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It's ironically Keynesian only without the potential benefits, because most of the money is lost on play acting make-work and not on productive activity.

Even more ironically, it's practically nationalisation by the back door.

>Many nations on Earth are being confronted with the notion that larger and larger sections of their society are now unemployable

People are not unemployable. The problem is more that the current system isn't smart enough to work out how they can be usefully employed.

Every country in the world has a huge amount of work that could be done - infrastructure improvement, education, housing improvement, art and culture, even software and startups.

But the current value system deems most of these activities "uneconomic" because funding them would decrease the short-term net worth of a small number of very wealthy individuals.

It's a nonsense reason, but it's going to be a problem until the value system becomes intelligent enough to plan rationally for the medium and long term.
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/

This is a nice digest of a lot of the science around fats, that while somewhat biased, is a pretty good summary and includes links to studies should you want to dig deeper.
NoScript can do this too. You have the choice to activate certain scripts permanently (of course you can deactivate them later again if you want), or you can even activate them only for the current session and the next time you start the browser the temporary activated scripts are blocked again.
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Awesome. We'll take our cities back. It'll be what streets were like before the invention of the crime of jay-walking.

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2012/04/invention-jaywalking/...
Remember when HighCharts.js was the only good charting library? It also that commercial license restriction.
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No one asked them to publish anything online, that was their choice. Most users don't want to pay for content because they're used to it being free on the internet - after all, most content is. BG needs to come to terms with the fact that some industries just die out and cannot always be profitable.
If we can't, then that says something doesn't it?
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Voices is a tool that we made to make it easier for you to call your elected representatives. Was inspired by the SOPA protests in 2012. It uses your GPS location to show you who your representatives are and then gives you their email / twitter / phone number.

The longterm goal is to let people subscribe to advocacy groups that they care about, like the EFF, and receive calls to action from the advocacy groups. Users will be able to set notification settings so they don't get spammed.

Used it myself a few times during the FBI vs Apple battle and we are currently exploring partnerships with advocacy groups in NYC. Would love to hear what you guys think. http://TryVoices.com
I think journalists are responsible for understanding the facts and implications of what they discuss, regardless of how good the various players are at explaining it.

Yes, the manufacturers have a much stronger foundation from which to figure this stuff out, but that doesn't mean the rest of us can't stop doing silly things like acting as if human drivers were perfect when talking about potential autonomous vehicle systems.
Something I love doing is collaborative writing -- my chat group [1] has a #storytelling channel and people toss around ideas in there. Or I'll chat back and forth with one individual and we'll shape the story together. Not exactly gamified, but when you're working with another person there's a pressure to respond quickly that helps me loosen up and just write.

Another idea: use http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/ and literally reward yourself after each sprint -- try chocolate chips or something.

[1] http://exolymph.com/cyberpunk-futurism-chat-group/
Here in the West, we elect our criminals, who use corrupt procurement, bribery, and other frictions to suck many trillions from our GDP. Not to worry, though: the debt payments on this kind of policy will shortly eclipse the thefts and legitimate spending.

* http://www.transparency-usa.org/who-we-are/mission-history/

* http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Military-waste-under-fire...

* http://cagw.org/media/press-releases/taxpayer-watchdog-ident...
federal-government-waste

* http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/02/federal-debt-soared-above-...
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This is a semantic quibble as much as a substantive one. “Asleep” vs. “awake” isn’t really a binary distinction. Both sleepwalking (which isn’t a single well-defined thing) and the kind of awake-but-then-suffer-amnesia states you are talking about (can be caused by extreme tiredness, too much alcohol, dementia, etc.) fall somewhere in between full alertness and deep sleep.
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I know when I started eating paleo, I had really painful gas (to me and everyone else) for a few months. Then, after a while, I could eat all the broccoli I could stand and it was fine.
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I was researching this a few months ago, but gave up upon the cat facial recognition. The best I could find for the raspberry pi was opencv haar filters for humans, and that was just detecting if a face was present in the video frame. I'm curious, how are you planning on doing cat facial detection for this?
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Drop me a note (email in profile). I'm not a recruiter, these are the offers I've been contacted with, through my personal network based on past gigs.

It's not just knowing an APL though -- far from it. For the chi/nyc it's a mix of hardcore low-level stuff, and some market knowledge. For the west coast, a mix of low level stuff (less hard core) and more distributed systems stuff.
All of whom benefit from NATO. ETA: Wow this place is worse than Reddit.
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I'm looking at building a GPGPU program.

When I look at CUDA code, it seems to be a big loop targeting the GPU memory with standard c code, allocating memory with standard functions and specifying where code lives with simple defines.

When I look at OpenCL, it is... I don't know what it is. I haven't figure it out after considerable scanning. And that has cemented my decision to avoid it because I don't have infinite time to scan obscurity.

For example, here is a standard "first OpenCL program" - ~200 lines of boiler plate and no simple example of our many cores working together to do something brutally simple and useful like add two vectors. Just "hello world" from GPU.

As far as I can tell, as a production of a multitude of vendors all of which have different stuff, OpenCl is a monstrosity where you have a wide of variety of functionalities supported but none of those functionalities is guaranteed to be present - hence 200 lines of boiler plate. Kind of like the umpteen Unix flavors and such back in the day, "Open standards" that are bridges between only semi-compatible hardware have generally been doomed abortions discarded in favor of a single best approach that all vendors are forced to adopt.

So it seems like the best thing is jettisoning the monstrosity and cloning CUDA for other hardware.

https://www.fixstars.com/en/opencl/book/OpenCLProgrammingBoo...
J versus K is like C versus C++, similar syntax but different programming style. J is array-based and K is list-based. J is mostly just APL converted to ASCII representation. Q is mostly just some light syntactic sugar over K.
Wow this looks great! thanks for the hard works guys, definitely going to try and contribute.
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>> Self-driving cars in an uncooperative environment is probably an order of magnitude harder than that. Demanding that they work in an uncooperative environment results in a problem that is probably intractably hard.

That's why I'm skeptical of self-driving cars becoming widespread in the U.S. in the next decade. Driving in an unknown environment over millions of miles of roads is going to be a huge challenge if the infrastructure doesn't change, but I can't figure out which political party is going to support the massive infrastructure project. The early adopters of this technology are probably going to be transportation companies. Democrats are going to have a hard time advocating for spending money that throws truck and taxi drivers out of work. And good luck getting Republicans to spend additional money on anything.

I hope that google and/or the car companies pull it off, but I don't think that we should hold our breath waiting for the world to adjust to self-driving cars. The hardware and software will have to do 99% of the work.
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A nice quote:

"In 2012, staff at the Federal Trade Commission recommended filing antitrust charges after determining that Google was engaging in anti-competitive tactics and abusing its monopoly. A staff report that was later leaked said Google’s conduct “has resulted — and will result — in real harm to consumers and to innovation in the online search and advertising markets.”

The Wall Street Journal noted that Google’s White House visits increased right around that time. And in 2013, the presidentially appointed commissioners of the FTC overrode their staff, voting unanimously not to file any charges."
Is this not ultimately still in the public eye? We're discussing it right now! The public has short attention span, no consensus, and no direction over the machine.

In a different country, perhaps the author would be disappeared and we'd be arrested for discussing such things. Overt confrontation makes it very clear who the evildoers are and directly polarizes the population. The lack of it is what makes our strain of totalitarianism so insidious.

Instead, we're given a choice at every step of the way. It's the path of least resistance to pay taxes, pick from the manufactured selection of republicrat celebs, and not engage in direct action against our occupiers. Individuals can buck the easy choice for a short time, but eventually any individual will get tired, find their place to fit into the system, and kick the can down the road for the next generation.
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Announcing that they'll throw a patchbomb at Clang at some indeterminate point in the future seems to satisfy neither the "you can get source now" nor the "this is developed in a participatory way" definitions of Open Source.
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> I wouldn't discount this possibility entirely. As recently as the late 90's Russia defaulted on their own debt.

The Russians defaulted on debt handed to them during the break-up of the USSR. This is an important distinction in the mind of the Russians; it was not debt issued by Russia for Russia.

Shortly before the default on the bonds, the Russians had apparently offered a swap for Russian bonds. Very few people took them up on it, but those who did suffered no write-down.

For more reading, check out Martin Gilman's book: "No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default". It gives deep insight into the complexity of the Russian default.

Which is all a sort-of aside on your comment, I appreciate. Many countries have gone bankrupt since WW2, at a background-rate of around 2 countries per year. I put together a map visualizing it at https://sovinswm.appspot.com

The reality is that the semantics of "default" mean very different things in different contexts, but generally if the governing law of a debt instrument (e.g. a bond) is that of the country issuing the debt, then the country can "legislate away" their obligations. This may nevertheless have knock-on effects in marketplaces, particularly via contingent or derivative instruments (e.g. credit-default swaps), and hurt the credit rating just much as if there was a technical default.

Very few countries have the luxury of being able to legislate away their debts, and even those that do would feel a backlash and ongoing burden remaining in the marketplace.

Note that being able to print ones own money and being able to change the law governing the instruments are two different things, though sometimes similar in effect. If you control the law you can change any term of the debt agreement by legislation, for example. If the debt is repaid in ones own currency, one can print currency to satisfy those obligations (as in quantitative easing, or seigniorage).

All to say: The Russian example has an interesting caveat, but it is in any case one of many recent events illustrating defaults on debts (which include Greece, Cyprus, Iceland, Argentina, Ecuador, Ukraine, and others).

As you can probably tell, I could probably talk about this at some length. :)
> Exception is some cause or other flushing stuff down the tract prematurely prior to absorption, perhaps something dangerous that stomach acid didn't neutralize, enzyme problems, overstuffing or what not..

I've read some advice about not drinking water with meals for this reason. The idea is that it will dilute your stomach acid making it more basic and less effective.
Cars don't scale. People get around in high density cities without cars just fine. It saves money and it's better for the environment, too.
Ask HN: How does a developer learn a non formal language?
I'm a developer and I want to learn German. There is a plan, a deadline, motivation and hopefully time to do it. Basically, I'll try to reproduce what I did to learn English (native Spanish speaker) but in a shorter period of time. I have to said, my English is still far from perfect but I can watch movies and the like and understand about 80% of them, I can communicate effectively in my area of domain (software development) and in other common areas (but cannot talk about politics or geology, for example). I would say my level of English is something between B2 and C1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages)

So, this is my plan:

July, August and September (2016):
Learn the basics, the grammar, watch Youtube videos with German subtitles. I have bookmarked a couple of grammar books and good Youtube channels.

October (2016) to July (2017):
I'll be in Germany, this means I'll have to speak! Although what I'm going to do there only requires me to speak English. Will keep improving the grammar and will keep watching, not only videos, but also the TV and the radio and of course I'll talk with German people.

The level I want to reach is the same as my level of English I have now. I know it's a hard task to accomplish, but boy, I'm motivated.

Suggestions, tips and personal experience learning non formal languages are welcome. Thanks!
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/06/yet_another_p...

> Computer disks and USB sticks were dropped in parking lots of government buildings and private contractors, and 60% of the people who picked them up plugged the devices into office computers. And if the drive or CD had an official logo on it, 90% were installed.

It sounds more like someone left usb sticks with logos on them in the parking lot.
Hi c1sc0,

Yes there is a lot going into the app.

The problem we're solving is that exercise and nutrition go hand-and-hand, but yet, there isn't a (great) way to manage these aspects holistically, especially with the level of accuracy and intelligence we're building, thus the inspiration of THRIVE.

Thats a great question. The predictive analytics is really at the core of the unique value we're bringing to the fitness industry. Thanks again for the great question!!
"My colleague turned to me and said:

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At that point we knew there was only one way forward.. "
This. All my problems went away when I bought a Brother laser printer, and connected my Raspberry Pi to it running CUPS. No issues with discovery on Mac/Windows/Linux.
I really like this idea, and I think the landing page is pretty darn solid. Curious though -- what's your business model?
ΣnFib(n+2)x^(n+2) is F(x)−x−1 because it's an infinite series of powers of x, except since it's x^(n+2) then x^1 (x) and x^0 (1) never appear, so you need to subtract them from F(x) which is ΣnFib(n)x^n. I hope that's clear and explains the rest.
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You can add "freedom" and "entitled" to the list of words that are so poorly defined as to be useless for reasoned discussion.
It's because people identify "sea floor" as being in a, relatively speaking, fixed position. Moving rocks from the sea floor != move sea floor.
For his sins, Fermin got dragged into the q/kdb+ world. I assume he's still using it at MS :-)
Honestly, usually not. There's an argument to be made that capitalism causes industries to tend towards monopolies (or at least oligopolies) in many areas, monopolies centralise money, money equals power, power then gets used to remove safety nets in the name of making more money - so the current state of things is nearly inevitable. Even if the vast, vast majority of cases don't lead to monopolies, it only takes a couple of large industries.
I haven't used this but found this chart lib based on D3.js called C3.js. http://c3js.org/
Many are at 36 inches, but 30 inches is also a pretty popular rack depth.
You can watch a bit about what is actually is here: http://ftp.fau.de/fosdem/2016/janson/scaling-and-securing-li...
Any company that treats is customers so badly is likely to have a long hold period if you phone them up, probably by design. Calling them could easily take half an hour and my life only contains a finite number of half hours.

I'd like to think that I could do something productive with that time that would make my life or the world slightly better. Plus the frustration of sitting on hold would negatively impact my health and state of mind.

That seems like quite a lot of harm; certainly not worth an empty idealistic gesture that would not help anyone.
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Are they?

Edit: Even if you decide not to opt-out of employer provided coverage, you don't have to participate in the wellness program, just as you don't have to participate in the gps tracking.
Simple arithmetic shows that nothing can grow exponentially forever, just google for a lecture on exponential growth by the late Dr. Albert Bartlett of CU.

What bewilders me is the mass denial. Sooner or later inflation and GDP growth have to stop, and reverse, even.

And the world will not end - there will still be startups and investment opportunities, stocks and commodity prices will go up and down, the only difference being that overall we will see the major indexes flat or declining, and that will be just fine.

The sooner the population at large recognizes that this is the future, the smoother will the transition to this new state of affairs be. The longer we hang on to this naive notion of perpetual growth, the more devastating will be the day it ends.

Edit: Link to find the Bartlett video: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=albert+bartlett+exponen...
This isn't a good metric unfortunately. A much more realistic metric is % of devices with unpatched CVEs. With iOS updates and Windows updates, most devices get their vulnerabilities patched (assuming the vendor addresses it at all), unless specific action is taken not to update them. However, most android devices are not updated past a few minor Android versions, and once the carrier no longer provides patches, there is often no way for a normal user to patch the OS at all.

So Windows could theoretically have 100x the number of vulnerabilities over time, but if they are fixed and autopatched, then those systems can still be more secure than a system that doesn't get patches past the first year.
I'm absolutely with you. The weather's finally warming up, so I spent most of this past weekend doing maintenance on my motorcycle for the riding season. In a couple of decades will riding a motorcycle on public roads even be an option anymore? Will all motorcycle riding be relegated to isolated tracks, to which we'll have to ferry our motorcycles on autonomous transport?

I'd rather not ride at all at that point, and that makes me sad as well.
A sort of tangent to this was when I would play writing/poetry golf with someone else. Literally, I write a line, then they write a line, and so on. Our products would often lead to ideas I'd take on solo later.
"They are using money today which must be paid back tomorrow."

That reasoning doesn't support examination.

The adults of today use the real resources of the economy of today. The adults of 50 years from now, will use the resources of the economy of their time.

If we are worried about the people of the future, we will try to create real resources (knowledge and technology specially) that they can use, and we will worry less about debt. In fact, we should be using debt to create those resources as fast as possible.
More free than the majority of other countries.

Oh sure, the level of rational discourse has certainly fallen off and most news outlets are now heavily slanted to one party or the other - but the mere idea of having the ability to raise your voice is something that is rare in this world.

Even the countries that people always point to (Scandinavia, Europe) have their own issues which are not dissimilar from those in the US.

It's like when you have a job and you complain how horrible the place is you work at because of a,b,c and d. So you leave and go to another big company because they don't have a,b,c and d problems. Within two months, you suddenly realize that now this company has other issues and drive you nuts because if f,g,h and i problems.

You want an "actual free society" go live on an island, and be a government of one. That's the only way you'll have the utopian vision I'm sure you're thinking about.
tl;dr Author requested CIA historical information from Georgetown University archives, found GU had them "removed from public view"(CIA wants to review them); author files FOIA request with the CIA, who claims that GU hasn't released the papers.

So papers are in limbo and author can't write his book - boohoo.
France, Japan, Germany, Spain, Canada, and Mexico don't have socialized health care. Of the western countries, it's mostly just Britain that has socialized health care.

Now a lot of those countries have universal access to health care. In fact, all of them do. Every developed nation except the USA does.

But only one major western nation does to health care what the Bank of Japan is doing to its stock market.
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I suspect that this compiler is generating ptx and not true native binaries for nvidia's architectures. Nvidia's proprietary compiler stack is still heavily involved in the conversion of ptx ir to native binaries. Essentially.. this isn't a full open source stack.
Google "fibonacci generating functions", for a more careful derivation. The first hit is:
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Where do you see the ability to break into a market that is heavily driven by peer recommendations?