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I read Liu's short story collection "The Wandering Earth" recently, and rather liked it. My roots are in Clarke, Baxter, Niven, etc, and Liu fits right into that denomination. His stories are often a little less refined than in contemporary western SF - plots are often obvious and straightforwardly developed - but the scope and detail of his imagination is fantastic.

I would definitely say Liu's writing has a different feel to it than western SF - it feels like the story is always really about the society rather than the individuals who may happen to be the protagonists. However, i knew as i was reading it that he was Chinese, so i can't rule out the possibility that this is confirmation bias. Or, er, racism i suppose.

Anyway, i thought "The Wandering Earth" was well worth reading, and highly recommend it.
For a different but useful approach, one book I liked is:

How to Solve it by Computer - by R. G. Dromey, a lecturer or professor at a university in Australia, IIRC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_it_by_Computer

Acording to Wikipedia (and also mentioned in his book, IIRC), Dromey was inspired by the techniques of the book "How to Solve it" by George Polya, a famous mathematician, and applied some of his techniques to programming with data structures and algorithms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P%C3%B3lya

But he doesn't just translate the Polya book from the domain of mathematics to software; he builds up the solution to each problem posed in his book, in an incremental way, sort of as he discovers or invents them, sharing the reasoning behind the decisions as he goes along. I found this to be one of the good features of the book.

I had the good fortune to read Polya's book too, early on in college - I think it was rare even then. It had gems like "solve the more general problem" (if there is one), which will automatically solve the specific problem you are working on, as just another special case, and some times the solution to the more general problem may turn out to be simpler than the solution to the specific problem. But the book has much more than that, in terms of problem-solving advice.
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So does heart disease. You're somehow ignoring the "lost productivity" of 6.5 million people per year dying! And I didn't mention stroke, respiratory diseases, AIDS, and non-flu intestinal diseases, each of which kills more people per year than the flu.
You know what's a great idea? A wearable bluetooth screen attached to glasses that lets you have always-visible time and GPS information and notifications fed from your phone.

You know what's a bad idea? Everything else they did with Glass.

Seriously, just kill the Glass project and hand the brand over to their wearables division to figure out how to get something actually to market.
I don't think the ports tree is quite that big, at least when it's compressed (presently ~220ish megs for FreeBSD 10 as a tgz), because ports only contain Makefiles and descriptive metadata.

It used to be the case, I think, that the extra disc images were for installing applications outside the base distributions and the likes as they themselves contained a snapshot of some of the binary archives for a given release. I don't know for sure, though, because I always used ports (which is better and obviously more up to date).
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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/technology/hoverboard-s...

Their hoverboard works. I believe they now have a kickstarter too.
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https://access.redhat.com/solutions/95213

Dated May 28, 2014

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"So at this moment we cannot say whether mod_ssl is going to be a valid crypto module in FIPS mode under RHEL-6 although this is the intent."

That may have changed, and contradict other sources on redhat.com. There are a lot more KB articles on FIPS since the last time I really dug into it over a year ago.

Edit, yes, it looks like it was mod_nss only until the release of RHEL 5.9 last Jan. RHEL-6 was ongoing, but it looks like they claim mod_ssl will work now in other places in the knowledge-base.

You can't even use FIPS in Ubuntu/Debian at all: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+bug/95001

FIPS is just one area where it seems like there's a lot of contradictory information for federal IT. After doing the FedRAMP dance, and reading things to the letter, we stopped working towards it and partnered with one of the vendors that got it first. Their remote access was plain text VNC, 8 character password max. I would say I was surprised the paperwork matters more than real security, but I wasn't.
Hi - author here. Yes, we use Voronoi + clipPaths to make these kinds of rollovers possible.
"We need a scalable intelligence without the burden of emotions"

I believe that there isn't an absolute way to value a human life if you don't take into account emotions.

If intelligence is the supreme of the values that one can use to justify actions then AI will make the machine the sovereign of our planet. The real problem is giving a sense to our existence and actions in a way compatible with our emotions and nature and at the same time based on a sound ground. For a machine without emotions our life is no more valuable of that of any other thing be it alive or not.
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Not surprising. Happened to someone I know at Google.
I'm betting folks outside of SF wouldn't even know what it is.

I think they missed the market a bit - don't target the tech-fashion group with a device like that. Wait until you can get something actually slick. Something fashionable with some nice transition lenses for that market.

The spartan, minimalist headband-with-a-computer on it device? Market that thing at sporty types. Runners, hikers, cyclists. A lightweight hybrid of a GoPro and a smartwatch that's hands-free? People could look past battery, price, and fashion issues for that, and lots of extreme-sports-types already do wearable cameras.
Super nice project, congrats. This sentence is missing a 'controller': "so i opted to tap the fans into the motor housing.", and further down it has ', for affed effect, I '

I'm really really jealous about all the nice toys you get to work with and what a great place where 'scrap' of this quality is available. Tinkerers paradise :)
The Ogallala (thanks for the correction, I don't spell it out very often), is a huge aquifer. T Boone's well is up North and not technically in the Permian Basin area.
As predicted, evidence is emerging that Toxoplasma Gondii infections are higher in prison populations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955834/ I have another paper on the subject as well but unfortunately it's in Turkish.
Book donations: yes please! We have a library but we are building a permanent program (not a one-time thing) so a bigger library is better.
We can't predict what startup is going to succeed, why do we think we can predict what the future of AI will look like?
Hans Reiser is at San Quentin.
The new console sounds pretty cool. Features include UTF8, double-width characters, and kernel modesetting.
I agree with your points but I was talking in the context of node.js.

Having await/async will make node.js programming infinitely better. Lots of programming tasks in server side are really 'step' driven i.e doing a lot of things one by one. Of course, at this point someone will point me to 'async' and 'step' and 'q' modules but that's not the point.
AWS, Rackspace et al. use hypervisors already, so we're trending toward 4 layers:

hypervisor -> monolithic kernel -> containers -> application

Unikernels collapse it to:

hypervisor -> unikernel/application

It's certainly more elegant, although I'm skeptical of the purported performance gains as well, simply because so many optimizations have been thrown into traditional kernels.
There is now also an RDMA protocol that understands GPU RAM
I doubt that this will be more effective than conventional projectile-based weapons. Also, lasers that need this kind of power usually require and release chemicals that are very damaging to the environment. It'd make a lot more sense to install this on a ship with a nuclear reactor as a power source. But then again, I guess it'd be unlikely that the laser is used because those ships usually aren't at the front line.
I think a lot of the problems with your teams may have been you.
So many times this. I see a lot of people using a very powerful IDE, and not even taking the time to learn the most basic shortcuts, like the "rename variable" refactoring, go to file/class/symbol, or setting up the IDE to auto-format the code based on the team standard, just to name a few.
It's worse than that - human-like intelligence will never happen, because our intelligence is a function of our experience as we grow up and our human body.

An AI can surely surpass us, but it'll never be quite like us - so question is, will such an AI have compassion for humans, or what will stop it from hurting us? After all, I'm not so fond of humans either, as we've been exterminating entire species and damaging our habitat. And the answer is - there's no reason to believe that such an AI will support the continued existence of mankind, quite the contrary, as we may be seen as a threat to its survival.
It's better for massive parallelization, which is normally what you want for large scale data crunching. More threads per core than Xeon.
I wish TypeScript checked types at runtime.... boo...

The only language that I've seen in JS land that is trying to get this right is AtScript from the Angular team.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11YUzC-1d0V1-Q3V0fQ7KSit9...

Looks interesting so far.
I wouldn't mind outsourcing some of my work but there are usually factors that stop me:

* Cost: Good experienced devs in a timezone I want to be awake for to talk with cost more than I can afford to pay (generalizing here)

* Management overhead: Good communication, writing good specs, etc such that a dev can complete the work in the way I want it done can be just as time consuming if not more so than doing it myself

* Establishing trust: Farming out work when in crunch mode to an unproven dev and hoping for the best doesn't sit well with me. I would want to establish a working relationship starting with code projects that are small and don't care if they come back crappy (which is almost none of my work at the moment)

* NDAs: Companies generally don't like you granting access to their codebase to people they did not vet/hire themselves
This is unavoidable, because the aim for unikernels is to run on the cloud as a platform. They don't get to do or see anything in the hypervisor (or between guests) because the hypervisor is owned and managed by someone else who very much does not want you to see what's going on.
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I run http://blogspam.net/ which does real-time spam blocking for forums/blogs/etc. On the whole you're correct, spammers go for easy targets.

But I started the project when a custom CMS of mine (more or less) started getting added to the spammer-lists. It seems like it's only a matter of time these days until people find your site and submit 10-500 comments a day. Some I can see are clearly bots, or compromised IPs, others are clearly humans (presumably paid very cheaply).
People 'modules' still need to connect at some interface to computers. If the people have emotions, the programs people create will absolutely either reflect that, or the application of where the computation is applied will be a composition of emotion and calculation.

Why not start by examining what emotions are, and why they are imprecise indicators of quantitative measures?

Imagine you live abstractly first, disconnected from emotions. Then imagine the effect that has on your life. Then imagine what the basic issues in the world would be, if everyone lived that way.
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Subject to pressure yes, annhilated by it, no. Does natural selection really affect human population anymore? Genuinely curious, because what I see is that the the people with tons of kids aren't usually the most intelligent one (anecdotal evidence, of course)
You could compromise and setup your own external site.

e.g. I wrote https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ for a static-site that wanted comments. You could use something like that, then later bring it into the main app/site as required. The value here is that you own the data, not disqus, etc.
Can't the Tor network introduce random perturbations into the traffic flow at every hop, thus defeating this kind of fingerprinting ?

I know that it does not do this, but couldn't it ?
Snippet library is called code duplication which isn't nice.
The nuclear rocket stuff was in the 50s and 60s. With the shift to stock-pile stewardship at the end of the cold war all of the labs became fairly focused on modeling. It also depends on what group you work for. I worked for one of the modeling groups so we were obviously talking about it all the time. Many other groups did to. Some were more experiment focused. Most the physicists treated it as a third branch to the classic experimental, theoretical split in physics.
I'm okay with the Citizens United decision (first amendment should be protected above all else, I think we shouldn't cap political donations). I understand that it's a position that puts me at odds with a lot of techy liberals. So starting a video on AI by referencing his own thoughts on Citizens United is off-topic and isn't persuasive.
I hadn't considered that use case. How nice would it be to have a terminal in one eye where you could sit in any position with a keyboard on your lap and never need a desk?

Now I want a terminal strapped to my face.
The ever-excellent Congressional Research Service report has all the pew-pew detail that you could possibly ask for: http://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/R41526.pdf
They have testimonials from people that have "access" to the platform, so haven't you gotten early access yourself?
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Dart can as well. In fact, I think that the whole type spec in AtScript is based on Dart.

Edit: Quote from the doc you linked: "This runtime type system is modeled after Dart’s runtime type assertion. Dart users working on large scale applications point out that optional types and runtime type assertions work well in practice."
Why do you want TypeScript to check types at run time? Integration with other JavaScript code?
why do you want that?
The rationale given in the AtScript presentation seemed pretty weak to me.
Wait wait wait. So we're seriously taking the Ayn Rand Objectivist argument seriously on the Net Neutrality debate?

If you want a good reference on why this is a bad idea please watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8m8cQI4DgM Last week tonight makes a good summery of just why this is dumb.
>The general reason comes down to inter-node bandwidth

And sometimes even more than bandwidth, inter-node latency, which is where Inifinband really shines over ethernet. Calculations which have high levels of node-to-node dependencies are pretty much the difference between super computers and the type of stuff that large internet companies compute on.

I hear (but don't personally know) that Google-style large data center installs are moving towards the CLOS-style networks that have been popular in HPC for a long time. These network topologies give equal bandwidth between any pair of nodes, as well as nearly equal latency.
We're using it in Beta right now. We've had a lot of issues with the API & they don't support web atm (due to websockets) but I believe this is coming in a couple of months. Only iOS & Android right now.

Alternatives are Pusher & PubNub:
https://pusher.com/
http://www.pubnub.com/
Now that BIND has been removed from the base system [1], what DNS server is FreeBSD shipping with (if any)?

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/announce.html
Speed (at the ranges that we are talking about) is important at the distances that we are talking about. Weather and cargo storage are totally distance-independent.

But let's take a step back. We're imagining the sort of default rosy driverless-vehicle future, right? Driverless cars can be made that are fully autonomous, at least as safe as human drivers in essentially all conditions, and not terrifyingly expensive.

We agree that in that case the driverless car is strictly more attractive to riders than the drivered-cars of today are, right? So if the value that a person today puts on having a car is A, and the value that future person puts on having a future car is B, then B > A? Indeed, B is much greater than A?

And we also agree that today, cities are pretty car-oriented? So A is large ENOUGH that cities pander to it to a large degree? And there's a positive feedback cycle here where when cities pander to cars, that makes cars actually more valuable compared to the competition.

Now what you're saying is that when we replace A with B, where B >>> A, cities will (eventually) pander to cars less. Why?

The thing that you suggest is that cars waste real estate. Which, certainly, they do. I do note in passing that driverless cars might waste less real estate (for example, they could be sent to more distant and more inconvenient parking structures, or the utilization of people / car could go up with a rides-for-hire model). But whatever, at the very least the real estate efficiency of driverless cars is no worse than the real estate efficiency of regular cars.

So meanwhile, today, the rail + maybe something like segway model has value X. We agree that X < A, right? That in America at least cars provide more value than transit, and so people get cars, and so cities pander to cars. Now you seem to be envisioning that in the driverless future, rail + segways have value Y, and Y is not only > X, it's also > A, and in fact > B. Why? What is it about driverless segways that is so great? Unlike driverless cars, they don't seem like they provide much value for their users (you aren't going to read a book while your driverless segway takes you to your destination, and though maybe they'd be a little better when drunk).

And, further, we're saying that driverless segways are that awesome even if they have to reverse some inertia of cities currently being designed kind of "against" them, and indeed, even if they have to reverse yet more inertia because the FIRST thing that happens in our driverless future is people buy driverless cars and become a constituency for even more city-pandering-to-cars.

I don't see it. Maybe if it takes a long time to get to driverless cars, because right now I think that the car domination of the world is getting a bit milder. Maybe if the current trend continues for a few decades, and then cities have become more hostile to cars, driverless or otherwise, the increased value of cars won't be enough that it will get over the inertia.

But if we get good driverless cars in the next decade or fifteen years? In-city rail is just going to die in almost all cities. And once it's dead, it will be dead for a long, long time.
From what I've heard, most of those tools are not really the best of poster-boys for Tcl in that they're kind of old and crufty and probably not a lot of fun to work with.
It depends on target. Lasers will work much better against optical sensors (on drones, missiles, etc.).
hg has a very elegant underlying data model, which you wind up not having to care about at all (a nice property of a good abstraction), unlike git.

:)

I use hg for almost all my own software development, and it's a great pleasure. I've also used hg professionally in both development and support modes, and if/when I ever get around to starting my own software business, hg or other "safe by default" system will be enforced with an iron fist. It's quite a lot better than git.
Netflix's in-built search is astoundingly terrible. I'm sure it's been A/B tested to hell and back, and I'm sure my elderly parents appreciate the giant tiles, but for 'power watchers' it's catastrophic. I would literally pay 50% more per month if they would provide me the ability to filter search results to eliminate movies I've seen, movies with less than 2-stars, and to add a search-by-year feature.

Instantwatcher.com provides much of this functionality so I hope this API change doesn't force them out of business.
I guess you are living in a parallel universe. The fact that the president is issued from an ethic minority changes absolutely nothing to system. The power is still concentrated in a few hands and lobby groups are dominating everything. As we saw in the past few years, even in a "nation of laws" as you say it, the laws are only in practice mostly applied to constraint the freedom of citizens (Is the massive electronic surveillance done by the NSA is just to make sure that everyone is a good and loyal citizen ?).
If that were the case, shouldn't there be a new version of Glass, or shouldn't Google keep it in people's minds? This is the first I've thought or heard about Glass in a very long time.
I'd like to see a test fire video of this. The question I have is how long is a damaging shot? In rough seas the boat can rock and pitch. If the shot has to continue for several second, you would probably need to stabilize the assemble since a small change in position could mean moving from the target to well off the target.
Serious answer: I moved here to the US because this is supposed to be the Land of the Free. No other country has such an amazing legal foundation to allow for Liberty; the founding fathers came here exactly because they wanted to move to a place that had a tax system they agree with more. But in the past few generations we've destroyed this.

So it's not I that have to move somewhere else. I've already moved. I've moved to where there can be Freedom, and where there once was. I'm here because I believe in Freedom and I think we can get it back, no thanks to people like you that are OK with the erosion of this most Enlightened idea.

The real question is, those who don't believe in freedom anymore, why don't they move to Europe or something? That's what Europe has always been, so go there. People came here from Europe so they could be free, and you're spoiling it for us. This is a land of immigrants that want to be left alone. If you're not that, then at least don't complain, and it would also be nice to stop silencing those that still think this is a good idea.

To your other points, what you mentioned aren't the lower fruits, those are the most high up fruits. Lower fruits are things that can more easily be decoupled from the scope of the government. ARKYD and similar projects prove there's no need for government in sending things to space, plus all the work by Virgin and Space X. So this is a low hanging fruit and people need to understand we need to decouple this from the government purview. Defense is super hard to decouple, requiring the whole population to be armed as you have in Switzerland.
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How can you tell the difference between which way the influence flows over small, short discrete intervals? As in, whether a politician influences a citizen or a citizen influences a politician?
> The series is likely to be a change of pace for science-fiction fans in the United States, where many leading contemporary writers in the genre are rejecting classic alien-invasion plots in favor of those that take on real-world issues like climate change or shifting gender roles.

Does anyone know what books the author is referring to?
I want to ask if someone has any idea of how to define a system that is both logical and respects the value human life. Today we can see children dying from hunger and other people with billions in their bank accounts. Emotions tell us this is not a just system, our rational legal system tell us we must respect the law and the status quo. But how do you design a better system?