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Here's an anecdote for you: I was on welfare. Getting cash/foodstamps.. helped me get on my feet, haircuts, toothbrush/paste, gas form my car, parking, job interview shirts, gym membership for showers, and now I'm a software dev making 6 figures. Welfare saved my life.

The thing about anecdotes is they're literally everything that is wrong with the world. Anecdotes prey on dumb peoples emotions. Anecdotes confirm beliefs. Anecdotes confirm stereotypes. We hang out with people who share the anecdotes that support our shared beliefs.

And then we vote people into power who have the same anecdotes and we get persecution...Witch Burning was not based on science, it was based on anecdotes.

My thoughts are if you're not constantly questioning your anecdotes with ACTUAL FUCKING DATA and simultaneously willing to accept that your beliefs are wrong.... well you're a primitive lizard brain person and you're a failure at evolution..tomohawk ...

As a side note...it's weird with the poor we're willing to unquestionably punish the entire group based on the small few that exploit the system but with the rich we just write deceitful people as an exception..see Madoff, Lay, etc.
Why a wisp of smoke? Because they see something grey or are mushrooms out there starting forest fires?
> Is it worth 10k to you to sell?

Yes. That's the perfect price.

> Do you think they'd pay more?

Probably not, but I wouldn't want to sell it even if they said $20k.

> Is this an aqui-hire? Are they bringing you on?

No.

> Have you thought about getting angel investors to maybe see this through and help you grow it?

The project is so simple that I don't believe anyone would ever want to invest in it.
I assumed this would be yet another "Stallman is gross and old-fashioned and dresses funny" article, but it's actually well-argued and reasonable. And, interestingly, in many regards it makes the case that Stallman isn't extreme enough to be effective (or rather, that while his extremism is very deep it is only in tightly focused areas, and misses the mark for making widespread change that positively effects the general population).

As I age, I've kinda come to the conclusion that individualism being the driving motivation of so many people in tech (including both proprietary and Free Software advocates) means that we often miss the forest for the trees. Individualist decision-making doesn't solve a problem for the general public, in cases like this. Free Software "won", by some definition of won, the battle when it became the dominant server and mobile OS. But, it continues to lose the war for people's freedom.

I don't actually have a philosophical framework to hang that bit of acquired wisdom on, however, because I, too, have a very individualist mindset that is deeply ingrained. So, coming up with actionable ideas for improving privacy (for example) on a non-individual level is proving difficult; my ideas, thus far, have included helping organize and host cryptoparties, contributing to projects that add encryption to more stuff on the Internet, etc. But, it requires policy, too, probably even moreso, which is far outside of my wheelhouse. Those cryptoparties reached mostly technical users. Those tools for encryption reach mostly technical people who already knew they wanted to encrypt their stuff.

When profit motives are aligned against us (where "us" is the general public that is vaguely uncomfortable with being spied on all the time, by corporations and the state), it's tilting at windmills to stand there, using your Free OS and your Free browser and your Free whatever else, while the whole world uses facebook and Google dozens of times a day. There's only so much an individual can do.
Thanks for the correction. They aren't relying upon a Windows API that Linux kernel hackers have no experience with, but instead a new API that nobody has experience with. That's still a huge problem for the maintenance that in-kernel drivers need; they can't have a driver which only one company understands.
Which is why Napoleon favored generals who had the reputation of being consistently "lucky" - i.e., those whose excellence wasn't easily understood.
Putting in some headphones with good pump up music on helps. Also, try running somewhere outside with good scenery (I.e. trail running).
Yes, Go v1.3.3 is the current package on Debian, I've updated the benchmark with Go v1.7.4 from sources. Crystal is still faster
I am in this category, but have a completely different experience. For one I did not get tested until late in life (and discovered I had an IQ of ~150 according to the Mensa standard admissions test), and for another I was in private school all the way through high school.

So I believe what made the difference for me was a combination of not growing up with that ultra-gifted stigma, attending a school with very small classes (sometimes I was the only student in a given class), and having a great deal of socialization with intelligent adults. I still had a lot of difficulty relating to others my age, and thus made few lasting friends.

I also did my best to shy away from any attempt to classify me as a genius. I didn't feel like a genius (whatever that means), and didn't want to be considered one. This, in part, is why I didn't bother to get tested until into my 40s.
The presence of grey areas does not invalidate the entire concept of "fuck off, nazis."
Pretty nice technical achievement. I'm always excited at seeing an entirely new OS, not based on Unix.
I know I speak to a computer 99% of the day (programming, games, movies, sms, maps, etc), but please kill me before my future son gives me an AI to talk to. I agree with the cooking and showing me movies, but our jobs as sons can't be replaced.

On the other hand, if the robot makes snapchats with the elderly, that would be a way to bring our parents back into our lives.
I would assume it meant that it made things slower, after all this was a hand-tuned numerical core. Optimizations is for what a human did not already optimize.
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Dr Brooks, of MIT Robotics fame, came up with a really elegant solution for the complexity of robots, he called it subsumption. As an architecture it worked by allowing all of the small bits of a robot to be independently functional but merely "influenced" by a higher authority. That worked through a series of behaviors that were built in that could be overridden by external input.

Consider the case of a 'leg'. A robot needs to lift its legs and move them forward in order to achieve forward locomotion. This means it needs a gait where it steps while keeping itself balanced. Brooks created a system where the highest ranked function that could run, would. So if the robot was stable, it unlocked the 'lift function' and if the leg was lifted it unlocked the higher priority forward function, and if the leg was forward it unlocked the higher priority balance function. I really liked it a lot and have used it in other embedded systems since then.

As a result I see the "smart" house system similarly, which is that I would build systems that were self contained, and could see input from outside. Take a light for example, it would have 'on', 'off', 'dim' and 'i don't care'. If you command it to any point, it goes there. Period. If it is in 'i don't care' the house controller is free to tell it to do something different.
This is str8 dope... when you are accustomed to seeing node.js callbacks pre-es6.
That is, the main issue with making open-source software is that anyone can copy it, thus placing the value of your software at 0. But if DRM effectively put a a stop to this, by not allowing you to run unlicensed code, you could distribute open-source as much as you'd like, safe in the knowledge that while people could emulate your application, they wouldn't be able to copy your code directly.

Hmmm...That's not the lesson I took away from this article, at all. There are only three mentions of DRM in the article, and I don't see any suggestion that the author endorses DRM be used in this way.
The "open" .NET is only the server components, for WinForms and WPF you're still screwed.
True that. Public utilities (traditionally pretty much anything with a network effect) require regulation; the government must get involved, and then governmental ethics ought to apply.
I'll let you on on a secret that you aren't thought in elementary school. Real human rights are intrinsic and inalienable. Things like the right for your pursuit of happiness and freedom of thought and speech. All supposed rights that require other people's labor or permission (health, education, shelter) are bogus, they are just organizations moving goalposts. Real rights are not bestowed.

Bogus rights are to not be offended, not be attacked, be given dignity and respect. Real rights are to defend yourself, stand your ground and use your body how you want. You just want a few more social norms in some spheres of interaction than some of your neighbors that's all.
White hood wearing motherfuckers chomping at the bit to call black people "chimps" is not merely some alternative "clique", as you disingenuously suggest. The problem with tolerance of the intolerant is that you end up with an authoritarian monoculture where speech is much less free than it could have been.
I got a ban hammer from Google's Adsense because of my website (let's call it a blog/investigative amateur journalism, no fake news, don't worry) had a long article discussed LGBT situation in Russia. It is about a group of thugs that catch gay youth and then make photos and humiliate them.

Now there were some photos too, but nothing graphic! Adsense banned me because of VIOLENT content.

Yes, I know it's their network and they do whatever they want. But it's funny that showing a little bit nudity is big no no, but rapping about murdering people is fine with them.
Muslims face discrimination not because they're Muslims, but because they fail to integrate in the Western society as citizens first. Islam is a law and government doctrine.
Autovectorization is okay but not that good. Its advantage is just that it can transform any part of the program, when your limited dev time won't touch it all. But it can't focus on the hot loops or know about cache efficiency etc. even if you use PGO. And it's sensitive and unstable wrt code changes which is never good.
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We see these studies every few years. I think it's really just a publication bias issue. If a result of a study is that vitamins do what they're supposed to why would you publish that? Why would the media report on that?
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Thanks for posting this. I like this a lot and it clearly argues a lot of what I don't like about Stallman's free software advocacy. Free software isn't a moral good in itself, and non-free software isn't a moral evil in itself; software is a tool for accomplishing things in the world, including moral or immoral things. When Stallman says that it's better to have no software to do a task than non-free software, it sounds like the Catholic teaching on intrinsically evil acts, which can never be done even if we think they may result in good—but software does not have a moral value of its own. What we do with software is, absolutely, a moral question; as software continues to eat the world, every moral question may one day involve software. But we should look at software freedom with consequentialist eyes: the ends, the good or evil done to people, justify or condemn the means, whether that good or evil can be done with the software at hand. Generally one can do more good, or at least be assured of fighting evil, with free software. But that does not mean that free software itself is an intrinsic moral good.

Related, I think, is Mako's 2011 essay "Freedom for Users, Not for Software": http://wealthofthecommons.org/essay/freedom-users-not-softwa...

But in practice, that ends up being more of a defense of the AGPL than a call for social action - and the AGPL, if widely adopted, would make the goal of using only free software even more of a burden (since it is GPL-incompatible). The FSF seemed to recognize an actual problem well worth solving, but address it through the tool they were comfortable with, writing licenses. (And the minimal adoption of the AGPL indicates that this didn't actually solve problems, so per consequentialism, we must admit that the AGPL did at most minimal social good.)

It's also worth talking about the resources required to make effective use of free software; freedom #4 is only realistic if you can actually make the changes. If Chrome OS (to take Mako's example) can be effectively hacked on by the second-largest company in the world, but much less effectively by an individual, is that really better than the closed-source OS which only the largest company in the world can hack on? And has free software really changed the social order for the better, compared to the pre-software days?
Home Assistant (https://home-assistant.io) is actually pretty great when it comes to software. It's got a nicely polished dashboard you can stick up on status screen / touch panels, a text-based but relatively straightforward configuration, and support for all kinds of general-purpose standards and specific platforms.
What if one language has a word that simply has no equivalent in another language?

It happens fairly often, and a typical translation is to use a phrase to represent the meaning and context, instead of a single word. A common example:

Vive la France! is often translated as Long live France!
Please don't speak like that here.
Chinese poetry inspired me to start learning Chinese.
So, what it's licensed under? Can I use it in other project? From quick glance, it seems that they have their own license.
I'm really liking mealsquares http://www.mealsquares.com/, they're just expensive. They do rely on whole foods to take care of unknown unknowns in nutritional requirements.
Like everyone I know, I run networking code written in C, so obviously the answer is yes.
Coincidentally, just yesterday I spoke with a friend of mine who's working in a shop selling dietary supplements and she claimed that pretty much the whole western world suffers from a severe vitamin D deficiency. A few hous later, I ordered bottles of vitamin D and K (on Amazon, because it's significantly cheaper than her quasi-eco shop).

I'll see how it goes, I'm giving her a three-month lasting benefit of a doubt, because according to my Google research, what she says is true, but I'm probably taking a blood test before and after to see what's up - and I'll consult with my doctor about it prior to taking the pills.
How many other people?
There were generally no map/filter/fold APIs in those languages, eager or lazy.

In cases where the APIs were there, they were generally not as easily accessible (i.e. they were the equivalent of imap etc, with some hoops to jump before you could use them). The new APIs are more straightforward to use.

The reason to change the behavior of an existing API is because the default (i.e. most obvious) API should also be the most flexible, and do the right thing in as many cases as possible. This was not the case with map etc in Py2.

The disadvantage of changing an existing API like that is that it breaks code. But Py3 broke code anyway, so it was a good time to introduce breaks like that for the sake of better defaults.
It's harder to improve something when you never get negative feedback. I'd rather hear a negative opinion than nothing (when looking for feedback, that is).
I'd be curious who here gets enough vitamin c, vitamin d, potassium, iodine?

If you actually look at the RDA and Compare to your typical diet you'll find you're way under. At least I was and I eat reasonably well.

I've actually noticed a lot of health benefits since I start taking higher doses of vitamin c.
Patents were intended (in part) to have this sort of effect -- free the knowledge while still allowing the creator to profit.

It's the kind of thing that makes sense but is incredibly hard to get right technically or politically.
I'm currently facing this problem as a volunteer. I'm teaching coding to my son's 4th grade classroom and there are about 5 or so kids out of 30 who finish everything assigned really fast and have to wait for the others to catchup. On the other end of the spectrum, there are aoubt 4-5 kids who need some extra help while the rest of the class has moved on.

I'm not a teacher by profession but this little volunteer effort has given me a lot of appreciation for how hard the teacher's job is (and also what a insufferable little snot I must have been as a kid)
its obviously a satirical comment since the parent comment was engaging in xenophobia.
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Autonomous public communities on Reddit do not exist because adequate protections against the male white supremacist hive mind do not exist.
Or maybe half the studies are funded by drug companies who enjoy profiteering? The 'average' person (no medical knowledge, no access to research journals, no background knowledge to interpret them) has no way to know. Society should welcome measured criticism, especially from the likes of BBC science journalists, as a counterbalance to constantly advertised commercial interests.
Maybe he’s thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffball
I simply consider it polite to make an effort to speak English properly.

People have better things to do with their time than read over "quirks" in my writing.

In case it's not obvious, I'm a foreigner, too.
It's not personal, just business. You need money to move out and hygiene to have lovers
There are a number of affiliate marketing companies who will "revoke" an account, but make no effort to keep bad actors from opening new accounts, make it as hard as possible to report affiliates using malicious tactics, etc. Once you start getting into the lowest tiers of banner sellers you start seeing a lot of real skeezy moves.
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I guess I'm asking how the identity is verified. It's not hard to spoof an identity on a smart phone. And empty houses are full of copper wire and electrical appliances (and in this case, apparently, security cameras) which are commonly stolen from construction sites (and cost a lot more than a smart phone nowadays).
Lack of practice because of other commitments perhaps?
Interesting read! I agree with most of this, but the I'm not sure I agree with the argument that it would be more effective to convince government agencies to switch to free software by appealing to a civic sense rather than a fiscal one; maybe I'm just overly cynical, but I find it more likely that government agencies would be swayed to adopt free software by showing them how much money they'd save.
Well I hope then that you end up in a society like what you describe, where there are no bogus rights. All the best.
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The concept is nice but I have a real issue with this part:

Why do they need pixel tags for tracking, and why don't they support DNT? No 'new' website should put up with this. I'll cut some slack to the 2010 and before era sites, since they've got a lot of legacy to work with.

Pixel Tags. In addition, we use "Pixel Tags" (also referred to as clear Gifs, Web beacons, or Web bugs). Pixel Tags are tiny graphic images with a unique identifier, similar in function to Cookies, that are used to track online movements of Web users. In contrast to Cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, Pixel Tags are embedded invisibly in Web pages. Pixel Tags also allow us to send e-mail messages in a format users can read, and they tell us whether e-mails have been opened to ensure that we are sending only messages that are of interest to our users. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to a user. We do not tie the information gathered by Pixel Tags to our users’ Personal Data.
How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals. We do not currently respond to "do not track" signals or other mechanisms that might enable Users to opt out of tracking on our site.
Eat an orange, man. Fruits are good for you. The rest of your health benefits from Vitamin C are probably confirmation bias.
Aside from often uncommunicated and difficult or impossible to know implications, of enabling a Google service or feature. Aside from those, often in multiple dimensions (function, privacy, etc.), I am afraid to enable any new Google services or features, because doing so seems so often to be a one-way function with no means of reversal. Once you do -- even just to check something out -- you can never go back.

And then, the whole account-disabling thing. Did they not learn their lesson in that respect with regard to the early Google Plus rollout and all the problems, not to mention bad press, then?

Google doesn't just make mistakes, in such regards, they inhabit them, and they demonstrate a very persistent attitude that there is no problem in all this, in the first place.

I have the Google features I use. As I've mentioned before, I draw the line basically at Google Docs (ok, "Drive", or whatever, now). I don't use much of anything of theirs that is newer.

And, I tend to stick to functionality that they themselves are known for dogfooding and continuing to use, officially, internally.

Hell, even my Nexus 5x was a hassle, with the in my opinion poorly conceived as well as communicated Google Fi "we will take over and eliminate your free-standing Google Voice account/number, with no choice about the matter" behavior.

It's like they have no conception nor care that their users might actually come to rely upon their products and features.

That's a great model for building trust and the value-added customer relationship that goes with it. /sarcasm
The pricing works out to around $1.50 per bar's worth ($3 each, and they're around 2 energy bars' nutrition) -- that's not terrible by any means.
I am highly skeptical of this as well. It is certainly not my experience. I sometimes catch myself getting impatient and irritable when I am attempting to communicate with some one of low-to-average intelligence (I'm around 150), but if anything my ability to engage in abstract and metaphorical thinking helps me paint pictures to explain complex things to people.

Part of the problem, I think, is that this may well be true for people who have certain personality profiles, in particular if they have poor emotional intelligence. But I do not believe this speaks to some intrinsic "impossibility" but rather social barriers to effective communication, barriers that can, with effort, be overcome.

If one is self-reflective enough to be able to recognize how arrogant they sound to to others, learns humility, patience, and the value of human life other than one's own, communication is not a problem. It just takes more effort.

But I will say this: I constantly have to ask the question, "I know what they literally said, but what did they actually mean?" Because if I don't I come off like a prick.
Non-consensual sexualization (like upskirts, revenge porn, kiddie porn) gets rationalized as free speech by assholes for whom it is personally self-serving to do so.

Free speech is about being able to have and communicate about ideas that may be against the status quo. It's not about harming people. It's a clear boundary that has been held up both judicially and culturally time and time again.
"He consumed 18,000 milligrams (18 grams) of the stuff per day, 50 times the recommended daily allowance."

Linus Pauling lived to be 93. That probably contributed to people believing in megadosing vitamin C.