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I think clean install must be the answer tbh - I upgraded too. I'll let you know if I try it, maybe over the weekend.
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"They try to mimic what the immune system does: the polymer attaches to the bacteria's membrane and then facilitates destabilization of the membrane. It falls apart, everything falls out and there's little opportunity for it to develop resistance to these polymers."

But yeah, caution might be a good idea.
If you look at the whole of human history, you'll see that government is a direct result of the human compulsion for power. Wherever there is an opportunity to assert power and dominion over others, someone will step up and take power by force or coercion.

Governments formed as those that took power needed a system by which to subjugate those within their territory and indoctrinate them to help expand their influence.

It took centuries for people to adjust those political systems to remove ultimate power from one individual and disperse it amongst many. The more people that have influence over the power structure, the less likely that it'll be able to do really evil things.

Our modern democracies are literally the result of thousands of years of evolution of our social contract.

If you think they are so bad, look at countries/places where the government has very little power to control its population. What results are militias and other armed groups that use force to exert influence and maintain power. This struggle is happening pretty opening in Mexico, for example.

If you were, today, make all government disappear, the world would become a chaos of small groups fighting for power. Over years/decades, groups would push out other groups, and gain larger territories. As size increases, the need to keep the population in line (to remain in power) would require those in power to maintain order through laws, police, and provide services.

Government is inevitable.
see http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/22/130422fa_fact_sm... too
> adding them to every day personal and cleaning solutions

... is the best way to breed resistance...
Collisions are a problem if you want to corrupt data, not if you specifically want a human validate it in a single document.

E.g.:

I claim that I authored the string "foo bar" with hash "1f2ec52b7743687..".

Now you find a collision and go to court arguing:

>> Your honor, but "3HSSHog*8FF9 z!!!!ady94765&$^#" also has the same hash!

I think the court will still assume that "foo bar" is the correct original, not the garbled collision data you produce. And you still can't deny that the original produces the correct hash.
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Like it was said in some comment below, there is no shortage of ideas of how a society would work in the absence of government. Yet people mostly ignore them and ask the same questions again and again, not even willing to hear the answer. I recommend reading Murray Rothbard, David D. Friedman and Stefan Molyneux.

And I would like to answer one of your questions specifically: "How would they enforce contracts arising therefrom without a legal system" by pointing you to an Bitcoin-related idea by a friend of mine: http://blog.oleganza.com/post/58240549599/contracts-without-...
This whole battery renting scheme is bad, that's pure greed.

The battery renting thing is great! The relatively short life of batteries and the price of replacing them is one of the biggest problems with electric cars. Renting means that isn't your problems anymore.
A little awkward I guess, it felt much more like a hacker meeting than a rave. I've been to a lot of experimental music performances in the city and they all have a similar feeling - much less partying and good times and much more introspective in a way, absorbing the music and enjoying it individually. You got a sense that everyone was sort of on the same wavelength even if we didn't interact with each other much.

That said it was REALLY enjoyable for me as part of my dissertation at uni was about generative music and live coding, it was really cool to see it properly in action with a crowd of people enjoying it.
It's very easy to destroy cancerous cells.

The real art form is to find a mechanism that kills the cancer sufficiently faster than the patient.
The asking of the question is your answer. Full-time startups demand every ounce of you. They are for entrepreneurial people with a high tolerance for risk and a vision of something they want to bring out into the world. Startups aren't for the timid or confused.

If you have any doubts at all (which you do), stay in school.
I want to subscribe to one of those as soon as I have disposable income - http://skoshbox.com/ / http://www.candyjapan.com/ (sends you a box of japanese candy each month!)
Now that the modules are mentioned in the discussion: can one Go application consist of more .so or .dlls all writren in Go at all?
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Bitcoin was engineered to take time, it wouldn't be as popular as it is now if things played out differently.

In fact the whole value of the currency is based on the fact it takes work, and therefore time, to create.
1) no comment.

2) This is about the linker, not the compiler. You should compare the compilation times with the linking times instead of making assumptions.
Not a biologist (but used to work next to some for a few years). But...

This molecule can distinguish between normal cells membranes and bacteria membranes. That's quite easy. Most of the difference between cancer cells and normal cells is in the nucleus, not the membrane, and most anti-cancer drugs target the stage where the nucleus replicates. So, my tentative response is "No".

Having said that, the potential ingenuity of the human race is beyond what I can image right now.
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I, as a single Perl (and regex, and VBA -- laugh all you want) programmer, have done things for which an EDS contract was ruled out by a major institution because it (and however much in terms of resources and expense it would entail) would be "too expensive". (Instead, they chose to continue "throwing people" -- full-time staff -- at the problem. Use that as a measure of just how expensive that prospective EDS work was considered to be.)

The language, or its aficionado -- either way, specific technologies have made me, in my own estimation, multiple factors more productive. Yes, there's the learning curve, and understanding things that are not explicitly stated line by line throughout the code. But then, there's getting shit done.

Unfortunately, a lot of people, processes, and institutions get hung up at the sentence before last of that previous paragraph.

I also turned other people onto some useful technologies, such as pointing a consultant at some reporting software that my department didn't want to spring for but for which -- of course -- the outside consultant had budget. I heard from her a month or two later that it had greatly eased things and turned her into a sort of reporting superhero.

Throughout my career, I've seen people who, both on their own as well as through dint of better technology awareness and selection, have been multiple factors more productive than their coworkers.

And yes, often they are fighting the trend and significant inertia, rather than being embraced.
Contemporary LED lighting does seem much harsher with very sharp shadows and much less pleasant to the eye than older lights. I believe that lighting need to be assessed on it's overall merits, not just based on brightness / cost ratio.
There is nothing stopping the memory manager having tunable parameters from being added. Making core functions pluggable doesn't seem to be the way that the Linux developers want to do things, and I think it's probably justified (see the CFS debacle with Con Kolivas and his ideas around pluggable schedulers in the Linux kernel [1]).

Certainly it looks like there is some ideas that Johannes Weiner is considering for the future, and is actively working on with the set of patches he has merged:

Future

Right now we have a fixed ratio (50:50) between inactive and active
list but we already have complaints about working sets exceeding half
of memory being pushed out of the cache by simple streaming in the
background. Ultimately, we want to adjust this ratio and allow for a
much smaller inactive list. These patches are an essential step in
this direction because they decouple the VMs ability to detect working
set changes from the inactive list size. This would allow us to base
the inactive list size on the combined readahead window size for
example and potentially protect a much bigger working set.

Another possibility of having thrashing information would be to
revisit the idea of local reclaim in the form of zero-config memory
control groups. Instead of having allocating tasks go straight to
global reclaim, they could try to reclaim the pages in the memcg they
are part of first, as long as the group is not thrashing. This would
allow a user to drop e.g. a back-up job in an otherwise unconfigured
memcg and it would only inflate (and possibly do global reclaim) until
it has enough memory to do proper readahead. But once it reaches that
point and stops thrashing it would just recycle its own used-once
pages without kicking out the cache of any other tasks in the system
more than necessary. [2]

1. http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.ht...

2. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/24/133
I absolutely agree with you. Still you have asked personal question "So why should __we__ get excited" and I made assumption that __we__ as hackers. If __we__ as people - IMHO nothing interesting about this phone from average user perspective. N950 and N9 were interesting phones for me as geek (because of QtQuick) but QtQuick performance gain is not that important/significant if compared to HTML(5).

The only reason why I love different brands than Android is to play with something interesting and different. That's why Firefox OS looks particularly interesting for me currently with my simple needs and low dependence on Google.
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http://jsperf.com/jquery-vs-document-queryselector

http://jsperf.com/jquery-css-vs-native-dom

http://www.leebrimelow.com/native-methods-jquery/

http://jsperf.com/comparing-jquery-and-native-js/11
I have 4 OCZ SSDs of various models. When I bought them I'd read the forums and there was almost always a notice about upgrading the firmware to fix issues. I always kept up on firmware updates and I've never had a problem with a drive.

However, the problem is that the retail firmware on the drive shouldn't have had the kinds of problems that would require a firmware fix.
Relevant video of Philip K Dick discussing this very matter recorded at Metz sci-fi convention in France, 1977:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXeVgEs4sOo
So basically, online shopping hits big food corporations because they can't exploit people's basic instinct to trick them into buying something they don't really need?

That's actually a good thing.
Impressive visual design and extensive copywriting in the promo parts of the app. The idea is heavily tried and a very busy market i should say. Best of luck then to the dev(s)
Just want to say you were awesome at algorave - wish I was good enough/fast enough in emacs to start doing stuff like this!
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>While it is actually a very good metaphor for government and democracy.

It is also a very good metaphor for social norms. Power people have over others by misleading them, lying to them, shaming them, threatening them, having something they want, etc. People create their own matrix to fit in, to adapt. People start lying to themselves, stop following logic and start to rationalize away bad feelings and bad ideas that hurt.
I can totally understand your frustration that shines through. Basically I agree with you. 8 years ago I saw the start of an explosion of new languages/frameworks/etc. All solving 1 of more things of a bigger problem. To my mind it became too fragmented, too many layers where too many things can go wrong and if not, will have a performance penalty.

So I went to a more abstract approach by working visually in models. After some tries I discovered the OutSystems development environment for web applications and am working with it since on a daily base. The advantage of working visually is that I don't know or see what the compiler creates. (of course I encounter some SQL, JS, CSS and HTML)

However, sometimes I miss text based coding, so this year I looked around to see if the development situation had become better. In my opinion it has not. There seems to be less fragmentation but that's probably caused by the fact that only a select set survived. Besides that new initiatives have been started.

Personally I like the idea of using C as a cross platform language; because it already IS. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the lower levels of the used languages use it already in some form (remember it always needs to go native). Besides that, I think that if C would be the standard then within a couple of weeks you will have language X to C compilers and then have ABC->X->C and then have a webvariant WEB->ABC->X->C while undoubtedly someone will create a Javascript to web to abc to x to c compiler. And than there we are again where we started :)

So in my opinion the problem lays with the chains. Some abstraction is needed of course but not several layers on layers. I would like to see more direct to (e.g.) c compilers: JS->C, Web->C, ABC->C, X->C whereby it is not the goal to program in C but have it as an intermediate format.

I believe that software development has not grown forward enough. There is plenty movement left and right but not going forward. So, I am back to my visual modelling environment and will check later on...
LED lights have much longer lifespans: 50k to 100k hours, compared to ~30K hours for high pressure sodium lamps [1]. Reduced labour and parts costs could account for the decision.

Also, the referenced document shows LED lights as emitting 70 - 150 lm/W, so power consumption may be better than you think.

[1] http://www.grahlighting.eu/en/street-lighting-technology-com...
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It wasn't really about the dancing, I don't think anyone attended to dance. The use of the word 'rave' is very tongue in cheek, it was purely a group of people interested in music being live coded coming together to enjoy a performance.
Direct-debit is undoable. That's one of its key-features.

You can add direct-debit to bitcoint with a trusted third party. (And there might even be clever ways to do direct debit in bitcoin without that third party.)
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Running speed is good enough, development time is way down. Kinda like using C# rather than ASM. What's the problem?
I honestly cannot imagine how you can have even a small town function without a government of some sort, leave alone a whole country.

To me, it's pretty obvious that when you have a large group of people trying to live geographically close together, someone has to set up the rules, and make sure those rules are followed. Otherwise, there will be conflicts, because people will have different opinions about how something should be done, and some people will try to enforce their worldview on others.
Whoever will have the power to resolve such conflicts is the government. That will be their job, and people will have to pay them to do this job.
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It's really lucky for Apple that the "good enough" point happened to exactly coincide with double their old pixel densities (plural, since they had two different densities on the iPad and iPhone), almost unbelievably so in fact.
Assume for a moment that we have evidence which strongly suggests we reside inside of a simulation. However, our knowledge is strictly limited to the complete mechanics of our simulation and any which contain it, but not the actual physical universe containing all of these simulation(s).

How then do we know that we're not in fact residing in the physical universe as actual matter, not inside of simulation(s), and that something which exists inside of the physical universe isn't simply manipulating us to believe that the supposed evidence we have (proving that we're inside of a simulation) is true?

Presumably, whatever is manipulating us into believing this would be utilizing methods we would not be able to detect or comprehend, namely because we lack a full understanding of the physical universe.
You make a valid point, but how about the title: "Report linking Bitcoin and Silk Road retracted"?
Doubtful. That is the problem with cancer cells - they are indistinguishable from others. I think the current bleeding edge in cancer research are ways to disable the cell mechanism that turns off the immune system near the cells.
Nope, it's a better idea to create a higher level thread-pool-based parallel-task-system which abstracts away the differences between pthreads and WebWorkers. I think that at least most game engines have such a system in place anyway, and can be relatively easily adopted. YMMV because it may be more overhead to get data in and out of WebWorkers since they don't have a shared address space (so in that regard they are more like processes).
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O(n) is only an issue for large strings - let's say it might start being a concern at n > 1024, although for modern systems quite frankly n can be substantially larger without incurring any noticeable time loss. In my 20 year career, it has been rare to deal with strings larger than 1024 characters. In those cases, I don't think it's unreasonable to have to use a specialised class that tracks string indexing such that lookup becomes O(1). With enough mucking around you can even get insertion to be O(1).

For the remaining use cases of strings (the vast majority - filenames, URLs, UI labels, database fields), O(n) performance is perfectly adequate. This is why UTF-8 is such a successful hack.
> Is learning clojure enough if I would like to write lisp in future?

Since clojure is lisp (although not common lisp or any other non-clojure variation like Scheme), I would have to answer yes.
Of course they wouldn't. And why do you think that is? It's because they don't get good value for their money. People still need schools, right? Therefore, schools will be built. People still need roads, therefore roads will be built. People still need healthcare, so it will be provided. The only question is at what price and of what quality - the answer to it being at the quality and prices the market wants it to be provided.

Then, of course, there's this argument that the poor will not have enough to get those things. Well, let's look at other industries. Have low cost airlines made flights accessible to almost anyone? Yes they have and this happened only after the industry was deregulated. Or do only rich people have cars? Or anything, really? Why is it such an impossibility that private protection companies and private schools and private healthcare can be cheap and accessible?

And to address your other point:

>However without a government you are simply relying on people to be good and fair to each other.

And with a government, everyone relies on people in that government to be fair and good. Except that when they are not, you can't stop paying to them.
At the risk of sounding snarky, why does fluoride still work for oral hygiene?
Well you can't get out of the sandbox or even crash the process you're running on with C/C++ compiled to asm.js. To me this qualifies as "safety". Of course you can mess up, fragment the local heap/typed-array and produce memory leaks. But it's all contained.
Zerocoin is trying to solve the second problem.

Combining 5 proof of work standards just gives you 1 new one. (There might be some robustness to be gained, though.)
Ideal scenario would be to have a "--full-optimize" flag or something that you use for the production build. And for casual dev you get quick compilation. Probably easier said than done.
I see the repo the Github Docs points to is a fork of https://github.com/DynoSRC/dynosrc, which one is actually the canonical repo?

BTW, how does differential updates do under minification? Don't the differences usually end up replacing the entire functions?
The relationship between the immune system and cancer is incredibly complicated. There is, however, some fascinating research dealing with using pathogens that somehow preferentially infect cancer areas of the patient, to stimulate the immune system in that area:

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/2/44/44ra57.abstract is a paper that talks about it. It's pretty neat!