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If Stalin and Mao got past the precursor stages they might have been able to starve people even more efficiently!
Email doesn't actively break flow. It's up to you to respond to it or even to check it in the first place.

I find that I can switch between work and text communication very well. But any type of verbal communication will certainly break my flow. So I'm glad we have email and IRC instead of phone calls.
That... is a cool degree name.

Still waiting for CMU to launch an Undergraduate Degree in Digital Currency, though.
And it's been something we've been working on for more than two years. Building a US-based manufacturing plant from the ground up is a long process, but it will be worth it in the end. You can come by the factory in Denver, Colorado and see where we are! The entire company is relocating to the factory in June, and we're currently building our latest prototypes designed by the team.
You are right, I was relying on memory.
> In the long run, we're all dead. How do you make an impact given finite time and resources? Vendor lock in is already far down the list of existential risks to tech ventures. Long term risk due to adoption of AWS specifically is even farther given their track record so far.

I work for a ~billion dollar organization in risk management. If developers can't certify to our team that you can pull your app off of $cloud_provider and have it running on prem or in another cloud provider in a few weeks, it doesn't go to a cloud provider. We'll assist with their IaaS/PaaS tooling selection, infrastructure orchestration, container lifecycle process, and other ancillary needs to ensure this requirement can be met.

The issue isn't survivorship bias, it's risk management, business continuity, and cost management. It's entirely possible your organization doesn't place a high dollar value on these risks, but that's a business decision each organization needs to make for itself as a whole, and its products and services individually.
"They also hope in future animal studies to tease out the individual effects of running from those of playing with toys and being otherwise mentally engaged, he says."

How can they not have done this yet still draw the conclusion that the exercise was the important factor?

I wouldn't be surprised if the "sedentary" individuals would have been diagnosed with depression, had they beem humans. What would make an interesting study is epigenetic effects of depression on human patients.
>This also resulted in a discussion of how it's unthinkable that Mozilla can install an extension without asking you.

You snark, but at the end of the day, they really shouldn't be installing stuff silently and without affirmative consent. The character of the stuff is irrelevant to this principle.

Comes under the heading of "not their job".
You're overlooking the Technic sets, which let you build real machiney machines. Plastic machines, yes, but working ones; in addition to the motorized vehicles and such (often with things like working gearboxes), back in the 80s, there was a Mindstorms predecessor that let you connect Lego sensors and motors to a box that was controlled by an Apple II computer and write programs in a Logo dialect. (The word "Mindstorms" comes from Seymour Papert, who collaborated with Lego.) Enterprising kids built working, computer-controlled pen plotters, model cranes, mechanical arms, even a replica of the original Logo "turtle" (a wheeled robot with a retractable pen that drew on paper on the floor).

There's like a huge ecosystem for this stuff, and it all interoperates seamlessly with the normal brick Lego pieces.

I see Lego and Meccano as optimizing for different variables: Meccano for verisimilitude, and Lego for ease of assembly and reconfiguration.
Love, defined widely.

The classic dyad, caring about someone deeply and having them care about you, is a great way to do that.

But even if you’re unpartnered, or partnership isn’t your thing, the best parts of life are often when you’re caring for others.

After that, it’s more about knowing how you’re wired and doing whatever serves that. I need to spend a lot of time in physically beautiful places and experience novel sensations and adventures. Other people are homebodies.
Tired of the same news every week.

Nothing is gonna change at least until Trump is out of office and given his judicial nominees and appointees maybe even decades after.

Sad but true.

Maybe Musk's satellites will help, but even Google failed here, so remain pessimistic.
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Culture is formed by repeated individual choices from above and below. Many people pushing back on unreasonable expectations is how expectations can be kept reasonable.
FWIW it hasn't worked too well overseas. I tried it in Sweden and my "normal" credit card works but whatever vendor they were using at Pressbyrån did not like whatever setup Apple has (they took discover)
I got an iphone from work and I was shocked at how little Siri could do.

Given all the hype from my friends and the commercials, I expected something outstanding.

Nope, significantly worse than google's assistant.

That was the start of my complete disappointment in apple as I continued to use an iphone and wonder- Why is anyone buying this?
It's one of many questionable design decisions in the systemd project, in my view. The other one that I really dislike is the entire logging system moving away from plain text files toward binary journals and complex commands to view them.
I think I now know how the electrical engineers felt in the '50s and '60s.
Not trying to be rude, but why hopefully? I guess with the providence in question, this is also a good example of the fungible properties of money :D.
>their needs are subordinate to the needs of the individuals and departments who are actually paying for it.

Are you implying people are paying for dropped calls and poor performance as a feature?
I have not worked in medical (my experience is in games) but my best guess is its more about reliability and predictability. Using a heap suffers from the fact that you can run out of memory to satisfy a malloc/new request (either due to system memory limit or due to fragmentation).

With static memory techniques you can "prove" the system has enough memory to work in all modes, i.e. device consumes 20 readings per second, keeps them in a ring buffer backed by a static fixed array, that buffer is large enough to satisfy processing rate.
> In social media's early days, Mr. Williams said, "addiction was the goal."

> "Not in the cigarette sense — it wasn't as cynical," he added. "It was just a game, like: 'This is fun. How do we make it more fun and addictive?'"

> But he is not convinced that the problems with social platforms can ever be fully solved, nor does he believe it's entirely incumbent upon tech companies to solve them. Ultimately, Mr. Williams said, it will be up to users to choose, and stick to, their own information diets.

Sounds a lot more like cigarette companies than Williams thinks.

They, too, tend to operate under a philosophy of, "Hey, we're just giving people a CHOICE to smoke tobacco. Why blame us if people take us up on it?"
This is so ridiculous. Obviously there are some boundaries that are unreasonable. What if I don't like when anyone of the opposite sex sits within 50 meters of me? Should everyone cater to my boundaries, or am I just being ridiculous?
What's with the full-page splash that just says "Common Lisp" with no indication that you need to scroll to get to the content. This is worse than the 1990's "Click here to enter the site" silliness.
Deep Packet Inspection Using GPUs [pdf]
"To obtain its high precision, we trained Duplex's RNN on a corpus of anonymized phone conversation data." - Yaniv Leviathan
Article 24: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
If the law says someone must be at 0.08 or above, and the machine margin of error is 0.01, then the machine should have to read 0.09 before someone is penalized.
Amazon boxes have tapered edges
Epigenetics is a nascent field and it has become easier to get funding for such studies. That s my guess
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Can't that model be pushed out to each local device on a regular basis, and sending back the dynamic enhancements of the local copy (from your own usage) could be opt-in? The master wouldn't grow nearly as quickly, but it could be a decent compromise. Or maybe it would grow almost as quickly, if its owner also had a fully hosted option that enough people used.
I want to get rid of my alexa, but my wife uses it as a kitchen timer.

We literally dont use it for anything else.

Might get one of those philips light sets since our living room is weird... Tbh, id rather not use alexa..
The usefulness of the notification center depends on the applications you run, I think. I recall putting a lot of work into 3rd party notification centers ages ago on PCs that didn't have a system one.

Certainly I use the PC one enough that I have the keyboard shortcut memorized and use it a bunch (Win+A). Interestingly, I find I often need it most in games, as the Windows version of the Xbox Guide, the Game Guide Bar, (even with the improvements in the recent April release), doesn't make it as easy to interact with things like Party Chat and Game Invite notifications as the Xbox Guide does on the Xbox One (where the Guide doubles as the Notification Center).
> additional course work in AI-related subjects such as statistics and probability, computational modeling, machine learning, and symbolic computation

How is this automation and not AI?
How many years do we have to fix this then? Alternatively, at what point will activists start saying we passed the point of no fix and give up their activism?
Just curious, what laptop do you have? I'm always open to hearing constructive criticism like this, and it's something we've been more aggressively addressing with recent products. But I'd love to know which product it is so I can share that feedback with our team.
Use go-mysql-elasticsearch to automatically sync MySQL data into Elasticsearch
Scala cracks the top 20 in major TIOBE reshuffle
Related: China has just published the first AI textbook for high-school students.

http://www.scmp.com/tech/china-tech/article/2144396/china-lo...
At Singularity time "Super AI" will provide us everything people will need for living. Automated food production, all that. Human will be excluded from production chain. Communism will come, want we it or not.

And so what 10 billion of us will be doing?
Constructing pinball machines from Lego... and that's in the best case ...
You certainly should worry about the possibility of zero day attacks either when using FOSS or a proprietary solution.

If the provider of a proprietary solution stops offering it you might have no easy path of migration where as hypothetically FOSS solutions are easier to self host or find a new hoster for (and thus reducing the cost of a potential migration)
right? Most DEs offer solutions to problems that simply don't exist. Take the launchbar on the left-hand side for instance. Being able to launch apps quickly is handy. But why waste valuable screen space for it? A simple launcher that can be activated with a keyboard shortcut is enough imho.
There were some profit margins of big ISPs published - they are insane, and near monopoly situation makes it pretty bad, when ISPs rip off users left and right.
A vote here for Teleport. Anyone doing any large scale management of SSH should take a good look at it.
There is more than one way to construct a synthetic identity, but in most cases that I've been aware of, a stolen SSN is used to construct the totally fake identity.

Using a completely fake SSN instead of a stolen SSN is what distinguishes "synthetic identity theft" from "synthetic identity fraud".

The identities in both cases are completely fake, but only in the identity theft case is the synthetic identity backstopped by a legitimate SSN that belongs to a real person somewhere. If that real person is a child or "off the grid", then the CRAs have no idea who the real person is and their SSN is ripe for creating a synthetic identity that will probably go undetected for years.
I dunno what it should be called (including the possibility that "AI" is exactly right).

I do know that I focused on AI in my electives for UMich's CS degree circa 1990, and from the sounds of it the AI I studied will have literally nothing in common with what is described as AI for CMU's new degree.
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Land of Lisp worked well for me. Can't remember any major issues. (That said, I think I also used racket for most of the work, so I had to change some things consciously.)

Though, this is a bit of a hard problem for authors. Most code that can fit as snippets or short examples does not have what any code in real projects would have. To that end, the code is literally made mainly for you to try and simulate in your head. Running on a computer is a convenience and should be used, but the goal is to internalize it all. Right?
That is the thing that the “lock into a vendor” people don’t understand. You build your own stuff and you can lock yourself into your own stuff and it can be incredibly hard to get out.

I’ve seen it happen time and time again. Companies write their own frameworks, build systems, hardware provisioning systems, analytics systems, you name it... all to avoid “lock in”.

All of that home brew stuff usually sucks. Almost all of it becomes abandonware that one or two people in the company know how to change. Why? Cause all that stuff has nothing to do with how the business delivers value. All of it should have been provided by third party packages.

But now the company got big and they are locked into shitty homebrew garbage that would take a massive political and engineering effort to get out of.

Moral: it is just as easy to lock yourself into your own garbage as it is to lock yourself into a third party. Leave stuff that doesn’t add value to your business to people whose business it is to build that stuff. Beware of doing everything in-house.
You know, there's a sensible middle point between the two extremes!

It's important to ask questions like that – "what happens if this service got away / becomes unaffordable / removes features we depend on". There's risks in that sense with using proprietary technology. Sometimes it'll be worth it, because the benefits of allowing you to deal more quickly with business problems will outweigh the technical risk. But I've definitely been in more than a few situations where a vendor has shut down a product or service that I depended on, resulting in a difficult or time-consuming migration.

Some of this risk is ameliorated by using open or popular standards and systems. Intel's not likely to stop producing x86 chips; GitHub is probably going to continue supporting git; Linux isn't going anywhere anytime soon. It's worth thinking about before using a service that nobody else offers!
Adding a few more to the list, Algol, PL/I, PL/S, NEWP, BLISS, Mesa, PL/8, xBASE, RPG, PL/M, NewtonScript, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Component Pascal, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Zonnon, StarLisp, StarC, Concurrent Pascal, Concurrent C, Forth
Well, as Bucephalus355 pointed out in another comment, Oracle has a similar feature and it's not implemented using snapshots.
I don't mean styling for the sake of looking stylish, I mean styling for readability. Line spacing, page width (reading text that takes up full width of a 27" is not nice), section grouping/separation, title size, use of colour (e.g. for titles to increase visibility of section grouping, for background/font to decrease stark contrast), sans-serif font (greater readability on a screen vs on paper), etc are all valid design considerations.
Yikes, this article is so myopic. They treat large "ISPs" as if they are a single independent entity. The largest ones are owned and operated by gigantic corporate interests, and their sales figures are part of a broader plan, and thus so is pricing. The profits of "EPB Fiber Optics" don't go towards paying for content rights worth billions of dollars a year.

The larger the network, the more expensive it costs to maintain and upgrade. Of course a tiny regional co-op ISP doesn't cost much to run. They don't have 25 million customers in 21 states, or 145,000 miles of fiber in 39 states.

I mean, jesus, this article goes all over the place. It's saying provisioning isn't expensive, and suggests that deployment cost is lowered by changing building codes to require conduit. How does that affect the 91 million homes that already exist?

The article states that net neutrality "prohibits [ISPs] from charging unjustified fees on Internet services". No, it doesn't. They can charge whatever they want for their services. They will increase the price of internet services whether or not net neutrality exists, because it is not getting any cheaper to run a giant ISP that is responsible to the shareholders of a media conglomerate.

If the author really thinks the only reason big ISPs charge high fees is because they're mean and greedy, they really are going to lose this fight, mainly from a lack of critical thinking skills.
For 3, std::optional has the has_value() method.

std::optional<int> a = foo();
if(!a.has_value()) { return; }
bar(a);

is pretty standard.

Though, with exception handling you get function chaining which can be rather nice.
AI's curse is that once it becomes mundane people call it "automation".

I think that having a focused degree in AI makes sense. I think that AI has reached the level of maturity that a separate curriculum should be made for it.

Just as we had no distinction between computer scientists and software engineers we now face a world where AI and or Data Science require a different focus on education.
A customizable, scalable font made entirely of CSS and HTML
For people like me that need updated drivers for hardware reasons and really don't want to deal with a new UI, there is always the option of newer kernels.

I personally use this method, which is easy to use, upgrades automatically via the normal apt mechanism, and has never once failed me.

https://askubuntu.com/a/236458/498460

I'm on the `hwe-16.04-edge` kernels, and they've been great for me, although the `hwe-16.04` kernels are still kept up to date quite well.
Because it's a platform agnostic way of sending images.

IMO this is actually a really good decision given the purpose of the service. A lot of my older family members that I will likely invite to my new account (great idea btw) are familiar with sending pictures through SMS and don't really use any other messaging apps or many apps at all, if their phone even supports apps. Believe it or not many older people and some younger people still rock low powered phones with little or no data plan. However most if not all phones made within the last decade can send SMS messages and more than likely are on a plan with free texting.

Why should I need to download another app that is a glorified REST client when SMS does the job perfectly well?
I think it’s more like 60 to 80 hours per week of “work”, both personal and professional. A society set up for 60 hours a week would have you outsource pretty much all housework, shopping and assorted chores in order not to burn out. I believe it when people routinely do 70 hour weeks, but only if they don’t have a personal life of their own that they sink effort into.
>Either way, there is no financial incentive to produce less methane.

There is a distinct thermodynamic incentive to reduce methane, because the methanogenic bacteria are "eating" the energy that the cow would otherwise absorb.

This translates directly into a financial incentive, because the cows require less feed.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1d58/15b6d22d81070c173f6281...

>Methane is a by-product of the microbial fermentation of carbohydrates in the diets of ruminant animals. Because cattle can lose about 6% of their dietary intake energy as CH4, substantial research to estimate this production and to reduce CH4 emissions has been completed (Johnson and Johnson, 1995).
Modula-2 had a good developer community in Amiga and MS-DOS systems, at least across a few European countries.
We're talking about different things, I'm talking about initial adoption of AWS for new, speculative ventures, it sounds like you are talking about transitioning to AWS from an already existing going concern. I agree with you on the latter case that the risk profile of a transition towards introducing AWS is totally different. Typically posts here that warn against adopting vendors due to lock-in concerns are targeted towards people asking about the risks for their new project.
I was gently ribbing my friends about their woes and complaints with Skype over the past few years (one in particular had repeated bouts of skype throwing up ads _with audio_) and commenting that my Mac client was just as usable as it's always been.

Alas that that's no longer the case, we've moved all our casual chat (and voice, and video, and screenshare) to Discord and haven't looked back.
Yes, and I would argue that under any reasonable way of quantifying generosity your generosity would be "measured" at around $1.2m, and qualitatively I think it is fair to apply the term "generous" to you.

An isomorphic situation is if Congress passed a law matching at a 1.2:8.8 ratio every charitable donation made to Watsi, and next year you donate $1.2m to Watsi; you end up with $1.2m less, Watsi ends up with $10m more.
I love i3. It's the only computer interface I have used where I feel like there is absolutely no friction between me and the applications I need to run.

I don't really have to make any modifications to the config either. I change the fonts to my liking and swap dmenu for rofi and I'm more or less good to go.
smh...this is terrible security 'advice'. tl;dr security via compliance is better than nothing; do 'the basics'.
Absolutely! I was reading these replies and thinking nothing made sense. Didn't realise there were companies trying to use consumer Skype for their corporate calls.

We have SfB handling everything at work - including PSTN - and it works fabulously all the time.
I can't wait to hit my 50s. Sorry, Sally. Teenagers are tough!
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Well it's actually quite a bit cheaper to do data in volume, buying dark fiber or laying it your self will give a much better return if you can use it all.

Generally referred to as Economies of Scale. It goes for most businesses.
> Then they must justify those costs with features that sound like they produce big values. Typically these are not going to be things that make users' lives easier, they are going to be things that users may never see, like analytics and back-office integrations.

Yes, and depending on the enterprise, these "big features only there to justify high costs" may not actually be needed or useful or relevant. It might be 'OK' to have a bunch of interns slap something together, if it only needs to be "real" enough to look pretty and look functional in a few demos or in a few specific happy-day cases.

Analytics and Reporting is probably the most common example I've seen of this -- it's not a bad feature on it's own, but companies will sometimes pay top dollar for it, even in places it makes no sense and/or will never get used. If that gets delivered in a broken/unusable state, it's "ok" because the customer will never actually click that button anyway.

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If "New Skype" is "enterprise communication support" in a corporate feature list (and not a real product filling a real need, as it used to be) then I can see how a broken or unusable Skype could still be a 'success' for Microsoft.

Note: I don't agree with any or support any of this. But I've seen this play out in real life enough to know it happens.
It’s the same reason we can’t have cheaper, better healthcare. Our government is controlled/lobbied/influenced by people who stand to profit.