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> Take your example of expert systems: as far as I know, they never really took off.

This is exactly why I said you should look into their history. They took off big time. Search Amazon for "expert systems" and observe how many books there are about the subject.

They were used by large corporations, hospitals, universities and governments. They were the subject of a lot of research. There were countless startups based around the concept.
No of course not. In fact, I do very little in the grand scheme of things to make the world a better place. If you're doing charity work though, you are a minority. I'm not trying to toot my horn I'm just pointing out how much help is needed and how few people actually show up :/
Everyone in the U.S. knows this word. The U.S. is a majority of native English speakers.
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> The system unfortunately does not afford much wiggle room for ethical and national duty when working with those constraints.

This is strictly true, which is one of the reasons I think the onus of long-term thinking has sadly but rightly shifted to regulation over altruism.

Whereas in the past you might have had a titan of industry decide that dumping chemical byproducts of manufacture into the water supply of surrounding farms was "wrong", now the CEO will be voted out if he or she fails to make the profitable choice.
There is a conflict of values to consider here:
Do we we place a higher value on preventing relative poverty in the United States or extreme poverty around the world?

"""Poverty rates started to collapse towards the end of the 20th century largely because developing-country growth accelerated, from an average annual rate of 4.3% in 1960-2000 to 6% in 2000-10... China is responsible for three-quarters of the achievement."""[1]

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-bill...
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> Also, removing the file system tree would be a huge step backwards.

Absolutely agree. I also fully believe natural text search is the future for computer interfaces. But what this article ignores is that you can easily have both. I use Spotlight to instantly full-text search over all of my files, applications, and their metadata to launch / open / access my data, but I also keep a standard directory structure instead of keeping all my files in one place. I've started thinking of the directory tree as a hierarchical tagging system, and when I'm trying to find a file for which I can't remember the right search terms it's incredibly useful. No need to throw out the baby with the bathwater; multiple views / interfaces to the same data is very useful.

I suspect Apple was thinking along the same terms when they introduced the "All My Files" shortcut in the Finder. But I'm sure they realized that the majority of their customers (who are barely able to use their computers; more or less computer illiterate) are just not ready to move beyond the "Desktop" / "Filing Cabinet" metaphor.

Actually, I've been thinking about this a lot recently, and I just started using the OS X universal Help menu feature [0] to take actions in complicated applications like Photoshop. Full-text search over all possible menu commands in any application? Yes, please. I really miss being able to do this when I'm in my Debian or Windows environments.

[0]: described here http://lifehacker.com/5592856/use-os-xs-application-help-men...
Yeah, I can't say I don't regret my involvement either.
No, I don't think anyone made that conjecture. I was merely pointing out a mistake in my past in hopes others would learn.
I thought the video was of removing rubber failing.

I would hate your Web app if you removed rubber. I don't mind at all if your top bar follows the rubber, which happens on plenty of websites.
A very cool talk on the Clojure tech behind the tooling of the engine
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Not suppressive?

I won't even discuss this subject non-anonymously due to the risk of the mob setting on me by association, not because I agree with Yarvin, but because I disagree strenuously with their use of intimidation to suppress people with whom they disagree.

Attempting to paint this as anything other than intimidation and suppression strikes me as a great irony as I sit here responding, necessarily for the well-being of myself and my family, anonymously.
That rule usually only applies if the word doesn't have other valid uses. For example, 'cracker' is a racial slur for white people, but it also means an edible snack, so it's in the clear. To my knowledge, the word 'kike' does not have a non-offensive meaning, at least in the english speaking world.
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Definitely a mis-step. The "touch focused" menu interface is literally of no interest to me.
Supporter of EFF here. Just call me skeptical when I read lines like this:

> Bringing together community and campus ... will serve as an increasingly vital hub for activism and organizing

> free expression: people should be able to speak their minds to whomever will listen.

In my experience these types of organizations are not very interested in discussing topics or ideas that might make them feel uncomfortable. See college safe environments as an example.

Why even make this a priority if you don't really mean it?
Re-re-posting a comment I've made in a few threads now, because I feel this needs to get more awareness:

I'm still learning and prototyping my first JS/NPM/React project, but https://github.com/JamieMason/shrinkpack seems to me like it solves _most_ of the issues involved here. It pulls down all the tarballs, and updates the npm-shrinkwrap.json to point to those instead. That way you check in a much smaller "node_shrinkwrap" folder of a few hundred tarballs and 15-20MB, rather than a node_modules folder of 30K files and 150MB and a bunch of platform-specific build outputs.

Still doesn't solve the issue of installing new/updated dependencies that might actually require pulling in something that vanished, but at least once you've done an install and run "shrinkpack", you've got everything you need to rebuild right there.
I don't know. For most of then it's just a job. It's rewarding sometimes and sometimes not.

A few of then really burn for it and make wonders. Others burned out.

I think a surprisingly large percentage are not particularly suited to be a teacher,and they suffer as they are not in control of the situation.

A few are probably really bad apples and should not be allowed to work with children since they are paedophiles or sadists.

But I doubt that even more than a few teachers are thinking in the terms of creating a 'compliant' workforce.
HFS followed not soon after the original Mac, though.

Losing a filesystem hierarchy is loony toons. I can't even
The ACLU is also a liberal association[1], although I agree liberals and conservatives work together in some issues. There's no doubt about it.

And yes, I think it's okay to reject them, because I am afraid of them gaining affection from everybody just to push an agenda later. If they wanted to herald digital freedom, they should have remained completely neutral in political issues, but they chose not to...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union...
This is like looking at Porsche try to make a flatbed truck. It's stupid because it belays all the use cases that the product ctaegory needs.

Designer: design isn't just about looking sleek, it's primarily about meeting the use case as simply and robustly as possible. All these use cases are better on other devices.
This is the new upcoming editor, but still very interesting!
I totally agree with you on the perception of smartphone ownership and ease of access.

I am trying to make the point that it is not going to help you to improve your status in the society. You can't do home budget on a phone, can't access most of Ukrainian online banking, can't do an online course. And for tasks that you can do, like email and calendar, you are more likely to spend more time on the phone while doing them. I like to think of this as a "thing" vs a "tool". I had a low-end Sempron PC since I was around 15 and it was far more useful to me than a smartphone (I had my first smartphone around the same time - shiny new Nokia Symbian, which I probably asked for the reasons you've outlined in your reply). Now I am using laptops, dual screen setups, work and personal phones, tablets etc. and it is useful, but not essential. I really like duolingo and podcasts on my phone, though.

And sorry, I wasn't clear: I am strictly opposing the utility of an iPhone or an expensive Android smartphone for poor, because almost everyone has a (relatively) affordable access to least an Android 2.3 / Windows Phone device in Ukraine now (usable for calls, SMS and basic messaging, some web browsing if you're patient and lucky).
I think they'd have to use a different base board - the C2 uses an Amlogic S905, which as far as I know doesn't support USB3.
I struggle to think of how an article could be more wrong. It's just nonsense. All browsers - Chrome, Safari, IE/Edge and Firefox are constantly adding new features, improving performance, and fixing bugs. Obviously they have different priorities, but this is just nothing like the age of IE.
> If your job is taking over your life, you owe it to yourself and to the entire labouring population to try to fix that situation.

How? That requires negotiating power. Negotiating power requires either collective action or an individually having better alternative to working their current job. Collective action is risky because you could be fired and lose your $42,382 income.
It hasn't been called "Mac OS X" in several years. It's just "OS X", which is much better.
Wait, so now what determines whether a language is “procedural” is its surface syntax rather than its semantics?
I wish his endeavor with government support will yield interesting pragmatic advances.
"The space itself appeared to be decomposing.
The front wall, next to the door, was made of corroded metal.
The paint on the wedge-shaped shelf had almost completely chipped away;
the beds were caked in rust;
and the floor underneath the toilet was stained brown and black.
Dust and crumbs accumulated in every corner."

You suppose this was a high tech institution?
But no-one said "kike". You guys regexed it out of a larger word, a totally reasonable word. My point is that no-one but you would even have that word in their regex, so it's wrong to get all upset about it.
Can't agree with this. Safari definitely tends to lag behind the other browsers in terms of implementing more recent standards, but that's just nothing like the situation was back in IE 6 times.
I have to wonder what other price is paid for that state of affairs. Is that the result of some sort of ... rigged game?
Well the author is UI designer. I guess that says a lot.
The article IS about the misallocation of wealth?

The concern is there will be a class of highly paid individuals in the US and a class of unemployed (replace with underemployed, low income) because we're sending all our manufacturing jobs overseas.

Grove's argument is whatever benefits you're getting for sending jobs overseas, there's a societal cost (increase inequality), as well as unforeseen future costs when innovation and technical excellence is located elsewhere.

No idea about the rest of your views.
Many (me included) consider the inclusion of such a speaker as tacit endorsement of the acceptability of such views.

One of the results of holding and espousing deeply racist views should be exclusion from society.
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That's one hell of a clickbait title. In order for any browser to be "the new IE", developers would have to hate it and dread developing for it/supporting it. Ask any web developer today which browser is their favourite, go-to browser for development. This statement holds absolutely no water.

Secondly, the author cherry picks a couple things that haven't been implemented in Chrome, glossing over the fact that Chrome tends to support way more features than any other browser on the market, and is more often than not the first and the best implementor of web standards. A quick perusal of caniuse.com or the support matrices on MDN will drive this point home (honourable mention to Firefox).
The described behaviour isn't that unusual. Several of the people I've worked with have said they do things in almost exactly the same way. (and they're not idiots ;>)
I think there is a significant confluence among those who find prosperity and purpose through jobs to conflate the concepts of employment and purpose. That to not have a job is to not have a purpose, and vice versa. If we had a planned economy built around peak employment, we would have many fewer entrepreneurs and many more, as you say, hole diggers.

Socially we already do that. We have created a gargantuan advertising industry that has zero net material gain for society, whose sole purpose is to redirect dollars already in circulation to their employers. We have dramatically expanded bureaucracy in almost every industry to micromanage risk at the cost of tremendous overhead in the time of human beings spent on it. We maintain many institutions in the service industry more-so because the marginal cost of having all the participants unemployed (and thus hungry, destitute, and dangerous) is worse than just paying them do to work nobody practically would need done if not for the negative impacts of simply dropping people out of the workforce.

But this is entirely the wrong way to approach economics. It is absolutely antithetical to the human condition to start from the presumption that people need to do something for someone else for their life to have meaning. That is where entrepreneurism comes from, and we need more of it going forward, not less, as we systemically eliminate the repetitious work in our lives through technological advancement. To aspire for peak employment is to aspire for the death of aspiration. Rather than seeing a "problem" of unemployment, when the practical cause is derived from the lack of anyone willing to pay people for their time considering the skills that they have, see it as an opportunity. If we have unemployment it means everything worth doing is being done, and we should be trying to enable those who are not needed to keep society running to improve that society through innovation than to fabricate busywork for them to do to keep all the cogs in the machine in tune with one another, even if a large segment of said cogs are redundant.

And probably the best example is how I imagine most people would read that previous sentence - but there is a ton of things I want done! But practically, capitalism does not care what you want, it cares about only what those with the dollars to make their voices heard want. The unemployed should be those free to listen to the wants of people rather than money, rather than those who society condemns to poverty.
The idea that there are "consumers with money to spend" hinges on the availability of jobs that pay good wages. People without jobs aren't good consumers (most government benefits are parsimonious or heavily restricted to certain items).

Free trade unquestionably allows companies to offshore jobs to countries with cheap labor, no environmental regulation, high corruption to enable bribes, or all of the above.

As a consequence, wages stagnate as more and more of the profit accumulates at the top. Those at the top divert a much larger percentage of their wealth into investments, driving a surplus of capital seeking return. Meanwhile wage earners' purchasing power decreases. This trend can be masked for a time, as marginal people drop out of the labor force, older people retire early, the cheap overseas labor gives wiggle room to drop some prices, and other technological advances make some goods cheaper to produce.

In the long term the consumer class is gutted. Capital is misallocated due to lack of investment opportunities, financial volatility increases, and the concentration of wealth enables a handful of people to command a vastly outsized influence on government.

For the record, this was the Gilded Age in the USA where we jumped from financial panic to financial panic and the monopolists and .01% literally decided entire elections in back rooms. The same old arguments have been reborn (free market, regulation strangles business, etc).

I'm pretty sure things will continue to get worse before they get better. It took the fear of Bolsheviks to force change last time.
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> Certainly not Western Europe

Certainly not? These years were known as the "Trente Glorieuses" (glorious thirty) in France.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_Glorieuses
> Any movement that focuses on one section of society (KKK, feminism) inevitably drives intolerance.

If a section of society is marginalized and persecuted in the society as a whole, a movement to equalize things is bound to crop up. By your argument, you would prefer the African-American civil rights movement never to have existed, is that correct?

As a sidenote, I would like to remark that many feminists would like to define feminism as the struggle to end sexism for everybody. Consider this quote by bell hooks:

"In Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, I suggest that defining feminism broadly as “a movement to end sexism and sexist oppression” would enable us to have a common political goal…Sharing a common goal does not imply that women and men will not have radically divergent perspectives on how that goal might be reached."
This is clickbait. There is nothing in here that comes (anywhere) close to XI -- at best, it's OS X 10.12. OS XI will be a paradigm shift -- the way that OS 9 to OS X was -- not just a slightly different UI, desktop picture, and icons.
There's plenty of PhD's working in semiconductor materials and devices. The US Gov is currently funding lots of research into so called 2D materials, e.g. graphene and MoS2. Personally, I'm skeptical that any of it will ever find anything more than tangential commercial application, e.g. graphene as a semi-transparent, high mobility conductor.
> Tablets and smartphones have a touch screen, computers most often don't.

Well all the PC's in my home have touch screen and I surely miss it when I use a Mac at work.
I think that Americans place a higher value on preventing extreme poverty around the world.

When faced with picky eaters, before around 1970, parents all over the USA would use the cliche that "children are starving in China."
IMHO: Deliver products/services can get paid for. For this, move to new areas with no competition, that is, move products/services forward. For this, use new, powerful, valuable technology.

For that, broadly, supply new, valuable information. For that, take in available data, manipulate it, and report the new information as the results.

So, with all this data, find where some new, valuable information will make a good, new product/service. Then to have the first good or a much better offering, do use much more powerful data manipulations. For that, the secret is, and the candidates are, object oriented programming, processors with 1000+ cores, processors with clocks at 50 GHz+, new programming languages, new computer architectures exploiting, say, solid state disks addresses as a slower version of main memory, processors communicating with optical instead of electrical signals, quantum processors, massive parallelism of the cloud, original derivations with theorems and proofs in applied math exploiting appropriate advanced prerequisites, and may I have the envelope please [drum roll], and the winner is -- applied math!

Sorry 'bout that. Here the applied math is replacing the current ubiquitous elementary techniques, intuitive heuristics, fitting to large data sets, and copying what was long done manually.

This answer will not serve everyone or please everyone, but IMHO it is the most promising, single path forward.
I tried this. I have a reasonable ap and a reasonable switch (don't remember brand ans type by heart) but getting vlans and wifi nets configured correctly and so that all devices work correctly, and easy enough to use is very hard. I'm no networking expert but I like to think I know the basics, but I gave up on vlanning after several days of getting nowhere.
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Have you ever tried to embed a webm into a webpage? iOS devices will hide the website then play the video in full-screen.
It has been argued by many that WWII was not an economic high point in the lived experiences of most citizens. Even in America which faced almost no destruction of its territory and infrastructure there was severe rationing of basic commodities, durables, and food. For a large number of people, the war years were a downgrade in lifestyle from even late depression standards.

The economy did do well after the war, but you could also attribute that to delayed purchases as spending money on new homes, automobiles, and all sorts of goods was finally possible. This combined with a much larger labour pool as some women remained in the workforce, while many families who had delayed child-rearing started families and needed to earn and spend to support that. The post-war boom years were marked by a huge reduction of central planning and government spending. Most Keynesians at the time were actually predicting a return to deep recession because of this, and the opposite happened.
Who decides which conferences I will be forced to attend in order to avoid hurting the feelings of white supremacists?

Conferences are private entities that choose their speakers using a variety of metrics. No one is entitled to a speaking spot at a tech conference; the organizers look for speakers that will attract attendees, generate (positive?) buzz, provide good talks, etc. If the people attending the conference and helping with the conference don't want to hear someone who has written in favor of white supremacy speak at length on some topic unrelated to his white supremacist beliefs, why should conference organizers offer him a speaking spot? Who decides who gets to speak, if not the conference organizers?

And, in this case, the conference has decided to ignore the history of the speaker, and the opinions of some conference attendees, and have him speak. That is, again, their choice. I think it's gross, but I'd never suggest they should be prevented from allowing this person to speak. I would not attend a conference with this person as a speaker; not because I'm afraid he'll infect my mind with his peculiar and anachronistic brand of racism (I've read a number of his essays, it would not be exposure to some novel idea), but because I think white supremacists should be shunned. Literally. They should be ignored so hard in our communities that they opt out of them, seeking spaces more friendly to their positions.

Lambda Conf has every right to have someone who thinks slavery is a rather nice idea speak at their conference. Other people have every right to criticize that decision and opt not to participate in that conference.
I don't use tests, and I find that when I need to make a change to some code that has, say, four or five different paths through the logic, a lot of times one of the paths will break. Testing all of the paths manually each time there is a change is incredibly tedious and time-consuming. I feel like if I had unit tests I would be able to just see instantly if anything was broken. But, I never can seem to find the time to write them...
Can't we just take it for granted now the climate we've experienced as homo sapiens is going to change in a very huge way? We don't have the tech to direct the change, we don't have the political institutions to even stop our own contribution to the change. So let us start from the premise it will change and start working on ways to survive that change with some modicum of success rather than mass die offs.