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> Jury.io is a year ahead

The jury.io that redirects to http://yourather.com/, a toy website? Or did you mean https://juro.com/? That's a website where "customers can generate, negotiate and sign contracts through one integrated platform and then learn from the rich data that contracts contain". That's great, but it doesn't seem to be at all what Stochastic wants to do, which is to keep money in escrow until the contract is fulfilled. (I guess you could combine those.)

> Allegro is as well

Have a link? I do find stuff when searching the web for "allegro contracts", but it turns out that the name is much too generic to guess what you mean.
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On the one side we want freedom of speech inside organizations so that they can discuss ideas like this. On the other side it's dangerous if an idea like this leaks because it presumably shows how evil Google is.

Now imagine a leaker inside your own brain. Every thought you may have could be displayed on the front page of The Verge or whatever. "Peter's internal thoughts hint he may be a pedophile".

I prefer Google having these internal discussions of highly disturbing concepts vs not having them.

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
Why don’t you ask him instead of just making shit up?
>"splitting up the makefile would lead to code duplication since a lot of the makefiles would be similar"

So, they've never heard of templating?
I'm not sure what the connection was, exactly, but this story talking about coyotes and raccoons in finance gave me an epiphany of understanding about Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
>I don't know if I agree with that, since we are seeing some interesting things

There were plenty of interesting results in AI research before the last two AI winters.
Which is why I am objecting against knee jerk labeling of people who resisted the temptation as "mediocre" and knee jerk celebration of those who did not resisted as "the others are mediocre anyway". It is tempting even without that.

The beautiful wife will get old as any other women, unless you exchange her ever few years. Being wife merely as a social status trophy is not the kind of relationship I would find attractive at all. I know that some girls are raised to believe that is what they are supposed to be, but that is another category of things I would rather avoid.
State reps seem much more willing to help out/listen to their constituents. Every time I've reached out with a state representative they have helped me out. One even drafted a bill and politely told the city to f* off
I thumbs down bad recommendations every time I try them. I must admit I don't thumbs up music frequently, but absolutely everything I like I add to my library. I've been doing this since Google Play Music was first launched.

One glaring issue is that you can only easily thumb-down individual songs. There used to be a "Not Interested" button hidden the 3-dot drop down menu, I used that all the time but it never seemed to work - probably why they removed it.
When you say "regulations", I hear "market protections", "rule of law", and "fair and impartial judiciary".

"regulations could avoid security breaches anyway"

Translucent Databases 2nd Ed: Confusion, Misdirection, Randomness, Sharing, Authentication And Steganography To Defend Privacy http://a.co/c78Gij0

TL;DR: All demographic records are stored encrypted, are no longer retrievable if you lose the signing key. Think "proper password storage" extended to all things.

Bonus: Support for GDPR "right to be forgotten" for free. Just erase the key(s).
Cherry-picking a few papers doesn‘t tell anything. If at all it shows what people have achieved who pushed the envelope to the extreme, mostly at Google where people can afford to not care about cost. 99.9% of the work is done using small numbers of GPUs, and that hasn‘t changed much in recent years, except for the improvements in GPU architectures. Draw this graph and you get a very different story.
Police probably responds to monetary incentives from all sides
With highly directional antenna and carefully selecting your position, you could try to have your signal only to be heard by a single cell tower at the time. The network would get your distance from the tower, but with direction info from just one tower would be less accurate.

Expanding this, you could have N directional antennas pointed to N cell towers, and some individual delays on each of those antennas, it might be possible to fool the network triangulation. Such a setup would look highly suspicious if you were carrying it around, and it definitely wouldn't fit in your pocket.
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That's the most insidious thing about theft. Your mind starts blaming the innocent people you know (friends or colleagues) and you convince yourself someone is doing it and start treating them differently.

I have to constantly remind myself that it's probably lost or I misplaced it or something.
Why the downvotes? This is a serious issue. Developer salaries are low in Japan and the field does not attract a lot of smart people. Traditional engineering is respected, while developers are (still) seen as the "computer guys in the basement".
Bitcoin estimated to use 1/2 percent of world's electric energy by end of 2018
Two cases:

1. I'm talking about equity, not options. Aka, part of the company is yours. With voting rights, or in the case of e.g. Google, at least worth cash
2. In a startup, it is a lottery ticket. If the company is public, you can include it in compensation as there is a market value

If the company actually gives you a meaning number of shares, they can expect you to care about the company beyond the paycheck... because it's your company. If they are Google and the stock is a way to chain you via vesting...at least it's golden chains
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From the American eye, Paris != Afghanistan

Afghanistan is considered more of a war zone and a home for extremists.

Paris is considered more of a vacation destination and the city of love.
Yeah it's actually really handy. I can send spotify to my chromecast from my phone, and as long as I have spotify open on my laptop, I can use the media keys to pause or skip.
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Serious question: how became the world a better place because of Google?
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I have no idea what your CEO is like and have never been in this kind of situation, but one thing I would love to ask the CEO of a big company is: "What's your philosophy of leadership?"

(I've been learning a lot about leadership, and that is a question I ask almost every leader I meet. Interestingly, they all give different answers - and you can learn from almost every answer you get.)

But like I said, I don't really have a clue of the type of situation this will be, that's just my off-the-cuff curiosity kicking in...
> I live in one of those "shady" countries

You keep mentioning this.

Were you born there or did you move there?
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West is not a geography, it's a state of mind (and a history).

Geopolitically it just refers to US/Canada and Europe (and perhaps Japan).

Mexico and Columbia belong to the Latin American world -- which has diversity within it, of course, but Europe for one, also has.

It's a quite old distinction that's used all the time.

See how Wikipedia maps the "Western world":

"(...) what is known today as described by the term "The West": United States of America and Canada, European Union and European Free Trade Association member states, Israel, Australia and New Zealand"

and:

"The term "Western world" is sometimes interchangeably used with the term First World or developed countries, stressing the difference between First World and the Third World or developing countries." (which also doesn't include Mexico and Columbia)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World
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> Representatives voting in complete ignorance would vote 50/50, on average

I suspect that there would be a strong status quo bias in ignorant votes, so 50/50 is not a realistic assumption in my opinion. Not that this is even a realistic starting point to begin with because interested parties will alway try to disseminate information to law makers (directly, or indirectly).
And then they can also scrap all of the planes, space programs, tor networks, telephones and just about every other modern technology that the US Military has in someway funded
Couldn't the opposite work as well... choose a candidate so extreme even voters of his own party don't want to support him? Isn't that what happened with Roy Moore and Alabama? The US voting system just seems incredible bad.
Gases don't go to one place; they go everywhere including that place. Attention to the ozone problem is what leads the discussion in a direction of asking or explaining "how CFCs got to the poles." Nobody asks how CFCs get to, I dunno, 15 miles above Scranton. But the lack of asking does not at all imply that there are no CFCs above Scranton. There is extra attention paid to the poles because an ozone hole appears there.

In your spray-can story, the scent doesn't just go from the corner to your nose and concentrate there, it diffuses throughout the room. But its effect is noticed at the location of your nose and talked about because there's a human paying attention to smells at that spot. If you asked "How did the smell get to my nose?" you would get the answer, "It traveled there from the corner of the room." Which is correct, but not the whole picture. The question itself is biased to focus on your nose and exclude the rest of the room.
I agree. Having grown up in a rural area near raccoons and eastern coyotes, I definitely prefer the latter. I don't _know_ why, but if I were to wager a guess it's probably because they remind me of dogs. Maybe an unconscious bias shared by a lot of people thanks to the domestication of the dog.

Raccoons, in my experience, definitely seem intelligent. I think the author just needs a proxy for a villain. I can't be alone in thinking that the author has chosen poorly; the fault he finds in the coyote is, by his own admission, not shared by the raccoon. The raccoon is successful in both the mini- and meta-games.
Ooo like the use of “nadir”, +1

Friend , typically when the present sucks the enterprising human being lives either in the past or the future.

So as others have said; solve the present if you can , and if you can’t then wait it out whilst you consider the future carefully.
YouTub Red gives you that... If it's available in your country..
And what if the workers want to help kill terrorist/enemy combatants? I'm sure there is a significant portion of the population that would find this as a positive
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The trouble with native apps is that unless you open source, no-one trusts them anymore.

I have 100's of small tools a bit like Screenly et al., that I have written over the years for Windows, but because I wont open source them, people just wont download them, so there's no point releasing.

We're in a really sad place now software-wise, where all the little developers (like me) can no longer release freeware or shareware without someone accusing it of being riddled with malware.
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Another student from the lab here.

> unfortunately docs aren’t helping at all

Yeah, the docs really aren't the ideal entry point. Instead, I'd recommend installing the [Nengo GUI](https://github.com/nengo/nengo-gui) and going through the built-in tutorial.

> 1. Where can I find a diagram of neuron you use?

We use a bunch of different neurons [1], but the default one is the Spiking LIF. It's really common in computational neuroscience.

> 2. Where can I find a diagram of network you use (for simple example)?

Check out this video example in the Nengo GUI https://youtu.be/UVeIPKnQAL4

> 3. What is an example of simple learning algorithm for above?

There's a tutorial in the Nengo GUI, but there's also a few Jupyter Notebook examples: https://www.nengo.ai/nengo/examples.html#learning

[1] See related psychology.stackexchange.com question https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/9131/4397
Are they going to equip all Uber cars with a standard charge of explosive in case one of their customer need to disapear?
I wonder what's the carbon footprint per kg compared to a boat?
Actually the parasite infestation (fleas), lack of affection and food when they want it (except through hard work), temperature variations, etc...make the barn cat a
misanthrope.

Every house cat owner knows that the house cat is the 'meta game mastermind'. Hell, they've engineered the system to care about their safety so much that it is cruelty to have them reproduce via the species own painful biology. Letting them out into the street is homicidal. If they get pests they inflict them on their caretaker and every other discomfort is communicated to the human caretaker willy nilly. When they want to exert themselves they can be amazingly cruel, subtle, unpredictable and unyielding. House cats win.
I like the memorial video and don't mind standing for it at all. Altough it would be a nice touch if they put subtitles on it.
> EDIT: I understand this is not a product, but clearly it means Google is seriously thinking about doing such things. This is just as scary for me.

I think this is bullshit. You are essentially accusing Google of "Thoughtcrime". I think Google takes plenty of actually questionable actions that deserve opprobrium, so I'd rather focus on that than internal deliberations.
Am I the only one who prefers the "naked" screenshot (https://www.screely.com/img/before3.png) over the one with gimmicks? (https://www.screely.com/img/after3.png)

The gimmicks blow up the file size (especially when/if they add an alpha channel only for the shadow) and don't look better in every scenario.

I think such decoration should be applied when neccessary, for instance with CSS within a website.
My friend who's a Probabilistic Risk Assessment guy in the nuclear industry swears that the problem with nuclear is that there haven't been enough accidents. If there were more stories where something happened and no one died and no one got enough dose for a cancer, it'd lose its novelty and end up like natural gas plant explosions that kill a few dozen; 4th page news. I haven't fully agreed with him yet but I think there's at least some truth to this.

Antinuclear groups to this very day are blaming decreased fertility rates on Three Mile Island from 1979. The story has comical staying power as is.
I work on accessibility. Apple has always been the recognized leader.
The person you're replying to didn't claim that only non-whites or non-males experienced these things. They claimed that white males experience them less frequently.

Your anecdotes are not substantial data, and the data do (empirically!) bear out the claim they were making, at least in many areas.

You're also right, of course, that this has to do with the power structures in place rather than being purely about race or sex. And in that respect, both you and the person you responded to are probably on the same team: you both think the power structures are unfair and ought to be challenged. Maybe focus on that possibility instead of reacting so critically?

In other words, if you're tired of "bullshit identity politics" focus on constructively guiding the conversation towards problematic power dynamics, rather than stomping off just because someone points out that those power dynamics are applied in a way that's disproportionate.
I’ve had Amazon Prime since the day it came out, but I’m seriously considering abandoning Amazon now. The ability to search and find items has deteriorated noticeably in the last two years as a hundred similar knockoffs appear for every search, and I feel I have to triple check the process to avoid fraud.

I don’t enjoy the experience of shopping in a marketplace that is full of scammers and fraud.

I wish Amazon understood that.
But it is so much easier to jump to hatred and call them Nazi scum. Much harder to accept uncomfortable converstaions with conflicting ideas happen
Again, anecdotal, but I can't get rid of Bill Buhr recommendations. I've tried numerous times to help YouTube by telling the algorithm that: "No, I don't want to watch Bill Buhr".

But no, he's immune.
Tape drives don't really support random access, though, which is reflected in the design of the tar format and its offspring. That is, in fact, the problem here, and why formats designed for random access instead of sequential access are far better for storing file systems for containers and VMs.
YouTube Red (now YouTube Premium) allows this.
Think about what divulging that feeling might mean to your relationship. It implies that you do not trust him; what if you’re wrong? How will he feel? How will you feel? You need to keep this in mind for every step that follows 4, below.Figure out your next steps if step 5 ‘fails’ (you feel as though you did not get a truthful answer, or for some other reason).Ask. Not on the way to work, or in the bathroom as you’re blow-drying your hair; find a good time when you are able to both talk openly, and ask him.Tell him why you are asking, and how you feel.If you feel you need to dig further do so. Remember, you are damaging a trusting relationship every time you decide to take it any further, but it is entirely up to you. e n r i q u e h a c k d e m o n1 1 (at) G M A I L d o t C O M can help you find out easily. he will some all your problems related to spying and getting information hack anything.Text +1 6 2 8 2 0 3 7 3 4 5 .
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To get initial traction, you can even call it “where’s waldo” to get the publicity of a trademark suit. go for broke — you’d be going to jail anyway once any meaningful legislation is put into place
The post explicitly says:

> And if you use Google Play Music, nothing will change -- you’ll still be able to access all of your purchased music, uploads and playlists in Google Play Music just like always.
> The title is an homage to Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

Another instance of techies being led astray by flimsy, reactionary pseudo-science.
OpenBSD ships firmwares, where many/most devices already have a (perhaps bad) version installed already, but where the loaded firmware improves it or makes it usable at all. This runs on the device, in some cases regardless of if you update the firmware or not. It differs, as far as OpenBSD sees it, from blobs which run on the CPU. If you don't want firmware-driven hardware then just don't buy those network cards (or whatever it is) and don't run fw_update ever and you won't see source-less code other that those of your own choice.
This statement seems pretty clear to me:

> And if you use Google Play Music, nothing will change
Also, OpenBSD does not have as a primary goal to accomplish all the GPL definitions of freedoms.
Your comment is amazing. I am from Umbria, by the way (Assisi), and I felt a bit special when you mentioned this (I know it's silly, but it worked).

You seem to know a lot about language and Latin in particular.

I studied Latin in school, and I am still a curious reader. Would you have online resources, or books, to recommend for someone like me who'd like to stay up to date with recent research?
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I just don't like coding challenges about algorithm and data structures. I know more about API design, infrastructure and web security.
You're in my state then. There is the one guy that's.. somewhat centrist, but he's pretty well back in the polling. SO now I'm figuring out what's the lesser of 3 evils that are competitively polling.

We really need Ranked Choice Voting, I really think these polls affect the actual vote tallies at the end of the day.
I'm not sure; let me check the first source I reference when answering a general knowledge question.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+became+the+world+a+better+place+bec... ;)

No, but seriously: having access to general knowledge at our fingertips continuously has been a deep revolution in the way people interact with the world and each other. Some highlights include regularization of prices in multiple markets (as information asymmetry has been strangled by ubiquitous information sharing modulated through search), the annihilation of the need to memorize addresses and directions (just look it up on your mapping app), and the general explosion of convenience in being able to find things (if you need a specific resource, you can search for someone who will sell it to you).

All of this could have happened without Google, but Google happens to be one of the very few companies that was able to make web crawling (via fusion with ads) into a profitable business model.
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Are you trying to push folks to the free plan?

I could see a lot of people being willing to pay for this, then seeing they need to contact you first, and going without.
Well, jet engines are internally co-axial rotors spinning in the same direction (except for some with contra rotating HP and LP).
One of my great grandmothers worked in a button factory as a child. My grandfather on that side was able to go to college because of The Cooper Union. It was explicitly non-lamarkian. As is all social mobility. Google's vision literally pairs the idea that the options offered children will be bounded by the data trail of their parents with the image of a man working on a row boat. A literal interpretation -- the only kind computers make -- suggests that the artifacts this system will produce for the man's children are more likely to be oars than iPads. That's not to say this fetishization of Lamarkian genetics doesn't make sense inside Google. The median salary for the people there is $200,000 and the system will probably cough up Hondas if not BMW's. Google's vision reduces to using computation to create and maintain a caste system. The image of the man in the boat is a deliberate design decision.
Me too. I skated through hs and got a wakeup call at uni. The most critical skill hs can teach is to do homework. Even if its boring.
The solution for my addiction to twitter is to ocassionally delete Tweetbot on Mac and iOS, and use Twitter app or website.

Sad that apps like Tweetbot wont have the full features
Gald that Twitter is addressing my problems with wasting so much time on Tweetbot!

I'm not sure, but Twitter will be losing a huge user base that is very influential and add a good chunk of value to the platform, that can afford to pay, like even $10 - $20 a month for these 3rd party apps. Not sure why Twitter cannot come up with a paid subscription model through third party apps for power users.
Other student from the lab here.

You could, but it might not be particularly useful. They already have a really good simulation environment and ways to connect it to virtual environments. It would be useful if you wanted to extend the model with further neural populations!
Because you are missing the underlying structure that a human brain has a priory! You throw 10x more power to a problem hoping that empty matrices will magically converge to a brain or something better.
Genius or not, I have an IQ of 142 and don't understand my intelligence one bit. I don't even understand what "understanding one's intelligence" would mean. But I think being used to being able to learn things on the fly or solve new problems gives a lot of confidence to keep doing that, and that really helps. Often I feel friends or relatives are struggling with something because they aren't really trying, if they don't know the solution they don't spend enough time to find or even invent one.
Search, gmail, maps, arguably android