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>What I am against is the premise that people are so dangerous and terrible at something they've been, mostly, able to do safely for about a century that their freedoms need to be taken away.

People are dangerous and terrible drivers. There are 30k vehicle accident deaths each year in the US (1.3 million world wide), and it used to be much higher (especially per mile driven).
Number of deaths per mile driven has been going down drastically in large part because technology has limited a driver's direct control of the vehicle.

> Autonomous cars are fine - trying to take for granted that personal freedom is dangerous and stupid and that people need to be controlled like herd animals is not necessarily a good thing.

ABS/traction control/drive-by-wire takes direct control away from the driver and gives it to a computer. Self driving cars are just the next layer of abstraction above this. You're still in control of the car, it's just that the interface is a touchscreen with a map instead of a steering wheel.
DEBUG is not solely used by socket.io, but rather by all modules that make use of the `debug` node package:

https://github.com/visionmedia/debug

The DEBUG variable holds a comma separated list of names (or wildcard patterns) used to narrow the scope of the debug output.

For example, to get debug information about the internal components of socket.io and express, you could do:

DEBUG=socket.io:,express: node index.js

There really isn't a big chance of hitting problems with the DEBUG variable, since it's defined locally to the command and not exported, and there's already a reasonably well established convention of using it like that for node modules.
Obesity and diabetes imply that a lot of Americans have an absolutely crap diet that probably isn't delivering much pleasure, either. If Soylent becomes a popular alternative for people who can't feed themselves properly, it could shave billions off health care costs.
How is the low proportion of black quarterbacks a bigger problem than the ultra-low proportion of white non-quarterbacks?

It would be if there was any other indication of discrimination against whites than the numbers. In the case of coaches and quarterbacks there was.

When I wrote that I wasn't aware of any evidence showing discriminatory hiring practices affecting white players, but I have since found an allegation of one incident[1].

Given that, I'm changing my position[2]: Yes, the NFL should act on this. I'm not sure what an appropriate course of action is (given that quotas don't work well), though.

[1] http://rollingout.com/sports/stephen-a-smith-discusses-rever...

[2] Strong opinions, weakly held...
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I have 7.1a binaries, source, sigs and pub key from September 2013.

pub 1024D/F0D6B1E0 2004-06-06
Key fingerprint = C5F4 BAC4 A7B2 2DB8 B8F8 5538 E3BA 73CA F0D6 B1E0
uid TrueCrypt Foundation <contact@truecrypt.org>
sub 4077g/6B136ECF 2004-06-06

My version from September is identical to the pub key at http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/files/TrueCrypt/Ot... .
Carlin threw out a lot of populist quotes, but that doesn't mean they translate into actuality. While it's a funny skit, in real terms keeping on calling it 'shell shock' would have been bad - because the PTSD hits you in other situations too. Victim responding badly to a rape? "It's not like it's shell-shock, get over it". That sort of thing. It was called PTSD because the same symptoms were being seen in relation to all sorts of traumatic experiences.

I also can't help but wonder if the DSM is for physicians and pharmacists more than patients.

I think you're overly concentrating on the failings of the DSM rather than the successes. Without something like the DSM, there isn't anything canonical for doctors to compare notes on given diseases, and that is definitely bad for patients.

Also, mental illness is notoriously difficult to diagnose in the first place, which is why it's the weakest area of the DSM, and why there's a lot of overlap between mental illness diagnoses. Mental illness is one of the most difficult areas of expertise in the human experience, if not the most difficult.
I think dre has the potential to affect things more than say how alicia keys or will.i.am affect things at their respective companies. Certainly when it comes to marketing to minorities and such.
Not at all interesting- that's how it is most places I've seen. All the upper middle class white people who like the 'romance' of tech but don't want to do low status/high effort things like programming go straight into management.
Server 2003 is still a supported version of windows for another year.
disagree- home cooked meals can be all four. it certainly takes practice, cooking infrastructure and foresight, but I think cooking at home can significantly beat all other options as the main source of food.
There is more! A full hour! :-D At some point I may post the rest, I just got the recordings back from a data recovery shop; they were on a hard drive that crashed 4 years ago with no backup... Talk about lucky

The hissing is just the noise from a cassette tape recorder, I recorded this 7 years ago before I had a smartphone. My grandpa was healthy right up to the bitter end!
Well, no one would ever admit that anyways.
Could you post the SHA1s of those? I'm failing to use GPG properly.
You need to be a bit more stingy with your 'B' designation. Jury's still out on Soylent. And eating out, restaurants (in general) optimize for taste, not nutrition.
yep get a couple of ppl worked up over an issue and you can get most things changed. The question is why aren't ppl rallying around this? And I think there are many reasons why.
Yes. It is kind of like theater. You need to perform how progressive you are!
Still waiting for someone to invent Soylent Ramen...

I bought all the ingredients and made DIY soylent from one of the hacks someone posted... The taste was a serious problem. I wanted to drink it for a week, but there was a 0% chance of that happening the way it tasted.

Then I tried making Soylent Pasta, but boiled out all the nutrients and the water turned piss yellow (http://juliansarokin.com/soylent-for-science-pasta-bad-decis...)... But if there was a way to not mess that up, I think that could be really interesting.

Still waiting on my official Soylent, hopefully it tastes better than my catastrophe.
If two groups with opposing messages control the key, it's pretty clear that the key is compromised in some manner.
I agree, but I think it actually is logical that branding matters. The effort put into branding reflects (to some degree) the effort put into everything else. If there's a community that cares about the upkeep of the home page, then it presumably also works on the documentation, the mailing lists, the libraries, and the implementation itself.
So what I'd like to know is how that "quite different" approach to problems differs from the standard mathematician approach?

I've been playing with J lately. I've also been a longtime numpy user, going back to the days when it was still numarray. Maybe I'm just writing numpy in J, but I find that my approach in both languages is more or less identical: set up a vector, do some matrix operations, maybe some statistical aggregates, write down the answer.

Can you provide an example for which the APL approach is significantly different from what one would normally do? It might help me understand what insights I'm supposed to gain.
Key point: avoid rails :p
> It's not the role of every single worker to deal with how the customer interfaces with the product.

Whether that's true or not really depends on the organizational structure and management philosophy of the company. From everything I've read, role differentiation of the specific type that would make that true is less true, at least within the broad umbrella of "technical staff", is not particularly prominent at Google.
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I'm not too up to date on TrueCrypt, but are the authors of the project known? Or is their identity unknown? Can they be contacted in any way, or is there anywhere they post often?
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I see a lot of people make claims like this, or even stronger ones such as claiming it has little/nothing to do with environment. Charts like this bear that out somewhat with the poorest Asian and white students scoring higher on the SATs than well to do blacks: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1a52vkpjans/UmjAc5fGxtI/AAAAAAAAA6...

Generally, people I see who bring this up are usually using it as a thin veneer over racist beliefs. When asked what end discussing minority IQ serves, they usually suggest defunding inner-city (read: black) schools or similar measures.

I can't get on board with that. I think the US certainly fails at providing equality of opportunity to many groups, and there is still widespread discrimination against women and minorities. We can certainly do better and we should view people individually rather than treating them in a prejudiced way based on group membership.

I also have a hard time getting on board with a "blank slate" view of humanity. I'd love for someone to prove me wrong so I could fire back at "race realist" reddit commenters, but it seems plausible to me that different groups, especially men and women, are biologically predisposed to certain traits, on average.

I know in my career that requires both a certain amount of aggressiveness and quantitative aptitude that my colleagues have overwhelmingly been Asian or white men. I've worked with women and "under-represented minorities" who've made me feel like a chump trading, and I certainly don't harbor prejudices about them, but they're difficult to find.
>And if this is a Dead-Man's-Switch gone right, why are they advocating the use of BitLocker and searching for random Linux packages?

One possibility is that they did it this way specifically because it's legally compliant with some order they got, but suspicious enough to raise alarm in the tech community and telegraph that something has gone deeply, deeply wrong.

This could be a warrant canary.
This is without a doubt the most parsimonious explanation for all available evidence.
Yep.

The way you do this is by influencing standards. You buy the people who write the specs for chips and/or firmware that are common to smart phones.

Removing batteries a problem? Don't let them remove them or have two batteries!

All someone has to do it look at the parts list of all these various smart phones and look for the common parts. That's where you'll find the exploit.
I've always hated that essay. "We value empathy here at Joyent. That's why we would rather fire an [theoretical] employee than retrain them".
The point is that a search and replace from "U.S." to "United States" is an unusual change. I have not seen evidence of this firsthand yet so I am just taking Moral_ on his word but if that is the case and there are a number of occurrences then it is certainly an interesting thing for the author to think to change.
> What does white-guilt mean, exactly?

Many White people are socially conditioned from a young age to reflexively feel guilt and disgust toward the success of White people.

> I believe that economic gains made by whites at the expense of other races because of past racist policies reinforced by a historical power imbalance should not be reinforced.

If you want to try to accurately and fairly "unwind" historical sins (good luck), don't just target White people. And certainly don't pretend that modern White people are the only people who benefit from the those past sins.

Regarding White people in the tech industry, here's something for you to consider: White people in tech are over-proportionally Jewish. As you approach the top of the industry, Jewish people become more and more over-represented.

At the very top of the tech industry, I'd be stunned if fewer than 40-60% of people were Jewish.

Mark Zuckerberg?

Larry Page?

Sheryl Sandberg?

Sergey Brin?

Michael Dell?

All Jewish. A quick Google search reveals countless others (and frankly, good for them).

With these facts in mind, do you think we should push to recruit more non-Jewish White people in tech?
>"it is actually more of a load-balance per-flow since each TCP session will stick to one route rather than individual packets going to different backend servers."

This strikes me as expensive, does this mean packets no longer pass through the ASIC only side of a router and thus the software in the router has to do some of the heavy lifting, thus limiting the capacity/throughout to a mere fraction of what the route is really capable of?

disclaimer: i have only a high-level overview of router tech
FreeBSD has GEOM/geli, which is a block-level (sub-filesystem) encryption method written by Paweł Jakub Dawidek (a Pole). It allows your choice of several data integrity verification algorithms, several encryption algorithms, and the usage of zero or more key files and/or a passphrase. And you can use it on external devices if you like. Also supports hardware acceleration via AES/NI with recent Intel CPUs.

Since it's block-level, you can use any filesystem you like. Since it's BSD, you might as well use ZFS (but don't use data integrity verification if you do, since ZFS has that built in.)

Downside is that you have to use FreeBSD to get it. Upside is that you get to use FreeBSD =)
It's the only one I'm aware of that has been shown to have any statistically significant link with sprint performance. It's discovery is comparatively recent though (I think 2003?). It is extremely likely there are other genes that contribute too.

Sure, we know there are lots of things we don't know yet. But we do know generally in almost every case every ethnic group has individuals whose genetic makeup overlaps with those from other ethnic groups.

It's hard not to conclude that you're purposefully trying to fool someone here. It never occurred to you that more than one gene might be involved in sprinting?

My point is that there is a lot more involved in sprinting (and high-performance generally) than just genetics.

One of the best examples of this is the cross country skier Eero Mäntyranta[1]. His family carries a genetic mutation called Polycythemia[2] which means they produce a very high proportion of red blood cells (basically like the EPO doping Lance Armstrong did, but natural).

Juvonen described lab-testing samples of Eero’s bone marrow cells, which produce red blood cells. The plan was to add EPO to the cells and track the creation of red blood cells. A typical human’s bone marrow cells won’t start making blood cells in the lab until EPO is added. But Eero’s bone marrow cells began the process of creating red blood cells before Juvonen could even stimulate them with EPO. Whatever tiny speck of EPO that was already in the sample was enough to keep the red cell factories humming. Eero’s body was hypersensitive to even trifling traces of EPO.[3]

He was a very successful cross country skier (Olympics: 3 Gold, 2 Silver & 2 Bronze over 3 games), but he was still beatable, even with this unprecedented genetic advantage.

A quote from [3]:

This is why any sensible person, in response to the questions: “Is there a genetic test for performance? Is there a performance gene?”, can only ever answer “No, it’s too complex to reduce to a single gene, and tests cannot assess this level of complexity. Yet”.

Mäntyranta is about as close as it gets to that. However, despite that, I want to point out that even with this mutation, one which saw his hemoglobin levels increase by around 50% compared to the typical male, he still didn’t wipe the floor with everyone, every time. Yes, he dominated his events in unmatched fashion in 1964, but he still got beaten, and that single mutation did not confer invincibility, only advantage. That’s again an illustration that performance is multi-factorial, and it suggests that many other factors are responsible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_M%C3%A4ntyranta

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familial_erythrocytosis

[3] http://www.sportsscientists.com/2013/12/eero-mantyranta-finl...
And clearly you never had to use "clearcase" then :)
>Remember how Google+ had significant uptake in the rich white tech dude demographic? Not a coincidence.

Other people have already said it, but what about Facebook or Twitter?

>If you want the best people working at your company, you should want a group with similar demographics as the customer population, and if you disagree with that, you either believe there is something inherent about certain groups that makes them better or worse at these jobs, which is plainly bigoted, or you believe that there are external social biases which cause the discrepancies.

That is a false dichotomy. If diversity is in itself good, then that implies that there are significant differences between ethnicities [1]. And in that case, it is certainly possible that different ethnicity might be better or worse at particular tasks, in this case coding. And claiming that the view that such differences is inherent, is bigoted, is just name-calling.

[1] Feel free to substitute ethnicity with X, where X satisfies "diversity means having people of different X".
Fair enough, but fish oil is just for omega 3, right? Which is prevalent in many veggies; rice protein will obviously only be in rice, but it's probably equivalent to protein in other veggies; I'd be surprised if Gum Arabic is used for more than texture.

Not that I'm not excited about soylent - I most definitely am, and hope to make it my lunch at work. At ~$4 a meal it's still a little too expensive for just a healthy filler until I get home (my current meal: beans/lentils and mixed veggies), but when it comes down a bit it will be great for me. Yet I feel some around here are anointing it as the end-all-be-all of healthy consumption, superior to natural options, which I'd argue is a bit premature. And I'm not educated enough to speculate on benefits of nutrients in plants vs. those industrially derived.
No, in fact Tim Cook mentioned he was looking forward to what Phil Schiller could do to help Beats product marketing, not the other way around.

Cook also said he was looking to the Beats team (Iovine, Dre) to build revolutionary new products for the music industry. So yes, that is in fact why they bought the company, to figure out the next big new technology products & services for music (is iPod still a "luxury"?)

As for the revenue.. that is exactly why I call it a unique deal. Yes, Apple seems more interested in the nascent music service and the team than in the multi-billion dollar accessories business that probably every single other company on the planet would pay more attention to. I mean they're not throwing it away but it definitely got a minor mention relative to the team & music service. For Apple the headphones business doesn't really move the needle much.. they're looking at the next $100B and that's why they're more interested in the "startup-y" aspects of Beats.
Does GOOG have any self-taughts in tech positions? Might be missing some data in the staffing-to-CS-grads proportions.
Minor nit: that background on the community pane (the blurred auditorium) isn't line art, and would be much better suited as a JPEG. I watched it load, when I loaded the page, and was a bit surprised to see it was PNG.

Resaving it as such in GIMP, using 90% quality cuts the size from 670kB to 110kB; reloading the JPEG and layering it on top of the PNG and flipping it on and off, I cannot visually tell the difference. Right now, it's about 75% of the data transfer for the homepage.
Almost any vegetable tastes amazing sautéed in butter with shallots and garlic. You can also add plain breadcrumbs once done. I say this having just made brussel sprouts that way for dinner. Very simple and very delicious. And I used to hate brussel sprouts.
My grandfather fought on the front lines in the Pacific Theater during the War.

Being at the very end of the supply chain, they got the worse, least desirable MREs after the variety had been cherry-picked by everyone else upstream. I forget exactly which ones they were but it was pretty grim.
I love your hopes :) Your Grandpa sounds like a pretty awesome dude!

Bookmarked for later listening, but heard he's a fellow Minneapolis native. Woo.
I think a lot of it has to do with the environment where you grew up and/or have spent a lot of time. I'm white and grew up in a heavily Asian community; when I'm the only white person in a mostly Asian group, I don't feel self-conscious, but when I'm in a mostly black or Latino group, I usually do.
Looks awesome! A pure FP language deserves a "Pure" home page :-)
A great (related) read: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC1H8C
With communism, wealth is redistributed and centrally controlled by the government (or governments). I can't even trust my government will put my money to good use now.

What? No! Communism doesn't even have a state, let alone a powerful central government.
My grandpa didn't talk much about the war. I'll never know what he went through. He went all the way to Berlin with the Soviet Army, that's the only thing I know.

The other one was sent to China, Canton (not sure how accurate this is, as that is in the South, not North or West, as I would have imagined). It was to "help fight off the Japanese". He also never wanted to talk about the war.
There was a good NOVA episode, Aboslute Zero, on the race for cold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jSv8PDDwA
do you think we should push to recruit more non-Jewish Whites in tech?

I don't think non-Jewish whites are discriminated against in hiring, but if promotion into management is a problem, then yes, management should reflect the population too.

I'd point out that it would appear there is less of a problem with discrimination against non-Jewish white men than against black females (for example), though.

I think prioritising is reasonable.

(I'd also note that in all those cases except Sheryl Sandberg they were founders, so hiring discrimination was a non-factor. I realise this wasn't your point though).
I believe you are referring to Season 2 Episode 1 of This American Life the tv show titled "Escape". Two sentence summary from the site:

"Mike and his mom get caught up in a fight that lots of kids have with their parents. Except in their case, due to some very specialized circumstances, they go through the fight in slow motion, over the course of years."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002V87A4S/ref=atv_feed_cat...
I hear that "The Power Broker", a biography of Moses and winner of the Pulitzer in 1974, is a fantastic read :)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Broker-Robert-Moses/dp/03947...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Broker
I think that's why they are quitting. They didn't want the audit to find something. But it's just a speculation like any other.
Not only does it look great, but the logic is sound as well - the homepage is to get new users interested in it, and to get them up and running with it as easily as possible.

It really shows that the author did his or her homework. The analysis of other languages homepages was interesting as well.
I probably don't understand fully the concept of taxonomies in general, but it seems strange to me that the a custom taxonomy would inherit from Tag? What is the relationship between a taxonomy and a tag? In prose I mean, not in code. What is the result of applying the tag taxonomy as well as a custom one in terms of end-user experience on a hypothetical front-end of what this CMS would power, that is, what would the simplest example of the playlists taxonomy allow one to display?
if you count lies of omission, yes. you can be required as part of an ongoing investigation or court case to not talk about it. The legal term is "gag order".
I don't understand how this can possibly work unless your recipients are set up to receive PGP encrypted email as well.
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