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"But after 40 years, isn't it time we try just a little harder to make something that is a little closer to how biological neurons really work?"

We have been trying. It has proved to be very difficult to get them to do anything useful, though, which was my point. Dedicated AI researchers are actually intensely aware of the differences between real neurons and their neurons, but getting fake neurons to do anything useful has not been as easy as just "simulate what the neurons do".

There was an interesting breakthrough 6 months to a year ago, some new algorithm that is apparently able to update a more interesting neural net, but I don't know much more than that at the moment.
Let me add in one:

[6] Fire Safety and Building Security Systems? Yes
I'd be interested to hear where you did your BA. In my experience in the UK and US, the focus is much more on using philosophical arguments than regurgitating them (sometimes even to the exclusion of understanding the context, which makes Plato and Descartes just seem like they are making terrible arguments). I've heard that in France the focus is much more historical, though.
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I didn't delete any comments. I looked an your horribly horribly wrong and misguided comment is there.
This is true of any statistics, and I wasn't aware that anyone believed that big data was going to somehow eliminate subjectivity from the world. More data and faster processing means more opportunities to analyse and a bigger sample size, but as the adage goes, there are lies, damn lies and statistics. The article seems like a bit of a straw man.

And regarding myth 3 and 6: you can't really hold these views simultaneously. If you can opt out, then that's a built in form of discrimination. Whether that's actually relevant probably depends on your domain.
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Cute, except the article stated he was getting them from "people" NOT news outlets.

"People" (usually) don't create news, they filter them from other sources, such as news outlets. Some republish crap, others distort those news when tweeting them, others mostly just filter the irrelevant and republish the useful.

Getting crap is a consequence of your own choices, not of the underlying technology.

Sorry if my insults offended you, but this article was link bait trash designed to make the misinformed, filter-bubbled, over-protective moms feel better about themselves. I call it how I see it.

http://xkcd.com/386/
Unfortunately, they don't take economics as seriously. The combination of economics and philosophy is, in my opinion, far more empowering in terms of better decisions (both personally and politically) than any other coursework I have ever had. But at least they get the philosphy...we get fact memorization for test taking.
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Yikes, this is a nasty bug!
Doesn't the teaching of just about any subject at the beginning and even intermediate level really resemble teaching the history of that subject? Physics and mathematics teaching could be described that way: only very advanced students tackle current problems (at which point they are hardly students any longer).
Yes, obviously. What did you imagine it was? Something mind-numbingly ignorant like "they hate us for our freedoms"?
DNSimple seems the best way to go if you want to host your service with Heroku using a root domain (no www at the beginning of the domain name) [1].

Unfortunately, DNSimple is now the weakest layer of our stack. And at http://KiteBit we are suffering it right now!

[1]https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#root-do...)
YMMV.

"It was delicious! I felt like I'd just had the best breakfast of my life. It tasted like a sweet, succulent, hearty meal in a glass, which is what it is, I suppose." --http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298

Gawker staff tried Soylent. Feedback was mixed. Including:

"[It] made me feel like joining a cult, after just one sip."
"It tasted like when you're baking and you taste the ingredients even if there's not sugar or vanilla in there, you just have a compulsion to taste wet food."
"My mouth tastes hot and like old cheese."
"It tasted like someone wrung out a dishtowel into a glass."
"It was great and I love it. I don't want to eat anymore."
--http://gawker.com/we-drank-soylent-the-weird-food-of-the-fut...
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Thanks.

I've just done a google and the only person I can find describing Soylent as 'delicious' in the first few hits is Rob himself, who even says "I'm not trying to make something delicious; there are already a lot of delicious things" - that's defending Soylent's taste in this Gawker article http://gawker.com/we-drank-soylent-the-weird-food-of-the-fut.... The piece contains the following:

"Soylent tastes like the homemade nontoxic Play-Doh you made, and sometimes ate, as a kid. Slightly sweet and earthy with a strong yeasty aftertaste."

"It tasted like when you're baking and you taste the ingredients even if there's not sugar or vanilla in there, you just have a compulsion to taste wet food."

"My mouth tastes hot and like old cheese."

"It tasted like someone wrung out a dishtowel into a glass."

As a health food Soylent had my curiosity. As a 'delicious' food it has my attention. However, that attention appears to have been misallocated.
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WinCE is also an architectural train wreck. It is unbelievably bad on the inside. I have personal experience with its USB stack, which is so full of layers that we couldn't get more than about 10 mbits/second out of it (on hardware capable of well over 300 mbits/second).
University of Pittsburgh, USA. It's a top-5 program internationally, so I take it to be quite good.

I'd say that the program on a whole doesn't focus too much on historical philosophy, although it can, if you want. The problem is that the majority of the intro classes are historical. Philosophy is a gen ed requirement there (similar to France's secondary school system), so the average non-philosophy student's exposure to philosophy is obscure Aristotelian metaphysics.
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If some requests are taking 30s to service, front ends will be spinning up very often because during those 30s, other requests will be queueing up
I think that is a stretch, but he's not here for us to ask.
The material is one thing, testing on it is another... a 4 hour test sounds bad, but one would think that if they're teaching philosophy in the first place, then they sort of know what they're doing.
> Understanding of the business is again outside of the definition of a full stack developer

Like all of these aspects you don't need to be a full blown business analyst, but a full stack developer does need to understand the business to translate business rules into application behavior/logic. Ideally this full stack developer can also understand the problem domain and app code well enough to collaborate with management / business when they try to introduce rules that would contradict other behaviors of the app or the current app architecture. And, doing this for enough time, you should start to internalize the business rules.

AKA: Behavior Driven Development.
That understanding limits the term to uselessness.
There are two different sets of problems with email.

The first, more concrete, set arises simply because of the age of the protocols. They were developed when the internet was a club of like minded people rather than a global public space. Things like: a lack of rock solid authentication, no guarantees of transit privacy (much less at rest privacy), clunky formatting, multimedia and hypermedia support, arcane attachment problems, and only hacked on support for anything beyond 1:N messaging (e.g. mailing lists).

A lot of these problems have good, solid, proposed solutions but inertia and collective action problems mean that near universal support for protocol additions / changes take years if not decades.

The second, more amorphous, set of problems have to do with how some people use email pervasively in their lives in a fashion that (inevitably) would be more efficiently accomplished with a tool specialized to their needs. So for example, people who spend a fair amount of time in a corporate enviorment with Exchange often bitterly miss the calendar management integration. They say that vanilla email is broken because it has no equivalent capability. Although the critique is legitamite I think the target is off, it's not email that's broken, it's federated calendaring in general. But because email can sort-of, kind-of substitute it gets the blame.
I'd say if the $35 is a fair wage in your home country than use this job as a starting point. If it was me and that was at least a reasonable wage in Brazil, then I would use this company to gain some credibility and negotiate with them not for more money, but for the opportunity to use them as a US based reference for more work. Doing this will help you secure additional work and let you increase yours rates as you go.

I have this argument with a lot of people in the US, where I am at. They feel because San Francisco based contractors charge $225/hr or more sometimes, that it should be the same in their area. Generally they use the argument that the contractor out there is no smarter or better than they are. Frankly, it goes based off what the market will bare in the area you are working and the area the company is located combined. That is why you don't see large contracting firms with one standard rate, they tailor it based on location, service and perceived corporate value.

Also, you asked about charging by the week instead. I am a huge fan of this, charge by the week, agree to a reasonable deliverable each week and then you control your hours significantly more. It also stops the extra scrutiny of your invoices where many times the accounting group will push projects to shave fractions of an hour to save themselves cash. A flat fixed weekly rate is easy for them to budget, pay and removes most of that extra scrutiny. Lastly, if you switch to weekly, just remember that if you make a promise for that week, you have to deliver no matter what the hours you work are; and if that isn't going to be possible, you need to communicate the issue as far in advance of that week as possible with specifics to realign expectations.
You can say that about most topics. A lot of people find maths boring and don't want to sit through it, but for some it fires a spark of emotion.
*"bon travail" :)
From the same page:

> The vulnerability involves discrepancies in how Android applications are cryptographically verified & installed, allowing for APK code modification without breaking the cryptographic signature; that in turn is a simple step away from system access & control.

Bugs happen.
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You sound like you have also had a sheltered life as well! These people better stay far away as possible from public service as they WILL be experiencing far worse than this. When they get exposed to cases with child molesters, family violence, and even more heinous crimes, they better stick to corporate law or something similar. My assessment IS accurate of you though.
In my experience, most people don't even know what they are, much less know how to use them. The ads they are used in rarely give the user a reason to engage, so users also don't care.

The biggest problem I have with them is that they are a machine code representation of data, usually a URL, but almost nobody ever prints the human representation of that data. Makes as much sense as printing traditional UPC codes on the media. If marketers would place the short URL that the code points to, people might understand that that's where the code will take them, and they also then have the option of opening their browser and entering it by hand.

I still think that's unlikely to happen, of course, given how poorly marketers engage people, but at least it's no longer just machine code.
The great thing about git is branching is so cheap it can replace what would be committing under other VCSes. Developing a new feature necessarily involves stages where the code is unsuitable for release, if you're doing it right - you should have tests or, better, language support that will prevent you from releasing something nonfunctional, and the feature will go through nonfunctional stages (even accepting that you can and should implement it as piecemeal as possible). You should of course be merging as often as possible, as often as you can deploy - which might be hourly or better, if you have a good continuous deployment setup - but it's still valuable to be able to make commits at a finer granularity than that. So you use branches for that grouping (and I think 1 branch = 1 "feature" = 1 deployment is a good model), and commits for finer-grained history.
Generally speaking, I think today's philosophy courses should focus on the big historical picture with emphasis on modern philosophers, as opposed to studying tomes like The Republic in painful detail. While it's easy to get lost in a sea of infinitely regressing metaphysics, I think there's value in applied philosophy (I don't think philosophy is useful in isolation).

1. The scientific method. Starting from the logical positivist school of thought, philosophers are converging at falsifiability as the primary criterion (cf. Popper, Wittgenstein).

2. Justice. Starting with rather crude notions of utilitarianism, it is possible to construct a transcendental notion of justice that is based on fairness (cf. Rawls, Sen). It is also possible to approach it from a theory on transcendental morality (cf. Kant).

3. Consciousness. This is a rather tricky topic that can be tackled by an analytical philosopher who has studied some neuroscience (cf. Metzinger).

4. Tackling the free will problem. When tackled in isolation, there is a dichotomy between compatibilism and incompatibilism (cf. Schopenhauer). However, attempts have been made to derive it from quantum decoherence and MWI (cf. Yudkowsky on LessWrong [1]).

5. Foundations of mathematics. While there are prominent platonists (cf. Gödel), there are several alternative approaches to the problem (cf. Spinoza, Hilbert).

To conclude, I'd say that some training in philosophical thought is essential to enabling the student in thinking about various questions that pop up during her lifetime. The goal is not to get definitive answers, but to have a good consistent framework to think in.

[1]: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Free_will_(solution)
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I know nothing of the GHC GC (though the JVM has had a parallel, generational GC for many years, and is probably considered the least advanced of the JVM GCs), but BEAM's GC, as you mentioned, is per-process, and thus does not help with shared data structures (which do exist in Erlang, namely ETS).
Perhaps the French educational system teaches pupils how to write, something that seems to be missing from the US curriculum.
In Physics, you typically do practice problems as you're learning (non-current) concepts. Philosophy usually isn't the same. You learn what Descartes thought about the mind, but you never really learn the logical methods he used to get there, nor do you learn what anyone else thinks about the topic (philosophy of mind and dualism, in Descartes' case)
You mean the unread message count in the favicon? That's a labs feature you have to turn on for each account.
Many comments underline the fact that learning philosophical theories is not philosophy, and thinking by yourself is better, and all this stuff.

I think it is very arrogant of we contemporary people to think that 17 something kids can think by themselves and should not need to dig the past to answer such important questions.

And in a philosophy class, as I received them in France when I was young, the teacher would expose contradictory positions and let you prefer the one you want. So, yes, you'd get a low score if you wouldn't name Plato on a question about idealism, but you would get the best score if you show personal and deep understanding of the topic.
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I grew up all over the world so the value that I get out of Facebook now is from being able to stay in communication with my friends from other countries. I feel like the utility of Facebook has changed since 2005 when I was using it as a communication platform for my buddies in college. Facebook is starting to reminds me of how AIM started deteriorating after AOL tried to cram so much extra crap into AIM (stock ticker, news, ads, group chats, etc...) after AOL realized that's where all of the users were.
I don't mean to belittle your important message, but I'm quite sure the vast majority of this does not apply to my neighbors who have 4 hens as approved of by our city's law allowing backyard urban hens. In this context, the hens live in a modest backyard free-but-small-range area. It is becoming quite a lot more popular to do this and we've thought of doing it ourselves.

I think the problem is with brutal mass-production agriculture rather than with eggs per se.
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Interesting but the signal to noise ratio might be a more important metric? Maybe it's too early to say much about that?
Makes me wonder how long they hold on to the sales pitch:

"Soylent is a simple and affordable nutritional drink that has everything the healthy body needs"

"Everything the healthy body needs"?

If I use it exclusively for a decade, will Soylent be liable for health issues arising from any potential nutritional issues?

I find the experiment interesting and don't wish to rain on the parade as I'd love to see some solution to nutrition in general (understand and communicating, figuring out a plan given height, age, sex, activity levels, dietary preferences, etc).

But I really hope the experiment stays out of the third/developing world until it's proven... if you're going to risk someone's health then at least let that be someone who has access to health care, clean water, other food, etc.

The worst thing they could do is to use the potential third world market as a sales pitch, experiment there, and then screw it up and leave people with a whole new set of problems and no recourse. Though, I guess that other industries do exactly that and treat it as an externalisation of the cost (oil industry practices, etc).
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Your comment is fair, but I think you've imagined a creative, free society where the walled garden didn't exist - where it never existed in actuality.

People have always been insular and self-contained within their circles. Said circles form early in life and change very slowly. Even when you move people around geographically, they quickly fall back into the same closed circles. In these circles they reinforce whatever social memes have developed - inside jokes, similar views, etc.

Very few people in the world (though they do exist) actually continually meet new people outside of their existing groups.

So sure, Facebook doesn't improve us as a society, nor is it a magical bastion of creativity and freedom - but life never was, and Facebook hasn't made it worse. Facebook is merely a magnification of who you are. If you were prone to sharing stupid motivational pictures, now your'e sharing a lot of them. If you surrounded yourself with constantly insightful, smart people, now you get to talk to a lot more of them, a lot more frequently.

Facebook is what you make of it. I have a habit of squelching friends who don't post meaningful things. Click on the top right corner of their post and you can adjust their weighting in your feed - I have many people who essentially no longer contribute to my feed, and that's fine. Looking at my front page right now, nearly all of the information is stuff I actually care about.
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Soylent is being sold as a complete food. We've seen a couple of mistakes during the testing process. The ingredients list is not easy to find, and the sources of those ingredients are not available, so we cannot check if it is a complete food or not.

Soylent is being sold as something that you can eat for every meal. You can argue that most people aren't going to do that, but that's how Soylent are selling it.

Soylent claim, unambiguously, that it is safe for everyone. People with Crohn's disease sometimes need to eat a liquid feed. Is Soylent safe for them? Because Soylent claim that it is safe for them, and that it'll provide them with optimum nutrition and bring them to good health.
In the three years I've been with DNSMadeEasy [0], haven't had an outage yet.

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Turkey did not hold up its ends so it is next.

Little surprised, all went so well. I thought it will bow down. It did not, did not wanted to loose what it had, now, behold.
>Facebook's strength was its organic growth //

You appear to be trivialising it by simply saying this as if just being their caused organic growth. FB not only provided the core ability to link people together but did so in a package that was/is accessible to a broad range of people in a non-threatening way.

Several sites tried before, you mention MySpace, and never achieved the broad appeal FB did. Several have tried since - consider Google Wave. Or how about Google+, which hasn't failed yet, but has struggled it seems to make inroads in as broad a demographic as FB has.

I like to malign FB probably more than the average person but their achievement is so easily downplayed without proper warrant.
That's only really true for the current GC design. I don't know if there is anything stopping someone from sharing memory via unsafe pointers and trying to manage that with a custom GC.
It's hard to talk about philosophy. I liked my philosophy classes in college (one overview, mostly with a Hume/Kant/Wittgenstein/modern analytic bent, and a philosophy of quantum mechanics class), and I like reading Peter Singer, but the older stuff just gets very woolly-headed seeming. It feels like they always try to hide some equivocation under fancy text, starting with "we define X as Y", then jumping through a natural-language use of X to get Z, then assert "Z is Y".

For example, I may just be a heathen, but Nietzsche's whole style seemed to be boldly asserting things, making fun of anyone who thinks otherwise, yet rarely bothering to make an actual argument.

I like the idea that everyone should take a semester's worth philosophy course somewhere along the way, but I don't know if it would do most people any good. An actual rhetoric course, with a focus on logical argument, may do better.
Letting your friend use your machine?

If it's a one-minute look-up, open an incognito window for him. If longer, log off of your google account. And other accounts, preferably.

It's best to switch the desktop user to 'guest', it's easy under most OSes now.
I agree on the Multiple Users being very useful. I have a user for my private browsing, one for company related user accounts and more.

The benefit for me is that this does not only work for for Google related products (gmail/analytics), but also for other products you use. In our case Outlook Web Access, but also for example Trello and GitHub.
I am from Germany, and philosophy was pretty much the main topic of the ethics class for the two last grades when I was at high school. We had debates of all sorts as part of the curriculum, but we had also learned how to collect and present our arguments in the written form. So I think writing an essay for 4 hours may very well be suitable for a philosophy exam.