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I wonder if the end result is just going to be mass production and adoption of memory, drives, etc that physically self-destruct. A combination of Apple's Touch ID as a fail-deadly switch, and physical destruction would just end this.
My argument is not that government is inefficient and so it shouldn't be used, my argument is that despite inefficiencies it's appropriate to use in certain cases because the alternatives are worse.

I think with regards to healthcare, the private insurance market has proven to be insanely inefficient. We have a patchwork of insurance laws across states, profit motivated insurance companies, and just overall opacity at every level of the system. All this and if you look at more centralized government managed systems, overall outcomes seem no worse and in some cases better. It's hard to measure quality in healthcare, as I mentioned above, but by many of those metrics the US system isn't doing radically better than, say, European systems which are largely single payer government organized or close to it. All that despite paying as much as 30% more.

There are lots of questions and issues in healthcare, it's a really complicated question. One thing that's pretty clear is that as much as 50% of your entire lifetime healthcare spend will be spent in your last 6 months of life. At that stage how can a private market work? "Hey, I'm dying let me shop around for the best ICU"?

All of the alternatives involve tradeoffs, usually in autonomy in deciding care (single payer can become a huge HMO) and difficulty in ensuring appropriate supply (waiting months for a CT scan you actually needed yesterday). I believe there are ways to solve those even with a centralized system, and I'm fairly convinced that our private market has done a poor job serving the majority of patients (unless you're fairly wealthy, and even then the structural inefficiencies of a fragmented system get in the way).

Re. private audit and review companies: It turns out a lot of docs are on Yelp and other similar services. I'll admit to looking at them when I look for a provider. But those systems have really perverse effects as well. People usually don't know what the is best thing for them to do medically, but they love it when the doc agrees with them. As a result a doc is pushed toward being more agreeable, prescribing what the patient wants instead of what they need.

Patient says, "I want antibiotics". Doc says, "but it's likely viral". Patient says, "I want antibiotics". The doc who caves gets better reviews.

Good medicine is hard to evaluate, and a patient is poorly equipped to evaluate relative quality, but he/she is also poorly informed as to what is a good price. You could say, "let's get rid of opacity." But one of the drivers for opacity is the private insurance system. No insurer wants what they're paying for X procedure to be known by their competitors, that complicates their negotiating position.

You could force regulation that would open all this up, but then aren't you just growing government involvement in healthcare regulation?

With so many asymmetries and so much opacity it's hard to see how a private system does better. That said, it's worthy of discussion and a complicated topic, so I really enjoy learning of other opinions.
And libgdx single handily gave them a market. RoboVM would have withered long ago without it.
Yeah, demanding that they do it for the right reasons is probably asking for too much.
guys, don't you find a 13in or even worse 11in screen too small to code on? regardless of resolution and DPI. i've worked on pretty much any screen size between 10in and 32in and anything below 15in is way too small to code comfortably. for office, communication, everyday use, 13in is just fine though
It's a good point, but on the other hand, maybe it will inspire extra features such as "Pause, and walk around the scene." You could have virtual interviews with actors or people on the set, linked to the timestamp you paused at.

I can imagine it being a great way to experience cinema, but I take the author's broader meaning.
The author has obviously never practiced meditation, let alone some of the more obscure practices.
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Wow, awesome; adds a lot of value adding it to your original comment, thanks!
I apply this to dating, both think themselves less attractive then they are and that the other are way out of their league. Doesn't seem unethical this way.
Video (Clojure/west): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53lcg7EGYM4

[Edit: Just got turned private. If/when it returns, it’ll be here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaLlzGqiPE2QRj6sSOawJRg ]
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whereabouts in the UK are you based?
Yup, ultimate online, on runuo. Had a fun few years there.
Definitely wrong about this. Freaking weird.
It's an interesting exploration. I at least got two things out of this:

1. That the two-pass assembler design from 6502 was only 2KB. Tricks from software like that tend to come in handy later on embedded systems.

2. His links on stepwise refinement of the Forth interpreter give a nice illustration of the concept. I rarely see an example that doesn't involve formal methods that turn most away or some useless objective.

So, mostly him having fun in his spare time. Yet, at least two reasons to keep a link to the project. Also, he ended up using the approach I keep suggesting here: port the Oberon System because it's simple and has plenty of features. He's doing that on Kesterel 3.
No, that doesn't work.

c.f. Lavabit and "Reflections on Trusting Trust"
This release brings 802.11n into the kernel, and, of course, pledge in all coreutils and chromium! :D
surely you agree that this puts the feds in a much tougher spot though?

I think we should try to get from a 4 to 5, even if we can't get all the way to 10 right away. We shouldn't just punt on the problem because it's not possible to have an immediately perfect solution. 4 to 5 might mean using keys that only the customer has access to. 7 through 10 might all be political, sure, but let's keep moving.
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I don't know. It sounds a bit too much like excuses. I was also a teenager and was not stupid enough to try anything stupid. My reptilian brain always managed to stop me. Like this time I was going to get into a fist fight (it was not my first), I was willing but my reptilian brain was not in agreement. It actually tried to freeze my legs.
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I think it's no accident that one of the most renown and influential works of classical music ever made — the Well-Tempered Klavier — was mostly written for 3-4 voices, for an instrument with very limited expressiveness, and under the incredibly strict rules of counterpoint. To echo what Mark is saying, this is probably one of the reasons we find classical video game music so memorable. When you only have access to a sine wave, a saw wave, and a noise channel, you get really, really good at inventively utilizing these resources to their fullest. I can't remember most of the over-orchestrated, insipid soundtracks in AAA games today, but music from my favorite NES, SNES, and DOS games has never left my mind.

As an aside, I think Disasterpeace is doing for chiptune-style music today what Mark Ferrari has done for 8-bit graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB-pG7wEnzM
thanks, took me long to fix that all over the place. How silly of mine :-)
"Would you design mathematical notations based on the opinion of 5th graders?"

Haven't read the entire paper but...learning from something doesn't mean you need to design something 'based' on that.

The advantage of studying how people unfamiliar with a specific way to solve problems will solve that problem is actually a great technique to try to understand common patterns and approaches humans think about problem solving.

Some pattern solving strategies will be more successful than others and it is worth understanding what is common to those (especially when compared to the unsuccessful ones)

Identifying patterns in the way people solve these problems can prove to be great design insights that go into the design of problem-solving solutions for those problems.
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I am thinking that in the future campaign contributions might eventually matter less than it does today. For example, it is a good thing all 40 states in the US does not do the presidential primary on the same day.
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The thing about programming is that you're typically doing it FOR someone other than yourself. In other words, the programmer is the "middleman" between some domain and the computer. The idea is ultimately to get rid of the middleman.

It is a mistake and somewhat arrogant to view your domain experts as "5th graders".
A very simple GUI app written in Python + Tkinter/ttk (using the boto3 python package) meant for non-technical people to upload large files to S3 buckets. It uses a config file so you can customize the credentials and the buckets that they are allowed to upload into.

It currently uses py2app to build an OSX app but it's also possible to just run the s3_uploader.py script directly to start it up.
> Wouldn’t it be nice if lobbying were illegal?

Honestly, no. It's essential that law makers can be informed by all interested parties. The problem is a lack of transparency. Complex to control but not impossible. Every single meeting between an elected officials and anyone lobbying them should be in some way recorded and made public. As if it were a public debate. The other issue is fund raising. Too broad and complex to really go into here but if a politician didn't or couldn't raise funds it would make lobbying more honest, imho.
One kind-of-nice thing about firmware-level-encrypted SSDs, is that you don't need to overwrite every block on them to "secure wipe" them. When you send the drive an "erase yourself fully" command, it just securely overwrites the sector containing the encryption key with a new one. In terms of getting access to the rest of the data at that point, you've effectively just blown up the drive.

People think there's no point to hardware drive encryption, because they look at it wrong; they think it's meant to protect your data in the same way that OS-level user-passphrase-derived-master-key drive encryption is. But it's not about "unlocking" the drive at all; it's really about this exact command, where you can change the key and thus, in an instant, permanently garble all the data on the drive.

(It's is also extremely necessary if you want computer refurbishers to be able to reuse SSDs. Trying to "securely overwrite" all the blocks on an SSD is both impossible at an OS level—some blocks are just unaddressible overprovisioned blocks that only come online when other blocks fail—and devastating at a physical level: the write multiplication of running e.g. DBaN on an SSD would completely burn out the disk. Overwriting the key, meanwhile, is a single write.)
Except it's false. You'll note that they didn't cite any examples of ISPs demanding money to provide access. The whole concern is that ISPs might ask for money, there's no indication any have done so afaik.
On an unrelated note, Kestrel Institute has been doing high assurance systems synthesized from specifications for a long time:

http://www.kestrel.edu/home/projects/

Maybe people will find that Kestrel more interesting. :)
ender's game is a photocopy of the haldemann book 'forever war'. EG is maybe better-liked by kids but it gets war wrong. Haldemann wrote forever war after coming back from vietnam.
And here, even Richard Stallman admits the obvious meaning of the expression:

> However, the obvious meaning for the expression “open source software”—and the one most people seem to think it means—is “You can look at the source code.”

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...
The Pro has gotten a lot thinner lately. I've got a 2015 MBP (Retina 13") and it's only about 2/3 the thickness of my wife's 2013 MBP, and about half of my old 2009 MBP. I can comfortably hold it in one hand, which is one of the main reasons folks would buy the Macbook Air.

I've got an old laptop backpack that I used to use for a ThinkPad, and then for a System76 Pangolin. One of my first-world problems is that the MBP is too thin to fit snuggly in the laptop pocket; I usually throw a book or a folder in with it so it doesn't flop around. Compared to either the Pangolin or ThinkPad, the MBP is less than half the thickness.
The last time I tried it, with Ubuntu Mate, I percieved it had more bugs than Xubuntu.
Xubuntu comes with xfce. I find that xfce looks very similar to mate but runs more smoothly and it feels more polished. At least I don't remember seeing errors related to the UI with xfce, unlike the experience with mate.
Yes and no. If we need outsiders it means we have become too arrogant ourselves. Need a fresh take.
If you feel like playing beta-tester, there's also my dev server at https://madoka.brage.info/
Ahhh... that's smart.
This video is private. :\
These Linux desktops are still not nearly as clean, pretty and smooth an experience as Mac/Windows.
Medicine may be more difficult than necessary because it requires solutions to be expressed in ways that are not familiar or natural for beginners.

Law may be...

Physics may be...

Getting the point? Beginners may not always be the best yardstick of everything.
One way to motivate ordinary users to decentralize is money. Facebook et al give you all these "free" services so they can monetarize your data. If you could own your data, then you could sell it.

Also, I am surprised the author missed ipfs and ethereum, since they are pretty advanced examples of decentralizing the web.
> no ability to create custom lists

What do you mean by this?

> no ability to filter based on more than their two or three meaningless filters, etc

What kinds of things would you want to filter on? (Not disagreeing, just honestly curious.)
The concept of a "reptilian brain" is a) no longer espoused by neuroscientists and b) if true would be the thing egging you on, not freezing your legs.
This is the correct answer. It should be blowing all of the CLEAN that's on your hand all over the room from having just washed your hands.
Empathy isn't a psychological proposition, it's an economic one (evolutionary psychology when it works at all attempts to unify those topics).
> A good game today is a place you visit.

Yes! I think that's a really good insight. I wonder if VR's "killer app" for consumer entertainment will be more closely related to travel than to movies. It's interesting that open world games, like GTA and Skyrim, are increasingly popular. At the same time multisensory-art-experience festivals like Burning Man are increasingly popular too. Being able to explore immaculately crafted worlds, enjoying beautiful sights and sounds, and getting the thrill of dicovery that comes with going some place new would be pretty awesome.
You can paste the XML on the Debian Fonts wiki page to get nicer (IMO) looking fonts.

https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#Subpixel-hinting_and_Font-smoo...

Paste it into ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
That's a good point. The biggest problem with it though is how effective it can be at influencing policy against the public interest. I suppose if I wrote a letter to my congressperson it would be considered lobbying but that's rarely what people mean.
haha, agreed... my post was syndicated with a Medium collection, and for some reason my post inherited its 'interesting' style..
This is awesome. I really think that transportation will revolve around our sleep schedules in the future. Certain self-driving cars will be designed specifically for long rides that will take place overnight. That and an office on wheels sort of thing.
One also needs to take into account how these larger companies' internal groups function.

"Brian" probably looked into it, knowing that obscurity != security, but got a response back from the group responsible that was the way they intended it to work, and that group's management wasn't going to do anything about it. "Brian" may have even put messages in the right ear up the management chain such that it would actually effect the outcome.

The fact that the email exchange lasted 2 months before "Brian" said "Sorry, not a case." probably means that "Brian" was trying to make it happen and had actually done an analysis.

* Note: I'm NOT Brian. I've never worked for Microsoft.
But the difference is not just semantic.

VR experiences will necessarily lose a lot of cinematography (particularly that regarding shot composition and framing) because the viewer is in control over the camera, and they almost completely lose the ability to do editing too (because cutting between scenes will make the viewer nauseous). Modern films might seem superficially similar to non-interactive VR experiences because they are both throwing images at screens, but there is a huge world of cinematic techniques that everyone has grown up with (and most people won't notice), that will be severely constrained in VR, and it'll be a jarring experience (at least for the people making this stuff, if not the consumers) for a lot of them to be gone.

Perlin is likely right that what's likely to happen is that the scenes in non-interactive VR will seem more like theatre than cinema. Sure, the people putting this stuff together will probably come out of VFX houses but people won't be relying on cinematographers, editors and film directors in the same way. I suspect that it'll take a while for both the artistic problems of living with the new constraints, and the technological problems (such as taking live-action 360 footage with parallax) to be ironed out satisfactorily.

Interactive VR still looks much like video games, though, and while there will be some measure of constraints with the new medium, other constraints will be lifted (FPSes and flight simulators, for instance, won't need clumsy workarounds to simulate head movement), so the games industry will probably hit the ground running.
Planting trees sequesters the CO2 that was emitted from the burning of the coal. Cutting trees down and turning them into paper that easily decomposes hastens the release of the previously sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere, killing us all.

Every time you use a paper towel, you kill a puppy.
I can't use anything but MATE + Compiz and mostly because of Compiz'es fantastic functionality and customizability. I'm talking about color filters, grid plugin, and endless others that have no equivalent elsewhere.
Go microsoft!
Didn't iTunes initially require QuickTime?
You made it out. Great.

For every one of you, how many of them?
Cutler Normal Form has open braces at the end of the line, so it should be

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Also, Dave hates Hungarian notation of any flavor.
Yes I meant developers are cheap - the cost of living not so much.
Which kinda doesn't make sense since http://bugvm.com/ , a fork of RoboVM exists. Multi-OS Engine is also closed source with an indeterminate future.
This is very selective reading of history.

Politics were probably more corrupt and lobbying was even more dominant (just in different forms) in the 1800s.

Obviously, the train has gone off the rails at this point, but we aren't at a fundamentally different place politically than we were in, say 1896, when many of the same issues were at play.
Lets see.

Sound - it comes out of a random port sometimes with a sound source that dynamically appears (at a default of MAX volume in the mixer) that by the time you open the mixer app to turn it down is gone.

Multiple screens - multiple hells. So what happens when you go to sleep? Screens can swap, sometimes they change relative position, sometimes they simply become inaccessible. Multiple screens with multiple desktops? Now you're really playing with fire.

Fonts - mentioned elsewhere. You can go back and manually recompile FreeType to use the patented cleartype code (which I do, every damn time) and that code is long since clear to use.

Drivers - oh wait there is a blue tooth chip on your motherboard? Now all of a sudden the bluetooth daemon wants to mate with all your devices, whether are not you like it.

Networking? Passable if you want to use DHCP but what happens when one of your wired ports wants to be fixed address? It must be your primary port of course and gee it is configured but you can't NFS mount over it, oops, guess you didn't really want to automatically mount your NAS storage.

I can believe I'm over selling it but Kubuntu became unusable on my NUC when Plasma 5 came out, Xubuntu works ok but the screen switching is maddening. I went into the motherboard BIOS and had it disable the bluetooth in order to keep stuff from trying to bring it online and to mate with things. If I boot Windows 10 on this box (as challenged as that is) it is a better experience.

I'm really looking forward to Ubuntu on windows 10 kernel, that might have a shot at doing what I want.
I totally agree. I stayed on WordPad with RTF and TXT files for as long as I could. Everything was so lightweight with it also easier to sandbox that sucker and similar editors.

Far as AbiWord, I last put it on my Mom's old laptop because it ran way faster than other Windows 8 stuff she had. She absolutely loved it because it had just what she needed, loaded instantly, and was lightening fast in general.
I love beaker. I spent a week or so trying to force myself to use Jupyter since others in my team use it, but I bailed out and went back to beaker eventually - it's got everything Jupyter has but is all round nicer to use. It's not without it's problems, but neither is Jupyter by a long shot.

edit: fixed a word
How so? I think the biggest problem with campaign contributions is that ads are so incredibly effective at getting congresspeople reelected. Maybe if everyone agreed to ignore these ads campaign contributions would be worthless. But there's a significant enough number of people who are swayed by it to matter.
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You're not wrong, and I agree that there is more cultural opposition to startups.

The 10 year comment was from a discussion I had with a Japanese investor/entrepreneur while in Tokyo last fall. He built his other businesses in the US, and related the current state of Japan's startup scene (funding, opportunities, etc) as being similar to that of the US about 10 years ago.
And yet Wired is still being served over http.
For some reason I thought it was a map for the whole continent :-)
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Yes I composed all my essays in TextEdit in high school.
Transparency means nothing. If anything, many of the transparency programs are fodder, advertisements for lobbyists -- they prospect clients by showing them all of the big shots the competition are meeting with.

If lobbying and fundraising were more restrictive, ultimately access to policy makers and legislators would improve. Today, all that matters is the check.
I am talking about in the future when less people watch TV for example.
Definitely. At that time the biggest issue was supporters of candidates being given jobs in the government just because they were supporters. It was a huge problem and definitely makes me think lobbying must not have been a concern.
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>Together, the code deleted everything on the computer, including Mr Masarla’s customers' websites, he wrote. Mr Masarla runs a web hosting company, which looks after the servers and internet connections on which the files for websites are stored.

And he has no backups? Including rolling backups in unconnected storage?

>Mr Marsala confirmed that the code had even deleted all of the backups that he had taken in case of catastrophe. Because the drives that were backing up the computers were mounted to it, the computer managed to wipe all of those, too.

Then the probably probably deserved to die. Sorry for the customers though...
Good for them. Sounds well thought out.