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> Can't imagine a world where Microsoft inspired that much fear :)

First it's not funny. Many companies including Netscape, Google (and at the moment PaaS companies) have/had the fear that Microsoft will crush them. You are either too young, or an employee of MS, otherwise nothing funny about. Maybe you should read pg's essay:

"Another big factor was the fear of Microsoft. If anyone
at Yahoo considered the idea that they should be a
technology company, the next thought would have been
that Microsoft would crush them.

It's hard for anyone much younger than me to understand
the fear Microsoft still inspired in 1995. Imagine a
company with several times the power Google has now, but
way meaner. It was perfectly reasonable to be afraid of
them. Yahoo watched them crush the first hot Internet
company, Netscape. It was reasonable to worry that if
they tried to be the next Netscape, they'd suffer the
same fate. How were they to know that Netscape would
turn out to be Microsoft's last victim?"
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The drug in question is a Monoclonal Antibody (mab) intended to boost immune response. [1] Mabs do have a tendency to runaway reactions. [2].

Mab treatments are likely to explode in coming years as immunomodulators to both boost the immune system to fight disease and suppress immune reactions in autoimmune diseases (some arthritis, asthma, severe allergies, etc)

You have to dig to find this information, posting it here for visibility.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGN1412

2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20305665
Sexual harassment is hardly the province of technology focused companies. Its reasons are varied and at times culture affects perception (compare behavior and acceptance in France, Mexico, and the US) not saying one or the other is worse, just different.

Never the less, sexual harassment is an issue, it's an issue in tech, but it's an issue in the workplace in general. I think one difference is the willingness to report sexual or any harassment tends to be higher where the workforce is more economically secure as well as better educated. I other words a server at McDs might not be willing to be as jeopardize a job as someone with alternatives, access to attorneys and support network.

So, it will seem like the problem is more problematic in tech, finance, etc, whereas in actuality the problem may be much bigger in other areas of the economy.

The point is this tech isn't an incubator for harassment, it's present everywhere in perhaps greater degree, so addressing it as such (a big issue) rather than that thing that happens in tech, would better serve American society.
Would it help to teach on the new employee on-boarding one official way how to tell co-worker, even (especially?) superior one, to f*ck off, that everyone could use as a clear message in case somebody loses his/her mind and attempts to make unwanted personal advances?

It would save HR a lot of work and many young employees a lot of confusion and stress.
> Ugh, there's a lot of argument about that in the cfar alumni community.

I take it you're involved with parts of the community outside the CFAR mailing list? I haven't seen it on there. There's certainly argument about it within the broader LW community, but the CFAR alumni community is distinct (but overlapping).
> what "all(@ar1) < any(@ar2)" is supposed to mean. That's not a complicated expression and that's already puzzling to people who know the language?

Afaik junctions are simple and have an obvious intuitive read. But I'm not yet 100% confident of expressing that view without qualification. Given Estragon's "no idea" comment I allowed that my intuitive read might be bogus.

In fact the intuitive read is correct:

if all(ar1) < any(ar2)

# if all in ar1 are numerically less than any in ar2

> The autothreading feature is cool

To be clear, the whole point of junctions is autothreading; passing junctions to any code that does not have an overload for junctional arguments is automatically (semantically, at least) data parallelized and that's the win that makes them significant.

> Every pure functional language can implement map/reduce/filter in parallel.

I note "can implement" and your choice of just three functions.

Which languages provide a mechanism equivalent to junctions and their most significant use-case -- automatically generating data parallelized versions of any sequential functionally pure code?

> I don't see what junctions bring to the table that's not expressed easier to understand with set operations or map/reduce/filter.

What equivalent of "all(ar1) < any(ar2)" -- all ar1 less than any ar2 -- is "expressed easier to understand"?
They acquired Venmo, which was pretty big for adding users to their ecosystem. They've kept it pretty quiet and have not tried to link the brands together, which probably says something about the current state of Paypal's brand.
Any advice on where to start?

I've been debating whether or not I could make it worthwhile. My primary motivation is to travel to Japan from New York in business class or better (because I'm tall), but the cash price just seems too crazy. My credit is excellent, but I just can't seem to take the plunge on a reward program.
Let us know if you have any questions or comments.
We would love to discuss the features people need to run large open source projects here or on our issue trackers.
It's just a beta and we are actively working on new features, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

On the plate next is time-travel state replacement, and in-browser NPM importing so you can require other components on the fly.
Am I witnessing Poe's law?
> You may have noticed Mike Hearn isn’t in the top 100 contributors list.

I've also noticed, there are no any Satoshi Nakomotos in the list of contributors. Does that mean he (Satoshi) was "not impactful to the development"?

P.S.: I'm not following the Bitcoin news. Is Satoshi a nickname of one of those top contributors or the initial author just didn't use version control system? Or am I missing something?
While I like to bitch and moan about stuff myself, I don't really agree with the first point.

What I like about GitHub's issue tracking is that (compared with alternatives, such as Redmine or Jira) it is free form. It doesn't force users to fill information such as steps to reproduce and I don't think it should. And that's because the needs of every project is slightly different. Consider how different the "steps to reproduce" are for a web user interface, versus the usage of some library. Yes, it can be painful for an issue to not provide all the information required, but on the other hand GitHub does a better job than alternatives at fostering conversations and keeping people in the loop. I've even seen projects use the GitHub issues as some sort of mailing list.

On the second point, I do agree that GitHub needs a voting system for issues. Given that GitHub has long turned into some sort of social network, adding a voting system for issues is a no-brainer. But then a voting system doesn't address the problem of people getting frustrated about issues taking too long to get fixed. +1's are annoying, but sometimes that's a feature and I've been on both sides of the barricade.
Hey, you didn't pay anything for the book, right?
Including PT workers is going to skew the numbers quite a bit. Most PT workers will not have paid time off, so if you're part-time you're likely to work 51 or 52 weeks unless you are employed seasonally.

And 34.5 hours may be the mean, but most workers are either going to be full-time 40+ hr/week or substantially less than that. Most PT job ads I've seen are for 10, 15, or 20 hours of work a week. 30 is very high, so the vast majority of workers are not going to work any close approximation of 34.5 hours a week.

Most of the sources I can find online are either using the "any type of worker" number of 1750-1800 hrs/yr, or 2k+ for FT only (which is approximately 50 wks/yr).
There's apps that can read Qualcomm debugging to detect GSM encryption has changed like SnoopSnitch maybe CM has their own built in version but last I heard their kernel removed many proprietary drivers needed for the Nexus 5 to access Qualcomm DIAG.
There was an update to invoicing features last year, as well as a complete re-design of the website when you're logged in.
Addendum: if all the non-males majoring in literary/communications/gender studies who complain about the lack of diversity in STEM would major in STEM, maybe they would no longer have anything to complain about. Whining isn't a science.
I'd be curious to compare that number to the rest of the world.
Phabricator is great! I host it for a couple of my projects. I love it, and it was easy to setup.

Seriously: if you have a web server (or php hosting) anywhere, try out phabricator; it's easy to setup, and you can even point it at a github (or any public git/svn/hg) repository to fiddle around with its features, as hosting the repository inside phabricator is not mandatory.
Or contain more than they should.

Reading the FDA recall database is quite illuminating

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/DrugRecalls/default.htm

The food one is also an eye opener, 8 so far in 2016

http://www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/Recalls/...

Last year I scraped the whole database and read every one to analyse the reasons for a Uni project. I'm surprised anyone is still alive!
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> things like this make me feel glad that drug companies have a well regulated process to catch issues like this before they can become more widespread.

This is France we're talking about here, we are one of the most regulated country on the planet, this includes FDA like institutions. Still, this could happen anywhere. Also, as has been pointed elsewhere, too much regulation can make people die that could have benefited from the a cure, except we don't notice these death.
I take it as a sign of unhealthiness.

Amazon obviously have too much cash lying around.

So be good and stop using Amazon!
Note from the NYTimes:

Contrary to several reports in the French news media, the drug was not a cannabis-based painkiller, Ms. Touraine said.

Early reports in The Guardian, the BBC, and elsewhere called it a cannabinoid-based painkiller. (That sounded rather implausible because (a) cannabinoids have a ridiculously high therapeutic index -- ratio of medically effective dose to toxic dose -- and (b) with cannabis decriminalization spreading internationally, the commercial benefit of patenting a drug in the same space as a cheap non-proprietary alternative would appear to be small.)

Edit: The Guardian amended their piece to state that it was a monoclonal antibody targeting the brain's endocannabinoid receptors. (Interesting idea, but Mabs have some really lethal failure modes, notably triggering a cytokine storm in some cases, cf. TGN1412.)
You can still read the article. They're just using it as an opportunity to sell a subscription.
I have no history with Bitcoin, but if people want the value of Bitcoin to go up I think it'd behoove them to make Bitcoin useful to people as a solution to a problem. I'm not sure the idea of a decentralized reserve currency with unknown/random time-to-liquidity is a very useful solution to any problem.

Bitcoin obviously has value right now as demonstrated by the fact that people can go out and exchange coins for things people regard as valuable, but current value is not a perfect indicator of future value and I'd argue that the current value is at least somewhat predicated on the belief that Bitcoin will eventually become a useful replacement for today's highly-liquid real-time transactional currencies.

I am probably naive, but can't a solution be found by simply increasing the block chain size and then creating software that makes the verification of transactions more distributed by making the process more fine grained in terms of CPU and memory resources? In other words, split current "nodes" into a more fine grained distributed virtual node that low end computers can run?
What is technology behind it? How do you automatically collect news?
Don't forget about all the spammed product listings. It makes it impossible to look through many categories on Amazon. Try and sort SSDs of a certain size from low to high price and all you get are spam listings. And Amazon offers no way to report them.

https://twitter.com/JohnTHaller/status/648883968201355264
What's to teach? Everyone knows how to say "stop it." The hard part is feeling safe saying it.
The six men received the drug several times, starting on Jan. 7.
The first symptoms appeared in one man on Sunday;
he was quickly hospitalized, and the other men followed.
The trial was halted the next day.

They began receiving the drug on January 7, but no symptoms of a problem appeared until this past Sunday.
Good suggestion! I'm thinking I can create a tag specifically for automated submissions. I'll look into this tomorrow.
Cool, thanks for the reply
Another idea: Loops so that you can "hang" a floppy mattress from a long rigid pole carried by two people.
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Ding ding ding. Meanwhile, the majority of this thread is complaining about user review quality on Amazon. Nice.
FYI, the drug being tested was for Parkinson's disease (nytimes doesn't say that but lemonde does):
http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2016/01/15/essai-thera...
The desire never goes away, it just gets invested in side-projects that end up in graveyards because of work fatigue.
Yeah. I _thought_ that I remembered the tool was supposed to come out two months ago, but I don't have any citation for that. I want to play with it!

> the non-ability to incrementally include Rust in a project.

Well, it just depends on how you do it. The approach Firefox is taking is to peel off chunks, re-write them in Rust, and then integrate that way. That said, better integration would be nice, and some people have some ideas about it.
How is that relevant ? I don't know anything about computer graphics but I know for sure that OpenGL 1.1 is outdated. How I'm supposed to know that the whole book is not outdated ?

My time is precious, I won't risk spending it reading an oudated book....
I saw Bryan Cantrill's talk on that! It did sound neat.
> I said I would sue in a month. I got a bunch of nasty stuff back.

Law of Reciprocity. They felt threatened by you, and threaten back in return.

Man-up, meet with the CEO. Find a path to get what you want and importantly, what they want. The lawsuit route is typically a loser for everyone involved, except of course attorneys- who will happily charge only 'modest' fees.

Incidentally, you might find Stuart Diamond on negotiating a useful read > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZo6Lx70ok
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I hate how politicians pander to the base with vague promises to increase or decrease regulation instead of debating to find which regulations are the most effective. Same situation for welfare programs, use of military power overseas, and taxation. There are undoubtedly better ways to use or collect the resources government currently has or even do more with less but they are never considered.
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What? It would sag when you have it turned on it's side vertically? That's like, bean-bag level sag.
Their program looks similar to ZenPayroll, but I'll look deeper into them as well when I get a chance to dig deeper. Thanks for mentioning them!
LOL, that works until it doesn't. There's a name for that sort of financial scheme...
I don't think guys at lobste.rs would mind this approach, try starting a discussion on GitHub.

Obvious choice here of course is Reddit, but it's a bit overblown.
I've got a soft spot for simple, sane formats like this. One obvious but still simple generalization would be to allow n-dimensional image data by encoding the number of dimensions first, then the size of each dimension, then the data. That would allow representing video (very inefficiently), 3D static images (e.g. from MRI scans), and even 3D video (which is 4D).
I've always had issues with Mac WMs in the past. They either promise too many features and end up being buggy (because they didn't take the time to solve the problems that Swindler does first) or they're too simple and don't let me do what I want to do.

This promises to solve a lot of the problems I've encountered in the more advanced WMs and might actually make a sophisticated WM on OS X possible.

Really interested to see what WMs get built with a framework like Swindler.
If we were ever to reach singularity, it would be partly thanks to the motivation created by the spammers.
I find this a lot more encouraging to read. Most gamedevs I see talking about C++ mention to avoid boost & templating, how STL is bad, etc. How they have to write their own more efficient version of vectorm or their own allocator. There are things I like things about C. I find malloc & free fairly understandable, where as a lot of the newer pointer arithmetic in C++11 can be a bit overwhelming.

That said as someone who hasnt done a lot of C or C++, i'd like to think learning the new way is best, otherwise it's hard to know where to start.
I think at the end of the day there's an important axiomatic difference.

Are you willing to trust any central authority? Maybe a government, maybe a set of independent businesses you can chose among, maybe a specifically selected advisory committee, one really cool dude. Just anything.

If you are, then burning coal and compute cycles is just insane and wasteful.

If you aren't, then you might be willing to admit that from some angles it is an inelegant solution, but it is a solution.

Taking Bitcoin on its own terms, as a solution to a problem you may not personally care about, the wastefulness of the process isn't really a problem. If anything, I agree with what someone else said down thread -- it would be better if mining for Bitcoin wasn't profitable, and it was a lottery people played at a loss (wasting even more resources!). That would discourage the centralization of mining power. IMO the biggest problem Bitcoin faces is that it put voting power in the hands of miners instead of users, and then encouraged those miners to coalesce into a relatively small coalition of big-money players.
Personally I think the '3 stylised models' that the author paints as being the possible sources of high inequality are somewhat wide of the mark.

The majority of 1%ers are there because their parents were 1%ers, and western society is broadly set up to allow those with large amounts of capital to protect it and use it to gain advantage & accumulate more capital. It's not necessarily a bad thing, except where those with capital can use it to bias the system in their favour.

An example is access to education. In the US, the lowest ability quartile of high earners now has a better chance of graduating collage than the highest ability quartile of low earners. From memory it was something like 31% to 29% respectively. The real shame there is the 71% of high-ability low-wealth kids who can't graduate college but really should. That value is being squandered.

However... inequality itself is a trailing indicator of other indicators relating to social cohesion, so it's possible that addressing inequality alone won't have a lasting effect. Robert Putnam is an interesting source on this stuff if anyone is interested.
There's a train on the tracks, heading for a group of people, and on a fork on the tracks one person.... etc. (trolley problem).
I'm sorry but at $20/mo for basic SSL, you can easily spend $40/mo on Heroku for ONE app, almost $500/yr!

A private VPS with enough resources for 4 of those same apps would be 2-4X cheaper.

If your time is so valuable that you can waste money like that, congratulations, but many of us find halving a price and learning marketable skills in the process to be valuable.
Love the Bitcoin/VISA analogy. Wrote about it here: https://medium.com/shekel-magazine/odd-bedfellows-the-strang...

Can 100% understand why some people may hate that future for Bitcoin, but I think the parallels are serious and it's probably what will happen.
Heroku does not offer much over VPS+Dokku.

For the money, Heroku offers far far less than VPS+Dokku
> Treating lives as some fungible resource where the ends justify the means and whatever process results in the most living people at the end shouldn't be correct.

To be fair, while that is generally considered the "right thing", it is reasonable to debate it. The question of "at what point does the welfare of the many outweigh the welfare of the few" is a rather complex one.

One question that I think highlights this well is...

> There's a train headed for a group of 5 people that it will kill. You can flick a switch and make it take another track. However, doing so will make it run over 1 (different) person. Do you flick the switch?

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying I believe that the needs of the many always outweigh the needs of the few. I'm only saying it's not as cut and dry as some people seem to say it is. It's something that should sometimes be discussed based on the situation.
Male on female sexual harassment is worse per female capita (which is the effect people complain about, whether the realize it or not) wherever women are a smaller minority. This is basic math. It isn't anything special about SV culture beyond that. The base rate of male on female sexual harassment varies locally due to accidents of cultural background history. Having females in positions of power can likely help with that, so it is all tied into the virtuous/vicious cycles that relate to gender imbalance.

And techie women are better than average of raising awareness of problems in their industry, because they know how to Internet.
Did the mattress hold up? Is the only reason you are changing because it is too thin and low to the ground but is it otherwise comfortable?
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/recycling_batteri... covers issues with the various battery types and reclamation.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if this was a stock or some other security, and I somehow had influence over how it is managed thus what I said could affect its value, declaring it "dead" (or soon to be worthless) AND holding interest in it (long or short) - would be criminal in most countries.
Italy-where-expensive-cancer-drugs-come-with-a-refund-if-they-dont-work/
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You have to prove a drug saves or improves lives to get it approved in the first place. With the help of survival analysis and clinical trials, we most certainly can quantify it.
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You would see an increase in lifespan. Let's put it this way, if 2001 drug save X(1) lives per year and 2002 drugs save X(2) live per year and 2003... Then in 2020 drugs in total are saving X(1) + X(2) + X(3)... lives per year which extends lifespans. So, you would see clear and stacking lifespan increase.

My statement is that on average X(n) is clearly well under 20,000. So, plenty of caution is warranted.
The base site is based on lobste.rs and the automatic news collection is just email subscriptions to a bunch of open source projects announcement mailing lists.

I may need to extend it to poll websites or github for release notes in the future, as some (still relevant) projects do not have mailing lists.
I would say if one read's Mike's essay and assumed a few things, his opinion would be that it's a moot point. There are already people who think bitcoin is a liquid asset where trading x bitcoins can buy something of value. Those people are having a bad user experience buying stuff with bitcoin, and thus are less encouraged to use bitcoin in the future, which hurts bitcoin as a whole.
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