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I have never really liked any of the major players. I used to run WebOS on a Pre3 for a long time. Now I have a Jolla C, but it isn't my main phone because of its poor battery life, so I also use an Android phone.

The saddest thing here is those alternative OSs innovate a lot. WebOS in particular was years ahead of both iOS and Android in terms of UX (after all they had Matías Duarte on board... [1]). Sailfish is more interesting technically, in that it was probably the fastest OS to do "zero to non-trivial native mobile app" on thanks to its development tools (the Qt environment, with QML, a standard build VM...).

I backed the tablet as well, but I don't hold a grudge. What they are trying to do is incredibly hard, failures have to be expected.

If you want to meet the developers from Jolla, I think they have a BoF room at FOSDEM every year. I sat in to listen for a while in 2017, it was pretty interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matías_Duarte
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> Can some of you give me the run down on the benefits of centralization?

At the moment the benefits are pretty clear. Centralized systems like YouTube, Google, Airbnb, Uber, Spotify, Amazon.com, and many others simply work. They scale fantastically, have low latency, provide good service and satisfy actual customers needs. Yes, they are not perfect, but nothing in the world is perfect.

I think it is not a crazy assumption that a centralized system will always have a higher performance than a decentralized one. It also may be a fair assumption that developing a centralized application is easier than a decentralized one.

On the other hand, fully decentralized applications do not work at the moment. I don't know a single decentralized work that can work on anything close to Amazon or Airbnb scale. While blockchain implementations can theoretically scale, do we need to stampede to have all our apps decentralized? If Booking.com works in a centralized fashion will a decentralized version be significantly better from a customer's perspective? Will decentralized system address some actual significant pain points?

Also, we have somewhat decentralized systems like Ripple and NEO that at least theoretically should give both the benefits of decentralization and high performance. Why are these systems not sufficient for practical purposes?
It's a weird piece. The describe the XC90 as the safest car they ever tested, and that it hadn't had a fatality since 2002. Then it attributes it to AEB.

The problem is that the XC90 got its AEB in 2015. This cannot be the reason for the impressive safety levels since 2002.
Designing decentralized apps for the Ethereum Blockchain
Is there a name for the equivalent techniques used to homogenize local television news and make it so domestic and familiar?
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The latter would have zero impact because it has no effect whatsoever on how facebook abuses your data.
Why was this downvoted? It works!
General Assembly sells to Adecco for $413M
I didn't watch the talk. So please let me know if I'm mistaken about this one particular point:

That the author seems to be warning of limitations of certain solutions, but generalising those limitations to GUIs as a whole.

This is wrong.

There is nothing inherent in a GUI that would make it unsuitable for coding. Code does not equal text. Code, can be represented in many ways. An AST is code. Text, in a certain syntax, would represent the same code. And so can a GUI.

Now, is there a GUI for general-purpose programming that I'd want to use today for production work? No.

Will there be one in the future? I believe so.

But people discounting coding GUIs left and right, just because they haven't seen a good example of it yet, only discourages others to explore it further. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, to some degree.

Anyway, here is a text/GUI-based programming environment (single data / multiple representations) that you might want to play with: luna-lang.org
Not at all. Not proud of it per se but... I've used them often to get high in random places.

Ketamine dissolves pretty well in water.
Both are good questions.

1) Do other autosteering systems (such as Volvo's) share this failure mode? (I don't know much about Pilot Assist but it seems to require a lead car to follow, is that right? Apparently Pilot Assist 2 doesn't, though? Currently reading http://forums.swedespeed.com/showthread.php?348321-Auto-Pilo... and it doesn't sound great.)

2) Should AEB stop the car if there's something solid in front of it, regardless of what the autosteer system is doing? (I would have thought so, and it's disappointing that in this case it didn't!)
Doesn't ketamine stimulate growth in the same areas of the brain that exercise does, and does therapy prescribe routine daily exercise?

I can imagine there being a great short term benefit to ketamine, as people who are severely depressed can't exercise due to the depression. Has there been any mention switching from ketamine to daily exercise, or doing both?
That's funny, considering that the reason I'm doing concurrent programming in "another language" is due to Erlang's poor performance.
highly debatable at the moment. Nothing is even sure on animal models
subsidized currently by an advertising model

It's only an ad model at the moment because we're only just getting started with ways to utilise massive amounts of data. Give it time and, unless we're vigilant and guard against it, it'll be an insurance model, a career model, a justice model, etc. Anything you can imagine turning big data to will become a business model if we let it.

Ads are an incredibly tame use of the data corporations have access to. It could be much, much worse. That's why we need to work out an alternative now.
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This is a good opportunity to point out that alcoholism is much more prevalent in young people than it is generally thought. Especially with students and young employees who like to "party", it must be taken seriously. The fact that alcohol is not frowned upon by society in general, hides the devastating effects it can have.

What starts as drinking on weekends and getting wasted maybe once a week, turns into drinking 3-4 times a week, than maybe 4-5 times a week. When you start to feel alone and "need a drink", when you want to have fun, but you "need a drink", when you are under lots of stress and "you need a drink", those are signs that you are becoming an alcoholic.

Please seek help and talk about it. Alcoholism is dangerous and kills you, makes you an outsider and loner over time. Please don't feel ashamed. Seek help, talk to friends/family.
What's the difference between this and the info publicly available at https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api?

On a related note, the soundcloud API is horrible. Their solution to rate limiting is to require a client_id and then stop giving them out. So those few client_ids out there get abused by everyone (since they are simple to grab from locally running apps) and nobody can stream anything past a certain point in the day. Such a hack. But hell, at least they have something!
> A general lack of critical thinking is not FB's fault.

Are you sure about that?
These are excellent books go get introduced to raytracing and graphics in general! The style is extremely practical. The style is that of a literate program that happens to be book bound, and is excellent for introducing the concepts on an intuitive level.
There's only been one IPO, but there's been ~83 exits: http://yclist.com
(Only select the "Show Exited" checkbox.)
Only in the US. Call it “legos” anywhere else and you get funny looks.
Your marketing success depends upon how good you are at storytelling
Umm actually, Slice take $1.95 per order. Says so right here: https://slicelife.com/pages/about-restaurants
>> there is no known safe level of alcohol.

This is true, but there's no known safe level of a lot of stuff, and there are various known unsafe levels with alcohol.

For instance - while it's true that the absolute safest course of action is not to drink any alcohol at all during pregnancy, it's also true that the risk profile of consuming one-two units per week during pregnancy is negligible.

I'm not trying to defend ethanol here - it is a known carcinogen, it ruins brains and livers and much else - however the tendency for bias and monochrome thinking in this space seems to go both ways.
Wow, exactly what I'm after. Didn't know I needed this til now.

Thanks!
We could really use another one.
Maybe because of the worry of getting rear ended themselves? And I'm sure a lot of people do; but then those drivers don't make the news.
> However, in reality centralisation is harder to scale, due to the bottle necks on the central parts of the system. Decentralisation can be theoretical easier to scale, as bottlenecks don't occur as easily.

There is a difference between "distributed" and "decentralized". Uber, Amazon.com, Booking.com are distributed applications that can process a tremendous amount of transactions per second. At the same time, Amazon.com is owned by a single organization that controls data, hardware and makes all the decisions.

On the other hand, Bitcoin/Ethereum are decentralized: there is no single actor that is performing all state changes.
Recently I made a photoshop macro to crop border some documents in a standard way for our graphic designers.

It took me 5 minutes to produce a working proof of concept with an approximate workflow...

But it took me 2 more hours to figure out how to change numericals parameters to precisely set the initial selection box instead of defining it imprecisely by hand. The most frustrating part being that the GUI displayed perfectly theses parameters but offer no f..ing way to edit them. Export/re-import the macro to plain text for edition was not an easy option because of proprietary binary format.

GUI are nice but when it obfuscate scripting capabilities it’s just another way to bind you to a plateform by making you learn plateform specific skills to work around limitations instead of learning universal coding principles.

There are good GUI around however. Just have a look at QGIS project for instance, it can be used purely as a GUI but offer a lot of opportunities to input custom formulas when needed for small adjustment. Heavy scripting extensibility is also possible but more hidden from basic user.

(NB: for Photoshop macro, I wasn’t using the latest CC release so I don’t know if it’s still the case)
There has been a similar system on Mercedes cars (Collision Prevent Assist) for years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ia5e07BqU
I would argue the availability of factors that confound it suggest that the effect of moderate alcohol consumption must be tiny
>Seems like we plain do not have a good set of studies on alcohol

What's wrong with the one used in this report? It samples 600000 people over 19 countries. We have plenty of other good studies on the issue, and most of the disagreeing studies are tied to alcohol companies.

The life expectancy effects of alcohol are fairly well laid out in this study. Examine those before making your choice, noting that people have drunk alcohol for centuries does not help you make an informed decisions.
Yes, I've never understood the stagnation over the last 2 years. You still can't do simple things like share your entire library of saved books with friends.
But mosto has too much sugar. I'd rather have a wine :)
Seems very common in the US to just keep going at considerable speed with even limited visibility.
I’ve only ever sold stock options and RSUs ASAP, never regretted it, even tho stock is up 40% compared to when I first started getting these incentives.

The extra cash has helped me (1) buy a house which has appreciated way way more than the stock would have in the past three years (2) substantially reduce risk of my wife stopping working for a few years to raise our children (3) fund our retirement investments better.
Now I've got a hilarious image in my mind of a bunch of modern cars taking turns to accelerate, abruptly brake, accelerate, brake... The future is now.
This is excellent. Amazing (equation + picture)/text ratio.

Complaint: you don't define your notion of "space". In chapter 1 it's some informal notion that you use to motivate the definition of a set (??), in 1.3 and 1.4 it becomes clear by space you mean "set". Then later you start talking about dimension of spaces, implying not only do they come with a topology now they have a well defined dimension, so a locally Euclidean Hausdorff space or something - but maybe you just mean R^n.

Comment for other commentators in this thread: not all expositions is tailored for the masses. A piece of pedagogical literature that does not appeal to your background doesn't mean it's not good. There's a very clear need for exposition on basic structures in probability theory and this fits there.
> Oh please. The price of free -- being shown ads -- is not too high. It's free.

Seriously? That's supposed to be an argument?

> We need to clean up some issues wrt privacy of course. But well-targeted, relevant ads are a good thing.

How do you define privacy that using data about a person to target them is compatible with that concept of privacy?
While 8k is a substantial value, other technologies might be more effective, less costly and possible safer.

Remember the takata airbag defect killed 15 people in the US. https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/takata-a...
Windows 2000 was a revelation when we installed it on an 30 screen network in a library/learning centre in place of Windows 98 (a long time ago, somewhere in England).

I think the 'seniors' amongst us may well welcome ReactOS together with those in small companies who run legacy industrial hardware from Windows PCs (depending on stability &c).
Mozilla takes great care that any data collected isn't privacy sensitive (even getting stack traces involves contacting legal to make sure you don't accidentally reveal stuff about the user)
R needlessly flaunts convention. Find a function that has the same name in numpy, Matlab, and julia, that function will have an infuriatingly different name in R.
this nonsense, as you need check YOUNG PEOPLE deaths, ye old die from disease, but that is general accepted path, what perfect news would blast is causes that kill people in their prime
Maybe the title should have been I can't do Data Science in a GUI. There is value in making high-level tools more accessible (and in the process gutting them of some of their power). But maybe not for this author.
Couldn't agree more on the data size. In most cases beefy machine work. Would on-demand (cloud) make it simple?

Also beefy machine works for training jobs. But we need to deploy the models too.
I've been using Patterns for a couple of years now, and I can definitely recommend it.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/patterns-the-regex-app/id429...
There's also gitx - http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/
Thanks! I should have read Erlang docs: http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#spawn-2
You can get creative about labels. For instance, with known velocity of the car, predict where an object in view of the camera will be 5 frames in the future... This makes all data recorded by the camera effectively labeled, and is actually a useful thing to have.
>As for the threshold for low-risk drinking, White said, “there’s no magic number here. The effects of alcohol on health are very complicated. The effects are influenced by a wide range of factors, like body weight and sex, medications, rate of consumption, so it’s very hard to arrive at one single threshold below which everybody’s going to be safe from harm.”

Yet another reminder that there's often a difference between what the public wants or needs (a magic number), and what reality can deliver (a very complex set of related variables).

If you get all your science from news articles that talk about magic numbers, you're not getting the full picture of the science. The media delivers what readers want to read, not what the most useful info is.
>The kids from rich families are so rare that you can treat them as non-existent

not so if you are trying to get into an elite school... 15-20% of the kids going to the really top schools come from parents in the top 1% of incomes[1] - if you are looking to get into an elite school, well, you are competing with really wealthy people.

And if you want a job at one of the top bay area tech companies... well, i'm not saying it's impossible without a degree from an elite school, hell, I know people here who don't have any education... but it seems to me like a large proportion of their hires come from elite schools.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...
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> Discussing this stuff is a real challenge because of the hidden implications buried in most of our language.

This fact alone says a lot.

This is a very big and deep profound thing.

The language is an innate ability of humans to optimize and find tools (words) that work in the reality that we live in. We don't just make up words for no reason, and we don't make up overcomplicated words that do not fit the reality that we live in. We strive for choosing the perfectly fitted, perfectly abstract, perfectly functional words that correlate to how life works. If there is ever a better word for something, than some old word - the population will quickly start using the new word. The human society in general uses the words that work well. That fit the reality well.

So then, if there are so many words with those implications in your (common!) language, the one that you have chosen to use, the one that other people have chosen to use, is it really possible that all of those words are simply illusions with nothing behind them? Isn't it more logical that those words exist because there is something underlying them in the actual reality that we live in? Maybe the fact that those words seem so "unclean" to you is that the representation of reality that you are trying to argue for simply lacks many chunks of what's actually going on? Because in many people's reality those words are not "unclean". They are the most clean ones, they are very good tools that work really well.

If you disagree with that - it would say that you basically don't trust your language, your ability to speak and think. It would mean that you don't trust your ability to find words (as tools), and by extension, to find good logical intellectual structures (of which words are an example of) that fit the reality. If you say those words don't fit the reality, that would mean that you don't trust that your way of finding words and logical structures applies to reality. That's a big problem then, right? You would need some other way first to even construct your language, before you can ever hope to use it to communicate to other in truthful and meaningful way?
8:15am is pretty darn early for an every day start. I know that personally I find starting work even at 9am less than ideal, and so shift those hours forward. You can't do that with school for obvious reasons, but that doesn't mean people who aren't morning people are lazy and unmotivated.
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This is actually a very good point. I was thinking myself something along similar lines that intuitively speaking, death by unnatural causes like terrorism/homicide/suicide are of course more "newsworthy" than the ones due to "heart-disease".

Although the study is trying to do a larger scale comparison between the perceived and actul leading causes of deaths, it would serve it much better if it were to segment the results by age group.
Volvo's automatic collision braking sure has improved since 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNi17YLnZpg
Also Power BI's Power Query, Excel macro recorder, graphical SQL tools, etc
Generic pharma is still big business. And there's patents for novel ways to deliver the medication (e.g., Vyvanse and Concerta in the ADD stimulants space)
"Over time, General Assembly became less of a consumer facing business and transitioned into one that was serving primarily business clients — which means access to Adecco Group’s over 100,000 businesses is a big boon to the company’s continued expansion plans."

I thought this was interesting. Anyone know more about the services General Assembly was offering to businesses? I guess there is more money and less risk associated with this market. Going after the public / the bootcamp model means you run into accreditation laws surrounding educational institutions and you have to do more work (e.g. tracking placement rates).
Yes, Photoshop has macros (they call them “Actions”).

These days, Photoshop even has (multiple) JavaScript interpreters (including an instance of node.js they call “Generator”) built in to enable automation using an API that provides access to most (but not all) actions that can be executed via the GUI.

I have been working with these for a side project and the documentation isn’t great, but I have been able to get up and running relatively quickly.
There is some skepticism about the 'professor' part. No one can locate the colleges at which he supposedly taught neuroscience.

A reddit discussion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMindIlluminated/comments/6sx7n7/...
I’ve thought about this and and I think the best thing to do here is to relentlessly keep a long, safe distance from vehicles ahead. There are just things you can’t possibly see that the driver before you can.(a puppy/squirrel/whatever that he wants to avoid killing, you can’t possibly know). You can’t anticipate what a human will do here.

You also give yourself a buffer when vehicle ahead have an emergency stop - imagine there’s a truck behind you.

I guess what I’m saying is these ‘brake checks’ are welcome, even if they only serve to educate people.
The point is that there are no races in the sense people talk about them colloquially. Phenotypical 'race' doesn't match genetic makeup well enough to serve as a reliable indicator of anything.

Nationalities like Chinese have even less to do with genetic makeup, and Africa is a whole continent, so talking about African countries as a whole is pretty much nonsense unless you're referring to their geographical location on the same continent.
Looks promising - I found I couldn't edit sample text - anything I typed in the sample area was added to the end of the sample, not the caret position.
A quick search of the list of the "happiest countries" conducted by the UN shows all top 10 countries are from the west with at least a minor drinking culture.

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

Obviously there are a variety of factors affecting the outcome, but it does seem that in countries where drinking is prevalent, the people in general are happier possibly due to the relationships forged. I'll take slightly shorter and happier over an extra year added to the lifespan.
http://www.regexplanet.com/ handles regex dialects for a dozen languages and allows them to be shared.
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Is it just me or did they sell for pretty cheap? Congrats either way!
I got a LineageOS/OnePlus 3T a couple months while having a Jolla before and I still miss the possibility to go from a full-screen app to a closed app. It appears the only option is to go the the drawer/recent app things and then swipe right there whereas before I could simply swipe from the top and immediately close it.