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"There are very few differences between German and English,"

While English is, more or less, a simplified version of German I still would not agree to your statement.
English has no declension (a simplification of a grammar).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension

In German it does not make a difference if you say "Dog bites Man" or "Man bites Dog". The word order is very flexible and it is always clear who bites whom. This is a major difference in a language.
There is more than one kind of memory. You're talking about episodic memory. I think you have many memories from childhood that you aren't considering. I'm sure you still have many semantic memories (facts, concepts, etc) from before age 10. For example: if you're from the US, you still know the name of the first president of the United States.

You probably have even more information from childhood stored in implicit memory. If you're like most people, you learned how to ride a bike, tie your shoes, understand language, and play catch. The memories of learning these things are separate from the memories needed to actually do them.

Erasing all of a person's memories would truly destroy them. Once they formed new memories, they would be as different from their original self as an identical twin separated at birth.
Perhaps we should become educated in how such protections are used locally and insist on the same treatment when "interacting" with the cops.
I think it's possible, if this hypothetical Java had strong corporate backing. I'm not sure Oracle could do it, but if it came out of Google, I bet it would catch on. The language Go has shown you can release a language no one really needs (sorry enthusiasts, just my opinion) that will still be successful.
You are wondering what is the explanation for people taking readily available free (to them) stuff they enjoy? This is not a deep mystery of the Universe.
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Predicting AI progress isn't like predicting other things were you can lay out all the steps that need to be done and make a plan. It's more like solving a series of hard technical problems. No one knows what the solutions will be or how long it will take someone to invent them.

There were perfectly educated people that said there would never be flying machines, 2 years before the Wright brothers succeeded.
I have ranted before about the cargo-cult style used in hiring processes across our industry. Most of the "write-code-on-whiteboard" and "how-many-golf-balls-a-school-bus" style of bullshit has been handed down through folklore from old Microsoft interview techniques from the 80's.
Now that I'm running a company, I've used the opportunity to define policies by basically banning those practices from our engineering recruitment process. Instead, we give a problem to the candidate (of the sort that we might be solving in day-to-day work ... not "create this data structure and be sure to use recursion horse-manure) and ask them to take the whole day or more if they want, in their own environment (home, cafe, wherever they find focus), as if this is a real problem they might be solving for work, and produce working code. Now I know this is not perfect, but I'm convinced this is way better than the traditional coding interview.
See above, I am talking about the frequency of catastrophic failures. I agree it is not a good comparison.
I'm loving it on my Ubuntu laptop. Linux used to be a pain in the old days, but now just about everything works.
Not observed on my late-2009 iMac, either. It has an older bluetooth card that doesn't work with airdrop.
Mythical man-month isn't even an excuse - Apple software isn't running late. Well at least, the cycle is well known and it should be easy to add more people from the beginning before it gets too late.
Worse, they took Java, put Windows only stuff in it, and Sun sued them...
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It's weird. I have the opposite experience. I do not have a CS degree. I do not know formal algorithms or data structures. But I have technical aptitude and significant stage time, including in front of drunk audiences from another life that didn't exactly lead to stardom. So I enjoy technical interviews because what limited knowledge I have is instantly accessible and I thrive in front on an audience.

So it seems here is a an instance of where life was not fair... in my favor. But now I'm in a position to hire other people. So I don't want to judge them in the same way I was. I want to find out who's got the chops completely apart from who can dance on cue.
It's weird. I have the opposite experience. I do not have a CS degree. I do not know formal algorithms or data structures. But I have technical aptitude and significant stage time, including in front of drunk audiences from another life that didn't exactly lead to stardom. So I enjoy technical interviews because what limited knowledge I have is instantly accessible and I thrive in front on an audience.
To be fair, you can do this with Windows 8.1 too and get the same results: https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=windows+8.1+update+breaks...
We've seen something similar with a 10 - 25 MacBooks connected at once on an Airport Extreme, and I wonder if it's related – as it all worked fine before, for months.

Is the solution to downgrade everyone to 10.10.2 or upgrade everyone to 10.10.3?
Quick fixing is not Apple.
Yosemite has not done well in the wifi connectivity arena in my house. My wife's Macbook will drop its wifi while sitting next to a Surface Pro that happily maintains connection. The wifi issues have meant that we both are moving away from Apple products and are purchasing alternatives.
How does quadratic voting get around Arrow's Theorem?
> hackintosh

I get the sentiment of what you're saying and I agree with it, but I have to disagree with you - You can't blame the stability of your 'hackintosh', running the OS on a completely unsupported configuration.
All legal advice communication with a lawyer is protected by attorney-client privilege, even emails. There is nothing stupid about emailing a lawyer.
Like edit-and-continue I bet the code-aware library concept will be scoffed at by some, but provide a huge productivity boost to those who adopt it.

You can design the API as nicely as possible but there is just some information that can't be communicated that way. Now the library can ship with some compile-time code (instead of run-time code) that can analyze your usage of the library and provide feedback.

I'm also curious if C# begins to evolve some meta-programming constructs, letting you write "macros" or syntax extensions in C#. Everyone hates on the C preprocessor (as do I and for good reason) but few compiled languages provide a truly suitable replacement. Back when I was doing C# on a daily basis I would use reflection to generate DynamicMethod instances and emit the IL instructions in 2.0; later being able to convert Expressions to machine code was a step up for the cases where its needed and the T4 template engine works ok for other scenarios.

Now that I'm doing iOS full time that's my one major complaint - complete lack of any meta-programming facility. (That and they took away __conversion)
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No wonder. There isn't any reasonable disclosure.

I'm torn on the money as speech thing. I am pretty sure more disclosure is needed. We can know who is backing up what policy visions, and that allows for other advocacy forms to check raw money as speech. That seems just to me. We also can know the money is actually used for elections. As it stands right now, people can fund raise, and with so little disclosure, they can do most anything with the money. That doesn't seem anywhere near as just.
...but the stack trace would still be visible from outer space.
Do you have any links / sources to back this story up? I haven't heard about this before.
But what is the difference between a "cartridge copies" and however ROM files are created?
For an outsider, Rust is still barely usable. I tried building a simple demo using the beta release today, and regretted right away. Lots of "unstable feature" errors that I can't figure out how to get rid of. Many useful features are unstable. I don't think I'm going to touch it again for a few months.
I don't think your distinction makes sense. Police, by necessity, are empowered to do things that would otherwise be tortious or even criminal. The law insulates them from liability so long as they act within the bounds of professional responsibility. The police unions do the same thing teachers' unions or any other union do--protect members who don't act within the bounds of their professional responsibility.
> I've used the opportunity to define policies by basically banning those practices from our engineering recruitment process.

Good for you but FYI, brain teasers have been banned in most companies in Silicon Valley for a solid decade. The fact that they are no indicator of the quality of an engineer candidate is a well known fact.
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This is probably a baseless notion, but having nursed along a mid-2010 Macbook Pro alongside a Linux/Windows Desktop, I find myself thinking that the Linux WiFi situation is now the easiest of the three (on Ubuntu, at least). Of course, there's a huge caveat about hardware selection, but I am always careful to buy something that I know to have decent driver support.

Strange times.
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Motivated by the problem of finding the most efficient place to eat along the way. Hope it can help in many other occasions as well.
That was OP's point... It was stable on even a hackintosh. And now is struggling on a rMBP.
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As a non-native English speaker who also interviews candidates, I try make sure to see if the candidate understood and always say it in another way -- For example after saying "go infinitely" (which is a silly way to phrase it) I would also say "it basically loops around", "creates a cycle". Maybe even draw out a little example on a whiteboard.
QA has noticeably dropped, but it is a difficult job. WiFi is notorious, lots of buggy implementations of the same standard both on the access point and the laptop. And many times the work place WiFi won't update to the latest firmware that fixes the problem.
MacOSX is the WindowsME of unix.
I don't think people change their own top level goals. At least not intentionally. You wouldn't take a pill that made you a sociopath, or rip out the part of your brain that causes you to feel happy, etc.

Our values are essentially given to us by evolution. Pleasure, pain, empathy for others, novelty seeking, sense of beauty, all our social instincts, joy and sadness, etc. There is no reason to believe that an AI would have any of these things unless we made a massive effort to replicate them exactly. It would naturally have very different motivations, different goals and different values.

For example an AI without boredom would just find some optimal experience and perform it over and over again until the end of time. An AI without empathy wouldn't care about harming humans or other beings.

In other words, the Orthogonality thesis, that there is no universal correlation between intelligence and values. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Orthogonality_thesis
That is still HBO as an a la carte add-on to a (net-based) cable bundle.
> the SIU investigates. Someone dies in custody, the SIU investigates.

You forgot to add "and nothing ever happens"...

Remember Sammy Yatim? The teenager who was begging for the cop to shoot him that was posted to youtube in 2013?

Well, the cop shot him to death, and then another cop ran on the ttc car to taser him (trying to cover up the fact that his buddy shot and killed him at point blank range with no provocation), and even more cops were filmed kicking away shell casings (in an attempt to make it look as though fewer bullets had been fired?? I don't know...) That's destruction of evidence.

There still isn't even a trial date set almost 2 years later now. [0] Forcillo is still working in law enforcement with Crime Stoppers. And when the trial does finally occur, the entire thing is under a publication ban, so nobody will even hear about it. It will be on page 7 of the toronto star that James Forcillo was found not guilty and is now working for another police division.

If he does get 10 years in prison I would be incredibly surprised.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sammy_Yatim
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What package overhead? With NPM, all a package needs is a "package.json" file which does little more than specify a name and version number.

And what would a more complete package look like? "AgentME's bag of useful functions"? Many of them don't make sense to group together.
The article says you have to clone the vector, as if it's not completely normal to have one object hold a reference to another, "unsafely," in C++, without the world coming to an end. Having one object contain a reference or pointer to another in C++ is completely normal and something you certainly would "dream" of doing -- it happens all the time, you can find it everywhere in the STL, so I don't know what the blog author is getting at. Looking at the diff, the type SubstructureFields already has the lifetime parameter on it, and making FieldInfo, which is only used as a field in the SubstructureFields type (which owns its FieldInfo objects), be subject to the same lifetime constraint, is something that would be perfectly ordinary C++ and it registers near the bottom of the use-after-free risk scale.
A C++ function returning pointer to vector, or a public field of that type, would be considered bad API for the reasons mentioned in this article. The solution is to not do that. I'm not sure that Rust's ability to allow shared ownership of a vector makes this API pattern any better.
I'm not defending Apple, but ...

https://www.google.com.mx/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=JaBFVd6SBoKO8QfbqoHQ...

https://www.google.com.mx/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=JaBFVd6SBoKO8QfbqoHQ...
adhd folk are natural risk takers... so this result is unsurprising.

One thing I've always wondered is how adhd folks didn't get selected out through their risky behaviour. Their existence could certainly confer some group benefits - but I thought group selection was no longer well regarded in the evo biol community.
I'm on 10.10.4 and am solid with wifi, but plugging into two monitors with the hdmi and thunderbolt ports runs my cpu full load. It's become extremely annoying.
Maybe. Java does one thing really well - marketing. Primarily to schools. It's hard to compete with a language that every graduate knows, and worse, it's the only one they "know."
And what's with the kernel_task that's suddenly taking up most of the RAM on older Macbook Airs?
Wi-fi trouble in OS X 10.10.x is very hardware dependent, brand new MacBook Pro 2015 is just fine for example. But have heard so many users with nonstop wireless problems from 10.10, to 10.10.1, 10.10.2, 10.10.3, perhaps 10.10.4 as well, we'll find out soon enough.

The enormous ping post 10.10.3 update can also be from iCloud Photo Library from Photos app, which if you let it, attempts to upload every single picture from iPhoto and your Mac to iCloud, and download thumbnails from your iPhone / iPad to the Mac. This is frequently many GB, I have a 64GB iPhone for example, with 45GB of Photos. So, do you want that to upload from iPhone to iCloud and download thumbs to the Mac at the same time? No not really but thats what it tries to do, making the network very slow much like you describe. The send/recv network congestion from that alone will easily send your ping to 10 seconds.

It's hard to imagine such low quality software could be coming out of Apple lately. I hope they figure this out, maybe hire a larger Mac QA team if needed. And the OS X Public Beta program is kind of a joke, all bug reports go ignored. Not a single bug report I have filed has been addressed.
This was back in the 90s, when Microsoft had their own JVM and own version of java called j++
> Privatization can incorrectly incentivize an industry - look at the recent Corinthian college

I wouldn't say it had incorrectly incentivized the industry, considering the 19 of the top 20 US universities on the latest US News rankings are private, as are 25 of the top 30.

The problem with Corinthian is not that it was private. It was that it was for-profit. Those private colleges that dominate the top colleges list (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Princeton, yadda yadda) are all non-profit.
And it always will, because that's where the money comes from. It's a patronage machine - higher salaries --> more money for union supporters --> more union supporters in office --> higher salaries...
I hesitate to pull the "Google is your friend" card, but this is one of those stories that's so well documented that a three word query will keep you reading relevant articles all weekend.
If the Mac supports it, OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) is the most stable release out there.
has it ever been any other way?
I have two very competent friends that, in the past couple of months, have quit Apple because they were working in groups with toxic cultures. One was IS&T, the other was hardware (I don't want to name the exact group). They had very detailed accounts of the issues they encountered. They didn't have great things to say about other groups they were familiar with, or had previously worked in, either.

My last company worked extensively with browsers from various companies, at a deep level. Safari was, by far, the one that crashed the most and had the most general implementation problems. My experience with their other software is not much better, and I avoid what I can. And then there is the ghastly iWorks rewrite. The only software I've ever thought highly of from Apple is Mac OS X.

I would guess there are deep cultural problems at Apple that are being allowed to fester, and perhaps this extends to some OS X groups. Yet Apple continues to produce beautiful devices that people buy for their dopamine hits (okay, I admit, maybe iPhones are pretty nice). I wish Microsoft would seize the opportunity and make an OSX-like OS* that runs common productivity and creative apps so we could not be beholden to Apple, as I am for Mac.

* Apparently they did this once but the project was canned
Acting like a p*ssy does not lead to reproductive success. I'd expect it to be more selected for, over time.

Best relationship ever was with a ADHD risk-taking person. Would do again.
Thanks, seems like the thing I'm looking for.

If you look at line 531 of the CPU source code (as of today, anyway), there are multiple 256 byte tables that give instruction encodings, lengths, and cycle counts.

What I was asking is: "Is it possible to put these as a parameter of the 'op' macro so that it builds these tables automatically"

The answer might be "No" if e.g. a single op has multiple instruction encodings. But assume that there is only one encoding per op.

An equivalent question is - can static: sections assign to an array that will be available at runtime? From your example, the answer appears to be yes.
Even more ridiculous is that JavaScript and Java are the same age.
This is idealistic of me, but I always think that this money should be exclusively earmarked for public education and health purposes. It's a fairly reliable way of getting something positive from the "wages of sin".
Because they only have to live long enough to reproduce. There are studies showing people with adhd have a much higher risk of accidental (and non accidental) death.

Adhd is not a superpower. It's an incurable brain disorder. It fucking sucks.
There were plenty of other languages with GC. Perl for example. Not sure what "full object oriented" means but I think smalltalk might count? Also plenty of byte code languages. In fact VB was a bytecode language.

I also don't believe Java had any influence on JavaScript except for using the name for marketing
Vietnam was the last US war fought with draftees. That was a long time ago.
Stack based language is simple and cool. Although I did not use Forth, I once used qinmishu(http://qinmishu.org).
The Linux kernel does that. The 'jiffies' counter's initial value rolls over 5 minutes after boot:

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/jiffies.h...
I don't like to view it as an disorder, because that says there is a correct way that your brain should function. I think it's just different. Viewing it disorder is self-defeating for people with ADHD, it's like saying they think there is something wrong with them at all times, but there really isn't. They just find different ways to do things.
Both your comment and the one you're replying shows the huge problem with politics and "talking points". Since people can't be bothered to truly understand an issue, they can only hold on to simple absolutes. Impossible to support the rebel, impossible to say no to unions, impossible to consider the brave people of the military or local law enforcement might be wrong.
>Take for example the recent shooting in South Carolina, where a policeman shot a man who was running away from a traffic stop. He could have just let the guy go.

And he was trained to do just that. That's why he's being charged with murder.
I'm having this - OP check the Memory Pressure section in Activity Monitor. The annoying thing is all I've got running are Spotify, Skype, Chrome (with a couple of tabs) and iTerm. I guess 4GB isn't enough anymore...
I think of the black-bar as the Admin's way of paying respect. It's not about me, and it doesn't effect me. Even if it did affect me, I wouldn't feel like it's my place to tell them who they can and cannot pay respect to.
Garbage collected languages handle this fine too.
What was unstable that you wanted to use?
(Not trying to deny your experience: reporting this helps the Rust team determine what to prioritize)
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Exactly. It's just a difference in cognition.
Is the Wifi hardware in Macs from Intel? Intel's drivers on Windows are pretty terrible, it wouldn't surprise me if they came from the same source.
> of wings or the locomotion of sea creatures before taking to the air or underwater.

It is not all or nothing. There are analogies at different abstraction level.

Yes we probably shouldn't be plugging in continuous differential equations to mimic chemistry of neuroreceptors, cell sodium channels etc. to replicate it at that level. So in that respect we agree, airplanes are not like birds. Far from it. No flapping. Not composed of cells. Not biological in nature.

On the other hand, there is another way to look at systems -- look at higher functional components and how they are connected. So maybe there is a language processing area connecting to memory. And so on. This is called the connectome of the brian as well. Which identifies what parts are connected to what.

In this regards airplanes are similar to birds. They both have wings. Fuselage. A tail. They are built with similar structural material contraints -- light and durable. Aluminum, titanium for aircraft, and porous bones for birds.

Another way to look at it is in so many decades of AI, we haven't yet come up with another model. So while having to wait for enlightment to hit us one day why not learn from an already existent example.
The ironic thing about all this is that the (largely) Apple mentality of hiding everything away makes it even more difficult to troubleshoot when something does go wrong, like this. Most users won't narrow down the problem so easily to their own machine if they only see the slowness described in the article... but what they will notice is a WiFi activity light that's blinking almost all the time, even when they aren't doing anything, when it used to not do that.
Come on - this is on their own hardware. Everyone else has {large_int} amount of hardware combinations to test