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> And more importantly, there's no reason to believe intuition works...

Yes, there is. Humans are alive, they survived the evolution and they used intuition much more frequently then rationality. Logic was invented by greeks less then 3k years ago and before there was no way for rationality to exist. Intuiton does works in most cases. It is the apparent fact.
Broken American Institutions at 240. How About a New American Republic at 250?
No, we disagree on whether it's okay to throw someone in prison for not handing over their money to you, and whether it's okay to rationalize this form of authoritarianism, while admonishing the much more sensible authoritarian policy of forcing those with severe drug addictions to stop putting themselves and the rest of society in danger by getting treatment.
I see 1.8/100k in Montreal [1] vs 8.0/100k in SF [2].

[1] http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/results-of-montre...

[2] http://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/...
Because of this sudden influx of complaints, it didn’t take long to trace the “failures” to a HP firmware update that was released during the spring.

I wonder how long it'll be until someone hacks it and releases a firmware that has the checks patched out. I vaguely remember this being done for a few other chipped-cartridge printers many years ago, although that was more intended for CIS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_ink_system ) where it makes no sense for the printer to keep thinking it's using small cartridges.
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Thanks. It didn't occur to me that non-interface types might not actually carry type information.
Non-profit is an orthogonal matter.

I think I'd much rather join a network where I'm in control of data. With tech-progress in p2p and the blockchains, I think the building blocks are already present for this kind of a network. If this were run by a non-profit, all the better.
Skeptical. The Chinese government can afford to hire people who have better photoshop skills than this to censor these buildings. Baidu should also be able to do a better job of censorship than this. To me this looks like some kind of algorithmic failure on the part of Baidu, perhaps the output of some convnet designed to remove watermarks and close foreground objects.
"There's engineering, and then there's engineering. You can do this by creating new products that help people solve problems, or you can manufacture bombs that blow up and kill people." And yet nobody criticizes "engineering". Odd, isn't it?

The trouble I've noticed is that the vast majority are completely unwilling to consider that what they feel is "the cheapest shit you can get away with" could also be a perfectly fine product for a set of users.

The product that will solve a problem for the largest number of people will tend to be cheap. That means most of the time it won't meet the requirement of first-world privileged engineers who think everything has to meet impossibly high standards of quality. But that doesn't mean it's something that's not worthy of anybody's consideration.

So I guess the problem is with the "tricking people" rather than the quality of the product. But here's some sobering reality for you: no amount of "tricking" whatsoever will make people buy things they don't want. You need a good product, i.e. a product people want.

Sure, some companies will use false advertising (illegal) or use other (illegal) means of coercing people into buying things.

And... that's not "marketing", sorry.

Much like I won't call "terrorism" "engineering" because some people used engineering knowledge to blow up a car somewhere.
I specifically left the mass scanning part out. If you want to experiment with scan data without scanning yourself, a good place to start is https://censys.io.
It seems like a critique of the airpods, but it claims to be a general critique of consumerism. So far, Apple has not sold a single pair and it would not be the first Apple accessory to get rejected by the market. The airpods might turn out to be more of an example of reason prevailing than of consumerism.

(If this happens, I would blame part of it on the tactical decision to announce the airpods alongside the removal of the headphone jack. If those had been spread out over an iPhone generation or two, the airpods would have been met with a lot less hostility. Or maybe this was the plan, make people vent all their steam on the airpods while happily plugging into the lightning port?)
But they are different.

go has _three_ different concepts: what is now called nil has instances from two classes, let's call them nil.type and nil.interface.

Discussion is about whether it would be better to require programmers to explicitly specify the .type or .interface part in the code they write, or to let the compiler infer it from its arguments (with the special case that it should assume that, in nil == nil, both have the same meaning, so that it evaluates to true)

I think I would favor having two separate names in my source code, with the caveat that the compiler should make it illegal to write x == nil.interface if x is a type and vice versa, but I know too little about go to claim that's really a good idea, and also think it would change if go got generics (and maybe, the code generation thing it has now in place of generics (go generate) already would change my opinion, if I took time to think it over)
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It's all about reducing data offline before throwing the kitchen sink at the internet.
any hard evidence about pre-programmed date on firmware?

I think this is evil and smart,
- people would by printers
- some unofficial ink cartridge market will add good reviews etc (low printing cost)
- increased cartridge sales for HP after set date

Sounds more like, unofficial iPhone cables not charging, but smarter (possibly illegal though)

edit: some google search reveals[1] more like firmware update at September 13 (auto update), then pre-set date. Pretty much like Apple and third party cable update.

edit2: More I read, I start to see 3rd party cartidge vendors didn't implement the chipset on cartridge fully compatible, instead they went easy way around.

Third party ink vendor says: "We do not yet have an updated chipset that will work with this new firmware version. . Customers can expect cartridge replacements with updated chipsets to be available in two to three weeks, possibly longer."

[1] http://www.therecycler.com/posts/hp-inc-firmware-update-lock...
It's worth remembering these devices are primarily used by children. Children who are both at risk of permanent ear damage and lacking in judgement as to what is too loud.
I call this an unintended benefit.
Laser sucks for printing photos.
> best sleep in your life in that train journey, if it happens to be an overnight journey

The train shakes constantly and AC is too cold in first-class, I haven't slept great in trains.
> Lots of restaurants are just fronts for money laundering.

I've heard this before, but I've never been able to find any corroboration.

How does it work? Half your palettes of milk never get delivered?
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That's basically how it happens in all the countries which have a healthy respect for the law.
So we have bunch of things that correlate together.

Now tell me which one is causing it and which ones are effects. It's also possible that all of these are caused by some hidden thing.
It's possible I completely missed it, but I don't remember that last paragraph being in his post when I first replied to it.
But that's the big problem about the American approach to this problem (IMHO).

The problem is not homlessness, some people can choose to live out of our society rules and I don't see any problem about it. We also built a society that has failed to many people, I can see how someone could prefer to roam freely rather than having to work 80 a week to be able to afford a shitty life anyway (ask people who serve food).

So what need to be addressed is not homelessness itself, but the causes that bring people to homelessness against their will:

- Mental illness (including depression)? Subsidised healthcare for those who cannot afford it.
- Addictions? Subsidised treatment and a reinsertion program.
- Done something wrong in the past? Forgiveness.
- Young person without studies? Subsidised education.

Being European, I see in the American mentality this kind of way of thinking like "if he is poor is because he is lazy and didn't work hard enough, so he deserves to be poor and suffer".

I think that in the first world countries we are rich enough to ensure that the human rights of all our fellow citizens are protected.
Nice hidden features, e.g. try holding one bot by its head for a minute or so.
Cryptocurrency is the only way to circumvent the prohibitionist laws against free exchange of money. The biggest source of inefficiency in the global economy is the organized censorship of human economic activity via state intervention, and cryptocurrency directly addresses that.
Low recreational doses of dextroamphetamine also give me dehydration, headaches, and muscle aches if I'm not properly hydrated or haven't eaten in a while. So that might've played a role.

Methamphetamine is proven to be more neurotoxic than amphetamine even when accounting for its extra potency, though, so it should ideally only be taken infrequently, in very low doses, or not at all. There are some neuroprotective substances you can take beforehand to mitigate the damage, but it's probably not worth it.
You can buy separate inkjet printheads intended for industrial high-volume printing applications and build the rest from parts salvaged from other printers. Very low running cost, but also low-resolution, and those printheads are not cheap.

Alternatively, reverse-engineer existing printers to be able to use them with your own firmware that doesn't care what cartridges are in it.
I'm curious about that showrunner bit. Would you like to elaborate?
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> Then they asked the subjects which was more probable: (A) Linda is a bank teller or (B) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.

I don't see how either guess is generally less likely then the other one. I'd say it depends rather on your mental framework whether you choose A or B. Therefore, I'd argue a frequentist would rather choose answer A whereas a Bayesian would be inclined to choose answer B.

The difference between rationality and intelligence imo lies in how you deal with unknown Unknowns. A person who is merely rational wouldn't consider them whereas a intelligent person would have the ability to deal with them in some way.

Take the infamous Westbro family for example. In Louis Theroux's movie they came across as rational human beings assuming that their world view is correct. Indeed they appeared to have a happy family life. If everyone would (want to) follow their rules than the world would probably work. They, however, fail to realize that they haven't found a magic bullet and that other people are able to lead equally fulfilling lifes. Their attempts of "saving" these people are bound to be a futile waste of time and thus I wouldn't consider them as intelligent.
Well, of course?

I've had my phone for a bit more than two years now, and I can tell that once I installed all the apps I routinely use, why should I routinely install new stuff?

I sometimes try new stuff, but quite frankly once my phone does what I want it to do, I don't really care that much about new and trendy stuff anymore.
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Stop trying to hoard the air!

Serious question - as of right now, does Amazon have wind farms to reduce their own costs or do they plan on making a profit by selling the energy to consumers?
I've had nothing but great success using third party ink with Epson printers. Every two-three years I buy a new epson printer and either a continuous ink system or refillable cartridges. I never worry about the kids printing too much or the print cartridge getting dry and clogging.

Epson gets used a lot as a base in the third party space - for things like T-shirt printers and other textile based printing. The print heads are reliable and accurate.
Maybe I'm just an undeveloped child, but after 2 all of the "improvements" just seem like an outgoing person explaining why they're the evolution of humanity.
Financial services are a commodity, and that is a good thing. They should face it.
Such behaviour is the reason I threw out a perfectly working HP OfficeJet one day and will never buy a single HP printer in my life.

In the OfficeJet in question I only used genuine cartridges, but every few year it would stop receiving black and white faxes because (the nearly full) color cartidge was passing its expiry date - forcing me to throw away the full color cartridge and buying a new one.
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Thanks for the explanation. Doesn't really sound like irony, though. Just a backfired joke from Digital Homicide.
Consumerism is great. You just have to try to be on the selling side, not the buying side. Even if it is as an employee of a company selling useless stuff to easily suggested consumers.

As it is, there is a limitless supply of consumers. Society does not need you to play too.
'Intentional' blast injures 29 in Manhattan (NYT)
"An explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood was caused by what the authorities believe was a homemade bomb. A second explosive device was later found four blocks away.

Mayor Bill de Blasio called the explosion “an intentional act” but initially said there was no connection to terrorism."

????

Is that code for they don't think it was done by a brown person?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/nyregion/chelsea-explosion-new-york-city.html
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You are talking about love hotels. They are extremely common in Japan and they are really not a big deal. Almost all of them are perfectly clean and they are cheap as well (for Japanese standards); for less than the equivalent of $40 you can get a room.

People who are dating use them a lot. Because flats are usually quite small, it is sometimes more convenient to spend the night in a love hotel than going home. Married couples use love hotels from time to time in order to be able to make sex without having to worry about the noise, or about a kid interrupting.

The most important for Japanese society is convenience! ;)
It is good thing to have options. Let the community decide the adoption.
I'd love to write my IPTables config like that!
I don't see how either guess is generally less likely then the other one.

How could A possibly be less likely than B?? The occurrences of B are a strict subset of A, there is no possible way B could happen more frequently.
I hope HP can prevent all their future customers from talking to informed parties, or reading informed reviews. Seems rather self destructive of them.
In a vacuum, there's ambiguity. But that interpretation would mean they think the bad reviews are horribly unfitting and that the game is bad enough to be banned. Which is an interpretation contradictory enough to eliminate itself.
You just listed three Silicon Valley darlings.

How many boring companies producing products do exist out there?
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Maybe I am a bit confused but I just meant to imply that A and B could be considered equally probable if you're a Bayesian who has absolute confidence that she's the kind of person who is active in the feminist movement.
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Yep you're completely correct! Maybe I was thinking about the link cable changes (between GBA/GBA SP and the GBA Micro) :/
Perhaps the option here is to write in explicitly verbose HTML as we do now, and then as you minify assets, so too do you minify HTML. If the last thing the output html went through was this reduction, then you wouldn't need to worry about developer overhead.
Whilst this is an interesting story and shows how open source software can work it leaves me wondering how large corp's handle their increasing use of open source software.

Traditional corporate development is very controlled with everyone getting background checks on hiring and code reviews and change control and a load of other stuff around managing what software runs their business.

Into that mix corps are adding loads of software that's developed by people who they have no control over and no knowledge of their motivations, affiliations or skill level. Even if they did a one-time check of all the developers who had contributed to libriaries they use (which would be a huge task) there's nothing to stop any of the maintainers from handing over to someone else the next day.

It's even a change from using things like RHEL where there's at least a contract with another company that you could point at if things go wrong...

It seems a very odd match up....
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You know, I think you're right. Dang it. I usually don't make that mistake.
Amusing, albeit predictable, that a article about another species sharing the construct of empathy would elicit such a veceral demonstration of its absence. I wonder if we'll ever observe another species that enjoys sarcasm and irony as much as we do.
> you need to think of your variables as mutable containers rather than simple values

uhm, no. you think of variables like labels that happen to be attached to a value. and since they are variable (like in "they vary"). just like in all other languages that don't label themselves as "functional programming languages", they can be re-attached to other value. In functional programming language (Haskell, OCaml, Scala?) you simply "can't re-attach the label to something else", you just "create a new scope and inside it a new label with the same name that is attached to the same value".

this is the only sane way I found to think about these issues. oh, an Javascript's `let` is kind of like a "transplant" from a functional language to an imperative/procedural one ...a pretty cool transplant imho since by putting it at the beginning of a block you get the "standard functional language behavior".

only problem in go is probably the `:=` that messes up with people's intuition. they shouldn't have allowed it to work with mixes of defined and new variables on the left...
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When Bill Frist was Senate majority leader, despite his training as a medical doctor he didn't exactly use that competence in the Terri Schiavo case.

Congress is inevitably political, the problem is how to provide unbiased expert advice to it.
The real irony is that component is an analog standard; yet Nintendo chose to output it over their digital port by using a custom DAC. And yet they never released any true digital cable (eg HDMI) for said port.

Although the image quality is said to be slightly worse; at this point your best bet is to buy one of the older, backward-compatible Wiis to get component output. Much cheaper.
Does it really? Or did you train your model in dolphin young bull ghetto slang? Come into the waters of the chinese room and find out..
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>Is that code for they don't think it was done by a brown person?

It looks like code for having no connection to terrorism. The only one even making the assumption that terrorism means "brown person" in this context is you.
is generally understood to mean

Is it? I didn't interpret it that way, and that isn't what the question says. And why would it be "understood" that is what is being asked? Logically, the answers would be "she is a feminist" and "she is not a feminist", there would be no reason to construct the answers with the information that she is a bank teller if that is what was being asked.

This seems like another detail that rational thinking picks up- if you stop and think about the answer format the "generally understood" interpretation doesn't make any sense.
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>For example, huge believers in specific, concrete stock market predictions based on some fibonacci sequence nonsense, to the point of actively loosing six figures through multiple failed predictions over a decade+ and still believing.

And there's the problem. We don't know what rationality or intelligence really are, but there's an assumption that they have something to do with modelling our current and future environment accurately and reliably.

The subject is a mess of competing notions that aren't necessarily related. Does rationality mean being able to understand and manipulate abstract concepts and symbols using consistent rule sets ("market predictions", "Fibonacci") or does it mean making reliable winning predictions from limited information?

Even the original feminist bank teller example is suspect. If you assume that the set of feminist bank tellers is smaller than the set of bank tellers, then the "rational" answer makes sense.

But it's actually reasonable to read the question as "Given that one particular person is a bank teller - because both choices tell you she is - and has a history of activism, is she also likely to be a feminist?"

One reading is purely mathematical, but the other makes perfect sense in a social context if you assume that you're talking about a real bank teller with a real history.

If you were introduced to someone at a party and given that background information, which interpretation would be more likely to have predictive power?
28 months a mean of 2~3h per day. Now It's my full time job and 3rd Start-up. The most time consuming part until now, finding good partners, product definition, market research.

So far so good, but it confirms me that Europe is slower for firing up a project.
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Not sure if it was a time bomb, but HP does have an "auto update" feature that could seem like a time bomb.

We got nailed by this with our HP 8610. Were using 3rd party cartridges with much success for months. Last week my wife had a huge (for us) print job and encountered an annoying bug (prints blank sheets every other print). Updated the firmware hoping it would fix the problem. Next thing we know, cartridge error.

Spent 3-4 hours researching how to downgrade firmware with no luck.

No mentioned of new Sept 13 firmware on any HP driver website that I found.

3rd party is shipping us new cartridges for free, but it will be 2 weeks. Had to buy another printer.

Die in a fire HP.
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I rarely used headphones on any handheld console (except for the PSP, on which I watched movies sometimes). I remember being annoyed though because whenever I actually did want to use headphones on my GBA SP, I had to look for that stupid adaptor.
To be fair, the twitter web UI is also awful and slow.
The real difference is post-processing - and this is true for many years already (see also c-brands vs a-brands even if phones are using exactly same sensor)
Ah, good point about the Roth contributions! I'd forgotten about that difference.
> Fluidity recognizes that ethics can have no ultimate foundation, but that we can still often make clear judgements. [...] It takes ethics to be a matter of collaborative practical improvisation that is responsive to specific situations. Lacking any ultimate principles, an engineering approach to ethical mastery is impossible, but ethical skill—a toolkit of methods for ethical bricolage—can be learned.

If you find this interesting, I recommend Ethics Without Principles by Jonathan Dancy [1], or the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy article on Moral Particularism [2].

[1] http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0199270023.001...

[2] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-particularism/