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Build tool complexity is what I dislike - it's certainly possible, but the trend I dislike is build tooling increasing complexity of the build system of the frontend, decreasing accessibility for onboarding developers. JSX is an unnecessary offender in this department, bringing us farther away from plain HTML.
Tails 1.4 is out to preserve your privacy and anonymity
I'm not sure why you think "I have difficulty understanding" it when you're the first person saying it.
I clicked through to a few of your other recommended posts and ended up emailing myself a bunch of links to read later. I particularly enjoyed 'Promises Are Not Optional' (http://firstdoit.com/promises-are-not-optional/)

You have a talent for clearly explaining complex abstractions. Nice work!
It's not bad behavior. It's expected one you understand what slices are, and it's a better set of tradeoffs than slices in e.g. python which copies the underlying array.
My first thought was "even if this is less efficient, the silence and lack-of-bird-killing means it would be viable to install places where NIMBYism etc. mean that traditional turbines can't be".

i.e. it may be sufficiently in the game to compete effectively against "no turbines" even if it can't compete against turbines directly.
Next time you're wondering why more kids don't go into STEM in this age of wondrous scientific and technological progress; virtually any bright 10 year old knows the story of how and why Archimedes leapt out of his bathtub shouting "Eureka!", but none of them would have the foggiest notion of what a real scientist does at work on a day-to-day basis. Neither would their parents, unless they are scientists themselves. Even students halfway through college on course to become such scientists often have only a vague notion of what their careers would actually look like- they just know they like the coursework. Its a leap of faith.

Same goes for most kinds of engineering, and mathematics, and a bunch of other disciplines that are inexplicably underrepresented in children's career aspirations.

(I suppose software engineers are the exception, since the popular notion "they just sit at computers all day typing arcane things" is actually true. : ) )
I think that unless you're privy to all the information that the admissions staff are using to judge acceptance, including the quality of the competition and a myriad of other factors that you or I may not have considered, it's a bit of a stretch to assume your friends were racially discriminated against. I don't know how many people you're talking about, but assuming it's a relatively small number, the rejection of most/all of your Asian friends to study medicine could just be down to chance.
If general inflation sets in, food will be affected all the same. You need to buy lots of things to farm, such as equipment fertilizer, seeds and so on. All these will cost more, therefore even if your labor is extremely highly leveraged, all other inputs will drive up the prices if general inflation exists.
I've never used react but from what I read it's a more intuitive organization of components.

The separation of the view and logic is an arbitrary separation that isn't always efficient. It's like owning a bunch of power tools and organizing by color instead of by function.

Templates have components like search bars and login forms and they have logic related to those components. Why should component logic and template code be separated when both the logic and template components serve the same function? Code should be organized by segregating things into widgets. This, to me, makes more sense.

I think the only thing missing from React is the ability to incorporate local css styles into the widget. Again like I said if there are styles associated exclusively with a widget, there's no point in segregating styles into some separate css file.

Logic, structure, and style should be unified and organized by function, not by category.
It begins with “obviously” then says a few silly things. What does “with a lot more experience in software development” mean? Does that mean that the team at Microsoft is generally later in its career than the team at Apple? That’s kind of weird and unsubstantiated. Maybe it is trying to say that Windows is more mature, because it has been around longer? Yet, both operating systems are better from the result of many significant overhauls and redesigns, rather than refinement alone. Even determining which one is older would be a pointless discussion, since there are so many different ways of measuring the age of different components.

Finally, “merely a mod of components from Linux”? I don’t think anyone cared about the distinction between BSD and Linux or GNU user space tools. Things like a kernel with a multiuser system and different permissions are the types of improvements that were once difficult to handle on most consumer machines, yet they were also incorporated into Windows with NT. UNIX is part of the Mac OS being a modern operating system. Even if you lose the weasel word “merely”, OS X is not only a window manager or desktop environment, at a low level there are significant architectural distinctions between OS X and FreeBSD, and differences between OS X and FreeBSD compared to Linux that were developed at Apple.

The point is not that they cannot be compared, but that they have actual merits to compare rather than weaselly arguments as though we were in a 1990s chat room or forum.
That paper does correctly deal with the issue. The conclusions in section 4 give an excellent summary.
Except, well, the Luddites. The benefits of automation are largely diffuse and society-wide, outside of the few directly involved in the new, smaller industry. Those displaced would be at a net loss, save any Kaldor-Hicks type interventions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaldor%E2%80%93Hicks_efficienc...
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The CFC ban was successful, but it seems that remaining stocks are still being sold on the illegal market and that it's challenging to stop this illegal trade.

From 2014: http://www.unep.org/ozonaction/ecanetwork/Portals/138/docume...

From 2000:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8475-illegal-cfcs-impe...

And HCFCs, which don't do much to the ozone layer but which are potent greenhouse gases (much worse than CO2) are being similarly traded. http://eia-international.org/hcfc-phase-out-at-risk-from-ill...
My fault, thank you for notifying us,
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Sure, but children from poor (or inexperienced) communities have fewer opportunities to do what Harvard considers to be merit.
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I'm pretty fed up with all the people pushing UBI. There is never not enough work for labor to do, labor is just misallocated. I feel like every third piece I read has some poorly thought out UBI slant thrown in for no reason.
I mean this is an honest way, but what actionable insights?

Mozilla aren't selling anything on that page. They won't be making key engineering decisions off of the page.

Could you detail the gains that they could make that makes the world a better place? That justify any sort of tracking over '300, 000 people viewed this page today' that you can get from your own logs?

There is some data that might be occasionally useful, like screen sizes, but only occasionally.
Costs are subtracted from income to get net income, by contrast charitable deductions are subtracted directly from the tax owing.
I followed the debate about renewables for quite some time and I heared stories like this before. A new design for wind energy with so obvious advantages. And you can read pretty similar stories for new solar or water power tech also pretty regularly.

I remember that already in the 90s I heared people saying that future wind turbines will have a funnel to focus the energy. Later kite-like flying turbines or turbines in donut-shaped balloons became a thing.

But wind turbines still basically look very similar than they used to be all the time, the biggest change is that they became much bigger. There's a reason for that: The design worked well and has been improved in details over the years. It's much easier to improve in small steps than to reinvent a completely new tech, which will have many downsides that the enthusiasts inventing them don't want to see.

That's not saying that it's entirely impossible that a completely new design of wind turbines will some day emerge. But I don't think it's very likely. And before I believe it I want to see them built at scale for a reasonable price. (Because one of the biggest advantages of the existing wind turbines - appart from them being environmentally friendly - is that their price dropped rapidly in the past years.)
Thanks!
I'm going to continue with free.
I've no data to back this up, but I think a big difference is the rate of change, which does have a direct impact on peoples' ability to adapt.
Well, to be fair, fewer than 10% of videos pair poorly with tracks from the Selected Ambient Works series.

This video includes the marked section on the map, starting at roughly 9'38". Note the building to the right of the road.

I wondered whether the photos were pulled from this official(ish) video, but it appears not...
Give that it's clear to everyone else, it's obvious that you have difficulty understanding it. Or possibly you're just trolling.

In any case, it should be all sorted now, so we're done here.
TIL - people call the menu icon the "hamburger icon". Am I the only one who's never heard of the "hamburger icon"?
Or hit F12, works in every browser and platform as long as the key is present.
The moral hazard you've described is definitely a thing, and it would be silly to expect 0 slippage in the labor market after BI introduction, but I guess the claim is that we already spend so much on inefficient social welfare programs that if we just killed them all and gave the money to the people directly that it would be better for literally everyone involved. And it is an elegant sort of solution; after all, cutting out the middleman is the American way.
Sometimes the size and location of the down vote button on mobile is really annoying. I may have just up voted this stupid spam. Hopefully the adamvega account will get banned quickly.
I haven't been successful. The latest Debian and Ubuntu images don't have a recent enough kernel to support the trackpad, keyboard or even NVMe SSD, it seems.
A strange point to make, given that the second biggest factor leading to economic growth over the last century (after the information revolution) was women joining the workplace post WW2.
Yeah but favicon appears next to the bookmarked page's title in browsers. If there's no favicon you can't say which page the bookmark leads to after deleting the whole title to save space :-)
Yes. For a given definition of "word", anyway, but "word" is fiddly enough we can assume they mean something sensible.

A stricter definition would be "lexers work at the lexical level" for NLP (in which case it's nearly tautologically obvious), or "lexers work at the token level" for programming languages.

(Creds: lexing / wordbreaking is the topic of my masters research in linguistics. Tries are a good starting point for that, but it turns out that they are a special case of simple morphological analyzer, and you need more complicated ones to do a good job on natural languages.)
Engineers of addiction
It's not actually in the database. It's a lousy implementation which does not use the distributed nature of HANA. You fetch the data first and then you do your analyses in R which is hosted near the DB. If you want parallel processing in R, you're on your own.
The distinction you're making between "HTML" and "facility for encapsulating generated HTML" seems pretty arbitrary.

I was making a simpler point, though.

Some of the reactions I see to React seem to come from the notion that it's mixing application logic with view logic. That's an easy misconception to get from reading the tutorials and quick-start documentation: after all, it's using raw Javascript to generate HTML, which is the same language other frameworks use for application logic.

The misconception comes I think from comparing React to Angular. Angular is an application framework. React is solely a view framework. It happens that React uses Javascript --- which works amazingly well in practice! --- to express views. But that doesn't mean it's mixing application logic and view logic.

That's all I was saying. The semantic argument between "components" and "HTML" is totally uninteresting to me. The important point, regarding ease of moving "bits of UI" around, is that React makes it astonishingly easy to do that. It's one of the selling points of React.
Revolution have their own implementation of R called OpenR.
Mode and median are not averages, just mean is.

Mode: "Like the statistical mean and median, the mode is a way of expressing, in a single number, important information about a random variable or a population. The numerical value of the mode is the same as that of the mean and median in a normal distribution, and it may be very different in highly skewed distributions." [1]

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(statistics)
What about funnel analysis?
there's a maintained fork: https://github.com/RequestPolicyContinued/requestpolicy
I enjoyed the article, it was well written
> Or they could just setup Piwik or something like that...

They could, but honestly, it's questionable whether Piwik would even work for their use case & scale, and even if it does, it's debatable whether it would be the best use of their limited resources.

This situation makes for a really catchy headline, but the page is primarily talking about privacy in the context of government surveillance. In that context, Piwik is just as vulnerable to NSLs (active surveillance) or NSA snooping (passive surveillance) as Google Analytics is. There is a marginal harm to using Google Analytics instead of a self-hosted service, but it's quite possible that the benefits (of being able to reach more people and better educate people about those evils) outweighs those harms, especially given that the target audience for this site is already being tracked by Google on the vast majority of their web browsing anyway[0][1].

Furthermore, we could just use this as an opportunity to underscore the importance of the problem itself: it's a rather damning statement about the effectiveness and pervasiveness of digital tracking that Mozilla feels that Google is its best (or only) option[1] for educating as many people as possible about the evils of online surveillance.

[0] http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ta-googleanalytics/a...

[1] This isn't even counting the other ways that Google tracks web users: Google's CDNs for JQuery and web fonts, people who use Google's DNS servers, etc.

[2] I'm making the assumption that someone at Mozilla has made this decision consciously, which is not an unreasonable assumption for this discussion - it's rather unlikely that the people building the website about digital surveillance and working at the company partnered with EFF and Tor are unaware that Google Analytics is digital surveillance.
VC's funding $$ hoping that they will be bought by said monopolies in < 5 years?
The Intricate Platforming of Tomb Raider (2013)
Be Brave, Comrade
In fact if I recall correctly Google also experimented a couple years ago with a "email signup" field in search ads, but that doesn't seem to have gone anywhere. Not that it is surprising because if you are searching for something, would you really "interact" with it before clicking the link? Save for a few exceptions, like Google Now-ish results (i.e. information), it doesn't make sense.
Chris is absolutely right, and in addition to mo(u)ld, there's also tons of antigens to provoke inflammatory responses in the lungs, which can lead to asthma and chronic bronchitis.
I think you're right. I would really like to read the opinions of some respected economists on the issue of automation and basic income. The question we should be asking isn't "how do we make sure these people can still consume", it's "how do we find a way for these people to remain valuable to society". Or something along those lines.
Can you explain further how the key is used in the mapping? Maybe with a doodle? Thanks & well done btw

-- mixing the file with a single byte (0x25, or ASCII 37, or a percent sign)
BI/NIT is a separate issue, agreed, though the threats of technological advancement coincide somewhat with the problems they alleviate.

A somewhat scifi concern is that technology will advance at such a rate that displaced workers can not upskill at the same rate, causing structural unemployment. Regardless, some effort should be made to help workers transition to new industries; the net benefit to society would be more than enough to bear this.
The difference now is that the amount of jobs available has been reduced so much that a good proportion of people just can't find a job. Even if you would fill all the jobs available currently, it would not be enough to employ everyone. So yeah, if you watch some TV, they are basically going to say that the lazy are unemployed but that's just not the reality. How we solve this problem and going forward is another thing.
Cool. I've thought about this a lot, just because the UX of now cheap older cameras tends to be very good, for me at least, and the UX of the low end digital tends to be very eh. > $1000 bodies, it's a different story of course. It isn't exactly clear what I meant by UX; With my Minolta SRT 201, I can see Aperture and Shutter speed at a glance, modify them with a quick, dedicated, dial twist, have a distance scale on the lens, and look through a large, somewhat bright viewfinder (Later Minolta viewfinders are noticeably brighter though). The mirrorless experience on the low end really can't compete. Cheap DSLRs are closer, but with shit viewfinders, and I hate the Canon top screen/dial system, and harder to adapt old lenses.

This means you can use the Shutter speed dial, the combo shutter button is a good idea that I did not think of at all (I always was thinking you'd use two buttons, one to put the digital side in BULB, then the actual shutter, cause I'm dumb). On the other hand, if I had a functional NEX-5, I don't think I would have the heart to do it, and 38mm is maybe a little long for m4/3 general purpose. I like ~40mm on APS-C.

Really I also kinda wanted to write the sensor driver, but sourcing decent sized image sensors seems impossible. I know some people who could maybe get me cell phone size samples, but m4/3? I don't even know how, and I'd need a decent datasheet too.
I would dare to say those incidents you describe happen because people click mindlessly instead of reading. Clicking around is not clicking mindlesly. You can read what the stuff says. And you, in last case, read the instructions manual. Or maybe that should be the first thing to do and us humans have always been doing things the wrong way.
I work in a lab that directly competes with Barabási.

Barabási is seen as a mortal enemy and we try to discredit his work as often as possible, just as this article does.

But the truth is, the whole field is pretty much nonsense.

We try to apply network theory in a way which doesn't really apply. We make assumptions about biology that are trivially false. Any statistical results that reach significance fail to be significant on retesting. Any results which continue to be significant do not match the experimental data.

This field has not yet proven anything of true biological value.
Indeed - the left needs a unifying story. Right now we've mainly just got positive solutions for isolated demographics.

http://weeklysift.com/2014/12/08/can-we-share-the-world/
I disagree with every word you wrote here. A great programmer must first analyze the problem he has intends to solve or he will likely produce a solution that does not appropriately solve the problem. Great musicians practice for thousands of hours, analyzing their performance and making necessary adjustments. Same for painters. An analytical mind does not necessarily make decision-making more difficult. Often even a cursory analysis can make a decision much easier. Overanalysis is an issue related to anxiety. If the amount of time you spend analyzing a problem effectively negates any value you might gain from making the most beneficial decision, then you have overanalyzed. A great example is selecting products in the grocery store. If you spend 20 minutes comparing the prices of various jars of peanut butter to ultimately save $.50, then you have probably overanalyzed the problem. But analysis itself is an unavoidable, and often beneficial, aspect of being alive.
I'm pretty sure that mode and median are considered averages.

Average: "In colloquial language, an average is the sum of a list of numbers divided by the number of numbers in the list. In mathematics and statistics, this would be called the arithmetic mean. However, the word average may also refer to the median, mode, or other central or typical value. In statistics, these are all known as measures of central tendency." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
I have to agree, the page didn't make my CPU suffer here but that was unnecesarily distracting.
Ah I assumed you were loading a vanilla DataFrame from the column store. My bad :-)
You are probably in the top %1 of the specimen. People who are naturally gifted are not the problem. The problem are the ones who are not. They don't aspire to achieve like you or me. Read very carefully the last line of my comment. Social policy needs to be made with the lowest common denominator in mind.

You can look at education for cues. You have experimental programs that show tremendous improvement over current ones. But they are done with the top 1% of teachers tutoring the top 1% of kids. When they try to roll it out to a random school, they fail miserably.
I believe GP used that as an example of what not to abandon
After evaluating almost all dashboards, super excited to see one that seemingly allows you to specify any REST URL that returns JSON and specify fields you want to display/chart. Every other one I've tried requires you to create an elaborate template or in the case of others forced to return your data in ways that fit their model, versus the natural other way around.

An aside, some of you more familiar with dashboards might say "What about Freeboard?", while excited at first, not to mention the inability to have persistent data out of the box.
>Wouldn't you have to apply to become a citizen tor receive basic income though?

Aren't the standards of citizenship currently being eroded to suit whichever ethnic-voting-block the party in power happens to be pandering to today? Today's illegals are defacto citizens as evidenced by America's bankrupt ESL schools, hospitals, and "citizen-only" social services. Cutting a check for the rest of the Earth's six billion people who "make it" to America is a recipie for exponentially more economic-refugee-cum-colonists.

This is how life boats sink.
More of a submersible than a submarine, since they don't cruise under cloak, and really only in the TOS era -- "Balance of Terror" has Enterprise and the cloaked Romulan ship in almost exactly the relative positions you'd expect a WWII heavy cruiser and submersible to occupy. (The Klingons and Romulans share cloaking technology; IIRC, the former are said to have bought it from the Romulans in exchange for modern ships, which is also why both Romulans and Klingons are shown to use the "Bird of Prey" spaceframe.)

By the TNG/DS9 era, they've improved on the technology so that ships are shown to cruise at warp under cloak, and cloak-capable ships are shown to hold their own, without needing to cloak, against their cloakless opposite numbers. As such, they're not really any longer in the submarine/submersible role (since a surfaced submarine is easy meat for anything with naval guns); if anything, they're more like a (nonexistent) submersible cruiser, in that they can conceal themselves without needing to compromise other capabilities to achieve it.
Or maybe I'm just not from the US?