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I personally have mixed feelings about Mathematica. Stephen Wolfram has issues, but I don't buy software based on the attitude of the creator. Otherwise, many open source projects that I use with some combination of very cranky, irritable, rude, egotistical, and/or arrogant people involved would be ruled out as well...

Closed source that costs $$$ is definitely an issue - for a while after school it was hard to continue using Mathematica until my employer acquired a site license and I got a home license. In the meantime I tried all of the usual suspects - from open source things (Maxima, Sage, Octave, Julia, and so on...) to other commercial products (e.g., Maple and Matlab). I ended up returning to Mathematica for two reasons: 1) it has a massive standard library, and once you learn the idioms of the library and the language, I found it pretty usable; 2) it has beautiful graphics capabilities.

The open source tools are hit-or-miss on the standard library front - some of the libraries are great, some are missing major features, or their implementations are poor. (Yes, it's OSS and one can either contribute code or feedback, but often I have a problem to solve NOW - I don't have time to wait for the OSS to catch up.)

As for the graphics, I'm not sure what it is about Mathematica visualizations that I like so much, but they look GOOD relative to the others I've tried.

At the end of the day though, Mathematica is just one of the useful tools in my toolchain - the others have their plusses and minuses as well. But one thing I've adapted to over the years is that A) sometimes good software costs money, and B) sometimes jerks are involved in creating good software. Neither case is one that I feel is a valid justification for rejecting a software package outright.

Edit: It's worth noting the time period over which I've been mucking around with Mathematica and the other alternatives I mentioned above. I started seriously using numerical and scientific computing software (including Mathematica) in 1994, so that's a 21 year period of wandering around the space trying out things here and there.
They can but nobody will put in the work or money:

http://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/ipcores/soclibrary

You get an open ISA w/ Open Firmware w/ open HW implementation under GPL that you can fab wherever, including MPW runs that cut costs. Or you can just buy the one's he sells which go up to 4 cores now. Developers porting browsers, flash, servers, whatever can use regular development boards to get most of it done. Gaisler and SPARC have been best option to jump-start open HW/SW movement for a long time. Just not utilized.

A Transmeta approach could be used with underlying RISC core for x86 emulation. Wouldn't be core i7 speed or anything but it could be acceptable. China's MIPS-based Loongson does this.
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(Hi, I work at Keybase!)

There's a document describing this client/service split here: https://keybase.io/docs/client/client_architecture
You need better lawyer.
Bootstrapping trust off of the existing TLS infrastructure is really practical and the articles point about browsers downloading ISOs for Linux distros really drives that home. One of the things we do in `rkt` is let people bootstrap the code-signing keys for container images off of keys that a TLS secured HTML page presents in its metadata. This allows for easy bootstrapping while enabling user control of sideloading if they prefer an out of band pubkey distribution method.
Yeah, the discussions get funnier when you see people speculating about Intel backdoors and ask yourself "Did everyone forget about Intel AMT?" Whether it's on or not, the functionality is probably in every chip in the family and maybe others to cut NRE costs.

Most open, security-focused laptop with the most closed, backdoored processor. It's funny shit.
Imagine a state where decisions about local concerns are handled by local government, rather than getting kicked up to the statehouse.
Not exactly low-rise:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Dtown_Bk...

Edit: fixed bad link
They're actually operating in a way that is very profitable to them. If you own property- a house or business real estate- you want a moratorium on new supply. Because not giving new supply will cause the value of your current property to go up. Of course its an "anti-affordable housing" position... but it's not insane.

The anti-development types are taking a very profitable position for themselves.
Your memory of history is suspect.
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I have been doing some manipulation on csv files and excel in my preferred choice to view the changes side by side in two excel windows. I apply each transformation and store the new files with the same name in a different folder. But excel does not allow me to open two files with the same name. Any ideas why something so trivial is not supported in a software as widely used as excel?
I really like this design decision to put in hardware switches. Not only are there security risks: SW switches are less reliable. How many times has something played really loud and the volume buttons lagged for rest of you? Or you have to screw with power button to shut a certain laptop down?

I want hard buttons for power, audio, radio, and keys I type with. Not "smart" hard buttons either: simple, stupid, old approach to buttons or switches that just worked.
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"in the cloud, all users have is a herd of special-purpose appliances".

The argument of the whitepaper is that our current internet and Unix environment does not allow for anything else than a cloud with lots of special-purpose appliances, but that does not mean this is the desirable situation, neither for the appliance builders nor for their users.
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It also says explicitly that there are about 10,000 people per square mile elsewhere in the same page.
Democracy is slow and ill-suited for getting shit done.
>I have been a part-time homesharer

You have not. You are a rentier. You are running a business. Please stop this violence against the English language.

I use hospitality exchange websites to actually share my home, that is offer my home as a place to stay free of charge. What people do on AirBnB, VRBO, and others is not sharing, it's commerce, and we have different words for describing that.

Appropriating the language of mutual aid and generosity to describe a business transaction is insulting. Please stop it.
Proposition 13 didn't do that; the various governments who petulantly refused to adapt their tax regimes to the Prop 13 limits did. The bizarre incentives created by almost 40 years of attempting to strong-arm voters into giving power back to legislatures could be fixed by legislatures without doing anything to Prop 13.
You don't. You drop it into a Faraday bag and then later mess with it in a Faraday glovebox.
Testing it in the marketplace and tying the financial incentives to good ethics are both good decisions. They're really putting their work and money where their mouth is. I challenge others to do the same in terms of hardware purchases.
> It's really quite remarkable that you can know so little about something, yet be so judgmental about it at the same time. Go 'mericuh!

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Bureaucracy is slow and ill-suited for getting shit done.

The question is whether democracy needs bureaucracy, and if so, how much.

Obviously, democracy requires certain decisions to be made according to certain processes, which take time.

So you can't do away with all bureaucracy.

The documents aren't going to push themselves. :)
Eating an apple and feeling guilty... think about crazy people. I actually knew a handful of persons like that (mostly women). They cared about anyone except their own offspring, and the children are adults now, and struggling. So sorry, I can't agree with that, so sorry.
Lanny Breuer: as AAG he gave a few slaps on the wrist for LIBOR fraud and laundering terrorist money, now he's got a $4 million/year salary advising those same types of people.
Yes, I actually do expect them not to be the kind of morons who could decide it's smart to hoover, aggregate, and store a toxic mountain of data which massively undermines personal and state security.

There's a reason for external oversight and governance - you don't need malice in a large organisation to get a really shitty outcome, just a bunch of cogs in the machine each chasing local optima.
I was under the impression that you couldn't run a bruteforcer against these phones because the key is kept inside of a hardware security module. Couldn't the duress code just wipe the key in the HSM?

If they can copy the HSM, that wouldn't help, but in that case, it doesn't really seem like they need your help getting the PIN in the first place.
Yes, I miss jumpers and write-protect. Used to use them everywhere. Seems like nobody does these days and I bet most advertising it are software implementations.
Sounds good, pinged you off-thread.
What is the burden of short-term visitors? I've heard that said before, but I've never heard any actual examples of problems that occur from short-term visitors that aren't present with long-term residents.
Which still allows potential side-channel attacks in circuitry.
> How close is CRISPR to a primitive of Turing complete computation?

Not even remotely close.
Personally, all my friends with roommates are in 4-6 bedroom apartments, and $1500 per room is not uncommon. I know these are anecdotes that aren't necessarily representative of the city, but given the prevalence of both high-paying jobs for young people and roommate-situations here, I don't feel like it's that uncommon.
Jan Koum on Twitter when their app crossed 1 billion users on the Google Play Store[0]. Not sure what their current team size is, but it seems like it's around 40-50. Last year at Startup School, Jan said the backend team 7-8 people on the backend[1].

[0] - https://twitter.com/jankoum/status/575740639444336640

[1] - https://youtu.be/8-pJa11YvCs?t=1272
Get out? To where?!
When was this removed? I'm running Android v5.1.1, just tested this and it works fine. Thanks for the tip!
Innovation builds on itself. It's not only a positive feedback loop it's also an exponential. It builds like compound interest. Basic chemistry leads to creating the periodic table which leads to an explosion of understanding which leads to further innovations which then lead to yet more innovations. Exponentials start slow and accelerate rapidly.
They could have it edit the hosts file or some better global interface for blocking/not blocking certain hosts from any app (which would be most users' preference when using ad blockers?)

I think it's ok to use scare quotes to convey sarcasm instead of a direct quote. There's admittedly some ambiguity there.

32bit vs 64bit is a super lame limitation to claim, and to most people "number of bits" would appear performance related. It's nice they finally enabled a way to block ads, but it's hardly a feature they deserve a pat on the back for. It's more like, I was seriously considering switching to Android if they didn't add it.
So the existing client works just fine without a long-running service and interacts with my gpg-agent to handle my passphrase. As a user, what does this new keybase service get me vs just letting the already persistent gpg-agent handle things?
In fact, I wager that you could find a spot on any phone model that you could hit with a narrow drillbit to disconnect the power. You could make a jig that you put the phone into and guides the drillbit into just the right spot.

It would only take seconds to use, but you would need to be prepared for the specific phone model.

Maybe you could even have a CNC machine preloaded with the data for a wide variety of phone models. You put the phone down on the work surface, key in the model, and the CNC machine deftly cuts through the right power lead. Less portable, but would require less precise planning.
That is an absolutely horrible idea. Why? Because proper legislation requires expert knowledge. It is simply impossible for every citizen to know enough to be able to be an effective legislator That's why we elect representatives.
Identity is a separate problem. So far, https://www.accountchooser.com and OpenID is winning -- if by winning you mean maintaining a list of very popular email providers and using their APIs. ;-)
One of the VRML co-authors, Gavin Anderson went on to be one of the lead developers of bitcoin... arguable much more important than VR.
> there are a dozen sleazy operators who own piles of them, do not drive, and have leased them out to cabbies at horrific rates.

How is that sleazy? If cabbies are willing to pay then it sounds like the market is working.
Sounds a bit like gpg-agent.

Do you have plans to support OpenPGPCard devices directly?
I've seen Android Wear apps on the Play Store that utilize it as well.
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There is a specific, long-standing exception in Federal gambling laws for what DraftKings and FanDuel is doing. They're not ignoring or even bending the law.

The weasel-wording they use in their ads is to get around TV network (and sports league) squeamishness about running ads for sports betting.
sbcl is fast, and can be really fast. Especially compared to the other cl implementations.
Actually, it would seem that San Francisco's (population density 18,187/sq mi (7,022/km2)) zoning laws worked much better than Houston's lack thereof (population density (3,662/sq mi (1,414/km2)).

However, the real problem is that San Francisco is water locked on three sides and boundary locked on the fourth. It has no way of adding housing that doesn't offend some entrenched interest.
It's actually not impossible. Stop fueling the corruption in those countries and educate the women. Most of what perpetuates the poverty is eliminated by those 2 shifts. It's not easy...but not impossible either.
Lax zoning laws has created its own set of problems for Houston -- infamously horrible sprawl, for one.
When I read the headline I thought it was that being a night owl is better for your health.
All of a sudden the work I do seems very unimportant. God bless you Austin and safe travels home.
I don't care if two OTHER 15 yr olds bang each other. If some punk 15yr old is banging mine, I care.
So, pretty much whether everything is being applied right to left vs being applied left to right?

Personally I like chaining because, since I read going right to left, in my head I can go "x goes to y then the result of y goes to z" versus "z is the result of y which is the result of x" (reading it backwards)
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I believe we're hoping that Clang/C2 will satisfy those who want to build C99 TUs on Windows. Personally, I have absolutely no interest in C99 (I wasted a year and a half of my life learning C before C++).
Do you have any sources for: 'You cant chargeback on a debit card'?
That is an excellent essay and it scares the crap out of me, because I see it play out every day in both directions and it often does feel exactly like epistemic learned helplessness.

There are so many biases that affect individuals (hindsight, hyperbolic discounting, confirmation, etc) that to get correct answers, you have to look at and trust other accounts. You have to do studies, you have to trust those studies, and you have to track actual hard evidence.

But large enough systems become increasingly opaque, and it can be hard to test your web of trust empirically. This reduces huge organizations to cargo cult behavior, or worse, fundamentally unsound behavior because "it worked for me."

I don't know what to do about this besides what CFAR is trying, which is to get people better at weighing evidence and changing their damned minds. You have to constantly be asking yourself: "what would the world look like if this were true? What would the world like like if it wasn't?" It is hard work, but I think it is critical to our continued improvements as a civilization and a species.
i see your point and raise you that :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmLh1sSFs8Y
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Crispr is a homing system. It allows you to address a specific part of (genetic) memory. It is a single component in a much larger system. A required, and otherwise missing component. But it is just a component.
I had a great professor who specialized in (Economics of) Public Utilities who made a very important distinction about types of regulation; of which, he said there are essentially two: economic and "safety and soundness." He said, about them, economic regulation is strictly* bad. Safety and soundness, is always* good. Make sure you know which type a regulation is, e.g. Many financial regulations are for safety and soundness of "the markets"; not economic.

In this case, I think it's key point out, the pain felt is due to economic regulation. Which was/is putting up barriers for entering and exiting the market. The government removed competition, it raised prices, and was generally bad (I.e. State santioned monoplies). When innovation, and change, eventually moved around those economic barriers it was bad for those protected by 'em.

I hope going forward any regulations are strictly safety and soundness related with taxi service. It'll save a lot of pain on all sides.

* If you've taken enough Econ, you'll know strictly and always are going "depend on ..."
Hold on -- there's a big difference between "the government reneged on its promise to keep squatters off your land" vs "no one wants your land anymore". If they start turning a blind eye to squatters, it's fair to criticize that government for reneging. If the other city becomes such a vibrant spot that no one wants to live near you -- different story entirely.

While local governments are arguably failing to require newer livery services like Uber and Lyft to meet e.g. higher insurance requirements, they are not reneging on the medallion promise, which still gives holders the exclusive right to pick up street hails. That right is still enforced, and the Uber/Lyfts of the world are not infringing on it. The situation is much closer to "street hail pickup rights aren't valuable anymore" than "governments enable encroachment on the right to pick up street hails".

And before you dismiss "arranged hire" (livery) vs "street hail" as a technicality, there are very good reasons to put a cap on the latter but not the former (and otherwise subject the latter to harsher regulation):

- By necessity, street hails require clogging of "Schelling points" where drivers can expect to get line-of-sight to a potential fare, and vice versa. That doesn't happen with livery, where they go only where requested, not significantly different from a private car.

- Street hails create a risk of fighting over fairs, livery doesn't.

- Street hails enable you to pressure naive passersby/tourists to take your rate, livery requires you to ask for the fare from a central service.

- Medallion holders get use of the scarce privileges to use taxi stands and bus-only lanes, livery doesn't.

- Livery creates a central, auditable record of the event, while street hails can rip you off without showing up on an audit.

To be sure, Uber/Lyft are flouting even some of the requirements of livery services ... but the medallion case looks more like "street hails are becoming obsolete in the information age, so of course they'll lose value".
Cant is the wrong word, my fault. 'much, much more difficult' would be appropriate.
Some of the longest papers I've ever written were in support of conclusions that I don't even believe in. In my opinion they ended up being some of my best papers as well. The point wasn't to write in support of what I believe in or what I want to write about but what I think I can present the strongest argument for.
You'll want to read these changelogs for the CRT and the STL: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/06/18/crt-featur... , http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/06/06/c-14-stl-f... , and http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/07/14/stl-fixes-... .
This analogy is really stretching it.

I appreciate that the author is probably trying to cross the chasm to find an analogy for techies, but its very strained.

Net neutrality didn't mean that you got Netflix 300 micro seconds after your neighbor who paid more, it mean that many people just flat out would not be able to afford Netflix period.

Compare that to the cash equity markets...

Hands up those of you who have been negatively affected by HFT firms having faster quotes, I see that no one has their hands up and that's the correct response as the average investor has it better now than in the past. Fee's are down, access to information is up, fills are much.... much...much better than they were in the past.

For most people here, you'll never make a stock trade that actually matches on an exchange as your trades will almost certainty be matched by KCG, Citadel, or some other internalizer.

You won't care as you'll still get the best price. The only people who get screwed by the cost of running a modern trading firm are the hedge funds and arguably most hedge funds are perfectly fine using the SIP for their quotes, or getting them from Reuters, ActiveData, Bloomberg, etc.

Or put another way, say tomorrow the exchanges do away with their proprietary data feeds all together and everyone uses the SIP. Would the average investor be better off?

I can't see a plausible scenario where they would be. HFT firms would still race to be the fastest, so collocation, specialized hardware and software would still be as valuable as ever. In fact what would change is that you can make a very strong case that there would be less liquidity. Since firms can't use proprietary feeds they are more "exposed", and hence they'll be less willing to take one side of a trade, meaning spreads widen, liquidity goes down, hence trading volumes go down, which has a negative feedback cycle whereby profits go down, hence more market makers leave the business and spread continue to push out.

now you've reached a point where the average investor is very much affected as they'll now pay more for each trade.....

TL/DR, slower feeds means more risk, leading to less trading, leading to smaller profits, leading to fewer players, leading to wider spreads, leading to things being worse for the average person.

Someone want to take the other side of this argument?