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The core ideas behind Prolog have the feel of something discovered rather than invented, and I bet we'll see significant new forms of it yet.

My first encounter with it was while taking a Principles of Programming Languages course that I hadn't been attending regularly... We had a test on Prolog four days out and I hadn't learned a bit yet. I found a couple books in the library—one of which was excellent—and was soon so absorbed by it that I learned everything I needed out of sheer interest and got a perfect score on the test.

Some six years later—the whole time not having touched Prolog or even thought about it that I can recall—I got an idea for a programming language. It would be an attempt to model 'schemas' in the human brain. Programs written in it were supposed to reflect human conceptual structure. Once you defined the concept for something, let's say a chair, you could ask it to generate instances. It was in part going to be a language designed from the ground up for procedural content generation.

There were some promising things about it (like a very concise/natural way of defining 'analogy'[0] and other aspects of thought), but ultimately, a couple years after coming up with the idea, I picked up a copy of The Art of Prolog and read the first few chapters (for general edification, and so that I'd be more aware if it were applicable to something I was working on). By that point, I felt pretty convinced that my language idea would only be superficially different from Prolog, and that most of the really interesting ideas were already captured by that language.

One up side to the project was that, after coming up with a pretty detailed plan for how the runtime would work, I decided to write this 'abstract visual debugger' to help me build it (the runtime would involve loads of complex data structure interactions that prior experience taught me were much easier to wrangle if visualized). It still seems like a promising project to me, and I work on it when I get free time. Video here: http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd

I also still have a bunch of random notes/ideas I took down about the language idea I had. Warning—I was pretty excited and they sound a bit like that ravings of a madman: http://symbolflux.com/IntellAgent-ideas.txt I also wrote an ANTLR grammar for it, but that's probably not as entertaining.

[0]

Analogy:
+{original: Type, analogy: Type}
-{

Equivalence{Particularization{Generalization{original}}, analogy}
}

Equivalence etc. are all relation constraints; the run-time would discover a value for 'analogy'. The idea is to generalize whatever the thing is ('increases generality of the attribute Types' —from my notes), fill in values of some params to particularize, and have the constraint held that the discovered analogy is Equivalent to the original (sharing the same structure, which had a definite meaning in the context of the language).
Hah. As soon as I saw your initial setup I knew it was Wargames. The only winning move is not to play. I think you are right. When you add in all of the conditions required to sell a bug like this it becomes obvious (to me) that Google is offering more than you can get anywhere else without a lot of effort and or risk on the sellers part.

And not to spoil the game, but the subset of vulns that fetch good money has only narrowed in the last years as exploit mitigation has improved. The true unicorn 0days of yesteryear are almost always multiple hard earned bugs these days. Bugs in one vendor's project, even Google, it is cool they have such a high end reward, let alone 36k. Unless you crossed a line and exfiltrated data (high risk), I can't imagine getting this much money anywhere else.

Amusingly, 36k does look very similar to ~3wks of boutique infosec consulting, though, so for Google the price while generous probably makes sense.
Youre also just a guy who said a thing though
Now that you say that i think both Allegro and Lispworks both have that...neat!
It's actually not snark. I work in the industry and I legitametely believe Tesla's call to forgo traditional controls is defensible when viewed through this lense. Tesla's current business model is, and has been, 100% dependent on getting the Model 3 to market at the famously touted price of $35,000.

Bringing a car like the Model 3, with all the features promised over the years, into mass production (100k+ per year production rate) within a timeframe required to secure a position in the market where 100k example can be sold necessitates such wild thinking. Yes, it's a terrible design for the driver, but Tesla beat every other manufacturer to the punch by at least 4 years. The "everything is contained in one, basocally off the shelf touchscreen" idea makes part of the ownership experience worse bit it got the Model 3 in consumer's hands at least 1 year earlier than it would have been otherwise and likely shaved a grand or two off the final base price.

I'd never buy a Model 3 because the touchscreen is so offensivley terrible. However, when a quarter million people are willing to put their money down to buy one simply due to the range, pricw point, and expected launch date, then any compromise that helps get the car into their hands as promised, without a revolt among depositors, is "smart" in its own right.
CURL: Would you like some bold with those headers?
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> In Windows, when you type "help", it actually gives you helpful commands: COPY, MOVE, DEL, REN/RENAME, etc. and at least the basic commands are actually what you'd expect. At least you have a foothold somewhere that you can ground yourself, and you start learning a bit more every time.

Yes, this. I recall back in the MS-DOS days that I frequently used a text-GUI help menu that showed all the commands you could do and what each one did.

Personally, this is what I struggle with on *nix shells - I can do the very basics but there's little guidance showing you a broad overview of what is possible. Granted, the world is bigger now but if you asked me how to do a random task I'd probably google it first instead of reading a man page.
I have Comcast and my own modem/router. It’s a good idea to have your modem/router as the article suggests but you’ll have to be tech savvy enough to counteract Comcasts’ tech support people. Every time there is an issue with the internet connection their tech support always say it’s my modem/router that is the problem and that I need to use a Comcast supplied modem/router. It’s annoying and those who are not savvy enough will capitulate and get Comcasts’ equipment.

I hate Comcast and would gladly pay another company double what I pay for internet service with similar speeds. Alas, no such competition exists is my area. I hope Comcast goes bankrupt some day.
Considering the ongoing results, you might save your own career by establishing it....or end it.
Anecdotal, but I got my job at Google through participating in their bug bounty program. The first set of interviews you have that ask general CS questions might not care what you did last week or last year, but when you talk with the team who wants to hire you they certainly do care.
Breaking API between 0.* releases conforms to SemVer: https://semver.org/#spec-item-4
> we show that information cannot be communicated reliably between neurons using a continuous representation

It seems like this doesn't take into account spiking frequencies (where the frequency is a continuous variable), nor the potential for signals with different average magnitudes (even if each signal is inconsistent due to the presence of noise) to have a statistically significant effect over many iterations.
I think this matches up well with how centenarians typically grew up around farm animals. Early exposure to disease builds a stronger immune system to tackle issues later in life.
I have two free password managers. Both iOS. One open source, and one just free.
https://github.com/UCFirefly/Pythonista
Or
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dyfynderx/id1345759526?mt=8
All market interventions have some cost. The idea is that the benefits exceed the costs. The notion that benefits can never exceed costs is wrong on its face but somehow its what everybody assumes. We live in very cynical times.

Prop 13 wouldn't be so damaging if it were easier to build. Unfortunately Prop 13 incentives and/or minimizes the consequences of communities restricting development, so it had this weird feedback effect. Regulations have unintended consequences and so we should be rightly wary of them. But that reality shouldn't be dispositive on whether we should attempt them.

Market dynamics are like gravity: you can't ignore gravity but gravity doesn't make human flight impossible, it just constrains the solution space. Arguing that we shouldn't attempt market interventions is like arguing that we shouldn't have attempted human flight because God didn't equip us with wings or that we should've waited around until we evolved wings.
With property taxes though, don't the incentives for government and property owners align in the desire for higher property values?
> Those two goals seems hard to reconcile.

Historically, cities responded to this by building more housing, thus reducing the tension. In the 1970s, in certain locales like the West Coast, they stopped doing that. Forty to fifty years later, a massive housing crisis resulted.

We could start by acknowledging our mistakes and working to correct them.
It’s nice to see a team of marketers working so hard to convince the masses. Kudos.
That's true, it is just difficult to know what level of expertise your users are at and what responsibility do you have to educate them?
For which potential bad actors has "Alan Beam's" privacy been seriously compromised? He was already known (according to the book) to Theranos and its lawyers as being a whistleblower. It may have been enough privacy for him to make sure Googling his actual name would not bring up Theranos in search results.
It’s always continuous. We get better similarity measurements with floating points.
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> Personally, this is what I struggle with on *nix shells

It's not just the shells! ;)
Dude has cashed out a $10k and $30k bug bounty at the age of 18. Either he's lucky or he's very good. If he's the latter that $400k turns into an annual bounty.

And very, very few Google engineers make that kind of money.
I always "joke" to people we are professional writers. Actually professional infosec consultants, but our life blood is coherently documenting everything we find and making pretty executive summaries. It is hard to overstate how much I have seen the reporting differentiate infosec consulting firms over then years. Which is not to say we don't value the hard technical skills, but writing is really, really important too.
They are still under federal criminal investigation. From the end of the article:

> Meanwhile, the U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco is conducting a criminal investigation that could result in indictments of both Holmes and Balwani.
There's a video at the end of the article where Tim Cook is discussing with Masako Wakamiya,

Tim asks specific questions on accessibility & she enthusiastically answers all of them precisely.She definitely knows what she's doing.

I wish, Tim asked her what difficulty she faced while porting to iPad as she said so.

Nevertheless, the video made me happy.
I have a feeling, based on years of reading peer reviewed material, that the brain can store quantum information or something mathematically similar. Go ahead and down vote me all the way to the loony bin if you'd like... Or read this article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-spin-on-the-quantum-bra...

There have also been empirically successful applications of quantum theoretical ideas to cognitive studies:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cognition?wprov=sfla...

So while I appreciate that the article is taking into account the plausibility of "both" possibilities, it strikes me to be an uncannily "classical" question.
It's both. You could do the former by throwing huge sums of money at the problem.
Google identifies rape victims
It's most likely accounted for. What happens is the plane takes on additional drag with decreased fuel efficiency.

In the industry there is always a high safety factor when it comes to designing systems with human lives at risk. The same applies to something like elevators. Multiple suspension cables can snap and the power can go out and the elevator can still run.
Although I can't read Japanese I love how simple her layout and fast to load her website is.
He is free to believe this. He is free to advocate that his state become a so called right to work state. It’s not the place of the Supreme Court to play the role of the legislature. Janus’ claims to having his free speech impinged are ridiculous. He can’t point to an aspect of free speech that he can’t now do but could if he didn’t help pay for his collectively bargained contract. His claims in this regard are ridiculous.

He’s already entitled to a refund of the portion of union dues (if he decided to join it) that go to political activities. This is the Beck decision in the late 80s.
Surprisingly insightful! I half expected to be shaking my head thinking "oh, the follies of youth, he'll learn the hard way" - but this is a really good list.
I wonder why a religion that seems to have always been from around-about southern Iraq is so concerned with the prophets out of Jewish history.

It makes sense if the religion appeared fairly late, so that Roman Christians could make that history a big thing that others pay attention too. But it is more puzzling if the Mandaens are pre-Christian as they seem to claim.

Other possibilities are (a) Judaism itself is was bigger deal among non-Jews than I imagined or (b) it's a selection effect under Islam: people who happened to revere Jewish prophets could make a strong claim to being "People of the Book" and were thus allowed to keep their religion.
Why a paper on information processing in the brain doesn't mention grid cells http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Grid_cells
Floating point numbers are not continuous.
I suppose you've hit the nail on the head with your final sentence. I do agree with you, though, that my VP is making the appropriate decision given that we're a large enterprise.

At the end of the day, whether I'm a cog in the wheel of a huge machine or a decisive voice at a small startup, the engineer in me just wants to see the best solution realized. I guess that's why I still care, when in reality, I should probably be considering a move elsewhere.

Thank you for your input!
Bringing the same rules to light aircraft as airliners has actually made them less safe. Bringing a new four place plane to market has been cost prohibitive. The majority of new planes built today were designed in the 50’s on slide rules. Imagine if we were all still driving 50’s era automobiles. Luckily, the FAA loosened these rules this week.
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I disagree that San Diego can handle the sprawl. It is sandwiched between seashore and mountains. LA is already naturally expanding to the Inland Empire, which is essentially flat plain.
Was it also the best one you found?
Have you worked much with D8 Commerce? I know it's spoken of highly in the community but after tolerating it since my first deployment of that combo in late 2015, it still feels half baked at best and almost completely undocumented relative to other major Drupal projects.

Why this very evening I'm having to manually re-input authorize.net details because they updated the module with a very poor upgrade path.
Android is probably one of those markets that are more liquid than most for "black market" sources (as talked about elsewhere in the comments for this)
There are still plenty of labors of love all over the place, but my own personal experience is that if you create something as a sincere act of self expression or love for [x], people don't bother with it. I think a lot of what the internet has turned into has also primed us as users to seek that sort of stuff out. I've been trying to distance myself from a lot of services and the meme-o-sphere in favor of occupying the types of sites that used to matter to me (personal web pages, no social media, a couple blogs, rss from a few news sites, SLSK). I have partly HN to thank for this, after reading everyone's disgusting unsympathetic responses to Seattle's "homeless problem," I've distanced myself from the site and don't regret it one bit.

Edit: it really did feel like we were on the verge of the future, but the rise of communications technologies has hobbled all of us, and Idiocracy may be the only future that's possible if we don't slow the ocean currents to a halt first.
Awesome reply! This is why I love HN. I'll be sure to investigate all of the options you've provided, including your own company. It takes a lot of integrity to list your own product last and include a disclaimer to boot. Kudos!
China Couldn’t Keep Growing Like Mad Forever
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Millennials may never be as rich as their parents
Nothing major will happen. If an aircraft loses one wingtip, the aerodynamic drag increases slightly (called the induced drag) which in turn causes a small moment about the vertical axis (yaw moment). The moment can be compensated by applying extra rudder.
Is there any abstraction of Deep Learning on discrete domains? Using discrete calculus from Concrete Mathematics perhaps? Or better a mixed discrete/continuous one? I guess optimization there would be killer...
Please see my reply to @brogrammernot.

tl;dr

You've posed a very appropriate question, one they I find myself replaying over and over as of late.
This is amazing, I've been looking for something like this for years. Now I just need to find the time to watch it...
Just ask my local police department - no point in pissing off your neighbors and voters issuing tickets when you can stick it to people passing through...
LED dimmers introduce another problem in some people, which is the high frequency strobing, which can cause headaches and eyestrain.
Not to mention trying to get different garbage collectors to play nicely together.
Honeycomb Battery Tech Discovery Could Bring 100X Improvement in Device Runtime
Adobe's behavior makes me think more of Oracle than Microsoft:

Acquire a product with a competitive moat, reskin a year later but change no features, attach an enterprise sales force to it to wring the hell out of every last subscription dollar you can get, and then maybe release a few substantive changes when sales begin to slide.
My feeling is it's something more advanced than Quantum Theory we haven't discovered yet ;-) Like when humans had no clue about radioactivity and once we were able to measure it, many things started to make sense.
Did Theranos ever have anything of value that would indicate that they could overcome the obstacles described?

It sounds like they were up against huge obstacles and nowhere near capable of overcoming them. Makes me wonder how anyone thought they could.

Also did the other industry players pretty much know... they had to be full of it?
How HP Survives in a Shrinking PC Market
Yeah, that is important to recognize, but floating point numbers could obviously sample continuous measurements with less loss than integers.
Cities are the greatest economic drivers of societies the world over. Worldwide, people clamor to cities to improve their opportunities. Cities that don't manage this growth achieve congestion; cities that outright block growth experience longtime residents being priced out. Why wouldn't economic policy address one of the major challenges to improved opportunity?

Also, wouldn't you want your kids to be able to afford living in their hometown?

Many interests paint this as an all- or nothing- problem: "the developers just want to pave over Golden Gate Park!" "The NIMBYs just want their property values to increase!"

In reality, nobody credibly advocates this. Building high-density apartments in previously single-family home tracts is one solution. Paris is an excellent example of housing that is both beautiful and functional. Apartments are limited to six stories, and have good public transit available, so congestion isn't like Jakarta.
That seems pretty telling.

If this guy is so far off the mark... then you'll just prove him wrong eventually and what better "f you" is there than that?

If you have to go and have all hands chant like that... I gotta think that guy struck a very real nerve... and he may be right.
Craiglist traffic fell sharply after FOSTA
Distraction free writing seems to be its attraction - e.g. http://journeyto1000.com/distraction-free-writing-pomera-dm1... Sit down and write your 10,000 words towards your novel, blog post etc.
The correct term for these is winglet, which is a special kind of wingtip device. There are other wingtip devices too. For example A380 has wingtip fences.
Zimbabwe built schools. But corrupted it's citizens.
Well, it can certainly be extremely frustrating to deal with user education, especially with users who clearly don't really want to learn. But it helps to imagine that all of us are like this in some ways. I think experience in a call center and as a junior system administrator has made me a more empathetic developer, anyway.
Malaria Genetics: Study Shows How Disease Became Deadly
Rushton (1961) concluded that the neural signaling of a typical human myelinated nerve fiber spanning, say, between a finger and the spinal cord cannot employ a continuous representation due to the presence of noise. Despite these seminal works, computational models based on continuous representation dominate present day neuroscience literature –
for example, continuous attractor networks (Eliasmith, 2005; Wang, 2009).

Sure, we know from basic information theory that any noisy system is inherently discrete. However, depending on the magnitude of the noise, I don't see why we should not describe models in terms of continuous variables.

As an analogy, consider the average numerical computer program. We often derive the underlying math in terms of real-valued vector spaces. However, when implementing the program on a computer system, all variables are ultimately discrete. A reason for not thinking about our problems in terms of discrete objects is that math just tends to get incredibly complicated as soon as objects are discrete; and that the computational substrate is fine-grained enough (in most cases).

Similarly, if noise limits the effective resolution of individual signals or representations in the brain to 5 bits (number taken from the paper), that (in my opinion) still does not mean that we should stop describing computational neuroscience models in continuous spaces -- at least not, if they are validated with the empirically measured amount of noise; which is exactly what Eliasmith's lab (cited above) does (full disclosure: I'm one of his students). Furthermore, as soon as you code information in populations of neurons, the noise on individual connections becomes less important; one could argue that whenever the brain needs precise computations, it dedicates more neural resources to that problem; then, the noise will "average out".
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Yes, $5k covers this costs. A timing belt or break pads are $100 - $200 for the whole thing. Insurance isn't included sure, nor is gas.

According to my mint, on average I spend $500 / year on insurance (two cars) and gas is $1000 / year. I also get things like freedom to drive cross country (which I've done) or go to national parks. Which adds value.

Take all that and its still what:

$8k + $4k + $10k + $5k = $27k

For 8 years... And I gurantee I travel more than 686 rides, as I drive pretty much 365 days a year. Plus it has some value.

In many cases, as with most things, convenience comes at a premium. That's what ride sharing is. I use it too when traveling, but the car is way cheaper long term.
Interesting, that would explain why they ended up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (copper mines).