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> So both the 70s and the 90s were great decades for computing. Not sure what happened in the 80s

Microsoft.

- MS-DOS: 1981

- Word: 1983

- Windows: 1985

- Excel: 1985

- Word for Windows: 1989

- Office: 1990

If your view of computing history is through *nix-alike or Mac lenses the '80s are going to look pretty barren, because the '80s were when Microsoft was busy driving both those markets into nearly-complete irrelevance.
Since I see that you're a Javascript developer, I'm going to suggest you switch to something like Meteor.

It's COHESIVE. You have an idea and want to work on it? It'll just work, no bullshit gluing together bits and pieces from other libraries. It's comes with realtime, javascript everywhere, documentation is on point.

I can guarantee it's going to restore your faith because you will spend most of your time writing your features and ideas, instead of glue work. Nobody likes glue work.

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Where do I start? Right here: https://www.udemy.com/learn-meteorjs-by-building-10-real-wor... - you build ten real world apps, not some shitty task list garbage. I promise you won't regret it, it's -fun-. Like that first time you used Rails way back when? That kind of fun!
Can you prove that for TouchID specifically? You have to defeat both capacitance and RF sensors, btw. And remember, it needs to be "incredibly easy" by the standards of random unhinged violent criminals stupid enough to commit two felonies in order to secure a phone which will be completely useless within the 60 seconds or so it takes the victim to sign in with his Apple ID and brick the phone. Any bank accounts present on the device would also be nearly-instantly disabled.

By the time you defeat TouchID, the device will be useless anyway. It's more than secure enough.
I'm not sure about chocolate cravings. The scientist I heard talk had done some experiments on her self that eating chocolate for a while produced cravings but I guess that could be psychology rather than bacteria. There have been solid studies on gut bacteria making people fat and thin, presumably by effecting their desire to eat. See eg http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/health/gut-bacteria-from-t...

The experiments basically fed gut bacteria from thin creatures, (mice / humans) to fat ones (mice) and they lost weight and visa versa for fat to thin. I guess you could extend that experiment quite easily to mice and chocolate though I'm not sure it's been done yet. Maybe if anyones got some experimental mice and bars of chocolate knocking around they could report back?
This is correct. And reinforces my personal belief that it is policy that needs to be repaired. For the most part, these officers that are doing bad things are only acting in ways that have been encouraged. Until we can make an adjustment, we will continue to see police on people violence.
I mean ad revenue is definitely one model like this. But even Dropbox, Uber, Tesla, Netflix and many others would fit under that category.

Sometimes the generating revenue part itself is expensive to build, if you can't even get tons of people to use your product for free you're going to have trouble getting there (but that's a lot more for advertising-based revenue).

I think a lot fewer companies have no revenue stream that you're suggesting. Sometimes very early companies haven't figured out revenue, but they also haven't figured out product. Sometimes they're closely tied together, sometimes they're not.
I meant it relatively. AI will be capable of near infinite growth. Us, not so much. I guess some sort of AI-cyborg hybrid could allow us some level of enhancement, but our brains are only physically capable of so much.
If you're interested in the debugger, I spoke about it at Clojure/West this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql77RwhcCK0. It shows how the debugger works and I talk about the problems debugging Clojure code, of which there are many.
You want to deny me privacy because of, "Think of the children"?

How about NO.
Australia makes it incredibly difficult to give equity to your employees - they literally get double punished and it's often better for the employee not receive. The Australian Taxation Office will charge on receipt.

So you get 1% of the company and it's last investment round was $10M - Boom you get a $100,000 tax bill that year! Even though it's all only paper value.

Then if you do liquidate you're taxed again on the gain!

It's a huge problem and there are a lot of folks in the startup community trying to get it rectified.
>- It's too expensive. There is no way my ad impressions add up to $10 a month.

Do you believe that Google's description of the way it works is inaccurate, then?

"Instead of bidding on behalf of an advertiser, Contributor bids on your behalf, with the budget you set up. The Google ad auction determines when a thank you message will appear in an ad space, and how much it will cost. In the ad auction, advertisers and Contributor bid for a given ad space in real time." [0]

[0] https://support.google.com/contributor/answer/6084026
I think you're creating a false dichotomy. A reasonable police force would start with the gentle approach and escalate as necessary; staying stuck at "gentle" is obviously not ideal, but it doesn't follow that defaulting to violent aggression at all times is the right choice.
It's odd that they don't talk about GLONASS as well in the article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS). Essentially the Russian adventure into competing with the US based GPS.

Either way Having more arrays of Satalites for GPS will be better for all devices (Planes, Auto, handheld, etc.).
I am familiar with basic regression theory and numerical optimization; I have a qualitative understanding of VC bound. Given this background:

What is the number of parameters in a GP model?

A parametric regression/classification model has some number of parameters, and having estimated them I only need to carry them around. If a model has more parameters, it is less parsimonious and less desirable than a model with fewer parameters that achieves the same error.

If I add regularization/bias/prior to a model, it reduces the dimension of parameter-space.

In a GP model I need to hold on to my entire training set. But clearly the number of parameters I'm fitting is much smaller. So how do I quantify that?

To be clear, I'm not talking about the hyperparameters of the covariance function.
Sorry, I'm having trouble following your argument. Are you suggesting by your quote that the FBI is saying such things so that only "non smart" people will listen to them, and turn off end-to-end encryption?
My own experience is that Apple Pay works well when it's available. The problem is playing the constant game of "Does this terminal/merchant accept Apple Pay?" It's not always easy to tell. For example, Home Depot for several months had terminals that claimed to support NFC, but got hung up authorizing and eventually timed out if you actually tried to use it.
The most profound thing that the internet can do for the world is create a single monolithic repository of documents that is designed to take a dedicated reader from basic principles of math to a high degree of understanding in any subject. This is such an easy task compared to all of the other projects that happen on the internet, it is astonishing that we don't have anything like it yet. Wikipedia comes close. Khan Academy might become what I just described after they add more content. But nothing really hits the nail on the head yet. If Facebook spent a few billion on it then we would have it. It's so fucking simple. I would trade in Instagram many, many times over in exchange for such a repository. It is one of the easiest things to do and out of all the things we could do has the greatest impact on society and yet it has not been done. Amazing.
Essentially what you're talking about is a lab assistant who can code? Sounds like a good idea, and might be something for people who work at companies that do pro-bono charity work.
Looks like you've been downvoted too.

It's interesting how intolerant some people are about even the most reasonable criticisms of racial preference policies. Instead of offering a reasonable response to these criticisms, they often resort to attempts to silence critics.
or maybe show the current word you're typing somewhere on the screen would be nice too
That's a separate announcement, of course, but I'm pretty sure it's coming soon.
My theory is that the company was originally developed for a military procurement play, for battlefield diagnostics or similar. Hence their board.

The Washington Post published a very interesting article earlier this month, in which they used email correspondence to reveal that Theranos pitched their system to the military, but there were concerns from a DoD official about it.[1]

>An official evaluating Theranos’s signature blood-testing technology for the Department of Defense sounded the alarm in 2012 and launched a formal inquiry with the Food and Drug Administration about the company’s intent to distribute its tests without FDA clearance

Holmes contacted General Mattis, who had been promoting Theranos within the military, and he tried to bypass the concerns. In the end, Theranos never demonstrated the system to the military. Mattis joined their board a year later.

>According to a Theranos spokeswoman, Mattis and Holmes met in 2011 at a Marine Memorial event. Mattis, busy overseeing the war in Afghanistan as commander of the U.S. Central Command, expressed interest in testing Theranos’s technology in combat areas, according to the e-mails.

>“I’ve met with my various folks and we’re kicking this into overdrive,” Mattis wrote to Holmes in June 2012. “I’m convinced that your invention will be a game-changer for us and I want it to be given the opportunity for a demonstration in-theater soonest.”

>He urged Holmes to call or e-mail him if she felt they needed to talk.

>A month later, frustrated by the military regulatory expert who had contacted the FDA, Holmes took him up on that offer.

>“I know how incredibly busy you are but thought it was the right thing to let you know the following,” Holmes wrote.

>She noted that a deputy director working for a division of the military that oversees regulatory issues and compliance had launched a formal inquiry to regulators without warning Theranos.

>“I would very much appreciate your help in getting this information corrected with the regulatory agencies,” Holmes wrote in the e-mail to Mattis. “Since this misinformation came from within DoD, it will be invaluable if this information is formally corrected by the right people in DoD.”

>Within hours, Mattis forwarded the exchange to military officials, asking “how do we overcome this new obstacle.”

>“I have tried to get this device tested in theater asap, legally and ethically,” Mattis wrote. “This appears to be relatively straight-forward yet we’re a year into this and not yet deployed.”

>The field demonstration Mattis was seeking never took place.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/02/inter...
https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2014/09/23/iphone-6-touchid-ha...
> People in hard-hats and boots who tell us our software has changed their lives.

That is so great, this is what it's all about in my opinion.
Regarding 1, there are a few things to say. First, I believe the scripture is the Word of God. If I were OK with spouting off whatever comes to mind without grounding it to scripture, I'm putting my thoughts on equal (or even greater) footing than the Bible. I am tempted to be this proud at times, but I aspire to be more humble than that.

Why the Bible is true has a few answers:

1. It has proven to hold a lot of counter-intuitive truth in my life. When I follow the teaching in the Bible, things go better for my and the people I love. Of course, you don't know me, so it's probably not a very convincing thing to hear from a stranger on the internet.

2. The teachings of the Bible are a very complete and internally consistent, which is a quality you would expect from a Holy Book, but is surprisingly absent from many (most?) life philosophies, in my opinion.

3. There is a lot of discussion of the history and archaeology of the Bible by John Piper. He does a very thorough breakdown in a five-part sermon series complete with notes (in case you want to read instead of watch video). http://www.desiringgod.org/messages/why-we-believe-the-bible...

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> Do you care about the consequences of your opinions...?

Of course. Though I'm having a hard time understanding exactly what your question means. Perhaps you are asking if I think the material world is important? The answer to that specific question is also yes.

A scriptural basis for this is the story of the resurrection of Lazarus. In the story, Jesus knew He would raise Lazarus from the dead. But he took time to mourn with the family of Lazarus. If the physical world was unimportant, mourning a physical death wouldn't make sense. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2011

I suppose you could also be asking if I think I'll get blowback for my opinions? I consider that likely, actually. But if I let personal concerns take precedence over my loyalty to God, then how much do I really believe that God is real, powerful, and loving? I've been lonely and poor before. I'd rather go back to that than reject the person who means the most to me.
careful doing that, i know someone who had 2 cards with nfc and was getting charged double - surprised the system somehow allowed it
Since OpenBTS launched 6 years ago they haven't been secret. All you need is a backpack with an Ettus USRP1, handful a D batteries, and a laptop. Walk into any starbucks, connect your laptop to the wifi and then SIP through Google and voila, you can snoop on everything and no one has any clue.
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What would implementing it in an iOS app even mean? If Walmart wants to support Apple Pay, they just need to use credit card terminals that can do NFC. Is the idea that if Walmart could implement it in their app, they could allow you to pay with some custom Walmart account instead of a credit card?
I have a question that is only tangentially related to this so feel free to ignore.

Say I flip 50 fair coins, P(heads)=P(tails)=0.5, 10 times each a day for 100 days. For each coin we have 100 records like HTHTHHTTHT. Now I count the number of tails (5 in the example) for each day for each coin. So each coin has a record with length 100 like [5, 8, 5, ...,6]. Now I can calculate the variance of these values for each coin and end up with 50 variances. What do we expect the distribution of these variances to look like?
Maybe a re-write in ColdFusion? ;)
any rtlsdr or ettus radio can capture cell metadata. Most of the tools to process the captures are linux based but highly automated.
I'm not sure if you read very carefully. I'm criticizing the attitude of never letting an opponent score a point, not supporting it. And I don't belong to the Republican party, I just agree with Republicans more often than I agree with others. Finally, I don't see what religion has to do with most contemporary social issues, other than perhaps undergirding a general respect for human life that informs positions like pro-life.
Nationalism is a disease of the mind that is among the most pernicious. I am vocal about this whenever the issue arises.

The trick, of course, is convincing the proles. For the most part, people understand tribalism, but not humanism. Perhaps intellectually a small fraction of people will agree that strong moral feelings about their country may lead to brutality, but most will not assent to the idea that any tribe is as vulnerable to committing genocide as any other.
> > the class of all problems solvable by a classical computer is exactly the same as the class of all problems solvable by a quantum computer

> I started this sub-thread because I'm pretty sure this statement is true. But the details are tricky.

Actually that is one of the first problems that was solved when we started looking into quantum computers. Our models of classical and quantum computation are both Turing complete and only Turing complete. Any classical computer can simulate a quantum computer, and any quantum computer can simulate a classical one. A quantum computer's only advantage is in speed, and we don't yet have proof that there is an exponential speed benefit that cannot be circumvented by finding a better classical algorithm.

Since asymmetric cryptography generally relies on an exponential barrier between the process of using the encryption and the process of breaking the encryption, that is what we really need to completely break modern asymmetric cryptography.
One tiny nit -- the plasma is hydrogen which burns to create water, so there's every chance it will come back as rainwater, it's just not terribly concerning.
Hacking the City
I really don't agree with your view at all.

I actually think that banks in the future will stop issuing physical cards altogether and will rely on virtual cards linked with Apple Pay, Android Pay or some other contactless based system.
This strikes me much like a personal hypothesis that smoking is not harmful. It's a fine theory to have in your own home, but when you apply to your theory next to a daycare folks will be more upset.

There's the skeptical professor from the BerkleyEarth project who was doubtful about many aspects to the science, but when we looked at it in detail became concerned enough to devote all his time to the problem. http://berkeleyearth.org/. His opinion, after studying it for years along with research assistants, is that it is happening, man made, and probably a very bad thing for many, many people on Earth.

I think what frustrates a lot of folks is that there seem to be many people hanging around daycares smoking saying that they don't believe it is hurting anyone, while the US Pediatrician Organization, WHO, etc, etc all say that second hand smoke is bad, causes asthma, etc, and the only way to convince anyone seems to be waiting 5, 10, 20 years until all the consequences are apparent (and irreversible).

I'm sure that you can still find a doctor who says smoking is good for you and those around you, but the consensus is that is has a lot of negative externalities that other people bear.
What you're describing is often called "capacity." I found this to be an accessible primer: http://qwafafew.org/images/uploads/san_francisco/sf-20041018...
Bingo. This is in complete contrast to visiting wikipedia where, for example, if I go to any mathematical concept, I seem to tumble down a series of holes that usually falls out somewhere much more abstract that what I need (usually topology). This is not to say topology is not important, but clearly becoming an expert topologist before learning wavelets (for example) would not be the most efficient way to learn the latter.
If the percentage of "good ones" is so high, why do they protect the "bad ones"?
Is there any way to re-engineer infrastructure so that all cell-sites cryptographically identify themselves so that cellular devices can verify the identity of a cell-site before identifying itself to the cell-site?
I've posted about this before, but charging people to remove ads is a difficult business proposition. It disproportionately devalues the remaining ad impressions. Advertisers aren't likely to pay much to reach the people who are, almost by definition, either too cheap to buy a pass or not invested enough in the site to care. It also creates dangerous incentives: the site will make more short-term revenue in proportion to how annoying the ads are, and the core readers won't even see them to complain.

In practice, I think you'd be limited to selling network ads, which don't pay very much and rely on tracking users and building profiles to serve them targeted ads.
It's mostly right wingers who favor authoritarian and moralistic social policies worldwide. I understand that the concept of patriotism is abundant and malignant within the American mind on both sides of the aisle, but elsewhere, it's not as evenly distributed.

Compassion is a forbidden concept in geopolitics as it is currently practiced, though I wish we'd force room for a little more.
Mini did that, they called it a Countryman [1][2], to massive success [3]

[1] http://www.miniusa.com/content/miniusa/en/model/countryman.h...
[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487046155045761728...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Countryman#Reception
No, I like it. The jerk is shut down and not rewarded until he can communicate like a civilized person. The person who shuts him down can still pick up on the complaint and get the bug fixed for everyone else - and if not, then any widespread problem will eventually have at least one polite request entered, right?
This (well, *BSD) is what I'm interested in. It'll be interesting to hear from the Linux/BSD pioneers what the networking, gfx, and touchscreen support are.

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Go read the sentence again, only this time take the chip off your shoulder.
My first large app I built the hard way. I started by copying code from samples and modified them to my needs. I stuffed a bunch of api's together, dojo, jquery, etc. I spent an inordinate amount of time testing the app and modifying it to work on all browsers. Half of the time I didn't know what the heck I was doing. I just obsessively kept hacking away until the app got built.

Well, it got built and it's been successful for its built purpose. The code isn't exactly pretty but it's fast and not buggy at all.

I spent the last year learning object oriented programming, software architecture, ui toolkits. I'm just starting with react, typescript, node, aws for my new app.

Because I built my first app 'the hard way' I now appreciate the value of these toolkits and frameworks and think they're worth taking the time to learn, but only if they simplify my process and not complicate it.

Keep working you'll get there and it's worth it!
And, as many gluten-sensitive (but not allergic) people told in a recent thread on reddit, where the topic came up, they have next to no issue with the hand-baked bread you find in small bakeries in Europe, but the issues often only show when eating mass-produced bread.

It’s more likely that gluten sensitivity is just caused by a cross-interaction with an additive used for bleaching or similar.
Someone can take that PIN and the magstripe data obtained from the card and use it to withdraw your money from ATMs that don't support Chip and PIN.
Couldn't one use the same reasoning to argue that open-sourcing an iOS app isn't really "open source", since you need proprietary hardware to properly run it?
Since when is gluten "toxic", not just "leads to an allergic reaction in a minority of the population"?
Yes, defensive driving is about having higher margins. Which is where her comparison falls short. Because police often escalate the situation to get the upper hand on a perceived threat. Which is more like tactical driving, where you e.g. drive in a convoy at high speed to avoid getting stopped. If there is no real threat you have most likely made the situation worse.
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Awesome job!

I agree with the feedback that it's not always easy to find where you got stuck since I'm already scanning away for words that I'll be typing next as I'm typing the current word... The stuck word does change colour but maybe something that would draw the eye back to it would help...
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