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>can be backdoored[1] with the same ease

No, no with the same ease.
Every OpenBSD commit is throughly reviewed, and there is only a bunch of commiters. Compared with linux, with thousands of commiters and tons of code added every day, OBSD is way more difficult to backdoor.
Sorry. I was referring to food and health regulation services. The link with advertisement is that it could be tempting to imagine a regulation system, but this is known to be easily subverted and corrupted. In fact letting users freely control the amount of advertisement they get and letting the market adapt itself is liberalism. But that is a totally different subject. Sorry for the digression.
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C got started in 1972, and K&R C dates from 1978 and includes compatibility-breaking changes.

You want a young language to change a lot, because you don't really know what it needs until you get it out there and people use it. You want to make necessary changes as early as possible to cause the least pain. Major changes at the two-year mark will be a lot easier than major changes at the five or ten year mark, and waiting too long to fix a bad decision will probably mean it sticks around forever.

I would expect Swift 3 to be the last release with major source-breaking changes.
True, websites have grown by a lot over the past decade, and so has functionality...

What functionality do you have in mind when you're talking about the average read-only news-article type of web page?
Which is what makes this comic so powerful: https://xkcd.com/806/

The people asking the questions are trying to defend against false confidence, but drive the people with justified confidence crazy. Being able to filter for "I know you're competent, we can skip ahead a bit" is really powerful.
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There is a pretty good comment from Chris Lattner about ARC versus GC :
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...
Sadly for your argument, what Google does there is the correct solution, because it is true.
I'm a bit surprised by your reaction. You do know we use genomics in clinical labs all the time, right? We can find drug-targetable mutations in tumors, we can direct patient care in rare (and some common-ish) diseases from germline mutations. Now, with liquid biopsy we can actually track tumor progress through treatment and identify resistance mutations that pop up. Before long, we'll be able to do cancer screenings from blood! None of that would be possible without cheap, scalable NGS sequencing tech.

Tumor sequencing is a HUGE boon to cancer treatment and research. Patients lives have been drastically improved by targeted treatment.
I'm in the iOS community mainly, though my work touches quite a lot of ruby. This talk starts out pretty funny, but focused on a testing library, then moves out to a larger discussion on the merits of working in a mature ecosystem - even when it's not so new and sparkly anymore. That really starts to hit home arrow d 25m, so if you're not a rubyist but are interested, it might be worth starting there.

The discussion around making it interesting to work with mature toolsets makes this a fascinating talk, I still write Objective-C quite often - and would still use ruby to build my next website. The trade-offs are tough there, as you're aiming for stability in the face of a million FOMO blog posts about the newest functional protocol oriented widget.
If this is indeed an inevitable and predictable luminosity curve, then orbital solar shades or albedo augmentation are obvious solutions.
Those instruments are consistently good. I wouldn't have any apprehensions about picking up a Yamaha guitar.

Motor bikes can be musical instruments too. There is some yatsu in the Noda city area in Chiba, Japan who likes to ride his motorcycle down the Tsutsumidai road at wee hours in the morning, revving the throttle in neutral to play rhythmic, somewhat tuneful patterns with the engine.
It's a good business model for Lending Club, but maybe not for investors.

LC is responsible for grading the loans and calculating the risk of each borrower. However, it does not take any of the risk of the loans being traded on its platform. So there's a big concern that LC may not be very scrupulous about the borrowers it accepts.

It's a similar situation to the last financial crisis where companies were happily accepting risky mortgage applications, doing little or no checking, and then selling them on for a quick profit.
I usually have a fast connection and reasonable data limits available, so I don't worry too much about how much stuff my browser needs to pull down to render a website. However, there's another type of bloat that absolutely kills my browser and that is all of the JavaScript.

One of my computers is a netbook-ish Lenovo x131e from a few years ago. It runs everything I need it to very well, except for web browsing in Firefox. Many pages cause the browser to completely choke for a few seconds while the JavaScript does its thing.

I finally broke down and installed NoScript and it feels like I'm browsing the web on a brand new computer! Pages load fast and render quickly. If JavaScript is required, I can enable it on a site-by-site basis. There's also the privacy and security benefits, but my main issue was performance.

I used to think that people who browse with JavaScript disabled were being silly, but now I understand why someone would want to do that.

I know that part of the problem is Firefox and part of it is the under-powered computer. Browsing the same sites in Safari on a 6-year-old MacBook Pro isn't nearly as painful and, generally speaking, I leave the JavaScript alone on that computer.
It's just a click bait title really.
Well, there is one question you have forgotten to ask. How many people have YOU educated about this? If everyone spread the word and spent time educating others, the companies would lose money, and soon stop doing it.

It's easy to blame others.
The parent was railing against both adwalls and paywalls.

If you don't want advertising and refuse to pay for content, I don't see how that's anything less than expecting free journalism.
I suppose it depends on the context. Considering America's oppressive regulatory environment, and that occupational licensing is bad, I'm usually inclined to call it 'admirable disruption'.
I just don't think there's a magical number that works for me. Dealing with users/clients is really just dealing with people so I guess it ends up like being in a light therapy session, asking questions until you get a good understanding of the real problem. I'm not good reading people but I think I'm good understanding their issues. Empathy gets you a long way. That's probably half of it, the other half being dealing with their expectations.
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Iraq war and the response to Katrina are fairly resent examples of federal boondoggles that I think most people can agree with. More recent examples may be less well known but Secret Courts, F-22, TSA still being broken, and well take your pick.

Don't forget immigration law is a Federal boondoggle.
> The portability of a language is best understood as how difficult/expensive it is to port a conforming program written in the language in question.

What proportion of the things that are referred to in ordinary, everyday language as "C programs" would you estimate are conforming? Maybe 0.01%? If I'd meant "conforming C code" I would've said "conforming C code".

Writing conforming C is not a realistic choice for most use cases. E.g. there are very few experienced conforming C developers available.
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I've put that address on my spam white-list, and it will remain so until I start getting spam to it.
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I played a lot of Night Mission pinball on the Apple II: simply excellent.

Some of you kids might not recognize the reference in the article's title to the "Pinball Wizard" song by The Who, unless you're into classic rock.

There is a computer-science themed parody of this somewhere:

See "UNIX Wizard" right at the top here: http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/textos/unix-songs.txt

If that URL doesn't work for you, Future Visitor, just google for "ever since I was a young boy, I've hacked the arpa net" in quotes.
https://archive.is/Tr7Xg
The first response should have been people install link removers to sites with invasive ads and paywalls. Ill-behaved sites would change a lot quicker if they knew lots of people weren't even seeing/posting links to them. Something like that would effectively remove junk from a users entire internet experience. A natural search result to wsj.com wouldn't appear, a link in a web based email reader wouldn't appear, a link in a web based RSS reader wouldn't appear. They would hate that.
According to my brother in law who lived there for 10 years this is how nearly all business is done in China. The variation is that you hope to get big enough to bribe or otherwise purchase influence.
I think the big question is whether you ever win the previous war.

If every problem adds permanent overhead ("add a check for that issue in the review process") then you're slowly losing ground. If problems get solved ("automate that step so no one forgets it"), you're making progress even if you don't anticipate issues.
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If it was a "this site is 1.8MB and only a few paragraphs" comment then I'd agree - but if OP is correct (haven't personally verified) then that's a pretty valid and worthy comment IMO.
Haven't thought about it, kudos for taking a longer-term view :) But your scenario requires that some sizable majority of people share the same sentiment. E.g. the idea of "world proletarian revolution" rests on the assumption that the majority of people are workers who will be more loyal to their class than their state. On the other hand it is entirely possible for most people to be more loyal to numerous hypothetical global communities which are too small to oppose nation-states. Everything stays the same in this case.
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>So investors were outnumbering borrowers.

A microcosm of the global economy: we're awash with capital, hence no one is willing to pay much in the way of interest rates.
Oppressive regulatory environment? Relative to where, countries which have limited resources and can't enforce regulations to protect consumers?
The related/recommended videos are very relevant and well targeted on youtube, if you are logged in.

Unfortunately, the adverts aren't.
uBlock Origin and enable the anti-adblock killer under 3rd party options seem to usually work great. I also run Privacy Badger add-on which allows me to disable certain scripts and trackers from pages. Works great.
I'll subscribe to sites that I visit on daily basis if they offer it with option to disable ads. I have no problem with this. I don't want to be served idiotic malware from some ad-exchange.
"Then came Javascript, a language designed to make a monkey dance in a webpage. And all hell broke loose." this cracked me up :)
Seconded.

We found that this variation is easier for new players to get into, plus it eliminates the problem of being bored because you were an innocent villager killed off on the first night by the wolves or by the town for no good reason. Since there's only one vote, it becomes much more interesting to reveal your special role or, if you're a wolf, make a claim as a special role. There are always three cards face down in the middle, so you have a chance of getting lucky, and if not you'll put your acting/lying abilities to the test.

It's best if you have an hour or so to play, because the games really get interesting when everybody starts to learn each other's strategies and tells.
I was under the impression that modern genomics had moved away from the "gender variants are what matters" mindset. Hasn't greater understanding of the proteom and the influence of the environment massively complicated this already daunting task?
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It's mostly a propaganda things, but in special operations (from were many things in the military gets appropriated) it has a purpose. Which isn't about "comfort" as some has suggested, but rather about accountability. If you don't speak up about something and someone gets in trouble, you will have to go and get them. Which works both ways. But also if you make a mess, your friends will have to risk their lives (more than usual) to come get you and that is a horrible rather than comforting thought.

It's basically "we are all in the same boat", which is true (sometimes literally) when you're engaged in high-risk activities. Note that high-risk in this case doesn't mean that you might get killed, but that there is a low margin for error leading to catastrophic failure. Special operations are not about being a fair fight, it's about using your advantage and once you loose that you're often in big trouble.

Say you're doing recon on enemy territory and calling in airstrikes. You're a small mobile force that is hard to find having disproportionate impact on the battle, which is good. Then someone drop a glove or breaks his leg or anything else that compromises the mission and now you're just a small force soon to be a disproportionate loss, which is bad.
Well, I stand corrected.
I suppose you can consider them the equivalent of a one-hit wonder in the music industry.
We didn't learn any of those things because of genomics. The major cancer therapies of today were developed before short read sequencing was even a thing; cancer researchers been saying for decades that cancer is "not one disease". In fact the genomics efforts were largely intended to overturn that wisdom by using genetic lesions to unify disparate cancer types (to little avail). About the only really interesting thing we learned from these recent efforts is that tumors are a lot more genetically heterogeneous than we previously appreciated, which just expands the problem space.

The proof in the pudding is this: you can get your exome sequenced today and report hundreds of tumor variants, but there is a bare handful of variants that will result in a change in your treatment, and most of those lesions were well-studied before genomics took off.

>We very clearly understand gene expression and signal transaction to a first order, and have bits of the second order down too. There might be more - but that doesn't make that first order inneffective or wrong.

Yes, in fact, our first order understanding IS ineffective. This is what I study every day, so perhaps I'm too close to this, but we literally do not understand the effect of most (99.9%) of genetic variants on gene expression. Sure, there's lots you can do with a first order understanding, but materially, what happens when you sequence a tumor (or a germline, for that matter), is that researchers get a list of mutations, stare at it mystified for a while, and then shrug and move on, because there's really nothing you can do to understand what these things mean.

Yes, this stuff is the way of the future, and it's important to do it for our greater knowledge and understanding in the future. But we're far, far away from this point right now.
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So, the difference between a "hacker" and an "engineer" has always been this idea that the engineer is designing something which is principled at all levels, whereas the hacker is putting together something which works in the most obvious cases but doesn't necessarily cover all of their bases. In practice, I think we all know that a little of both is best; ideally you can throw something together with copy-paste programming to sign a new client, say, and then you can rethink it from the ground up once you've got that proof that someone needs it. Hacking is much cheaper than principled design.

What I'm taking away from this article is that this is also true at the CEO level. Conrad sounds like a hacker's philosophy, writ managerial. If there's a regulation that your browser spend 52 hours on a web page, here's a script to make your browser browse that web page for 52 hours, clicking aimlessly among the pages. You're welcome; you've got other crap to do. Or, if you don't have a license to sell this thing -- well, you still seem to be able to sell, so let's just do it the way that works for now, as a proof-of-concept, and we can always do-it-right later.

And that's not a bad thing! It works great for software! But it looks from the article that therefore the hiccup that the company faced was somewhat predictable given the personality of the CEO. It's hopefully an instructive lesson for any venture capitalists who don't already realize that you need that both-hacker-and-engineer versatility up-top. Because it's the exact sort of hiccup you get when your software team is hacker-only and always put under pressure to get more done, but never under pressure to do it right. Eventually the code spaghettifies to deal with all of the real-world problems, and the sooner you can catch it before it becomes a hairball, the better.

My job right now is, I maintain a big data processor. I can freely testify that there are still a ton of quick hacks that are stuck in various places. But every week or so, I get a little downtime -- and when I don't spend that peeking into Hacker News, I spend it trying to modularize the hackery and then swap in carefully-reasoned modules for quick-hack modules.

I implore other software engineers to do the same; and I will definitely start thinking of more management-level decisions this way, in terms of "quick clever hacks" versus "careful design."
>I've never seen a bond over 1%

The BAA Corporate index is 4.79%.
I really like the `deinit` construct that comes with ARC, which lets you know when an object is about to be deallocated. Makes it much easier to find memory leaks, imo.
It's an excellent technique for learning unfamiliar domains (which is almost everything, for a 3 year old). If you don't have a strong framework to fit new data into, ask "why?" a bunch of times and people will hand you relevant pieces of that framework.
Do you have a link to some benchmarks at hand? Your "possibly faster than C" claim sounds too good to be true without a source, but I'd very much like to be proven wrong :)
"Genes" as protein coding regions is a common shorthand, but there's another, broader definition of "gene" as "a locus in the genome that bears some responsibility for a trait". For instance, the ability to consume lactose post infancy is a trait driven by a mutation not in a protein coding region, but could reasonably called a "gene for lactase persistence". In general, we don't have good bottom-up ways of understanding which regions of the genome are regulatory, much less what that regulation is doing.

So according to one definition, it's even worse than your 14,234 tons of steel example: it's closer to "steel is a mixture of iron and carbon and trace amounts of other dopants, glass is silicon dioxide, concrete is ..." Without even listing the amounts. But by another definition, the genes are, if not a blueprint, at the very least a recipe and ingredient list. "Butter, flour, water, sugar, apples, cinnamon, cloves. Cut 125g butter into flour; if too coarse, continue cutting. Add water to ice. Add water from ice into flour..."

The information is clearly there—we have a long, unbroken history of offspring being very similar to their parents, despite having started with only a single, undifferentiated cell. But with the new tools available to us, we're starting to have a hope of understanding it, even if we're using more brute force than we'd like.
There needs to be some oversight. Can you imagine being mis-categorized by Google? No recourse. And they are not that good at machine inference yet, at least in this part of the company, in my experience.
For those in the UK, there is the British Gut Project:

http://britishgut.org/
Looking for a software engineering cofounder.

I'm working on a project automating tasks around physical product development, and eventually leading into a SaaS/platform with some intelligence to take advantage of new directions in digital manufacturing. I have a feature roadmap and connections to some early users for sales/testing, but my background is not software engineering (MechE, manufacturing, and some EE/embedded systems). Currently I'm evaluating freelancers to get an MVP built since I have a small amount of money to work with.
How is this better than phashes? I am new to this, would love for someone with expertise to explain what the best way to hash images are.
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Why would people from one place on earth be entitled to the wealth of other people somewhere else on earth? Is the neighbor family one block away entitled to live in my flat, because they should have equal opportunity to live there? I think not.
It's quiet inconsiderate to tell developers to optimize for outdated bandwidth caps (which for some may be extra time, cost etc that they don't have).

You should expect to have to increase you dataplan every few years (because technology) whether that cost is absorbed by you or your phone company is a conversation to have with them.
I can't get the site to load. But how do things like this fit in?

1. NIH Human Microbiome Project - http://hmpdacc.org/

2. uBiome - http://ubiome.com/
All of this was started by a false accusation. The same guy that posted the tweet that went vial later said he was mistaken:

http://www.ghettoforensics.com/2016/03/of-malware-and-adware...

"Here is what is clear:

The advertisement was not malware.

Forbes is still whitelisted from my ad-blocker.

We have no evidence of what exactly created this pop-up."
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> Maybe it's unnecessary, maybe not, but that's subjective and most people would rather have images and decent UI.

The rise and success of cruft-stripping-as-a-service offerings like Readability, Pocket, Instapaper, etc., seems to indicate that a not-insignificant segment of consumers think that a "decent UI" is _less_ UI.
I'm not sure if the pendulum can swing any more in the direction of centralization. I expect genomic appliances that are disconnected from the internet to become common with advances in sequencing tech like nanopore sequencing. Imagine a lab that buys disposable sequencing based diagnostics. Open the package, drop in the sample, and get the answer anywhere and anytime without the need for a HiFi internet connection or HIPPA compliance woes.
Indeed. If systemd were just a parallelized init system with better unit management, far more would be okay with this shift.

But that wasn't enough. They had to hijack bootloading, logging, device management, network, etc. For reasons that nobody seems to be able to actually explicate.
Perhaps I misunderstood Holocracy when I looked into it but I thought it was about being able to modify the structure of the organisation in real-time, so it had just the right amount of structure.

http://wiki.holacracy.org/index.php?title=FAQ says
> Is there no hierarchy in Holacracy? Yes and no. There is no management hierarchy as we’re used to it, and no hierarchy of people/managers. However it’s not a structureless" structure either. Holacracy uses a totally different type of hierarchy: a holarchy of roles, and not a hierarchy of people/managers.

I guess being given tasks from more than one Holacracy role can lead to not knowing which to prioritise? Is that a fair representation of what you said?

Is this something you've witnessed first hand or heard about or is it just a hypothetical?