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We don't know what runaway climate change will look like. The system is chaotic with lots of feedback loops. Stuff will happen, some of it counter-intuitive. It may or may not be okay in the end.

I like Elon's take: yeah, it might not be that bad, but is it really smart to do an uncontrolled experiment on your own biosphere and "see what happens?"

I also like George Carlin's: "Stop talking about saving the Earth! The Earth is four billion years old. The Earth will be fine. We're fucked."

Carlin's comment is actually quite wise. Life will adapt, but adaptation is a painful evolutionary process that often involves a lot of death. Concern over things like climate change is entirely self-interested. We don't want to unleash a Darwinian "adaptive" process at the global scale upon ourselves.
No, Facebook wanted you to just access Facebook and a few other Facebook Approved services.

https://info.internet.org/en/story/free-basics-from-internet...
I get quite depressed when I read articles like this. I'm resentful of the fact that my early academic performance was merely above average, rather than exceptional. Some days I feel confident in my abilities and my plans for the future; other days, I fear that it's already too late for me to accomplish anything of note.
Couldn't you make drones that unpack the package? So there is nothing to return?
> The 14-year-old is exhibiting his startup idea -- a vending machine that dispenses first aid products -- at TechCrunch Disrupt this week in Brooklyn.

How long before we see articles decrying him for being a profiteer?

(N.b.: I think that this is actually a great idea, but I also think it's difficult to underestimate the economic illiteracy of the general populace and journalists in particular.)
The article is short on actual lessons learned from the study. Two representative paragraphs:

SMPY researchers say that even modest interventions—for example, access to challenging material such as college-level Advanced Placement courses—have a demonstrable effect. Among students with high ability, those who were given a richer density of advanced precollegiate educational opportunities in STEM went on to publish more academic papers, earn more patents and pursue higher-level careers than their equally smart peers who didn't have these opportunities.

Despite SMPY's many insights, researchers still have an incomplete picture of giftedness and achievement. “We don't know why, even at the high end, some people will do well and others won't,” says Douglas Detterman, a psychologist who studies cognitive ability at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. “Intelligence won't account for all the differences between people; motivation, personality factors, how hard you work and other things are important.”
Sadly PiBakery uses a slightly customised version of Raspbian, so simply using the "standard" Raspberry Pi one wouldn't work. If you know how, you can make the customisations to Raspbian yourself - the changes I made are on the PiBakery-Raspbian GitHub page: https://github.com/davidferguson/pibakery-raspbian
How Tesla Autopilot drove a man with a blood clot to the hospital
The best thing for Earth and possibly the thing for homo sapiens is a nuclear winter. Hillary will just continue the drone war and statist business as usual. Trump on the other hand, total wild-card, and possibly unwitting instigator of nuclear war. The long term ecological choice is Trump.
Once you get into it its a great article on finding out what really matters to your customers. I also love the name Forky. The title is not really meaningful.
I agree, most people who would have been pressing flowers like the author's great aunt are now playing Farmville all day, also "just because they like it". In fact, I think this is more a problem with older people and retirees – I don't exactly know why, but they seem to get into social media and useless games with a ferocity far exceeding that of younger generations.
This is just like the time I created a startup where a group of friends in separate locations could select custom drinks and alcoholic beverages using our app which would then be automatically delivered to a location equidistant from each friend in the group.

But then we pivoted and just opened a bar.
> The writer, Stephanie Buck, sounds like a pretty out of touch California kid with rich parents.

I don't know about you, but I just see photos of the California outdoors, Seattle, and Vancouver on said Instagram profile. Everything looks easily affordable for someone making ~30k/year or more.
My theory about audiophiles is that a lot of them grew up in the 1970s-1990s where there really was a huge difference between "high end" and consumer grade audio. That gap has narrowed considerably. I think there's also a lot more people these days out there actually explaining the engineering and science in good audio (in the old days technical details were considerably harder to look up), this makes it hard to push "marketing oriented" product (eg those infamous audiophile cables). My impression currently is that the audiophile hobby kind of was dying off.

I do think there's a few areas where analog still is a bit better technically (mostly from the musician perspective, things such as distortion and resonant filters), but digital is both often better and just so much more convenient for 90% of things. Those that embrace analog as a religion are rather annoying.

Now, I do remember in the 1980s there was a huge push of digital everything -- digital playback, "digitally remastered", etc. A fair bit of that at the time had major issues -- eg not very nice sounding DA stages, aliasing problems, etc. Perhaps this is where some of this attitude comes from.
Your cargo bike can fly over walls?
As long as it's not the first system startup, on a headless machine with little in way of devices. Then you run the risk of generating a number without a seed. But the risk is low, since things like disk IO read times and other such will seed the generator unpredictable ways.

Linux is smart enough to squirrel away some random on reboots so that it can properly seed the generator when it starts up again.

On my system it looks like it's 512 bytes:

$ wc -c /var/lib/urandom/random-seed
512 /var/lib/urandom/random-seed
Everyone has lost faith in the CA system. The problem is that DANE doubles down on it by creating a new hierarchical PKI, this time de jure controlled by governments. And it's not even a good PKI! It's a PKI built around 1990s cryptography.

DANE is not the answer.

Mandatory CT and enforcement of CA Baseline Requirements by browsers is the immediate step. A decentralized trust model is the step after that. None of these steps require the USG to escrow our keys.
Wow that's an awesome read!
I believe that the point of this story was to shine a light on how one of the wealthiest cities treats their poor and to show us what courage they have to keep fighting.
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give up on meaningful data x1

Good content marketing though.
I had a look at the website (specialname.cn for those interested), and one thing that stood out is that she's definitely trying to hide the fact that it was founded by a 16 year old girl.

Normally, I'd say there's nothing wrong with that and also absolutely no need to mention it, but in this case she's specifically misleading people who visit the site.

Scroll down to the bottom (or view the about-us page - http://www.specialname.cn/about-us/) and compare the picture there to picture in the bbc article. One of those pictures is not like the other.

The blurb is then even more misleading - saying she's been visiting China regularly for the last 12 years and is often asked by colleagues to give English names for Chinese babies.

Now, given her father's business, I'm sure it's quite likely that she's been visiting China for 12 years, but I'm pretty sure she didn't have many colleagues when she was 4 years old.

Mad props to her for setting up a site like this, and I can see the reasons for wanting to bend the truth with her background, but it just rankles a little to see this being done.
I mean just generating the random numbers, not writing a generator. At the time I only had access to Windows machines, there were no linux boxes on site and nobody in the company (including me - at the time) knew enough about hack it yourself linux boxes to know what to do, I'd never even heard of /dev/random.

The functions available from microsoft were only PRNG and not Cryptographically Secure (as far as I can remember). Even if they were 'Cryptographically Secure' not having a background in randomness theory makes it pretty hard to work out what is actually needed.

So faced with uncertainty over using VB6 to produce random numbers and finding a product that claims to produce truly random numbers I chose to mitigate the risk by transferring it. If there had been a problem down the line related to the nature of the randomness of the numbers then I would have had recourse to the third party vendor that owned the risk.

So in the same way you suggest no-one should write a CSPRNG, I decided that given my level of knowledge, the documentation available to me and the uncertainty that created we shouldn't trust ourselves to produce random numbers for a particular purpose. What if they weren't random enough? What if someone worked out a way to predict the numbers of cards that had been loaded with value but were still sat in a warehouse? Massive risk, mitigated for £150. Now that's value.
Eh.. meaningful depends on the observer, but I doubt Einstein would have come up with relativity if he thought about the Denver Broncos instead of the universe.
> Such results contradict long-established ideas suggesting that expert performance is built mainly through practice—that anyone can get to the top with enough focused effort of the right kind.

Actually the claim is the other way around - that the people at the top got there through focused effort of the right kind.

Finding "gifted" children does not contradict this. Nobody pops out of the womb a math genius.

Gifted children are "gifted" with a laser focus on the unusual things that they find fun - math, music, what-have-you. They spend countless hours playing with numbers or with music, while little Johnny is playing with a ball.

I was one of these kids, I played with geometric objects, with music, etc. Sure I was weird sometimes. I didn't have anybody to share my interests with.

Anyway, point is, when people point to "gifted" talent, this is just another cop-out. They don't have an explanation. They are appealing to everybody's shared sense of magical outcomes.

But it boils down to the hours that kids put into their interests.
"We placed ants in a scale model of the entire city. Placed food at the delivery points and recorded their steps. In the end it's the first swarming, multi-node, organic-learning food delivery algorithm."
Just look at all the bugs and unfulfilled promises in games released. They make a ton of money, but as much or more money goes into marketing than into the programming.
With the title structured like that (it's the company, albeit owned by India's richest man -- is it public?), this news-piece already screams "PR". But it seems like a good thing at least in the short-term -- it will start a price-war which can only hopefully benefit the customer (again in the short-term -- long-term it might kill other players in the market).
“Whether we like it or not, these people really do control our society,”

Personally, I like it. Clearly SMPY recruits have changed the world for the better.
Mailing lists, blogs and social media resources for gifted education: http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/on-line_support.htm
Automate repetitive tasks on your iPhone
Use vim or emacs not feasible? not desirable? If most of the greatest programmers use them, if you're a wannabe programmer how would you not use these tools? It's like willing to be a cowboy but for thanks to the horse and the gun...
Originally I wanted to have "if" blocks and reporters for whether the Pi had a camera or not, whether it was connected to the internet, etc., but I decided fairly on that this would overcomplicate PiBakery considerably, and so I went with the blocks failing (hopefully gracefully!) instead.

If I have some free time, I may experiment with adding "if" blocks in - although the main disadvantage is that this wouldn't be backwards compatible with previous PiBakery versions, and that's fairly important to me. But I'll see how things go.
The part you're missing is that a higher wage is given to one person rather than many people, that you need capital to produce (hey, we need more chips, so now everyone with a hammer makes one).

Can you actually make a car? How many people are involved in making a Honda Civic vs Ford Model T?
Having a patent is very easy in the U.S.

Getting one that can have its claims stand in court is the hard part - of course, you can play chicken with would-be claimants, and it's usually cheaper to just pay and avoid expensive lawsuits. Even here in Uruguay, lawyers are advised to always settle instead of going all the way.
I see the arts as an intersect of science (explaining our own world) and engineering (building new worlds). It's building a world with the goal to touch humans emotionally by referencing our own one. Being good at both is what makes a good artist - see also Renaissance artists like Da Vinci or the best filmmakers like Kubrick and Kurosawa.
I was disappointed to read that line. I figured DO would be doing their own filtering and therefore creating another avenue for getting access to (the equivalent of) capital. Nope.
That would actually be an interesting study.

The "problem" is that it would obviously show that the impact of torrenting is much less than one lost sale per download. And reflect that even the downloads that are lost sales are offset to some degree by the people who download to sample and then buy when they otherwise wouldn't have, and the free promotion from the people who downloaded it talking about it with other people etc.

The result is that the likely "negative impact" would be small or could even be positive, which isn't the narrative Hollywood wants to spin. Because they actually want DRM for entirely different reasons than that, specifically because it allows them to control content delivery and thus prevent independent content from being displayed on equal footing with big studio content.
The article doesn't show that HPKP "sucks". The article shows that HPKP can be dangerous. PKP isn't going anywhere, and we've been relying on it for years: it is likely that at least one CA has been penalized for breaking PKP pins.

This is very much unlike DNSSEC. True statement: we could publish the secret keys for the root ZSK on Pastebin today, and nothing on the Internet would break, because nobody relies on DNSSEC for their security.
Adding in your own image will (almost certainly) never be supported, but I am right now adding in Raspbian lite, as that seems to be a universally wanted feature. Follow @PiBakery on twitter for news on when I release it!
An interesting counter-point, but rather poorly written, and far too short. You need to flesh your ideas and accusations out properly, and your ending line makes for a lazy and frankly rather pathetic conclusion. You should invest a lot more time into editing and review.
It's a large step up from my childhood, which was Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.
Discussions about random seed generators usually devolve into theoretical issues about why <random idea> can be manipulated.

If you're really paranoid, just do this:

$ echo "<bash face against keyboard multiple times>" >> /dev/random
TLDR: Youtube has been de-monetization videos algorithmically over some nebulous conditions. Many big-name YouTubers are concerned about the platform and seek better communication from YouTube. Youtube is now providing quick (24-48hr) turn-around on re-monetization, but content creators are still upset over the way that policy was enforced in stealth.

Philip DeFranco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbph5or0NuM

Casey Neistat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPjOQTOkK4Q

Other articles on the topic:

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/2/12746450/youtube-monetization-ph...

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/1/12753108/youtube-is-over-pa...
It might not be extremely out of date. According to some random wiki[0],

"In 1963 Westinghouse was awarded a US Navy contract for the AN/AWG-10 to provide fire control for guns and Raytheon AIM-7 Sparrow and Raytheon AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles on the F-4B Phantom II. The first radars were delivered in 1966 and became standard equipment. The AN/AWG-10 was claimed to be the first interceptor radar to feature transistorised circuitry."

Meanwhile, the MiG-25 first flew in 1964, which would suggest that at that time it was developed western interceptors used tube-based radars too.

[0] http://wiki.scramble.nl/index.php/Westinghouse_AN/APQ-72
Photo realistic drawings
He's working for Vision First: http://www.vfnow.org/about/team/

They have a donation page under "Take Action".
Thanks for that first link, it looks very promising. My problem is that I already idiosyncratically try to understand spacetime in terms of spin-vectors,* so this is going to take a bunch of trying to map out a Rosetta stone to translate between them!

* In brief, you can convert a world vector v^μ into a Hermitian 2D complex matrix V by adjoining σ_0 = I to the standard Pauli matrices σ_{1,2,3} and then V = σ_μ v^μ, when you do this you find that actually det V = v_μ v^μ under the (+ − − −) signature. This means that for nullvectors det V = 0 and therefore V is a projection V = φ φ^†, else V is merely Hermitian with eigenvalues v_0 ± √(v_1² + v_2² + v_3²) (because it has trace 2v_0) and there's not much more you can say. Lorentz transforms are linear and preserve Hermitianness and the determinant, with the parity-reversing stemming from V → -V and V → (det V) V^{-1} and the rest being V → L V L^† for some L such that det(L) = 1. The special case where L^† L = 1 (which is SU(2)) of course corresponds to 3D rotations because it preserves trace hence v_0, so if it's also preserving det V then it must be preserving the eigenvalues and hence the Euclidean metric √(v_1² + v_2² + v_3²). In turn L can be seen to act directly on the φ of the null vectors, φ → L φ, so call those "spin vectors" and confirm that they are spinors by finding out that L = -I for any 360-degree rotation. This is the most direct way I know of to see that the Lorentz transforms are the group SL(2, C) with this nice SU(2) group embedded in there. Then you can square-root the metric into an orientation tensor on the C^2 vector space as [0, -1; 1, 0] and build up the rest of the algebra in reverse from that starting point.
And their conclusion that "cooking is dying" is a huge stretch. It might be more believable if they had a huge menu of truly authentic items, but that would eat into their business model.

Similarily, claiming that "fast food is dying" is because they haven't realized what most fast food engineers have discovered through many years of iteration: at scale, the masses prefer salty, greasy food with habit forming taste characteristics.

Still, I wish them luck in their current business.
Even a DVD with a 16:9 image uses non-square pixels, so it encodes 480 "scanlines" but a 4:3 TV with 480 scanlines won't show the full vertical resolution. (If it did, the horizontal would either be squished or cut off at the sides.) A lot of people were buying HDTVs without bluray players because their DVDs looked so much better when they could see the full resolution.
Pretty heady, enlightened stuff for 2400 years ago.
For geometric algebra you need, at most, a first course in linear algebra.

The videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCymE67THrWoeTABxzJm1wdg/vid...

The books: http://faculty.luther.edu/~macdonal/laga/index.html
http://faculty.luther.edu/~macdonal/vagc/index.html
http://www.geometricalgebra.net/

quick overview: http://faculty.luther.edu/~macdonal/GA&GC.pdf
A block for setting a static IP is in the making - follow @PiBakery on twitter to find out when I push out that update!

There is, however, a block for running custom commands (as root or pi user) so maybe you would be able to use that in the meantime?
It's a huge stretch to consider patents and peer-refereed publications "actual evidence". Others have taken other approaches and found no correlations.
Agreed. She tells a great story about how she looked at a headline right before speaking at a conference. She was ready to attack the author until she realized he was supporting her despite the headline (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAk4cwjvJ0A).

Her discussion of vulnerability creates an opportunity for us to reconsider our collective emphasis on "busting" someone as opposed to understanding the value of a perspective, in a context. It also puts an emphasis on the courage required to confront vulnerability.
Alpha, Simple..
Well yes, when I said they have to help I meant more like an emergency, not a papercut - but I guess most people would be happy to give you a plaster(bandaid) anyway.
So the whole "what is my mother no longer doing for me?" thing has spread beyond SF?

https://twitter.com/azizshamim/status/595285234880491521
I'm so glad I'm over my "being super-smart" phase and into my "being a well-rounded, functional human being" phase.

People who fetishize things are the source of all things bad in the world.
why is it bad to label somebody ungifted? if i had known before i did not have what it takes to become a good mathematician, i would perhaps not have pursued that. maybe i would have saved myself a lot of trouble.
The main problem here is that the author has created a product, which is harmful to the company in question whilst using their trademark. Generally courts don't like that.
No no, I'm Icelandic. It's nice right now but that's thanks to the gulf stream. Global warming is slowing it down and it could end up diverting it, making temperatures plummet to Greenland levels.
It is hard to draw the line, because you need first to build the concept of a "people" (or nation?) then try to find out what's the collective will. But you can't either dismiss this, as people right of self-determination is a core principle.

If a nation somewhere collectively decide they do not want, say, modern medicine, or access to Internet, I will think it is stupid but cannot come there and tell them that I know better.
Personally, I have always had a love for physics (especially physics I can't really understand). If I hadn't gone into software, physics would have been it for me.

Perhaps I will study physics after I retire or if I ever get tired of software.

I don't ever really feel guilty about thinking about physics though. If someone can't feel free to at least think about what they want, then what freedom do you really have at all?
I remember the auction - it delayed the intro of 4G as the big players had spent so much money on the auction that they had to sweat their 3G assets to try to recoup their costs.

It worked for the govt - it certainly didn't for the customers...
I'm starting to wonder if most "sharing economy" models wouldn't be better served through some form of co-op. Basically the business equivalent of open-source. Sure, that won't produce a golden egg goose but it might actually serve the users better.