One thing I know is that Google are drooling at the thought of all that realistic voice data. Look at Google Translate: It's become great, but it's still limited by the corpus: The further your sentence gets from the written word on the net, the worse the translation will be.
At least Google started with the intention of "do no evil".
No, their slogan has always been "Don't be evil". It's subtly different from "Do no evil", especially when it comes to connotations. "Do no evil" -> eastern philosophy, apes holding their mouth, etc. "Don't be evil" -> "Don't become the new Microsoft".
I wonder if this discovery can affect the climate change research.
I'm sure it can. Or rather, I'm sure the usual suspects can come up with some explanation of why this proves everything we know is wrong. You'll probably believe in it, too.
We have just learnt that sunspot may be highly related with Earth climate.
No, we haven't. There's a crank weatherman/british MP who claims everything is related to sunspots, but even if you believe it, it's nothing new.
Well, I know of a country that was occupied by a European colonial power for a very long time. They split the people into two, the native speakers, and the occupier-associated elite. To this day, a majority of famous people from that country have occupant-style names, and speaks the occupant language, even though they are 5-10% of the population. Sounds like a recipe for disaster and ethnic strife?
Well, that country isn't Rwanda, it's Finland.
Point is, you are still picking and choosing data points - poorly - to support your predetermined conclusion. Give a proper study that shows incarceration rates explain crime rates, across countries. Hell, limit it to the US states if you wish. You'll find nothing either way.
No, I just have the bizarre notion that the air inside my lungs is mine, until I decide to release it,
That is a bizarre notion. Not to say that I'm entitled to suffocate you (or am I, if I own the air in the room? I'm not taking your property out of your lungs, I'm just denying you access to mine!), but to turn that into a property rights argument is SERIOUS libertarian crankery.
And as to your submission to unwarranted search: You're allowed to drive a car on public roads. For that privilege, you signed away those rights of which you speak, in precisely the same way you can sign it away to a private entity (have you had a Microsoft license inspection yet?)
Strange, running a red light, speeding, and driving on the wrong side of the road are punished a hell of a lot less harshly than driving after 3 drinks.
Maybe that's because people aren't so stupid that they refuse to admit the problem with breaking those kinds of laws. DUI laws, on the other hand, are attempting to change an attitude that "there's nothing wrong with this".
not proven guilty" is not the same as "proven innocent".
The statement from the public prosecutor is closer to the second. She did not merely say the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence, she said there was no reason to suspect that any crime had happened.
The solution is to lock them up and keep them locked up, which decreasing crime rates in the US bear out.
Because you didn't try that before? How do you explain decreasing crime rates in most of the western world? How do you explain the extremely low crime rate of Sweden compared to the US? Politics is easy when you can just ignore all the data points you don't like.
Here in Norway there was even a "reckless rape" charge for a while. It was for the times she said yes, but he ought to have understood that she really meant no. Fortunately, even the feminists agreed that this was demeaning to women (not being deemed capable of saying yes and no is pretty demeaning).
Ah yes, the Strong Man's Burden. It always comes up. Second only to the "homogenous population" (read: fewer blacks) explanation for better outcomes in countries that aren't the US.
A phallic object into your mouth?! You have issues, man.
Thing is, if you want to drive, you got to follow traffic regulations. Yeah, I know there are some "libertarian" cranks who seriously argue that all traffic regulations should be abolished, but presumably you're not one of them (although...phallic object in mouth? maybe I'm not so sure). Part of traffic regulation is stopping for DUI checks. It's entirely voluntary, it's just that you can't drive if you don't.
One does not "commit" a traffic accident. One causes a traffic accident. Accidentally. What is punished is the irresponsibility, not the outcome.
You might as well say it shouldn't be a crime to run a red light, or speeding, or driving on the wrong side of the road. That doesn't actually harm anyone either.
All the MADD hate might have been more credible if there hadn't been people every single step of the way, who claimed that now they are just interested in restricting your liberties for the hell of it.
Ignition locks are a hassle, but not a fundamental infringement on anyone's liberty. I say it's OK to hassle repeat drunk drivers a little if it makes them less likely to do it again (and it does).
Yes. It shows the war for what it is without whitewashing, making the war less popular, making the cost of maintaining it higher in terms of popular support, which means it's less likely that it gets extended again and again and again.
2) Ensure better behavior from soldiers and officers? (Yes. The worse ones know that atrocities will more likely get out, the good ones know they have a channel to leak said atrocities.)
FDR was a sensible man, to ban such BS from army training manuals. At that time the republican party most certainly existed as such, and it's hard to see something like that as anything other than partisan propaganda.
Anyway, I'll grant you that: The abuse of the terms is older than the republican party. So it was not accurate of me to say it was invented for that purpose. Hatred of democracy, in the sense of Athenian democracy is very, very old. But for a long time now democracy has been synonymous with electoral democracy. Electoral democracy has also co-opted the goal of Athenian democracy of popular representation.
But, while they didn't exactly invent it, people calling themselves republicans have most certainly excavated and kept alive the false dichtonomy, as a form of empty-headed partisan stupidity.
I'll point out that Athenian Democracy, sortition, hasn't been seriously tried for 2400 years. Most people, including those who wrote on it, didn't have a clue about it. Those who rant Cartman-like about how the US is a republic not a democracy least of all.
Meh, I ruined myjoke by missing that one. The version of lint I had, at the settings I used, would complain about that one too (warning: return from main function).
Point is, [sp]lint, as most static checking tools, has a huge false positive ratio. The most useful warnings from it have been integrated into GCC now.
Four newspaper got the data in advance, for review, analysis and help in scrubbing. But they took too much time, wikileaks weren't happy with the delays. So they released the whole thing, arguing that more lives are saved from immediate release, than would possibly be lost from undiscovered, uncensored informant names.
(The fact that their likely informant was arrested may also have been a factor, they might have been legitimately worried about spooks trying to shut them down).
And before you smear Assange further, maybe you should get out and do something to fight oppressive governments yourself.
Christpher Hitchens, who is most famous for his atheism, writes for a magazine named after a village in a puritan Christian allegory. It's a strange world.
Republic means only rule by a law (a written constitution) as opposed to a king. China is a perfectly good republic. The US is also, in common usage of the term, and unlike China, a representative democracy. Now aren't you happy you're not just a republic, but a democratic republic?
This whole "it's not a democracy" BS was just started by idiots who think republican vs. democrat is some sort of dichtonomy because the US parties are named that - and they feel that the one named "republicans" is the only legitimate one.
It IS simple. And it's very traditional, too: the first true democracy, Athens, relied heavily upon random sampling to achieve popular representation. It's called sortition.
It's one thing slashdot got right, too, or at least more right than reddit and digg. Mod points are awarded randomly here, if you've been member for a while (a year, isn't it?). Since we don't get to mod all the time, we do it more conscientiously when we do. A fair evaluation by a representative sample gives far better results than what you get elsewhere, which is usually empathetic votes from people who very strongly disagree or agree with you.
(I admit, I could be a little biased here. I get much, much lower mods on reddit compared to slashdot, where it sometimes feels everything I write gets to +5!)
Rob Malda, fact is you were right in a way digg and reddit simply weren't. Their approach was appealing in the start, but didn't scale well as their readership soared. Why don't you capitalize on this more? Take the next step?
Allotted mod privileges is great, but it should also be random which comments and stories were eligible for moderation. Maybe just a tenth of the comments on each story, with these sorted on top (treewise), so that you avoid the Matthew effect, that already highly modded comments/stories get all the attention.
The firehose could really shine, if you took your old ideas (which are the same as the old ideas of the Athenians) to their logical extension.
Judging from the general level of ignorance in the article, you shouldn't take it at face value.
(Hindenburg was not the first airship to use hydrogen as a lift gas, and this company has merely been producing hot air for the military-industrial complex for ages. Meanwhile, there are real Zeppelins being built in Friedrichshafen, Germany, and used for sightseeing over the SF bay area among other things.)
Slashdot Mirror
No no, they're not sharing that data with anyone. They are only using it, completely anonymized, to build a model of sleeping patterns.
One thing I know is that Google are drooling at the thought of all that realistic voice data. Look at Google Translate: It's become great, but it's still limited by the corpus: The further your sentence gets from the written word on the net, the worse the translation will be.
Judging by Google's track record in that area, I expect Great Britain and Hong Kong to get it in two years, the rest of the world by five.(grumble).
No, their slogan has always been "Don't be evil". It's subtly different from "Do no evil", especially when it comes to connotations. "Do no evil" -> eastern philosophy, apes holding their mouth, etc. "Don't be evil" -> "Don't become the new Microsoft".
Decay ... rates? What's a decay rate if time doesn't exist?
I'm sure it can. Or rather, I'm sure the usual suspects can come up with some explanation of why this proves everything we know is wrong. You'll probably believe in it, too.
No, we haven't. There's a crank weatherman/british MP who claims everything is related to sunspots, but even if you believe it, it's nothing new.
Well, I know of a country that was occupied by a European colonial power for a very long time. They split the people into two, the native speakers, and the occupier-associated elite. To this day, a majority of famous people from that country have occupant-style names, and speaks the occupant language, even though they are 5-10% of the population. Sounds like a recipe for disaster and ethnic strife?
Well, that country isn't Rwanda, it's Finland.
Point is, you are still picking and choosing data points - poorly - to support your predetermined conclusion. Give a proper study that shows incarceration rates explain crime rates, across countries. Hell, limit it to the US states if you wish. You'll find nothing either way.
That is a bizarre notion. Not to say that I'm entitled to suffocate you (or am I, if I own the air in the room? I'm not taking your property out of your lungs, I'm just denying you access to mine!), but to turn that into a property rights argument is SERIOUS libertarian crankery.
And as to your submission to unwarranted search: You're allowed to drive a car on public roads. For that privilege, you signed away those rights of which you speak, in precisely the same way you can sign it away to a private entity (have you had a Microsoft license inspection yet?)
Maybe that's because people aren't so stupid that they refuse to admit the problem with breaking those kinds of laws. DUI laws, on the other hand, are attempting to change an attitude that "there's nothing wrong with this".
The statement from the public prosecutor is closer to the second. She did not merely say the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence, she said there was no reason to suspect that any crime had happened.
Because you didn't try that before?
How do you explain decreasing crime rates in most of the western world? How do you explain the extremely low crime rate of Sweden compared to the US?
Politics is easy when you can just ignore all the data points you don't like.
Here in Norway there was even a "reckless rape" charge for a while. It was for the times she said yes, but he ought to have understood that she really meant no. Fortunately, even the feminists agreed that this was demeaning to women (not being deemed capable of saying yes and no is pretty demeaning).
Ah yes, the Strong Man's Burden. It always comes up. Second only to the "homogenous population" (read: fewer blacks) explanation for better outcomes in countries that aren't the US.
A phallic object into your mouth?! You have issues, man.
Thing is, if you want to drive, you got to follow traffic regulations. Yeah, I know there are some "libertarian" cranks who seriously argue that all traffic regulations should be abolished, but presumably you're not one of them (although...phallic object in mouth? maybe I'm not so sure). Part of traffic regulation is stopping for DUI checks. It's entirely voluntary, it's just that you can't drive if you don't.
One does not "commit" a traffic accident. One causes a traffic accident. Accidentally. What is punished is the irresponsibility, not the outcome.
You might as well say it shouldn't be a crime to run a red light, or speeding, or driving on the wrong side of the road. That doesn't actually harm anyone either.
All the MADD hate might have been more credible if there hadn't been people every single step of the way, who claimed that now they are just interested in restricting your liberties for the hell of it.
Ignition locks are a hassle, but not a fundamental infringement on anyone's liberty. I say it's OK to hassle repeat drunk drivers a little if it makes them less likely to do it again (and it does).
Yes. It shows the war for what it is without whitewashing, making the war less popular, making the cost of maintaining it higher in terms of popular support, which means it's less likely that it gets extended again and again and again.
2) Ensure better behavior from soldiers and officers? (Yes. The worse ones know that atrocities will more likely get out, the good ones know they have a channel to leak said atrocities.)
FDR was a sensible man, to ban such BS from army training manuals. At that time the republican party most certainly existed as such, and it's hard to see something like that as anything other than partisan propaganda.
Anyway, I'll grant you that: The abuse of the terms is older than the republican party. So it was not accurate of me to say it was invented for that purpose. Hatred of democracy, in the sense of Athenian democracy is very, very old. But for a long time now democracy has been synonymous with electoral democracy. Electoral democracy has also co-opted the goal of Athenian democracy of popular representation.
But, while they didn't exactly invent it, people calling themselves republicans have most certainly excavated and kept alive the false dichtonomy, as a form of empty-headed partisan stupidity.
I'll point out that Athenian Democracy, sortition, hasn't been seriously tried for 2400 years. Most people, including those who wrote on it, didn't have a clue about it. Those who rant Cartman-like about how the US is a republic not a democracy least of all.
Meh, I ruined myjoke by missing that one. The version of lint I had, at the settings I used, would complain about that one too (warning: return from main function).
Point is, [sp]lint, as most static checking tools, has a huge false positive ratio. The most useful warnings from it have been integrated into GCC now.
Four newspaper got the data in advance, for review, analysis and help in scrubbing. But they took too much time, wikileaks weren't happy with the delays. So they released the whole thing, arguing that more lives are saved from immediate release, than would possibly be lost from undiscovered, uncensored informant names.
(The fact that their likely informant was arrested may also have been a factor, they might have been legitimately worried about spooks trying to shut them down).
And before you smear Assange further, maybe you should get out and do something to fight oppressive governments yourself.
Christpher Hitchens, who is most famous for his atheism, writes for a magazine named after a village in a puritan Christian allegory. It's a strange world.
Republic means only rule by a law (a written constitution) as opposed to a king. China is a perfectly good republic. The US is also, in common usage of the term, and unlike China, a representative democracy. Now aren't you happy you're not just a republic, but a democratic republic?
This whole "it's not a democracy" BS was just started by idiots who think republican vs. democrat is some sort of dichtonomy because the US parties are named that - and they feel that the one named "republicans" is the only legitimate one.
Lint? Oh yeah, I tried Lint once.
void main() {
printf("Hello world!");
}
$ lint
error - main should return int
Heh, :-)
int main() {
printf("Hello world!");
}
$ lint
error - falls of end of main method
Well, :-]
int main() {
printf("Hello world!");
exit(0)
}
$ lint
error - function main does not have return statement
Grr? :-/
int main() {
printf("Hello world!");
exit(0);
return 0;
}
$ lint
error - unreachable code
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
It IS simple. And it's very traditional, too: the first true democracy, Athens, relied heavily upon random sampling to achieve popular representation. It's called sortition.
It's one thing slashdot got right, too, or at least more right than reddit and digg. Mod points are awarded randomly here, if you've been member for a while (a year, isn't it?). Since we don't get to mod all the time, we do it more conscientiously when we do. A fair evaluation by a representative sample gives far better results than what you get elsewhere, which is usually empathetic votes from people who very strongly disagree or agree with you.
(I admit, I could be a little biased here. I get much, much lower mods on reddit compared to slashdot, where it sometimes feels everything I write gets to +5!)
Rob Malda, fact is you were right in a way digg and reddit simply weren't. Their approach was appealing in the start, but didn't scale well as their readership soared. Why don't you capitalize on this more? Take the next step?
Allotted mod privileges is great, but it should also be random which comments and stories were eligible for moderation. Maybe just a tenth of the comments on each story, with these sorted on top (treewise), so that you avoid the Matthew effect, that already highly modded comments/stories get all the attention.
The firehose could really shine, if you took your old ideas (which are the same as the old ideas of the Athenians) to their logical extension.
Judging from the general level of ignorance in the article, you shouldn't take it at face value.
(Hindenburg was not the first airship to use hydrogen as a lift gas, and this company has merely been producing hot air for the military-industrial complex for ages. Meanwhile, there are real Zeppelins being built in Friedrichshafen, Germany, and used for sightseeing over the SF bay area among other things.)