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It comes down to path planning degrees of freedom and dimensionality. Cars have two degrees of freedom and two dimensions, where most of these robots use 6 degrees of freedom in 3 dimensions.
You can. Get a "Known Traveler Number" by paying for PreCheck. Due to changes in TSA policies, your frequent flyer-granted PreCheck is already a lower tier - you're not going to be getting the perks as often as you used to.
I noticed that, too :) But when you click on add a post or anything, it asks for creds.
"Cortana, tell me my wunderlist"
The question is very misleading. There are very little details and you end with asking for an opinion. It sounds to me like a question about how much risk the person is willing to take rather than a math question. The "What are you willing to pay to play this game?" really needs to be replaced with something else. I would never associate this with a math question unless risk tolerance was included in the details. Any questions I might ask would not clue me into it being a math question either.
Thanks, I'm going to have to lookup the case law on that one to see if people have ever contested of being in violation of having an additional plate visible on their car.
There's no denying that civilization today is unsustainable.

I doubt any of these models will be accurate. But do they need to be? Either our technology will make our current lifestyles sustainable, or reality will catch up with us and cause much distress.
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Funny how impulses occur to us. I saw the drawing in the referenced article last week, and my first thought was "That's so detailed, it has to be a real telescope somewhere. I wonder which one? Perhaps the Lick Observatory telescope?" I was close! Thanks to the OP for following up on this one.
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Isn't that like getting a PGP encrypted email notification from the NSA?
On a real Juno, half of the voice cards would be dead. :)
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Also much of that material wealth is bought on (easy) credit.
"without any inherent explanation."

This is what complex systems do. Simple linear causal reasoning just breaks down... there are too many feedback loops, chaotic functions, etc. Things will look completely normal and then wham, the system will suddenly and without apparent warning undergo a radical shift.

Look at how economic bubbles pop. You'll have a roaring, humming economy collapse within hours or days and nobody knows why. The postmortem generally takes years. Sometimes the reasons seem 'obvious' but that is only in hindsight. Nobody ever succeeds in calling the top of a bubble -- despite the huge financial reward of doing so -- except by sheer luck.

LTG was an attempt to apply complex systems modeling at the global scale to answer questions about the long term viability of our current civilization. So far it seems to be tracking reality in some ways, but as you correctly state we do not know whether this is spurious correlation or actual evidence for the validity of the model. We also know -- see the work of folks like Ilya Prigogine -- that it is actually impossible to predict the future of systems like this with certainty. There are strict limits on prediction in complex systems.

So we don't know. LTG is scary, but for all we know it won't come to pass.

But we'll know soon. We get to find out in the next 25 years if all the work we've done to build a better future over the past 500 years is a total mirage and all our children are all doomed to starvation, warfare, and misery. Fun times.
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How about https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ ?
So the basic math here looks like this: in classical probability theory, when you've got multiple random variables `X, Y` they have a joint probability `f(x, y)` such that the probability that (X, Y) is in the square (x ± dx/2, y ± dy/2) is `f(x, y) dx dy`. Independent distributions have probabilities which factor: `f(x, y) = g(x) * h(y)`, to fit the general rule that independent discrete events have probabilities which multiply. To calculate probabilities for a function like `Z = X + Y` you have to invent a new probability-distribution function `p(z) = ∫ f(x, z - x) dx`, which for independent events appears as a convolution of the two probability-densities.

All of the useful statistics for a probability distribution can be gleaned from the probability-density function by taking the Fourier transform and then (when it's not too bad) the (complex) natural logarithm -- or, when it's easier, just `f(s) = log(E[exp(s X)])` (having `s X` rather than `i s X` up-top). These are called cumulant-generating functions or CGFs.

If you have a sum of two independent random variables, the CGF of the sum is the sum of their CGFs. This means that the Taylor polynomial of the CGFs have components which simply add together. Take derivatives of the CGF to get the "cumulants", which are pseudo-linear (linear in independent random variables, with some relationship `f(k X) = k^n f(X)`). So these cumulants become really convenient for characterizing the distribution as a whole: in fact if you have all of them you can recover the original distribution.

Now if you describe your distributions in terms of its cumulants, you now have a special monoid:

data Distr n = Distr [n]
instance (Num n) => Monoid (Distr n) where
mempty = Distr (repeat 0)
mappend = zipWith (+)

Gaussian distributions in particular have a form for their CGF which is preserved by this monoid operation, namely:

if X ~ Gauss(m, s^2) then ln(E(exp(k X))) = m k + s^2 k^2

(Note that the leading term has to be 0, as if s = 0 we have ln(E(1)) = ln(1) = 0.) Another way to state this is "the Fourier transform of a Gaussian is another Gaussian."

So that is super-simple, and you can already see the hints of the central limit theorem emerging: the mean of N identically-distributed variables X_i will have a CGF related to the coefficients c_i of the original distribution by:

ln(E(k * sum_i X_i / N)) = N sum_m c_m k^m / N^m

so the Taylor expansion gets attenuated by successive powers of N: you can approximate the CGF with truncation.

So, the set of all distributions form a monoid under convolution if you allow the Dirac delta-function to act as `mempty` -- in a certain representation, this appears as the termwise-summing monoid. Gaussian distributions are a sub-monoid of this larger monoid, and they are not the only one: we could easily go out to 3, 4, or 5 cumulants before setting the rest to 0 and finding a similar sub-family.
But can you repeat it in a slightly different place? That's where vim typically beats other editors for me. Every editor can do a one-off in some way. It's when you can repeat them in different contexts or quickly adapt them to slightly different ones. vim gives you tools right up front to do this quickly and accurately instead of doing repetitive mouse gestures or filling out dialogs.
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Handguns aren't radioactive. Someone actually has to pull the trigger to cause a problem. If pedestrians on a random block of a busy downtown somewhere were scanned like this, lots of handguns would be found there as well.
Well just off the top of my head bin-pickers probably need to have millimeter accuracy when grabbing something so as to get close enough to suction it and not stab through it. Cars on the other hand are not functioning at that level of precision when traveling 70 mph, they are probably not even using that level of precision when parking, and they do not park at 70 mph.
Pretty soon the only jobs available will be to maintain the robots that do all of the labor jobs we've worked so hard to automate.
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Approx two months of waiting for the Windows 10 update to roll out. July 29th 2015 is when the update comes out.

You lose Media Center, and MS Harts and some other stuff. No sure about compatibility with older programs.
True. But for her mother, the college -> career in something you didn't study path is "normal". Jobs are found via resumes, not networking.

Interestingly, my spouse found herself unemployed for the first time in 13 years recently. She's since become much more understanding of my dream of creating a startup, and our daughter's dream of becoming a chef. She's realizing just how much she hated her old job, how hard it was on her soul.
I feel like, if your goal is to get bought by Apple, Google or Microsoft (or a pharma company, for that matter), it would be wise to incorporate in a country where they can use their offshore cash to buy you. Maybe Americans can start getting in on it.
I am going to try that next time I'm in a hurry, thank you! I'm half opting out for the principle of the thing, though, which this doesn't have, but it's great to know.
What? No it isn't. (See my submission history for URLs to minimaxir.com, and I have negligible influence in the tech world)

Even then, two wrongs don't make a right. It comes down to luck, and sometimes it doesn't pan out. "Growth hacking" to correct bad luck is not necessarily ethical.
Agreed. I write a lot slower than I type, especially when writing a programming language. This messes me up. I also tend to write a general structure then insert code. Doing this on a whiteboard is hard because you can't move text around, you can just erase it.

That said, with a calm mind and practice, its not that bad.
Fixed it invoking as "antimony -style gtk"

According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uniform_Look_for_Qt_and... qt5 attempts to be smart with guessing the desktop environment under wich it is running.
If you could teleport packages to my front porch, would you be willing to give that to Amazon in exchange for $25k and "exposure"? Amazon becomes the first trillion dollar company in history and you get your name on a press release and some snack money. I would never want any sort of exposure that told people that I'm easily duped about the value of my brain.
That matches my experiences. The first time I heard of FizzBuzz, I laughed it off as ridiculously easy and not worthwhile for screening. I've since changed my mind.

If a candidate laughs and writes down a canned answer off the top of their head, I count it as "passed" and we move on to other questions. I've been horrified at how often it's been a show-stopper, though.

> The guy that did complete it wrote it in Bash, and wasn't strong in that to begin with. Bonus points for learning a language on the fly, that's what I'm looking for.

I'd give that a double thumbs-up for resourcefulness.
Stronger Than Your Best Prayer
Coupa Lands $80M Round at $1B-Plus Valuation
Agreed. If we're talking about the drunken guys in front of the camera and the FHRITP thing (I .. didn't even know about that), that's plain insulting. That's the point, I guess: Insult/provoke in a direct manner.

But this thread and the article talk about other cases as well and I'd argue that the PyCon case was merely a private conversation that someone overheard. I'd expect to be able to say the lines above to a friend and bystanders have nothing to do with it.
Our unsustainability is exponential, and our innovation is exponential. We have two exponential curves. If the depletion/unsustainability curve wins, we all die horribly in something resembling a cross between Mad Max, ISIS in Iraq, and Day of the Dead. If the innovation curve wins, we might reach 'escape velocity' and achieve some kind of post-scarcity society.

This is the road we are on: hideous mass death or utopia. I don't see a third possible outcome. Exponential stuff is like that-- the only potential outcomes are extreme.

Makes me wonder if the ancient religious visions -- e.g. Revelations -- about a 'heaven or hell' outcome aren't prescient bits of intuition about the fundamentally binary nature of human destiny. One way of thinking of it is that we're a cosmic civilization in its early startup phase... meaning that success or failure are the only two possible outcomes.
Loozing at everyone else, this seems like a long shot, but I'll throw my name in the hat.

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Remote: Yes
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Yeah I'm not really sure what purpose it serves, but I guess PGP is better than no PGP?
The authors wrote a story in which all of the bots are female and they're female for the express purpose of sex. There's no "it" here, and even the author tried to weasel out by saying that the robot doesn't actually have a sex. The robots are all female, they are all presented sexually, and this says more about what the authors think of robots and female sexuality than anything else.
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No, the market evolved as it always does. But, so much of the "HFT is evil" belief stemmed from the subprime era and with respect to fair play at the time, you can't ignore the impact of NMS. I went back to grad school in 2010 and had to be careful to whom I told my background, else I'd get roped into some morality debate with a 26 year old Occupy activist who didn't know what a market order was.

Nowadays, I really don't see much edge in trading at all.

I would love to know what those traders you've spoken with think is profitable. I see my old bosses at Rom near the CME almost every Friday and I haven't heard a positive line from them in 5+ years.
I do have a Thinkpad, as well, and I also use the Trackpoint :-). Very convinient, indeed. It's one of the things I cared the less about when I bought it and now it's one of the things I can't live without.
More Info: http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/31/microsoft-starts-prompting....

This Windows update KB installs it: https://support.microsoft.com/de-at/kb/3035583/en-us
I feel like there's 2 sides to the story : 1st, as you mentioned, external investors would have money in the country that they couldn't get back because of the low position on the priority list.
On the other side, I feel like china investing in your business makes you own them money. And i their economy comes crashing down, what prevents them from asking for their money back, which you might not have in full, or that you need for planned investments. Is there anything I'm missing ?
The TSA is also succeeding in another one of their goals. Their very public and very disruptive "security" measures are a visceral reminder that reinforces people's beliefs that there are terrorists behind every corner and that we need to be protected from them. And as long as we're afraid of terrorists the government can institute more sinister measures such as mass surveillance and domestic spying.
> The world can not all live like Americans

If the recent trend of Chinese and Indians immigrating to the U.S. continues and the decline of birth rate for U.S. Caucasians continues, by 2050 the U.S. population may roughly reflect the world population by ethnicity, i.e. equal numbers of Caucasian, African, Hispanic, Indian, and East Asians. If there's a collapse around 2050 as predicted and the world population needs to suddenly reduce from 9 billion to 500 million, such an immigration-based country with control of the world's oceans and weapons would find it easy to convince its population that citizenship is the best determiner of who survives and who doesn't. There'd probably also be some religious overtones when the U.S. government sells the idea to its people.
I'm very curious to hear the pros and cons of this from somebody who has intimate knowledge of Nim internals. I really really like Go's CSP model and would love to see it properly supported in another lightweight non-jvm language (yes I know about Erlang, it doesn't fit the bill for me).
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"Have you finished your meal? Then go and wash your bowl."

"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."
I forgot that I had that extension until I clicked "comments." I had a couple of moments of confusion around sentences like "I had a conversation with my Snake Person daughter...."
Regardless of where people venture out in the solar system, the folks back on Earth will have to operate within their resources, right?
"Tax haven support as a service"
the millions, possibly billions spent already haven't done a thing?

That's not correct at all. The billions spent have done a lot: they've created an entire class of "cleared" people, and support industries for them. I'm not sure that creating a new aristocracy was the desired end point, but that's what we've gotten to. The "cleared" people Know Better Than Us, and Keep Us Safe, so We Give Them Special Privileges.
How do you define sustainability? Various metrics suggest human society has a likely chance of sustaining its most important trajectories: http://radicaloptimism.org/wiki/Human_Society

See also The Rational Optimist by Ridley, The Improving State of the World by Goklany, etc.
For the record, 6Wunderkinder (Wunderlist) is one of the the poster boys of (over hyped?) Berlin as startup hub http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-best-tech-startups-in-germ....
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Also offtopic, but everybody really should be brushing twice a day, for a full 2 minutes each time. And flossing.
I remember some discussion of this in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Green Mars", IIRC: he points out that it's simply too energy-inefficient to ship a few billion human beings out of Earth's gravity well, and no extraterrestrial habitat will have an ecosphere anything the size of Earth's.

Earth is simply the best place to support humans in the galaxy, and it needs to be sustainable in its own terms. We can and should live elsewhere, but that doesn't mean Earth will be any less important to us.
Nothing is technically wrong. But I would write it as

var isString = typeof string === "string";