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I feel in a very similar situation. Throughout my life, I've always had abdominal pain under stressing situations, and in specific scenarios of high stress, there's a specific spot that hurts. The funny thing is that one of my grandma, one of my aunts and a cousin suffer from pain in the exact same spot (just below the belly button).

After an accident in which I broke my cheekbone, the pain increased to become chronic, and it's been 8 years since. I haven't found a solution yet, and western medicine has been of no help.

I've read a few psychology books (Code to Joy, The Divided Mind) and it makes sense to me that traumas can actually cause pain. But neither of them could actually explain similar pain throughout families. Actually, Code to Joy (that helps you clear out the effects of traumas through a body-mind algorithm) has helped me reduce pain in many situations, but the overall pain is still there.

I haven't found anyone either doing research in this topic, unfortunately.
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And now that I'm past my surprise, I can evaluate. It looks like it's really not ready for production. There are all kinds of weird issues. For instance, in the webworkerstatt sandbox[1] (and I was using Chrome as they asked), the text box rendered far-right more than a page of scrolling was required. Upon refreshing the page, the text box was where it was supposed to be, but there was lots of additional empty space (empty content that cause scrollbars to be present) below and to the right of the application. Also in that app, positioning the cursor inside the textbox then clicking on the "car" (that cluster of ovals) causes text to be selected between the two points you just clicked.

Aside from that, I'm sure this is all controllable in the framework, but there are maddening design choices. They are intercepting right-clicks. They are by-default opening links in new windows. Every bit of text is in carat mode. The loading animation is rather annoying. With all of this, I'm not even going to look at what it's like to develop in the environment.

[1] http://lively-kernel.org/repository/webwerkstatt/sandbox/san...
Epigenetics. It's the make-file for your genetic source code. Certain conditions can cause certain parts of your genetic code to be uncommented or commented-out. There are actually a number of different kinds of comments (histone modifications [1]) - each set of marks particular to a different compiler, in different contexts. And these comments/marks are copied with some fidelity to daughter-cells/children.

So the genes themselves are not being heritably altered, rather the recipe for which gene is where, when can be subtly changed. But again, the same mechanisms that permit the change in expression of those genes during a lifetime can be subsequently changed in the next just as easily.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone_code
It's even simpler, really, and a classic and well-researched defect in representative democracy. Any time there is an interest group (which can be one person, one corporation, an industry, etc.) that wants something that is highly advantageous to itself and costs a very large number of other people a very small amount of money each, that interest group will always pay a small portion of its benefit to politicians for support, and politicians will always support it. This is because it's not worthwhile for millions of individuals to band together and defeat something that costs each one only a few cents. Literally, the time it takes (whether to make a donation, write a letter, or make whatever other trivial contribution) exceeds the value of shutting down the special interest.

Intuit likes income-tax returns and tax laws in general that are complex. But there are hundreds of other special interests, most very narrow, that favor specific bits of the tax code and will lobby to keep them. Collectively, these things cost us trillions of dollars, but individually they are impossible to defeat because no single one is large enough to be worthwhile.

This happens in all representative democracies where tax law is set by the legislature. There are ways to avoid it, but there is currently no state that has tried to do so (probably because this problem is extremely profitable for the political industry).
Here's a Radiolab podcast about the tech they can use to capture people off the grid. They'd have to fly a drone for the day when the message is delivered and know who received the message.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/
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I think most of us understand the historical pressure, but that's small comfort when we're neck-deep in arcane code. Indeed, for me it just leads to dark thoughts about the reign of Worse Is Better and how the good stuff rarely wins.
Data center noise??? Argh. All I have to do is close my eyes and I can hear the hum.

My worst nightmare would be not being able to turn this sound off.
"This is the only time in my entire programming life that I've debugged a problem caused by quantum mechanics." [1]

This quote is amazing lol

[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/M...
This individual bypassed the whitehat policies that Facebook have. He publicly announced an exploit to the world.

If you're going to mention a company as a reference to another and you happen to work at that company please disclaimer it...
> Enabling users to get something done while adhering to corporate policies effectively is a problem I don't believe anyone has solved for the Fortune 500 as a whole.

Well, they must have figured out how to get something done, to have survived long enough to get into the Fortune 500. :)
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I'm really not sure what the status of SQLite4 is at the moment. Has it been released?
Also, I'm not sure that your bank or credit union or especially credit card warrants all that much trust either - what are the chances that they could resist a well-planned hack? Or that they aren't already selling your data?

At some point, it's better that you have a copy of your data too if all the third-party advertisers already have one.
You would be quite a few generations away from the originating event. Here, they're studying the very next generation.

Obviously the effect wears out over time or we would all have these markers ... somewhere at some point, all of our ancestors had a rough time.
The United States has been working on a coup for Maduro, since its coup of Chavez hasn't worked out for it. This time it would really like to install Leonardo Lopez as he's willing to privatize Venezuelan oil to US companies. The US has been encouraging and organizing protests, gatherings and projecting anti-Maduro sentiment and news into the country. (https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releasedate/2012-06-18-08-canv...)

It's possible that if their economy (amid new US sanctions) collapse that this could trigger the regime change we've been eyeing and the energy security we've been wanting to establish there.

We do have to be careful about CALEC and UNASUR, however. South American countries have been ever moving closer to isolating the US from its multilateral diplomatic plans and are regularly condemning the US for its interference, funding of death squads, war on drugs, and unilateral sanctions of various South American countries. If we take Venezuela we need to make sure that we don't isolate the rest of the continent.
I would recommend reading Code to Joy, by George Pratt and Peter Lambrou. It is an excellent book, that lets you understand how the mind works (basically, the relationship between conscious and unconscious mind), and how traumas affect our daily life. It also describes how to clear them out, and it has worked for me.

The book has references on how that theory began with Roger Callahan at the end of the 1980's. Tapping the healer within is one of these books, which I would recommend if you're interested in the subject, but not as a guide to clear away your fears of your unconscious mind.
It's pretty interesting how they use SVG to draw it all on-screen to emulate desktop UI's. That's basically how I did cross-platform in late 90's with OpenGL as my targets supported it. I also tried Java, which they [1] did too. That they reused Morphic was clever as most would've tried a vanilla interface framework. The use of SVG would seem to be both a strength and a weakness. Strength for reasons they outlined but weakeness in terms of speed and browser interactions. I saw both problems in the demo, with the latter being text highlighting when dragging a window.

So, I still push native apps and plugins over web where possible. This one is clever but I'd like to see some smooth demos. However, the WebGL standard might be a solution to this as I haven't heard anyone complain about it lagging on simple 2D operations. Maybe they try that out.

[1] http://www.svgopen.org/2008/papers/93-The_Lively_Kernel_Web_...
This jumped out at me as well - absolute statements are usually a sign of bad science or bad reporting.
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Very well done.

On mac you use cmd-C, cmd-V instead of control-C, control-V.

There is a bug that causes new line to function incorrectly when the cursor is on the first line of the document. New line on other lines work fine. (Safari on Mac)
Just pointing out that none of the security issues written about in the article appeared to be related to it being an external service. Their problems seemed to be:

a) no one actively admining the service, in particular removing accounts when people left.

b) users themselves were communicating things they were not supposed to, like instructions for circumventing other security procedures.

You can just as easily have these problems with an internal service.

Telling is that the illegal advice VA staff were giving each other had to do with circumventing other security procedures that were interfering with their ability to work effectively (like needing to be available via email but not having access to email on an available device). These are issues all big organizations face, regardless of whether they are purchasing IT services or implementing themselves.
I would love to try this on Android. Hope it comes out soon.
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So, metaprogramming?
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There are many excellent generators on that page, but Anamnesis is my favourite - a noir, sci-fi world awaits:
http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/anamnesisSoundscapeGenerato...
Hallucinations are real, they just don't have physical sources.

MCRed seems to be talking about paredolia, which is very different from hallucination.
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I'm not sure I'm parsing your comment correctly; it seems you're asserting that Linux and BSD kernels are microkernels?

That is most certainly not the case. There are very many features in the Linux kernel that are not typically in a microkernel, including and not limited to networking, fliesystems, and capability systems.
> The complexity exists almost entirely in tax expenditures -- deductions, exclusions, credits, etc., etc., etc.

I'm not sure what everyone else thinks, but any flat tax I'd support would have to do away with all of those things. And I'm pretty sure most of my conservative friends would agree.

In that poll you linked to, see the "Which Type of Plan Do You Prefer?" question 42. Republicans favored eliminating more deductions.

Also, that survey is really bad. In q44-51, they didn't mention cutting spending at all.

Change: "q51 (In order to reduce the budget deficit, would you favor or oppose) Reducing some government programs and services that benefit people like you?" to "q51 (In order to reduce the budget deficit, would you favor or oppose) Cutting spending on some government programs and services that benefit people like you?" I expect a lot more Republican responses would favor that idea.

And they should at least have mentioned reforming social security and medicare/aid.
For a flavor of what everyday Chinese propaganda looks like, consider following @PDChina and @XHNews on Twitter.

This doesn't give you the full picture, since the Twitter accounts are intended to be consumed by foreigners. Nonetheless, it's really easy way to get some idea of the typical tone/topics.
That's fair.

I suppose that I am always looking for ulterior motives from the players that you can't see when it comes to massive government/regulatory action. Any large change is sold on a story that sounds about right, but I'm worried that something else is really going on with it. That probably makes me borderline paranoid, but an example would be what's happened with Net Neutrality. We all (mostly) want Net Neutrality - but the regulatory response seemed to be a huge change in regulatory scope. This in response to a problem that really hasn't happened yet, or was being sorted out anyway by the players in the market (Comcast/Netflix). And it leaves the door open for the FCC to weigh in on a lot of things that make me provisionally worried that what we were sold and what we will get aren't necessarily the same thing.

Aaand, now I've gone way (way!) off topic of the thread. Thanks for the discussion.
Here's an important take-away:

"Just because a child is currently
struggling doesn’t necessarily mean
he or she will be a poor learner in
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It was hardly an exploit when the data was publicly available... It was a lack of privacy control by Facebook which the public recognition forced them to fix.
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I've recently experienced a flood of "please connect with me" messages. They seem to come in waves. I generally contact the people I know OOB. Sometimes they initiated the request, and sometimes they did not. I assume LinkedIn's app is sucking up contact lists from phones, probably by opaque permission.

Now linked in is asking me to invite people to join LinkedIn, who are not yet members. I assume these "leads" also come from contact lists sucked up by their app.

I was asked to invite a mailing list to join. I belong to a private mailing list, which has a name. I assume that list's address was sucked up by the app.

To the people at LinkedIn who implement this stuff and enable this kind of behavior, faking communication from people who did not actually inititate it: Really? That's what you do for a living?
I think I have a pretty straight-forward answer to his question about its popularity: real-time became synonymous with instant results and zero delays to mainstream audiences. Not sure exactly from what sources but that's the common denominator across all of these usages.
I switched from Quicken to Moneydance some time ago. The export/import worked fine. I had been a Quicken customer a 10-15 years and I was just so infuriated with all the UI churn to justify the upgrades and their turning off online transactions after a few years, FOR NO REASON.

MD is written in Java, it's simple, it's supported, they come out with new versions, and you can upgrade if you want.

I am not at all affiliated with the company that makes Moneydance. Just a completely satisfied customer who didn't want to pay Intuit another penny, for the rest of my life.
The basis for the approach I've pursued came from a book called The Biology of Belief [1], by former Stanford stem-cell researcher Bruce Lipton. The book is about epigenetics, and the way environmental factors - particularly the influence of subconscious beliefs on the perception of your environment, can influence physiological health. I found it compelling and I seem to have benefited by pursuing the ideas, but it's not for everyone; despite his scientific background his primary audience these days is the New Age market, and I know his way of articulating his ideas is too woo-woo for many. But he is entertaining.

The method I've used for trauma clearing is called NET [2] which came out of the chiropractic world, but I've since learned how to do it myself so I no longer need to spend money on chiropractors, most of whom I now regard as quacks.

The closest version of the technique I now use is a method called Self Clearing, demonstrated in this video [3] by an Australian guy called Dane Thomas.

I'm well aware that all this stuff will seem like quackery to many; as a former devotee of Dawkins and Hitchens, it sure did to me, but my ongoing health struggles necessitated a willingness to try anything, and of the many things I tried, this has been the one that's delivered results.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Biology-Belief-Unleashing-Consciou...

[2] https://www.netmindbody.com/more-information/an-introduction...

[3] http://clearyourshit.com/self-clearing-foundations-1/
Anyone could mention some benefits of Gremlin over Cypher ?
For instance, the basic runtime management modules that the Erlang VM starts as its first application is also called the kernel: http://erlang.org/doc/man/kernel_app.html

(Erlang can be described as a special-purpose OS in many ways, so it makes sense.)
Because I have a US IP address I can no longer update my Swedish apps
An old Yammer thread can be archived and searchable for other users.

Working in a large, dated codebase, I would love to be able to see previous discussions about features, pieces of code, code reviews, etc. But because they occurred over email, they undiscoverable to me.
> Following the unauthorised but successful...

I love how it's the engineer's job to keep everything running, but not to do anything too forward-thinking, lest management get all uppity that it wasn't their idea.
When I studied at HPI I had a course where we would hack on features for the Lively Kernel. I'm not sure how far they've come and if they got the performance problems solved. (Lively used to work at halfway acceptable speeds in Chrome and Safari only, but I'm not sure if this was because of Webkit or the JavaScript engine.)

I have to admit, I didn't like it much. I couldn't wrap my brain around why I should create a live coding environment which would be destroyed on a reload. Then it is only used as a fancy REPL.

For my day to day programming I prefer regular JavaScript or languages which compile to JavaScript.
IRC is just a really old protocol back from a time when security was an afterthought.

I like it. It is raw and functional.
How to create hyperinflation in two easy steps:

1. Build massive external debt in _foreigin_ currency.

2. Have fixed exchange rate.

Its very hard to create hyperinflation using bad fiscal policy alone if you are not in debt in foreign currency and have floating exchange rates. Floating currency will balance exports and imports and printing money to pay debt in your own currency works.
Wasn't "My name is Howard Dean; give me some money." basically the first political kickstarter?
Especially since they don't mention controlling for social influence. Nor do they mention sampling the descendants of other people exposed to the war who were not necessarily victims. Not to mention that their sample size was 32.
I think it's devolved beyond that into a marketing term, I've seen realtime mean anything from milliseconds to hours. I'd mostly interpret it as "faster than what you already have/are used to".
How would you say cryptocurrency or gold play into this?
This is a neat idea, and I like innovative sound to it.

But what happens if the key is compromised during this single use? Isn't that just as problematic from a security perspective?

I'm guessing by "untrusted system" that we're talking about an SSH host for which you do not already have and verify the SSH host fingerprint (see side note below). And so, for example, you try to connect to that host, but instead your request is MITMed and the attacker has control of your session with that remote host.

Or put another way: what attack vectors are prevented/mitigated by disabling the key on use? (and this is separate from the very inconvenient aspect regarding: how do I connect back to that host after my one session is over?)

(side note: I believe that if you don't verify host keys, then SSH is completely, 100% useless against MITM/proxy attacks, whether you allow the key to be used 1 or infinite times. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that.)
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Blade Runner-ish. I like it, too.
I'm not sure I get it. Looks like the idea is to protect form private key compromise. In which case why is having N instead of one private keys sitting in the same directory more safe? It's not that you are more likely to leak the used ones...

If this did automatic key rotation, it might be quite useful!
Time lapse
Even though I know this isn't a real kitty purring in my ear, I can sense myself feeling relaxed and soothed by this as if it were a drug. I've heard that petting a cat or dog lowers a person's blood pressure. I bet hearing cat purrs does, too. I recently read the book Influence which describes a myriad of ways people and animals have automatic responses to various stimuli; I wonder if this is that kind of thing.
Treating someone differently because they have a lower income than others is discriminatory.

Wealth is not a protected class; unlike gender, race, and religion, we don't have a legal mandate to avoid making decisions based on a person's wealth.

It's about everyone paying their fair share.

What does 'fair' mean, though? Another 'fair' scheme might be that everyone pays the same raw amount (rather than a fixed proportion of their income). After all, isn't it discriminatory to include a person's income in the formula for how much one should pay? Our tax code then looks like:

Tax(person) = requiredRevenue / nPopulation

Unfortunately, this ends up requiring poor people to pay more than they actually generate, requiring government to throw the poor in jail for tax evasion and tax more to cover the cost of the prisons.

Ok, so we should be allowed to use a person's income as a parameter to the tax equation. The 'flat' tax scheme is to use a formula like:

Tax(person) = fixedRatio x person.Income

The fixed ratio can again be figured out by looking at total income of the population and the required revenue.

Two major criticisms (amongst many):
a) The marginal utility of money is greatly increased when you don't have much of it. A 15% tax on $20k a year will lead to eviction, hunger and health problems, creating social ills that we'll need government programs to deal with. Or they'll just not pay the tax, so again with the prisons. And again, the overall tax needs to be increased to deal with a stupid choice in the tax code. This is inefficient and arguably unfair.

b) Furthermore, if we don't want to punish the poor for being poor, we have to reduce the ratio, meaning we greatly reduce investment in infrastructure, education, etc, mainly as a result of undertaxing the wealthy to avoid punishing the poor. This also seems hella backwards.

So maybe we end up with something like:

Tax(person) = min(0, r_0 + r_1 person.Income + r_2 (person.Income - baseIncome)^2)

with r_i fixed coefficients. So now we have four parameters to choose (or more, if we want a more general polynomial). And suddenly this requires real policy decisions to be made with some nuance...

So to me, it comes down to a question of whether we want to over-simplify the question of how to fund government - negatively impacting either a broad class of the population or drastically degrading the services provided by government - or whether we trust a segment of the civil service to do something a bit more nuanced.

I come down on the 'fix the fucking government' side, personally.
Could they have been mixing up megawatts and megawatt-hours? Regardless, personally, I despise the ubiquitous usage of *watt-<time> over joules.
>>For finance double-dispatch arithmetic made things worse since even a simple addition would result in a bunch of message sending that was cute and pure but slow.<<

Why would there be double-dispatch of 2 + 4 ?

Why would that require numeric coercion ?