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There was a comment posted here, that sadly got deleted. I think it raises an interesting topic. Let me reproduce it:

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> illusion of intimacy or a relationship

Could that lead to sexrobots as a mass market in, say, five years? Or do you think it would go more into the VR direction? Could / should both be merged? Would that be useful? Perhaps AR would be better in that case.

Thoughts on that?

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The response I tried to submit when parent got deleted:

I think this is the angle that will try and resist automation for a while. The first world is getting somewhat devoid of genuine relationship experiences, and people seek to fill the hole somehow. Or from a more cynical point of view - we're building a superstimulus, where we can provide stronger emotional satisfaction through porn that you could get in a real relationship.

Personally I think VR/AR will make a killing much sooner than sexrobots, even assuming that the latter will become popular at all in the coming decades. One of the biggest constraints on... enhancing your sexual experience, if you're young and lonely, is what if your parents/family/friends/current partner discover your sex toys. Hiding sex dolls from them is a significant OPSEC issue. VR/AR will be as easy to hide as video porn today is - the device you're using is a general purpose, you could always say you bought it for World of Warcraft 2 or something. The porn component is just data, which is trivial to hide from less technical friends and family.
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People do abuse Suboxone though, and while it is not as bad as heroin, it can still ruin lives. I once watched this sad documentary, Reindeerspotting, about a Suboxone addict:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1584813/

I don't think drugs need to be very euphoric to have potential for abuse. Consider nicotine - it is not particularly pleasurable and yet people become very dependent on it.
I think the community moderation has done its job here, and the negatives from preventing new accounts from commenting wouldn't be worth the advantage.
No doubt insex had a profound effect on culture. Frankly, I would say it is almost comparable to Playboy. The Hostile and Saw film franchises are direct outcomes of insex.

What Kink has done is to take insex and add lawyers. They dropped some of the more legally-dangerous aspects (plots/scripts) and added comical "interviews" with all involved. But heaven help the attorneys who might have to defend Kink against obscenity charges. They are in totally unknown waters.
Does anybody have a really good tutorial that takes you the next steps beyond this level. I looked at the table of contents and see all the basic stuff I use pretty regularly. For those of you more advanced in SQL - what are your favorite resources for moving into solidly intermediate and on toward advanced skills in SQL
I generally agree with your sentiment. I think there's an important distinction to add. By and large, people don't fully expect their mobile devices to be general purpose computing machines in the same way that their PCs are. What I expect from my phone, primarily, is convenience and usability.

Of course, at least on android devices, it's not at all uncommon to install custom variants of the OS (CyanogenMod, etc.), so it does happen.
I'm pretty sure there are camgirls who take payment directly, not even including GirlsGoneBitcoin. But the ones I know personally were working more or less as employees of a middleman.
Software is incredibly dangerous. All the malware that spreads exists because a) you have a general-purpose computer to run it on, and b) they have a general-purpose language to write it in. By restricting a) and b) we're ensuring your safety, as well as the safety of our critical infrastructure, baking, etc.

The arguments aren't actually that bad (of course we know that currently the strongest side supporting them is media companies trying to kill general-purpose computing to make unbreakable DRMs, but in principle they sort of have a point...) - it's the cost that is too high.
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The option to order a printed copy of his reports always struck me as odd - especially considering that I typically really appreciate visualizations and admire the techniques used to display complex sets of data. But I guess when the entire focus of these visualizations is based around a single person to whom I have no connection, the output of his work seems like an exercise in documenting irrelevance - taken to an extreme.
The IPCC is total bullshit.
I don't know if Insex was that influential that it influenced the modern "torture porn" films. Those were brewing for a long time since the exploitation films of the 70s onward.

The interview was definitely an Insex plot device, as well.

Though my point was the S/M subculture should not really be viewed negatively or marginalized. I somewhat received that sentiment from your parent post.
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The problem is that with the legalization & wide dissemination of free pornography, the "market" in terms of dedicated commercial potential shrank from anyone with a passing case of onanism to the population of hard-core addicts. Just about all new development is dedicated to better serving that demographic. Sadly for the porn industry in aggregate, that demographic has a very limited total pool of money.
Without the propagators themselves being monotone they don't have enough to ensure determinism. They also don't have a guarantee of termination. e.g. repeatedly taking Heron steps on a rational interval approximation to compute the sqrt of 2 will continue to ascend the lattice indefinitely, as it isn't complete.

That said, they have many of the elements of the solution. With monotonicity this starts to resemble the more recent work on Lasp, which is being used explicitly to tackle the domain you mention: (strong) eventual consistency: or Kuper's work on LVars, where she drops the idempotent condition fairly early on in the thesis to get closer to CmRDTs, but which then burdens reads in a way that makes them automatically monotone.
Not so much when you realize part of that reduction comes from redefining what poverty means.
The obvious intended consequence of that wording was for the enemy to be an abstraction, to be extended as needed. It's much easier to justify going to war once, and simply readjust who exactly you are warring against as required.
Decentralized decision making doesn't mean that decisions occur in some sort of abstract, Platonic "decentralized space" in which ideas spring into being from the ether and just sort of magically percolate into people's mind. It means there is no central authority with the capacity to use one or another variety of force to enforce their decisions. If a dozen people with no enforceable authority over each other look at a problem, discuss amongst themselves (even if there is an informal, unenforced hierarchy), come to similar conclusions, and agree to take coordinated action with no enforcement, it's still a decentralized decision.

There was no central authority here. Not even BTC Guild, because nobody had the power to force them to do what they did. They did it for their own reasons.

This is not a demonstration of how centralization saved the day; this is a demonstration that the decentralized BitCoin network still responded rapidly and solved a major problem, without having to fall back to some sort of centralization.

Decentralized networks still develop structure, usually with some sort of power law appearing. They just don't form one single central node that defines the very network, upon which the network lives or dies, and the dominant nodes can and often do shift and flow over time. BitCoin has been repeatedly resilient against even very large nodes in their graph dying.

(And I say this as a repeated and continuing BitCoin skeptic, not a cheerleader. This sort of decentralized rapid response isn't even particularly unusual; the Internet itself faces this sort of crisis fairly routinely and solves the problems without a single centralized authority dictating solutions to everybody else. "Rough consensus and running code" is another similarly-decentralized credo that has built a lot of things.)
>>There was even a term for that, that eludes me at the moment, which described the idea of "I share my specs today with you, you'll share your specs tomorrow with me".

Andrew "bunnie" Huang coined the term gongkai to explain this concept, as differentiated from the Western-originated idea of open source (kaiyuan)[1]. It was based entirely on his observations of the semi-open hacking culture that is hopefully still flourishing in Shenzhen.[2]

[1] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3040

[2] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?tag=gongkai
it probably will take you years to find workflow that meet your needs using lightroom as well. any complex software requires time.
There are indeed dedicated stores for selling them in some areas. It probably varies by state.
Apple was usually pretty bad (though remember, the Apple I and Apple ][ were demonstrated at Homebrew before Apple even existed as a company), but in my experience, Google is a whole different level of omerta. Don't get me wrong, there are great things about both Apple and Google, but I think the secrecy thing is super corrosive.

(I guess I should confess that my objectivity can probably be called into question here: I have lots of friends who work or have worked at Apple, Google, or both, and as far as I know, none who have worked at a company that either of them crushed. Unless you count OLPC.)
I chuckled, then cried inside reading this, so true.

But there is something to add to this, I got burned out, took a mini-sabbatical and came back a rockstar with a pay raise.

I guess the invisible work became visible in my absence. :-)

An additional side-benefit, I became human again.
Linked list questions are great. They're a simple data structure so it's easy to talk about without complicated details. Detect a loop? That's a great question! Any decent dev should be able to start coming up with suboptimal ideas right away and would be an interesting discussion.

So long it's not a pop quiz type thing.
You should submit that link as a top level story!
If you consider only Medicaid, SNAP, and EITC, the lost benefits equate to at least a $10,000 tax on the first $70,000 gross (an effect 14% tax). Since the chart is only showing a subset of lost benefits, it can't show if you're "better off" because it doesn't show all the lost benefits and it doesn't show the effect of taxes.

First, there are all the programs the chart simply ignores. Some are asset-tested like TANF and SSI, so you can't just stop working and start claiming them. Yet they pay out about $70 billion so they are not insignificant. Others are income-based and can be very significant, like Section 8 which could pay $10,000/yr in rental assistance.

Another question, is it fair to value Medicaid as the average cost / enrolled person, when the government is getting a special low rate? If valued on a replacement cost basis (what it costs for worse insurance paid for by the employee+employer) then it would be valued closer to $20,000 in premiums plus the deductible.

So yes, you can easily lose $40,000 in benefits, and pay $20,000 in taxes earning that first $100k gross, besides the fact that it will cost you 4160 hours of work to get there.
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meh, that seems like a protection against physical access, if all else is done correctly, and you are screwed at that point.

In other news, I just placed an order for the parts for my prototype, so I'll be putting that together this weekend. Fun thing: If done correctly, it should work with most android phones, as they do understand usb hid keyboards. As a result, final design may end up with a very small lithium battery to allow it to run when connected to a phone that doesn't offer much power. I'll put a blog somewhere and post an update to https://twitter.com/andy_leap as I work on it.
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The real problem is lack of economic opportunity. What is rehabilitation if there aren't any jobs to hold down?
Yes, it does happen, but the device manufacturers (for the most part) don't exactly go out of their way to make it easy. And other than Android forks, there aren't exactly a ton of choices. It's a pretty sad situation in many ways.

Of course, I recognize that most people aren't going to want to install a different OS anyway. And that's OK. Most people didn't install a new OS on their PC's either. But some do, and some want to tinker, create, invent, hack, and innovate. And if we slip into a world where that's not possible, or where it's incredibly difficult, I posit that that is a bad situation for everybody (except, I suppose, Google, Samsung, Apple, etc. stockholders).
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I was a relatively heavy Hackpad user (still using it, actually) and have been beta testing Notes/Paper for a while - it started off very Hackpadish, but has evolved a bit, enough that it may actually be suitable for my small company to finally migrate off of Google Sites.

For me, the biggest missing piece for Hackpad, and why it was always a non-starter for any serious knowledge collection purposes was its lack of hierarchical structure. A few weeks ago, Paper finally added support for folders, which while still a bit clunky/not-ideal (the sidebar doesn't give you a tree nav, there's no way to see the whole structure), it at least meets that minimum bar for organizing say, more than 20 notes.

I haven't done much group collaboration work (the teams/org stuff was just introduced, and honestly, the thought of Dropbox completely messing up my/my coworkers personal Dropbox accounts terrifies me - the horror stories posted in the thread don't help assuage my fears, and I am not sure I have a conceptual understanding/trust of how Dropbox models accounts/teams), and while Folders have permissions, I can't figure out how to assign/inherit permissions (crucial for working with clients, contractors), but on the bright side, it's not literally insane like Google Sites' permission system (it involves modifying global inheritances to give access to specific sub-trees).

In most other ways, it is like Hackpad++ - mostly like you would have expected it to evolve: great feeling typeahead search, instant editing, OT-based multi-user editing, and improved/extended embeds, and adds annotations, which I can see being conceptually pretty useful.

The biggest thing missing for me now is offline editing - it's not strictly a requirement for our office use, since that's online-only as well, but there are so many times traveling/offsite where it's a huge pain. The other things are mostly niggles - ways to actually see the site/document structure, the option to attach files (especially images) w/o them being directly embedded, a way to view/track embeds/media/files only, but overall it may be the best wiki-like app out there for small groups now, especially those that hate traditional (modal editing) wikis.
Yeah - i looked at DYN and they are expensive. The "Internet Intelligence" stuff looks interesting but that is an add on.
The only Arc application I know of is HN - can you show any other examples?

As a non-Lisp programmer, can you sell the benefits of Arc to me?
I completely agree. Their lack of disclosure about their technology is strange. It's been a "trade secret" for over a decade.
It is really bothering. I want to stay on win 7 as I don't want to give my email to get further updates or to use cortana. I don't know of a way to avoid the nagging reminder... sucks.
Actually lightroom solves this exact issue. It's a streamlining of Adobe Camera RAW, Photoshop engine and library management targeted exclusively to photographers workflow.

It also has seamless integration with Photoshop for heavyweight operations.
"Your argument is "the US government: to protect and serve the interests of US citizens.",

No, it isn't. My argument is that it is not morally wrong for the government to give money to its citizens without stipulating its use. At least it's not any less wrong than having everyone pay taxes that fund schools, roads, and hospitals they don't use. (Things which, if you objected to them, you could negate most of the other things we have a government for.) Basic income is not some petty luxury bonus, it's a form of social welfare.

And how is BIG not a mutually agreed to transaction? If you don't want the money, I'm sure you can find a way to send it back. Stipulate it yourself if you think it should be stipulated.

"THUS we should be able to have stipulations on these new services"

We can have stipulations. There's nothing preventing that. We just don't want them, as that's the whole point of basic income. You're trying to claim we can't not have them, which is absurd.

And stop overusing the word 'obvious.'
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Awesome font, will try it in Arabic Adobe CS6 inDesign, but for webpages, I think the browser will fall back to default fonts (in Chrome/Firefox) regardless of the actual webpage fonts.
Why does every thread on HN at the moment involve "X, but with Bitcoin"?
I think the next big thing after VR will be sexbots, as in, per Philip K Dick, "your basic pleasure model." The pieces are almost all on the shelf and coming together.

The hard part of course will be the software, with the motivation of making it an increasingly realistic companion. The Dark Matter series placed an interesting spin on it, where the "entertainment android", in addition to sex, is also specialized for cooking, backrubs, songs, etc.
Give insex time. Playboy has been around for generations.

Insex did interviews during, Kink cut those. Kink does interviews afterwards, out of character, as evidence that the violence was consensual. These are not normally reproduced in filesharing communities. So when someone downloads one of these via filesharing it often looks fare worse than it is. Some investigator (me) then has to dig up the interview to assure the client the violence was staged. This all goes into a report, and a few encrypted thumbdrives, to be filed away in case someone comes knocking in the future with wrongful dismissal or sexual harassment allegations.
OP's most important point is that when you're talking to team members, you ask them if it's a good time. Ideally, they'll take that as leading by example and hopefully they'll catch on.
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They don't because they have to give a return to PEs, I think most VCs have 5-6 year funding cycle.
> I'm interested to hear about the abuse and impoverishment.

Disclaimer: I've only been in China for a week so far, so what I can tell is just what I see (besides what everyone hears in Western media, that is) and it may be biased.

Shenzhen is a city of many contrasts. I work in a relatively modern office building and live in a not-totally-crap hotel. I travel to work via taxis which seem to be staffed by poor people trying to make a living. Forget about Uber here.

When I get out of the hotel, I can turn left and find myself next to KFC, Starbucks and a big shopping mall full of expensive-looking clothes. Everything is plastered with ads like you wouldn't believe. Or I can turn right and find myself on a poor street that is flooded with trash and occupied by tons of people selling absolutely everything - meat, fruits, phones, barber services. Those people look impoverished and from what I can tell, pretty much sit there 24h/day 7 days a week trying to sell something to someone. They are all incredibly friendly, but you can feel the lack of perspective for a better life; it's heartbreaking. There's a family of street food vendors making fried pasta with various meats; a father, a mother and a son. I'm buying food from them pretty much every day. They're extremely proficient at what they do (and they use up scary amounts of propane for that), but you can see that they'll be doing it for the rest of their lives.

There's a big construction zone next to a metro station nearby. They'll probably be building skyscrapers, like a lot of others that are currently in progress. The zone is fenced off with 2m high concrete walls. I managed to take a look through a crack, and what I saw was something akin to a labour camp. Some metal sheds, minimum sanitation, lots of people cramped together. I've been told they're workers from local villages. They looked hungry and impoverished. They don't seem to have any safety equipment.

There's a fucking Starbucks and a KFC and lots of people with smartphones few hundred meters downstreet. And a modern, high-tech metro station on the other side of the wall.

Then there are electronics markets. Tons of fancy stuff. Everything you could imagine. Sold by people cramped together in small spaces that look like they couldn't afford what they're selling. Basically third world selling first-world products.

It's really unnerving that you can have a place that is so amazing and yet so sad at the same time, with nothing but an occasional concrete wall separating the two pictures.
I agree. The "I'm not sure it's the right approach" is too easily brushed off.

Open, factual discussion has been my approach. It may bruise some egos, but in my experience, the alternative may be just as bad as rubber-stamping and that just isn't compatible with my ideals.

I also think that people will learn to respect the results of the approach in the long run and that is infectious, promoting real growth.
Funny how military action causing completely foreseen and accepted civilian deaths is categorised as a "terrible mistake", and contrasted with a "purposeful killing of civilians". Drone strikes on weddings or bombings of hospitals are as calculated and purposeful as can be, and the fact that innocent civilians will die is accounted for, if not an explicit goal. It's just that we can slap the label "collateral damage from targeted precision strikes" on them.
Yes, gongkai was the term I thought about and this is the blog I first learned about it. Thanks!

EDIT: [0] was the post that introduced the term to me.

[0] - http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
"Major developers and pool operators".

Pool operators, kinda like banks, or exchanges? There's just a little irony there.
do you have any stats on how far people get? I reached level 35 on the 3rd or 4th try.
Overeating can ruin lives. Is food inherently dangerous? People can misuse anything.

The question is not "Is Suboxone dangerous/addictive?", it is "Is Suboxone LESS dangerous/addictive?”.
I meant uploading streaming video but all the same you should factor in high frame rates and multiple people.

Also think about things like video editing for someone remotely or working with any other large chunks of data.

All new technology is overkill compared to what someone absolutely needs to get by. If it wasn't they wouldn't be getting by in the first place. It is about cost and opening up new possibilities.
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I own example.net and I received an email threatening legal action because their customers are getting confused since my domain (example.net) ranks higher than theirs (example.com) for the term "example" in Google. Both of us offer similar service and they're already an established brand; for me, it's just more than a side project. However, they don't own any trademark for that term - "example" ("example" is a generic term people would use for searching such kind of service).

What should I do in this case ? Any help would be very appreciated.
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