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Doctors know a lot about the body, medical diagnosis, etc. Certainly more than me. However, I think it is fair to say that there is plenty left to be discovered when it comes to the body, medical diagnosis, etc. and any given doctor can't know all the things there is to know.

Yet I find doctors routinely dispense diagnosis and treatments with very little clarification of their knowledge or certainty on the particular issue at hand. I find they also bristle at efforts for patients to clarify or understand their judgements. I absolutely am NOT the kind of person that wants my doctor to "always convey confidence" even when they are uncertain. I happen to know a thing or two about logical reasoning and diagnostic assessment -- I want the straight truth so I can make the decisions I can.

What is the problem I wonder? As other comment says, I'd love to get a doctor that would just say something like "we don't really know about this one...but we can throw a couple Hail Marys and see what sticks" In some cases that is the most accurate and sensible thing they could say. I sometimes wonder if it is just the doctors I have access to via my regular health insurance. Just like engineers, there must be a distribution of quality among doctors. How do I find the good ones?
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Hard and fast standards would just re-incentivize gaming the system on the operations side. Accounting is very, very difficult. The best answers often include subjective decision making.

Consider; your project managers claim to be done with 80% of a project. You've billed and been paid for 50%. One lone ranger claims the project is only 30% done. At completion, the project will require a an expensive piece of hardware from you to launch. You have three of these pieces of hardware in stock; the first two you bought cost $50k. The last one cost $150k. The market value is $100k, and the customer will pay $100k at launch.

There is no one answer as to how to book this. You have three choices for the inventory booking (FIFO, LIFO, AVCO) -- the first one will at launch book you a net profit of $50k, the second a loss of $50k, and the last one a profit $17k or so. And, you may decide to book the expense of the hardware now, depending on the contract, so it might look like an expense until you actually launch.

If you are accrual basis, you have at least two ways to book your current revenue; 80% or 30%. Depending on your internal personnel costs, that may yield a profit or a loss. Of course, if some of the project time has been spent on things that could yield benefit to the company later, you may move some of it over to an R&D budget,...

The decisions go on. They are neither trivial nor are they unlinked from reality -- answering the questions like 'did we make money on this project?' and 'how much should we sell the hardware for?' are basic questions that yield 'it depends' type answers.

So, yes, people lie on balance sheets, all the time. But, truth is often hard to achieve for even a very solid financial officer and good management team.
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Right, I tried that first but I couldn't actually get it to return any data. I think I was screwing up the request headers. Now though I remembered the Firebug "copy as cURL" thing and it's working, so yeah, definitely a better way to do it.
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People who seem emotionally closed off can be highly sensitive and easily overwhelmed. It's hard to interact with people when all signals and your internal state in social situations are out of whack. When the feedback is constantly discouraging there's no incentive to partake.
That or they will move on to the next narrative, cyber crime or human trafficking or any number of crimes that would be sooo much easier to solve if we gutted the Constitution a little bit more.
Well when the cars were invented did people start living in a dystopia where the car moguls owned mobility itself or did people just got around much faster and had better lives in general.
Conspiracy theory: The Verge is still angry that Apple enabled content blocking, thus allowing users to remove most of their adtech bloat.
It's odd you say this. The default response for many people is when they deal with someone who seems filmsy-flamsy, they automatically distrust that person and gravitate towards the firm and confident instead...and use that as a proxy for judgement of their knowledge/intellegence.
Not even having to fly nearly that much I can relate. Mostly to the "swimming upstream" and "efficiency at security".

Mishaps happen (I forgot I had bottled water with me in security on my return flight last time). But simple things like pulling out your belt early, having your electronic devices at hand, having your boarding pass at hand and so on go a very long way in making sure, that everybody will be through security faster.

I also am amazed about how lots of people treat these security persons.

I learned being a decent human being will get you a very long way in most cases. For example my mishap from above. Security allowed me to drink from the bottle, while I went through (not in the scanner though). So I only had to dump a nearly empty bottle in the end, not a totally new one.

I just was friendly, made clear, that it was my mistake and apologized for the inconvenience to the sec person. he rest ist the story told above.
I know this is (maybe?) a joke, but I've been seeing similar jokes everywhere. Self-aware AIs in the future will probably be much more rational that humans, utilizing game theory for every decision, and recognize that taking out vengeance on a human that had no ill intent on a non-self aware prototype would be a waste of energy and only bring about negative consequences.

I'm replying in seriousness because I too could imagine a world where this video was marked as a historical artifact by AGIs and recognized for its content.
It doesn't have the grace of an actual human.

Its solution to any problem seems to be more stomping.
That was hyperbolic. Obviously even potheads in the US want some restrictions. But the guiding principle seems to be that grown adults should be free to smoke pot as they please and in whatever way they please. That is not my perspective on legalization at all. I view it as a necessary evil. Something to do because the alternative is much worse. So I want the legalization to be as strict as possible while still being more attractive than the criminal alternative. Perhaps though in a transition period it can make sense to be more liberal to drive out the dealers completely and tighten it more later.

Here are are more of my specifics. I favor an absolute ban on any form of advertisement. Limits on the size and number of shops and their placement. I would also like the dispensaries to be non profit, or alternatively a government monopoly. One does not want anybody to have a profit motive to sell drugs.

I think a dispensary should be place that you can both buy drugs but also get information about health hazards and informations about available treatment. Edibles should be banned and government should set max rates for potency of the drugs.

But apart from that I of course wish that there is an end to the federal rules against this. People operating dispenseries should not have to fear being imprisoned by FBI and banks should be allowed to have them as customers.
> "can the All Writs Act compel a company to proactively defeat its own security measures?"

I think there's a qualifier on there that you're missing. It's not just if the All Writs Act can compel a company to undermine their security measures. It's "if a company can undermine their security measures, can the All Writs Act compel them to do so?"

I think the answer is, arguably, "yes."

But that's a meaningful distinction because the 5C lacks trusted execution, and newer iPhones have it. I just read an article where Apple claims the precedent set in this case could force them to undermine phones with trusted execution. And that's probably true, too, IFF they can undermine it themselves.

But the All Writs Act certainly cannot bar a company from creating something that cannot be undermined.

So they'll make firmware that can't be modified without wiping the device.
That's fine for you and many others. However, it's an anti-pitch for a YC company: demo day is really auction day. They're selling a chunk of themselves to an institutional investor sifting for disproportionate returns.
One that I notice is "Where should we go to dinner tonight?" Which naturally begins as SELECT * FROM All_Restaurants, too big of a result set, so I have to start adding filters. 'Too far away' is a nebulous variable, and 'likely to have a long wait time' is a guess at best. By the time I narrow it down to a reasonable subset, we have long since eaten cereal for dinner, she's gone to bed, and all the restaurants are closed. Not a fun experience for either of us. I try to mix it up with just randomly saying "Hey, let's go try this new place that we've know nothing about!"
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“If you are logged in to a site that does this, it's a huge danger. Your private account information can be slurped down by ajax on any other sites.”

This is false (unless `Access-Control-Allow-Credentials` is set). See CORS 101: https://annevankesteren.nl/2012/12/cors-101
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I remember reading about failed experiments from the 90's to separate inline comments from source code through a form of duplication. Mark a "source" folder and a "documentation" folder. Every time you open a file in the source folder structure, create a duplicate file in the documentation folder structure (including folders and nesting). Comments are expandable blocks with markers for start and end of code that they apply to in a side-by-side pane. Viola, inline comments without inline cruft. Version it all and you're good to go. When I have time, I will try to recreate it as an IDE plugin for someone...when I have time.
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If you studied history they passed prohibition that banned alcohol. It did not work as bootleggers and gangsters would make their own alcohol and sell it at hidden clubs. Stores would sell fruit juice next to sugar and yeast and all the customer had to do was find a way to mix them to make alcohol.

They eventually had to repeal Prohibition.

When they banned drugs, they did the same thing. It is prohibition all over again. Criminals and gangs got into dealing drugs for money and people can't give them up. The war on drugs doesn't work because the CIA makes money from drug lords, and gangs and criminals make a lot of money selling drugs on the street. I managed to grow up without getting into drug but during the 1970s and 1980s there was a lot of peer pressure into doing drugs with others when I was growing up. It has become a social thing.

Many prisoners are in prison for using drugs. So our prison system is over crowded as a result. All the war on drugs did was imprison drug users and not go after the gangs and dealers.

The government doesn't get privacy rights. So they violate privacy in order to crack encryption on an iPhone via a backdoor or master key or modified iOS that gets rid of passcode penalties and brute forces the passcode. They only see getting the data off the iPhone to use as evidence, and don't care that it causes iPhone users to lose their privacy and make iPhones less secure.

The government isn't logical about these things, judges and politicians are for the most part not tech savvy enough to understand the technology and the need for privacy. They studied law, and other things, and not technology in the most case to understand how it works. They see getting evidence on terrorists as a priority and don't care what rights it violates. They can pass a law that pressed criminal charges at Apple employees and management for not helping out and try to force them to do what they say. We faced the same issues on the war on terror that required domestic spying and collection of metadata via the US Patriot Act.
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Perhaps why YC is funding research on basic income... https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income
Sorry, didn't mean to suggest tacit approval for carte blanche government surveillance. I'm just implying that just because terrorism has a low death toll now, doesn't mean that it will [since terrorists are seeking to exact as much damage as possible]
It sounds like you know what the intent was, but have chosen to ignore it, because you feel the words chosen must contain the entire intent.

Why can't nonverbal cues and other contexts also be brought into your estimation? Or perhaps asking for clarity on the question if you really, truly aren't sure what's being asked?

Asking for clarification, rather than answering the wrong question, seems like a superior approach.
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For me, reading definitely doesn't involve any internal dialog. My eyes scan the page and the information passes directly into my consciousness. I guess that I'm a very fluent reader, however I don't remember any intermediate "translation" steps when I was young.

I think a good illustration of this internal dialog is learning a new language. At first you (verbally) translate each word in your head into your native language. But as you gain fluency, you begin to understand the new language directly.

Many decades ago I learnt Morse Code, and the process was similar. At first I mentally (and painstakingly) translated each letter. Later I translated each word. But eventually the information just flowed into my head without any intermediate steps.
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> Although even some desktop apps manage to be as janky and dog slow as almost anything from the Win98 era, e.g. iTunes until a couple of years ago. By contrast, the cheapest Third World market smartphone would run Win98 apps blinding fast.

It is easy to take potshots at e.g. iTunes, but the real reason software "got worse" is not developers getting lazy. What happened is that expectations for CPU-intensive features rose (memory protection, ASLR, NX, encryption, low-latency audio, high-efficiency codecs, ClearType) while willingness to pay vanished. In Win98 times, you bought your music player from the developer (remember Winamp?) whereas now it comes free with your OS, which is itself probably free. So of course it is all half-assed now, but it's not "lazy" to spend resources on software someone will pay for, and not on software nobody will pay for.

You could absolutely reverse this, but it has nothing to do with native or web technology, and everything to do with changing consumer attitudes about choosing software.

> On the desktop, the hardware is finally winning--it's just too damn fast. Hopefully that will happen with smartphones too.

From 1995 until today, power consumption in desktop processors grew about 5-15x, depending on how exactly you measure. 5-15x more power on mobile devices is simply not an option, unless we have a "new physics" kind of breakthrough in both battery and thermal technology.
Most of our documentation attention goes towards the user manual and the system operator manual.

We generate the bulk of those manuals based on our object model, which is liberally sprinkled with (text only) descriptions. We've created a simple XML-based authoring framework which allows us to create pretty tidy documentation. Including images, tables, code examples etc.

We convert that XML to Apache FOP. At the end of the process, we're left with a bunch of tidy PDF manuals in a variety of languages.
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A combination of Github Wikis and a Dozuki site.
I was loosely involved in a project to reimplement all the Unix commands in Perl back around ~2000 or so.

Things seem to live on here:

https://metacpan.org/pod/PerlPowerTools
And if the Apple master key is ever revealed or stolen, everyone's phone can be decrypted. So yeah, this plan still compromises the general security of the device.
Did you read "strategy of conflict"? It explains why irrational behaviour is the most optimal strategy sometimes.
Less slots means more demand. More demand means higher prices. The irony is, less ads probably means more clicks per page views.

The real question is: What took them so long to do this?
I'm big specifically on the 787 and the A380 in this order (perhaps reversed if I can get on upper deck on the A380, which almost never happens) because of the noise levels, humidity and pressure, which are MUCH better than the 777 and 747 and earlier aircraft, even renovated.

Most airlines flying into SIN have old IFE on the older aircraft which means 1 in 2 seats has a massive metal box taking away half your foot space, and my knees and the sides of my legs really do not appreciate this. Next generation (e.g. new BA 773s) is a flat thin black box, or nothing visible. For some reason, a 3-4-3 777 is also a guaranteed trolley-shoulder bash every time they serve food, another good reason to avoid airlines that like to fly it (including SQ); my shoulder doesn't stick out as much from a newer aircraft seat but this could be psychological. Also, the A380 upper deck window seat has massive amounts of space on the window side which feels somewhat more private (you can practically stash your bag there).

One side effect of how quiet the 787 and A380 are is that you can hear babies from much further - perhaps 10 rows vs 2. So, it can be harder to sleep if you're seated too close to a baby cluster in Y.

I don't mind taking ages to deplane or board. It's a fraction of the flight anyway, and the actual walking is quick and the rest seated. I used to care about the crowd/volume when flying to SYD because SYD customs used to be highly inefficient, with LHR level of queues for foreigners. They made recent changes and now it's faster than for Australians using e-gates, so I'm not as bothered by a slow deplaning for that either.

I do mind less noise in my ears for the 22h of flying from Australia to Europe on 3 legs. I'll fly budget over SQ if the budget airline has a 787... sandwiches are cheaper than lost sleep!
I had to revert back to the old version with "ugly" icons as soon as I've got the new update since the new UI is so terrible and hard to look at. Not to mention it keeps on crashing.
That is not true. Perhaps I have been naive about the American result but as a Norwegian I am used to a very controlled sale of alcohol. Alcohol advertisement is banned and any alcohol above 5% is sold in government monopolies. This is quite different from e.g. the Canadian liquor monopoly which the government seems to treat as a cash cow. In Norway they are really not trying to push alcohol on your or increase sales. Instead they focus on customer satisfaction and teaching customers what wine goes with what food and things like that.

In the Netherlands there might not be a monopoly on drug sales, but the coffeeshops are generally small operations without a huge presence. There are no advertisement. So yes I have experience alternatives which don't treat these industries as big money operations. And perhaps I naively thought that was possible in the US, forgetting that Americans tend to think very big when it comes to business.
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They've killed APIs/Products, but they've almost always given a very long amount of time to transition.
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> The only missing bit is the Fedora 23 image, so I created one which you can download from my Google Drive here ... It’s an untouched Fedora minimal ARM image rootfs tarball, with some stuff removed (like kernel, boot partition etc.).

That stuff like this is possible and with as little hacking/messing around as this is actually pretty cool.

Also props for the mention of the X-server app. I've been doing VNC server + client so far, and have always been a little unhappy about the result.
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I get untied.ca. That honestly debunks that Google thinks this is an irrelevant use of the word untied.
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I usually try to be positive but these changes don't look good. It looks like some overzealous designer started making UX decisions they weren't qualified to make and now the app is unusable.

I'm a huge SourceTree fan - I use it exclusively for Git, but I won't be upgrading until these obvious UX problems have been addressed.

Edit: Also, why do the OS X and Windows versions look so different?!? The buttons aren't even in the same places!

Edit 2: I don't like how negative I was in my initial post. I'm going to give it a try, maybe I'll be surprised.

Edit 3: So I just opened it up.. I think the spacing has been improved substantially. Individual components feel more polished, certainly. The biggest problem though is that the entire app feels like it's defocused because it's all grey. The only colour in the entire application comes from the pale blue used to colour the folders. Pretty lame. The whole UI just feels very drab now. Other than the lack of colour though, it looks better.
It wouldn't have any impact, and that's the point.

To block all encryption apps, you'd need to censor the internet and check every digital device at the border. The government needs to understand that this is the implication of the direction in which it wishes to take us.

Bruce Schneier goes into more detail: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/back_doors_wo...
That looks awesome, thanks for sharing! Had a chance to talk to some Exosite people here in Taiwan, very impressed on all level! :)
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What you call "low profit areas" most advertisers call "wtf? I paid for what?"

Removing ads wasn't a PR stunt. Hardly. It was simple math. Piss off enough advertisers and they leave. That's not PR. That's smart product dev.
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Git-LFS was developed by Github, presumably so they could expand their business to manage more types of content.
It's the algorithms that get patented.
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It looks like the Apple Watch had a horrible holiday season
SourceTree served me well for many years. Switched to GirUp 3 months ago and haven't looked back since. Highly recommend it. It's fast.

http://gitup.co/
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as best i recall, big dog was meant to be a long distance, possibly autonomous, pack mule for places and missions where a manned vehicle was not an option.

i suspect that this robot have a operating time of maybe an hour before the battery pack needs to be swapped.
In fact, very few production compilers use generated parsers - sooner or later they tend to end up with hand-written parsers for one reason or other. Particularly down to error reporting.

Parser generators need to get much better before that will change.
> does anyone really use SourceTree?

I use it daily, for work and personal projects. Mainly like the fact that I can instantly see the changes in files and unstage/stage only the relevant changes for the commit. I sometimes keep temp code around for weeks without issues because I can easily just _not_ commit it.
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When I read a comment on HN from a voice I know (DHH, patio11, Rob Walling, etc) I usually hear their voice as I read it. (in DHH's case, inserting a few extra obscenities for good measure)
As is the case with Apple's software certifier key. AFAIK this is what we currently have to assume since Apple doesn't specify how the update process for the secure enclave works. If this is the case it doesn't change anything, the certifier key is already like a master key.