I see is people freaking out at what has been public knowledge for years albeit obfuscated under a massive sheen of PRSpeak.
FWIW I have always actively stayed away from Facebook as much as possible to the point I tell my sister to take photos off her feed of me. But here I am tangentially defending them.

I wanted to add a link to this site, It connects to over 200 trackers.
https://segment.com/
Thanks, I'm glad somebody's working on it. Now I need to check if the rest of my addons are up to snuff (last time FoxyProxy update for Quantum was completely unusable and forgot my carefully maintained whitelist).
From signal propagation to consciousness
Valve already implemented that in Dota 2 with a hidden tier where game ruiners, bot users/exploiters, etc would be grouped together. They also capped the max ELO you could gain during calibration if you are in that shadowbanned tier. It was calculated based on the number of reports you received in the last n games.
People like things that seem exotic because it's novel.

They care more now because life is generally easy(or, rather, straight-forward) so people need amusement and ways to feel special. It's unique experience they crave, even if it's the merely perception. Oddly, flavor comes second. [ which I believe is the case with the recent popularity of phở, but that's my subjective belief. ;) ]
The point is that if a autonomous car can't drive faster than 35 MPH and be able to detect objects, it shouldn't be on the road.
Wait, I'm confused...you're saying genetic approaches fell out of favor because they're basically just stochastic gradient descent? Most of modern DL relies heavily on SGD at various points during training.

My impression is that they fell out of favor precisely because don't actually use any gradients, and end up converging on good maxima slower than you could if you used the gradients from the net. Am I off base here?
It is really time consuming. But somehow more approachable for a non-artist like myself. I've tried freehand drawing but I wasn't happy with the results... I need more knowledge and more practice.
So is this like occlusion inside the network?
Given what we've learnt in the past week with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, I'd say that's money well spent.
This is amazing. Always looking for something like this. The old way I used to do is to run a HTTP server with an upload form in the mobile phone. But this requires an app on phone to run that server.

The idea of QR code is amazing. I'll put this to my news letter next week. Look out for it
Not covered in the story, and my speculation, but his wife is a physician and that likely factored into their decision. Very different physician culture in Canada compared to the US.
Well, they let go of a lot of people with actual skills and knowledge because they made too much money. People with the know-how (my Dad being one of them) saw the writing on the wall decades ago and hit the door even before being pushed out due to age.

They're absolutely embarrassing now. They've lost too many good people and everybody knows what IBM's about now. They can focus on hiring Millenials all they want, but which early-stage workers would really want to go to IBM? They know what it'll be like. Lots of outsourcing, bureaucracy and bad decisions. Not many would choose IBM over another offer.

Screwing over the workforce has consequences.
Layout is broken on mobile
I was actually wondering recently if you could do something like that with a small off-the-shelf TFT screen.

ILI9341 modules are less than $5 each, and have 16/18-bit color with typical resolutions of 240x320. You can separate the actual panel from its backlights and casing without damaging it if you're careful, so I was thinking of trying to maybe put one in a box for a sort of DIY projector or something.

But I'm also pretty sure there's some reason why it won't work; maybe the glass is too polarized, maybe the colors are too dim, etc.
Is it necessary to give them location data to use the app?
What's especially clever here is that most people will sign to get the severance package (it's better than nothing), leaving the group who refuses to sign too small to mount an effective legal defense against age discrimination (the company can just outspend them in court). Meanwhile the company can just say "we offered people a choice, and they chose" and pretend like they did nothing wrong.

This is exactly the sort of thing unions are supposed to protect people from. If something like this happened in my country there would be a general strike and the country would be at a standstill.
You have excluded the sentence which immediately follows his stated income: "The median-priced home in San Francisco costs $1.5 million, and a person needs an annual household income of $303,000 in order to afford the 20% down payment on a home that expensive."

I agree that it is a bit tone deaf.
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I'm not sure if you noticed but this "blogspam" is literally a release note, as says in the title " GitLab 10.6 released", support for GitHub is one of many features.
Canadian real estate is insane. As bad as California.
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I completely disagree, non-intrusive ('acceptable' etc) ads don't exist, no matter how hard this concept is pushed, period.

Nevertheless, pretending Mozilla is not receiving funds from Google (who is already trying to force their standards through Chrome / Coalition for Better Ads) is intellectually dishonest.

Block all ads, let the user white list, that is the pro user approach. Should have been done years ago.
Tex-Mex is the quintessential melting pot cuisine

Wouldn't that be fondue?
I was amused by the aside late in the article that Troy has been collecting weird misspellings of pwned, mostly thanks to media articles, and buying those domains for redirects to be helpful. Personally, I'm now in love with https://haveibeenprawned.com; it's a like a little tiny modern internet reinterpretation of Kafka's Metamorphosis.
The parent says, 'They are happy to use free software and to be under government supervision.' In that context, 'free software' is referring to the previously-mentioned services (Google and Facebook), which do not cost money but are antithetical to the term as it is used by organizations like the FSF.
Reading all this controversy over poor behavior really surprised me. I have played online games on and off in a highly casual fashion for about two decades now - the quake series, counter-strike since the beta days, starcraft 1/2, warcraft 3, etc. - and I have always seen these antics as mostly miniscule and harmless.

Someone writes hateful/immature messages in the chat? Ignore them. Someone's audio-spamming the voice chat with their stupid music? Mute them. I mute voice chats by default these days because I am not interested in hearing other peoples' voices when I'm immersed in a game. I rarely use the chat, often removing it from my HUD altogether. It's a distraction and I think it gets in the way of the gameplay.

Are we so easily offended that we'd rather be overly-sensitive towards the immaturity of others? Do we all need to remember the sticks and stones rhyme our parents taught us? Aren't we better off by learning how to be unbothered by this stuff?
If everyone followed the law, this wouldn't have happened for a multitude of reasons. Alas, here we are.
Higher taxes + social safety net make more sense for lower income people. Higher income people can buy themselves a safety net.
Oh yea, I wasn't suggesting filtering the kids - I wasn't saying anything in that context. I meant, the internet is going to get to kids regardless of how much we try to filter them. If a child isn't seeing it at their home computer, it'll be via word of mouth, or with a friends phone. That's all
Here's where you made a detour, agreeing and disagreeing with a side order of condescension.

A significant portion of folks stick around for a long time in a poor situation as it isn't so easy leave a job at a moment's notice. For those that don't there is the simple matter of not deleting everything. Nothing is actually deleted any more anyway. Brave new world.

Big, stupid, and corporate are synonyms, government too. It goes with the territory of any large group of humans. As they grow they get dumber and further out of touch until they are overturned by a smaller, nimbler version where the process is repeated in Innovator's Dilemma fashion.
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And just like there are plenty of crappy software developers, there are plenty of crappy PMs who choose not to listen to developers, and ignore all of that. Recall the article about the toxic culture over at Take Two from yesterday. No matter how much push back happened, they would be met with "Tough. I guess you live here for the next 6 months."
Regarding 1, that seems surprising: biology has had many mathematical proofs and models (for almost a century now, e.g. Fisher) explaining why evolution works. Evolution works in nature for non-hand-wavey reasons, doesn't the same logic justify artificial evolution in genetic algorithms?
I think a large problem is people often attribute their loss to their team's lack of skill rather than the excellent performance of the other team. Sometimes you get stomped. Sometimes you're playing against a really cohesive group or against some outstanding individuals. If people complemented more often than they criticized games would feel amazing to play. I have no clue how to change that besides slowly calling it out as you see it.

Edit: The only thing that makes me sad about these changes is you can't mess around any more. It is sometimes fun to grief. It's fun to learn new characters or play shitty ones. Everyone is so hyper competitive now and if you don't look like you're giving 1000% effort and getting mad at your failures you're called toxic. It's a game though, have fun, mess with your team a little.
People are tiring of tech firms saying "trust us." They've spent all of their goodwill.

The average person doesn't read or believe a website's stated privacy policy any more than they read or believe a tech product's EULA.
A phrase in the article made me look up the price of raw silicon wafers, but although there are articles mentioning scarcity and 20% price hikes in 2017 (e.g. https://semiengineering.com/silicon-wafers-ma-and-price-hike... ), they are rather coy about actual values.

Anyone has a ballpark figure for Si wafers? All I found quickly was a chart image mentioning around 3k USD ( http://semimd.com/blog/2014/05/16/st-licenses-28nm-fd-soi-to... )
That's in line with WalMart's real edge - "move data, not stuff". With humans, you take shelf inventory maybe once a week. With a robot, at least once a day. Going to a store and finding something out of stock is now unacceptable to customers. They'll never place an order for it. If they wanted to order something, they use Amazon.
1. Housing doesn't grow as fast as other asset classes.

2. You're concentrating all of your assets into a single object.

Instead of paying off your mortgage, you could put that money into other asset classes that grow faster, and you can distribute it to reduce your risk.

If you were laid off, you would have more money than if you had paid off your mortgage. Then if you wanted to get rid of your mortgage, you could and you would still have more money than if you had paid it off earlier. (Although even in that case, it's still generally better to leave the money invested, and just draw it down to pay the monthly payment.)

If you're really intent on exposing your savings to the real estate market, invest it in a REIT.. at least they can distribute your risk over a larger area and more buildings. And they'll invest it in markets that are growing faster than the average house.
Why the Internet Needed the Facebook Data Scandal
This is foreign to me, can you explain it a bit more? Where I live, we have school districts, and inside those districts are boundaries for various schools. You know well before you even buy/rent your home what school boundary that home belongs to.
Hi Insru - how do you think GPUs would fare taking into consideration alain94040 's metrics?
I think the nefariousness is overblown. I present to you, a contender: an elementary school curriculum. No AI, and way more influence over basically everything you will hold as truth for decades.
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Would you mind sharing reference to Germany's rule about 4 hours of daylight? (even if it is German)

I'm very interested, but my google-fu is not good enough apparently.