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My son has lots of LEGO and the occasional little set from some other sources. It's sad - most of the "inferior" bricks stand out like sore thumbs. You can spot individual bricks in a sea of LEGO from a decent distance because of the difference in quality of edges etc.

The only Lego-compatible brand I've come across approaching them in quality are Kre-O.
I've noticed in the IT industry is that while many things are being automated, a lot of IT work is being shifted.

What do I mean by shifted? Besides the obvious "cloud" and on demand resources, you also have the rise of "self service IT". This puts the burden of providing IT support on the user. Amazon doesn't host your web servers, they just let you push the button to make a server. Now the server is your problem. With enterprise IT, they don't want to staff support so they make FAQs and Knowledge Bases for people to search through. Nevermind that this puts burden on the IT group to document all of this and keep it up to date.

So what I think is going to happen over the next 5-10 years is the continuing growth of speciality providers for services, in an effort to shift from an internal IT cost to an external IT cost. In some ways this will allow technology to grow quickly, because these companies will be experts at their problem domain and need innovative solutions for their problems.

Over the longer term (10+), you might see the pendulum swing the other way in IT. Things will be brought in house again to maintain control and solve business specific problems that the outside providers don't address because they're generic providers.

Every year in IT, the IT people will be asked to do more with fewer resources. So of course things are being automated and will need to be automated. If you're in charge of creating this automation, make sure you don't have any unnecessary human glue. I've seen "automated" processes that would absolutely die without enough human input. These don't scale, as you have another 50% more machines dumped on top of you without additional headcount.

At no point will the human element of automation go away -- you'll just need the skills to maintain and improve the automation rather than the skills to do what the automation is doing.
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"What really surprises me is how readily the web design industry caved and paid up"

I don't think there were enough good alternatives at the time. Perhaps secondarily though, the people making these decisions just look at it as another line item on their invoice - it's not coming out of their pocket.

From a small business perspective, if someone tells me my website is going to cost more (maybe in perpetuity?) to use fancy fonts XYZ that creative agency ABC's designer 'just loves', I'd tell them to get stuffed and find something that's free or cheaper.

But agencies that make these decisions are typically dealing with larger clients, and the people making those decisions are working from a budget, not their own pocket.
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A personal HUD with no way to be context sensitive (ie no camera) is dead in the water. I'm biased because Im working in this space. but, I believe context aware augmented reality is the killer app for wearables. Honestly, the people wearing Glass aren't recording you, Google isn't recording you; if you're worried about privacy concerns it's the last thing on the list of things to be terrified about (just an anecdote, my little sister spends an inordinate amount of time subtly snap chatting images of the people around her with her iphone so, odds are your dystopian future of you describe already exists). So long as we are given root access and the option to use our own servers and software, the hardware advances are not the problem. Acting like a Luddite will not protect your privacy.
Going even further, a cryptocurrency could be like shares in a company which can earn profit by performing services that couldn't be done except by a distributed autonomous entity.

The founder of Ethereum used to be a founder at Invictus, a company with several DACs in the pipeline (check out http://invictus.io/bitsharesx.php). He was asked to resign for mysterious reasons.
sorry, I'll remember that next time.
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U.S. prosecutors are out of control and something needs to be done to reign in on the practice of piling on charges to extort a plea, a couple of ideas:
- Accused have the option to take the plea but continue the trial. If found guilty he only serves what he pleaded.
- Sentences are limited to the max sentence already applied for same crime to somebody else.
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Uh, if it is, that's exactly what I'm seeing on the actual production URL.
The reason is that math papers are usually tailored to another mathematician and thus abuses that to avoid a few communication pitfalls.

Firstly, it's broadly considered to be the case that mathematical ideas are not understood until you've gotten them "from a few different angles". Math builds upon itself so much that an idea may be almost useless on its own and produce true value in lying at the nexus between many convergent ideas. For instance, statistics as a field enjoys a very nice convergent point between logic, measure theory, and information theory (among others). Approaching it from all of these positions can lead to important mental breakthroughs and a paper or book author desires to appeal to these various "roads" to their topic. Without providing that context it might be said that the presentation is very sparse.

Secondly, almost conversely, each reader is likely to be more familiar with a subset of the possible roads to the author's topic of interest. By covering as many roads as possible as they approach their goal topic they provide more chances for the reader to pick an approach they find most comfortable and follow it (lightly ignoring the rest) to the goal. A simple block diagram might be the best way to present it to you, but only a private tutor could specialize their presentation so much.

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There's an art to reading a math paper when you're an outsider to the primary topic. You want to breeze through the paper at a high level first, slowly collecting the exposition points which are most applicable to your own method of understanding. After that, iteratively deepen your reading while looking up topics which you feel you almost-but-perhaps-not-quite-enough understand. You can very easily read a paper and get enormous value while failing to connect to 60-70% of what's written.
The issue is with genetic predispositions. Those who have a family history of psychosis are at risk. The mental health risk posed by psychedelics to people without such predispositions is extremely small.
The psychopathic manager-type tyrant is brought over to the side of good when he changes his behavior due to a realization that he is hurting people with his actions. He becomes less selfish and more empathetic. He is not redeemed by believing in the power of a savior; if anything, it's a Buddhist tale, not a Christian one.

Also, Emmett is a cog who learns to be an individual. Two paths to the same goal, one from the enslaved worker and one from the slave-master.
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El utilizar comparador de autos se ha vuelto una necesidad hoy en día. Esto se debe por un lado a la escasez de recursos económicos y al exceso de ofertas de todo tipo de diferentes productos, pero básicamente se debe a la crisis, ya que los consumidores finales se deben en la obligación de racionalizar los ingresos.
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Are you saying that you, or someone you know has developed celiac disease after eating exclusively chemicals-free wheat their whole life?
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Sorry to give a minor correction to a little quibble, but it is the ordinals, not the cardinals, that are a special case of Conway numbers. The cardinals are equivalence classes of these of the form [א_a,א_(a+1))

(Also you can get infinitesimals from Conway's construction as well)
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Why not "ArsTechnica Electronic Coin" or "Ars e-coin"?

These could be used to purchase "ArsTechnica Electronic Hats" or "Ars e-hats" for avatars. Spend more coin, get a bigger hat. The biggest arsehat would have invested in acquiring the most arsecoin.

Yes, I'm giving away my best startup idea so far today.
GnuTLS exists as a project almost exclusively due to ideology concerns -- people who prefer GPL do not like OpenSSL's license. That's not to say that technically-capable people are not behind it, but there are not as many as involved with OpenSSL. There are very few technical advantages to GnuTLS, and almost all of them have been transient (as in, certain protocols and ciphers have been supported in GnuTLS before other libraries). I do not have the time to go over why other libraries occasionally lag behind GnuTLS, but I can specify, for instance, that OpenSSL code goes through a more thorough and lengthy review process before it gets 'shipped' (inasmuch as that term applies to not-for-profit software).

Code that supports GnuTLS can easily be made to support OpenSSL (or several other such libraries). It really is a matter of which license you prefer, and licensing should never be a consideration in security.
I think it's a good point, but I still think the kind of lost and confused in mathematics is more embarrassingly extreme. Imagine a few hundred historians trying to discern when King George I died, and after 50 years of work they conclude, "All we know for sure is that it was between the day he was born and yesterday." A startlingly large part of mathematics feels like this.

And I think the reason is that "prevailing theories" mean nothing in mathematics.
I don't see that in the article at all. At what point does he decry the shareware model as abusive in that article?
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It's interesting that in a software world the difference between good and bad systems can be a single bit, leave debug=true and accidentally record all your keystrokes, or your wifi packets, or store info permanently instead of temporarily.
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I was under the impression that typically, "organic" does not necessarily mean "pesticide-free." I often see foods that are billed as "organic and pesticide-free," but I always thought "organic" just meant non-GMO.

Feel free to correct me, as I am just going purely off my own experiences here, but that was my impression.
As someone who is addicted to cannabis, I strongly agree. It definitely has risks, and people should be aware of them. Of course it should be legal, but kids still need to be educated about the risks in school.
Re "message provided by the hero, is that it's okay to be a cog in the machine."
Well that's kind of true to life - a lot of people do fine in regular corporate jobs and a lot of creative types have problems. Many of the best movies show some part the world that's mucked up eg. the top three movies on imdb are about a corrupt prison system and the mafia. You can like a movie without it saying everything is rainbows. Maybe that's why the Lego movie is more enjoyable for adults than most of the kiddie pap.
I too was intrigued. Googling for UNITRA-CEMI, I found a reference to a fire in a east block factory in Hungary in 1985.

> Hungary had even less success with integrated circuits in the Soviet Era. Hungarian IC production was initiated in
> 1985 under licenses from the Soviet Union and East Germany,
> but the factory burned down the following year, destroying all the equipment.

http://brie.berkeley.edu/publications/WP126.pdf
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Depending on your definition of "no bullshit", this might be relevant :

http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Achi...

This is a mindfullness meditation guide in disguise. It is clearly geared toward "down-to-earth" readers (being written by an early google engineer), and stocked with references to neuroscience and psychology studies.

That still leaves open the debate about the validity, relevance, variety and trustworthiness of the sources - which I'm unfortunately quite unequiped to tackle. I don't know if the book has had to be debunked.

And I would not blame anyone for the "Google Kool-Aid hipster zealot fad" gut reaction ;)
They have been using those blogs to test the new layout.

If you went there over the last few months you'd be asked to give feedback on the new design.
This is fascinating for me for a few reasons. I have family members who suffer from gluten intolerance (not full blown Celiacs where a a few µg of gluten causes problems, but pretty bad).

It's a long journal article, and I haven't read the whole thing in detail (and probably won't). A good portion of it is outlining correlations between the use of glyphosate and the prevalence of Celiac's and intestinal infection rates. There's a lot there, and while it's enough to raise suspicion, it's not damning evidence as far as I'm concerned. Definitely worth looking into further.

The other thing that jumps out at me as interesting are the authors: Anthony Samsel is listed as Independent Scientist and Consultant, and Stephanie Seneff is associated with CSAIL at MIT; not a typical group to be writing toxicology journal articles!

My take away: I hope that this research encourages more discussion and research, but I don't think I want people making policy decisions based on it.
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Ummm. Those authors look familiar: http://www.examiner.com/article/bogus-paper-on-roundup-satur...

One is a long-time 'independent scientist' and the other is s a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with a degree in Biophysics from the 1960s.

The nature of the peer review isn't really clear, I'm not familiar with the Journal, but this paper makes my thumbs prick.
But could they (1) extend your results or (2) have enough of an understanding of it to apply it to their work? The benefit of a napkin explanation is that they understand it well enough to know whether it would be useful/interesting to learn the issue better. If they really want to apply your results, though, then they'll need a better understanding. It's true that math papers aren't good for giving a surface-level intro to a subject, but they're not made for that. They're made so that if someone really wants to learn the subject, then they can.
In fact, one of the things that sets Lego squarely apart from many of their "clones" is exactly how the LEGO "special pieces" are for the most part styled in ways that make them reusable. They're detailed "just enough" to play their part, and not so much that they are unmistakeable just one specific thing.
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I've been using Khan Academy to refresh my skills and it's been really helpful, but do you have any recommendations for textbooks?

I'm 10 years out of school and haven't really needed to flex my math muscles in years.
I imagine it's not much different than different real world currencies; they'll all become relative to one another through a common conversion rate (ie. USD).

Plus somewhere in the middle someone will create a meta-cryptocurrency payment service and sign up vendors to accept any type of cryptocurrency while making a conversion fee.
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This is a very good thought. Some current projects are trying to develop computable mathematical foundations in a more structured way. Homotopy type theory (http://homotopytypetheory.org/) is one example that has a lot of buzz around it just now, but automated theorem proving has been trying to work with higher-order concepts for ages now.

In the classical approach of "compiling" everything into sets/logic/etc., you end up with just the assembly language problem that's being discussed, where all the high-level structure vanishes. In order to do your bottom-up approach instead, one of the things that needs to happen is to make the theory really compositional, so that once you've defined some abstraction or higher-level concept, you can use it in constructions and proofs without having to break the abstraction. You don't need to know - and in fact you shouldn't be able to find out - just how the natural numbers were constructed, as long as they work by the right rules. This motivates the use of type theory to describe mathematical objects, and say which operations are allowed. We want to be able to add two numbers and get another number, but we don't want to be able to intersect two numbers as if they were sets, even if they happen to have been built out of sets.

So I think you are right - or at least, there are plenty of people who agree with you that this is a good idea. It is difficult to actually do, of course, but that's life.
Before a few articles of this kind I never suspected there was such depth in Maths.

There's already so much to learn in programming, but I'm sure I'd love to dive in Maths (without the pressure of school like "understand this or you're an idiot").
The GMO hate still goes on.

I use to have friends in Manitoba that ran a wheat farm. Guess what I saw all the time? Round up. This was in the early 1990s. I have a funny suspicion that Round Up has not been sold more that matches the graph. Also we all know how valuable "Peer Reviewed" science is. Just open the data and let others pound at the same "evidence."
You're hinting at another major problem in this area, too:

It's not just that ppl have the data and use it for amoral/unfair purposes. It's that people come to trust the data, believe in it and use it to make decisions. This is disastrous b/c there are huge margins of error.

Errors are possible at all levels in systems like this, including sabotage and incrimination and your suggestion of junk data.

E.g. in the motorcycle example cited above. It's quite possible a motorcyclist needed to stretch their legs, so they pulled into a driveway for a moment, stretched, then google snapped a photo, then it was used as evidence. It's not likely or common, but it's utterly possible and not anticipated by these systems.
I'm not christian and I have no chip. I just think the social dynamics of this meditation stuff are highly noteworthy and important. It is absolutely rooted in western self hatred and rejection of tradition.

Anyway, these people aren't really practicing eastern religions. They're simply remaining ignorant enough about the faiths that their PC sensibilities aren't triggered.
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Good catch. I hadn't looked up the authors, but their associations had raise some red flags for me.
Given how easy it is these days to re-implement jsFiddle, I agree that it is not surprising to see clones popping up all over the place. The fact that we have access to high-quality editor components with simple API's means that we can do this sort of thought exercise in a day.

What becomes interesting, though, is taking these ready-built components and trying to improve on the paradigm and the user experience.

With Plunker (which was originally inspired by jsFiddle and some of its short-comings) I've been trying to build tools around the core experience to make prototyping easier for the modern web developer.

Something that you won't find anywhere else is Plunker's package catalogue [1]. What is particularly unique about this is that it allows you to quickly find and 'insert' package dependencies into your markup in a way that resolves dependencies and in a version-aware fashion. These packages can be combinations of js and css. The web-based-IDE lets me take an approach that isn't viable for offline alternatives like bower and component but that is much easier from the user's perspective. A side-benefit of this approach is that all templates on Plunker can be made to auto-update to the latest (matching semver) version when they are opened or on-demand.

As I continue working on Plunker, this is the sort of feature that I hope will help it distinguish itself from the hordes of look-alike clones. Right now, I'm working on a new UI for the editor to allow a more flexible approach to editing files in a column/row grid [2].

1: http://plnkr.co/edit/?p=catalogue

2: http://embed.plnkr.co/TUbrV6UdmTgl61eAlRj4/preview
I am not sure that an Arse-coin sounds that cool, rather it hits a bum note, has a whiff of suspicion, people might get wind of it, and what happens if it gets wiped (out)?
So if I set up a fake 'contact us' form asking for patient data on a surgery's nhs.uk domain using XSS that would be ok then?
I've argued the same with a mathematician friend of mine. I hate academic papers because of their seemingly convoluted and backwards way of explaining things. His answer was that papers were not made to convey thoughts to laymen, they were made to communicate facts and proofs with as little ambiguity as possible, optimized for reading by other mathematicians. It's meant to be high bandwidth (hence the terse style and lack of intuitive explanation) and low ambiguity (hence the seemingly backwards order of explaining things and the pages of "a is blah, b is foo").

It's an interesting discussion because from the mathematician's perspective, they don't see why they should cater to anyone who doesn't bother absorbing the lingua franca and the method of delivery. Countering that is the philosophical argument that information should be as available as possible. Countering that is how practical and useful that is, and whether the cost / benefit would be worth it.

I still think we can have our cake and eat it too, but I'm not sure. I think if the purpose is merely to transmit proofs and axioms unambiguously, I think we can have a language that performs just that and nothing else. I think stuff like this exists, but I don't know why it isn't the standard to publish with it.

Then the explanation can reside alongside this unambiguous description, and can take whatever liberties it pleases.
How about a google glass like device, that we all wear all the time, and the camera runs all the time, and sends face pictures of people with the GPS coordinates and the timestamp?

This is all fun to talk about, but none of these is going to end well.
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I grew up with Lego. I love Lego -- the older stuff anyway; the newer bricks are too specialised -- and what's amazing about Lego is that it is almost impossible to destroy a Lego brick. I still have all my old Lego and all of my dads' Lego from when he was a kid. They do get a bit grimey and dirty after a while -- thankfully they're easy to clean in sudsy water and they'll look good as new, even 40 years later.

Buy it once and give it to your kids' kids one day.