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I am a big fan of streaming, I watch mostly Twitch but have tuned into live Youtube presentations. I also consume more than a few Let's Play videos. I use streaming I watch on Twitch mostly for entertainment and at times "how to play" or "would I want to buy" and Let's Play stuff on Youtube for "now that I have it, how in the hell do I do..."

I do know that twitch recorded streams can have all audio portions deleted if they play music. since both the streamers voice and the music they play are bound together it makes for near useless videos. Many streams on twitch are behind "mature" flags requiring you to self declare age to watch.

So if music can result in a muted stream I fully expect a developer can claim copyright of the game music/sounds and mute a stream that way. I am not 100% in either camp but I do lean towards the developers being able to maintain their ownership which could preclude someone profiting from it.

There are many good streamers, personalities who no matter what they play the game is almost secondary to engaging their audience. They however tend to attract sponsors.

I do think there is no question of fair use in review videos but Let's Play videos may be a different issue. It all comes down to, do we apply the same rules to protecting music and movies to video games or not. To me games are as much creative expression as any movie and at times more so.
In the same old fashion, but yes: IMHO the people mindset is the same. Nothing changed really.
Sounds like Microsoft can't tell the difference between "has AV installed that will break" and "has no AV installed", which makes sense. It's probably infeasible to reliably fingerprint all existing AV software.
That gives China a strong case to distrust Intel and use their own chips. It is not like they are not already doing that, but I guess Intel might not really want to add momentum to this process.
I'm wondering:

1) Do diamonds have unique digital fingerprints? How do I know if the diamond I see in front of me corresponds to the record the dealer shows me on the blockchain?

2) What happens when people (inevitably) put bad information in the permanent digital record? Does anybody have the authority to correct it?
Yes (and contractors, etc.)
I used to joke that Windows was alone in this issue, my work laptop being a prime example, but even Apple tends to towards reboots more often than not and especially as of late. Fortunately both can do it during slow periods; as in over night; and make updates nearly invisible to users.
This is exactly the motivation behind the Loom file format[0] being developed and used in the molecular neurobiology-group I work for[1]. It is an HDF5-based file format for 'omics data, to deal with the ever-growing size of the data sets.

I specifically work on the Loom Viewer[1], a SPA that we're trying to design in such a way that it will be really easy and cheap for research groups to host and share these loom files themselves. This would make easy for other groups to ask simple questions about each others data, and in the worst case the raw loom file is always available for download.

We're already hosting some of our own published datasets with this viewer, you can check it out here[3].

To lower expectations a bit: the viewer is not trying to be comparable to the big atlases like [4] or [5] (I mean, it's being developed by one dude - me - so by comparison it's a no-budget OSS project). It's much simpler and basic - the idea is that if you use the Loom file format in your pipeline in a sensible manner, the viewer will more or less know what to do with the data.

[0] https://github.com/linnarsson-lab/loompy

[1] http://linnarssonlab.org/

[2] https://github.com/linnarsson-lab/loom-viewer

[3] http://loom.linnarssonlab.org/

[4] http://mouse.brain-map.org/agea

[5] https://www.proteinatlas.org/tissue
In a related development, there are proposed patches to the Linux kernel (not yet merged) to blacklist the broken microcode updates: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2707159.html

That patch disables the use by the kernel of the new IBPB/IBRS features provided by the updated microcode, when it's of a "known bad" revision. Since Linux prefers the "retpoline" mitigation instead of IBRS, and AFAIK so far the upstream kernel (and most of the backports to stable kernels) doesn't use IBPB yet, that might explain why Linux seems to have been less affected by the microcode update instabilities than Windows.

Also interesting: that patch has a link to an official Intel list of broken microcode versions.
Makes sense. Guess I’ll have to crack open the actual paper. :)
Heartbleed was not a Linux issue per se. It was OpenSSL issue, which is used also on Windows.
I've done a few sessions using personas and can see little benifit to justify the time expended upon them. If generated out of thin air rather than from actual users it's just an exercise in exploring the teams predudices rather than any external market needs.
That may be the underlying cause of some suicides but it doesn't explain why depression and suicides have increased for teenagers in the last 5 years. Also, if we need distraction to survive the ultimate meaninglessness of life as you claim then why would technology make depression worse instead of better?
I went through a period of heavy physical activity without good equipment, which caused quite bad shin splints. My doctor prescribed precisely this dose, along with some physiotherapy. I think it's quite common for inflammatory problems like that.
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You've clearly misunderstood what's happening with pain management in Europe.

Firstly, it has nothing to do with cost. European pain management is expensive but available.

1) If you are in short term pain you will get pain relief. A wide range of options wil be available, from non-pharmacological options at one end (easing fear, for example) through non-opioids (paracetamol, ibuprofen, entonox) but using opioids when needed. Here's a guide form one of the English NHS Ambo trusts: https://www.swast.nhs.uk/Downloads/Clinical%20Guidelines%20S... You should be reassured that the entire document talks about properly treating pain, and reducing the pain the patient is in. There is no mention of cost in that document.

2) The reason they don't just go direct to opioids is because opioids have side effects. They have more side effects than other pain control meds. This causes harm to the patient.

3) If you are in long term pain things are more complex. People in long term pain fall into different groups. Some of them will be cured from their long term pain with lifestyle modification. Most, but not all, people with lower back pain will be cured if they lose weight and get exercise. It would be cheaper to give them opioids, but because diet and exercise are more effective and safer they get a package of care that includes access to a gym and physiotherapist, access to weight loss clubs, access to dieticians. Some people with long term pain will never be cured, but will be able to manage with access to a pain clinic. But some people with long term pain will always have that pain. There is no cure for it. We can't just give these people all the opioids they want because they develop a tolerance, and need an increased dose. At some point you have people taking very high -dangerous- levels of opioids but still not getting pain relief. These people need a package of bio-psycho-social care that includes access to specialist pain management clinics. Again, this is more expensive than just giving people opioids.
Someone's going to have to explain the lime police to those of us how aren't New Zealanders and have no idea what's going on here.
It makes sense though. Only AV programs that comply may set the setting. Without a compliant AV program, there's nothing to do that set - unless you do it manually.
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"One 2012 report, which presented the results of the study of over 26,000 French men, showed that the sperm count had fallen by a third between 1989 and 2005. A 2007 report in the UK presented the results of a study done on one city in the country. It showed that sperm counts had declined by over 29 percent between 1989 and 2002. And more recently, in the summer of 2017, a study by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem analyzed data from over 43,000 North American, European, Australian, and New Zealand men concluded that the average sperm count had fallen by almost 60 percent in the past 40 years. "

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> I am a practicing doctor and I don't know where this is coming from.

Well, on the front page at the moment is this: Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology including testosterone production https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16254760

And this has been doing the rounds as well:	Acetaminophen reduces empathy for pain https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14683173

I'm fortunate enough to never had need to take either, except after having my wisdom teeth out I took a few paracetamol with hydrocodone tablets.

I'm not suggesting that taking a few doses here and there is anything to be concerned about.

What worries me is that some people are consuming probably too much over probably too long and having subclinical negative health outcomes as a result.
> What I expect it also means is that you'll get inconsistencies when doing inter-process communication, since they'll be using different libraries with potential mismatches.

While this is true, I've never seen this to be a problem. If two programs use IPC, they usually use either stable, or compatible protocol.

To make things even more complicated, you can have two programs, either each in it's own container, or statically linked, or with their private bundles of libraries, doing IPC and then they are free to have different versions of the underlying libraries, while the users still expect them to work fine.
Point 3 in the article:

>In order for stakeholders to use personas, they have to believe in them, feel invested, and have ownership over them. The most successful personas are created with involvement from their end users. Otherwise, people will have no understanding of the data behind them and the rigor that went into creating them. Coworkers may think that the UX team just went away and played story time for a few weeks, emerging with these fake people and asking everybody to play along. That is NOT the attitude we want to foster.

>To avoid this pitfall, you must include the persona end users in the process of creating personas. Invite stakeholders to sit in on a research session. Send out a daily recap of the activities undertaken to create the personas. Help people see how your research uncovers the customer segments early on, so that when you roll out the personas there is built-in investment in their validity and value.
You are correct. Humans will be the weakest link in this security link, specially at the origin. Bitcoin etc solve this by using PoW. But here there can be issue if there is a malicious first entry

That said, a case might be made for a traceable and immutable book which shows the movement of each diamond. But that might run into privacy issues. This can be solved by using a private blockchain but then again it goes back to trusting someone who has the blockchain with them.
If you have no patched AV, who's going to set the registry key?
On a semi-related note, Theodore Dalrymple (ex-prison psychiatrist) argued that the practise of parole should be ended for similar reasons: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/parole-is-unfair-and-unw...
I actually prefer vintage design (e.g. Nokia 8210, designed by Kenzo), but unfortunately these old phones aren't compatible enough, 2G networks are phased out and are already switched off in many places.
Microsoft does not have any way of knowing whether you have an antivirus or not and because the Spectre patch causes a bluescreen on boot if you have an antivirus that's not updated, they require the antivirus set the registry key to say "hey, it's safe to update". Absence of AV means that registry key doesn't get set.

MS doesn't provide an easy, GUI way of disabling built-in Defender by the way. If you 'disable' defender by using the control panel on windows 10, it only stops its activity temporarily and it can reactivate itself after 24 hours or something like that. You can permanently disable it through registry keys but it's not an officially supported, accepted method to edit the registry by yourself. There's a group policy for 10 Pro and other corp editions though.

For a normal home user, Defender is never fully disabled. It will deactivate itself if you install a third party antivirus, and reenable itself when you uninstall them. Bottom line, the average user is not supposed to be AV-less.
> What I expect it also means is that you'll get inconsistencies when doing inter-process communication, since they'll be using different libraries with potential mismatches. Is this correct?

At the first glance this is true, but you can guard against this in several ways. If your process only forks children then it already inherits the loaded libraries from the parent as part of the forked address space. Alternatively you can pass open file descriptors between processes. Another option is to use file-system snapshots, at least if the filesystem supports them.

Yet another option is to not replace individual files but complete directories and swap them out via RENAME_EXCHANGE (an atomic swap, available since kernel 3.15). As long as the process keeps a handle on its original working directory it can keep working with the old version even if it has been replaced with a new one.

Some of those approaches are tricky, but if you want to guard against such inconsistencies at least it is possible. And if your IPC interfaces provide a stable API it shouldn't be necessary.

> And then there's FILE_SHARE_DELETE which allows deletion

That has some issues when the file is mmaped. If I recall correctly you can't replace it as long as a mapping is open.
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I doubt there is one smoking gun. It's a basket of causes. Too much exposure to weird chemicals, ibuprofen, not enough zinc, obesity, lack of exercise, etc are all causes.
It's also a bank, a mobile phone provider, and many other things. See also https://www.infoseek.co.jp/

Also, compare https://yahoo.co.jp (afaik most visited site in japan) and https://yahoo.com.
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Fantastic stuff!

Does your work still keep the non-determinism of Ehrhard and Regnier?

This was the part that 'bothered' me, but it provided evidence of a link with process calculi.

I've also thought Ehrhard and Regnier's work was groundbreaking. It potentially opens up not just insights into differentiable programming, but a theory of concurrent computation and an algebraic theory of computation. My expectation is that it will reveal some deep links with other areas of mathematics, like group theory.
So as a non-cryptocurrency suppporter, what's the point then? Making things distributed necessarily makes it slower and harder/more expensive to regulate (let alone operate). Not to mention the high volatility which is the primary thing that gives a currency any value (hence, why the US Dollar is considered the reserve currency of the world: its stability). At some point, a duck is a duck. This duck is a fun experiment and someone discovered how to combine proof of work (old concept) with quorums (old concept) and a distributed ledger (old concept) that altogether gave the illusion of something unique and usable. I'm seeing worse usability on all fronts, no endgame in sight (except to move to a new currency when transaction fees get high), little to no regulation, and a worser world in general. It's also ecologically irresponsible (centralized currencies will _always_ be more efficient by definition).

I don't care that I can make a quick buck by preying on people's FOMO, the whole movement is fueled by seemingly emotional, albeit baseless, arguments and bravado.
What I'm getting at is: what happens if you take 800-1200mg per day for, say, ten of days at a time, or even hundreds of days.
I would not generally call a 'Körperschaften öffentlichen Rechts mit Selbstverwaltung' a clear state entity.

They are not owned by the state, they are independently run (by their members), they are independently funded (by their members), ...

Though they are heavily regulated, they have certain government mandated tasks and not typical companies.

'Private Krankenversicherungen' are not 'Körperschaften öffentlichen Rechts mit Selbstverwaltung', they are private companies.

> A private entity does not have these options and would need to go through general courts.

Like 'Private Krankenversicherungen' - they go through a court.
haha not sure if you are trying to be funny or you just dont get it.

Build something better is a figure of speech looks like you have taken that literally. If you search for the freshdesk story you will understand there were specific pain points discussed.
And I believe the max dose is even higher - 3200mg per day (800mg 4 times per day).
> Speaking of which, why do so many things require reboot to update on Windows?

We are getting there on Linux too - with atomic or image based updates of the underlying system. On servers you will (or already) have A/B partitions (or ostrees), on mobiles and IoT too, some desktops (looking at Fedora) also prefer reboot-update-reboot cycle, to prevent things like killing X while doing your update and leaving your machine in inconsistent state.

macOS also does system updates with reboot, for the same reasons.
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Parts of my problems are others problems, that is not mutually exclusive.

Actually, one could argue that at the end of the day, any action is egoist at some level, even charity (my experience is that this argument leads to interesting discussions were people try to define things).

Also, I know that religion is linked to charity, but I don't see why would one need religion to help other people. I'm doing it pretty often actually, at my level.

Why should I need faith in anything to help someone? How an atheist would be unable to help anybody?

So,

> I don't see where you can pull that out of atheism.

I would say that beliefs (atheism is a form of belief, for some definition of atheism) and helping people are orthogonal notions. As an agnostic, linking those things feel absurd (in the mathematical definition of absurd, not in the definition of "stupid").

P.S.: I don't feel I said anything stupid. Let's use real arguments. If you think I said something wrong, feel free to argue about it. I'll be glad to recognize that I was wrong or to further argue.

Edit: I would say that one acts according to what drives their life. This can be faith. Or something else. Or a mix of things.
> Great code, like great literature, should entertain, challenge and make you question your preconceptions and yourself.

Preferably at 2 AM on a Saturday, when production is down ;)
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The chrome app doesn't know the private key and the nano itself only runs signed code unless you imply that the Ledger Company itself planted the backdoor.
I disagree. Where website have a variety of different potential types of user, it can be useful to explicitly describe those different types of users, their needs and goals. Calling them Bob or Mary, can just be useful shorthand and avoid segments getting forgotten about.

In speccing and QA, I've always included a section on 'Works for Mary? Works for Bob?' etc. It's not rocket science and shouldn't be stupidly glossy in my opinion. But initial agreement can really help functional design.
Yep. a good friend is a doctor who does triage in an ER (amongst other things) - he said 'We start at 1500mg doses'.
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Completely agree. It seems to be the application of the current "trendy tech" to industry.
Personas are always just a projection of bias whether from the UX team or from stakeholders. They are absolutely a useful tool, but often abused.

Too often I saw tickets written by product owners with stories like "As user type X I want to be able to do Y when I'm in this situation" where there was no empathy in correlating the actual functionality with anything to do with the persona and they literally just wanted that functionality in the system. Which is fine, but at that point admit your persona system is bullshit and you're just doing opinion lead development.
Are there any JavaScript blockchain implementations?

This might sound like a super stupid question but it's the only language I know my way around very well and I'd love to figure out how they work in practice.
P.S - Silly question, I can see it does. I responded before reading.
The qualitative difference is that traditional news outlets are held accountable for their "fake news". The New York Times tries not to publish untrue claims, and if it does, it will retract them and issue a correction or apology. If it won't do that, there are libel laws and other legal remedies.

Fake news on social media is subject to none of these controls. Facebook is a multiplier of some of the worst tendencies of human beings, and it lacks the institutions that the rest of society has evolved over centuries to contain those tendencies.
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This is a significant amount of effort, and has some very good touches. Especially the Loom-Viewer, I really liked the ease with which one's workflow can integrate into the data analysis.
I think it was a balancing act. Currently in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office can fine up to a maximum of £500,000. The concern was that for larger organisations, the cost of compliance with the Data Protection Act (1998) was higher than any potential fine handed out by the ICO. So by placing the limit at 20m Euro, or 4% of annual revenue, they give the legislation adequate 'bite' to persuade boards that investing in systems and people to ensure data privacy is upheld is worth it. However, the EU doesn't want to drive business away entirely, so the figure was selected to ensure that it was punitive, but not to the point where organisations would seriously consider shutting down in Europe, or restricting services to European consumers.
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I never got them. The last update in my windows is from Dec 2017. My antivirus is compliant, the registry key correctly set up and yet it refuses to update.

I still haven't had the time to debug it, but I wonder how many people are out there with their OS silently refusing to update.
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