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> The full class of cancers is an object of lots higher complexity than quantum mechanics.

Could you elaborate as to why you believe that?

Having worked on both biological and physical simulations the limits from a ground-up perspective are quite similar. While there are no well-understood analytic forms to describe biological systems, unlike in quantum systems, the fundamentals of the problem are the same: we can't predict things because there are too many interactions to easily model.

There is a whole world of non-traditional techniques opening up with increases in computational capacity.
It is, arguably, a literal assault on the public's senses....

It's also, here, a very weak rhetorical ploy. Ultimately a tu coque fallacy.
It's so easy to provide healthcare now, that's a good criteria. Just send them to Gusto. Also 1099 / contractor is shady unless there's a really good reason.
First, we shouldn't have price "stability" as defined by the Fed. In a technological economy, the price of everything should be trending downward - price optimization is exactly what a market does! The Fed functions to smooth out the bumps, but they seem unable to do so without being tempted to destroy that natural downward trend. Which is why we're next door to 0% interest and "Helicopter Ben" is making rounds in academia (UBI).

The core of your argument seems to be that there is little economic difference between natural technological deflation and forcing a slow inflation, that the market can adjust to either condition. But if markets were perfectly efficient like this, then forcing inflation would have no effect and in fact bubbles would not occur because they would be immediately corrected

Real markets have inefficiencies and lag time, and altering the macro environment is straight endorsement of specific policy, but cloaked as science. If prices were allowed to go down and people were able to save money (actual savings, not simply leveraged between stocks and debt), then they could choose to work less and we would be able to actually see widespread gains from technology. Instead, the government is running the same tired Keynesian playbook for getting "full employment" while the need for human work is being ever reduced.

> You're presuming that 100% of price level changes are due to changes in the money supply

No, just the majority of them. Even though demand for housing is going up (population), we would expect prices to rise to stable premium over the cost of creating new housing (corresponding to the lag between demand and production). Instead, what we're observing is a continual inflation in "values" that seems to actually be constrained by the cost of interest on the value. This makes intuitive sense based on how people are actually encouraged to view houses (like various acquaintances thinking a $5k earnest money deposit is serious business, while seemingly oblivious that they're actually spending much much more).

Furthermore, shamelessly implicit in the idea of forced inflation is the viewpoint that people should be forced to "invest". This certainly keeps the financial sector in demand, but obviously hurts the average person who has their savings eroded either passively through inflation or actively through transaction fees and time spent managing relatively small investments.
I believe it's a cycle: Web developers don't make use of right-clicking, so users don't expect to use it and never try, so web developers don't use because it's not discoverable, and so on.
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Do you have anything from a more reliable source?
And couldn't we exploit economies of scale?
It's true.

Source: I went to Helsinki and forgot my camera charger. That's what they told me in the shop when I expressed shock that they wanted over €100 for a simple charger.
I work on algorithms that can be applied to images, and was equally surprised when I saw a video called "Computer color is broken."

I investigated and wrote a post called "Computer color is only kinda broken"[1].

This post includes visuals and investigates mixing two colors together in different colorspaces.

[1]:http://scottsievert.com/blog/2015/04/23/image-sqrt/
Not my problem you have shit kids.
Apart from the article's importance in exposing some bad science, its author is skilled in narrative, in making an essay readable. A worthwhile read.
If this fund's actual purchases are available, this is a thing you can check.

Would make for a good headline, too. "$60 Million for a coin flip!"
Reminds me of this episode of The Outer Limits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Breed_(The_Outer_Limit...

TLDR:

"Andy later discovers that he has pelvic cancer, and has approximately one year to live if the hip and leg are not removed. In desperation he sneaks into Stephen's lab and injects himself with the nanobots"
...
"The nanobots continue making "improvements" to Andy, including giving him eyes in the back of his head, bones above his stomach, keen hearing, and jellyfish-like stinging tentacles on his skin."
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> Young children don't understand moderation. They will eat a bag of cookies or play on a tablet for hours at a time without guidance.

Yeah... this was/still is my problem. haha
Of course in the 19th century grief was much more of a thing even for people -- it wasn't at all unusual for several of your children to die young, and even adults weren't immune to various epidemics like cholera. These days someone dying before being elderly is considered a freak tragedy rather than just a fact of life.
I was about to dismiss them for only supporting PHP, which I remember from using them years ago. Turns out they now support Ruby and Node.js! And they install MariaDB instead of Oracle MySQL. Pretty nice. I'll have to try them out again sometime.
These are Cupertino engineer complaints or customer service complaints?
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What is the latest thinking with respect to the cause of the condition, and also the causes of recovery? Has research advanced much in the last few years?
The setting is almost certainly because of Microsoft. It is almost certainly part of their license agreement to block installation of anything older than Windows 10.

The fact that Linux got caught in it is just collateral damage.
Is it really bad if you aren't doing meaningful work at 8 pm after you get home from work?
Almost everyone uses BIOS as a metonymy for UEFI, even the people like @djpohly and the bios-mods.com community (the URL here is telling) who recently reverse engineered Lenovo's UEFI for us to mod and hack AHCI into working again.
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I didn't really miss it because the article wasn't about colour spaces, just gamma :) It was meant as an introductory article for coders who have never heard about gamma correction. For those people, knowing to convert from sRGB to linear before processing and then back is sufficient in 90+% of the cases. But those are some good points you listed in your comment, but I'd say those are more specialised areas that don't really fall into the everyday image processing category.
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Is that a bad thing? It just means that it's an existing market, done better. Your comment reminds me a lot of the first criticism of the iPod "less space than a jukebox" or the guy who berated Dropbox by calling it a dumb GUI to rsync.
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The problem with gamma-correctness in emulators is you ALSO have to emulate limited nominal ranges (digitally, 16-235 for Y, 16-240 for UV) on top of doing NTSC or PAL coloring correctly.

Since doing limited ranges on sRGB looks so weird (mainly, 16 is surprisingly bright for being black), some people gamma correct for 1.8 instead of 2.2... which is a hilarious value when you realize that is the gamma value for classic Macs.
The domain in question is sitting unused for past 11 years. Although, trademark is recent and you are holding the domain from very long time law should favour you. But because it is just sitting there without any use will make things complicated.

What I can understand from the facts you posted is they made a fair offer. They are is need of domain name and you are not using it at all. 11 years is a very long time and you are, willingly or unwillingly, blocking it for others. It will be good you not take this this to court and negotiate on a fair price.

Another alternative is, register the trademark in another category. In my country, there are 40 trademark categories. So making registration in any valid category should give you shield to protect the name.
This was a real pleasure to read (in terms of prose and not content, obviously). I'm gratified to see BuzzFeed make the jump to professional, long-form pieces.

Kudos to the author for the excellent writing, and to the Sheldons for sharing their story. Speaking as a white man who grew up 8 blocks from the apartment mentioned in the article, it's both surreal and saddening to learn how drastically different (meaning unfair) their lives were and continue to be.
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I was going to comment snarkily: "Really? Every coder? What if you program toasters?"

Then it immediately occurred to me that a toaster has some binary enumeration of the blackness level of the toast, like from 0 to 15, and this corresponds to a non-linear way to the actual darkness: i.e. yep, you have to know something about gamma.
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Eating less and eating the right things is probably much more effective then exercising more (it takes a lot of work to burn up a donut)... But I'm not saying that exercise is not important for other reasons.
I'm one of the organisers of the FinTech For Good Summit in London (more info: http://fintechforgoodsummit.com/).

If this topic is interesting to you and it is a discussion you want to get involved in, please do email me on j@greenaway.me. All welcome!

We are building a powerful group of people to advocate for the transformative impact of FinTech in developing economies, and we'd love to start a conversation with you too.
Question: how does it store data without a database. or does it not store data?
I don't think a Twitter back-and-forth means much of anything. Go read five or ten of Schindler's articles on his site, then tell me that he's candy-bar-nutty.

I mean, good grief, he's not only a former NSA counterintelligence officer, he's a published World War I historian, former Naval Reserve officer, and a professor at the War College. He may be biased (and you certainly are!), but by no means is he a nut. What is nutty is to call him one, and with your having done that, I can't take you seriously.
Sure if they double major.

My company has interviewed many many boot camp candidates for the sole reason we can pay them less and work them harder, and they've also fired a lot. I can't say I approve of the company's philosophy here. But one of the most interesting finding our CTO mentioned is that people from the hard sciences stem are the ones who did the best, and stayed/kept. The humanities and some soft sciences did the worst at pure development.
Maybe these software engineers are working on Oracle's new public cloud:

"The company has offered many of the team working on it stock-based incentives worth around $500,000, and has thrown additional incentives of $100,000 or more at people who have shown interest in leaving for other companies."

http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-has-special-team-worki...
I've noticed that it doesn't distinguish between the different versions of the CC licence. It just puts them all under CC BY 4.0
Best case scenario, civil liability for the police department. Which makes the employee (police officer) and his chain of command appear as a "problem" within the police department. These guys are protecting their reputations and their careers. They are also trying to protect their department. Shameful.
Not so. Even in ancient Athens, with direct democracy, decisions were taken through majority-rules voting. Direct democracy itself has not been a feature of any major democratic instance since then.

Nor has any modern democracy (at least one operating at larger scale than your local food co-op) ever rejected "operationalizing" democracy through majoritarianism. The word "democracy" as it is understood by the vast majority of people today, other than a tiny fringe of leftist intellectuals, empirically refers to "majority-rules representative democracy."

The only people who reject majoritarianism are a tiny number of "theory"-steeped leftist academics with little connection to or knowledge of how things actually work in the real world (but have an outsized notion of their own intellectual qualifications to promulgate decrees on how things ought to work.) Such people can be easily detected through the use of pompous neologisms like "operationalize," which are almost exclusively used by that group of people.
> Other languages running on top of the Guile interpreter?

This one. I've read about various efforts over the years like this one (https://wingolog.org/archives/2009/02/22/ecmascript-for-guil...) for javascript and others for python etc.

>Why would you want to run Guile if you don't like Lisp?

It's the nicest way to embed a high level language in a program I've come across this tutorial is really cool (https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/guile-tut/tutorial.h...). Other there any others that are so simple?
You just proved my point... that's force and coercion. "They don't shoot you, they just steal or money!"
I argue that you are modeling out real expense. In this case, the cost of not publishing significant findings.

You could try to penalize bad faith actors. You could also try to stop putting undue pressure on good faith actors.

It isn't just spending money. But opportunity cost of throw away work.

As it is we have what can be modeled akin to baseball where most at bats are failures, but not even swinging is frowned upon and eventually leads to you not being sent to bat.
One of the features of Guile is different compiler front-ends. I recall one of the original intentions of Guile was to primarily support two languages, a lisp and a more imperative like language. I don't believe this feature is used that much though. You can find the documentation here https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Other-La...
I did a few benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi a year ago and got similar results. CPU decoding is a lot faster using libjpeg-turbo compared to using the hardware jpeg decoder: https://info-beamer.com/blog/omx-jpeg-decoding-performance-v...
> The laptop supports a Linux-compatible option

Where? I'm looking at http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/yoga/900-series/yoga-90... and the specs page lists only Windows 10 Home and Pro in the operating systems section.

> and effort was expended specifically to disable that option

Lenovo has issued a formal statement denying it. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/lenovo-denies-deliberate...
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True that, lamotrigine has been life changing as well, it took the edge off the depressive features. I initially dismissed lithium, but with long-term use, it has reduced episodes, agitation, with mild emotional blunting that I have learned to deal with. I've had to cycle off lamotrigine three times so far due to poopout, they call the protocol a washout, and it gets reintroduced at a starting dose until it is effective again, with a typical dose around 100 mg after washout.
While we've been dealing with Ebola for decades, it was characterized as both a highly sporadic and largely self-limiting disease, and not particularly endemic.

Horrible as it is, that's not a great target for a vaccine. Especially not an expensive, hard to administer one. So it remained largely of academic and specialized interest.

The recent Ebola outbreak was a recontextualization of Ebola, from a sometimes scary disease where it would be handy to have an infrequently used vaccine for special circumstances to "This might be an endemic disease in West Africa".

Yes, throwing money at it helped, but it's hardly the only reason priorities shifted.

I'll also note that there's promising work on Dengue Fever vaccines, which are third world diseases, and most of the diseases that are near-term eradication targets are third world diseases. Often these challenges aren't "Pharma hasn't developed a drug yet" but "How do we get this drug to everyone?"
How does any modern computer not fit this ideal? Linux, in particular, is very easy to start hacking at.
The crucial distinction as far as the OP is using the term seems to be that such a datastore does not require the user's hosting provider to give them an instance of any of the common DB servers, which typically needs a more expensive plan than the usual baseline of "disk space and an httpd [that supports calling out to one or two scripting languages]".

(Basically it should run on anything more complex than a static site host. Though it's also true that sqlite would probably be a cleaner choice for the datastore without losing any of that benefit.)
I work in finance, most often front desk trading. I love what I do, and I can't imagine doing anything else. I won't go into exact compensation figures, but my total compensation tends to be mid-6-figures (plus on a good year -- most of my comp is bonus based), but I also work a lot of hours.

I have very unique skills for high-performance, low-latency programming especially in Java and C++. There aren't too many people who go digging through assembly dumps from Hotspot. I've been doing this for about 15 years now. It can be very stressful. I've literally had a day where I lost a million dollars in seconds, but I've also had days where I've made tens of millions in seconds.

I'm a very good programmer. My math skills are pretty good too.

I live in NYC (I've also lived in Chicago). No surprise there. Right now I'm actually taking a pay cut to work at a finance startup. Maybe one day I'll be principle of my own firm. Or at leave a C-level :)
Lots of primate species have died off. Since even humans and chimps are 98% identical there is plenty of reason to believe other primates had vocal cords and even language. The only way you can argue against this is to say that you know the 2% difference between man and chimp contains instructions for vocal cords that could never have appeared in the past which is obviously a wild guess on your part. Neither one of us knows so your "um, no" snarkyness is nothing but that. snarkyness.
You almost formed a complete sentence.
I didn't do any of those things.
I included a reliable source! Click my link to yesterday's HN story. It is an interview with John P.A. Ioannidis, "who is a professor at Stanford University and one of the most highly cited researchers in the world".
> Other there any others that are so simple?

I think the Lua language itself is designed for the implementation to be easy to embed.

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1983083
I just want to plug another awesome use for Dr. Bronner's--as a replacement for spray cleaner. We used to get the windex or 409 or whatever it is, the stuff you'd spray on counters and wipe up with a paper towel.

No more, I now dilute a little Bronner's in an old spray bottle with a lot of water, spray it on, wipe up my kitchen debris, stuff smells great, cleans up the counters a treat, and is insanely cheap for the value.
There a lots of settings in a typical BIOS menu that will make a system misbehave or outright not boot. If they were so concerned, they could have added a warning.
Do you have any idea how self driving cars work? They currently have sensors that are much different from your eyes behind a windscreen, they don't get blinded by light and rain doesn't bother them.
I don't know where you see me stating that the discovery fission was a result of the Manhattan Project, it was a predecessor. The order of actions was: Einsteins Relativity -> Leo's Bomb Patent -> Discovery of Fission -> Manhattan Project -> Bomb.

> By the time someone wrote a check, the basic mechanism of the runaway fission reaction was understood.

I find that to be a gross simplification. I would challenge that the basic mechanisms of the fission reaction were as well understood then as we understand the basic mechanisms behind cancerous mutations now.

> There is no ready-to-go idea you can point to and say "if we spent $20 billion building this it's have a coin-toss's chance of curing cancer."

Over what time-horizon? We've achieved a great deal in the last 100 years that would have received less than a coin-toss probability if one were to be having this same argument in the early 1900s. The Haber Process [0] is a great example of something that we had no way of expecting we could accomplish (the energy efficiency aspect) before it happened.

What would you prefer Zuckerberg does with his money? I mean, he could build a massive yacht like Jobs before he died... As a species we have consistently accomplished feats that were as unlikely as the mitochondrial symbiosis that allowed us to exist in the first place, is there a reason to discount our abilities to continue this trend?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
This article could really benefit from an image DIFF widget. Even animated flashing GIF images would be an improvement.

It needs something that not only permits comparable overlays, but (perhaps with a third diff layer) also highlights the ugly/wrong pixels with a high-contrast paint.

A handful of images are only somewhat obviously problematic, but for most of the images, I really had to struggle to find undesirable artifacts.

If it's that difficult to discern inconsistent image artifacts, one can understand why so little attention is often paid to this situation.
I think you're missing my point.

HIV/AIDS is a good example actually.

The lifetime cost of treating HIV is estimated at more than $500,000, and there are more than a million Americans that have it.

If HIV/AIDS is cured, instead of being turned into a monthly payment plan, this would hardly make any business sense for pharmaceutical companies.

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We can generalize: for all X, bad X persists because some incentive structure makes it locally optimal for people to produce bad X.
OP: the guy who is trying to take your domain name needs to eat a bag of dicks. I could, maybe, see him having a valid case if the trademark predated your domain name but given the chain of events you related, I have no sympathy for him.

People need to realize that having a trademark isn't a license to fuck people over.
Yeah the simplest explanation is the conventional one, which is that all humans came from a common tribe that migrated out of africa long after the continents had separated mostly, and the way they got to some of the continents had to have been by boat. My initial post was merely saying how interesting it would be that language could have evolved well before primates, and we would have no way of knowing it. All you have to do is look at the fact that dolphins have language, and are very intelligent. Intelligence and language is far from being specific to human brains.
this. It doesn't matter who does it first, it matters who does it best.
It gets even more scary: So you back up all your data to disks? Sure, they're pretty cheap and you can buy a terabyte for fifty bucks, but guess what the firmware for those drives is stored on. Hope the flash they used wasn't cheap (but if it's a consumer drive and it cost you fifty bucks, it probably was).

For long life I'm betting on DVDs (refreshed every few years). Easily half of the 15 year old drives I've been keeping are now bad; copying them forward every few years is a good idea. It might be time to go back to tape, but it's expensive. Pretty much everything sucks at retention.
Why do you assume that government politicians and bureaucrats have a higher moral position to decide what counts as public good?
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