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"PT Barnum in a Jobs turtleneck" has so far been my favorite comment about Holmes.

I feel like a broken record, but Theranos really reminds me of Terraliance Technologies. If you havent heard/read about that company, I highly recommend the following:

http://archive.fortune.com/2010/03/26/news/companies/terrall...

It is tempting to look at big VC and names like Kissinger and think "these people are too smart to get conned". Truth is so much of their success is riding on past acheivements and they make great targets because getting one of them to support something starts a feedback loop akin to highschool social dynamics.
But my understanding isn't linked to religion. Its derived from knowledge I, frankly, shouldn't know.

There's really no other good answer to it. And I'd be game to hear any hypothesis, or tests.
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Except this is more fun. Like a few other devices before it, the emdrive (claims it) doesn't do what physics predicts it should do, without offering either explanation or theories to replace existing physics.

This certainly seems to make a certain class of people very angry, but it's really quite exiting.
Life expectancy rates are also falling for middle aged people.
Magnr give the best margins I've found, 10:1. You can short sell too.

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I don't disagree with you that he's wrong, but arguing without proper arguments then insulting him doesn't really help the conversation.

@bcook:

Heroin, if it was 100% pure (e.g. as manufactured by a pharmacuticals company), and used with completely safe equipment (e.g. sterylised needles), and used at not-too-high dose levels, it would actually be pretty safe. It essentially has the same effect as morphine or oxycodone, both of which are prescribed legally (my dad has been on morphine for a few years, extended release so he doesn't get high.. but it also doesn't kill him).

The biggest danger is indeed purity - if you think that "x" amount is the right dose for your tolerance (and tolerance not only varies based on how much a user has had before, but also on that person's body in the first place) but one batch you buy is y% pure and the next batch is 2y% pure, you can accidentally dose yourself twice as much as you are expecting and overdose.

Of course overdose is possible with drugs where you completely know the strength - such as oxycontin pills - but with semi-sensible use it's a lot harder, since you actually know how much of the drug you're taking.

Yes it can be addictive, but if you never over do it and can afford to keep buying clean drugs like oxycontin you're most likely going to be fine. The biggest risk with prescription painkillers like this is not that they'll kill you, but that you'll become addicted to them and, when you either can't get another prescription or can't afford your illegal purchases, you move onto heroin because it's much cheaper per dose. Cheaper per dose, but also less pure and therefore more likely to be dangerous.

I personally wouldn't try heroin because I don't want to become dependant on something (other than tobacco..), but if it was completely pure then addition would be the only thing that scared me away from it, not fear of death from using it.
Used it the remove the shareware block (Capitan something )..
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And Cloud Foundry can run Docker containers.

The point is that both are platforms. Application developers shouldn't really need to care about the internals of a PaaS, for the same reason that I don't really care about the internals of the Linux kernel.
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Corbyn: so "unelectable", he got elected Labour leader. If you don't like the idea of electing Corbyn, don't vote for him, but don't let his "unelectability" put you off.
sigh Fine.
If you believe we do indeed have that degree of certainty - then you believe the experiments are indeed a waste of time, and that the experimenters are behaving irrationally - contra 3).

I think they are rational - and certainly it's rational for me to defer to their judgement on the matter.

That's fine if you don't agree. But if you're replying in order to help me update my beliefs, then you'll need to provide a rebuttal to 3) - which you haven't. :)
Not cook food (raw vegans), wear clothes (nudists), write novels (a few people write), perform life saving surgery (a few people perform surgeries).

All these things are things and realities people consume because they can consume them -- they have the ability to buy these things by performing work.

Dogs like watching television, if wolves could buy tvs they would all buy tvs and eat microwave dinners because it's easy to do that and it's possible... because they could do it, they have technology to do it. They, like your dog, would still be the same animals.

Reality is what we can consume because we can build those things using technology and other animals also use technology to build things but they can't do it to the same extent that we can, we however are still animals.
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From his willingness to post on an internet forum about his faith and about the historical record of the Bible, I imagine this isn't his first time having such an argument, and anyone who has presented and defended their faith in _any_ forum, but especially on the internet, knows that the argument generally is a waste of time. We can re-hash out the centuries of debate about Jesus here on this thread, but do you think it would change anyone's mind ?
If you want a lightweight Cloud Foundry, try Lattice[0]. It's specifically intended to allow developers to experiment with the core Cloud Foundry components (routing, scheduling/placement and log draining) with very low overhead.

[0] http://lattice.cf/
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Evidently from the article, humans are different from other animals in that we are concerned with concepts like "purpose".
At least the way I've heard it, the doctor problem is given as an answer to the question "Why don't we test everyone for HIV/cancer/horrible disease X?" See for example the discussions people had when the American Cancer Society recommended that women with average cancer risk delay their first mammogram to age 45.
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You're describing a PaaS. There are already several.

My favourite is Cloud Foundry, because I've worked on it and I trust the way it's built.

Here's how I deploy an app:

cf push

Done.
Humans _were_ well adapted to protect their health. Now they're adapted to eat when it's available and conserve energy if possible.

If not on a "diet", are prone to overeating, weight gain and subsequent health problems.

And possibly died.
Why anyone else :). I'll be surprised if a small business accounting offering isn't on ClearTax's product roadmap. It's high time companies like eLagaan got killed - they are just ripping customers off. To obtain a company PAN - they are charging 1000 INR which costs 100 INR if you apply online.
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It would give us one more point of serious divergence between our physics theories and the real world. What would that give us ? Good question.

Something between what the discovery of the bandgap in semiconductors got us and what finding out that the speed of sound in cheddar cheese is much more temperature dependent than in brie.
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Daniel J. Bernstein, around the turn of the century, proposed a /package hierarchy (for package management without the need for conflict resolution) and a /command directory.

* http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html

* http://cr.yp.to/slashcommand.html

Their major problem was the idea that one had to register things with what was to most of the world just some bloke on another continent. But they had concepts like a hierarchical package naming scheme ("admin/", "mail/", &c.), self-contained build trees with versioned names, symbolic links to denote "currently selected version", and an "index"/"alternatives" directory full of symbolic links.
Incorrect. The original phenomenon was discovered by observing sattelites around the earth. If their antenna was facing the same direction as they were moving, their orbit would decay at a faster rate. Whereas sattelites with rear facing antennas would decay slow than models predict.

That's where this research started. Is it reaction less? Possibly. Possibly not. It could be something like ablative losses from the metal. Or it could be other sources of experimental error. But right now, the understanding of the experiment is showing some unknown mass effect much greater than equalivalent ion thrust drive.

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EDIT: This story is false. Read further down for source video by creator. Reasoning: Missile guidance systems during Cold War.
You basically said that you're dismissing this guy wholesale because of one small part of the article that is not that important to its overall point.

How is that not a low-brow, low-content "reddit"-like comment?
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You'll need to build a solution for that because each business has specific requirements. There will be a ring group and someone will pick-up the call from the group that's being ringed. If you have 10 people, 10 people will ring at the sametime, one will pick-up the phone call.

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Rust is more like the child of C and a functional language (OCaml).
If you care about animal suffering, human extinction is exactly the wrong way to solve the problem. Without humans, there will still be pain. Wasps will lay eggs in caterpillars until the Sun goes out. Intelligence is our only hope for abolishing suffering, not just for us but for all living creatures.
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The core of legislation is proposed to the Government by the upper echelons of civil service. Those Permanent Secretaries et al don't change when a new Government is elected, unlike the US, so they can play a long game.

Here's the current chap at the Home Office,

https://www.gov.uk/government/people/mark-sedwill
Until the theory can account for ALL the evidence, then there are either errors in the experiment or the theory is incomplete . You are dismissing the latter possibility prematurely.

The history of science is full of unexplained experimental errors that were later confirmed by an improved theory (see Einstein's General Theory of Relativity vs Newton's 'Law' of gravitation).

IF scientists universally adopted your position, then there wouldn't have been any point in further investigating experimental contradictions (time dilation, gravitation lensing) to Newton's Laws since they were clearly impossible based on the REALLY REALLY well tested laws of physics.
> The BBC has been a mouthpiece for both the UK and the US government for quite a few years.

This is quite well known—at least to people who think about such matters. Strangely, it seems to have been missed by the majority of HN.

It's a state sponsored news agency: the BBC are the recipients of a "TV tax" (licence fee, if one watches TV).
How would you consider Rust's generics as being part of a better C rather than a better C++?
She also insinuates that the floods in New Orleans were constructed to wipe out evidence of mortgage fraud around 1:16:55. There were several insinuations of this nature (regarding 9/11 and such) made in passing without (for presumably obvious reasons) any evidence to back it up.

She seems like a very competent auditor / investment banker / what have you, but frankly a link like that should be accompanied by a disclaimer. Fill a vat with all the salt you can find in your immediate and surrounding area and bathe in it while watching. That being said I don't doubt her numbers or her experience in government. I just wish she could present it without making me cringe at her delusions every 5 minutes.
> I’ve decided to wait and see how it evolves ... After more than a year, I still can’t see the value in it.

You can't judge programming languages/efficiency/maintainability by observing from the fence. I just completed the first Swift project. It's fun and easy to work with. Not leaving Swift for JS (or Obj-C), anytime soon.
I thought google wasn't doing business in China. Could be a local search engine is getting kickbacks, or a cut of a the ad revenue.
Why is Bitcoin surging?
Quite curious to find out why Bitcoin is surging (now past $400). What's causing this? How does Bitcoin surge because it is not a stock?
Well, the problem with a merge is that you lose information about the "intention" of the operation that resulted in those specific versions to be merged. All you've got is the end result of those operations. This becomes especially troublesome if there are invariants that need to hold over multiple data-items that have changed in a 3-way merge.
You'll soon be able to store arbitrary data structures on IPFS [1], and we're discussing how to perform merging in a decentralised manner [2]. I'm actually quite interested in having a persistent data storage system (like Irmin) backed by IPFS in the future.

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipld
[2] https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/40
> No, the EmDrive does not work

No. Nobody knows if the EmDrive works or not. That is the point of these tests.

And there are theories that don't violate the conservation of momentum. Unless you know something that NASA and countless others don't.
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If my information is still actual, the last C++ based implementations will be used for the time being for such purposes.
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Look, we KNOW that the sun revolves the earth and is affixed to a crystal sphere, like the planets. It's clear from all observations that this is the case. I mean, we understand epicycles perfectly, and they're due to the motion of the spheres. The chance that some crackpot would expose new physics and prove that the Earth orbits the Sun is so near to zero as to be negligible.

Your argument is the same as those made around relativity, as it disagreed with Newton, and what could some fucking patent clerk possibly know that the Greatest Scientist Ever didn't?
Many major advances in scientific fields have violated previously held theories of what the state of the world is.

While the balance of probabilities says that you are likely correct, humankind is very far from a complete understanding of nature and I am sure that before that understanding is reached, there will be quite a few violations of current best scientific theories.
I am not using a lot of modern Fortran, so what I learnt was more small things here and there distilled over the years. This is mainly because my code in Fortran is just the hard science, the resolution of equations, and it is then used as a library from within a larger simulation software.

I still find Hollerith constants in the code I work with some times to times :)
You're spot on that it's gambling.

My specific gamble last time was that I had an information advantage that others did not regarding Bitcoin. I sold up when that no longer felt true, and when the money had become enough that I couldn't afford to lose.

My specific gamble this time is that there is a bubble, but barriers to entry to owning Bitcoin are high enough that it still has momentum. I can afford to lose my current stake, and will stay in while I continue to feel that way, and while I remain under the UK capital gains threshold.
How do you contribute that to the economy? Your profile is blank.
>And there are theories that don't violate the conservation of momentum.

Which theories are those?
> He put flying car parts into it. Why the hell would he want some lousy electric motors?

I think the author is referring to the fact that then the Mr. Fusion could also have powered the vehicle while driving around on land. Perhaps flying would still be impossible without magical alternative-2015 fuel/parts, but at least you'd be mobile on land in almost any situation.
interesting post!
The ship's probably sailed on this, but is there any chance of Rust getting a module system like OCaml's (or Haskell's upcoming Backpack) in future? Or is there a way to provide module signatures with the current module system?
The point of rationality is to detect your own cognitive failures and to recognize and exploit those of others. It's pretty explicitly NOT about ignoring them.

So when I observe someone saying "that guy is racist, don't believe his arguments", I can recognize that this is an emotional claim. It's an attempt to demonize a person rather than refute the argument. I can then observe that no one is disputing the actual argument, evaluate that on merit, and have a true belief about the world unbiased by my desire not to affiliate with racists. I can also update my beliefs about the rationality/honesty of the person saying "hey that guy is racist".

Conversely, I can also recognize that a desire not to be racist is strong in people, and exploit it when I want to manipulate the less rational. For example, if I'm arguing against economic protectionism with an emotionally driven person, I might use Jim Crow as an example of protectionism rather than occupational licensing.
> i like other bees don't care about the eco-system. i care about the nectar from the flowers so i can go on.

No ecosystem -> no flowers -> no nectar -> no honey bee.

You don't have to give a fig about the ecosystem in itself, as an object, to care about the effects of damaging or destroying it on yourself and the rest of us and our descendants.

I agree with you that we are animals, but even other animals care about the welfare of each other and their descendants. Even squirrels will risk their lives to protect their offspring, and bees will sacrifice their lives in defence of the colony. Fortunately for us, we are able to anticipate and take action to prevent longer term threats to our welfare and that of those we care about. We should do so.
And with their recent blocking of the removal of child tax credits, they are going to be promoting their liberal privacy policies for the next election.

We must still remember, the UK people voted in this current government.
If it works, it would mean that you could go into space without reaction mass. It would open up the possibility of relativistic travel. You could build a rocket the mass of a VW camper and push it into space by remotely powering it with lasers, as all the EMDrive apparently needs is electrical energy.
Yes, poor word choice. I was comparing 26,000 from a failure in 1975 to 4,150 in 1998 even with lot's of flood control.

Even with lot's of flood control floods still kill some people. But, dams prevent many floods, reduce severity, and generally give significant warning time when there not going to be enough. So, most deaths are from small rivers that feed major ones instead of major rivers overflowing.

Without them, things would be far worse.
I dont see these as hard milestones that requires the amount of effort suggested by the article. To me, it all comes down to strict logical thinking.

Take the last milestone of understanding tradeoffs as an example, if you are good at identifying logic jumps in an argument (or the validity), you will be good at understanding tradeoffs. Because you can't be logical to think "something has a downside and thus I shouldn't pick it."
1978: mostly secretaries, now largely replaced by computers.

2014: mostly truck drivers. To be replaced by computers by 2034?
Fortunately extinction isn't the only possible outcome for a species. There's also evolution. Otherwise there would be no living things left on the planet.
If anything, that makes Google's bulk data collection more suspect than the NSA's. Not only do they collect it en masse, they also process it.

(Note that I personally think Google's collection is more ethically defensible than the NSA's, if only because they at least seek implied consent whereas the NSA doesn't even have to pretend)
Never say never, but I'm not aware of anyone who's even working on thinking about suggesting it. That'd be step one, creating an RFC which thinks through the design.
Then someone eventually will see this and say we need more people for economy, but they aren't bumping uglies. So let's cut out the middle people.

And then you'll have government mandated population quotas.
If I come to linux to try a new way of doing things and get the benefits like a package manager. When I read a blog about some cool new release of software like docker or node and I want it. If `<package manager> install <software>` doesn't get me that and I have to arse around finding sources to add. I'm not saving any effort than just going to get some msi from a website.
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The rationality of performing the tests is social and societal reasons. The lab doing this has funding to test out-of-the mainstream ideas that could lead to new propulsion systems. By testing this kind of thing, even if they also 'know' it won't work, they get publicity and attention for themselves. It helps to keep the funding rolling, and builds operational experience testing small effects, and gives the scientists a chance to play "what if" thinking about possible new physics.
Yep. This is why I always think the programming world did a left turn by adopting UNIX tooling instead of what was going on at Xerox PARK.

It is not only Smalltalk, Lisp had a similar environment,whic was the Genesis of Lisp Machines.

Similarly you had Mesa/Cedar. Think of a similar dynamic environment developed in a system programming language with RC and a GC for cycle collection.

So now we have to reach for IDEs, INotebooks, Playgrounds and similar tools, keep on fighting on the adoption of safe languages for system programming, so that we can catch up with the past.
Google used to pay/employ a number of people working at Mozilla who were then pulled to work on Chrome. This includes former Firefox lead developer Ben Goodger, for instance. I think Mozilla was still using CVS at that time, so the loss of a few central devs doing lots of commits for others would explain the drop.
I was pondering the same idea, but to stop animal from suffering in nature you need to stop all food chains above plants. Right?
>laizzes-faire

It's laissez-faire
Sorry but can't take anything associated with Lesswrong even remotely seriously. To call them a cult isn't an exaggeration.
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> If so, that's probably the simplest overlay solution of all the aforementioned

(I work on Weave)

Weave Net also lets you create a Docker overlay network using VXLAN, without insisting that you configure a distributed KV store (etcd, consul, etc.). So I would argue Weave Net is the simplest :-)

More detail here: http://blog.weave.works/2015/11/03/docker-networking-1-9-wea...
To me (a UK citizen) this is like the government tracking the title and author of every book I read, "but don't worry, not the contents or page numbers you looked at". The idea this is any meaningful barrier to finding out what you're really up to is ridiculous. Phone metadata is one thing - and still highly revealing - but much of the web is public! It's enough to make me think twice about where I browse, wondering "if I ever got challenged over it, how will it look that I browsed to this site?". That seems pretty harmful to the web - possibly even in an economically measurable way?