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Is anyone running Arch on a 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 13"?
I've seen conflicting reports of things working and not working, which is making me hesitant to try (I want to dual boot Max OS X)
'AirBnB law' defeated at polls
Marc Benioff says unicorn startups are a 'huge mistake'
Reading about all the hardware problems they had getting a printer to work was rather amusing. As I sit here waiting for the photocopier repair man to turn up it's illuminating to contrast the giant steps which have taken place over the last 40 odd years regarding the admittedly extremely difficult technical problem of printing black text and images onto pieces of paper.
Yes, but that's not what this problem is about. Monty Hall actually knew where the car was and never picked it, that's how the show worked. The problem is that whenever the Monty Hall problem comes up, this is never clear in the phrasing. For someone who have never seen "Let's make a deal", this is not obvious, and thus people are confounded by the problem when really it's not very confounding if you knew the facts.

On a side note, I think what you talked about would be 0.2% chance: product((n-1)/n) n=3 to 1000

I'm not a stats/probability wiz, but I suppose if you need to decide between Monty Hall using his knowledge or not, you'd be fairly certain by this point...
And it's starting again. Kraken is now down for me http://i.imgur.com/quLUvxf.png
do you realize that you're now going for a very emotional attack on my comment? do you see the problem? :)

you also seem to be putting words into my mouth. i was merely offering an additional explanation for that behavior, to indicate that simply putting it under "poor cognitive development" (i.e. calling people retards, but in bigger words) is insufficient. i never said that we should all accept absolutely anything, and skip across blooming meadows singing kumbaya lol.
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The most common jobs in the Northeastern states seem to shift toward people jobs: nurse, nursing aide, primary school teacher. These involves complex tasks requiring tight coordination between motor, natural language, and emotional skills. Thus they are unlikely to be replaceable by technologies in the near future. (From my knowledge of AI, these sets of skills are probably even harder to automate than those of software developers.)

Nursing and healthcare jobs in particular will clearly be in higher demand with aging population in all developed countries (and several developing ones).

Many of these jobs require moderate formal education and average cognitive skills, but also a certain set of aptitude (e.g., empathy, communication, cooperation) best inculcated at home and in one's culture. If more analysis shows that they are indeed the most available jobs in the future, perhaps we should start preparing the youths now (especially since these skills are themselves valuable in life and in most other careers).
Oh? And what does contemplating and appreciating the beauty of universe and planet earth accomplish?
What is a good light two-way data binding JavaScript library?
Im looking for a light two-way databinding lib, like: https://github.com/grnadav/databind - are there any good alternatives that I've missed?
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Don't take away my pinch-zoom, and especially not when you've sized the page so that I can't see the date and the mal at the same time.

Honestly, I wish there was a way to tell Android Chrome to ignore the html tag that blocks zooming - using it is a moronic act of hubris and it frustrates me every time.
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>It's not "either it's all our fault or nothing is our fault"

I don't believe I ever said any such thing.
There are quite huge challenges in keeping the wealth of the nation with current redistribution systems in Nordic countries.

Of course, Norway has oil, so selling it gives money. And Sweden has lots of old money, from the time when ball bearings were selling for good money while everyone else was at war, but it has fallen from the top place of the wealthiest nations where it was decades ago. Finland, on the other hand, is in deep trouble with the same model.
It's an organization funded by tax payers. That doesn't automatically mean it is a state mouthpiece. Unfortunately, they have not been very bold in their reporting since the Hutton Inquiry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry
I have been saying that we need a new package system like this and a new file structure. The need for terse folder names has been over for close to 40 years.
I assume in 2034 a self-driving convory of trucks will still have a human steward in one of the cabs.
So your rationality skills give you a lot of advantages in arguments, more or less independently of the actual merits of your position. Rather than compete in that zero-sum game, isn't the best thing for society then to distrust anyone with rationality skills and form social norms against then?
Everyone drives trucks?
Well there are also people on there who really do have a problem to the point of addiction. It absolutely can negatively effect your sex life and even your entire life. What I see on there is more that people like to accept that a panacea exists to improve their entire life. It's a nice thing to believe, but it's rarely true.
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Appealing to Labour voters who vote in leadership elections is not the same as being elected by the general population to be Prime Minister, by any stretch.
Hmm, I see your point, but I've found that even in template-heavy code the compiler can produce code that's pretty optimal. Are you saying that with Rust it is easier to fall into the pit of success, as it were -- requiring less reasoning about how a compiler might convert the [templated|generic] code optimally?
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Frustrating that the images are almost-but-not-quite aligned, especially in the foreground. I think that makes it look like the towns have changed more than they have.

What would it take to get pixel perfect alignment in a big image like this? For starters, you'd have to figure out the exact lens and zoom level, and get to precisely the right spot...
Another interesting case where this happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_(journal)
The notion of "primitive" cultures, societies, religions etc. has not been taken seriously by anthropologists for decades. His whole argument hinges on theories of cultural relativism from the late 19th and early 20th century.

So, yeah, I am going to dismiss arguments that are based on analogies to discredited ideas.
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Really? Now I have to go learn Rust.
I hacked up a simple lookup service here:

http://dns-api.org/

That might be useful, at least to pin down what kind of API you do/don't want.
I took up a job outside India this year, and lost my India number. Now I just can't use the netbanking verification. I still haven't mailed the documents :/
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Quite. The people who insist loudest that he's unelectable are members of the Labour Party who just lost the UK general election, lost every single seat in Scotland but one, and know so much about how unelectable Corbyn is in elections that they couldn't beat him in an election themselves even though the only voters were Labour supporters.
We are on Github. Did you miss the several github links in the announcement?

Like I said, we use sourceforge only for the mailing lists.
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Structured archive: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4jucl...

Most recent edition, sent this morning: http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-...
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Doesn't your example contradict your claim? Putting numbers into the Drake equation doesn't really make it more useful than just thinking about it abstractly.

I wonder if the discussion of that article would have gone differently if it had been about (internally) reasoning about uncertain things as 51/49 choices and made it clear that it isn't really useful to communicate using the made up numbers (except maybe if the whole hypothetical case is explicitly communicated).
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Yeah. The general rule of thumb is that it costs $10,000/pound to put something into orbit. The cost would increase by orders of magnitude once you include all of the other resources needed to track the experiment, but this does seem like a relatively cheap experiment to run in space.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/a...

I think what's preventing this is:

1.) NASA can only run a certain amount of experiments at once and I'm sure there's a long waiting list. If they run this one, something else doesn't run.

2.) Space may not be the extra variable-free environment we're hoping for here: tons of intense electromagnetic activity and so forth.
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This is known as the Chilling Effect[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
I can't name sources, but I have it in good confidence that this man ("Sonny" White) was forced to rewrite his dissertation by his PhD committee (mind you not his advisor, who was old and about to retire and had to be cajoled into line by the rest of them) because his first try was apparently all about this EMDrive stuff. This is a pathology.
As you say, with the ability to respond "yes" and "abstain" the only possible outcomes are 'it passes' and 'it doesn't pass.'

You can't have 'passes unanimously' because that would be a third outcome that can't be obtained with only two possible responses. To add that possibility to our outcome set, we have to introduce a third response called "no."

The name of the "it passes" token may be arbitrary, but calling it "passes unanimously" is deceptive because it implies there were three ways to respond, not only two. If it is possible to pass unanimously, then to pass without qualification must mean something else.

If there is a large group of people that regularly makes use of that usage, the simplest conclusion is that they're all trying to deceive someone.
My point was not that Rust creates better template code, but that a lot of things one uses dynamic dispatch for in C++ use templates instead. There are plenty of times when one knows the full derived type of a class in C++, but one throws away that information virtual calls are used anyway.

I think this is because Rust makes it far easier to use generics; they're type-safe and don't need to be pushed to header files. Also, the coding culture around Rust pushes one to use enums for dynamic dispatch instead of "trait objects" (Rust's equivalent of VFTs).
>If there is none, the auctioneer is allowed to announce a “chandelier bid,” a phony but legal bid on behalf of the owner, as a tactic to incite more bidding

How is that legal?
It'd be much more interesting and honest to link the original content that provides context: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-t...
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What are the big differences between Lisp and Smalltalk contra Unix?

Unix is also a "dynamic" environment. You can compile and load in new code at runtime. You can inspect running processes. You have access to lots of system parameters via the file system API. And so on.

The C language might be the biggest part of the answer.

Even GNU had a vision of using C as a bootstrapping language for a Lisp environment. That's sort of the reality for heavy Emacs users... but mostly the idea has been abandoned, I guess.
> Radiation actually isn't all that dangerous, especially after a few months when the fission byproducts that have a tendency to bioaccumulate disappear.

This is a really absurd statement and shows a failure to understand how radiation affects the body. You're missing two key things in that statement; amount of radiation and exposure time. A lot of radiation is deadly over a short amount of time, and a lower amount can be deadly (or at least detrimental) over a longer period of time.

It is said that there is no "safe" level of radiation, radiation is never good. It's just that under certain levels it's unlikely to be dangerous in a human lifetime. But that's the thing, it's unlikely, it still can be.

While you can now walk around the area around Fukushima for ad day and not die, there's a reason nobody's allowed to live there. Because if you did for many years, then you would suffer ill effects. And children and pregnant women in that area would be especially prone to problems.

> Deaths per TWh is not ridiculous and arbitrary. It's comparing energy sources by how much death they will cause for the amount of energy they produce. Any other comparison would be unfair.

It is ridiculous and arbitrary because it's ONLY counting deaths, and only against one specific metric. It doesn't contextualize those deaths, first of all (dying because you chose to try to install a solar panel on your roof when you're not an experienced roofer and dying because the nuclear plant outside of town had a meltdown are two very different things.)

It also doesn't count the fact that thousands of people lost their homes and businesses and had their lives totally upended by Fukushima. There's impacts of nuclear that solar and wind don't have that are not captured by simply looking at deaths per TWh.
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At the bottom of the page, there is a "support" link whose purpose is to respond to exactly this kind of question.
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Think about what happens when you hit theverge.com: 40-odd requests sent sites you've never heard of. So-called internet connection records are a huge mess of noise even without considering obfuscation.

It is trivial for anyone to embed hidden iframes or send silent ajax requests to child abuse and terrorist forums without giving the visiter the slightest clue what's happening. In the case of iframes, there would probably be cached 'evidence' left on the target's pc. Try explaining that as your defence in court when you get set up by some script kiddie.
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I don't know from where you have experience with Bet Din's, but in my experience and knowledge it actually favors the women.

Maybe I'm biased because I know a couple of divorced religious jews, but as I see the only example of favoritism to the husband is on get refusal, if the husband refuses to give the divorce the wife can't remarry, all the court can do is put pressure, in Israel they have more powers, they may imprison the husband until he agrees to the divorce.

What people don't tell is that the wife may refuse to accept the divorce, maybe is not that common or maybe people don't talk about it much, but in practice the husband can't remarry the same way until the wife agrees to accept the divorce. The difference is that the court don't apply pressure the same way they do to men.

Also there's the ketuba, on divorce the husband must pay an amount for "breach of contract", and this goes only one way, meaning there's no way the wife will ever need to pay any money, she has only money to receive.

Also children custody goes to the mother, while this is not a problem exclusive of Bet Din's, the court doesn't have powers to assure the father right's of seeing the children, meaning the ex-wife can create problems and difficulties and the court can't do much in practical terms
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I'm thinking the human would be sitting a cubicle, monitoring 100+ trucks in disparate locations remotely
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Yes - only while employed - received documents i had to sign after termination saying it was voided. I drive by on occasion and still talk to a few people from there - never sold to my knowledge.
I was thinking the same and concluded that creating lenses back then probably involved manual work, and were more hand made in general. So the distortion we're seeing is probably due the higher degree of imperfection in the lens sphere shape of the old lense.

But theoretically this could be corrected further using software. If you correct one picture manually, and used the same distortion as a reference for other pictures. Maybe...

No idea if there is software like this anywhere.
I'd say goals with our nation's infrastructure align pretty well too. Interstate system, bridges, etc.
Looks pretty good guys. Similar to good reads but mobile friendly and simpler.
What's funny is that a browser is a Domain Specific smalltalk / lisp os. We just have to fold the stack.
In Milan, Italy, this summer also the Escape Room trend exploded and 12 companies opened with one or more rooms.
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Really nice!
It will probably require software developers to replace software developers (see the tricky logic?).
> Much of the $1000 bubble is discussed in terms of mtgox and "willie", but the initial peak was triggered by another driver which was the first large wave of cryptolocker infections.

I've not read that before (and I was pretty active on bitcoinforums during the $1000 bubble). Got a link?
I read the article, but I'm no clearer on what the criteria for issuing a warrant is.

A few years ago it seemed like the answer was "because TERRORISTS", now they're also talking about organised crime and child abusers.

This government have already branded the leader of the opposition a 'treat to national security'. Which leads me to concluded that they are either lying, incompetent, or reading all his internet history too.

Furthermore, I've heard no compelling arguments as to why the idea of an independent judiciary (who should be the only people who can issue these warrants) is broken, or how it should not apply when it comes to the online world.

But the drip drip drip of obfuscated and fear motivated erosions to the balance of powers continues, and it's making me deeply worried about what kind of country my grandchildren will live in.
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That is a hypothesis.
Thanks. I will contact you. But at this point I'm just investigating and trying to understand what needs to be done. When you say you need to build a solution, where is this done? On the phone? On the computer?
Indeed. http://nixos.org/nix/
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Cold fusion is the power source too.
I've read a few of Linus' rants and been on the fence, but this one does seem to have crossed some sort of line into being unnecessarily abusive, and to add to that, unclear communication. The rewritten version really does emphasise a much better approach. Linus's rant doesn't read like it was written by... a stable person.

I was in full agreement with the article up until this:

>Of the many things I could say about this, I will say just one: sadly, I am certain the reaction to this text would be entirely different were it written by a woman.

What the... where on earth did this come from? Completely irrelevant and not true in my opinion. This issue is about whether it post was abusive, the gender of the poster makes no difference. I'm pretty sure that female Linus (assuming female Linus had accomplished everything real Linus has over her life) would have had a bunch of loyal followers that defended her no matter what she said, and a bunch of people who thought she was out of line.

Does the gender issue really have to be shoehorned into every story?
So does it follow that they would be doing better with less redistribution?

Finland has slow growth but still doing relatively well. And low (by EU standards) debt.
Has now been published in draft:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

No explicit ban on encryption, but the existing RIPA obligation to decrypt when you have the capability and are made to. Potential madness in the "Equipment interference" section, although the bill claims this is already authorised under different legislation.

The Bill uses "communications data" to mean what we would call "metadata", ie everything except the contents.

"Equipment interference allows the security and intelligence agencies, law
enforcement and the armed forces to interfere with electronic equipment such as computers
and smartphones in order to obtain data, such as communications from a device.
Equipment interference encompasses a wide range of activity from remote access to
computers to downloading covertly the contents of a mobile phone during a search."
systemd is not really an init system project. Its a project to make GNU/Linux systems work better. Logging is one of the things I think they have tackled, along with service startup ("init").
I'd argue that logging is better and more useful with systemd as compared to with typical sysvinit (say in Debian/Ubuntu).
"If you correct one picture manually, and used the same distortion as a reference for other pictures"

All the pictures would need to have been taken with the same old camera, though, which I think is not the case here.
Because of the reserve price.

It's not really any different than the seller announcing at the beginning of the auction that they are going to bid up to whatever amount and then doing it.

I guess buyers put up with the showmanship because they don't think it has much impact on the prices they pay.
If that is the intention then why has no one from inside the government gone on record to say that?
Yes. Americans keep expecting "neutrality", which is hard to define and impossible to achieve.
I just did a quick google search on church affiliation and suicide rates (to bring this back to the original article and my hypothesis), here's an interesting study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry on the topic:

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.16...

So at least one study seems to support the hypothesis (interesting that it also showed increased substance abuse, which was also discussed as one of the culprit's of the higher death rate for white men).
A quick Google search reveals this was not the case.
I don't like that the journals with the highest impact factors in my field are all owned by Elsevier, Wiley etc.

It'd be nice if this sort of action could occur across the whole of academia with a move toward open access journals.

Hopefully this is the start of that movement.
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Browsers are not the internet police, and browser vendors should not be in the business of deciding which server software it wants to talk to.

Flash and other plugins are a completely different thing. Running flash is not a core functionality of the browser. Making HTTP requests and rendering HTML is.
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Switched my mum to Xubuntu over two years ago, so far I've had two support calls (down from about one/two per month plus totally breaking it fairly regulary with Windows).

9/10 - Would penguinise again.
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Why blame the company, instead of the individuals that voted for these representatives that are essentially getting "bribed".
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