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I'm sorry to dredge up this thread again, but this boggles my mind.

/u/Someone contests that visualizing things like the Monster Group, M-Theory, or 7 Touching Cylinders is practically impossible [1]. I agree. To reason about the Monster Group, I imagine even professional mathematicians manipulate symbols with functions, operations, et al. But, to quote Eliezer, "Does this person [Ph.D economist] really understand expected utility, on a gut level? Or have they just been trained to perform certain algebra tricks?" [2]

Clearly, the economist does not understand his craft. Were he able to visualize the substance rather than merely Plug & Chug the symbols [3], then surely he wouldn't have bought the lotto ticket. And since symbols are mere abstractions (lossy compressions) of the substance, Plug & Chugging the symbols will rarely trump visualizing the substance. Therefore, I suspect my inability to visualize the Monster Group reflects the limitations of my brain rather than an intrinsic disadvantage of visualization. I.e. I would prefer visualization of the Monster Group to Plug & Chug if only I were smart enough.

(Disclaimer: I have no idea what the Monster Group is. But I do remember seeing an old youtube clip about visualizing 11 dimensions. I still don't get it. If you're interested,
[4])

> I've personally experienced being enlightened by both

The way I see things, visualization is necessary. However! Here you are saying enlightenment is possible without visualization... So please share with me, exactly how were you enlightened without visualization? Can you give examples? Does it just happen, like that theory about how savants can crunch numbers without knowing what they're doing on a conscious level? Is it akin to weighting parameters according to how strongly they affect a function's output, like in neural networks? Am I missing something that's totally obvious to you, like how some philosophers argued that imagination didn't exist?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7549869

[2] http://lesswrong.com/lw/gv/outside_the_laboratory/

[3] http://lesswrong.com/lw/nv/replace_the_symbol_with_the_subst...

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuA#aid=P-eR3HseAzw
Maybe the more precise way to say this is that an appeal to authority isn't always fallacious.

It's especially not fallacious when the actual debate is about the person being appealed to. :)
Of the seven boys I know under the age of 3, six have names ending in N: Mason, Lawson, Hudson, Colin, Callen and Quinn. And while the last one doesn't quote match the pattern as the others, that's a pretty stunning percentage.
You could do that, but you'd be outed immediately by anyone who checked two TLS connections back-to-back for consistency.
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What this guy did in his car appears intended to fuck Elon's business, so I'd say that's debatable to some extent.
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Would there be any chance of recovering data from personal phones/laptops? Assuming the passengers were alive and aware, perhaps some of them tried to document what happened.
The S5 barometer apparently survives underwater... I see no reason why a temperature/humidity sensor can't be engineered to.
I thought the landing page was fantastic.
Why do you think generics are so important? Why do you think they are missing from Go? Can you point to a good example where Go fails because pf it?
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I've been hearing about it from some FreeBSDers for months before that, so I can never remember the actual release date. But I would believe you on January :).
5 if you count Facebook's Camera app
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I think one's opinions on the UI depend a lot on what the perceived audience is. If they're really after random internet users, then yes, I think it's too complex. But I think their initial play has been for that small slice of people who contribute content, vote extensively, and comment usefully. Because those are the people you need to generate a very large base of content, which is necessary to draw in the people who are going to do the ad-clicking to pay for it.
I have to disagree. Designers who can actually write serious code are rare unicorns and can typically demand a higher salary because of it. I wouldn't downplay my design skills (if I had any). I'm not sure what your pay grade is at the moment, but an engineer that can design is worth more than someone who is solely a designer or engineer in my books. Maybe it depends on the size/type of company? A small-ish company or startup would be more likely to value someone with multiple toolsets, whereas larger companies look more for specialists.
> "Deprecate the Internet and build a new layer on top of it."

That's sorta what's taking place (not the entire Internet, but a part of it that's not serving us well). It's interesting that nearly that exact language was used when DNSChain (back then "DNSNMC") was introduced:

[therightkey] DNSNMC deprecates Certificate Authorities and fixes HTTPS security

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/therightkey/current/msg...

> "is never going to happen."

How many times has humanity heard that refrain repeated?

> "For instance: the DNS doesn't play any role in matching Google search terms to SERPs, nor does it control how AIM matches names to IM accounts, nor does it control how IRC matches nicks to receivers."

You seem to not understand that DNSChain is not just a DNS server. It also is a RESTful HTTP API and interface to the blockchain. This means using HTTP, not DNS. DNS is just icing on the cake (and not "throwing the baby out with the bath water").

BTW, some of those things are already starting to happen. For instance, there's PoC Pidgen fork that works with Namecoin, and also a working Bitmessage + Namecoin client out there:

https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users@enigmail.net/msg...
in singapore, we have a conscript army. after our stint in the army, theres 10 years of reservist activities and a requirement to pass a fitness test yearly. failing that fitness test generally means 2mths of 2-3 2+ hours' remedial training sessions/week. a couple of years ago an option became available to overweight people to lose weight and hit some sort of bmi target in lieu of passing the fitness test. that is the motivation. i lost ~20 kgs(waaaay overdid it) in a couple of months by replacing all the rice in my diet to brocolli or tofu and smoking more instead of snacking. the problem i have this year is i dont qualify for that weight loss program anymore..
If I were you, I would change ALL of your passwords. Regardless of what lastpass says.
You and your neice could both buy monoprice drawing tablets for the cost of a year of understudy. And it would be usable for any learning.
To be clear I'm not offended either, I just find the acting horrible, the characters cardboard cutouts and the jokes unfunny.
If you haven't logged in, then I think yes, you're not seeing it. As a power user, I think they've done a great job. As I mention elsewhere, I think that their initial focus is the power users, because those are the people who have been creating the content they need if they are going to attract regular users.
I think I see, so one client advertising TACK and one not?

Right, that would work, assuming there are people going around doing it for every web site (the TACK police!). I can easily see that happening, it is just the kind of thing moxie would do, say.

It still seems to me that it would be simpler if the client just didn't advertise the extension. I am probably missing something though.
I think one of the biggest problems is that they make it hard to write good libraries. When libraries cannot easily deal with user types that's just not good. Imagine trying to write an ORM for instance.... in Go you are not given many options...you either have to deal with casting via interface{}, making coding both more verbose and lacking in compiler enforced type-safety, or you force the user to implement your interface on all their types.
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It's not just google properties, the Strict Transport Security sectionof the chromium dev docs [1] lists multiple properties they do this for (for example, twitter and paypal), and it appears you can specify your own as well through the command line (and probably elsewhere).

[1]: http://dev.chromium.org/sts
We already have a feel for that from voting patterns. I was more curious about the authoritarian/anti-authoritarian split. My feeling is that, if you can strip out the rhetoric, buzzwords, and partisanship, most people are fine with a relatively powerful government.

Edit: From the same source: http://www.electionstudies.org/nesguide/toptable/tab4a_1.htm
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this reminds me of the patent trolls, there's gold in dem damn litigations no matter how absurd, it's like searching for a loophole and exploiting.
Ok, I'm going to take the counterpoint on this.

Heartbleed, and "goto fail" are bugs that any competent C developer could have found. You, me, the muffin man, the NSA, a bright undergraduate student. Anyone. These aren't vulnerabilities that you read about in a crypto journal. They are basic implementation bugs.

So why weren't they found by amateurs? (Well, perhaps the premise is false. Perhaps they were found by amateur attackers.) However I submit to you if true it is because people who are actually experts in cryptography do not generally spend their time looking for dumb implementation bugs. I'm sure some do, but many don't. Which is understandable--we want those people looking for weaknesses in AES or curve25519 or something.

Meanwhile we have a culture of abstinence-only crypto education, where everything crypto touches is a forbidden land that we shame any ordinary software developer for venturing into. Nobody found this bug because ordinary developers aren't there to find it. They're not there because they're told to leave.

You suggest "double down on amateurish" facetiously but I claim that amateur hour would have actually caught these two bugs, because any amateur can see them. Maybe it would have created more bugs, maybe not, but I think it would have stopped these two early.

What I think we need to do, and what we should have done a long time ago, is recognize that abstinence-only crypyotgraphy doesn't work. We need to define levels of risk. Writing your own crypto algorithm is Threat Level Red. Implementing a strong one from a spec is Threat Level Yellow. Implementing a high-level authentication scheme like TLS from a spec is Threat Level Green. Porting OpenSSL to a new architecture is Threat Level Blue.

Abstinence-only crypto education doesn't recognize that some people are going to do crypto anyway. It also doesn't recognize that "not enough eyes" is a threat model that objectively produces THE most serious vulnerabilities we have faced in recent years. Putting all our eggs in OpenSSL and telling ordinary developers to use it and not ask questions literally burned down the internet. I don't know what kind of bad scenario we were trying to avoid, but the one that actually happened was worse.

Some type of risk-aware model encourages people to get involved in a skill-appropriate way. That needs to be the goal of the crypto community right now; to capture the energy from software developers interested in cryptography (particularly due to recent world events) and do something useful with it; not turn them away and say "nothing to see here".
Is there anywhere to actually get a real demo of this product? Something that isn't a WebGL tech demo, but an actual example of an actual app written using this?
An old construction contractor once told me that the proper way to estimate is to "take a wild guess, and then double it... and then triple it".

Even with a lot of experience, the only thing that's really certain is that unexpected things tend to jump out and eat your budget.
Unless there's some other reason they want to nail that car thief, probably, yeah.
Unity uses the Mono runtime. Roslyn is a compiler. Mono has its own compiler, actually, which is available under either the GPL or the MIT/X11 license. If having a non-LGPL compiler was sufficient for Unity, the MIT/X11 license for the Mono compiler would have already sufficed.
i bet tesla buys the car back at a used car price, otherwise we'd be talking about a refund.
And what do I do when I have 3 or 4 devices? Home desktop, work desktop, laptop, tablet, etc?
So track everything about everyone in the event one person brings a lawsuit against the company? I'm not sure I'm going to consent to that.
Usually the management people who estimates is (or has been) a SW developer. I agree I should suggest management that I should start giving my own estimates, it's a scary thing but that's the only way to get better at it.
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Even with a large sample, temperature and humidity data is useless unless it is ensured to be properly measured (ie outdoors, away from the person, etc). Pressure data is another story, and although it is still low quality it can be smoothed.

That's why I prefer pressureNET to opensignal. Also pressureNET is actually open source, unlike opensignal which sells all your smartphone/personal data to anyone who wants it.
For how long and how often would you recommend we 'stop eating once in a while'? Or do you have resources that recommend what would be a beneficial amount of fasting?

Just wondering what steps I could take to be healthier, as I've never even considered fasting in the past. Thanks!
Sure, but nothing says you can't shrink your text editor's window down to 80 characters wide if you like.
Hurray I'm popular.
you really should look a the slides created by apple
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Many Russians, especially retail workers and taxi drivers, speak Latvian passably, though it's easy to spot them as Russians. The language requirement for citizenship is easy to pass and normal in many European countries. There is no discrimination against Russians in law. If you Google "discriminatory laws in Latvia" what you get are many articles on the state of gay rights in Latvia.

What bothers the Russians is that they are marooned in a country to which they were brought to colonize, and everyone knows that. Retired Russian military officers and mobsters both liked living in Latvia. The town of Jurmala is like a 1950's Elmwood Park, but with way more bling. The Russians in Latvia used to have a privileged position. Now they don't.
Substantive posts of intellectual interest are always welcome on Hacker News.
this is about fighting for your rights, viral vs viral, i think tesla's trying to stop what could potentially be an exploit and extremely dangerous behavior. this is justice, tesla has plans to do bigger and better things, what's this lawyer and friend combo doing, just trying to make money it seems.
A small number of reposts is ok (you may need to use a slightly modified url), because we want to give high-quality pieces multiple shots at making the front page. There's a lot of randomness in the process at present. We have a plan for reducing that randomness which ought to help a lot with posts like yours—but it isn't implemented yet.

p.s. Welcome!
(2) also came across the wrong way to me. A consumer reports rating is completely irrelevant to whether or not a single car has some defect. It comes across as dismissive for all the wrong reasons. "The average consumer loves us, so we clearly couldn't do any wrong!"

That said, this specific case does seem like bullshit. And if it is, I hope Tesla destroys them in court. But that doesn't mean I like this PR piece.
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This is an awesome list of suggestions for any mobile web app. Thank you!
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Thanks for the responses guys.

If you're curious, we've put together a summary of what other people have been saying: http://blog.twin.gl/post/82178923107/a-few-findings-on-tabs
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This was probably not because of the dead comment but the live reply, which got some upvotes.
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Just taking a guess but the lack of Linux support might be the culprit.
Elected. I dont think that word means what you think it means.
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A trend which is both tempting and annoying. I have a feeling that this is causing some people to develop an analogue to "advertisement blindness" where people tend to ignore titles which fit into certain models. I think the filter gets tripped for me any time people use overly emotional modifier words, the word "this," or the phrase "what happens next." This title didn't fit any of those, however.
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Are you ignoring the simple math that you can't change the Medicare picture on the back of a 12% allocation?
I have looked at the slides. Look at the last one. By far the most growth is coming from < $300 phones, which are distinct from the >$300, >4" phones, where there is also strong growth.

Therefore most Android phones sold to meet this demand are < $300, and not >4"

As I said, most Android phones are not large screened.
No, but your name might be. ;)
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Oops! We had the "user" scope set on our GitHub authentication thinking that's what was needed to be able to read user info. We only actually needed the user:email scope. This should be fixed now.
Your notion that good programmers = good product is absurd. As is your rush to blame somebody for failing to find traction.

If a startup fails to find traction, there's no clear reason to blame anybody. Most startups do that.
This is referring to Intermittent fasting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting). The best guide I've seen to getting started with this is here: http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2013/08/06/a-beginners-guide...
you're continuing to spread a myth

there is no link whatsoever between cholestoral (ldl/hdl) and heart disease, this has been proven beyond a doubt

heart disease is an inflammatory disorder
I think the closest thing to that would be their "Tweetus" demo. http://demo.famo.us/tweetus/
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This strikes me as the same sort of statistical non-information that people strive to come up with during sports games (at least in the US). "Mr. X is the first person in 17 years to bat Y% during years modulo Z while facing right-handed pitchers with only four fingers on their left hands!"
You missed the point, and your characterization of my claim is way off.

1. A huge number of vulnerabilities affect C/C++ programs, almost all of which are memory based.

2. Memory-managed languages take care of this for you.

3. Therefore, C/C++ shouldn't be a default choice in domains where a managed language does just as well (a separate question).

Everything else is tangential.

But here are some reasons why your second paragraph is dangerously wrong (and why my claim was not as you characterize):

1. It only applies if we assume a uniform distribution of security effort across languages.

2. It only applies if we assume that c/c++ is being used for the same class of applications programs written in other languages, or that the applications have similar attack surfaces.

3. It only applies if we assume a uniform distribution of security effort over all code regardless of age.

and so on...

And also, 90% of code -- especially relatively recent code -- is not written in c/c++.
TIL that males in business never receive patronising or stupid comments.
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Maybe n is a popular letter to end nouns with the same way g is a popular way to end verbs with? (ing)
I tried listening to his podcast a few times. Way too much arrogance all around, and the constant use of marketing and weasel words during the interviews made my blood pressure go up. It's a common personality type in SV/SF tech area that I really don't like, which is why I live and work outside of it.

I consider it a personal fault of mine that I have a low pretentiousness tolerance, because in between all the pretentiousness and clumsy embedded commercials (free version only?) there really is some great business knowledge in these interviews.

I could have said something similar of Russ Roberts' Econ Talk a few years ago. He started off as a faulty interviewer; constantly interrupting his guests to get his own very important opinion in. But, he has improved dramatically since then. I can remember one particular interview he had with Bill Black, where he just wouldn't shut up and let Bill finish his statements, and ultimately half the episode was just a jumble of incoherent back-and-forth over minutia.

I'll download a few recent episodes and give them a try to see if things have changed in the last few years.
I was in a rush and didn't create the most illustrative example.

you already know which provider you want to use, so why not just initialize the struct from there and skip the factory method altogether.

The reason that I want ProviderFactory to generate instances is because I also want it to act as a manager for those instances. ProviderFactory can keep track of all ServiceProviders and perform various operations or broker data between instances.

Here is my previous example slightly improved.
http://play.golang.org/p/XoXu9x9r8f

Now, ProviderFactory injects configuration information into ServiceProvider instances based on their concrete type, before establishing a connection. A more complicated app might wrap the NewProvider function into a gorotune/callback that blocks each provider instantiation until a successful connection has been established. This is all beside the point though; all I want is something akin to a special "type" type that the compiler recognizes as a symbol for that type that the factory can use to evaluate which concrete type to produce.
Can't think of any under three in Australia that match that. The trend of the last few years has been following that cycle of rich/poor/rich/poor. e.g., names that were once royal/grand, then common and poor, now cool again like George, Alfred (Alfie), William (Billy), Edward (Eddy), etc.
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Couple options

1) Dropbox

2) USB stick
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The fact remains that crypto _is_ very hard. I don't see why telling people that equates to "chasing people away" from cryptography. It would be even more dangerous to not mention that fact when people try to roll their own encryption systems. It's just not something that can be safely done by a hobbyist/amateur, at least not for critical applications.
That's an interesting thought. Some terrorist is in the US and planning something, but they don't want to give away their intel. So do a bit of parallel construction and tip off the local cops to some relatively small crime he's committed in the course of everything....

Or substitute "whistleblower" or "inconvenient politician" for "terrorist" if you prefer.
The only regular noun inflections append an 's', not an 'n'. Certain people's wishes aside, the ox -> oxen / shoe -> shoon / cow -> kine pattern is dead, and left very little in the way of irregular relics.
Unity has an option. They can pay Xamarin. They don't want to. The end.
Thanks Andrew for all the time and effort. My big regret is that I didn't start listening before 2011!
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I'll step back and venture that Tesla customers are so happy with the customer service, that Tesla is able to call out bad actors. As a Tesla owner, I'll say that their customer service has gone way above and beyond any car company I've ever worked with. It's been a delightful experience.
Note this graph measures the % of total names, not the % of total boys with names ending with 'n' (which would be much more meaningful).
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