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Foreword: I do not believe I have ever been in a mental state that could be considered as 'depression'.

That said, I have experienced times in my life that have made me realise that the common views (e.g. you are free to do anything now; it will get better; etc) are false. They all stem from the idea that the individual is selfish.

The worst times I've had in my life were the times in which I tried really hard to be virtuous, to care, to right wrongs.

When I want more than just to 'succeed'. More than just to fix my life. My life is fine!

Bureaucracy, for example. 'Company policy'. It makes me angry and feel as if millions of humans have lost the ability to feel empathy, have been turned into robots. It's not about the fact I can't return a broken lightbulb; I don't give a toss about the 1 GBP. It's about the knowledge that most people don't care about right and wrong. Most people will obey the rules, they will do what authority says, they will take the path of least resistance.

Politics. My country treats the poor as subhuman whilst praising the rich. It fawns over 'merit'; which is really just random chance.

I could go on... basically, what happens when you realise that you're playing a rigged game? It doesn't matter if you win or lose. You can run away and hide. Or you can fight, all the while knowing that your attempts almost certain to be futile.

Once the box is open it never closes. I cope by employing nihilism, but the triggers are everywhere. Every 'intellectual discussion' about the merits of Red vs Blue, about the latest plan to Lock People In A Box for performing something mundane like shuffling some bits around.

And all around, the advice is to take drugs. Think differently. 'Come to terms with it'. Counselling... I don't want that shit. I want a city, a country, a world that treats its citizens well. If not as equals, at least as more than dogs.
Conversely, many of the most creative programming artifacts out there are not functional. So, I'm not sure what the evidence is here. Can people do amazing things with tools? Yes. Is there evidence that some tools enable more creativity than others? I'm not so sure.
Is anyone familiar with materials and cost involved?
They were last updated in 2009 though, so those Xserves they were selling in 2011 were pretty dated.
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Hmmm... that sounds like you might need glasses (or updating your prescription if you already have ones).

Several of my coworkers were prescribed glasses for the same problem. Go visit your ophtalmologist.

Edit: emph_zealot's suggestion looks like exactly what you need, but I'd still have my eyesight checked if I were you.
I've got an ebook reader specifically for A4 PDF's

It's Onyx BOOX M96 - 9.7" screen, 1600x1200, running on android. The dpi could be better, there is no backlight and only weird stylus-only touchscreen. Build quality is decent, but nothing amazing, the touchscreen is acceptable if you have the damn stylus around (you can actually take notes on that thing though)
It is more or less stock android, with special launcher for ebook part - you can change it though, and it does come with google play. This means you can replace shoddy inbuilt apps with good ones from the store (therefore no issues with supported formats -dvju, epub, fbr, mobi,personalised dictionary,editing doc, excel files (bluetooth keyboard) whatever you want) - it pretty much is an android tablet with eink. However the android comes with no tweaking regarding that - some apps come as black on black - unusable
The sheer screen size lets you browse most technical books without zooming. I routinely use it to study for uni. (Thats mainly why i got it)

It is quirky and not that good looking, but it is very usable - the android part works good (if you kill connectivity it will power down after inactivity so battery life is not an issue)

Bottom line is: I'm glad i got it. Play store means i can supplant broken pre installed stuff. Missio critical objective - reading B5/A4 pdfs - works better than i hoped.
The isn't pretty or sleek or polished, but it gets the job done and it does it good

PS. Previous version got an community ubuntu flavour, dont know about this one.
Our Jenkins is configured to sign-in with GitHub. And yeah, it sucked to not be able to get in. Probably in future it's best to move away to non-Gihub accounts.
They would probably run their own OSX Based EC2 competitor before doing this
I use an iPad mini + Google Drive for Oreilly/Manning books + Goodreader (app).

The iPad was a gift and I just started collecting pdf books. I also use the Amazon app whenever I purchase ebooks from their marketplace. This allows me to stay versatile and automatically sync all my notes, etc. remotely.
This reminds me of the scene from the matrix where all those humans are suspended in cords as their energy is being drained off by a dark power.
Sounds like butter on fat, as the reason (as i see it) for Wall Street to be all over crytocurrency (bitcoin in particular) is that the scheme behaves like gold from the outset.

This in that you have a limited amount total, and as time goes on it becomes harder to "extract" what has not already been put into circulation.

Frankly i find that the reason gold has this, frankly, silly position for some is a flue of history.

Say you start out trading by weight. That takes time.

To speed it up you start using defined weights.

Then you find that you can just as well just tally up the weights and pass those around as tokens.

Gold works for this as it does not perish if sitting at the bottom of a hole for centuries.

So in essence gold would just be a shiny, soft, metal if it didn't have a property that made it useful as a material for making weights/tokens out of.
> In the modern world if you're not on a trajectory toward the 1% you're losing.

And what, exactly, is it that you're losing? You can have a pretty damn fine life without getting anywhere near the 1%.
Non-Apple hardware does not differ in any meaningful way from Apple hardware. The performance of anything in OSX is perfectly tuned for any generic desktop computer. It also supports most hardware straight from the box.
>Why aren't they all digital now, in 2015?

Last time I was in a county office, the application they used was extremely dated. It looked well over 15 years old. Many governments work with really dated software with a skeleton IT crew that can barely keep even that working, much less rewrite it.
Watson is a new employee. Of course he isn't going to get all the responsibility yet. People don't trust him.
Do consumers actually differentiate on these extras? I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "Yeah I picked up a Lenovo laptop because the antivirus they package is better than Dell's" or "I got a Samsung phone because their skins are better than HTC's" I'd love to see the market research that backs that idea up...

I thought the real reason manufacturers do this is because they're in a very low margin industry. For computers they get some deal with software companies to pre-install their product, and similar for cell phones with service providers.
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Interesting the pattern in this thread - I'm 57 and started in 1973!

There's plenty of languages I've used over the years that I have no use for today, or hardly even remember: Basic, FORTRAN, assembler, Pascal. None of those languages even had exception handling, so it's hard to say that it influenced my thinking on the subject, except by forcing me to be familiar with the alternatives.

Today it's C++ and C# that pay the bills, with as much Python as I can sneak in. Next up in the queue is Javascript, for which I'm admittedly overdue, but that one's entirely on my own time.
That doesn't really say anything about proven treatment efficacy.
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Adorable. These religious fanatics pride themselves on murdering people to prop up a tiny faction of a backwards religion,a handful of people have the balls to attempt to hold them accountable, and you think it is marsupial jurisprudence. Rule of Law works best within the confines of precedent and that is what this whole case is really about.

The defendants are butchers hiding in a joke of a country. The evidence is as direct as DNA evidence was in the OJ Simpson trial. The only perversion that i detect are a bunch of humans that think their interpretation of a made up space daddy gives them license to vaporize people.
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Hey, I'd like to know more about your speech-to-text project, if you're willing to share.
Yes, but so does "technical expert", "computer scientist", "independent researcher" with the exception that those are not associated with bullying and stereotypes.
"Then, in February 2011, Rachner met Mocek at an SPD town hall meeting. Mocek had had his own run-in with police. In 2009, security agents at Albuquerque Airport threw him in a jail cell for lacking identification and causing a disturbance. Mocek challenged the misdemeanor charges against him and, like Rachner, won. Their run-ins and legal battles with security agencies galvanized them, they said, to hold police accountable for mistakes and abuses."

So how is upholding the law, "abuse"???

The fact that both won in court against the police for tens of thousands of dollars is strong evidence that what the police did to them really was abuse. And the police were doing something other than upholding the law.

The fact that the police denied having video evidence that they in fact did have (which did not support their case) is further evidence that the police were simply in the wrong.

And finally, the fact that the "professional police review board" did not flag this as something that needs fixing is strong evidence that the review process does not, in fact, work.
That sort of reasoning sounds very good if you're good-looking, charming, live in an affluent area, go to the same church as the doctor, etc. There's a very thin line between compassion and corruption, and neither should have any place in the formal decision-making of medicine. If everyone should be given the treatment, then make a rule saying everyone gets the treatment. Don't leave it up to doctors' compassion.
I would say there are generally a couple options:
1. Yes, first is straight-forward dev management.
2. I would say another option related to #1 is to go into PRODUCT management, which can then lead to higher level product responsibilities. Someone who is a great product manager who ALSO has a deep technological understanding of implementation options is a real rarity and extremely valuable in today's job market.
3. If you do want to be spending the majority of your time writing code at 50, you need to do everything you can to be a complete expert in some technology. You'll need to change with the times as that technology evolves and pick up new skills, but lots of technologies have lifespans longer than we may think. For example, Java has been around for 20 years already, C++ for over 30, and there is still loads of running technology that uses these languages.
The agreements usually come with a MNDA - despite a public catalog - so you probably wouldn't know if they were.
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The respect of your peers, presumably.

The best gift I was ever given was to grow up on a farm. I'm doing way better than my peers.
Why not unassemble the cylinders and re-assemble into rectangle chasis? Im sure that would give you a more dense layout.. Sure it would void warranty and resale value.. but do you really care?
I knew her--the days after her suicide were pretty surreal, because I always needed to ask my self if I had just been a little more hospitable or a little nicer that one time, could it have made a difference?

How we act matters.
If you understand jasode's objection, it is not apparent from this reply.
how far away will tactile simulation gloves come into market?

imagine gripping in-game items, being able to control them as you would with real objects. squeeze to fill the glove pressing back, feel cold/warmth, feel textiles.

Combined with increasingly photorealistic games + VR...we are at the mouth of uncanny valley...it's going to be a very interesting decade.

Maybe we live in a future where people completely abandon their real world life in favor of a virtual one while the appratus in the real world just keeps you alive, very much like Matrix...
When my brain is functioning properly (according to third parties), this sounds like great advice, and I can even intend to head it next time I sink.

However, once my brain was processing my every action as futile, I was often too depressed and incapacitated to shower, or even to get up and make food when I was hungry. In that state of mind, things like kayaking and hiking were functionally impossible. Music remained, but my brain retreated to the comfort of Radiohead's "Street Spirit" or "Creep" (etc).

My point is that it's almost like being a different person. Reality is persecution, logic is warped, and intentions from good days do not always carry over.

I was fortunate to have understanding and patient friends who helped me work on this during my good days. Kayaking is still unobtainable, but now I am able to turn to, e.g., "Katamari on the Rocks"[0] for music, and Alan Watts as well. The Zen Habits reminder to breathe [1] is a permanently open tab in my "distractions" group.

As the quote from Infinite Jest says[2], the flames become terrifying. I can only speak for my own terror, but the help and support I've received have made it easier to face and combat. Long talks with friends, smiles from strangers... it has all been important. Thank you.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsB3IfttE50

[1] http://zenhabits.net/more/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501234
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"If the value represented by AcademicCoin is increasing faster than the issuance of tokens, AcademicCoin becomes deflationary."

Yes, but that's tautological, simply the basic definition of "deflationary", not an argument.

If the act of issuing tokens is disconnected from the process of bringing value into the given ecosystem, then the act of issuing tokens is merely inflationary. If the act of issuing tokens is directly connected to bringing value ("Bob brought X units of value in, Bob gets X tokens"), then it's not really a basic income. You have to be able to remove value from some people and give it to others to create a basic income. In theory if the system were already bootstrapped inflation might be able to do it, but it would be an awfully blunt instrument, and might well still collapse the system in a standard inflationary spiral. Where basic income may be advantageous at a societal level, where the mechanisms of government can be used to force participation, you've got serious incentive problems in a voluntary system. Why wouldn't someone generating a lot of value simply opt back out of a system that deflates it away on them, when just by stepping away from it they can avoid the problem? Who's going to voluntarily sign up to be the one giving away value to others?

The libertarian skeptical about basic income (me) can't help but observe you really need government to make basic income work, if it's going to work at all. In fact, even with a government we can all observe in the real world that those with a lot of "value" (wealth) are often able to wiggle out from underneath their putative obligations even when it's not voluntary.
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2x FirePro D500 gflop/s: 3500

That 3500 gflop/s for the D700? It is instead 2200 for the D500.

http://www.amd.com/en-gb/solutions/workstations/d-series

K80 runs about $4900 a card, whereas the entire Mac Pro (list price) is $4000. So it's 2.5x the performance at easily 2x the cost if not more.

The 6GB VRAM version with the D700 costs another $600 USD each.

The K80 has 12GB VRAM per GPU (24GB total per card).

If your code can use the additional memory, that is a huge difference.

Anyway, 3500 gflop/s times 8 is 28 tflop/s for the Mac Pros.

With 8 K80s, you're at 70 tflop/s. Single precision. So that's double the raw performance, and double the memory. Actual performance for a given workload? I wouldn't care to say.

I'd be concerned about thermal issues too. I wouldn't be surprised that the Mac Pro gets throttled after a while when running it hard. The kind of server you can put the K80 in usually has additional (server-grade) cooling.

I'm not disrespecting you guys, if you've got a solution that works, and makes you money, more power to you!

But I stand by my claim that at some point, it will be cheaper to rewrite the software for the render pipeline. Not this year I guess, and who knows, maybe not next year either.
Nope. First the dashes may not be there. It could also be just the last 4 of the SSN (which is still bad). Also other info could be present that is not easy to identify as private. For example, say the cop was caught using extreme racial slurs against a man who was being arrested after giving his child an STD via rape. It would be extremely difficult to redact enough so that you do not release any info that could identify the victim. Even as a person who knows a thing or two about looking stuff up on the internet it would be hard to redact just enough to protect the identity of the victim while not redacting too much about the police misconduct. Doing so automatically would be a strong AI sort of problem.
"Why aren't they all digital now"

Because its easier to cover up non-digital records. Just like sometimes the boss wants to discuss things in person or over the phone rather than in storable text format.

Something no one is discussing about this supposed treasure trove of SS numbers:

1) once its out there, its out there, its like pretending your email address is secret after the spammers are already using it. And after 50 zillion examples of incompetent security, all our numbers are public to absolutely everyone except the rawest of general public (like my neighbor). Anyone I wouldn't want to have access to it, already has it.

2) as per above, they paid $22500 or whatever (hopefully prorated with the low rate or providing the docs) because someone from the city is supposed to be cleaning that data out of the file already. Otherwise that shady guy who owns the money laundering err I mean upstanding and ethical payday loan biz down the street would have already purchased a list of police reports, and done his thing with the SS numbers contained.

3) the easy and cheap part is editing out 123-45-6789 regex numbers. The hard part is in the rare situation of judicial involvement (those people rarely do their job, as per the article's claims) there might be a gag order as part of an out of court settlement or similar.
I'm sure I don't understand most of the implications, but seems like it could be a cool mechanism for a lot of things. You could start a company and distribute a percentage of future revenue to owners of the currency based on # of tokens (or whatever) and you have something that ties reward to time spent working on project in a direct way. Not sure you need a cyrpto currency for this or things like this, but is a cool idea.
Hey, Greg! Get in touch! :)

(We're three equal founders and not all male, for what it's worth).
I'm tired of all this talk about passive agressive.

How about a different explanation: After answering time and time again on twitter he found out he had other things to do and played the "show me the code" card?

And yes noobs[0]: Show me the code is a valid card in programming discussions.

[0]: here I am purposefully rude, feel free to take offense if you think it helps - or feel free think twice or even laugh with me.

Open source and computing culture has to a certain degree been a safe haven based on technical skills. Lets try to keep it that way as long as possible, shall we?
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Do you think your median cop in the US actually deals with "violent offenders" on a daily basis? If so, who defines what a "violent offender" is? (Hint: it's probably the police officer him/herself, a pretty self-serving situation.) The point in all of this is that we no longer have to rely on such inconsistent and inaccurate first-hand definitions: body-cams, dash-cams and public access records would allow for a re-evaluation of all such interactions. If only police departments actually had the public's best interest in mind...
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Github's insight, that an easily hackable editor will get a vibrant ecosystem around it, has paid off a lot. Two large companies (Facebook and Microsoft) have adopted the underlying platforms and created powerful editors themselves (Facebook's Nuclide and Microsoft's VS Code).

Sure, with MS, their editor is their own component, but it's quite amazing that you can see two such products come out in just a year.
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I often hear that people should treat slurs as badges of pride, like "bastard" in Game of Thrones. Is that strategy ever successful? Can you name any group in history that managed to reclaim a slur? I can't, so that seems like a losing strategy. The winning strategy is to come up with a better sounding name for the group, and then marginalize anyone who keeps using the slur.
>I don't think we disagree.

Both your FAQ and your reply to me is focused on the mediums of exchange: the paper scrip (and its flaws) and the cryptocurrencies (and its benefits).

Your FAQ and reply still have not addressed where __REAL VALUE__ comes from.
when are crypto stocks going to get popular?
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You should remove the feedback link and instead have hard requirements in your release process for all documentation to be perfect before any code is released.

"Oh the documentation is out of date, why didn't you tell us?" illustrates the problem with Google exactly.
DWCAS is not the same as DCAS which is specifically mentioned in your link, so I'm not sure which you're referring to. Second, the link is clear that no common architecture actually supports a DCAS instruction currently, so the reason the author insisted on CAS is because it's a real life instruction and not a theoretical hardware instruction.
I play a lot of music with folks older than me... I'm 37, and the drummer in a blues band I play with is 73 (he's a neat guy- he was in the 13th Floor Elevators).

I've played with folks in their late 80s, and most of the folks I play with weekly in a large jazz band are between 50 and 70. I also play bi-weekly with an orchestra with members ranging from 12-82.

Maybe I lack the same perspective I lacked when I was younger (and thought that 45 was pretty old), but I absolutely don't see how 60 is old. 80 is old, maybe, but 60 just isn't that old, and I don't mean that in the attitude sense, as with:

"The ones that love me say I'm really young, and I appreciate that. I think they mean my thinking is flexible, and I'm excited about the future, like a young person might be."
terhechte is right about this. To clarify: the reason you can't update automatically is although most hardware is supported just fine, there are many minor adjustments needed, mostly to text files but sometimes to binaries as well to make OSX recognize your hardware. Every time an OSX update comes out there's updates to drivers that overwrite your modified files.

An example of the sort of hack I'm talking about would be a graphics driver that says it's for the NVidia model E532D. Your graphics card is an E532E. You looked on the internet, and you found out they are exactly identical except for branding, so you dive in the driver and simply flip a bit to make OSX recognize it.
Right, I usually do that for my daily jobs.
Same with conditions and restarts.
Presumably because DCAS is less portable than CAS.

E.g. C++11 has CAS in std::atomic but no DCAS.