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> I think the best thing about FreeBSD is the incredibly high quality of its users;

I suspect survivor bias in action here. At least I would consider a possibility that these users are so well-educated about their system because they have no choice. And that's not always what one wants. I don't really want to be extremely well-educated about the details of my car. I just want to operate a couple of buttons, levers and other gadgets and get quickly and safely from point A to point B. I couldn't care less how the car does it, for all I care it could have magical pixies inside.

Now, I'm not saying BSD users doing it wrong. On the contrary, if it works for them that's great, and becoming the master of your tools is both personally rewarding and enriching. But - if you're preaching to outside audience, one has to mention that "BSD users are very knowledgeable about the details of their system" might also mean "you can't use this system unless you become an expert in it, if you're just interested in being a casual consumer you're in trouble".
So the "most dangerous" interventions are the ones that are so subtle we can't see the damage they cause?

I would have thought the most dangerous interventions were ones that tanked the economy and caused widespread poverty and desperation. But yeah, slightly reduced economic output sounds worse.

I do love the untestable nature of this assertion, too. The underlying claim here is that all interventions cause economic damage, even if we can't detect it. This is analogous to claiming that microwave ovens increase the risk of cancer, even though we can't detect it.
I don't understand. Why would they need to know Ruby fist? These arent people looking to become devs. They're looking to limp something along until it takes off or dies. There's no need know Ruby for that.

In fact I'd go so far as to say that trying to learn Ruby first is doing yourself a disservice. Just dive right in.
Next time you get one of these, please put it in an envelope and send it my way. Studying the ins and outs of spyware handed out by an embassy to students would make a great paper, or a great toy for feeding them false information. I'm thinking Moon Nazis set to attack a non-existent school in rural Canada. Lets see how many black vans we can get to drive by a particular webcam.
> We're talking about cutting out a food category
> and presumably replacing it with another.

Pretty much, yes, depending on how you categorise foods.

> I don't know of any convincing evidence this
> results in weight loss. Open to information of
> course!

Plenty of evidence exists - where have you already looked?

Atkins - probably the most famous. Tim Ferris - relatively recent. Both good starting points for some large (though in some cases you'll find some insufficiently formal) studies.

The 2014 US film 'Fed Up' goes into some good detail about why this particular food category is bad for you - including a lovely animated graphic about a half hour in.

The actual article (did you read it?) this story points to has a box on p24 that describes this too - the 'a calorie is not a calorie'. That box includes several links to some more scientific research on the subject.

The underlying problem is that the sentiment you've expressed - replacing one food category with another can't possibly be effective at reducing weight / risk of disease, improving well-being, etc - is one that the sugar industry is very happy with, and regrettably is very widely held.

To many people it's intuitive that all energy is equal in terms of what your body does with it. Unfortunately there's no evidence that this is the case, and plenty of evidence that it isn't.

Do some searches on things like 'evidence of weight loss with low-carbohydrate diets' maybe append 'high fat' for some interesting variants.

You'll find some good studies, plus an abundance of anecdotes (blogs basically :) of people who've maintained or increased their raw energy input, while reducing their weight, through dietary changes alone.
Sorry, yes.

You're only counting the peak hour of the day. And yes, there's also nighttime, morning, afternoon, and evening.

And guess what, nighttime is not zero. The moon gives off some light too.
What's the lineage and what are examples of this concept in (science) fiction? There's Snow Crash and Rainbows End, but what else?
C# is one of the most popular languages and is one of the inspirations for TypeScript's type system
Interestingly (on reflection, not surprisingly) since going back to RSS, I've been reading a lot more from sites with expert content, but ugly typography.

- Math Babe (https://mathbabe.org)

+ Superb musings and coverage on the societal
impact of everything becoming a prediction
problem (occasional applied technical
discussion)

- Tech Dirt (https://www.techdirt.com/)

+ Lawyers Rule Everything Around Me

- Light Blue Touchpaper (https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org)

+ Thoughts on infosec from Cambridge Computer
Laboratory (influential on policy, excellent
coverage of conferences)

- Muckrock (https://www.muckrock.com/)

+ News from the FOIA wars
I'm down for that. You couldn't do much worse.
Chocolatey and oneget under win 10 (apt-get for windows)
finally apt-get for windows that is useable
Yes exactly. They are allowed to continue hurting the economy for decades.

>I would have thought the most dangerous interventions were ones that tanked the economy and caused widespread poverty and desperation. But yeah, slightly reduced economic output sounds worse.

The compounding effect of slightly reduced economic growth adds up to a lot over the long term. Much more than a big one or two year drop in GDP. You can do the math and see what I mean.

>The underlying claim here is that all interventions cause economic damage, even if we can't detect it.

To clarify, you probably can detect it but like all economic phenomena, we don't have absolute proof that so-and-so economic policy was the cause of the damage. We only have a reasonable cause to believe it is the cause.

The problem is that the majority of the electorate are not well-versed in economics so unless the damage is extremely obvious they're not going to react properly and correct the harmful policy..
I've addressed this in part in my own reply to the parent. But the larger one is that with 1) pervasive information and 2) very cheap analysis or assertion, you're hugely increasing the potential for this type of abuse.

The limit is in attention paid -- the public has a limited capacity to absorb information, and there are a few hundred, perhaps a thousand or so "top celebrities" at any one time.

And some of those can attain a highly significant level of immunity to criticism. Ronald Reagan's presidency was the most scandal-prone in recent memory, and yet his moniker was "the Teflon president". William Jefferson Clinton took far more flack for far less, and Barak Obama takes the hit for complete fabrications. Meantime, a major party presidential candidate advocates overt violence to protesters and various other views ... and is only embraced all the more strongly by his supporters.

The dynamics of this are odd.
$5 Omega2 Linux Computer Designed for the Internet of Things
I thought it would be a recreation of how the paint looks like from the back of the canvas?
Also for truckers, bus drivers, people that drive for a living. Eg: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/road/social_provisions/d... (although, its "rest" not sleep. I'm not sure how you would mandate sleep - or monitor it in a sensible manner).
I think this article does a fantastic job of illustrating why legal problems (determining or enforcing the Colour of something) can never possibly be solved through the use of (colourless) technology - the two are fundamentally incompatible. This is, for example, the reason why DRM has never ever stopped people from sharing copyrighted works - because DRM is trying to solve a legal problem (the Colour of bits) by using a function of those bits (technology), it is destined to fail.
How does this compare to Solar-Lezama et al's "Sketching Stencils" approach to program synthesis?
It was, at least for me. One of my biggest complaints with a lot of art museums with no contemporary pieces is that people just walk through, not actually looking at the art, just to say "I saw a (Vermeer|Rembrandt|Bosch) today! In this exhibit, people were really interacting with the art. They were trying to look behind the pieces to tell if there was art there; some people just thought the room was unfinished and they shouldn't be there; some tried to tell if the pieces were the actual backs or not. Others were more astute and read the description on the wall, and almost everyone that did was still intrigued by the art. Think of it as a 3D photograph of the actual artwork, not only very interesting to look at but also exceedingly well-done. And, while even professionals that worked with the Mona Lisa for years could not tell the real Mona Lisa back from its replica, there were certainly fine nuances in the work that made it more than just a pure photocopied version of the "original". At the very least, there was nobody doing the very common walk-through-the-room-spending-10-seconds-on-each-piece that fills traditional galleries, and it made me very happy to see.
I agree with your post and you list a number of good ideas. Except...

> If you really want you can tax companies' revenue (not profits).

That one doesn't really work.

Some industries are very low margin and capital intensive. There is, realistically, no level of revenue based tax that a supermarket chain can pay. Maaaaybe 1%. Max. Same goes for airlines, steel mills, and a thousand other old-school bricks and mortar industries where a lot of money may come in the door, but then in goes right back out again as a cost of doing business.

Other industries are very high margin, including a lot of tech businesses that were all familiar with. A 1% revenue tax would represent a massive decrease in their total tax bill, but if you charge them a more realistic tax rate you've bankrupted everything that's not a highly profitable tech company, which is basically your entire economy.

(Yes, they'll try to pass it on, but a supermarket chain isn't going to be able to pass on a 20% tax on revenue. They're already making no profits, paying crap wages, and bargaining their supliers down to the wire; the only thing they could do is raise prices 20%, and people who aren't working at the aforementioned high-margin tech companies can't remotely afford a 20% surcharge on their food bill with no offsetting changes to their tax or benefits. Plus, if that's actually the policy result you wanted...maybe just enact a 20% VAT?)

Of course, you could adjust the tax rate based on how capital intensive the industry is and how high your margins are at which point...it's a tax on profit again. :)

The more you dig into it, the more it becomes clear (in my view) that revenue based taxation isn't the right lever to pull. Whatever policy outcome you want can be more easily gained via other methods.
The argument that programmers are ridiculous pedants who don't understand anything and should leave the law to The High Priests Who Really Understand These Things seems to get more than its share of support, but is that what's going on here?

Suppose there is some thing the law says you can't publish. You encrypt it with AES, throw away the key and then publish the ciphertext. It's not at all clear that the law is going to punish you for that -- nobody can read the information anymore, so whatever evil the law was intended to prevent is not occurring, and anyway the government is going to have a hard time proving their case since without the key they can't actually prove what the ciphertext is.

Now suppose you do the same thing but instead of AES you use 40-bit DES, which anybody can easily break with modern hardware. Now you're arguably publishing the thing, and the government can prove what the ciphertext is, so the outcome could be different. But that wouldn't have been the case in the 1970s when computers were slower.

So what is it about the conclusion that the law could depend on the state of computing power and algorithms that you find so implausible?
I just did not want to try whether my old 2GB netbook would actually run Win 10. It's painfully slow on Win 7 as it is.

Also, I remember hearing that Microsoft told manufacturers not to allow more than 2GB in netbooks as they might have cannibalised the laptop market otherwise. So in that sense, it's their fault I don't upgrade.
At least the four of them didn't invade a land and massacre locals.
You can think of the even and odd parts of a function as decomposing the function into its +/-1 eigencomponents with respect to the operator f(x) -> f(-x).

You can think of the exponential Fourier series of a function as a way to decompose the function into its {..., -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ...} eigencomponents with respect to the operator f(x) -> f'(x).
It's not just you; happens the world over. Phillipines, Africa ... nearly all colonized peoples - if not in "religion", then in culture and language.
> Please provide some examples of free market economics leading to people starving.

In a completely free market, how does someone without money not starve?

> I don't know if you know this but Sweden was the most free market economy in the world from 1870 to 1950. After it adopted social welfare is in the 1970s, its growth stagnated.

I have no idea if this is even remotely true, but I'll assume for a moment that it is. Does the fact that Sweden adopted welfare not tell you something about the consequences of their free markets? The free market was just so awesome that they passed welfare for all the rich Swedes who didn't need it?
Even in my position of just an average citizen, I've tried to do something:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/hold-accountable-...

With the people I've shared this with, I've been met with downright hostility and vitriol. I felt like I should do something, so I started that petition. To date, I literally have two signatures...

Apathy is incredibly strong in this country right now.
Nonsense. It makes great sense to compare some languages to some frameworks, for some purposes.

Yes, PHP is a language, and Ruby is a language. PHP does a lot more than that. A default install of PHP + Apache has routing logic, and HTTP parsing (what populates all those superglobals like $_POST?), it has templating (I'm sure ERB came up with all of its syntax independently), etc etc. In the Ruby ecosystem, you those are responsibilities of a "framework". Indeed, no one would argue that Sinatra is not a framework, but I'm not aware of any features of Sinatra that aren't already delivered by PHP out of the box.

If your goal is to build an artificial and incoherent taxonomy of "languages" vs "frameworks", then yes it's very clear that PHP and Rails are different types of things.

If your goal is to actually build web sites, comparing Ruby+Rails (which you might write as "Rails", since it implies the "+Ruby part) to PHP is a very reasonable thing to do. I think it's utterly clear that the GP was comparing "making a web app with PHP" to "making a web app with Ruby and RoR".
Win7 has been slow since Win10 release. Personally, I don't think that was an accident.
All of this FUD about bars and restaurants is a solved problem in Canada, where almost everyone uses Interac chip and pin cards. There are lots of hardware choices of portable wireless chip and pin terminals for restaurant use.
Under what grounds would you recommend that someone who didn't understand the terms be prosecuted? What law makes it illegal to not understand the terms of the contract that you are signing?
Playing video games. Even reading HN/Twitter is more productive than playing video games.
Very cool project. I've been thinking about doing something like this for years.

However, I must ask, is there an option to display the definitions in simple Japanese/use the app entirely in Japanese?

Seems to me if you're reading short stories, you probably shouldn't be translating words to English.

Also, do you explain the nuances of the kanji themselves? There is a lot of connotation(?) not provided by the definition.
He sold state secrets to the Russians. He may have told the truth, but that's also treason.
I use netvibes. Basically replaced my old "my yahoo" page about five years back. Love it.
Anecdotally I don't know of a single ISP that buys N x 10 Gbps transpacific or transatlantic waves/transport (ex: one Wilshire to Equinix Tokyo) that uses link layer crypto. In my example the ISPs are customers of the organizations that actually run the DWDM terminals.

Highly redundant core routers like an asr9010 with 2nd/3rd gen line cards, or an mx960 are already expensive enough without making a 24-port 10GbE linecard twice as costly to buy by having crypto features. It is super rare to see such hardware in production for commercial ISPs.
Your quote didn't say that all things can be disproven or proven. You need to think mathematically!
I assume he meant carbon sequestration.
From your comment, it looks like you are hustling but haven't seen the results yet. Please do not give up and keep hustling.

Few notes:

1. Do you know about Ramit Sethi? He has tons of free material on finding a job. I would highly recommend that you go through it.

2. How systematic are you about your interviews? Do you have a log of all interviews and questions which you have been asked? I strongly believe that interviewing is a skill by itself. You need to work on it. When I was trying to break in to finance industry, I gave more than 40+ interviews before I could catch a break.

3. I have helped quite a few friends in their job search and all of them ended up in a better place. Though I have never had a chance to work with someone who is a fresh graduate. I live and work in NYC. Please contact me (details in my profile) and I will try my best to help you out.

Good luck.
Abandoning copyright is different than assigning the works to the public domain from what I know.

One is an explicit act (moving works into the public domain) and the other is simply a sin of omission.
So is this like a simpler interface for making Coq-like specifications?
http://cacm.acm.org/ - Communications of the ACM

https://www.hpcwire.com/ - HPCwire: Global News and Information on High Performance Computing

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ - Lambda the Ultimate

https://openai.com/blog/ - OpenAI Blog

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ - Shtetl-Optimized. The Blog of Scott Aaronson

http://feedworld.net/toc/ - Theory of Computing Blog Aggregator

http://deepmind-ai.blogspot.com/ - DeepMind AI

https://www.technologyreview.com - MIT Technology review

And a bit of fun:

http://phdcomics.com/comics.php - PhD comics

http://www.smbc-comics.com/ - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics

https://what-if.xkcd.com/ - What If?
actually, if you read the article and the post, the subject is about foreign influence in elections, so my comment is on point.
If you enjoyed this, you might enjoy an exhibit currently on display at the Met Breuer, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art here in New York called "Unfinished". It displays dozens of works of art that were never finished, for varying reasons. Some are classified as intentionally unfinished (would that make them finished?), but they are all fascinating to see and read about.

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/unfinishe...
Since when is a company that shows little regard for the law a "good guy." This isn't about not liking smartphones, it is about not liking a company that appears to be doing evil. Uber is not a"sharing" company, nor are they the future. They are simply a taxi company that appears to exploit their customers and employees and skirt the law every where they can.
> That is textbook authoritarian intervention.

It's really not. It's not authoritarian when a democratically elected government creates regulations that it's citizens want. That's just governance.

Otherwise every law a government passes is authoritarian, in which case the word is meaningless.
Movable Housing for Scalable Cities: A Reply to YC
My experience is not limited to the e1000(4) driver. The device tree driver subsystem is based on hardware model from the early 90s, the mbuf API is plagued with code duplication. Nobody want to touch this because the old guard is pretty much locking these interface. Everybody praise the Lord PHK, but his actual code in the tree is really sub-standard... The way to change things is to do what Adrian Chadd has been doing, sneaking in, and changing stuff behind's people back.

The way to contribute to BSD is easy, you have to be big to have enough influence (including monetary wise) to get stuff in. When you are a small nobody, you end up being treated as such.

Comparatively, I've had Linus look up at some issue I used to have with Linux USB stack (which were likely local interconnect issue). A world of difference.

edit: while I think about it, most large changes in FreeBSD are discussed in private. Public discussion on patch and technical discussion is frowned upon. At the end of the day, the dev submit at 10kloc patch that is unrewiewable, and it gets in with rather poor amount of discussion. The only public discussion held is pretty much bikeshedding. There is way more interesting technical conversation happening in a day on the LKML than will happen in a year on FreeBSD ml.
You can always move earlier, I moved to Linux for work and only keep Windows for videogames and couldn't be happier.
Decades of sightly reduced economic output is worse than violent revolution? Really? Do you not place much value on human life?
Reminds me about a quote from Firefly:

> Mal: …Could have been meditating on the wonders of your rock garden right now.

> Jayne: Beats just sitting.

> Wash: It is just sitting.

There's a pretty big spectrum of mindfulness and meditation including "just sitting", yoga, Qigong -- or even certain forms of martial arts (perhaps most famously certain forms of Tachi, but also Pa Kua Chang and others).

Or even just taking a walk in the forest.

"Just sitting" is probably the easiest way to get started, but perhaps the hardest to master -- or stick with. But I think everyone should be able to find something that works for them.
If their recently-googled skepticism is accurate, then I don't care how cursory it is - it saves me the five minutes of looking up the same sources myself.
This was written in 1941, before the Holocaust was widely known about. This person would have thought of Nazism as an ugly regime, like many others in history, perhaps the way we think of Assad or Putin but worse. She wouldn't have known they were nearly as bad as we do today.
I've taken some small steps recently by not taking my phone to the gym and going for long walks (~30min) without my phone. While I walk I try to meditate a little bit by dismissing business thoughts etc.
Dennou Coil (anime tv series) is one of my favorites, and the kind of AR I hope we actually see. Less overwhelming and commercial and more functional and restrained.

Also I consider the "datumplane" from Hyperion novels to provide a lot of the functionality of the modern AI-ssistent or AR tools we are currently imagining.
> Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel

Is it called "A Tree"? Those things are ancient!
Certainly eminent domain is sometimes necessary, and I agree some form of it will probably be necessary to solve California's problem, but I wouldn't exactly associate it with "letting prices rise" (the statement by the poster who started this line of thought).

The free market had its say when these water rights were sold, taking it back from them with eminent domain so we can charge more is not the free market.
> So for Haskell, it would be closer to something like Djinn,
> where code is generated/proved from a type specification.

I don't understand. How is this generating/proving different, in essence, from GHC generating machine code from Haskell? What do we gain by having Djinn generate the Haskell code, rather than writing the Haskell ourselves?