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I agree with you, but also think we need to understand why this is happening. We know how to build safe factories, but people keep getting hurt in them and once in a while they collapse entirely. If you go to emerging economies or even just compare northern versus southern Europe you'll see that there is no inherent reason why things can't be more sophisticated other than culture and possibly a status quo. It's overwhelmingly just that the sophistication in knowledge, across the board from worker to law maker and in between, doesn't keep up with the demand backed by economic incentives.

The widespread solutions in software seem to be to make software engineering more rigorous. Which while I agree with to some extent still largely avoids the problem. Not only do we know that even the best programmers currently can't consistently make programs that don't display catastrophic failure in terms of e.g. compromising data, but what we currently demand from software doesn't fit well into the field of engineering. John Carmack hasn't made a leading game in a decade, because technology isn't enough anymore. It's games like Minecraft, creative with technical problems, and Call of Duty, almost cinematic entertainment, that is pushing the boundaries.

I think to a large extent we missed the opportunity to build a good foundation in computing. The Internet in terms of decentralization and security, software in terms of process and robustness, and probably many more examples I don't know about. Partly because the field (and demand) is moving so fast, but also because of the culture in software. I'm always surprised how conservative (not in terms of politic) people in software are and how we collectively seem to agree, despite things like "software eats the world", that it's still a niche thing.
This front-end db should be separate of the UI/navigation.
So, not Meteor
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The title of the first slide in the video is "Heap allocations are expensive!" And using a pool the way I'm proposing does not fragment the heap. It might be slightly worse if you serially touch a lot of Meshes which have only a few vertices and edges each, but this is a corner case and a trade-off anyway.
disclaimer: I haven't read the article very well. If you don't feel like reading some drivel don't read any further.

My hunch is that this is the wrong question to ask. Tackling economical issues like this is like wanting to start working out and then spend all your time discussing the best(TM) fitness routine online. No amount of math will save us. After all those years of rapid economical and technological progress we have to acknowledge that it's the human factor we have to work on the most.

Economic growth is a tool and we can not use it very wisely as we haven't figured out our society's real needs all that well. We lack collective tacit knowledge so to speak. That what we can codify (at least at the moment) isn't enough to solve our problems.

But I think the author is right that a zero-growth economy should be the goal. Because only then resources of all kind could be perfectly allocated. However, this assumes that the perfect allocation of resources is a.) possible and b.) desirable.
Copyright and patents are not "fundamentally the same thing". A copyright gives you the right to exclude others from copying a work. A patent gives you more than that right, it gives you a monopoly over an idea (or at least a more or less vaguely defined implementation of an idea). A patent gives you the right to exclude others from using that idea or implementation even if they discovered that idea on their own and didn't copy anything.
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Is it dangerous? absolutely. But, consider: he is just checking and fixing ATM machines and notifying people of the hack, is not like he is pointing fingers at anything more than "bought out" low-level technicians, and he is a relatively well known American journalist. It is also a super touristic destination where all parties (legit, criminal and semi-criminal) make their money only contingent on it being known to be a "safe destination". Would a criminal enterprise benefit of harming him? Or would it be easier to wait, let him debug all the ATMs he wants and then get a different model of bug and start again 1 month later with what is probably one of many revenue streams for whomever is in charge?

Mexico is a very dangerous place for journalists and becoming more dangerous every year, but even when we hear about Mexican journalists getting murdered, it's usually for pointing fingers much higher up than "ATM hackers" (the most famous recent case has to do with an investigation into a Governor's activities). One has to assume the threshold for causing an international incident is even higher. The people being busted here are "just" scammers, even if embedded within a larger criminal network.

p.s. My only qualification for answering this is having lived in Mexico. I claim no knowledge of criminal structures there other than what is known from general news and culture. I would not bet my own life on this analysis.
Saw a fascinating documentary on the odd world of competitive Scrabble. "Word Wars" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_Wars

Rather interesting that to this day players still pull tiles out of a bag (which is open to cheating as the article states). Seems to me there should have been any number of low tech solutions to this in play by now.
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Nice work and thanks for sharing. I'd like to add this blog post [1] I read a while ago that explains a bit how to write a disassembler and emulator for Chip-8. The source is not as clean as yours and written in C but it's still worthwhile to check out.

[1] http://emulator101.com/chip-8-disassembler/
For those of us who do not have the option to get on the news: what should one do to stay off of it? Let's assume that you believe you're about to be on the news for something you don't want to be.
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> Also, I thought the consensus was that Apple was 'backdooring' iMessage by giving LE access to iCloud backups which include iMessage, not compromising iMessage directly?

Can you please expand on this? How would access to iCloud backup not compromise iMessage?
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From my own experience:

Sometimes installing an entire programming language just to use one tool is not worth the time I could possibly waste just trying to figure out how to get it working (assuming it works). Instead looking for alternatives built around tech that's already available in my system makes more sense to me, because of a higher chance of familiarity and the benefit of less time possibly wasted.

There's also the curiosity of wanting to see the project implemented in a language you're familiar with.
You’re getting downvoted because Brian has a long and storied history as a security researcher and consultant. He has very little to gain from making a story like this up, and quite a lot to lost. Also, if you really believed your arguments then why make them from a throwaway account?

Regarding your issue with metal enclosures, there’s plenty of non-metal or thin-metal windows: the screen for one.
You mean, like Airbrb?[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0MmNM0a_RU
My understanding of copyright is that it applies to the idea too. If you change the names and wording but keep the plot of a novel, even if the text are not strictly identical, you could still be sued for breach of copyright.
Yep. Kurzweil's theories are very similar. Also the Drake Equation. Great for late-night BS sessions, and maybe a fine thing to put some faith in -- but it ain't science or logic.

"...I had this massive argument 10 years ago with a politically active friend..."

Reminds me of a similar story. Worked with a guy many years ago who was a double major, math and physics, I think. Brilliant guy. At the time, he assured me that now was the time to get in the market and bet on oil prices going higher. Peak oil was here! Shortages and chaos were upon us.

I pointed out that peak oil had been called many times over the years. It was doubtful we were on that exact spot. In fact, some economists have even said that anything you can dig out of the ground is bound to go down in prices as extraction technology continues to mature.

He countered by showing me a study from the U.S. Defense Department (I believe), it showed that yes, indeed, oil was going nowhere but up. I pointed out various examples of this type of thinking failing in the past. He pointed out that things can't continue on forever. Draw a trend line. There's no way that line can continue. Does this discussion sound familiar?

We agreed to disagree, and I promised him that I would wait a few years and email him. We would revisit this discussion.

Several years passed. Oil was not through the roof. In fact, IIRC, it was about in the same spot as it was before. So I emailed him. I asked him how he felt about his earlier assessment.

I did not get a reply.

Since then, of course, we have the advent of fracking, and the clear possibility that the U.S. is going to end up as a petroleum exporter, at least for a while.

Faith is a fine thing. Heck, I'm a singularian, although I think we're looking at 300-500 years. But it's very important to be cognizant of those things you take on faith. Otherwise you end up having these long discussions in which your main defense is just repeating something along the lines of "science!" or "math!" over and over again.
> But, consider: he is just checking and fixing ATM machines and notifying people of the hack,

He is depriving a criminal gang of a source of income. That feels risky!
What then is a faithful measure of economic growth or the size of an economy? This should provide further insight into possible limits.
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I tried to run an original Plan 9 image, it is quite outdated (Ethernet configuration in QEMU silently fails, for example; half of its internet resources are either vanished or temporarily unavailable). Maybe, it's just not for beginners.

I've had much more luck with 9front distribution, it seems maintained at least.

A desktop OS is a vague term, but you have to be super undemanding to use Plan 9 in the modern environment. If you plan to develop on it, be aware: it's quite possible, but it is not POSIX-compatible, it has its own, often quite opinionated tools (Acme editor with its obsessive three-button mouse usage is something I could not get used to), it is often a world-in-itself. It has C, Go, Mercurial, Python though. Don't expect many opensource projects we take for granted to be available (databases, servers, etc). However, 9front has its own "repository" [0] that has ssh, vim, ghc and other basic Unix tools.

No, neither Plan 9 nor 9front run a modern internet browser. A modern browser is a complex, non-portable, monolithic, demanding beast. It just does not fit the Plan 9 vision, so the common piece of advice is to run a VNC session to a mainstream OS to browse the internet. `elinks` is "a graphical browser" according to Plan 9 people (and I rather agree).

This is impression of a beginner, so feel free to correct me.

[0] http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Contrib_Index (oops, it is offline at the moment).
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The thing that makes GDP unsuitable in my view is that it measures destructive activity as being equal in value to constructive activity. You tear down a house, build an identical one in its place, and while nothing of value has been created, the GDP has received a sizable boost. Yes, people got paid for doing those things, but it would have been better had they been paid to produce something of value instead.
At least, they didn't flew the wrong plane after having it filled with the passengers for another destination :-)
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The licensing notes all over the source code are pretty obnoxious. I mean 27 times in one file? Come on!
A finite physical amount of stuff doesn't mean that people won't pay ever increasing amounts for stuff marketed as "better", which is all the growth that's needed for real economic growth patterns to continue, even if "better" requires the same or substantially less energy usage. It's probably a failure of imagination to assume that even the rich nearing the limits for stuff we want to consume too. The amount of GDP spent on healthcare is rocketing in developed nations, not all of that's all down to predatory companies and over-regulation, and it's perfectly rational for people to continue to spend ever-increasing amounts on factors which most significantly impact their quality of life. I also think we've barely scratched the service of what can be done there in future...
OP seems to think that parsing XML is slow. If parsing XML is slower than parsing JSON, you're doing something wrong.
It feels so complicated. Every one of these "React architectures" does. And it doesn't even include any networking.

Compare all that to Meteor.
Not that it matters greatly, but did I say something incorrect/untrue/horribly offensive? I don't get the downvotes.
In a footnote XML is mentioned as being wasteful on bandwidth but doesn't it compress very well?
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If you "change the names and wording" you're actually copying and making a modification. However, if by pure chance you came up with some say detective story that has a plot very similar to one of the existing billion other detective stories, no can sue you unless there is sufficient evidence that you actually infringed a copyright.
You can try Plan 9 in a VM or use some of the software via plan9port. Old Thinkpads often run Plan 9 well, especially the 9front version. What can you do with it? Server stuff, software development, os research, hobbyism. No modern browser or multimedia support, or office suites. Runs well inside QEMU, does not run QEMU.
> What is the difference now?

The difference is that working people are using it as a location to work from. This is true even if the property owner isn't charging them money to work there. It's commercial activity.
>> Apple controls iPhones. They have root access, you don't.

>> It's like speculating about the owners of an Internet café implementing a TLS MITM attack in their own network's router

This is also just another speculation. We can't know because it's closed source.
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There is another incredibly interesting meta-discussion implicit in that article. How does someone very intelligent like Peter Thiel make investment decisions in an area where he lacks a huge amount of background knowledge?

He can obviously evaluate the team, he can ask experts he trusts to give him their opinion about the value of the approach, but... biotech start ups, far more than software start ups, live or die by the strength of their technology. Transplants have far fewer false positives than working with cell lines (especially HeLa!) - but they are also several orders of magnitude more expensive. Is the trade off between decreasing false positives versus increase in experiment costs worth it? That company obviously think so, but it's not a no brainer, and it's very difficult to seriously evaluate. Mice models are very expensive - and they are better than HeLa, but they aren't foolproof. In cancer biology, there's a continuum between how expensive a technique is, and how much it recapitulates the actual biology of the disease. The sweet spot also varies hugely from disease to disease.

Another point which I find fascinating, is that more or less everyone who has worked on cancer biology knows that HeLa are not really a realistic model... yet people keep using them, why? Because a lot of researchers are interested in publishing papers in prestigious journals, not discovering robust findings. A pharma company instead has a lot more incentive in getting things right - because a splashy result that gets falsified at phase 1 is an incredibly expensive failure, while it's still a Nature paper for a professor. I don't think that academia should exist to serve pharma companies, but the problem of false positives is very real, and all the incentives around the publishing/grant system make it much worse. We should be rewarding researchers that get moderate but robust results that hold up under scrutiny, not people who make incredibly splashy discoveries that later turn out to be incredibly narrow and difficult to reproduce.
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If you do need to modify the network driver, has anyone seen any patches for keeping the link active?
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Thousands of people go missing in Mexico every year without any followup.

So yeah, you are pretty much risking a grusome ending.

US is paying a price for building up China overseas instead of next door neighbors instead.
Sure. Just saying, there is risky and then there is risky. One wouldn't be all that safe doing this in Detroit either. I just think there are way scarier people out there for which "American Journalist found dead in an alley in Cancun" in the newspapers is not an acceptable mess to have to clean, not over something like this. Not that I would bet on it, though...
Economic growth is not fundamentally measured in units of money and especially paying a larger amount for the same thing does not constitute economical growth. Adding an additional zero to all bills is just a rescaling of units, it has absolutely no substance.
A criticism which seems to be gaining traction is that many traditionally held economic beliefs were not sufficiently established by data, with their adherents often being satisfied with a (single) model, consistent with a limited set of observations. The rise of advanced statistical methods with vast amounts of data is a relatively recent phenomenon.

A purported major factor in the collapse of Lehman Brothers was that their economical models failed to anticipate a dramatic drop in property prices because they didn't include data reaching far enough into the past.

Much of the machinery for large scale data analysis was developed in the context of trying to understand complex physical systems. Even basic linear regression has its roots in the study of celestial mechanics by scientists such as Laplace and Gauss. Von Neumann was the co-creator of game theory, John Nash proved its foundational result. Economics is not beyond the analytical abilities of physicists and mathematicians to investigate, although certainly they benefit from collaboration with domain experts to resolve basic misunderstandings.

Ignoring energy and entropy in a dynamical system does seem a bit curious. It's not really clear that GDP can be made both rigorous and meaningful in the sense of these thermodynamic terms. David Goodstein points out that oil companies haven't produced a drop of oil in their entire existence. They simply process the oil which biophysical forces produced over a hundred million years. This oil (and all other fossil fuels) will run out in something on the order of 100 years. After this, civilization will end. I find his prediction difficult to dismiss, although not a foregone conclusion. All the solutions to the problems Goodstein raises remain speculative.
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A few non sequiturs:

1) 'Futurism' is the early twentieth century philosophy created by Marinetti, launched with this enchanting essay: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/English104/marinetti....

2) "Instagram began life as a Yelp-style app called Burbn, with photos an afterthought (photos on your phone, is that a thing?)."

Is this somehow implying that Instagram invented phones on your camera, or indeed anything at all? This seems a common sort of confusion, along the same category as believing Apple invented smart phones, Google invented search engines or Facebook invented social networking, rather than popularizing a particular form of a preexisting technology.
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"They promote and claim that revival will be possible in the future. Without any proof. So it is a confidence game. Hence "scam"."

Again, if you're talking about some group like Alcor, they say it may be possible in the future.

I'd love it if you could provide some kind of evidence that they're not presenting the truth or trying to dupe people. Especially considering that so few people have actually signed up, so I'm guessing most people who sign up do it after a lot of research.
Common lisp does have a form of goto in the "go" operator within a tagbody. Was this not usable for your purposes? You needed a global goto?

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/s_go.htm#go
There are prebuilt slab allocators that do this well. I used the arena allocator in facebook's libfolly recently as the base for a huge page allocator, and the code turned out quite nice. I think the allocator is a much better abstraction here. You could use something like the arena allocator here to carve out the memory for all the vertex and mesh storage and amortize the cost of hundreds of objects as well, so I don't like the argument in the first few sentences of the article actually that allocators would take more space.
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Is corporate OS research really dead? We have L4, seL4, Xen, Mirage OS, Singularity nowadays.

It's more like the focus has shifted from traditional OS kernels into virtualization, distributed systems and verification.
I'd be interested to know what you think are good sources?

While they have bias it's obvious and predictable, and thus you can ignore it.

They're very much better than most UK newspapers, which are the worst kind of scum.
There is also the excellent Redux which is similar

https://github.com/rackt/redux
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Always good to see alternatives to "Flux classic" [1].

We have just started using Redux [2] with ImmutableJS. It's a nice way of expressing how different actions mutate the store, but I do feel like there's some leaky abstractions in there - e.g. ImmutableJS is usually used for performance reasons, yet you see your entire app filled with getter boilerplate to get the data from the immutable structures.

I have to say I don't quite see the difference between CSP used here and normal eventemitter style code. Can someone explain the difference?

[1] https://github.com/facebook/flux

[2] https://github.com/rackt/redux
That's a result of it being bloated, not a feature.

By that logic it doesn't matter how bloated dataformats are.

EDIT: The big problem with WebDAV is that it's overall so complex that it's hard to implement, and XML doesn't help with that.
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re 2)

I'd read it as that the makers of Instagram initially didn't believe in people actually using cameras in their phones, so the opposite of your interpretation.

How many people did have camera feature-phones/early smartphones and did really use the camera? Granted, I was still in high-school, but tons of my peers had phones with cameras, but they were only used very seldomly and not in any phone-specific way (take picture with phone if you didn't have a digital camera with you, send to computer, treat as if it came of a crappy digital camera)
There is several hundred years worth of coal in the ground. Further civilization only started using oil very recently. It's loss mipay seem huge but it's not that important.
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Could you give me an example of what you mean?