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Why would they not ban people who deny current climate change is man-made without proper evidence, and so disrupt proper scientific debate?

Where do you get the facts idea, I don't see anything about facts in the article. What facts are you talking about?
What makes you think that they aren't trying to get it right? The animal to human failure rate isn't really related to scientist's insight, skill, or knowledge, but to the fact that biology is really fucking complicated. A researcher can pour their life and soul into their work, watch it work its way through all the layers of testing, showing consistent and sencial results, and then watch it blow up when it reaches a human, cause surprise! Third and higher order effects can't be predicted!

Also, your line of logic seems like a non-sequitur. The poor overall quality of papers (irreproducability for example) has nothing to do with animal testing. If you put aside moral and ethical issues of animal testing, the question isn't 'how can animal testing continue given how crappy their results are' its 'how can testing continue given how crappy their results are'.
From my brief observation of bitcoin this seems to be the defining characteristic for bitcoin, crashes followed by rebounds, pretty much since it was created, making me believe that most of bitcoin usage is speculation (is that already confirmed?).

Anyway, the question that keeps me from investing a dime into bitcoin is "What if it doesn't rebound?". If it really is being used as an investment vehicle and not a currency, than the answer to that, in my opinion, is eventually it will drop and continue to drop to the point where it's worth pennies on that dollar. With the boom and bust nature, I suspect many people will eventually just give up on it as a currency which would be close to a death sentence for bitcoin.

I am heavily biased towards index funds with the lowest fees so I'm rather pessimistic about bitcoin in general, just like I am about playing the stock market. It would be interesting to see what would happen if banks started to care about bitcoin. The market needs to grow many times over but I would expect them to be the only people making consistent money (and not even sometimes) just like they do on the stock market.
The problem with Surface Pro isn't just marketing and branding. It's a poor point in the design space. It's as expensive as an ultrabook, but makes major compromises in screen size and keyboard quality in order to be able to pinch-hit as a tablet. Enterprise and education aren't the kind of forward-looking places where you want to be pushing a novel form-factor.

What Microsoft should have done was release a single Surface product based on an x86 Atom processor at the $500 price point, along with accessories like a mobile dock. That would've been a product they might've gotten Enterprises to buy into.

Of course, they're continuing the failed dichotomy to this day. The mantra behind Surface is "a tablet that can run your legacy apps!" but they still ignore the processor that's best-suited for hitting that design point: Bay Trail. You can run "real windows" in a tablet device that can retail for $400! They're leaving that whole market to HP, Dell, etc, who've proven over and over they don't have an innovative chromosome in their entire DNA.
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Mice are small. Their surface / volume ratio is MUCH higher. They lose heat a lot faster than we do.
I'm not sure Hanson or Yudkowsky have the credentials to be considered the "best minds in the field." It makes for interesting reading though.
Bitcoins are the most traceable currency ever, this is true.

However the value behind bitcoins is the most untraceable thing ever.

If you send 10 BTC from ADE to 143 and I send 10 BTC from 5FC to 057 you can probably trace that we both still have 10 BTC. Now take advantage of how much data you can shove into a single 10 minute transaction and do 100 transfers with a group of 10 other people turning a total of 10 original addresses into 20, and it becomes tricky to trace. Make that 100 new addresses and it becomes nearly impossible with current technology.

Even if you could trace it, all people have to do is not worry about getting all their money back, say by donating 0.1 BTC to a central coordinator overall, and it becomes really hard to figure out that someone put in 99 BTC and got out 98.9 BTC.
Yea--I have a love/hate relationship with it as well.
I will go to my death believing that looking into a manmade
box; whether a computer screen, or TV--is--not--living--well. I got a single fried who travels the country in his camper. He says he follows the sun, and hides from authority. People critize him, but somtimes, I think he has it all figured out.
> Can data be transferred via acoustics over a 2 conductor 16 gauge wire at the speeds memory is accessed or is sent to the CPU? No.

Of course you can.
In fairness, the default stance would be no change at all. I can't find any that said earth would get colder or stay the same. However, that query is hard to google for. Are you saying Hansen just got lucky? The paper is pretty accessible, i found a copy at nasa http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha04600x.html

The reality is, there are a small vocal minority of people that will reject every climate change claim out of hand. There is no known standard that will satisfy those folks. They don't assign the probability as .0000000001, they assign it as zero. now and forever zero. That seems irrational to me, but maybe they know something i don't.

I dunno. Me personally, I'd put a high probability on climate changing, and a slightly lower probability on it being caused by humans. I'd put a low probability on us doing anything about it. I'll be dead before the big consequences kick in, so it really doesn't matter much to me. It's kind of ridiculous i'm wasting time commenting about it given my beliefs about any sort of change, but whatever. I'm inconsistent.
10% drop in a day is considered a big drop.
It is traceable in principle, but not yet in practice.
Alot of delays, some of them my fault . This is alot harder than I thought it would be and I knew it would be hard coming into it . Someone told me this would be the hardest thing Ive ever done in my life , which is saying something considering my life. Hope to be up by February of next year.
This was a really good post btw alot of helpful info Thanks
I can modify my brain fairly easily. The trick is to modify it for the better, which I haven't mastered so much. :)
This is the patch they used to mitigate it afaict.

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=co...
A sense of entitlement that is not present in the article in any way. In fact, this man worked hard and recently graduate college; he has moved on to a full-time position. He's concerned with his older co-workers and how they will manage to get by.

But he says many security guards are much older, and
it would be hard for them to find another job.

Hard working, moving forward, concerned about his fellow man... I'm not sure where this "sense of entitlement" you mention is coming from.
I don't think you actually disagree with the OP.

He is saying there are inherent problems with BTC that need to be fixed, you are saying soon those problems will be solved (not necessarily with BTC).

He just chose a catchy headline to gain attention.
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I did not know that, can you please point me to people with better credentials that discuss the topic in such detail?
It doesn't matter what dates or time taspeotis picks; his point is that at any date and time Bitcoin is too volatile to meaningfully function as a currency.

No major currency suffers from 30% intra-day volatility against other currencies. It would make pricing goods and services essentially impossible. Who would care about saving up to 5% on credit card fees if they're suffering 30% arbitrage losses because they set/update their prices at the wrong time of day?
>but at the least, given what you said, it won't become a dead currency/stock (for a long time anyway).

There is no grantee of that with something as volatile as bitcoin. All it takes is the people playing the market getting burned one to many times and saying fuck it. This could happen tomorrow or never.

I really can't think of any investment as risky as bitcoin.
not necessarily so - the article mentions that the cold inhibits two specific immune cell types; discovered drugs may only be effective in combating tumors arising from these specific deficits, which aren't relevant in real scenarios, i.e. a systematic error from cold in all studies.
my thoughts as a yoga practitioner:
Yoga is, first and foremost, a meditative practice. What separates it from sitting meditation is that the "hack" it employs not only combines breath awareness, but an ACTIVE breath/body/mind awareness. By moving through asanas, still using the breath as the "guide", one's awareness becomes on breath, on muscle, on bone, on gravity, balance, and all the subtleties of the mind and body's reactions. For example, one begins to "feel" what it is like for the subconscious to instinctively tighten muscles under slight distress, and learn how to gain increasing control over these subconscious processes as one's awareness becomes ever more focused and relaxed. Another example is one learns to feel "losing their breath" when they have lost attention to it and their body, and are stressing themselves out.

An interesting TED talk describes the seat of awareness as a primitive network of neurons in the brainstem and body, the network that gives one a sense of "I am" and experiences the rest of the neurological processes.
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/70236306?strkid=1954165956...

If true, meditation and yoga can be thought of as techniques that progressively still the later evolved "higher" thought processes, and turns one's awareness back into the experiential parts of the mind. Yoga is simply a very active and tactile meditation hack, that provides strong stimulation responses through the nerve network that one is training to become more actively connected.
I have Skype on my phone and the log is filled with that app logging in all the time (looks like every 10 minutes!), which makes this kinda useless. It would be nice if the UI had a way to trim that list down somehow. e.g., group by country, filter by successful logins.
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"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else." (http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer)
Thank you for eliminating the last remnants of hope I had for our system of government. I know lots of people say that nothing is done without a monetary reason, but I still held out hope that at least some legislation was created with entirely benevolent reasons.

Bah.
Hard work should have value and should be rewarded with a wage that one can live on. While the person in this article is living, they are still not earning enough to support themselves and their family without supplementing from a food pantry. Because this is a contract position they are not allowed to work more than thirty hours a week.

I would argue that this shows that this is not a living wage.
This is a sad consequence of the dynamism of the tech economy, and while no individual is directly to blame, it behooves us to do what we can to help out those around us. Pointing fingers at this guy, blaming him for his own mistakes, while possibly true (who's to say?) isn't worthwhile.

The rising inequality in the bay area is spurring the protests in SF aimed at tech workers, and are just the beginning of a turning point which will result in the tech elite becoming demonized at large[1], and by extension (and likely less so) your average tech worker.

Becoming involved in the community, expressing sympathy, volunteering at food banks, what have you, are all ways in which we can help avoid that fate.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/21588893-tech-elite-will-join-...
This will be interesting to watch. Given the sales page currently is simply a letter by Jason Fried, my assumption (and it is just an assumption) is that companies have gone with this offering because it's 37Signals. That said now momentum is built, that in turn should generate the referrals rather, perhaps more so than the initial buzz of working directly with 37signals people, so I guess this makes sense.

I've always seen 37signals as a very focused company, and this spin off enables them to focus back on their core business. I just finished reading Focus by Al Ries, hence this is top of mind, but 37signals seem the masters of relentless focus in the modern age.
We don't exactly inline the CSS. (Actually, to be perfectly honest, sometimes we do when that seems like the more efficient thing to do and there is no benefit of modularity to be got from CSS.) However, in general we actually construct the HEAD and CSS also through the server library using some logic and parameters.

Now, you are right, this means that from page to page, those 3-4 bytes might be the same and re-downloaded. However, we are focused on mobile phones and some of our user base is on crappy mobile phone browsers (Nokia phones that are still popular here) that have a bad caching system. So the trade off is between 3-4 bytes of CSS that is a repeat, versus a whole new request. And 3-4 bytes of CSS is not even noticeable. A request most defiantly is.
Why are you spinning off the business if it's profitable? Why isn't Claire joining 37S instead? What's happening to ClarityBox? What other operating scenarios did you guys consider? Who is going to run the business . . . will Claire be doing product development, programming, customer support herself? What exactly will she be doing? Is she hiring people? Who are these people?

Of course you don't owe anyone any of that info. However, if you crack the door open just a little bit, don't be offended/surprised etc. if my curiosity is piqued and I want to open it.
Downvoter(s): This comment was made before the title was changed, it previously referenced Ballmer Peak.
This:

> It rebounded back to almost same level

contradicts this:

> % change 24hrs, -10% at time of this post

-10% change over 24 hrs in a commodity price isn't "almost the same level".
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> The Bay is one of the most desirable places in the WORLD to live.

It's unfortunate you believe the hype so completely.

Hundreds of millions of people living in developed countries wouldn't move to the The Bay if you paid them to. You might not know it, but most of us think living in the USA sucks.

(I'm a Software Engineer - I lived in CA for a while. I would never, ever want to have a family or buy a house in the USA. Life there is not very nice.)
Being born a straight white male with a financially stable family in America is luck.
No. There is only one way to pronounce "PNAS" (other than spelling it), and it sounds exactly like "penis". Not "cock", "dong", "member", "wang", or any other arguably childish euphemism. It sounds exactly like the proper English noun for male genitalia.

And this has nothing to do with you me or the parent thinking it sounds like "penis". EVERYBODY WE TALK TO will think we're saying "penis". Believe me, I get this enough with Coq (the theorem prover) and "cock"'s merely slang.
^This.

>"You feel like you're different," he says. "Even though you're working in the same place, you're still like an outsider. And it's weird because you're actually protecting these people."

Because you are different. You aren't an employee; you're a contractor. When I'm a contractor, I don't expect to be treated as an employee by the organization contracting me ... because I'm not.
What is the converse to "luck" in your argument? Is it effort, or work, or something like that? If so, it seems that you are saying that white males just put more effort in than other people. I'm not convinced that that is true. In my opinion, when averaged over the population, a significant component of individual success is "luck", that being the opportunities that are presented to certain individuals, and not to others.
Of course sometimes you have to do the hard work, but now that you are hiring instead of trying to find a person that master 3 fields, look for someone that master two of them, maybe the two where you feel less comfortable, a designer can easily fit front-end or a back-end dev is able to work on front, that may help to find someone capable to start working and later they would learn the next set of skills you need to be considered a unicorn, hackers love to learn.
I think you're forgetting the phrase "shit happens". There is no way of knowing what happened to the mom or their relationship. And I don't think it matters either. How would his having a wife have any impact on his situation? If she didn't work, it would be another person to take care of. If she did work, they'd have the same childcare problems mentioned in the article. He seems like he's working hard to take care of his kid but like most people wishes the huge company he works for would help a little more. Where's the entitlement?
Figaro was pretty cool last I checked. Though we've been using foreman [1] for setting the env variables in the .env file, since foreman also helps manage additional processes in development like mailcatcher, mongo, redis, elasticsearch, and any other dependent processes that your don't leave running all the time in your machine. And it has a command to export your env to Heroku or upstart. I don't remember how much of this Figaro does, just thought I'd throw foreman out there as another solution to keep in mind.

[1] https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
I've been using ModernMix [1] for a while to do exactly that. It's a bit janky at times, but I find it much more useful than having metro apps stuck outside of the traditional desktop.

[1] https://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/
> But that's exactly what we are doing. What do you think iPhones and iPads are? Those startups that are making it easier to book holidays? The very thing they are doing is making technology available to everyone.

so, yes, they make technology available to everyone. but in my opinion the problem is something else: we still think in representations invented for the medium of paper. we still code in text files, we still read pdfs/ebooks page by page, and your mom still can't send you that thing over the internet. with all these beautiful devices we have, it kinda makes me sad to see what potential we are missing out.

you may have heard of this beautiful research project "sketchpad" by ivan sutherland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad), which plays with direct manipulation of data. they even managed to plan a bridge with it. not that i am saying everyone should be able to build bridges, but you see where this is going.

i very much recommend to watch both talks by bret victor:
the future of programming - http://worrydream.com/dbx/
media for thinking the unthinkable - http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/

> There seems to be the idea that it's possible to leapfrog all of this hard, technical stuff and let everyone do it

no, of course not. we always build on the shoulder of giants. but i hope you agree that we can do better than what we are currently doing. ryan, thanks for your comment.
You may notice he called those open issues. In other words, for at least the two reasons you cited, they are not solved problems.

It's also not an unsolved problem, since communication using IP protocol means that someone must assign you an IP, and those assignments can be logged... similarly operating a proxy server means that you are a target for government and court subpoenas, and in some jurisdictions it may be mandatory to maintain these logs and produce them on request, regardless of the sometimes in-feasibility of that.

The internet is really just a series of tubes.
I suspect that, in practice, playing music will provide enough of a barrier to mitigate attacks using these side-channels. But then again, in practice, I'd hope that attacks using these side-channels are pretty infrequent to begin with.

Besides, in practice, upgrading to GnuPG 1.4.16 (released today) is supposed to also mitigate the key extraction attack using this side channel.

The naive approach I suggested would be easily defeated by playing two songs from two different sources; which itself would be defeated by setting up soundcloud on two devices in both places and carefully setting up/analyzing/modelling the room so that you can adjust the signal you're subtracting to account for the distance the sound waves travel and whatnot. I think after a while you just get increasing complexity and diminishing returns -- i.e. it becomes an arms race.
wow

such cynic

very not-with-the-times
And then you will get accused of money laundering when they see that you have transferred/received money from such a mixer.

If you do something bad enough or the mixer is involved in something bad enough they will get busted eventually.
Couldn't agree more. Most of us started at the bottom and worked very hard to get where we are. Kids cost money, try refraining from having them until you can afford it. I'm sure his mom is loving the situation.
Can the notion of "going back in time and running the universe again" be defined well enough to actually speak intelligently about?
If everybody learns to code, who's going to be the security guard?
Seriously, I think very few people get the concept of pair programming or I would say pairing because programming is only one scenario. Pairing is good or bad is like saying gear-5 (in a car, assuming topmost gear) is better than gear-4 or not. Cmon, both are required for different purposes. You got to change gears. You cant just drive in gear-4 or 5 all the time.

Some of the arguments down below read like: I tried driving in gear-4 and I disliked it, so I changed back to gear-5. Funny.
Another one: One company forced me to drive in gear-5...again that company was plain stupid (or atleast the management was, for forcing you, in general).

Pair programming is effective when you are coding up while you are building the solution on the go. Its one of those sessions where its not possible to think up everything in your head. Ever had such moments where you didn't know all pieces of the puzzle? You can always say I would think up everything and then discuss in a meeting the whole solution. What if you went ahead and thought up the solution in a pair rather than discussing after you have laid out everything and then realizing you have to change it because you made a wrong initial assumption.

You cannot think up everything in your head (as another comment was there). Many times you do not have all the pieces and sometimes even if you have, you need to consult.

Seriously people, you are not getting the concept of pairing at all. Or I am just nuts.
There faster, more efficient ways to cause your hair to turn gray and fall out than watching BTC's waxing and waning on an hourly basis.

Personally I suggest looking at the 52-week moving average -- it's a lot more comforting and a lot less stressful.
Roll a 24 sided di a 6 sided di a 12 sided di and 2 dozen di picked of random sizes each roll, and a Di that always rolls 6 but is only included once every Random rolls.

Determine a method given only the SUM of the di to determine the value of the weighted di.
Nice, we'll have some very useful space heaters then. Without the toxic byproducts of gold mining.
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Clearly this goes both ways. If I had a buck for every time I encountered a developer that was a douche to my dba's, I would be a very rich man. It's a two way street my friends. I think this speaks of an environment primed for devopsification.
Robots are the not-too-distant future of war