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> To say that there is no reality is self-refuting

If there is no reality, why must logic persist? (I.e. that there is such a thing as truth, statements can be true or false, statements can be contradictory and therefore false, etc).

If we can throw out reality, why not logic along with it? Doesn't it actually have to leave along with reality?

If there "truly" is no reality, there is no logic, either, since logic is part of reality. Right?
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That seems like great news for GOG.
Evil but Stupid
I wasn't, I'm pretty sure it was a blog post not an academic paper. Regardless, this paper looks awesome thanks for the link :D
This would help me too, as a first-worlder: I often use T-mobile's free global data roaming, which is super-nice to have, but capped to 2G speeds (128kbps). It becomes quite clear that some sites' designers have never tested their functionality at 128kbps...
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Search for Theranos (and related terms) in HN history with the search bar at the bottom of the page.

A lot of high profile posters making very embarrassing defences of Theranos. Lots of thinly veiled accusations of ageism, sexism, ludditism, etc. I fear few will learn any lasting lessons from this saga.
Maybe this is a lesson for the future for us all: Don't give away ideas unless you've been hired, or someone has signed an NDA. Otherwise he's kinda right: They stole your idea because you had no legal claim to it. Morally they're dicks but hopefully you've learned from this.
I spent weeks and weeks doing the same thing over and over - multiply these 2 digit numbers together. Multiply these three digit numbers together. next week? 4 digit numbers!!! Some people needed to do that, some didn't. What is wrong with work until you get it, instead of having to do page after page of rote work when you have clearly demonstrated that you understand the material?
It sure is great that we have HDI and other quality of life indices instead of relying upon GDP, PPP, and median disposable income!
Facebook “2G Tuesdays” to slow employee Internet speeds down
We use API Definitions like Swagger, WADL, I/O Docs, API Blueprint etc. to generate documentation. I can't find one for stackexchange, but I bet they have it somewhere.

I'm also toying with scraping HTML documentation to generate Swagger.
> a police officer in front of the classroom who was enabled to boot the dysfunctional future criminals from the classroom

Well, that sounds like a way to make more future criminals. Maybe send the police officer to the parents instead. If the goal is to systematize the production of healthy, non-broken adults, we want to get those children more of a healthy environment, and less of an unhealthy one—send those police officers to watch the parents, and boot them out if they're making their child dysfunctional. (Really, if we had as many social workers as we had teachers, a lot of things about lower-class life could be fixed.)
I am just pointing out the fact. Unless you are ready to be degraded everywhere in your society called as a beggar, you are not going to get anything for free. I am pointing out the fact that men who don't complain are called grown-up. It is fact, just as the fact that you can exchange money for stuff. I have not pointed out any right or wrong.

And by free I mean free as in money, not free as in freedom. So free air and free water doesn't count. You can count free hygienic bottled water. And yes there are places where the alternative is sewage.
That's pretty cool. I'd like to see pricing before writing email, though.
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I am pretty sure then that my cat is part of an anti-cyber-squirrel team. She takes down about four a year.
This is why I am perfectly happy with our team's local Vagrant development boxes being quite sluggish - the visible lag has surfaced a few timing and UX bugs already. It's important to feel the customer pain as your own.
People usually compare the 'size over the wire', eg. gzipped size. In these terms:

- React 0.14 is 55kb

- jQuery 1.11 is 38kb

- Backbone + Underscore (dependency) are 15kb
I don't know when, but it certainly seems to abide by the diminishing returns rule:

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
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Wonderful! - but it seems a tad late. :) Even the poorest parts of India should be about to move to 3G (or even 4G) within the next few years due to the more efficient usage of spectrum. Of course it would be insanely overloaded with lots of delayed packets...
I get (and agree with) your sentiment, but to call homework an abomination is misguided. I don't want the totality of kids' academic learning to be in the class room, I want them to have to do thing by themselves, unsupervised -- which is what homework is meant to achieve. As you say, though, that shouldn't come at the cost of their play time. Personally I feel more inclined to say that we should aim towards fewer classes and more homework.
"this graph looks like a hockey stick, how's $50 million?"
Schoolwork, yes, but it ought to be done at school, just as work is done in the workplace.
You want to _extend_ an 8 hour day even further?
The first VC who backed Theranos is a pretty smart guy. Was first in his class at Stanford, has an otherwise pretty nice portfolio of companies he has funded
Of course understanding is the most important, but what you're presenting is a bit of a false dichotomy and a bit of a caricature of the understanding process. The way you get good at playing the piano is repetition. I'm not talking about brainless repetition. I'm talking about reinforcing, improving, and strengthening certain mental pathways which happen during repetition. Understanding on its own doesn't create good habits of mind. They're established through repetition, whether that means playing the same song on the piano 50 times or solving the same kind of problems 20 times. Each repetition can also reveal a bit more insight.

Also, understanding is not the same as doing, which is a distinction you fail to make. Understanding arithmetic multiplication is one thing. Performing it is something else, hence the distinction between mathematics and calculation. Calculation is very useful in mathematics, it's what K-12 and most college math is, but it's only one part of what mathematics concerns itself with. A physicist may be good at doing physics, but he doesn't necessarily possess an understanding of physics per se until he begins reflecting on it. Furthermore, there are many things you must learn before you can understand them because they require that you known things in aggregate and from a certain mature perspective. You must know the "what" before you can explain the "why" or the "how".

Furthermore, there is difference between comprehension and understanding. Most of what you know in the empirical order is comprehension of someone else's claims. You verify very little of those claims yourself because it is impossible for anyone to verify everything they learn. You take it on a practical kind of faith and trust that those who make these claims have done their jobs. If you end up working in the field, you may verify some of those claims, but in practice, science is a body of culture that is transmitted and only when anomalies begin to crop up do certain theories begin to undergo examination, verification, and reformulation by some scientists.

There is something to be said about teaching subjects with more context and coherence and being guided along a logical progression. Frankly, most teachers are awful, and compared to the classically trained, are a miserably uneducated bunch with little pedagogical skill. That and the idea of universal education is very problematic because it doesn't take seriously differences in students and the families they come from.
Copyright law specifies who owns (and therefore who controls) a 'work.' In the case of software, it does not specify licensing terms. (As opposed to lyrics, musical composition, musical recordings ... which do have compulsory licensing terms specified in law.)

Neither the output of computer software, nor the ideas themselves within software, are protected by copyright. Not providing attribution is simply douchey.
Why the all or nothing approach? At my high school, I think we have a great policy for math homework (I am the teacher). It is assigned every day but never checked or graded. At the beginning of each class we go over any problems the students had trouble with, then move on. Students eventually reach an equilibrium where they figure out how much time they personally need to spend each night on math homework. For students who are failing tests and doing no homework, we generally suggest they do a little more.
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>Android with per-app permissions controlled by user (e.g., user can enable/disable access to location data for particular apps). This could be a fork of Android or maybe there is security software that could be installed, such as on a rooted phone.

This is a built-in feature in Marshmallow [0].

[0]: http://www.greenbot.com/article/2990078/android/how-to-toggl...
I believe this will have a positive effect in the U.S. as well. For whatever reason, I get 1 bar of service at the office if I'm lucky. The Facebook app is frustrating to use under those circumstances. On the contrary, Twitter is actually not that bad. I've been impressed with it under bad network situations. Consequently, I find myself opening up Twitter a lot more than Facebook during breaks.
Do you take the time to reverse engineer and fully understand both the original firmware shipped with and every subsequent update that is issued for your home networking equipment?

If you don't, then you only stand to benefit from a router that silently auto-updates from software delivered by a company that has really good OPSEC.

As an aside:

If you don't encrypt your traffic, any device on the path between you and your traffic's destination can read your traffic. If you're not concerned about that, then you should be, as it's a much larger -and ongoing- threat to privacy.
Well that is a pretty loaded issue, not sure if it is a good indicator for conservativeness.

In any case, where are the campaigns targeted at parents, if it is such a big worry?
There were also others who were making pointed and substantive critiques of Theranos on HN many months before any of these stories broke.

Edit: Some examples:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8182026
I would totally short it. Speaking as a husband whose wife's company was bought then killed by Valeant....
I interviewed at Theranos a year ago, and found the employees to be smart and dedicated.

However, the company was the most secretive I've interviewed at and the employees complained about being overworked. The fact the founder sold C++ compilers to Chinese universities when g++ is open-source sounded odd.

But I still had hope in them even after they passed on me -- a Silicon Valley company actually making a difference in the people's health. I WANT TO BELIEVE.

If this turns out to be smokes and mirrors, I'd be very saddened. Theranos' failure would confirm what everyone interested in biotech knows but wishes wasn't true: that advancements in this field do not move at the speed of the digital economy.
Start here:

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Then explore the rest of the site:
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition

When you're ready, start reading LeanGains:

http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debun...

http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html
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Wow. I didn't expect the Librarian OF Congress would have a say in this case, but he/she does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarian_of_Congress
Then let's buy 68 million airplane tickets for everyone who will ride this train. The cost will be the same.
The Nexus 5X is a capable successor that will please people looking for a mid-priced smartphone with a great camera and the latest version of Android. Buying a Nexus device brings the added benefit of regular over-the-air updates from Google.
I can totally empathize -- I was in a very similar place a couple years ago. I've since changed much of my lifestyle and the results have been pretty incredible. I'd go around preaching about it if I could do so without being annoying haha.

1) I eat super clean. No junk food, lots of non-processed meat, veggies, fruits, nuts and seeds, fish, yogurt, etc. There's a lot that could be said here but I'll keep it short. Everything you need for a breakfast of champions full of vitamins and nutrients.

2) Exercise 5 or 6 days a week. Find an activity you enjoy so it's easier to keep the habit.

3) I meditate every day. This can be replaced with yoga or something similar you enjoy.

4) 8 hours of sleep every day. Going to sleep and waking up at the same time consistently is a huge help with developing and keeping this habit.

5) [This one's less critical than the others but still somewhat important]. I'm careful about what influences I'm taking in e.g. listening to uplifting music vs something dark and depressing. What tv shows I'm watching, who I'm hanging out with, etc etc. Build a kickass life with friends and hobbies you really enjoy.

This is just what's worked for me personally but I think research generally backs them up. The details are, of course, a bit contested, like how much meat you should eat.

Like any habit, it'll be hard to get into the routine but it'll definitely get easier -- your palate will adjust to eating healthier, you'll start to enjoy working out. Plus each of these things helps the others -- e.g. over time, exercising improves quality of sleep. Pretty soon, though, you'll see results that make it much easier to keep the routines and develop them further.

The results are pretty phenomenal. I'm much healthier and happier, more optimistic, relaxed, motivated, and productive, and have more energy and focus. You're gonna love the way you feel, I guarantee it haha. Hope some of that helps :)
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> I don't understand why you censored my OP. I clarified my point about the GP before you censored the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10447015. I've further clarified post-censorship

That's a high word count on "censor", but I'm not sure what else there is to say.

> This is in effect a non-policy.

It sounds like you've misunderstood. Anyone with suspicions about astroturfing is welcome to email us; it's we who have the data and will look for evidence. What's not allowed is groundless accusation of other users in HN comments.
> It respects my line-breaks without making me jump through hoops.

And that's why I don't like it. I want to be able to wrap the source without forcing the output to wrap too. Totally a preference thing. Wish there was a way to change it according to your preference.
Yup, I was gonna say this. We use ReSharper, but even on our modern dev machines visual studio can really crawl after building.
The way I see it, it, yes, one day, when all economies' slack has become taut and we're near equilibrium in terms of pop at least, then, at that point neo liberal economics predicated on growth will have outlived it's usefulness and will no longer deliver what society needs economically.

When we get there growth will cease to be essential. In the meantime, growth and thus inflation, will be indicators of robust economies.

Pervasive automation population decline and resource constraints (environmental stewardship) will have effects in the future whereby growth will not be an expression.

But Japan, at the moment, has a population in decline, a lousy job market, stagnant wages, graduates taking lousy offers, more temp workers (not their parents' job security) all things most people would typically want to avoid in their economies.

See if you can sell Russia, China, Mexico or Indonesia on deflationary economics.

Stability means no innovation. Likely prices didn't change much for a pair of shoes between the fifth and sixth centuries. Great price stability. Is that something to look forward to? Little in the way of innovation, manufacturing, technique, sourcing, etc?
Every software shop in the world should be designing and coding for low connectivity speeds.
Please supply proof that you are who you say are.
Why do I need to show anything for it?

That's a serious question; if I like working and enjoy memorising Star Wars, why shouldn't I do that? Why can't I focus my life around the things I enjoy doing, rather than concentrating on all the things which I could be doing (but can't do, because of any number of reasons) and end up miserable and feeling like I'm wasting my life?
> sharp deadline pressure to publish fast before the competition

Sounds like the problem lies here and not on the technical side of writing, editing and publishing text.

I wonder what part of this decadence is imputable to ad revenu. If I were very naive, I would say all of it.
Almost anything is useful for criminal purposes. The point is that if something is unusually useful for criminal purposes (e.g. megaupload), then it will be heavily scrutinized. Just because crowbars are useful for crime doesn't get them regulated. Anthrax, on the other hand, does.

You are correct that privacy without cryptography is infeasible. Urbit definitely does make heavy use of cryptography. Some government agencies may not appreciate this, but the point of the cryptography isn't primarily so that the NSA can't read it, but that other people don't impersonate you. It's important to not only not violate the current letter of the law, but also the spirit of the law.

The goal isn't simply to minimize government attention to maximize the chance of "success". "Success" that doesn't accomplish the rest of our goals isn't success at all, so there are some things that Urbit can't compromise on.
Thanks everyone for the responses. I'll get stuck in!
This is true. There were in fact people voicing their suspicion that Theranos was all a crock of shit in the very first discussions on Theranos on HN.

Warning signs were there. People were voicing specific technical concerns, as well as less specific concerns over the technical expertise of those involved. For the most part, these critics were brushed off. HN's voting system did not promote their comments; rather it promoted the apologetics.
I just wonder instead of going back and forth and create more controversy - why don't they just show which tests are working right now - and which don't. Demonstrating with data is the best defense they can put forth.

its ok - if only small portion of tests are valid at this point but if they show progress with data - this validates they are on the right track.
The camera science is fancy, but to me the bit at the end: "At the very least, he doesn’t want this tactic available to just one team."

A week or so ago there was a discussion sparked by advanced curling brooms here about how sports shouldn't be "enhanced" by technology (eg: the sharkskin swimsuits are cheating). What if a team had every player wore a device that told them things:

- the shot is not/is going in
- the pass is coming to your area of the field
- jump! duck!
- etc

Would that be different than having a good coach vs. a bad coach? A communicative teammate vs. a silent one?
This is totally the way to go. In my experience (I was in high school '92-'95 so this is dated), this method worked great in the advanced classes, but a lot of the remedial and "normal" track classes still focused heavily on rote memorization and quantity of work, for whatever reasons. The fact is, the best students will succeed no matter what, either because they have supportive families & social groups or because they're autodidacts, so the challenge is tackling the other 80%.

In your experience, does this method work equally well no matter what the class is or who the students are?
>> They also got an exemption for modifying of abandoned games whose activation systems are long since gone

That sounds to me like it would allow you to patch a game you already owned, but not to copy and sell that game. How does it help GOG?
Indeed, this is the issue on which John Deere weighed in on the other side (trying to prevent this decision from coming out this way).
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So what we're really saying is consumers need to pay companies more than the money would get otherwise.

And what will stop them from running ads on top of that anyway?
> luckily caffeine isn't nearly as bad as nicotine

Nicotine isn't that terrible, but tobacco is way more than just nicotine.

Just like most of the drinks at Starbucks are more than just caffeine, so it's actually a pretty close comparison when you factor in the sugar.
If you truly believe this, I would love to share what I'm working on with you: http://playlingoland.com

We are building a World of Warcraft-esque game for students learning languages, and we have people playing for 3-5 hours upon signing up (we had one student who signed up and played 10 hours within the first 24 hours of signing up). Students absolutely LOVE it.

I do believe the future of education is gaming. Unfortunately most of the world believes that it is gamifying things that aren't games inherently.
MMORPGs with levels, items, and avatars are games. Flashcards with points are not.
Yep. This is a great reminder why we should all donate to EFF [and that I haven't renewed my membership since a few months ago]

Edit: membership now renewed
The public calling out/shaming is a dick move. This belongs in a private correspondence. If how your work is used is important to you, then consider if releasing it as open-source suits your wishes.

Also, you will always have people violating your unwritten assumptions unless you, y'know, tell them how you want them to use your stuff. Wishing people weren't dicks -> avoiding a social problem.

I can't help but think of K. C. Green and his tumultuous relationship with one of his early creations, dickbutt. He finally got sick of people stealing his work and got real[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/kcgreenn/status/654044280286265345
I/they (I am no longer with Opera Software) did that for a decade with Opera Mini. It's an interesting engineering challenge.

It got us lots of users (0.25B monthly actives) but they are (relatively speaking) quite poor, so ad revenues aren't as high as you might wish. So you need a lean operation, at least if your operating cost is significant - like transcoding web pages for 1/30th of the global population...
Hopefully this will peer-pressure US carriers to follow suit.
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The article is more of a random rant - all whining, no solutions. It's not about a "digital republic" at all. There have been proposals for governmental systems with lots of online voting, but this isn't one of them.

Federated systems work fine technically, but few have achieved widespread use. USENET was quite successful, but Google effectively took it over. (Google Groups was originally just a USENET node, but now most people are unaware that many "Google Groups" are really USENET groups, with traffic flowing in both directions, and you don't need a Google account to access them from the USENET side.[1])

If there's no place where someone can put a boot on the air hose and cut off the air supply, systems are not highly profitable. This is why federated systems are not widely successful.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.c++
Haha, coming across 'palm pilot' gave me pause and made me scroll up to double check the publish date.