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Yes you are infantilizing Indians when you say 'since when is it a function of government to feed the hungry and clothe the naked', implying that Indians were hungary and naked before British came, or probably due to some reason that doesn't involve a direct role of British government, laying all the irresponsibility at door steps of famine stricken people. BULL-SH*T. And I am not going to copy-paste well articulated reasons here for you. Go read the next paragraph and preferabbly the whole article.

I mean, the article was published in 1908 - three decades prior to WW2 and emergence of welfare states in europe - and 100 years ago from today. Yet it is sufficient to refute you! Do I really need to show the triviality in whatever you are trying to debate? Well done creating the strawman of welfare states. And stop referring to systematic famines where millions died by calling it 'hungry naked irresponsible people'. Britain actively and systematically refused to take responsibility of its 'subjects', knowing full well what it implied in human costs, for the only reason that it didn't consider Indians human enough. Churchill is the poster boy of this colonial thinking. Ref.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Indian_indep...

'In response to an urgent request by the Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery, and Viceroy of India, Wavell, to release food stocks for India, Churchill responded with a telegram to Wavell asking, if food was so scarce, "why Gandhi hadn't died yet."'
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There are two parts to that: where are the tracks and how far along the tracks are the trains. The How page at http://tubenoise.com/how.html sets it all out. The train data comes from a London Underground api called Trackernet that provides estimates of how long it will take the train to get to the next station.
Looks like it took a huge amount of engineering to build. The extensible conveyor belt going into the truck took some effort to design and build. The software wouldn't have been terribly difficult to implement, but is still impressive how it keeps track of where everything is. I'm wondering if their software keeps track of the dimensions of objects, so that it tells the workers what shipping box to use and how to arrange the objects in it.
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Incidentally, the first time I saw the Cap'n Proto homepage I thought the whole thing was a joke because I saw the "cerealization protocol" tagline and "infinitely faster" badge and stopped reading after the first paragraph...

EDIT: Oh yeah, and when I skimmed the rest of the page this "confirmed" my suspicions: "Time-traveling RPC: Cap’n Proto features an RPC system implements time travel such that call results are returned to the client before the request even arrives at the server!". I'm familiar with promise pipelining but that sentence (and diagram) made it sound like a complete joke.
I'm not going to register just to check out prices, but a quick google landed me at http://www.fpga.biz/product_info.php?products_id=87. Doesn't look like it'll be cheap, though - anyone know how much this is?

EDIT TO ADD: A Papilio Pro plus an audio wing looks like it comes out at £77.80, ex VAT.
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I'm actually bit surprised at people using PMML and this architecture. Clearly, here the attempt is to isolate model generation and runtime prediction but doing this also confines you to least common denominator. This means you can't generate any model that Opescoring can't handle. If you think about it, there is no real need for Opescoring. You can wip up REST service very easily that wraps sk-learn predictor and I would bet it's actually much easier to do than writing PMML exporters. Then you can use all the goodness of top of the line models white your service interface still remains same. The architecture that enforces you to use lowest common denominator just for abstraction purposes is a poor design, IMO.
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I've put a working G4 iBook in the bin this week (it can probably be rescued until tonight) as I couldn't think of any real use for it. I felt bad throwing a computer away but I couldn't think of a reason to keep it or of any value it might have.
Interesting. I can create a gp2 volume through the console, but not through CloudFormation.

UPDATE_FAILED - gp2 is invalid. Valid volume types are standard and io1.
"You hear a lot about MS being this massive company that doesn’t listen but that’s really not fair in this case."

Yeah it's easy to get listened to by Microsoft, just go create the most popular web-comic in the world and they'll get in touch. Anyone can do it.
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Fortunately, the estate appeal was rejected. If adding any new (short) story can make a character "more rounded", it is basically a very cheap way to extend the copyrights ad vitam aeternam.
Seems interesting to try. I'm used to watch TV shows in order to disconnect. Working out sounds like a good idea but I'm a little bit lazy. So I might try this advice. What games can you suggest for someone who used to play Doom and Need For Speed about 10 years ago? I need something not complex.
Pirlo's free kick mentioned in the article: http://gfycat.com/CourteousHatefulBat

Roberto Carlos' free kick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl0LHM-33Io
Interestingly their CNN breaking news twitter did report on the troops. But they have certainly not featured it on the front page. Maybe it's because it's early morning in US.
A classic one in the US would be the choice of visiting the doctors. The rich can afford to have regular checkups(or insurance) and get a sniffle checked out early. The poor can not afford to visit the doctor over minor ailments and because of this end up spending big in lost time at work and more expensive one off treatments for a serious illness they didn't nip in the bud.

But I'd have to concede that you'd be right to say it still doesn't fit the boots analogy with out some rather lax semantics around up front vs long term cost. You could also argue that any individual might get lucky/unlucky and so it's not clear cut there, but I think it would be fair to argue that in aggregate the outcome on cost is a reasonable example.
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I usually enjoy the stuff presented for free by real social dynamics. They tell you alot about how to approach people and how to have conversations with them.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD4xqm6vJ3K4ntppsE1jL4g
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This behavior doesn't stop you from selling an almost dead SSD. And if you sell a dead one it will be obvious that it can't be written to; that's not going to be a very convincing scam.
I have had employers specifically instruct me not to look up patents from work computers. I'm free to do that at home, but not at work.
That's the whole point.

(Warning: conspiracy theory ahead)

Netflix is rolling this out to illustrate to consumers how internet providers are failing to fulfill their contractual obligation for high-speed, unlimited internet at a set price.
I think it turns on the fact that Sweetie was being run by an NGO; I would not expect prosecutions solely on the basis of their evidence. If "she" were being run by the police directly, on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised at all if some of the people they caught were prosecuted solely on the basis of this one act.
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I couldn't figure out how to read the document in Chrome for Windows either. At least... I don't think I was reading it. I just saw a bunch of garbled text.
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3/4 hours max per day. When I'm really interested, it tends to be a little more, but I can't hold that pace for to long.
And if you didn't have 16550AFN serial and a USR Courier HST your 0-day was likely to turn into a 3-day...

I remember taking advantage of call waiting tones to dump friends offline and steal their places on local multi-user BBS. Good days!
I am sorry, but it's not "like a programming language". It's more like something that falls out from a compiler.
Bingo !!! Met someone like myself (few years ago). I can't read all the comments and don't know if someone might have already mentioned it.
Being introvert is not bad (it's a sign of a Scientist or a total looser). And I am sure you are not the later one (You being a Software Engineer :). The only thing you need to do now is stop thinking about how others enjoy "Many people spend money for the people they don't like, buy stuff they don't want, and impress people they don't want to".
Grab a beer on Friday night, I am sure you can find another introvert. On a good Saturday morning wake up, listen to Coldplay, play some games, go out for a movie @ 2 or 3, sit in a pub offering happy hours 5 PM onwards and come back to home. If you are still left with some energy continue the game you left in the morning. Wake up in hangover on a Sunday Morning. Watch unlimited videos on YouTube or 9gag.tv, it will make you feel there's still more retards out there in the world. End your Sunday night somehow and the wake up early in the morning on Monday and start studying (anything, anything you like. I would say learn statistics and probability). Do your job and come back to home. Repeat it on weekdays. But don't forget to plug in earphones all this time.

That would sound shitty, but I have inculcated it in myself and I would say "Being introvert is awesome !!!". Enjoy and stay away from phone when you sit in a pub :)
Maybe the author is referring to a really complicated build script that takes a few hours to run! But probably not.

Though really, "overnight" is just a figure of speech. Many startups probably are formed, ship a product, and die in the amount of time it takes to build a large fulfillment center.
Quick book search on google gives lots of examples of "zero day" going back to the 19th century
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I understand that logic and have heard it before.

However, it has a fundamental problem. Patents do not protect abstract ideas; they protect concrete inventions. I cannot patent "a means of traveling backwards in time" because that is an idea. As far as we know it's also impossible. You can't get a patent on "A surface that has zero friction" unless you also create that surface and explain how to do so. The idea that any physicist who is "skilled in the art" could figure out how to create such a surface from the laws of physics (which it surely must follow) is silly.

On the other hand, software patents are exactly like that. I can patent "A method whereby clicking a button solves P=NP" and simply claim that the solution is produced somehow. I have to give no example implementation or even very specific details. This is highly at odds with other industries.

I do understand the legality of it, but it's still significantly different than other fields and leads to inane results.
The biggest problem holding back adoption for 4k media is vendor lock in. You can't get 4K unless you're on a Sony/LG/Samsung "Smart TV".

There is not a legitimate technical reason why I can't watch House of Cards in 4K on my Seiki through my PC. I watched the trailer in 4K over a dozen times on YouTube.

Gamers want to play games on low input lag 4K screens from brands like Asus, Dell, Acer. 4K is much more easily justifiable when users can buy a single screen for their games and ultra-hd content.

Gaming PC's are about the only units with enough compute for highly compressed h.265 playback without built in hardware acceleration, so I don't understand why the market has not made this content accessible for me to purchase.
Wow. Way to not actually respond to the request.
I guess it's not surprising that Sherlock Holmes couldn't pull a Mickey Mouse. The AC Doyle estate should've greased the wheels of commerce with some major dollars.
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Look for "i2s" modules. E.g. there's one for ~20EUR that adds a stereo ADC/DAC (e.g. also usable for the raspberry pi). It has a "i2s" interface which is the canonical way to interface with audio ADCs/DACs. This can easily be connected to any FPGA.

http://mbed.org/cookbook/RS-Audio-Codec

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C2%B2S

http://blog.koalo.de/2013/05/i2s-support-for-raspberry-pi.ht...
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Nice :)

Years ago you could buy an old submarine in the Netherlands for around $1 Moving costs excluded ofcourse.

But I always fantasized about putting it on a piece of land using it as a house.
I look at laws as sort of a program code for society - they define a cost function for unwanted behavior (while the economic system defines a reward function for wanted behavior). From that perspective I have to disagree here - I think GP's suggestion is good - laws should be reviewed from time to time just like legacy code should be reviewed for maintainability reasons (even just so that you keep some people familiar with the code). Every decade is probably too much, but every 20-30 years should be doable without too much cost.

The main problem is creating a process where outdated laws can be removed efficiently - which obviously needs to be done in congress. I think there could be a monetary reward involved - not for the congressmen obviously, but for non-members of the congress who initiate a process that leads to a successful removal.
Jeff Barr's blog post about this: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ssd-backed-elastic-block...
> hard work is a necessary [...] condition for big success

I think this is not always true, therefore wrong.

If you allow me to extend the notion of success to old writers, I can give the example of La Fontaine, whose poems are still read and learnt by kids and grown-ups 300 years after he wrote them. He is often considered as a lazy guy.

So hard working is certainly not sufficient, and not even always necessary for success. So long for this magical recipe. For me, luck (be there at the right time) is the best non-magical explanation for success-stories, and any non-superstitious book accounting the successes of our times should have one page and only three words on it: "He was lucky".
That's for a display that you sit several metres away from in a living room. For a closer seating (2-3m) with a 50" panel it is noticeable though (I've tried).

For a ~30 inch computer display at desktop viewing distance, the difference between 2560x1440 (which is larger than HD already!) and 4K is clear to see.
In Holland, there's a national stolen bike registry too, and an ecosystem with bike dealers and police participating in it.

- It's hosted by the government - the equivalent of the DMV [1]

- It's based on RFID tags placed INSIDE the frame, so serial numbers can't be filed or welded off. You have to physically destroy part of the frame to get to the tag.

- Tags are installed by bike manufacturers on the more expensive theft-prone bikes, and registered by the bike dealer, so you yourself don't have to do any registering.

- Police have scanners that they use to scan public bike parking lots randomly [2]. Try google image search for 'amsterdam centraal fietsenstalling' for a picture of a parking lot.

[1] https://fdr.rdw.nl/
[2] https://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=...
Sorry, clarification: "almost-dead" in this case means "on the verge of the intel software self-bricking itself" rather than the drive itself being buggered.

Based on what I read from the article it implies that at this point the drive itself MAY be ok but not reliable so the intel software pro-actively commits suicide.

Without the self-bricking you could sell a drive that has reached this point to some unsuspecting person since it ostensibly works but is unreliable, if it fails 2 months later then the seller can just deny responsibility.

Although why it 100% self-bricks instead of going into "read-only brick" mode is a good question.
Official announcement just been released.

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ssd-backed-elastic-block...
My guess is that Intel couldn't coerce the SandForce controller into behaving nicely. Of course if anyone asks them about the behavior, it's a feature, not a bug. But really, selling almost-dead SSDs is not a big problem. These endurance tests show that you'd have to overwrite a 240GB SSD every day for 5 years before getting close to exhausting it. Drives will become obsolete before they wear out.

Last I checked, Intel used their own controllers in their enterprise SSDs. Now I wonder if their older consumer drives like the X25-M (which used in-house controllers) become read-only instead of bricking themselves.
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Seems like reasonable player-friendly rules, I think minecraft has a ton of servers and sub-communities though so it will probably be quite hard to police. The idea of individual server ops creating mini-businesses seems a little odd. They could probably do more to streamline the multiplayer experience for players and server-ops.
I think there is good reason to believe that the population divides into a large majority who have never done this and a very small minority who have done it repeatedly. You would be right in general, but with such a bimodal distribution the correlation goes both ways. If most of the people who have ever done it have done it several times, and hardly anyone else has done it at all, then the odds are small that anyone you catch is doing it for the first time.
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Exactly, it would be nice if I could watch 4k content on my MacBook Pro, while not full 4k, it's close enough where I would be able to tell the difference.

Strange how it's only TVs currently.
I am using their Kendo UI controls and I like it a lot. I chose them because their Grid control had the most pf the features I was looking.
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If they didn't use *70, they deserved it.
Most people here mention "larger businesses". But aren't exactly those much more likely to buy their solutions from established software houses, for regulatory reasons, or higher guarantee of continuity? I don't see how a bank, pharma producer, shipping company or publishing house would buy software from an ISV...
As a humble scientist Lemaître didn't take the credit of the discovery of the expanding universe. Appearently there was a nice presentation by experimental particle astrophysicist Ariel Goobar at "Symposium - Georges Lemaître’s Big Bang In Modern Cosmology: A Celebration" last month:
https://fys.kuleuven.be/ster/meetings/lemaitre/programme

At the end it states:
"SNIa cosmology provides stunning conﬁrmation of cosmic expansion – as predicted by Lemaitre in 1927!
•  Expansion currently accelerating – as proposed early on by Lemaitre to explain the age of the Universe
•  Is it Einstein’s CC or some exotic new phenomena? Observers busy trying to ﬁnd out. Theory badly needed!"

Perhaps the dark energy is the combined weight of all those unproven undiscovered astral dimensions :-) Or perhaps it's something more mundane as unproven strings or quintessence:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/critical-opalescence/201...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12261-is-dark-energy-l...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintessence_(physics)
Unfortunately, Uber in Australia is seeing some of the same myopic and special interest difficulties that Elon Musk and Tesla are in the US. To provide context, payment processing for credit cards in Australian taxis is exorbitant (10%) on top of the fare and mainly processed by an oligopoly that will fight to maintain this cash cow.

Of course, they are doing this through a regulatory agency, and clearly backed by a law designed to serve them. And there is no way to waive this requirement (that would impact regulatory fees for licenses etc).

Another case where technology is a long way ahead of the law in providing valuable solutions to the wider community.
I think we're completely talking past each other. Yes, you can express the game logic succinctly in Haskell. Yes, you will need many more lines in Python or JavaScript. Anything else is conjecture on your part. "Free text" is not executable, so your claim does not seem to be particularly relevant.

Feel free to use the UI as the sole measure of quality, but if that is your stance, you should probably seek a different audience.
I haven't counted the number of packages I use, from MELPA, but it's likely around 100. I have problems associated with MELPA about 2-3 times per year.

One of these times was yesterday, when cider-test was added to cider. Melpa excludes files ending with -test.el by default, so a file was missing. I grabbed the file manually from github and went on with my evening. An hour or so later the pull request fixing the problem was merged.

For developers, the criticism against MELPA is just FUD. If anything goes wrong you can fix it easily enough.
I think the question you have to ask is, is anyone going to be prosecuted solely on the basis of the evidence gathered by this organization? Such a prosecution would be impossible in the US and EU, and I would hope, most other places as well. The police cannot in general trust evidence they did not collect themselves.

What can happen, though, is that they can open investigations on these individuals and get search warrants. If they find evidence of any other crimes, as I think they are likely to, they can prosecute on that basis.
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