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The answer you're leading toward is "something akin to apocalypse", and I get it, it's scary.

On the other hand have you really taken enough time to consider the consequences if your faction is wrong? Have you acknowledged that there could be bad consequences in that case too?

Typically I hear "we would be taking better care of the environment anyway so win-win" but nobody ever adds "by granting loads of new power to governments and big institutions, which may or may not be corrupted just as big and powerful institutions have been corrupted throughout history" and that is a significant detail!

Out of curiosity, I'm interested to know which of the following descriptions you consider more accurate:

a) The climate/environment situation is exactly as bad as the mainstream warnings indicate. The only hope at this point is if we can start a large long-term centrally planned project to administer the solution as decided by the most prominent or respected thinkers.

a) The climate/environment situation is not as dire as mainstream warnings indicate. At least some of the activism is motivated by fear, when people notice this or that smaller problem, get very scared by warnings of much bigger problems to come, and make the not-completely-rational choice to give up freedom for the promise of safety.
The reason people are making the browser the OS is because there's money in it. Ad money, SaaS money, middleman money.

People whose computers already do useful things, for free, will obviously think that moving everything into the browser is stupid. But if you look at it from the perspective of the profit-driven companies and people pushing for it, the motivation is reasonable, if evil.
"Unless you like jellyfish" calmed.
Did you get SF and NYC mixed up? Isn't 8am SF == 11am NYC?
First it only applies to rotating black holes. Second it's particle and virtual particle not anti particle.
Yes, of course! I never claimed otherwise!

However, you need some number so I think that makes some sense as a starting point. 20k is the minimum here and that's low in my opinion.

Actually now that I think about it there bodily injury is separate from property injury. Here it's 20k property injury and 30k bodily injury are the legal minimums.

I just remember being surprised because cars are so expensive it is not hard to do 20k in property damage, just hit a late model car.
It's still not a problem if the client and server write secure code. because you can still man in the middle the packets, or own the emulator where you have direct access to the applications memory to manipulate it. A server cannot trust a client.
Even if the source is guarded by GPL, the idea behind the source can be copied and represented in another form. Then the freedom defined by GPL is obscure to me. MIT licenses saves me from time-consuming copycat situations. Yeah, I am lazy, but I'm more willing to share (hard-working now) if you don't push me to extreme.

I know the pattent laws in the past were somewhat ridiculous compared to what they are today (though still ridiculous sometimes), so GPL was/is really great then, just like the Creative Commons licenses.
That's right. Mathics is still maintained. There are currently two of us working on it. The last release was v0.9 in March this year.
LE doesn't care about stolen bikes because their constituency doesn't care about stolen bikes. Do some back- of- the- envelope math about what it would take in terms of person/hours to seriously investigate a single bike theft, then multiply that by the fully loaded cost of a single police officer.

If a municipality decided to take bike theft seriously, by paying increased OT or expanding the police department employment rolls, law enforcement would be all over it.

A similar problem exists for ransomware. Ransomware attacks are less frequent and more targeted, but drastically harder to investigate. We could spend many billions more to build an infosec investigative capability in state governments, and that would help, but we would rather spend those billions on other things.
Interesting. Reminds me of a discussion here where so many FOSS projects were barely scraping by, overloaded with reauests from non-paying users. A few showed up to say simply: "tell them to pay you go build or support the feature if they really want it." Seems your company is playing it wiser than most. ;)
> subpolynomial time nonsense

what exactly do you mean by this?
Do they, though?

I just tested this on the phone today - it sees even my damn ambient light, in real-time. Why the hell is stuff like this allowed to be seen by default in a browser?

http://webkay.robinlinus.com/
Mozilla's experimental Gecko+Electron framework
It's interesting because, as a layman, this sounds a lot like what Keynes said: aggregate demand is the most relevant factor. Hell, using those ideas pulled us out of the great depression.

Then there's the Friedman supply-side argument that only aggregate supply matters. The demand curve is effectively vertical. Arguably, this seemed to have heaved Britain out of stagflation thanks to Thatcher. We now see raging inequality that these policies seem to promote.

Between these two theories of macroeconomics, it seems to mW that we swing between either extreme without considering a middle ground - both are important. Either extreme seems to have a long-term negative effect. When aggregate demand falls sharply in a recession, measures to rectify seems appropriate. This keeps people spending in a time where they typically wouldn't. When businesses struggle, due to a shock in supply, measures to ease this on that end too seem appropriate.

In a way, it seems a lot of economics is used with political bias. Certain all-or-nothing theories tend to be used as the means to an ideologue's ends within a democratic system.
A lot of trains are to various degrees. A lot of passenger services are entirely automatic with a conductor just shutting doors and checking tickets.

Freight trains probably aren't worth automating right now. Trains are huge, only one guy there, probably useful to have him there anyway if there is a mechanical fault (vs blocking the line for hours while the nearest person flys/drives to the train).
I think a sensor that has 3 sub-sensors that respond at roughly the same wavelengths as our cones, and has each sensor's response curve matched to human perception would be good enough, no? Maybe with a clever algorithm to reduce the 3 values to a single perceived brightness value?

I feel like something along those lines must already exist for a number of uses.
Oh OK. So, not an ordinary business needing email, file servers, web, etc. Just needs hackabld computers to teach folks to hack on computers. That makes more sense. :)

Good luck to you. Btw, just to know Im reading it right, what does the ESL mean here?
I think the issue people have isn't that 90,000 people have 90% of the wealth, it's the implications behind that figure. It's the imbalance between 6.6 million people who die every year from poor diet or malnutrition, something preventable by providing people with basic necessities such as food and clean water, and having 90,000 people owning collectively tens or hundreds of trillions of dollars.

Your argument would hold merit as soon as the the single mother of three in Somalia has every opportunity to do what you did. We are decades, if not centuries away from that. And until that point, I don't find it unreasonable that people will take issue with wealth imbalances.
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It's the curse of the IoT (Internet of Threats). This is just the beginning unfortunately.
One reason might be that developers would probably just do the minimum possible CSP rather than following the spirit of it. Unlike with HTTPS, a CSP could be created with the exact same security model as no CSP using directives like unsafe-eval.
Maybe terse Scala solutions compare to longer C solution, like terse math equations compare to longer prose text? People who are not used to greek symbols, read equations in the same speed and mindset like english text and get confused quickly. Reading requires a different mode.

I would always prefer a map/fold to a for-loop. Removing the "i" and its book keeping reduces cognitive load. However, a Python list comprehension often becomes too big an expression if you use too much filtering. Extracting the filter into its own function an giving it a good name compartmentalizes the complexity, though. All in all, it is quite subjective.

If you are used to premutations, mapping, zipping, filters the code becomes quite readable. I'm pretty sure there is C code which confuses a Haskell programmer but would be considered "clear and readable" by the average C programmer.
The original poster probably meant to write "sub-exponential". The commenter to whom you're responding may or may not have known what the correct term was; we'll never know, because they chose snarky incivility instead of correction.
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If we have the power to traverse interstellar space en masse, we are probably bordering on the necessary Type 2 civilization to move the Earth away from the Sun over the billions of years it will take to first boil the oceans and then eat the planet.

Its asymptotic to your point, but practically - assuming we don't destroy ourselves this century - we will spend a lot of resources when we are a trans-universal space-faring race to preserve the Earth in the same way we spend time preserving historical art and architecture.
Hint: Use markdown.
"At least some of the activism is motivated by fear, when people notice this or that smaller problem, get very scared by warnings of much bigger problems to come, and make the not-completely-rational choice to give up freedom for the promise of safety. "
And just what "freedoms" are we talking about here?
Please elaborate so we can mock your argument a little more thoroughly.
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I'm unsure if Smartcards classify as NFC, but there's also WebNFC.

https://w3c.github.io/web-nfc/
If you had said your sixth grade year I would have sworn we went to the same district. I grew up not far from Quakertown, pa and we had a rather rambling unit on whales where we would watch the Voyage of the Mimi. I say rambling, because our regular teacher was in and out that year with an illness. The long term sub would have us watch Voyage of the Mimi at what felt like irregular intervals.
Which is why it's even more dangerous to browse the web with all receptors (features) enabled.

Add preloading of links on pages, and you have yourself a constant modifying environment (browser) which is controlled by third parties that don't first require a permission dialog.

So, this is much unsafer than consciously running an executable you've downloaded.
This "16.7M colours" stat that reporters wave around always gets me. It's just 24-bit color, doesn't mean it's "high tech". I can make you 16.7M colours with a $3 microcontroller and LEDs from the hardware store.

What they should discuss instead is the color gamut of the LEDs and how much of the visible light spectrum they can accurately reproduce.
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Actually it wasn't a keyword, it was just something that was "imported" by default.
Your personal choices aren't going to make a difference. If you really want to help, you need to organize with others to make systemic changes to our economy and our energy system. Everywhere in the world, there are fights to prevent new fossil fuel infrastructure from being built and to shut existing infrastructure down. Join them! It's fun.
I recall an example, a bit fuzzy, so I might be off on some. Over at Zappos, someone was great at their QA job (or something, bug good at it never the less), Zappos were able to improve process and this position and person were made redundant. Not her fault, but you cannot fault the company either. However, I do find fault in not training this person for an alternate path in the company. Of course it's easier to just hire someone new to fill in a new role then it is to retrain. Govt needs to incentivize retraining.
You have to give it permission to use USB, though. The USB functionality might also be something included in software you downloaded for another purpose, without your knowledge.
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And your local apps don't self-modify the code all the time, whereas that's exactly what the dynamic browser environment with 3rd-party scripting is.
I think there are still plenty of people who would be willing to sign up for a lifelong job with a single organization, but it's nearly impossible for any organization to actually fulfill their end of the bargain. How many companies are likely to last the 40-50 years of a person's career?
Who cares about "compactness"? You weren't golfing. It just sticks out as bad code.
I see where you're coming from, but unionizing will lower wages for many many people. The great thing about being an engineer, designer, or developer is that you can negotiate far more than any other field or profession that I've seen. The difference in wages for a doctor (of the same training) might be 20-50k. The difference in pay between two SEs could literally be $200k (this is a real world example I've seen). Unionizing would help the guy making $65k, but would kill the negotiating power of the guy making $295k.
"These kinds of sports"?

What physically competitive sport has no threat of falling and hitting your head?

How much "brain damage" is caused by the psychological and physiological effects of a sedentary life-style?
Wow, that was an impressive demo. I was imagining how I'd react if someome did it on Win3.1 or something. It would've been badass.

Now, other commenter gave excellent use case with low res text and high res graphics. What other practical uses does something like in the demo have? Virtual workspaces like in Linux cover most I can think of. What about draggable screens?
Score of comments is hidden, if it were available in the API someone would write in 30 minutes an extension to show them in the main site.

Perhaps they can add a "graycolor" field, that is somewhat related to the score.
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Yes, Erlang is such a toy language[1], it's never used for "professional development" at all[2].

[1] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/recursion
[2] http://www.fastcompany.com/3026758/inside-erlang-the-rare-pr...
The way USB devices work, they can pretend to be something else and still manage to achieve the ulterior goal. There are some very interesting USB devices on the market which look like one thing, pretend to be something else, and actually are anything but.
one of the things that make you feel tired after long flights is noise pollution. we don't realize it because it's something we expect during flights but our mind and body is essentially sitting through hours of loud humming that takes a toll on us.

The solution for me is good noise canceling headphones. If you fly often, invest in a good pair and it will do wonders for you. It has for me.
Yes, I don't have a choice. My body wakes me up at 2:00 because it is past my normal wake up time in my home time zone. I've tried going back to sleep, but wind up just lying in bed awake.
Had to do this once. Cool to see this in JS and NPM as cli.
One of the big challenges we face as a society is managing these kinds of transitions. In 1900, the majority of Americans worked on farms. We managed that transition, but we had decades to do so. If self-driving cars eliminate all driving jobs in a single decade, the dislocation will be immense.

This is where government action will be required; this is a society-wide problem that needs a society-wide solution.
That's nice and all, but until one understands the four stroke cycle, the rest of what you mention is noise. Suck, squeeze, bang, blow: until you know that, knowing what a lambda sensor is just uses up space that could be used learning Rust instead.

I mean, get real, anyone capable of understanding injector dwell is probably not clicking that link. It's not for the likes of you and me. What's next, go leave comments on the "Idiot's Guide to How Computers Work" about how it's not complete if they don't explain pointers?
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I'm subscribed to both of his Redux courses and they're amazing value for the money. Not affiliated, just a happy student.
> It's proposing a way of accessing a USB device from a web browser.

> There isn't any remote access

If you don't see the contradiction between these two statements, I don't know how to help you.

Stop thinking of what this is supposed to do; it's the failure cases that are the problem. Good security design involves concepts like compartmentalization and defense-in-depth. Finding a browser exploit shouldn't also grant low level access to the USB buss.

> This is simply so web apps can get closer to native apps in functionality.

That's a terrible idea. Blurring the lines between a webpage and a native app simply teaches people to treat webpages as if they were a local app, when the should be learning to treat anything form the network as potentially hostile. If you don't have a clean separation between the remote UI and the local UI, you're creating the perfect situation for phishing attacks.
The difference here is that when you read the title you think: "wow, scala features allows solving interesting problems in few steps, let's see". And the you realize that it's a cheat. This code is literaly squeezed into those 4 lines, full of less common idioms, and quite obscure.

It should be called "0,5kb scala contest" than "solving x with scala", to avoid misunderstanding.
The thought behind the idea is astounding! Quite a promising idea . what typically differentiates SIRI ROOMS from well-established and similar business models like OYO is the business strategy that we intend to use: Create an astounding hotel experience for our clientele while at the same time controlling surplus hotel inventories and selling high quality services- A business model that seeks to cut back on any arising conflicts of interest like quality room service, and the cost of providing such an experience.
Ok, thanks for clarifying that, you're right I was thinking that free = copyleft. This came from thinking that open source = non-copyleft + copyleft, and that it doesn't care at all about copyleft, while FS does, so FS = OS - non-copyleft = copyleft.
I agree with you. I am seriously annoyed by the kind of mistakes you've listed, and it has nothing to do with the message being understandable or not. Instead, it means to me that the writer (often a native English speaker) has never bothered to master even the most basic rules of his own language, which in turn suggests a pretty poor education, at least as far as reading and writing skills go. Also, since he has never noticed his mistakes, he's either poorly literate, or displays a remarkable lack of curiosity and observation abilities.

On the other hand, I'm Italian. I came to understand, after a few years living in an English speaking country, that the emphasis Italians put on writing correctly (as well as on many other things - e.g. eating well, dressing decently, avoiding public drunkenness) has no correspondence in the English speaking world.

Did I annoy you enough? :)
At my company, Genability, we all read and enjoyed that Bret Victor post and we've been using it for recruitment.

If you want to help scale clean energy technology and get a healthy dose of optimism in the process, we're hiring: http://genability.com/careers/vp_of_engineering.html
> If you don't like auto-tracking dependencies, then tup certainly isn't for you.

I do use auto-generated/-detected deps for build time dependency graphs, but I didn't like how tup implements it.
Ransomware widely used other things before Bitcoin; they're just using whatever works easiest-- right now thats Bitcoin.

When they were using webmoney and western union no one cared to track that either. Cross border electronic crime has never had significant attention put at it, short of attacks on government systems.
Are you proposing that we should intentionally keep around duplicate labor?

Duplication of work is a cardinal sin of technology and automation. Millions of jobs have already been destroyed by software, and the rate of obsoletion is only growing. A few thousand LoC and a couple racks of hardware can destroy tens of thousands of jobs. That's why software companies are highly valued. Aggregated across the entire industry and we've replaced millions of jobs already... Hopefully we'll see that number hit tens of millions within a couple decades.

Apps... most apps are frivolous, bordering toys. They add value like a hot dog vendor adds value to a baseball game. Why would app creators be treated any differently?
I don't see how this addresses the point.

People are more than free to choose which sports are worth their inherent risk. The problem is that that risk isn't actually well understood scientifically, and generally people are totally ignorant of what little information is known.

Sports may be worth the risk (I think they are), but that doesn't mean we should give up on discovering what the risk is.
Not watching your total but I have done a couple 200k BIS years...

Mine is simpler. Once I get to the airport, I act as if I am on destination time. I plan flights around that, try and get overnight flights so I can sleep, land in the morning, and just have a full day. If I am on a daytime flight...have to stay up and stay active
The answer to this logical question is obvious. Unfortunately this is a debate that is dominated by emotions and not logic due to 100+ years of propaganda, brainwashing, M.A.D. scare tactics, and the fallacy of Malthusian-Darwinian ideology
Chicago doesn't have a problem with gun violence due to Indiana's gun laws.

Right. If Indiana's gun laws were to blame, you'd see similar levels of violent crime within Indiana, and you don't. The only places in Indiana with anything like Chicago-level violence are areas such as Gary (which is a Chicago suburb in all but name).

On the other side of the coin, nor do you see Chicago levels of violence in downstate eastern Illinois, which is just as close to Indiana.

Chicago has a violent crime rate of 884/100,000. Urbana has a violent crime rate of 338/100,000.

Blaming Indiana's gun laws is convenient rhetoric, but quite obviously wrong.
i'm not aware of anyone replacing digital relays after 10 years.
The SEL relays we buy have a 10 year warranty and are designed to last at least 25 years: https://selinc.com/company/quality/
That's a massive strawman. You might as well argue that browser vendors will eventually default to allowing programs to be installed without user intervention.
Malcolm Gladwell got us wrong: oversimplification led to the 10,000-hour rule
I find myself caring less and less about ransomware on my laptop because everything is in the cloud. I wonder if that is exactly what they (insert evil cloud provider here) want me to think? (removes tinfoil hat)
Simple: They ignore it. They imagine it's lies spread by corporate elite trying to profit from fear mongering and anti-american technology.

Hilarious considering the truth.
A solution doesn't really help if it's not an option in the first place.
Not my code, it was copied (note the attribution) from a specific context where somebody cared about compactness.

Edit: Perl's also not the only language that supports the comma operator, predicate if, ternary, and other things that seem to bother you.