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The HN "detect URLs and make them clickable links" code was confused by your punctuation, resulting in garbage at the end of the URL. Here it is cleaned up:

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A lot of us here works with information for a living. Of course, we prefer the leaner, more information dense medium.

Facebook is not a platform to communicate interesting ideas succinctly. I apologize for not coming up a better way of saying this, but Facebook is catering for the not-so-sophisticated. The majority of users probably can't scan/process text very fast.

Facebook is TV. It wants to be TV.
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Consider a menu to be like the API documentation for a restaurant. Keeping printed documentation in sync with what's available online is actually quite hard, especially if it's something that changes regularly. It feels like something that can be improved by keeping everything digital.

If a user insisted on written documentation for a project that moved quickly, how would you manage that? Would you give them a printed copy? Or would you say "the latest docs are at <uri>"?
Medicine has a few impossible problems.

Family practice/internal medicine is arguably one of the most important roles, but many new doctors specialize so that they can better "cash in" on their M.D. degree. It's much cheaper to be proactive than reactive, but medicine doesn't think that way.

Another problem is that Medicine spends a ton of money trying to keep old people alive for a few more days.

For example, my grandfather was somehow talked into have his pacemaker replaced a few months before his 101st birthday. There were complications, infections, etc, and my aunt had to fight to get him on hospice care. Replacing this pacemaker was a mean thing to do to an old man who'd spent years hoping to die in his sleep. It would have been kinder to have never given him the pacemaker in the first place. He would've passed away 10 years earlier, but those last 10 years were of little value to him.

Obamacare has only made "paying the bill" for medicine even more problematic.
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There are link hotspots in her eyes at some points. Check the comments on the new YT video.
> Economic value however is not meaningless. It represents a measure of contribution to the capital engine that powers our lives.

I think you need to define "economic value" here. GP, I believe, was referring to actual exchanges of money for value.

The problem is that lots of very important, valuable jobs aren't compensated accordingly. One could say that being a good parent is one of the most important and valuable jobs, but it pays very little. The same is true of teaching and scientific research. A huge amount of value (almost incalculable) is created for others, but the creator is able to capture very little of it.
Peak legal. Automation is affecting discovery and the demand for the junior lawyers that used to do it, but there just isn't the demand growth to keep up with the supply growth of lawyers.
I do wish we could see what octopuses can achieve given lifespans longer than a few years, and maybe slightly less dangerous environments.
Yes in diagnostics but for research social innovations will be far more impactful.
> I feel very uncomfortable installing it on my machines and in general having to go through software A to get to software B makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

The only difference between Steam and GoG is that GoG runs software A on their servers and in your browser, whereas Steam runs software A on your machine in the custom-skinned browser they give you.

Any security or privacy ramifications of the two different approaches are quit irrelevant to a discussion of whether it constitutes DRM in the generally accepted sense of technical measures to prevent you from copying, sharing, etc. digital content that you already have in your possession. It's not DRM to require some authentication before they'll serve up the download to you. DRM is what gets in the way after the download.
My best shot Feudalism == Capitalism (specifically, unfettered capitalism).

Seriously.

Markets are where capital (ie. prior labour(yours or some one/thing else's)) is arbitraged for gain. The important part of this rather simplistic point is the arbitrage, it infers that the system is based on the twin concepts of demand and ownership, (or opportunity and opportunity-cost if you like).

Capitalism is the word we use to describe the de-evolution of markets into the private ownership of the means of production. In other words, where enough asymmetrical arbitration has taken place to enable an entity to buy out the rights of someone else to own the profit (ie. the demand portion) from the fruits of their labour. The ultimate expression of this private ownership is the ownership of the people themselves, ergo Feudalism.

Funnily, the last few centuries we attribute to the rise of capitalism, is actually the death throes of unfettered capitalism. See, the interesting thing about ownership it is a social compact, not a natural state. We can trade an item to both our benefits, only because we both agree that you own it and I do not. In a sense, the power IS the asymmetry in the arbitrage. Where this power is balanced between parties, we have free markets. Where it is not balanced, we have capitalism.
History of radio astronomy. It can't get much better than that.
The last few days i find myself wondering if there needs to be some kind of org set up to preserve this sort of info.

Right now it seems to be strewn across a myriad of blogs, forums and whatsnot that risk going poof. And even if the Internet Archive picks them up, it is anything but curated (unlike say wikipedia, even with all the warts).
Mostly automation. E-Discovery companies have dramatically reduced the cost for discovery. It used to require a room full of lawyers to discover evidence but now it is possible to have one person in a room full of computers to automate 10 such cases.
The whole premise was based on the assumption that meritocracy is bad - my point is that this is a flawed assumption. The proposed solutions were the government could step in and "discourage hiring practices that arbitrarily and counterproductively weed out the less-well-IQ’ed." This is counter to science - it has been shown that intelligence is one of the best predictors of the quality of an employee. Why should the government subsidize stupid people, or interfere in companies hiring the best qualified employees anymore than it already does? The reality is smarter people are on average better employees, which is not at all surprising. This article is using politically correct logic, as opposed to actually correct logic.

A fundamental assumption of the article is that every person is of equal worth. Anyone who objects to this idea is labelled as racist or sexist or whatever-ist. But it is objectively just not true that people are all the same. A murderer is not equal to a doctor. Most people would choose to save a drowning doctor rather than a drowning murderer if forced to pick one. Similarly, if I a rational person had to choose between saving a drowning doctor who is an idiot or saving a drowning doctor who is a geniue, the rational person would save the smarter doctor.
But then look at the clarification that he himself linked to[1], from someone far more in the know of the deal itself (Alen Ladavac, the CTO):

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I want to clarify some of the inaccuracies about our relationship with Oculus. Oculus did approach us with an offer to help fund the completion of Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope in exchange for launching first on the Oculus Store and keeping it time-limited exclusive. Their offer was to help us accelerate development of our game, with the expectation that it would eventually support all PC VR platforms. We looked at the offer and decided it wasn’t right for our team. At no time did Oculus ask for, or did we discuss total exclusivity or buyout of support from Vive. We look forward to supporting Rift and Vive.

--

Whether you choose to call that "buying exclusivity" or a genuine "offer to help fund the completion of Serious Sam VR" to an independent developer depends entirely on one's bias and preconception.

An established indie like Croteam doesn't need the help and declines. A group in a more precarious financial position may see a lifeline; a smaller team may see an opportunity to grow a game in ways they couldn't previously afford.

The dogma that all exclusivity is bad, even if it's for a limited time, may actually harm developers or lead to weaker releases that sell more poorly (which in turn hurts the developers).

Look at what the Studio Lead for Giant Cop had to say about it[2]:

"We were always planning to release on one platform first,” Hale said. “We have chosen to make that platform Oculus because we’re a small team and making a video game is a huge risk. You’re basically fronting money for a product that isn’t going to pay you anything back for years. For us, it really came down to the fact that we needed a partner. Having Oculus support us and make us a part of our marketing process significantly increases our chances of making Giant Cop a success for the community, and for the people dedicating their time to build it.”

Read the entire article. This does not sound like buying exclusivity. It sounds like trying to help small developers minimize the massive risk associated with being a VR pioneer.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4nxpnq/fuck_facebook_...

[2] https://uploadvr.com/giant-cop-speaks-oculus-exclusivity/
In America, lots of excessively toxic, obnoxious bastards get much farther along in life than so many others by trading on unsophisticated deception, intimidation and betrayal, and not much else.

After a while, you get tired of being smart and getting nowhere for all the effort you expend.

Then, knowing what you know, and having noticed what's surrounded you for so long, well... intellectuals can decide for themselves a logical corollary to this.
You hit it on the head, this is everything wrong with the startup community, your path should be to a viable business, doing something you love, not just wealth.
The bubble is not in valuations, the bubble is in people's heads - the naive delusion that you can disrupt all aspects of human nature by applying enough technology and holistic ideology.

It may be true that there are aspects of human nature that can't be disrupted by technology, but the problem is recognising which can and which can't. Often when something fails you don't actually know because it may succeed under slightly different circumstances. The failure of a startup is evidence that there may not be a market for "disrupting human nature" in that domain, but it definitely isn't proof.
In fact, I like to argue that feudalism and capitalism are two facets of the same thing they're both about of having the control over the means of production. The only difference is in the mechanisms of both of those elements (means of production and control over it): in capitalism, the means of production is money, and the control is achieved through the legal system; while in feudalism, the means of production was land, and the control was achieved through military power.

If you look at it, there is a pretty clear evolution of those mechanisms: the military power became centralised in the form of the state, which then introduced the legal system as a less damaging way of resolving conflict; similarly, the value of property became measured in gold, which became the standard for a "virtual" currency, turning eventually into the fiat currency.

The two (means of production and the mechanism of control) feed off each other, with the former paying for the latter. And if you look at it, as soon as a society collapses the mechanisms revert to more "primitive" ones.
At least a good part of it is. Looking for relevant jurisprudence, for instance, has gotten much easier. First everything was digitized, and in the 2000s better search engine tech got much better. What used to take a whole lot of experience, or many hours of search, now can take minutes. Similar things happen with the output of discovery: Before you'd have to pay people to read through every single document, make notes on what they contain, cull what is interesting... It was a huge amount of labor that nowadays computers can do.

There are other fun advancements in the horizon: When computers start to gain some understanding of documents, they can read them for us, saving even more time. Eventually helping a non-lawyer understand a contract, and even provide basic advice, all automatically, becomes possible.

There are other factors to the decline of our need of lawyers, but they are cyclical, and will perk up again. The technology changes are here to stay though.
By jumping right into them. Usually I try to spend straight 8-10 hours in the beginning to get hang of things + it gets you in a flow. The idea is to get over that first hump the uncomfortable part of starting something new and nuances that come with it. As you get used to few things you can reduce your sessions to 1-2 hours everyday or 2-3 every other day.
The junior work is being deskilled. Paralegals are doing some of the work junior lawyers used to do, and search and recordkeeping systems are doing much of the work paralegals used to do. A friend of mine is an attorney at a big Silicon Valley law firm, and she says that most of the low-level work is now automated.
Your assessments are not consistent with facts. You imply that the media is a distorting lens, but then you go on to espouse views that come entirely from the media. I'm not sure I understand that.

The US is becoming less religious, and it is the least religious it has ever been. People aren't increasingly idolizing stupidity or loving the rich, or Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders wouldn't have done as well as they did (both used anti-elite messaging). In fact, the on-going presidential election is proof that the rich are falling from grace. Occupy Wall Street, anti-"1%" sentiment, and a Democratic Socialist almost becoming the President are all indications that neoliberalism is dying in the US.
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Say we need three times more lawyers than we did in the 80s, but are graduating ten times more. This can lead to a lawyer glut even when we need more lawyers than ever. It also leads to people feeling like lawyers are no longer "in need", as there's plenty of competent ones available.
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Speaking only from second hand anecdotal sources... I know that 10 years ago, the primary occupation of 1st year associates at large law firms was searching through boxes and boxes of case history for relevant citations. That has to be done instantly with a search engine now and therefore requires far fewer 150k/year 1st year associates.
I read flashboys too and I don't remember it having anything to do with national best bid/offer laws. Was there something specific?
I don't think it is possible to scale a business before you've validated the concept on a smaller scale. Validation really should come first and that includes the business model.
> Can you point to where in the gzip or DEFLATE spec having that stipulation?

You are correct, I was misreading the stream format. There's a mode in it that mentioned 65k of data, and I was misreading what I saw (rather badly, at that). That said, it looks like, since deflate duplicate string reduction portion (LZ77 in gzip) references a sequence of bytes in the prior 32k, you could make sure to read at least 32k prior to the point you want to start looking at, and that would be covered. Unfortunately, the location of the huffman table looks to be the sticking point. If it was one large block, that would be easy, read some of the front, but it's probably not as easy as that, depending on how tar adds files.

> The gzip format doesn't store the compressed data length, nor the offset of the compressed data blobs.

I wasn't expecting it to store the offset, but I was incorrectly interpreting that it had a max length, which meant you could likely find it with high assurance.

I'm going to look deeper into the specifics of the huffman table, where it can/must be within the block, and how tar handles adding files to a compressed archive (does it add another block, or extend the existing one?) and when compressing in general (does tar arbitrarily limit deflate stream block sizes?). I'm not super confident it's possible, otherwise I imagine someone would have done it.
Thanks for finding that. Wikipedia says Valve had 330 as of 2013, so Valve most likely slightly outnumbers them. Hardly David vs. Goliath in headcount/organization size though. Though of course you have to be aware HTC is the production scale out.
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That accordion component chugs along at sub 5 fps on my phone which isn't ideal.
Could VR bring back the games arcade?
approx slides (has common slides, but is different from the presentation): https://qconlondon.com/london-2016/system/files/presentation...
It's impossible to have a meritocracy because there's no objective way to decide what "merit" is. Even if you decide it's some of the qualities you mention, you can't accurately measure them. It's time to give up on the idea of meritocracy (either in society as a whole, or in a company).
No, you can extract specific files from a tar archive. I believe it skips through the tar file object headers, which include file length, so it only has to read the headers. That said, there are problems with my proposal, as you pointed out elsewhere here.
After reading Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud [1], I came to a similar realization, and wish he could provide the same depth and thoughtful illustration to many more subjects, especially technical or mathematical. Even if comics aren't your thing, I would _highly_ recommend this book. It's a fantastic lesson in communication and composition.

1: http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/
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Additionally we have created a system where ownership of capital probably creates too much economic value relative to work. Which ends up centralising the capital, to the detriment of society.
What is Function-as-a-Service vs. Serverless?
The Flynn effect had stopped in most western countries including the USA.
Not the simplest way to solve the problem. May have many other effects.
I said there's a big difference between commenting on a strategy and attacking a person.

This is all in reference to spriggan3 changing the ground from her bets, which is what heimatau was talking about, to "attack[ing] her publicly".

It is possible to address both in sexist ways. But when somebody is attacking a prominent woman in ways that prominent men in similar situations get a lot less of, I'm much more inclined to read the personal attacks as sexist in motivation.

I definitely didn't say "there is a big difference between non-sexist and sexist criticism", and I don't believe that to be generally true. That's why hidden biases like sexism and racism are so pernicious. Is any individual Mayer comment sexist? Who knows. But when we look at statistical patterns in how women are treated, it's obvious that bias is in play, be that conscious but hidden or entirely unnoticed by the commenter.

Your focus on assuring safe harbor for dudes is telling. You don't talk at all about safety for the people actually being harmed by the sexism; they appear irrelevant to you as long as guys don't have to endure examination and possible criticism.
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Duke power only bans IQ tests if you can't show a correlation between job performance and IQ. If you want to use IQ tests you just need to do the studies that show that IQ is an important factor for the position you are hiring for.
next up: make them dream of electric sheep
ISP network engineering/operational support software team here: People need to be able to find two hours of time (over a 5-6 day period) to complete a small take home project. When they do it and how they do it is up to them.

If somebody can't do this then they would not be a good fit to be in the on-call rotation where 1 out of every 5 or 6 weeks you could have alert emails and phone calls ringing on your phone at 3am. Sorry, but five to six nines statistical uptime over one year demand it.
these don't seem to be the correct slides.
linuxquestions.org

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/

you can ask whatever questions you want, and even ask a half formed question and eventually work out an answer through a back and forth

the community is great, and will happily help with the whole spectrum of questions from broad discussions to very specific individual software issues

i found offering an opinion in other peoples' questions to be as equally rewarding as asking my own

i linked to the programming forum above, but they have a bunch of great forums.. check out some of the other ones where you might have, or want to have, an overlap in interest:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/
Whom do they sue? Etherium has a foundation in Zug, Switzerland, but the DAO doesn't have a legal entity. The individuals behind the DAO could be sued as individuals, perhaps. But for what? Negligence?

In what jurisdiction do you litigate? Switzerland?

Who has standing to sue? Any investor?

The SEC might go after the DAO for selling an unregistered investment vehicle to US residents. They've done that many times with offshore firms, with varying degrees of success.
all their consumer services are in the business of mining your data. 2FA is just the icing on the cake.
One thing I think is interesting here is the uncontrolled growth in costs. Paul Campos of Lawyers, Guns, and Money posted the average private-school law tuition [1]:

All figures have been adjusted to constant 2016 dollars:

1956: $4,178
1974: $11,232
1985: $16,803
1995: $26,480
2005: $35,550
2015: $45,123

That just blows me away.

[1] http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/06/end-game
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I wouldn't because it's no different from judging a person by their favourite colour. Who do you hire: a person with a sane email address or a person who has the skills you need? Are you going to admire their email every day? Or do you need to have that person to do their job?
This suggests that video lectures such as offered by coursera could be improved on by providing a transcript for every video lecture. Has this been done by any of the other online teaching institutions?
Eh, I think comparing it to consoles is sufficient for now. The VR hardware is pretty significantly different. Something programmed for the vive controllers is going to be designed a lot differently than something programmed for the Occulus. (not sure how that changes when the Occulus hand controllers come out).

There's a lot of experimentation happening right now, and it's probably going to be a while until we know the minimum subset of hardware that's required to make an immersive game.
I think I understand the distinction you're making. However I think it's only technically correct. I understand that I can boot up a VM with Steam, download the game, copy it from the VM to my machine that doesn't their software and it'll probably work. But that's in the realm of "technically possible but completely impractical". In practical terms I actuality have to run their software on my machine to have access to the software I buy through them.