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I don't know, I can find plenty of iPhone quality photography on the Web already. I expect professional quality content from dedicated news outlets.
"The A-bombs were quite unusual. They were extraordinary weapons, and would have required extraordinary justifications to use on the military, let alone on civilians."

Extraordinarily efficient, one plane, one bomb, one city, but we'd already methodically bombed pretty much every other city (along with Kyoto for political reasons, the A-bomb targets and their alternates were reserved), with e.g. the firebombing of Tokyo killing a conservative 100,000.
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They can attack the eye witness testimony on those grounds.

Of course if the witness is a cop (community hero!) or god forbid a girl scout delivering cookies, then legitimately attacking the credibility of eye-witness accounts can put you in a very unsympathetic light before the jury. An attack on the poor recall abilities of homo-sapiens becomes warped into an attack on the character of a plainly honorable witness.

Public understanding of even the basics of Bayesian thinking is abysmal.
What is the motivation behind having 10+ bundle and service options?

Maximize revenues.

The trick is that many users will opt for the most expensive option because they don't understand or are intimidated by the marketing / licensing material and therefore make the safest choice. If you don't know what you need ( and most large corporate shops don't) you buy everything.

Having lower priced options mostly serves to hide the true costs of the product.
The judge probably would not allow them to do that, and even if so, that means that pretty much any defensive testimony would likely face similar hurdles.
Would iOS be better today if Apple didn't give in to native apps?
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the comments...
http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/06/03/1350222/how-unity3d...
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Well, if all you care is the time relationship, then it's more "The USSR declared war on them and invaded Manchukuo and they surrendered immediately". This is exactly one of the points of the article.
Apologists often give the excuse that the Civil War was unnecessary to end slavery because slavery "would have ended soon anyway".

Ask yourself if the would-have-ended-soon-anyway defense works well for the Civil War.
Here's the opinion of the leader of the US military at the time

Yes, later Leahy apparently said, "It is my opinion," not, "At the time we all believed" ["that the Japanese were defeated and ready to surrender...."]

I'm willing to believe that some, maybe including Leahy, thought the US had only to stand back and wait for the inevitable surrender, with no ratcheting up of force necessary. But, at the same time, somebody [not including the Fleet Admiral?] was also preparing for a full boots-on-the-ground invasion of the Japanese mainland, which (going by the US death tolls of previous island invasions) would have sent thousands of Americans to their deaths.

Unless that invasion plan was entirely fake--something nobody is suggesting--there were obviously plenty of people at the top who thought that the Japanese might not be ready to surrender.

Suddenly a middle option appeared between just waiting and hoping and sending thousands of Americans to their deaths: drop atomic bombs. Even though an atom bomb would actually kill fewer people than the firebombings, it would represent an even greater threat of what could happen if they didn't surrender immediately.

Maybe the Japanese were about to surrender. Maybe they would keep fighting and Americans would keep dying. Maybe the atom bombs would convince them to surrender. Or maybe not. Maybe nothing short of a full invasion would be required. Maybe even that wouldn't be enough to end it quickly, and the dying would continue for a very long time. The Japanese in many places had gone on fighting until they were dead without ever surrendering.

In that context, with no benefit of hindsight, to say that the bomb was not dropped to win the war but just to intimidate the USSR is nonsense.
"Negotiate?" The US had no appetite for negotiation at that point -- only unconditional surrender was acceptable.

I won't do your research for you, but various factions within the Japanese leadership wanted to put lots of significant things on the table, like maintaining the seat of the emperor, the existing political structure, etc. All were showstoppers to the US.
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In all honestly though, the Google founders were Ray Kurzweil fans before he wrote the "How to create a mind" (which is book that's a whole another discussion altogether).
I would be really surprised if there weren't already some interest and some back and forth between Numeta and others in the AI field. It's really about goals, and if goals align then "acquisitions" might make sense. But it is far from a marker of success. There are plenty of acu-hires to prove that.
I'm really not that sure that drones like the one in the video are more complicated than self driving cars. Self driving cars have to handle a lot of external stimulus, like other cars, road regulations and thrust/steering balances on the road. This helicopter is quite free to move and can be "easily" tracked by gps or such. Only the remote landing can be tricky depending on the situation.
I noticed that there was a 10.2" display on the PDI website. It looks like it's not supported by the current prototyping kits, but I am hoping that will change down the road; I'd love to hack around with something that big!

On the other hand, it could be a fun challenge to try to integrate a bunch of the smaller displays into a single large one--though I imagine the novelty of coding on something like that would wear off pretty quickly ~wry grin~
What was your reaction to this offer, if I may ask?

Did you think it was fair? Did you think you were ripped off? Angry? Sad? Depressed?

I've left a few jobs but always on my own accord, so I'd appreciate having a glimpse of the psyche in going through an involuntary departure.
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I'm the original author (and didn't post this) but I fail to see how the article is FUD. In fact, the article makes the exact same point as your fourth paragraph ("Novices would..."). Controlling access to shared data often does lead to issues for many programmers, and just throwing threading at a problem is rarely a good idea.

I'm sorry you didn't find the article useful, but perhaps you're not in the article's target audience. I simply wanted to give Python novices some information and background about the GIL.

That said, the fact that other implementations do not have a GIL isn't relevant to the article; it specifically refers to the cPython implementation. And your observation that multiprocessing avoids the GIL is explicitly mentioned in the article. To say "blocking on I/O gives up the GIL" is true in a very narrow sense but not very interesting. Import any third party package using C extensions and you now need to worry about how well the author manages the GIL.
I couldn't be happier with my much, much lower spec phone.

maybe your standards of "usability" are skewed.
What's very common in the Netherlands is simply to have a medium-sized plastic bowl which can take up a little over half your sink. (It can be square and bucket-ish but it should not be inconveniently large.)

The idea is that you let a thin stream of hot water come out of the tap; glasses and other aesthetic things get rinsed first, aiming the dirty water that runs off of them down the drain. This is why the wash-bowl does not fill up the whole sink. Once those are done the extra water is still clean and clear in the wash-bowl, so you can add some soap and do the plates and other greasy dishes: just let the dirty water fall out into the drain. This solves the "cleaning with dirty water" problem; you never soak the dishes in the water, so they never have to contaminate it.

Another water-saving measure I've seen is simply not to rinse soapy-water dishes but to let them briefly drip-dry and then dry them with a dishcloth: this gets the soap off without using extra water. I mean, it's a first-world country and they've got lots of water to spare but I'm glad to see that the Dutch "no inefficiencies" demeanor means that they make an effort anyway.
What? I am not speaking about a religious desire for freedom. I'm speaking of the practical pros and cons of wanting to use a system I own in a certain way and not being able to, versus a miniscule risk of a certain attack vector being exploited.

Did the irony of calling my point of view religious while implying that security overrides all other preferential considerations escape you?
What you are saying is like claiming

- "I know how to drive all kinds of cars, and I can do whatever trip I want"
- Me: "Airplanes are important, is a different level"
- "But knowing what car to drive for what trip has big business value"
- Me: "I'll wait for you in airport"

We are talking about different things that do not contradict each other. The fact that you are good at what you do DOES NOT PROVE that formal education is unnecessary. And the logic is faulty because what you know has nothing to do with what you learn in CS. We are talking about different axis.
They also just switched over to IntelliJ, didn't they?
Finally. I love seeing high quality apps make it to Android.
For the vast majority of them, they'll never plug their phone into a non-Apple connector, so the security status of this subsystem will not have any practical importance either way.
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"How To Lose 20lbs" is currently trending on Twitter. Vast numbers of profiles seem to be tweeting the spam link
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Even if there was only one issue, that is an issue to spend effort working around it if you're the poor soul that needs to do the fix for the product that broke.
Well, the Internet would certainly be a very different place if everybody blocked ads. It's hard to predict who would benefit and who would suffer, but "we'd all be fucked" doesn't seem like a likely scenario.
This is a monumental milestone in innovation. Honored to be part of a society where Vine on Android makes the HN front page.
Surprised they didn't mention Google news.
I think I see where he is coming from. They are not exactly separable.

Interface Builder is more than just an interface builder, it is a serialized data builder. That distinction means that you can instantiate virtually any class in your project without having to write a line of code. It is not limited to just UI elements. That turns out to be pretty powerful.

Below that level, the deserializer exploits a number of properties of the Objective-C's dynamic runtime in order to provide that instantiation of random objects and properties. There are certainly other languages that can be exploited in the same way, but it is not something that can be done directly in just any language.

Without Objective-C, or at least something like it, there would be no Interface Builder as we know it today.
Or, even worse, a row of empty spots reserved for senior management...
> ...games isn't an operations business, it's a hits business.

It depends on the game. Low-engagement games like Zynga titles are definitely hits businesses. However, game companies are starting to figure out that hits aren't sustainable. You have to create lifestyles that make people say, "I'm a X game player," not just "I play X game," and that means exceptional, reliable game experiences that extend outside the game. Creating a great Games as a Service company REQUIRES really awesome operational expertise. Game studios and publishers that want to provide those kinds of experiences really do need to have solid operations, and not just in their technology. The entire experience, from their support to their online presence to their in-person events, has to be buttoned up tight.
You're conflating the engineer/scientist role here pretty severely.

The engineer routes around the problem, the scientist tries to understand the problem better. An engineer with a deadline will not be held up in any significant way by the GIL. The engineer will use one of the many ways you've already listed to solve the problem and move on.

The scientist, not bound as strictly by deadlines or by "just being done", will explore the issue more leisurely, focusing on the whys and what the problem means. The scientist will explore the implications.

I think only you are attempting to "blame" Python for this problem - the author's tone in no way suggests that the problem is in Python itself or even the CPython implementation. There's a distinct, "here's the lay of the land on this issue" about this article, rather than a "Python is at fault for these reasons..." that you seem to be interpreting.
...because they run on Stackless Python.
Or it can be a great. Severance packages can be quite lucrative.

YMMV. I was part of a "10% workforce reduction", which included no severance packages. They gave us advanced notice, but I would have preferred the cash equivalent for that time instead.

I'm sure there's a rant about at will in there somewhere...
"Why did it take them 3 days to sit down and discuss it?"

His argument seems to come down to this 3 day delay between Hiroshima and the Supreme Council meeting. He is not looking at this through the lens of the Supreme Council, or even any Japanese citizen.

Remember: this is the first use of the atomic weapon in front of the entire world in human history. As far as the Japanese were concerned, on August 6, 1945 the sky suddenly lit on fire and destroyed an entire city in seconds. To the mind of 1945, this event was indistinguishable from magic. He cites many examples of military emergencies inciting a quick response but none on the level of total, wholesale destruction like the atomic bomb. Indeed, the atomic bomb was completely unprecedented in all of human history.

It is therefore not completely mysterious why the Supreme Council would initially not know what to do. They would be a) in a state of complete confusion b) in a state of complete defeat and c) trying to shore up the nation after what must have appeared like a supernatural force leveling an entire city and killing many, many thousands of people.
Because no one is really prepared for mobile, even now. The problem isn't that no one saw the rise of mobile coming, but rather that no one really knows what to do about it in response. Most people still don't.

This is particularly true for advertising-based companies. Mobile users are less engaged to your ads, have less intent, and are more loathe to tap on ads, so even if you can maintain the dominance of your product into the mobile space you're still looking at a bad revenue situation.

Mobile is here now, in full force, but revenue on mobile platforms is still largely an unanswered question. We started out selling apps, then we started down microtransactions, and ads, but none of these are particularly great.
I'm not sure how long this will last, partly because it's humor, and partly because it may been seen as "Windows bashing" with no actual content.

But it reflects my experience with Windows. What it doesn't do it reflect my equivalent-but-different experience of Linux. I do feel like I spend endless hours on sysadmin-like tasks on Linux, and there are days where I get nothing done because of the Yak-Shaving.

I should write an equivalent article from the other POV. Has anyone done that already?
I think with the increasing availability of more, weaker CPUs with a decent thermal envelope, and efficient processors like ARM, then distributing work makes even more sense... in a SOA system, where a lot of processing may well be IO bound, why not break out the load even more... I think the future will be thousands of compute nodes/workers along with hundreds of service nodes handling millions of simultaneous requests.

Functional constructs make such scaling nearly effortless once the practical issues of breaking up work are handled. Yes, communications has a cost, but there are faster channels available than what are used... and distributing data persistence into redundant, sharded clusters can yield a lot of other benefits.

Given, most line of business applications are fine on current hardware... the problem is scaling to 10x or 100x the workload. You can do this by creating a system that can scale horizontally, or to be more performance oriented with current hardware. One solution gains you a single generation of increased output... another gets you N scale expansion.

I don't think it's just macro parallel tasks... but many-micro tasks that can work within such a system.
The python version is using proleptic Gregorian and the cal version is using the historical calendar rules for a particular locale. Which is "right" depends on what you want.
This is our generation's moon shot.
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Or a C++ subset in the near future, if the BUILD 2012 remark is true.
> Did anyone else here get fingerprinted in elementary school, when the cops stopped by to say hi and talk about safety?

Boyscout "fingerprinting merit badge". Interestingly they had us do none of the actual requirements (well, at least from the 2003 requirements, I don't know what they were at the time); the only thing we did was get fingerprinted by the police.

Were it not for that, I would remain un-fingerprinted to this day. I am somewhat upset about that.
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It would be nice if people would compare their stuff a bit more. Hinton gets a lot of attention with deep belief networks. Grossberg tried to do a lot with adaptive resonance theory. Schmidhuber has something going on with long-short--term memory. Perlovsky has yet another neural network model. All intelligent people and I love reading their work, but they should sit together and MAKE the mainstream. :-)

Just describe the basic mathematical formulations and define what is different between you and the other. I wish they would do this more and write less verbose papers.
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Annoyed. I uploaded my first Vine and am connected to Twitter but the share option isn't appearing under the "More" (three dots) menu.
He is saying disregard personal hygiene deficiencies.
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It's a generous payout. The cuts seem indiscriminate when I look at all the talented people being cut. I imagine that it is hard to surgically remove 20% of your workforce.

Right now, I'm torn between looking for work immediately and asking for a delayed start, or going on vacation now and looking for work when I get back.

All I know is that Mars Bar (the local bar) will be busy tonight.
Good point. I suppose my hesitation is in the notion of turning a relationship into a monopoly board, but with the right achievements, etc. it might be an interesting proposition. I think we'd we'd to achieve personalization (location, interest, etc.) first, but down the line it's definitely worth a thought.
>...* that means exceptional, reliable game experiences that extend outside the game.*

This is something Zynga has never, will never understand. They don't have a deep understanding of games - they have a deep understanding of rapid ~~~thievery~~~ emulation and deployment.
That guy is a scumbag.
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I understand your reply above... my point was in response to... "Is it reasonable to expect mere morals to have mastery over every facet of the development stack? Yes, it is called 4 years min. of a CS degree" I know there was continued study after that... but the CS degree here is immaterial to mastery over every facet of the development stack.
Without knowing more about the specific company you are referring to, it's hard to tell, but I would propose that in _most_ situations, it's indicative of a systemic problem.
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Chef and Docker do different things.

To create a virtual machine, you could use EC2, VmWare, Linode, VirtualBox, LXC, libvirt, Jails, Zones, etc. Now Docker is another option.

Once the virtual machine is created, you could use Chef/Puppet/Custom Scripts to install and configure software packages.
I prefer to think of it as "Microsoft tooling is dead", since C continues to work just fine.
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Can they get the drones to make a pizza that doesn't suck, too? Cuz that might be a better use of the tech.
I really like the idea, because I feel like having these things pushed to my e-mail will cause me to actually engage with them more than me just checking into them at my leisure.

A few ideas:

An actual account page, where a user can manage their subscriptions. The user should have full CRUD capabilities for their subscriptions...

(1) I should be able to see all the courses associated with my e-mail (in case I forget what I've subscribed to).
(2) I should be able to change the start date of a subscription that hasn't started sending yet.
(3) I should be able to pause the e-mails for a course that's already started and resume at a later date.
(4) I should be able to delete / stop receiving e-mails from a course if I don't like it.

I'd also like to set up completion rules. Let's say I want to start Chinese II after I've finished with Chinese I. The system should allow me to say "Start the e-mails from Course X after Course Y has finished".
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What I want to know is how someone can see that their software project has become unlinkable on a 32-bit OS and somehow think that this is purely a compiler problem.
Also, requests for detailed written documentation of some software/process/whatever that only you are intimately familiar with.