Major mode for editing SEML (S-Expression Markup Language) files

Major mode for editing SEML (S-Expression Markup Language) files

With compare 2 files, SEML is short and easy to understand for Lisp hacker. Since SEML can use Elisp freely in SEML file, I think that it has the same power as PHP. It is already set to automatically enable seml-mode for typical seml file extensions as follows, but if you want to enable seml-mode for special extensions or for other reasons, you need to set it to an optional setting.

Source: github.com

IEEE Lifts Huawei Restrictions on Editorial and Peer Review Activities

IEEE Lifts Huawei Restrictions on Editorial and Peer Review Activities

IEEE has received the requested clarification from the U.S. Department of Commerce on the applicability of these export control restrictions to IEEE’s publication activities. IEEE offers a wide range of activities and benefits for its members, volunteers and the wider technical community, including sponsoring more than 1,900 annual conferences and events worldwide and providing access to over 4.8 million publications on IEEE Xplore®. Through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities, IEEE is the trusted voice in a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers, and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power, and consumer electronics.

Source: www.ieee.org

The prison inside: Japan’s hikikomori lack relationships, not physical spaces

The prison inside: Japan’s hikikomori lack relationships, not physical spaces

“People think of hikikomori as being lazy young people with personality problems who stay in their rooms all the time playing video games,” says Yamase, who lives with his 87-year-old mother and has been a recluse on and off for the past 30 years. A hikikomori is defined by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry as someone who has remained isolated at home for at least six consecutive months without going to school or work, and rarely interacts with people from outside their own immediate family. “The structure of Japanese society makes it difficult for people to get back on the rails once they have come off them,” says journalist Masaki Ikegami, who has written about hikikomori issues for more than 20 years.

Source: www.japantimes.co.jp

Factory activity shrinks across Asia, global recession fears mount

Factory activity shrinks across Asia, global recession fears mount

Such growth indicators are likely to deteriorate further in coming months as higher trade tariffs take their toll on global commerce and further dent business and consumer sentiment leading to job losses and delays in investment decisions. “The additional shock from the escalated trade tensions is not going to be good for global trade and if demand in the U.S., China and Europe continues to soften, which is very likely, it will bode ill for Asia as a whole,” said Aidan Yao, senior emerging markets economist at AXA Investment Managers. The trade conflict between China and the United States suddenly escalated last month when Trump raised tariffs on hundreds of billions of Chinese imports to 25% from 10% and threatened levies on all Chinese goods.

Source: www.reuters.com

Uber’s IPO means higher fares for rides

Uber’s IPO means higher fares for rides

Uber’s first-quarter earnings report released Thursday — its first since the ride-sharing company went public on May 10 — disclosed more than the financial condition of the company.It also opened a window on the economic reality of the ride-sharing business. In discussing that reality, Uber executives revealed something that always percolated in the background about its business: Once Uber went public, its subsidized pricing would disappear.That could create a new headwind for the company’s growth, which in any case has been slowing, according to the earnings release. Chai’s promise and the trading pattern show that public investors will be taking a much harsher view of Uber’s marketing expenditures than did the private venture investors who have been providing the company with its capital up to now.

Source: www.latimes.com

The Iocaine Powder Strategy in RoShamBo

The Iocaine Powder Strategy in RoShamBo

Iocaine Powder is a heuristically designed compilation of strategies and meta-strategies which took first place in Darse Billings’ excellent First International RoShamBo Programming Competition. To take advantage of this (assumed) predictability, at every round Iocaine Powder measures how well each of the strategies under consideration (six for every predictive algorithm!) Then, to actually choose a move, Iocaine Powder simply picks the strategy variant with the highest score to date.

Source: web.archive.org

Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox (2017)

Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox (2017)

In addition to being a retailer, it is now a marketing platform, a delivery and logistics network, a payment service, a credit lender, an auction house, a major book publisher, a producer of television and films, a fashion designer, a hardware manufacturer, and a leading host of cloud server space. Doing so enables us to make sense of its business strategy, illuminates anticompetitive aspects of Amazon’s structure and conduct, and underscores deficiencies in current doctrine. In addition to being a retailer, it is a marketing platform, a delivery and logistics network, a payment service, a credit lender, an auction house, a major book publisher, a producer of television and films, a fashion designer, a hardware manufacturer, and a leading provider of cloud server space and computing power.

Source: www.yalelawjournal.org