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Taming my lizard brain.

I was going to through a Seth Godin Book, In which he talk about amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for fight or flight instincts.

After that I started thinking, most of the things I worry about doesn't end up happening. But, I was constantly worrying about it. Sometimes I wont go to business oriented community meet ups, just because my lizard brain throws some 'what if that happens' at me.

Recognizing that part of my thoughts and reacting only to things that really needed my attention helped tremendously in shaping my time, focus and work then on.
Like an action shot of bits being written to the disk.
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Bitcoin payment processor BIPS compromised, 1295 BTC stolen
I feel so old now. I always capitalize every IM or SMS I write and I try to make the punctuation as correct as possible. By that I mean that I don't stop at using the full stop as required, but also worry about commas, colons, semi-colons and even dashes. I'm also "guilty" of having read "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Lynne Truss and agreeing with it.

It's not fair that being almost 35 I should feel so old, is it? ;-)
Don't regret making works of art. It is all that succeeds us when we leave this realm.

Sometimes I feel this is our main differentiation from other species.
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considering that pre-existing conditions can no longer be considered for health-care service, there's less things to worry about.

Employers, on the other hand...
Wow, that's insane. You make a great point about it being useful for persons who are adopted. I agree that it's useful to know more about yourself that way. However, the manner in which your data is handled BEFORE you even get it is FUBAR to me. Sorry you have to go through this, and I'm sure it'd bother me a lot too if I were in your shoes.
I think you misunderstand me. By "large scale" I mean people having 10,000 watt or more of mining hardware. It doesn't matter for my argument how these 10,000 watts are deployed (5,000 USB thumbdrive-sized miners, or 500 large water-cooled PCBs).

Obviously, someone with 10,000 watts of USB thumbdrive-sized miners would run into the same costs eating his profitability: 10,000 watt of electricity bill, 10,000 watt that need to be cooled, etc.
Working for other users of the domain (including myself).

Their support people keep saying vague things about something being wrong with the account, or it being blocked, or the security being not right. But seem to be incapable of fixing it.
On the other side what if you did have some issue but this clean report gave you a false sense of health - would you delay your next checkup?
Ask HN: 15 inch laptop without numpad
Just when I thought PC makers had closed the gap with Macs wrt screen resolution and weight they have gone ahead and inflicted numpads on all new 15 inch laptops. This results in an asymmetric design where the mousepad is not centered and the keys are smaller than they otherwise could be. Only exception that I know of are the XPS 15 and the dell m3800 but those appear to be having teething troubles.

Any pointers to other laptops / manufacturers that havent followed into this numpad trend like lemmings?
What an unfortunate event to befall a family of who acquired such wealth by honest means:

In an 1907 essay Mark Twain portrayed Clark as the very embodiment of Gilded Age excess and corruption:

He is as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag; he is a shame to the American nation, and no one has helped to send him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was the penitentiary, with a ball and chain on his legs. To my mind he is the most disgusting creature that the republic has produced since Tweed's time.[5]
Doing what you suggest will be an absolute disaster if you promise your clients you'll be available while you travel. Your concerns about being locked in your hotel room are totally valid, and you'll need superhuman willpower to get anything done. What you can do, however, is set up shop somewhere cheap for 3-6 months and spend your weekends doing day trips. At the end of this period, you will have actually saved money because of your reduced living expenses. Then repeat the same process on anther continent. 2-4 weeks is barely enough time to get your feet wet. You absolutely should do this right now before you get tied down by work and family life. Source: I work remotely and have spent the last 4 years in Brazil, Thailand, and Belize. 3-6 months turns into 1+ years pretty quickly.
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That's really interesting, I didn't realize they did that so blatently. It would definitely bother me. Let us know if you decide to do something about it!
And Tandy? :)
Oh by the way, I'll give you an example, homeopathy

"does it work as advertised?"
No.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

The scientific community regards homeopathy as nonsense,[11] quackery[12][13][14] or a sham,[15] and homeopathic practice has been criticized as unethical.[16] The axioms of homeopathy are long refuted[17] and lack any biological plausibility.[18] Although some clinical trials produce positive results,[19][20] systematic reviews reveal that this is because of chance, flawed research methods, and reporting bias.[21][22][23][24] The postulated mechanisms of action of homeopathic remedies are not only scientifically implausible[21][25][26][27] but precluded by the laws of physics.[28]

"does it do harm?"
yes, it exists, so it prevents people from accessing real medicine. It is a distraction.

Steve Jobs is a good example...

"Despite his diagnosis, Jobs resisted his doctors' recommendations for medical intervention for nine months,[174] instead consuming a pseudo-medicine diet in an attempt to thwart the disease. According to Harvard researcher Ramzi Amri, his choice of alternative treatment "led to an unnecessarily early death."[206] Cancer researcher and alternative medicine critic David Gorski "disagreed with Amri's assessment," stating, "My best guess was that Jobs probably only modestly decreased his chances of survival, if that."[209] Barrie R. Cassileth, the chief of Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center's integrative medicine department,[210] said "Jobs’s faith in alternative medicine likely cost him his life.... He had the only kind of pancreatic cancer that is treatable and curable.... He essentially committed suicide."[211] According to Jobs's biographer, Walter Isaacson, "for nine months he refused to undergo surgery for his pancreatic cancer – a decision he later regretted as his health declined."[212] "Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He also was influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, before finally having surgery in July 2004."

Yet, it still exists, and people are still buying it, using it, and buying into it. That is an indication the free market doesn't work in drugs. I can go on and on and on, but we need to be protected from ourselves.
I've experienced similar feelings with the inability to recall words quickly. I wonder whether I should attribute it to graduating University and thus not using more expansive vocabulary normally or to the concussions I sustained my final year there.

How did your concussion affect the way you live? Do you still play sports?
Compare it with Carfax and similar "car history" reporting websites. A positive result is nearly always meaningful, but a negative result means nothing more than a lack of hits in a database that is well known to be incomplete.
Much of C++ made more sense to me when I read Inside the C++ Object Model by Stanley Lippman[1]. It helped me internalize the fact that C++ was originally implemented as a preprocessor transformation into C (Stroustrup's Cfront). Thus many C++ mechanisms can be understood as elaborate syntactic sugar.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Object-Model-Stanley-Lippman/dp...
About what percentage, would you say, of individuals paying income tax are both equipped and inclined to understand all the subtleties of income tax returns? Yet people do pay income taxes and do not look into the possibility of extra amounts paid most often. Only individuals who really care, are willing to dig deep into it.

In my opinion, people who use this service are going to use it because they are genuinely curious about their future health and if it leads to a few false positive, I could live with that and get it checked elsewhere for confirmation.
What a waste. I can't wait until the bubble bursts.
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Mental rejuvenation would mean wiping out your brain and growing new one, which would mean a new person. Brain has a limit on how fast it can adapt over time by design, not because of some illness.
Or the doctor could have just told him that he had the disease without questioning it and with no chance for him to look at his own data and disprove it, giving him an even worse outcome than he had here. Doctors aren't all-knowing or always right. And most of them know nothing special about genetics.
I have been working on a small r7rs scheme interperter [1] and it has been extremely educational. I had never used scheme previously but learning it from sicp [2] has been rather enlightening, it surprisingly lived up to expectations.

I haven't considered if I will go down the compiler route, but either way that resource looks very interesting; especially the coverage on tail call optimisation at the assembly level.

Does anyone have any further resources discussing tail call optimisation? I would like something a bit more in depth.

The other topic I would like to read more on is continuations, as a still newbie-schemer I find the idea of implementing them to be quite daunting.

[1] https://github.com/mkfifo/plot
[2] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
I think I can do that without DNA...
This effect is better achieved by using two nodes. At Facebook we have the main input positioned over a node that shows the same content with the suffix appended. This is the same technique we use to show highlighted names in the comment field.
Oh it was my understanding that at a certain date (2015?) the system would stop issuing new bitcoins. How are miners paid then?
With Healthcare.org, it's the perfect time to revisit this classic.
Sounds like a non-state player has decided to solve some business problems by hiring local contract killers. Could be rich Chinese, Russians, Americans. Anyone who has a ton of cash and industrial interests that are best served by no nuclear proliferation.
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Thinkpad T530, the 4th gen CPUs vs 3rd gen CPUs is marginal. I bought one with Full HD for ~$700 and it's a super fast machine.

HTH
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Well you dont have to fight that battle anymore in the US due to ACA.
It's best if founders are all up to get some fun, and investors are in to get lucky, not vice versa.
Why aren't the unix-family OSs of the era part of the story? Why didn't IBM even consider porting a unix-family OS to the PCs instead of paying an unproven company like Microsoft to write an OS?

(...all the events from this stretch of computing history seem so weird to me, like from a steampunk-like alternate reality movie. There's surely lots of context missing and stories that nobody will ever tell, since most of the decisions taken by all the key players seem so anti-business. Computers may have changed a lot from back then, but business is still business and all the decisions made seem either "irrational" or based on "hidden information" that is not part of the story.)
When we hire someone for a job, we want someone who is "good" at what they do. By this logic, we pick someone in the top 10% - a notion which will vary from person to person.

Now consider a job market, where employers are looking for candidates. Employers what "good" workers, candidates want "good" jobs. All the activity will be concentrated around the top 10% of each side.

The situation will be better or worse depending on correlations among everyone's definition of "good". This has nothing to do with chess, sorry!
Yes, the part where you asked people to send complete logs of their network traffic to anonymous strangers like yourself.
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I don't think it stops issuing coins, I think the reward keeps halving until it reaches zero (beyond 8 decimals).

The question is are people going to bother to use $10k gigahash machines with dollars/day in power to make 0.0000001 BTC
I'm with you there, I'm pretty anal about keeping my texts as correct as possible. Proper grammar, capitalization, and spelling make messages so much easier to read and comprehend, so why wouldn't you take the extra few seconds to make sure they're correctly formatted? Especially these days, when your phone will auto-correct mistakes for you!
> So the new System/360 mainframe line would run the also brand-new OS/360.

Bad example. Really bad example: Not even IBM could standardize on a single OS for the System/360.

The System/360 went through a few OS iterations before OS/360 came along: OS/360 was late, as recounted in The Mythical Man-Month, so DOS/360 came along, then BOS/360, then TOS/360, and even PCP, which didn't support multiprogramming. Other OSes were CP-67, which became VM, MFT, MVT, and still more OSes on top of that.

To this day, there are multiple OSes for the architecture descended from the System/360, including Linux.
"Lots of people don't know their birthday" Really? I've never met a single person who didn't. I guess "lots" in the terms of thousands could be plausible, vs "lots" in the terms of "a high percentage".
Of course, with bitcoin it's not possible (unless you want to crack sha-256 hashed passwords maybe?), I was wondering if by designing the bitcoin algorithm differently that might have been possible.

For instance, to stay with the protein folding example, maybe bitcoin could have used an algorithm that used similar logic as the one used by the folding@home project but with different input data and expected results. Once the hardware is no longer needed for mining it can be easily repurposed for research.
Did something similar in 6800 assembly, left recursion of course limits you even more - but it helps fit that tiny tiny compiler into 2k.

I actually like yacc/bison - they're good for most purposes and deliberately designing a non-LALR (or more a non-LR) language on purpose (rather than because you don't know any better) is usually silly - you do need to 'get' the concept of building a parse tree from bottom up - assembling it from larger and larger snippets as you go

Oh and yacc/bison run about 10 times faster than equivalent I wrote 10 years before they existed so I'm not complaining

I tend to use the same bespoke lexical analyser I've used for years and hack it to suit - it includes support for symbol tables/etc and runs really fast, no need to reinvent the wheel
Is it not completely obvious to filter out other traffic that is unrelated? How verbose must one be?
It all depends on what -- exactly -- you define as "luck."
Yes, truly despicable, personally I forgo a paycheque for the honour of working for the wealthy for free.

These doctors and nurses have some gall as members of the working class to consider acting like those they serve. Who do they think they are? Millionaires?
I'll check what the status of that is.

Edit: looks like it needs to be cleaned up a bit and then we'll release it. Seeing if we can get someone on the team to take it on and get it out in the next few weeks.
But the LBA is limited to the size of the input string, while a PC has a fixed but insanely large number of states (2^{number of bits of storage}) and can't in theory accept arbitrarily large strings.

In the somewhat twisted view of the machine I'm putting forward, it's not accessing 'arbitrary memory locations' as memory locations, rather the content of that memory location is part of the input state.
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The potential of pharmaceutical companies pushing meds onto unsuspecting people using this data is really frightening. Hopefully 23andme wont turn into an advertising subsidized business.
Isn't that the same material covered on Andrew Ng's Coursera course "Machine Learning", down to the training data?
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It's done up in clean paper form. It's got the name of a major cryptography researcher on it. It has an abstract.

Does this mean I can sit down and write a similar-form paper consisting of wild speculation about Shamir being financially in bed with the Citi Foundation specifically to write hatchet-job pieces linking trivially-discoverably innocent people to black market drug bazaars?

No, of course not. I'm a nobody. But when Shamir does it, dozens of people spread it to thousands of others and now I}ruid is almost certainly wondering whether he's going to get a knock on his door.

How much more of a dick do you have to be before people in general just agree that it was a shitty thing to do with so little evidence?

It's not interesting, it's reputationally dishonest, and damaging.
... that's not really better. Requiring the desktop installation of Drive for trivial cases like that means that the web-application isn't really a web-application, but rather a desktop application that uses the browser as a GUI.
I distinguish between chat/non-chat writing, and I don't use periods in chats. For example, I'll usually say things like this:

me> i'm gonna give up on GTA IV
me> just can't get into it
me> especially after playing V

Non-chat, this would look like:

I'm gonna give up on GTA IV; I just can't get into it, especially after playing V.

I guess I find "chat writing" (period-less) more amenable to quick, back-and-forth conversation.
Information such as channel, TV platform, broadcast source, etc. that is collected by certain LG Smart TVs is not personal but viewing information.

Wrong. If you would otherwise have to be in my house to know something, what you have is personal information.
Also worth checking out is Open, extensible object models[0] which brings prototypal inheritance and message-passing semantics to C. Along with a well-detailed paper is a very digestible example implementation.

[0]: http://piumarta.com/software/id-objmodel/
I tried the online link version. Apparently it's not good that I don't drink any alcohol and I'm not in any pain. Those are considered to be outside the range of "healthy".
If I were to ever use 23andme, I'd use a fake name, a disposable mailing address, a fake email address, and never, ever discuss it with anyone.

That's not enough. Remember how netflix's "anonymized" data could be substantially de-anonymized by adding in IMDB's public data?

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/netflix-faq.html

A similar thing can be done with DNA - if your relatives have given DNA with their names and there is another database somewhere else that lists relatives (ancestry.com or pretty much any of the hundreds of data brokers) then that relatives list cross-referenced with the similarities in the DNA between you and your relatives can be used to de-anonymize your DNA.

http://www.familytreedna.com/landing/family-finder.aspx

If you really need a DNA profile and you are paranoid, it might make sense to pollute any databases by submitting your DNA with someone else's identity information - just don't do a criss-cross where you swap with a friend and you both submit each other's DNA because that would be really easy to reverse programmatically.
I think I get your point now: As an example, if I could somehow distribute a million USB sticks to a million different people and get them to mine for me (using their electricity and PC at no cost), I could more efficiently mine bitcoins because my lower costs would exceed the gains in processing efficiency that the largescale miners achieve?
This is pretty awesome.
GNOME itself is all written in pure C using glib, which also contains GObject, a beautiful OOP approach for the C programming language. It has a dynamic type system, supports meta programming...

Very few people know it, but GNOME's GTK interface is fully object oriented, and BTW when you click a GTK button you are clicking on an instance of the class GtkButton that inherits from GtkBin which inherits from GtkWidget. it's a beautiful thing!

Also because GObject is based on a lot of conventions it makes really easy to generate bindings to other programming languages automatically, so basically you can write you library in C with OOP approach using GObject, and for free you get your library easily bound to python, ruby, js or any other language.

https://developer.gnome.org/gobject/stable/
> a lot of energy is going to waste now.

Is it? How much does Bank of America spend in energy to keep up its servers? Backups? disaster-recovery setups? That's a significant energy cost, too.
It is a new kind of approach to software development: SFAQL.

Shoot First, Address Questions Later.

I bet this kind of decisions are a consequence of MBA/Excel mindset. Developing software properly takes time and money and that isn't... lean (lol) and doesn't drive billion dollar valuations.
..otherwise known as "Mandelbulbs" these days, i think you'll find.
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Note that most of the ASIC makers are selling them, not operating data centers; this supports mrb's point.
Makes me remember the good old raptorize plugin: http://zurb.com/playground/jquery-raptorize
Here is a company who is trying to make genetics more accessible, approachable, and comprehensible.

> It would be better if 23AM presented medical genomic information in a neutral way, with external links to descriptions of genomic variations but no assertion of diagnostic significance at all, or even a mention of how to obtain a diagnostically significant result.

What you're suggesting would effectively revert the consumer experience about half a step above "go to lab X to sequence your DNA, then hop on over to SNPedia.com to figure out what it all means."

> Unfortunately, the way 23AM is packaged (see the website), they are incentivized to do the opposite...

Perhaps this is more subjective than worth talking about, but that's not the impression I had when using and working on the product. All the more reason they need to be careful, for sure.

Disclaimer: I worked at 23andMe's frontend team briefly, a few years ago. While I have mixed feelings about their engineering practices and other things, I do believe in and support their mission.
While the bitcoin craze is on-going I've heard anecdotally of one retired GPU system being used to do CFD work, the reasoning was that people would pay $50 - $150 per hour for CFD analysis run time and that was more than the machine had been "earning" when it had been build for Bitcoin mining. That said, with an ASIC you're rather constrained in your choices.

But something in the same form factor as the mining ASIC might make this a pretty powerful engine for computing 'X' for some useful definition of X, post BitCoin exhaustion.