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I believe algorithmic information theory will turn out to be key to physics, evolution, life, mind - and language, already. But don't yet see how to do it.

> approximate the algorithmic information content of a network

Haven't read the paper, but I'm not seeing how you could approximate it without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

> bias evolving programs toward simplicity [...] Rewarding something like shorter program lengths, for example

Seems the simplest way to incorporate simplicity.

However, e.g. some simple organisms have far longer DNA than us. And as for larger building blocks, e.g. cells, slime molds are unicellular with many features of higher life.

The structure observed in nature is a byproduct of structures being a larger unit to navigate search space: like taking a highway, then main road, then side street to reach your destination. Or to home in on a decimal integer by varying any individual digit, instead of only adding +1 or -1 to the entire number.

The search strategy modifies the probability density over the search space, rather than restricting it (or, explicity modifying the fitness function over the search space), yielding emergent structure.
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So your definition would be "Everything someone does is good for them"?

That reminds me of Austrian praxeology.

Behavioral patterns that lead individuals away from their goals do exist. Such irrationality is what most of behavioral economics policy advice is all about.

It's easiest to explain with the difference in long term goals and short term decision making. There it gets obvious very fast that peoples immediate preferences do rarely reflect their stated and consistent long term preferences.
If there is a "professor" among designers, then why isn't there one among developers?
I always wanted an exhaustive list of name falsehoods. The worst part is probably that I read it with interest... I have no life!
Am I a diva if I think DevOps people are getting in my way from doing what I want?
I have no expertise in the subject, but my intuition says this doesn't hold because the wild you're dealing with entire ecosystems, where everything is evolving together. Through the shared evolution they come to some state of equilibrium. Invasive species, evolved in entirely different ecosystems, have adaptations that allow them to take advantage of foreign ecosystems only because they didn't have to evolve those traits alongside competition.

But, like I said, no expertise, just my initial reaction to your comment.
heat their homes with renewable wood

This is increasingly regulated against, and we wouldn't want more if that even if unregulated.
Same for me. I moved all my code into the GOPATH pattern after finding that I had 3 separate clones of the Linux kernel in separate places. (And not just for development, just for reading and grepping.) I made myself a helper tool for navigating the GOPATH:

$ cg gh:torvalds/linux # cg = cd to git repo
$ pwd
.../src/github.com/torvalds/linux

The code is at https://github.com/majewsky/gofu#rtree if anyone's interested.
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It might be because I'm a little hung over this morning, but all of the linked yt videos make me feel ill.

I get that it's a novel feeling to hear music coming from a "soundstage location" that isn't traditionally used in mixing, but the novelty only lasts for so long, and constantly moving it around just draws your attention to it moving over actually listening to the song.
Is that really practical though? I mean, it makes sense financially and in terms of how we usually do transition, but we’re frankly running out of time, and maybe we need to be radical rather than practical.

I’m old, I’ve seen how we’ve ignored the warnings for the past 30 years. Worse yet, if you ask people on when sollutuons can be ready, they say 10-20 years, and we only have one decade left to stop our own destruction.
I like reading these lists and find them very interesting.

At the same time, I would caution anyone from building software that blindly tries to accommodate every point in these lists.

Every software has a set of requirements, and a target market. It should be built to meet those requirements and anticipate strange situations, but within reason. This is very context sensitive. There is no one ruleset.

At the same time, it should be possible to address edge cases in some reasonable way. For example, if your software does not support pasting images in as names (and therefore cannot represent the prince symbol), it should allow transliterations into a script that it can support. We can't support all cases perfectly, but being aware o them and finding some way to fit them in makes for a better experience.
Culture is created by individuals. But the fact that Google gives large bonuses to employees for giving their patent lawyers topics to pursue is a huge incentive for unethical behavior like described in these anecdotes.

As for the rest of your argument, there’s a big gap between the people who love to share ideas and tech and the people who want to monetize every drop of IP. I think it would take a pretty twisted or cynical mind to even think of patenting something like an electronics-integrated storybook. This is not a remotely new idea (story/picture books with embedded electronics have been around for decades), and there’s no fundamental innovation at the root of these patents. This is just the worst impulses of VC culture out of control.
What about the type of developer who thinks he's a competent UI designer?
paying the same property taxes as everyone else

Not per capita, they aren't.
Income tax is not the only tax. There's tax on fuel, on tobacco. You tax cheap harmful things to make them more expensive to discourage them. Hoarding property is harmful and should be discouraged.

As a side note I think income tax should be 0. VAT as the main source of income seems way more just to me. Plus various taxes to make the environmental cost of activity known to the market (like CO2 tax, fuel tax) or tax on harmful things (like tobacco) to discourage them.
I'm going to bookmark this comment for when people throw the "I have nothing to hide argument" at me
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AFAIK FB will do semi-targetted advertising based on IP alone if there's a very small number of users logged in from that IP.
> Google whose motto is "Don't Be Evil," can't act in the same fashion?

may be that's why they change it with doing right things (for own purpose) - https://bgr.com/2015/10/04/google-dont-be-evil-alphabet/
ASMR is also mentioned in the article. I find it pretty effective at evoking sensations.
This article might be of interest to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18567548
Not really, ObjectBox is an object DB and emphasizes performance (no JSON but FlatBuffers for example).
What happened probably, interviewer wanted to credit himselve.

A company is made out of humans
Have had that idea when I was younger. I no longer support this idea, because I realize that nobody else wants that site to exist.
I don't like this at all.

I listened to this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuDkhSJoryI&feature=player_e...

And it's just too distracting, it doesn't feel like being in the room with the music at all. It just feels like it's going from the left ear to the right ear. It just sounds really weird.

It doesn't invoke the feeling of being at a concert at all, as the sound is constantly "moving" in space. Maybe it would be like being at a concert where I'm in some sort of car circling the stage... With the source of the music constantly changing.
Yes, I understand that but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative#Two_negatives_...
means that the joke is further complicated by, depending on various things, the double negative construction may not actually be saying exactly what is wanted.
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In software it is well known that nobody reads patents who does the actual work in the field. Getting rid of them would not have a meaningful downside in the dissemination of information. Most people in the industry agree software patents are bad for the software industry and they should be abolished.

But, if that’s true for software, why isn’t it true for other fields? Simply put: what evidence is there patents are a benefit to society instead of a harm?
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Can't we just refer to people as a hash of their DNA.. And forget about identical twins.
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I look forward to the day when I can place my vote in the ballot box for a party that tries to integrate the best ideas from different schools of thought to maximise human well-being rather than advocating their chosen ideology and denying that any benefit could come from the other side of the aisle.
Cheerful concurrence. It is worth remembering that most of history and indeed the present can be described in very bleak terms given a little bit of effort.

Humans have good reason to fear the future. The future is very scary. However, the future has always been very scary, and it isn't any scarier now than it has been since the invention of record keeping, where basically the same threats were present. The past is also very scary to anyone who sits down and realises that the people in the past are basically the same as the people in the present.

The future isn't going to be any bleaker than the past, it will be just as full of hope, success and vibrancy.
Netflix needs it bcoz they are making lots of crappy serial nowadays...quantity != Quality
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The intended conclusion isn't explcitly stated, so: private sharing enables this danger; public sharing prevents it, aka publishing.
> Oil and gas are the only reliable Russian exports.

Just to corroborate this, I found this interesting website [1].

"The top exports of Russia are Crude Petroleum ($75.7B), Refined Petroleum ($43.1B), Petroleum Gas ($16B), Coal Briquettes ($10.4B) and Raw Aluminium ($6.08B)"

[1] https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/rus/
AWS provides the Python 3.7 runtime for you, so you don't need to bundle it. The post refers to runtimes that AWS doesn't provide, such as Haskell.
If you want to protect your secrets, you should patent them so when someone figures out your secret, or in this case your creative idea, you have a leg to stand on. Otherwise, they figure out your secret or idea and you have nothing. This is the entire purpose of patents and, despite many of the current issues with patents, they are still effective in many cases.

While you can argue patents are only paper, a valuable patent is worth defending. In this case, she was able to demonstrate prior art, meaning that a patent could not be granted since they have no idea to protect since it's been in the public domain (i.e. released to the world) and not an original/non-trivial idea. This is why academic publication, or in the past the use of laboratory journals, are useful in documenting time of the invention.
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Also somewhat related: Computerphile's video on dates and timezones. Programmers might be tempted to make similar assumptions about dates, times and timezones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
void * and interface{} are not going away when generics come. Try searching for "Object" or "<?>" in some Java code...
It makes sense because this is an AWS supplied executable, where you just upload the .py files.

If you follow the "Run any language" approach, you need to bundle the python interpreter and any libraries required.
You don't understand the problem of clickbait. What people say and what they do are two different things, and you need to choose which to listen to.

This is one of the reasons clickbait was so prevalent on facebook a few years ago - people clicked on these so much that they were ranked very highly. But in user surveys, the same users claimed they hated clickbait and wished it wasn't there. So what do you do?
That example doesn't work precisely because you're conflating the concept of the loop counter (which type represents an integer that needs to be able to go <0) with the array index accessor. There's no reason for these two things to be the same type, it's just a pattern that accidentally works because we allow arrays to be accessed using a type that represents negative numbers.

What would be a more compelling argument is to use int in the same way that python does - a negative accessor means offset from the end of the array, not the start. I'm not sure golang lets you do this though...?
Time to invest.

Sin stocks always go high.
Not wanting to be tracked is normal.
Good idea, but they are not tech companies, so they likely lack the ability to do so.

I guess they could upscale in tech, but how would they pay for it when they can barely earn enough money to fulfill their primary function?

I don’t think publishers have a problem. I think users do. I hate online news as much as everyone, but I still want deep, intelligent and critical journalism, so I subscribed to a paper which sells it.

It’s one of the most successful news papers of my country, financially, and up until April this year they didn’t have a website. They do now, but it’s basically just a digital version (also available in audio from apps) that you can still only access if you subscribe.

I couldn’t be happier, and they earn money. So maybe the whole free content thing isn’t really a good way to go for either the user or the publisher?
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dated possibly this person. all checks out. if it is her let me tell you this -- she spent the whole 3 years passionately writing livejournal type things with strangers, kept a bunch of "fan" type guys around (you know the type) who shed never consider actually dating but she liked the attention, and I dumped her when I found some flirty shit between them. I dont know if she ever actually cheated but that's already well below who im willing to marry. she defended her position as "just missing making a connection". ok girl whatever I was emotionally and physically available but not a d-list twitter material. I hope it now finally clicks and you also got your eating under control. you still sound like the self-created crisis I left you as.
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I’m not sure why we need to be sarcastic about a future in which “we upgrade ourselves into transhuman”. There is nothing special about “humanity”. Emotions are likely result of chemicals. We will transform ourselves and what those beings feel most likely will not resemble what we feel today. They will have their culture and art and they will not care about ours at all. It is inevitable if there is no disastrous event happening. We just need to accept that. We are one tiny step in evolution like dinosaur.
I'm familiar with directional audio (when playing games, 7.1 sound or w/e) and stereo sound (when listening to music), there is something that feels super immersive from some of the tracks.

I've just spent 30 minutes listening to as many as I can, some are terrible and some are great, maybe try more tracks.

I can totally empathize with people saying that this is annoying/distracting, and I can't see myself doing it for a long period of time, but as a tech demo/cool thing, I find this awesome.
Thanks Chris! Sounds like it's probably time I learn the SAM CLI :)
Sweet. Now I can find committed AWS super fast.
The same Wikipedia article that mentions a Wired article of potential conflict of interest when working for the US goverment and awarding a contract for a company she owned stock in. Totally sounds like a non-corrupt human.
Agreed. You're sacrificing the actual sound of the music, making it muffled and otherwise poor quality, adding in the "amazing" swing-it-around-your-head effect (which by the way you could do decades ago), and calling it better.

I listened to "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Nothing else matters", and compared to the originals. The originals were much better.

Maybe if you're listening on rubbish earbuds anyway, the effect sounds cool. But on my reasonably expensive headphones it just kills it.
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> Also, not having a Google account comes in handy to prevent tracking by Google. My default search engine is DuckDuckGo.

They still can track and target ads at you without an account. An account is not required for that.
...but he's not? Don't give him UI design tasks.

...and he actually is? If there is room for such cross-competency roles in the team, let him shine. It'll give him great work satisfaction. And if there isn't, don't give him UI design tasks.
It can also result in attorney discipline.
There is a big difference between open research that you don't want Google to lock away behind a patent and 'secrets'. Her ideas weren't secret, she just didn't want Google to own the patent to it.
I think I understand what you're saying. It almost sounds like you're privacy conscious but not security conscious, but I don't think that was intentional.

Personally, if I was dealing with someone who wasn't already using strong unique passwords for everything, and didn't want the burden of having a password manager, I would absolutely recommend relying on Chrome's built in password manager and having to be signed in to Chrome everywhere. This might actually be one of the use-cases that triggered the 'auto sign into Chrome when you sign into a Google product in a tab' feature, which didn't go down very well in some circles.

I believe (re)using relatively weak passwords on multiple sites is a bigger risk to privacy than Google tracking every page I visit. I would assume they track every page I visit regardless of whether I'm signed in to Chrome or not.

EDIT: Note that I'm assuming this feature in Chrome is similar to the feature in Safari, where Safari suggests strong passwords, but this doesn't prevent those passwords from being stored in your password manager of choice.
> This is also why I consider those "privacy containers" broken by design. They just operate on cookies and don't contain anything besides cookies. I would even consider them harmful because of their misleading nature.

Privacy containers could do more interesting things like:

- Connect through a VPN/proxy, so IP address changes all the time.

- Change browser characteristics (screen size, available fonts, user agent string, etc) to fool the fingerprint. I suppose that fingerprints are hashes, so you only have to corrupt one ingredient of the hash to make the fingerprint unusable.

Tor browsers do stuff like this.
That would be The Idealist, presumably.
Troy Hunt launched another one, which does ask for password. And sells you 1Password after check :)
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How does this compare to, say, Versant OODBMS ?
most suburban outposts of transit on the west coast just have SFH around them

If you define "suburban" as SFH neighborhoods, that's a tautology.

With respect to Caltrain, it's not the case at all.
That happened behind my ISP's NAT in a densely populated area, so I don't think so, no.
Maybe. Or maybe the conversation spurred some new idea in the same general field, and that’s what they were trying to patent. This post doesn’t say anything about what the claims were actually directed to.
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Sounds like you signed something assigning your rights to the company.
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It _can_ be nice, if properly used.

The Queen example is lousy at best: instead of having the single audio source wander in space, it could have been used with a true mix to actually position (and move, properly) each voices/instruments in space.

But of course, you'll need the original tapes to be able to do that. :p
renters don't organize and vote to advance their own interests

Renters supporting rent control are doing exactly that: FU, got mine.
I ended up using the exact same solution! The only annoying thing is that I want "untrusted apps" to open external links in a new DEFAULT tab so that I don't carry over the whitelisted cookies but that requires manual "right click > open in" with the default setup.
I probably wouldn't say that, but I'd suggest that either you or your ops person could do with learning a bit of empathy and better communicating what problems you're each trying to solve. Someone who actually gets the concept of devops (the collaboration between dev and ops) should be able to articulate why they're asking for particular things to be done, and what benefits will come from it in terms of reliability and being able to analyse issues as they come up.

Unless the ops person on the other side of this conversation is really bad they're unlikely to be asking you to do things just for the sake of it - there'll be a good reason, just as you have your reasons for wanting to do things your way. Devops is all about finding a middle ground between those two places, and improving life for everyone involved.
Except in Go, types are defined using modular 2s complement. Overflow is not considered a problem, it's a feature that code depends on.
a) I don't have an ID card

b) I rarely use my middle name or initial, except on "official" documents

c) People abbreviate their names a lot

d) Sometimes it's helpful to match people with the same name at the same address as being the same person .. and sometimes it's adversarial.
Unless you've been visiting other offices from the one I've been visiting, the agreement pretty much says:

* No taking photographs or video without permission.

* Don't disclose things you see in the office outside the office

It's literally 3 sentences, and they have handy little icons next to each.

I see nothing about IP rights assignment or anything of the sort.
This isn’t a software patent.

And anyway, lots of methods get patented. If it’s new and nonobvious, why should the fact that it runs on a computer matter?
I know of at least one company that has an Ex-fire chief from the US as well as other services specifically to teach IC to IT and other areas - http://www.blackrock3.com/

Really useful training, have had to use it multiple times to coordinate responses ransomware, and other IT disasters, and does benefit from the buy in of senior leadership at the company I work for.

Biggest challenge we have is keeping ICs after deciding to centralise the IC organisation in 3 locations, all ICs were offered the choice to relocate or leave.

We have a lot of very new ICs.
There's a lot of systems which seem to assume that name changes are of fraudulent intent, rather than being fairly routine when women get married. Let alone the long list of other reasons to change one's name.
Mixed results. Mostly unimpressive. The Mura Masa mix was a bit of a more interesting experience: you could tell they'd put some thought into it.

Edit: From the comments I'm starting to wonder if certain people perceive this effect differently. I'm very much on team "so you discovered the pan nob?" but the way people are talking, I have to assume that there's two groups of people having two wildly different experiences.
I don't like how it's a closed source binary that's downloaded as part of the install process. Realm used to be like this too, but they open sourced their core later, I wonder if ObjectBox has similar plans.
If tech companies want employees to stay longer, they need to work to make that the best option for their employees. If they don’t, we shouldn’t be surprised that employees leave to take a better option.
Some things in CS programs are engineering, other things are philosophy.
I don't disagree, I just found it funny because I live in the Bible belt and you'll be hard-pressed to find someone who both recommends church and believes science. I go to church, but would recommend therapy over church for personal issues.