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> One bin for each laptop, tablet, phone, etc would be madness.

The current case, in every airport I've traversed, was each laptop in a separate bin.

I believe I stumbled through an airport "piloting" this program (BOS) as we had to remove tablets, too. We were not told "everything larger than a phone", we were told "laptops and tablets" — all in separate bins. It took five bins to get through.

"Piloting" new security regulations, to the passenger, appears as if TSA has no idea what their own rules are. Every airport I visit seems to have its own inconsistent idea as to what I need to take off, what needs to go in a bin, etc.

In my experience, the baggage X-ray is the bottleneck at the checkpoint; I don't see how this is going to help.

Also, does this include cameras? Who's the judge as to whether a camera is larger than a cell phone? (And just what I want, to advertise even more loudly the valuables I'm traveling with.)
It's a little difficult to summarize what has happened since, since so much has happened. This is a golden age of human genetics which has no precedent, and major new findings are being uploaded to Biorxiv at an almost daily rate.

I think the short version would be that the BGI project made a bad bet on a particular genetic architecture of intelligence (rare variants with large boosting effects) which would have implied that a tiny sample of whole genomes from very smart people would yield a lot of genetic variants; this was wrong and they turned up little, and then the project was further damaged by BGI's disastrous strategic choice to try to develop its own genome sequencer tech rather than using Illumina's, which set it back by years. What actually wound up happening in 2013 was that a big consortium of American & European research groups, the SSGAC, pooled simple SNP data (ie the sort of thing you get from 23andMe) rather than whole genomes, for 100k people, and got the first genetic variants for intelligence (rendering the BGI project largely moot). SSGAC has kept expanding its sample size, and the massive UK Biobank dataset started coming online (just completed their full n=500k release!), and the combination has yielded hit after hit. The last paper from last year turned up 172 SNP hits, and there will be another paper this year which will expand that even more.

In conjunction with this, the IQ polygenic scores have been used for all sorts of exciting things: people have been computing genetic correlations with health and psychiatric traits, been looking at cross-national differences, examined changes over thousands of years using ancient DNA, decreases over the past century confirming dysgenics, been deploying methods for detecting selection in different populations, and nailing down the architecture as having the same heritability in normal people as in very intelligent people with no special rare variants detected, and being mostly additive with most of that coming from common SNPs but the rest from relatively rare harmful variants suggesting a mutation load explanation of why there is any genetic contribution.

As far as embryo selection goes, '5-15 points' is very much an upper bound assuming the entire population, great polygenic scores (better than the ones in 2017, perhaps more like 2020-level), and ignoring the practicalities like loss of embryos in the IVF process. I've tried to work through a full analysis of what embryo selection could do, and it's not earth-shaking unless there are huge improvements: https://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection (Which is why I'm more interested in iterated embryo selection and genome synthesis now.)
The question is, what value is secrecy, and alas the answer is that for those who want to exploit their technology prowess over others, secrets are a dire necessity.

An open ideology is one where everyone wins, even those who aren't on your team. The closed one is mostly to protect ones own team. I don't consider any of the reasons to be good reasons, personally. Commercially necessary, perhaps, as a conforming act as part of the "super-state", also perhaps.. but nevertheless, the best conclusion is that this situation is rotten enough to motivate someone to fix it.

Me personally .. I'd love to have the sources for every sub-processor/component in my system. It would be of immense value - commercially and otherwise - to me as an end-user. I hope I don't sit alone in this market...
Football may get a lot of study recently, because its one of the most popular sports.

But Basketball injuries can ruin you for life as well. I have a cousin who has severe amnesia after getting knocked out during a Basketball match. Its like years of his life were wiped away after his concussion. He was a straight-A student too, these sorts of things are severely damaging to your student career.

Brain injuries exist in a lot of sports. Football is particularly dangerous but the dangers in other sports (Boxing, MMA, Basketball, Soccer) are severe as well.
Having played football through college then aussie rules football for another 9 years I'd definitely like to see some numbers on things like that, recreational hockey, rugby, etc. Not sure how hard it would be to be checked myself.

That said, according to my mom I was a complete ahole until I started playing football in 8th grade when I completely mellowed out and started focusing on somthing. Most other sports didn't click with me; I think I needed organized competitive team based wall punching to take out random teenage anger. It's just that maybe I would have taken up golf earlier :)

So if the contact or a certain form of contact is the issue, lets either change football to not really have these risks or invent another sport. I mean they're all invented anyway.
Football is hardly part of the culture wars.
I guess, but the watch is still 7 times more expensive than the shuffle. It does do Bluetooth through, so that's nice. A bit extravagant for someone who is just looking for a music player for their workout.
When you earn your income, you pay a tax, and when you spend it, the business pays a tax.

In money laundering, only the retail business pays the tax, so effectively its not the equivalent taxation.
Cycflix lets you watch Netflix, but only if you keep up the pace
It matters for the ability to convert BTC to other currencies (like USD), right? If I'm understanding this right, an existing bitcoin is now valid in both the BTC chain and the BCC chain, and presumably the world isn't going to let you sell the resulting BTC for its previous value and the resulting BCC for its previous value (since the two sales would now be transactions on two different chains). So unless BCC fails completely, the market value of BTC will be reduced by the market value of BCC, which seems like a thing you'd notice.
The interview was mainly about embryo selection, not genetic engineering.
They both have an insane false-positive rate as well as an insane false-negative rate (95%, as other people have pointed out).
Why would Oracle care about the number of people using ZFS on anything but Solaris?
I'm pretty sure the Spring framework is not where "developer interest" is going these days.
I would quote Dune. The measure of "ownership" is if you can destroy something.

By that definition, Putin does own the entirety of Russia, "private" enterprises included.
What hope do us simpletons have with this technology? Will we be able to edit our DNA to raise our IQ? Learn more efficiently? Better Memory? Etc...
It is indeed a battle.
Funnily enough, this story also isn't prominently displayed on their homepage aside from the sidebar in tiny font. Apparently within hours of the NYT study being released, ESPN's reblogging of it disappeared to several page refreshes down their homepage. I can't wait for them to be significantly downsized if not dissolved completely.
Yeah, I stopped watching/following the game years back when I thought Austin Collie was never going to get up after yet another collision.

I don't want to see someone die on the field, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it happening.
> I do not understand the objection to SegWit which is essential for lightning to work.

Let's talk about the realities of Lightning for a minute. Lightning is an interesting technology solution to scaling transactions and settling on the blockchain. But realize that there are significant drawbacks.

In order to spend anything on the lightning network, you need to have funds locked in a channel with a hub. And you can only spend the maximum that is in your hub. Likewise, you can only receive up to the maximum that the hub has put in the channel. In other words, your net credit or debit balance can't exceed the maximum put in by the other side.

There are some significant user experience drawbacks to this approach. I want to send someone $100, but I only have $50 in my channel. So now I need send $50 more of bitcoin and wait 20 minutes for confirmations. Then I can send the $100. It is even worse if I want to receive $100. Now the hub (bank?) has to approve my request to "receive" $100 because it costs them fees and capital to fund the channel. Make no mistake, the hubs will pass these fees on to you, the consumer.

Suddenly this starts to look a little more like Paypal then we want. Granted it is a better version of Paypal - there can be multiple, interoperable hubs - but with small blocks, funding transactions will not be cheap.

In a small block world, Lightning network fees will likely be more than you think. It could easily cost $10 worth of bitcoin for both sides to fund a $1000 channel. Why would I want to tie up $1000 to use this. I'd rather just pay the 3% to send via Paypal.
I'm pretty damn impressed at ANYONE in the NFL with a secondary degree, but a Math PhD at MIT? That's incredible. This guy is clearly athletically and intellectually elite.
Also made a replay camera for the office foosball table. We have an iPad scorekeeping application that queries the Pi for a video replay after every goal.

https://github.com/johnboiles/replaycam
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The evolution of boxing presents a template of how football will go. Boxing today is a rather fringe sport in school. Few parents put their kids in boxing enthusiastically. Similarly, boxing matches, although viewed by millions, are rather fringe in being grand and occasional pay-per-views. Football will go the same way, but perhaps much more slowly, given the cultural inertia. I firmly believe that these things evolve, rather than abruptly change. Whether it evolves into a safer form of the game or to become marginalized is hard to say. Already many parents are hesitant in putting their kids in football in school.
I've never been to the US. I'd love to visit though, so many beautiful places to see! I had this idea to rent an RV on the west coast and spend a few months visiting bunch of places.

But lately I've been deterred by all this TSA crap and the political 'developments'. I just no longer feel comfortable about traveling there. Don't get me wrong, my home country is far from peachy. But everything I read about US these days screams - don't come here.
I'm sure their tourism industry wont fall apart because of one person, but I'm also pretty sure I'm not the only one that feels like this.

Seems like I'll just go somewhere warm for the winter to chill out (Canary Islands, anyone?)
Yeah, I think it is.

I somewhat recently had a TSA agent bark conflicting instructions at me: "Please remove all metal and electronics before the metal detector." Okay, simple enough. But when I started executing her directive, "you can leave your watch on." "It's a smart watch — it's an electronic with metal." She didn't seem to understand that.
I would never run with my 6S Plus. It's approximately as wide as my bicep and aside from looking ridiculous, would just be too heavy to comfortably run with. The 5S I had was pushing it even with the big strap I had.

I've considered buying a Shuffle now as I don't really care what order the music is in, but I don't know if the Forerunner I have will connect to it (everything I've read in my cursory search specifically says "phone").
Totally agree. On the NYT article about the study:

"But 110 positives remain significant scientific evidence of an N.F.L. player’s risk of developing C.T.E., which can be diagnosed only after death. About 1,300 former players have died since the B.U. group began examining brains. So even if every one of the other 1,200 players had tested negative — which even the heartiest skeptics would agree could not possibly be the case — the minimum C.T.E. prevalence would be close to 9 percent, vastly higher than in the general population."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/footba...
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I worked for a company once where each department had a public IP space, like 97.0.0.x or 98.0.0.x. When I told the network guy this wasn't proper and we should be using 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x he laughed and said "it really doesn't matter, nobody cares". To make all of these networks talk, share, etc they had to use a punch of equipment to tie each one in and then out via a Time Warner Road Runner circuit. This was about 1999 :-)
Rocket + Diesel + Tera (all in Rust).

Not supposed to be a short term project, though. Currently working on extending inth-oauth with openid support. I'm only really able to work on the fringes of this idea, though, since:

* Rocket itself is currently on Hyper v0.10, while v0.11 became async. This means various libraries around it are adapting async while Rocket itself won't for some time. Thus, I'm working on the fringes getting them to async.

* Async itself is in flux, because generators should be entering nightly any day now. When that happens having async/await macros available will make a huge difference.

Generally though I do really see Rocket + Rust in general becoming a huge deal in webdev. I've used Rust for so many C++ equivalent roles because of its safety guarantees, and they make development so much faster when you aren't dealing with undefined behavior cropping up in the corners you have to dig through to find. Additionally, the larger a project gets, the more valuable static typing is. Rust even pushes you towards best practices further by pressuring static dispatch and lock-free sharing of data.
Yeah, a tiny and cheap player with GBs of music is ideal for running or leaving in your car.

Does no one make that anymore?
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I'd like to comment about something I realized when reading your post. About the difference between the Bitcoin development/community and the Ethereum one. If you want to completely oversimplify it, the Bitcoin community appears to be full of fear, anger, attacks and competition among themselves. While Ethereum seems to be compromise, inclusion, discussion, working towards a greater goal. You see a change proposed, and one developer comments that they think it's a bad idea for certain reasons. Then after a month of discussion he will come back and say that, yeah, I was wrong, it's actually a good idea.

The recent multi-sig wallet hack was due to some bad refactoring by one of the developers on the Parity node/wallet team. Gavin Wood wrote a post about it, and instead of blaming his employee, he blamed himself, that he didn't put enough security into the Solidity language itself. And then he proposed some changes to make it safer.

There definitely was some ugliness with the ETH/ETC fork and controversies, but now we have pull requests from ETC developers that help improve ETH.

There seems to be a lot less ego in the Ethereum developer community. The fighting inside the Bitcoin community leads to attacking other communities too. Whenever there is a setback or hack or just the Ether price drops a bit, the threads are full of Bitcoiners coming in to laugh, attack, 'concern troll'. But you rarely see the reverse. Usually the attacks on Bitcoin come from the people who think all cryptocurrencies are a scam, they target everyone equally. Of course there are exceptions, there are amazing people in Bitcoin and horrible people in Ethereum. I'm just making a broad generalization on the feeling someone gets when reading and talking in their communities.

It's no wonder that Ethereum has the largest developer interest, it's just a really nice place to work.
Correct, though this isn't really anything special about SegWit. If BCC had forked right before Bitcoin added P2SH for example, the same would have resulted from P2SH transactions.

Actually, since BCC is a hardfork, they can make the Bitcoin Cash spending rules whatever they want. They could have made SegWit transactions totally unspendable if they wanted. They could have made all Bitcoin Cash corresponding to the Bitcoins sent to Blockstream spendable by anyone, etc.
> wouldn't having sex among themselves only serve to redistribute the power more evenly among the group

Reading that I thought about the perhaps more conventional sense of 'power' in that context. Monogamy to some extent at least is a social construct designed to establish and consolidate power.

Marriage and the concept of legitimate children was the pivotal aspect of feudal society. Inheritance today still largely depends on this notion. Dynasties are possible alone because of lineage.

If it doesn't matter who has sex with whom and who someone's parents are because there's no clearly delineated nuclear family this might indeed work as an equaliser.
"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it." - Frank Herbert, Dune
I wonder when enough of the relevant patents for the iPod Classics expire that someone can use the tech to create their own take on it? I have to think there are profits available for someone who takes the old chassis and builds on the form factor.

EDIT: Just looked over the Fiio line. Are they using the same tech as Apple? Does the scroll wheel feel pretty similar?
Right. I've been describing it like this: That Bitcoin doesn't have a Good King anymore (Satoshi). Ethereum has Vitalik, and Linux has Linus. Projects with a Good King typically defer tough decisions to the king, and the project is (usually) overall better off for it. But with Satoshi gone, everyone has their own ideas about what's "best" for Bitcoin, and there is no unifying force. Ethereum development is sane because Vitalik is heavily involved in it. I believe that is why Ethereum will succeed over Bitcoin in the long run.
I do feel like the commentators had a pretty supportive opinion of his decision, even saying he has plans to be more than just a football player.
I have NEXUS and I agree it is worth it. But the relevant question is that TSA pre is not difficult to get. If someone (US citizen or PR with relatively clean record) wants to blow up a plane with themselves on it then I don't see how TSA pre stops them.
I second this, american football derived from rugby.
Look at how rugby players tackle with no helmets and no padding.
It really looks like adding the protective gear doesn't help the players as much as they were thinking.
A dictatorship that wants to shut down criticism but raise IQ ? That seems like contradiction 101.
The comments here (which overall are measured and reasonable relative to elsewhere) lead me to believe that this "us vs them" combative mentality will continue. It seems as long as there are two chains, supporters of one will still be trying to attack and hope for the demise of the other, even though I share your hope that the opposite will happen.
So players killing people, players beating their wives and kids, and players breaking the law constantly didn't make you stop being a fan. But one coach exercising his political rights did. Fascinating.
Also also, I have a Pi with a usb RTL-SDR radio receiver functioning as a mobile HAM APRS iGate:
https://github.com/johnboiles/pi-rtlsdr-igate-docker
> I think it will take a fairly significant transition away from fiat currencies before that situation is eliminated...

Not really, so long as the IRS and taxes remain a thing. And someone notices the guy who hasn't had a job in the last five years is driving around in a brand new Tesla and living it up in a mansion.
There's already plenty of red state soccer moms that refuse to let their kids play football.
Sounds like a very broad plan to me.
I know that is your problem. You are using a AsRock MBO. The only time that I boutght somethign from they was a MBO that end failling becasue was BENDED! You should try something better like Asus or GigaByte
You might want to look into F#, if you're a .NET fan and want algebraic data-types.
> Does Oracle want to sue? I kinda doubt it: if they did, they would have done so by now.

What makes you say that? It's a very common tactic to give people "enough rope to hang themselves", where you intentionally delay suing someone in the hopes that more people will infringe so you can settle for more money. This happened with the LZ4 patent trolls for example (where they were suing people for using GIF files, and they waited several years after their patent was filed before suing people).

Not to mention that copyright lasts _120 years_ at the moment. Unless you wait until 2125 until you redistribute ZoL, you cannot ever be sure that Oracle won't sue you.

> Who exactly would stand to gain from keeping ZFS out of Linux

Oracle. They were the main btrfs developers (and still are), and since they no longer have any of the old ZFS engineers they would (rather ironically) probably consider a viable ZFS-on-Linux distribution to affect their bottom-line.
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A few colorful facts to the story here:

1) 3 years of service vests into NFL pension plan, he just hit qualification - value pegged at $21,360 a year for life (3)

2) He has not publicly commented on his retirement or reasons for it.

3) He has a hugely awesome secondary option - doctorate of math at MIT

4) He was at end of his rookie contract, next year would be the "in the money" year for him so he is clearly leaving a lot of cash on the table.

5) Over three years he "only" earned ~$1.8m http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/baltimore-ravens/john-urschel-145... - which after tax is 7 figures but still not a lot.

6) He has been notoriously thrifty, living on $25k a year and driving a used car (2). So would imagine at some level he has been planning this outcome, or leaving option wide open.

(1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/07/27...

(2) http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bs-sp-ravens-john-urschel...

(3) http://firstquarterfinance.com/nfl-pension-plan-retirement-p...
gorhill created and maintains uBlock so he is probably familiar with how adblockers work.
I've read it may be the case that the head collisions at the snap at the start of every single play is causing CTE via microconcussions, not just the dramatic concussions you can see overtly.

Also, teams practice more than they play. Practice causes concussions too, and penalties won't help.
If Bezos gave all his money to everyone in the world we would all get maybe $13 or so. If all the billionaires did the same we would all get $1000 or so.
>> Should I feel bad as a fan for watching football? Is it any worse than buying clothing made by child labor from a third world country?

Those are personal decisions and I don't think anybody should tell you how you should feel. It's your choice how to feel about it. You get to define your own morality and live with your choices in the context of your own beliefs.
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I'm still not sure about the re-work of the Ghost platform, it feels way more opinionated and I liked the ability to pick and mix components. However the Ghost CLI is a step forward.

Read my quick test-drive and try out 1.0 in Docker in 5 minutes: https://blog.alexellis.io/try-ghost-1-0-in-docker/
American with NEXUS including Global Entry and PreCheck;
It's a real treat to bypass 2 hour line-ups at the road border crossings on holiday weekends. In six years I've never had an unpleasant time at the border going in either direction, even though I usually cross at entry points that don't have dedicated NEXUS lanes.