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> The simple fact is that there is no way to make a wire that gets twisted and yanked and bent at a 90-degree angle, and which will nevertheless last forever.

If you can, count how many strands are inside that wire. If it's fewer than 90 strands you know why this wire fails.

I bet it's probably only 19 which is the minimum for a moving wire not to break.

> That's just not a thing we can do.

Yes it is. Assembly robots that move all day can have even 5,000 strands in the wires in a careful helical winding pattern that prevents the strands from being under tension - those will not break even after constant movement and folding.
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Magnetic self-locating connectors have been around forever. I have a waffle iron from the 60's that's got one. The patented part is the specific size and shape (and pinout I guess) of that particular connector that prevents 3rd parties from making compatible adapters. Apple is far from alone in trying to profit from that shenanigan. It is, of course, profoundly wasteful for manufactures to pursue "nickle-and-dime" profits in this manner at the expense of the public and the environment. Something the cellphone charging standard in Europe tried to address.

Just goes to show that there are plenty of places where Apple doesn't do much thinking different after all.
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Either HTTP status codes are reliable indicators of legal authorization--generally, to all observers--or they are not. Obviously they are not, since they fail to identify what you acknowledge would be a clear violation.

To go back up the thread, these quotes are contradicted by the stolen password scenario:

"The canonical way people know whether they're authorized to do something to a computer system is that it allows them to do it. If you aren't authorized then it comes back with "access is denied" and you can't do it."

"Does sending an HTTP request and receiving an HTTP 200 response code indicate that you're authorized? IMO, yes."

Look, I agree that the CFAA is too vague and therefore places a chilling effect on legitimate computer science research. I'm just saying: HTTP status codes are not the answer. The answer to a problematic law is to remove or improve the law.
I've had several colleagues from the UK bemoan the light sentences criminals receive in the UK. Each time I was suprised when the person referred to "proper" sentences in the US.
What Would you tell to a frustrated french entrepreneur Who like seed concept but knows it will takes years before such a solution can be available in France?
To put things in context there are some pure online banks that have disrupted the bank deposit such as boursorama or fortuneo but outside of traditional banks there is no inovative banks available for companies. I guess there must be a reason for that which i can't grab.
Sure.

I like the logic of trying to close it with domestic legislation, but the US sucks at that. For one, congress and the president cannot ever seem to work together to get anything meaningful done. But secondly, every single time we think we make an exception or a rule in the tax code, we learn that crafty investment bankers figure out how to exploit the rule. As Plato said, "know thyself." And we suck at playing nicely.

Completely hypothetically, say we could kill tax inversions. The whole thing has felt like a game of cat and mouse game for a century now. Inversions are the tax-avoidance scheme du jouer. For example, for years, Pfizer has already been paying virtually no taxes in the US by storing all of its IP in an offshore subsidiary. The "double Irish" trick is being done by companies who have never done an inversion. There are all sorts of holes in the tax code that other nations use to fuck the US. And there's no way we can compete on the rate, since we'd be competing with countries that have a 0% rate. Many companies pay a zero percent corporate tax rate on all of their offshore profits (which, IIRC, is attributed to a subsidiary in Bermuda), and mostly claim to have nothing but losses to write off in the US.

We need to finally say, "fuck this nonsense." Companies don't need laws to inform them when they're acting morally. It is immoral to act the way they are, and instead of playing cat and mouse like we have been doing, we need to put our foot down and MAKE every company obey the spirit of the tax laws, and not the letter. And the only way I know of to make that happen is to use extreme threats like invalidating their IP if they pull these tricks, or threatening the countries that aid them.
Did you create another API doc design? Are there plans to support the other specs like Swagger or RAML?
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> You Only Learn Once: A Stochastic Weight Aggregation approach to Online Regret Minimization

oh cool, this is relevant to my interests, I'm reading papers on monte carlo tree search for adversarial games

wait... what is this? I don't even
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Cool. That would get us a few billion of the five trillion we need to collect.
Am I the only one who cannot understand why "read it later" would rebrand themselves as pocket?

"Pocket" could be anything. A small physical object, or in this case a service. But even as a service you can imagine tons of different services that could go by that name.

And they couldn't even get the domain pocket.com.

Meanwhile they had readitlater.com, and a name that screamed "if you want to read this later, we are the defacto standard"

Why would you throw out such good branding?
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Might be, but there is nothing wrong in labeling people I dont like as lunatics.
I agree, this cool but has been done several times already. What would be great is an inexpensive equivalent approach applied to a chamber vacuum sealer, which are still prohibitively expensive.
Absolutely road pricing would solve the worst case scenario mentioned in the blog post, but the author raises a good point that we've had congestion problems for decades and we still aren't using comprehensive road pricing to solve our traffic problems. How bad do things have to get before we do?

It's deeply troubling to think that as traffic rises with the introduction of self driving cars, instead of bringing in road pricing, we may continue to rely on the same old approaches that are proven failures, such as road widening.
Exactly my point! The author is probably left leaning and is unable to fathom the fact that someone other than his side is getting the money.
Yep. Ask this question again, once you find a self-driving golf cart that navigates golf course without problems.
I have tried using Sugru to fix my Mac charger. It only worked as a temporary fix for me. I think the problem is that Sugru is not elastic enough and tends to crack when it bends.
> IQ is normally distributed, [...]

But only by definition. IQ tests are graded on a scale.
Plenty of reputable programs call for up to 8 minutes of rest if you need it. Powerlifting is not cardio; the idea is to lift as much as possible even if that means letting your heart rate drop to RHR between sets.
Your tip is great, but I do this.

I have a charger in a cable tray under my desk. Above my desk, one of these guys: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004GUS4XK

I've still had two Macbook cables fray, the sheath opening up like a paper lantern. There is near zero strain on this cable at any point.
1. "just attendees " No. More than just attendees. Selecting panel members e.g.

http://media.salon.com/2015/11/GMU-email-2.png

2. They are asking people to hide the number of employees from Google attending this so that the whole thing looks innocuous.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...
I am a big fan of ChefSteps, but this feels too little, too expensive. It is marginally more powerful than the newer Anova, but lacks physical controls. It's smaller, which is cool, and the magnetic base is useful, but that does not justify the 2x~ cost over the Anova.
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The issue is that criminals for the most part don't think "ah, I can commit this crime, I will 'only' get 5-10 years" and "oh, this crime would be 50 years - in that case I won't do it". Extremely long sentences just don't add much to the mix.
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Nice man, but I have a question in mind what is different between your solution and activemerchant from Shopify other than containerized things?
Why do they have no morals? If you have worked hard to build up a business and then you find out that some of your workforce is engaging in efforts that will destroy your business, would you not want to be kept abreast of it? If you do not feel that the union efforts would destroy business, witness the revenue issue Wal-Mart is experiencing now with a $10/hr wage floor; something the unions would like to start at and move to $15/hr.

Unions have on a consistent basis driven the operating costs of low cost companies through litigation, union negotiations, and other minutiae to bankruptcy. Witness the default process of the Haggen Grocery Store, where union rules drove a business into the red through non-negotiable states.
The conditions require someone like Napoleon to be there, which probably applies to many people. The first one to rise up usually wins. You can see it actually pretty clearly in science - multiple independent discoveries are more common than not, leading to the conclusion that if you were to kill Einstein in 1904, somebody would have published about relativity and photoelectric effect within a year or three.
There's a decent amount of experimental evidence to counter this realisation though.

The yakuza basically never carry guns around anymore because the charges for carrying around a handgun are so high that it's just not worth it.

We always say that "well if someone wants a gun they're gonna get it", which is pretty true. But some deterrents can slow down the transition from " I don't like that guy" to "I'm going to kill him" (hell, if we stop at "going to beat him with a bat", that's still a bit better).

People aren't rational, but things like advertising works, so some form of deterrents must work too I think.
This looks really nice & useful! Just signed up for a trial.
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The descriptions of Woit remind me of something I heard years ago: (paraphrased) If there's any debate about you being absolutely correct, you really can't get away with being an asshole.

I suspect if Woit had a more friendly attitude, was less dismissive, he'd be highly regarded for his insights rather than hated.
I've watched this project on Github and have been impressed by its rapid evolution. At least on certain models, KnightOS is only possible thanks to a private effort to factorize the firmware's 512-bit RSA keys. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_signing_key_...
To reiterate: they host it for the Hub, not for the Git in GitHub! We dream for the day when GitHub will be capable of working with external Git repositories!
That's interesting. To me an overconfident presentation / paper is a huge red flag and I start to look even more carefully for things that are elided or brushed under the rug. In the PhD we would have rip sessions, where we take new publications from big names and just rip the analysis to shreds (with some post doc help)-- it was an important lesson on "no experiment is anywhere near perfect."

I vastly prefer presentations and articles where both sides of an argument are presented. "We are in agreement with camp A, however camp B using procedure 2 find ... in the future experiment X will help solve this discrepancy"

My impression of scientific presentations to the community is that it's mostly about _funding_. So they are want to make as bold a statement as possible then -- but then "these stars may have actually come from another galaxy!" turns into "Scientists find alien stars visiting the Milky Way from Andromeda!" I actually remember a group issuing a counter press release to their own press release when some reporter completely misinterpreted something and all of a sudden bbc news was reporting that the sun was from the Sagittarius galaxy.
Einstein being a socialist and all around lover of human beings probably would agree. His letters to people like Levi-Civita make that clear. There are very few hermit geniuses. Whom we consider geniuses now were often gregarious individuals who mixed themselves up with others. An individual can only be as great as the communities that nurture them. We all rely on others to guide us towards truth and away from error.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4305

Before developing his 1915 General Theory of Relativity, Einstein held the "Entwurf" theory. Tullio Levi-Civita from Padua, one of the founders of tensor calculus, objected to a major problematic element in this theory, which reflected its global problem: its field equations were restricted to an adapted coordinate system. Einstein proved that his gravitational tensor was a covariant tensor for adapted coordinate systems. In an exchange of letters and postcards that began in March 1915 and ended in May 1915, Levi-Civita presented his objections to Einstein's above proof. Einstein tried to find ways to save his proof, and found it hard to give it up. Finally Levi-Civita convinced Einstein about a fault in his arguments. However, only in spring 1916, long after Einstein had abandoned the 1914 theory, did he finally understand the main problem with his 1914 gravitational tensor. In autumn 1915 the G\"ottingen brilliant mathematician David Hilbert found the central flaw in Einstein's 1914 derivation. On March 30, 1916, Einstein sent to Hilbert a letter admitting, "The error you found in my paper of 1914 has now become completely clear to me".
If the health of your business is predicated on strong-arming your way against market pricing of labor, then perhaps something is wrong with your business.
I got a TI-84 Plus CE, which is the most recent version of the calculator (same screen as the Color Silver Edition, but with a faster CPU and a different case). A bit dissapointing to see that nothing has come out for it yet, but Doors CS is working on it - https://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11997
Each of 0.32 and 0.001 is
the conditional probability
of type I error conditioned on
the data actually used in finding
it. It is common to play fast
and loose when are conditioning on something and when not.

This conditional probability is conditioned on the observations we used; since those are random variables, so is the conditional probability. Then the 0.32 and 0.001 are values of this
random variable on the two trials. The expectation of this random variable will be the probability of Type I error alpha.

I strained and tried to find
a difference between p value and
alpha, but in current usage
I see no difference. My guess
is that people prefer p-value
because it abbreviates probability while alpha
does not.

Maybe some people want to say
that

alpha = E[E[p value|given data]]

but this is not very operational. Maybe it is
what people mean in which case,
right, alpha is the expected
value of p-value.

So, for a given experiment and
hypothesis test, can draw a graph
with alpha on the X-axis and
beta (probability of Type II
error) on the Y-axis. Then the
graph shows beta as a function
of alpha. So, typically the
graph runs from (0,1) to
(1,0) and is convex. A more
powerful test is lower at
each value of alpha. A perfect
test is just the point at the
origin. A trivial test is
the one get by ignoring the
real data and using a random
number generator, and here the
curve is just the straight
line from (0,1) to (1,0) and
is useful for some cases of
interpolating when the
available values of alpha
are discrete, e.g., in
resampling plans for
distribution-free statistics.

Right, beta and power = 1 - beta don't have much to do with alpha or p-value except for the point that for a given statistical test in a specific context, e.g., distribution of the data and number of data points, there is that curve
I described that relate alpha and beta, and, thus, also 1 - beta, exactly. As I outlined, a different statistical test, maybe parametric instead of distribution-free, can have a different curve and more power for a given alpha.
The page is pretty and all, but I had to re-read some paragraphs to understand what the product is.
I get the impression that the parent is relating instances where it is obvious that the one apologizing is not at fault. The question of "who isn't to blame" is much easier to answer.
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without further comment: https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/669624752311398400
Also https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/669698429488988161
There's a tremendous body of evidence suggesting the opposite. Maybe not so much for first time offenders, but people with some experience in the criminal justice system are remarkably knowledgeable about the law, sentences, and exactly what consequences will ensue for particular behavior.
I'd say that the case of scientific, as well as technological 'advancements being "in the air" and nearly inevitable' is much stronger than individuals effecting social changes. For example, Reformation happened not because of Martin Luther per se, but because of printing press that gave common people the Bible, and that spread the Luther's theses around Germany in a matter of weeks, and around the world in a matter of months (arguably, this was one of the first cases of pre-Internet outrage). If you were to remove Luther, a similar movement would likely start anyway, given that it was actually growing elsewhere in parallel! People we name and attribute changes to seem to be just puppets of the circumstances.

EDIT

Scott Alexander covers that one too:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/07/we-wrestle-not-with-fle...
Past comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7896990

More info/online demo: http://www.knightos.org/

It's really neat how you can target this to write C applications for TI-84s. Take for example, https://github.com/MaxLeiter/CoreLibCDemo/blob/master/main.c . If you don't want to use assembly, you don't need to. It's pretty neat.
It's does low latency server push over websockets (with fallbacks for older browsers). Offline sync cache. Web and mobile. It's a much bigger technical challenge than writing a RESTful backend.

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It was the activists who dragged Eich's donation from years ago into the spotlight, made it an issue, and demanded that he apologize. The "pseudo-tolerant stance" people are/were "sick of hearing" or "being a party to" would never have seen the light of day if the activists just left Eich's personal political beliefs alone. This is precisely a demand for repentance.

Eich's stance was "pseudo-tolerant" because the activists were demanding that he renounce his religious beliefs. At least he had the stones not to say something he didn't believe just to keep his job. So instead he was cast out. Should a Catholic CEO be subjected to the same treatment if they personally oppose abortion? A Republican one for opposing Affirmative Action?
It only says CSE in the readme, which makes sense. The older calculators (including the CSE) use the 8-bit z80 while the CE uses the 24 bit ez80. Furthermore, the OS and app signing keys on the CE have not yet been found.
Why can't I write the word 'tv' on the iOS Messages app?
"This Lone Pattern Clerk Dozed Off At His Job, Dreaming About Light. You Won't Believe What Happened Next!"
I wonder why they didn't go for a design, where doing the natural winding would not cause a 90 degree bend. (Eg they could let the cable come out of the charger at a different angle.)
It does offline sync with iOS and Android, but not in the JavaScript library yet. Any idea when that's coming?

My team had been patiently awaiting it for a long time, but had to give up, unfortunately, and have moved to CouchDB.
As someone who's mainly just used react for simple components, when is the right time to think about pulling in redux? I'm getting by with just react, but it seems like at some complexity level everyone recommends a flux library (and mostly redux these days). Is it when you have multiple component trees on the page? When AJAX requests are involved? Or do people familiar with redux just drop it in from the very start even on simple components?
I think it would be more correct to say that he was against the kind of antitrust action they practice in Europe, which protects the competitors, and in favor of the kind we practice in America, which is focused on protecting the consumer, which makes sense because Bork set the agenda for modern antitrust enforcement in America. As your article states, Bork is the most-cited author on the topic. He defined antitrust.
You don't have to have the cars being "driverless taxis" to be more efficient in use of roads, there are lots of other options that might involve sharing cars with several neighbors, that the driverless feature makes much more feasible.

While there may be some people who use driverless cars less efficently than they use cars today, I have no doubt it would be more than balanced out by people who would be glad to save some money and don't need full ownership of a car.

I really don't see a scenario where cars are circling for hours in busy parts of the city. At the very least it could be smart enough to go wait somewhere out of the way. At least in US cities, people wouldn't tolerate that if it was significant enough to make a difference.
Phenomenal audiobook. I wish there were more like it!
> The GA144 can execute almost 4000x more instructions per second then MSP430 while consuming over 70x less power for the work done.

Yea, but the MSP430 actually has (a ton of) built in peripherals on it's own die, whereas the FA18 has none; so it's not the greatest comparison of J/MIPS.
What about living in that house and retiring in it? You definitely can't rent in many places on social security payments. Though of course that requires taxes to at least be affordable on social security, something that isn't true in a lot of places.
Well, I think a lot of English speakers are confused as well. There seems to be this idea that "I'm sorry" implicitly means, "I fucked up, it's all my fault, I'm a worm, I deserve to die," and so forth. But it's really just, "I wish it wasn't so, and I'd do it differently if I could go back and try again," or something along those lines.
I actually don't mind if users report 'issues' which turn out to be their own fault.
In some cases this could indicate that a feature in your project isn't intuitive enough.
Also I like having as many issues as possible - It creates a knowledge base for your
project which people can search through.
Thats the point. You cannot just assign a sentence and presume rehabilitation at the other side. Crimes along the entire violence spectrum that require removal from society all require case by case consideration of when, if ever, the criminal is suitable to reenter society.

A lot of them never should, that never repent and would always be a threat to others. But then you have those that rot in jail for decades after being completely rehabilitated by policies like mandatory minimums and extended sentencing like mentioned in this article waste their lives and our tax dollars on something that a board of active professional psychoanalyists should be able to see is a shut case.

It is easy to deceive an inefficient, corrupt, or lazy system when given per-case inspective authority. But it is not easy in the presence of a rigored well implemented system. Rather than try to simplify criminal justice to sentencing based on crime committed with fixed sentences taken from a textbook, we should appeal to reach the global maxima of justice, which includes curtailing the injustice of keeping those no longer dangerous behind bars perpetually.