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I remember disks where load * ,8,1 would load a list of addresses to load other programs from; I think this was done by making the default program do nothing but print the addresses of other things on the disk.
Compared to what OpenGL has to accomplish, asset loading is orthorgonal. There is a number texture formats that most graphics cards support natively, the OpenGL API already exposes more than those and the Driver converts them on the fly. It is trivial to implement a bmp loader and slightly harder to load something like textures compressed with DXT, there are obviously third party libraries that do that for you. There are simply too many potential texture sources, to integrate that into an api. The same goes for 3d model loading, there are simply too many model formats and how you organize your vertex data is application specific anyways. The reason the shader loading / linking and compile code has to be written by the Developer is also fairly obvious, OpenGL does not want to support cross platform File IO and in real world projects 100s of shaders are actually dynamically linked in different combinations into render pipelines to create desired effects, the effects themselves are often creates in some kind of flow-based programming environment that is translated into shaders behind the scenes. Basic shader loading/compiling/linking on the other hand is trivial to implement.

Finally Window/Context creation is also platform specific and therefore can't really be specified.
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A fair point.

I have tried putting this in friendlier terms at times, but my perception is that most people who hold the reductionist view want fatness to be a morality tale where bad things happen to people who deserved it. That notion offends me, and it seems far-fetched since this is happening in animals, too. That or someone is generalizing from their n of one anecdote to all people.

Even worse, I feel like this platitude is used as an excuse to stop thinking. The least interesting part of this whole thing is the thermodynamics--to the point of being so uninteresting that I can't believe it gets talked about. How about why are people eating more? Do some foods satiate hunger better? Why is the problem accelerating over time? What is causing animals to weigh more--has their willpower diminished? A calorie is a calorie misses the point so thoroughly it infuriates me.

Apologies for the tone.
While there might not be anything stopping somebody from being both a great developer and great designer, I've never come across somebody that is (though I've come across people that think they are...). I've seen exceptional developers who are terrible designers, decent developers who are decent designers, and exception designers who are terrible developers. I'm sure you could find some counter example but I've never come across them.

I think it is simply that there are only so many hours in a day. Somebody that spends 40+ hours a week over the course of years honing a particular craft will become more skilled than somebody that splits their time between multiple crafts (especially if they have existing talent in the area).

I also disagree that visual design and engineering share many of the same principles. Engineering is about making things work, visual design is about creating an emotional connection. There are no formulas or rules that can be systematically applied to make a product feel right. People that think they are similar probably have never had the pleasure of working with a top visual designer.
Do the VPNs tend to work? It seems like they'd be trying as hard as they can to block VPNs; in fact the article mentions that they've been coming under attack.
Two years ago this October I was homeless. I would wander around all night for fear of attacks[1] and try to sleep during the day at the university while sitting on a bench or chair. In October the winter shelters had not yet opened here, and it was so cold I feared I would freeze to death. I wandered into ER on a pretext: there was a swelling in my leg, spider bite maybe?

I overheard the intake person talking with someone: "I'm worried about that guy in #68." Why? "He thinks he's got a spider bite, but he's got blood clot written all over him."

I felt pretty good about that; it meant I'd have a place to sleep for a whole night. Then I was suddenly surrounded by 5 or 6 people.

Symptoms, sir?

Sometimes slurred speech, tingling in the extremities, can't spell anymore, confused by the way people talk so _fast_, confused by simple things, excessively paranoid, feels like there's an Ace bandage wrapped around my chest.

You're a junkie. No. You're exclusively vegetarian. No. You're diabetic. No, I've been tested for that. Well, we'll take a blood draw.

I got an ultrasound over my legs -- and they discovered a DVT. Next thing I knew, they'd slapped me in hospital for eight days. I was put on no less than eight medications, the scariest of which was Coumadin (same as Warfarin, I think?) -- scary because they made me watch a video describing it, by which I mean "You follow these instructions to the letter or you gonna die, son." At least that's what it felt like. And I had to sign all kinds of waivers, or something. Two of the residents (very young women) told me that they had had DVT's themselves... possibly as a result of being exclusively vegetarian?

The diagnosis was: Pernicious Anemia. My understanding (which is not to be trusted) is that the myelin sheathing around my nerves has been dissolving for years. Apparently the communicating tissue between the axons in my brain had been going away for quite some time.

I liked this diagnosis because: it's easily treatable; it explains my increasingly weird behavior; I'm not dead from it.

The treatment is: Take B12 every day for the rest of my life.

The highly-abbreviated coda to the story is: My Doctor told I'd had this disease for at least ten years(!); hospital got me a case manager, who got me Disability, Homed, and a Laptop. But it took 2 years or so.

TLDR: Being exclusively vegetarian can cause DVT's

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM6WrqLMJrQ
What if we don't make anything they want to buy? And we lack the resources to make what we buy?
OT: I've read and accessed this before, but I hadn't noticed the note in which Harvard is soliciting feedback on its Open Access initiative, in which it releases papers such as this...their online feedback form is here:

https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/dash/open-access-feedback?handle...

Hopefully they're getting positive response to open access, and see that both the academic community and public benefit from more open access.
Huh? Ever hear of the Chevy Volt?
As someone who spent a lot of time in the .NET world, can someone with more experience using Mono/Xamarin tell me what the main goal is with using this rather than switching to a more *nix centric ecosystem? Is it mainly popular with those who want to develop cross-platform desktop apps?

From what I can tell it isn't that great for the end user either. I recall once trying to install a mono based tool on OSX. It was... unpleasant and I ended up simply choosing not to use it.
"Its syntax is insane"

=>

(do source
source $= conduit)
$$ sink

vs.

source
source | conduit

=> hmm.
if Artists(capital A) are to be given no-strings-attached money then why not everyone?

why don't they do their own ice bucket challenge or something to raise their own funds if they're not happy with their current sponsors?
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Well, its more of a write once, publish everywhere solution from what I understand-it allows .Net devs to develop in C# for Android/iOS.

I recently tried downloading MonoDevelop on OSX, and poked at an ASP.NET MVC 3 web app. Straight out of the box I couldn't run it without an error popping up I couldn't get rid of, so I ditched it.
Tor does not work in China. Since their servers' addresses are publicly available, it is quite easy to block.

To access real Internet inChina, it is not only about encryption, nor anonymity. you have to hide the fact that you are accessing a foreign server. GFW has this feature: if a node inside GFW access a foreign address too long/frequently, the foreign address will be temporary blocked. This is a very rude but powerful feature.
For music I like to think that Gen X nailed it. My 18 year old bought a record player and collects 80's and 90's records while keeping up with the new stuff, but maybe it's just the man keeping her down.
The paper is old, and regression on residuals was much more common back in the day. There were notable dust-ups within some small subsets of the physics community due to its use in a few cases.

Your book looks like a good read. It's always nice to see someone talk about stopping rules in particular, which is one of the nastiest problems in experiment design for both practical and theoretical reasons--the practical problem is really one of economics, and we just don't train researchers properly for that.
Maybe it's better now, but I've had problems with .git folders in dropbox. Dropbox doesn't understand the directory structure and conflicts are handled by merging competing .git folders and renaming internal files as needed -- almost certainly not what you want.
In the article they cite an example where private insurance paid 100x the Medicare rate. That's not to say private insurers pay, overall, 100x the Medicare rate. It's closer to 2x per procedure in the aggregate. I don't understand why a private insurer would ever pay 100x the Medicare rate in any case.

The article went on to say how Dr. Mu, despite his title as Chief of Neurosurgery, does "probably not very lucrative" work due to low Medicaid rates. So this is a case where private insurance is subsidizing the public system.

Cost shifting is well known in the industry. The 30% of the revenue paid by Medicare corresponds to significantly more than 30% of the services/cost. Operating a hospital is analogous to operating an airline, where you can sell 30% of seats at a price that would be grossly unprofitable if the whole plane sold that way. My hypothesis is that as more care becomes public, the price per procedure that Medicare (or whatever it's called then) will be dramatically higher, because there won't be anyone left to shift the costs onto.

I was able to find some data which demonstrates this; 'Aggregate Hospital Payment-to-Cost Ratios for Private Payers, Medicare, and Medicaid, 1992 - 2012' - http://www.aha.org/research/reports/tw/chartbook/2014/chart4.... There's a subtle point that this data hides, that the article shows, which is although private payments exceed costs, in aggregate, by ~150%, the billing is highly selective. So some private payers may pay close to the Medicare rate (85% of cost) where some private payers are paying 10,000% the cost, like in the case in the article with Dr. Mu.

It's exactly this highly selective billing which I think people should be protected from. Both from an Dr/ethical standpoint, to the necessary legislation which could more clearly protect against this, rather than relying on more general statutes.

I don't really care to discuss "how newspapers work" but I do think while NYT is trying to tell a story about an industry, all I hear is anecdotes. Anecdotes are important, but in a story about industry billing practices, I also need to know if these anecdotes are crazy outliers, or everyday occurrences. You need to anchor your anecdotes with something if you want to tell a story bigger than the anecdote -- I think that's basic reporting, but yes, perhaps too much to expect.
It looks like Azure ML will scale out and run parallel code paths simultaneously automatically - any feedback?

http://blogs.technet.com/b/machinelearning/archive/2014/06/2...
That’s different from keeping a promise to his wife, but it’s also different from being “whipped” (i.e. under the complete control of his wife). That’s just lying to his friends and blaming his wife for it. (Which is also pretty dysfunctional, but clearly not what the essay’s author was talking about.)

I think it’s pretty weird that the only real discussions of gender relations in this essay are (a) husband and wife can be naked with each other, when they wouldn’t go naked in public, and (b) this cheap throwaway stereotype about the controlling wife not letting the hapless guy have fun with his buddies.

The essay would be stronger with the section about the “whipped” guy removed altogether.
It did use busbox init, it uses procd now which by reading the code is horribly tied into openwrt.
Wow, this is a fantastic visualization of algorithms with scary doctoral-thesis-y names.
I love visualizations that make scary things simple.
The article asks:

> How is the public interest served by a policy that only thwarts lawful search warrants?

Perhaps the answer is that judges act as rubber stamps now, authorizing way too many search warrants. The author assumes that the judges are fairly applying the 4th amendment.
I'll never forget the year I had laproscopic surgery to remove my gallbladder, not because of the experience (although being asked for $3000, in cash, before they'd let me into the OR, was interesting, but welcome to America), but because I ended up hitting my $5000 or so out-of-pocket maximum, between that and co-pays for a few other visits. For the remaining 6 months of the year, I joked that I was living it up Canadian style, and actually visited the doctor to get regular exams and to get medicated for influenza, you know, the things everyone should do, but a large double-digit percentage of Americans can't. Ahh, the good life...
Anyone know how hard it would be to script up something like this so it could be self-hosted?
5 Ways and Reasons of why you should Learn AngularJS
"Apple’s design change [is] one it is legally authorized to make, to be clear."

That's really all that matters to me.
I built https://ohlife-export.herokuapp.com/ to help make a transition to another service way easier.
Removing-VM-lock-with-HTM has nothing to do with dynamic or static, compiled or not compiled. Many "staic compiled languages" can have global VM lock too.
The only really consistent position will become to treat a person's digital trace as we treat the contents of their head. The two are merging sooner rather than later.
Of course it's a gray link... but wow, major enhancements since ~1 year ago when I was on my pathfinding binge. Good stuff! Never did implement full jump-point optimization, though I got halfway there by manipulating queue priorities.
Here is why the integrity of journalism is so important:

In my experience, most people form opinions by effectively shopping among the various narratives offered by the many forms of media, including those described in the article, and picking the one they like most -- as if they were shopping for a sweater to wear. Then they base their opinion on the chosen narrative, but of course once the questions are framed and facts established, their 'opinion' is preordained.

That is no accident. The narratives often are created by interests whose goal is to manipulate public opinion, and their stories are repeated widely, wittingly by their agents and unwittingly by everyone else. This isn't conspiracy theory; you can read plenty of legitimate research where this process is openly described; even the vocabulary you probably use to discuss public issues often is carefully constructed by someone. Public opinion can be manipulated to vary widely from the facts (consider climate change, Saddam Hussein's connection to 9/11, etc. etc.) and also it is an extremely valuable asset. Manipulating it can change history, and create and destroy political and personal fortunes -- and nations, as well as start/end wars, kill/save hundreds of millions of people, and make/lose trillions of dollars ('regulation is choking the experts on Wall Street'). So of course there are many, many people who will manipulate it. There is a game being played and most people don't know it is happening, much less that they are its objects.

How does this happen? I think many people are swayed by the big lies -- they can't believe so much is so deceitful. Also, in my experience the best educated, smartest people I know are often the most easily led; perhaps they are hamstrung by their intellectual confidence, because I often hear them repeating one side or another's talking points and underlying propaganda. Finally, it's hard to educate anyone on this issue; there is no nice way to say, 'you've been fooled' and 'most of what you say is someone else's propaganda'.

But how does it happen? It's not true that society can rely on citizens to sort truth from falsehood; the reality is that people are easily led. It is up to the elites in our society, including journalists, to ensure they are getting something closer to the truth. I doubt there is a solution for corrupt elites.
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Since I couldn't find what I wanted, I rolled up my sleeves with a fellow developer and started building.

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That makes absolutely no sense. You are complaining that a haskell library, written for people who use haskell, requires haskell. Python code requires python, perl code requires perl, ruby code requires ruby. So?
Hopefully Microsoft are in the process of changing their mind with Ballmer gon.

They make fantastic tools, but they really do only target Windows.
In my first bit of play, I just tried to find cases where Manhattan lost to the others. It seems like Manhattan is not as good when faced with a plausible path only to be thwarted at the end - is this right?

Can you show a few cases where Manhattan loses by a landslide?
I'll leave it to other hackers to put it more eloquently. Any means to bypass the encryption on iOS 7 and before are vulnerabilities that adversaries can use to bypass the encryption on iOS 7 and before. Apple is basically saying that they didn't build in back doors, which this author is making the case for. iOS 8 data is still available to the government by other means than warrants and at much, much, much higher expense.
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So, when BlackBerry was doing it, it was all good. Now that it's Apple, it's bad?
You guys should just switch to JavaScript and use Titanium. Same end result and shared codebase. You can use the Titanium Studio IDE, but it's completely optional. I personally use it with vim and the command line, and it works beautifully. There are some minor issues like certain native APIs not being supported in Titanium (more of a problem on Android), but nothing like the problems listed here.
Thank you for sharing your story. I enjoyed reading it. I had a stroke at 35 also caused by a PFO.
are you sure they built in a real backdoor?

i thought they salted user PINs with a hard-wired nonce that's specific to every device - then when the fuzz needs to get the device unlocked apple looks up what the hard-wired nonce is for that specific device, and then crack the 4 digit pin.

anyone have details on how apple actually unlocked devices?
"The first question is whether the government can lawfully compel the telephone’s owner to divulge the passcode. I believe the answer is that yes, a person can in fact face punishment for refusal to enter in the password to decrypt his own phone. If the government obtains a subpoena ordering the person to enter in the passcode, and the person refuses or falsely claims not to know the passcode, a person can be held in contempt for failure to comply."

Soooooooooo... there already is a legal mechanism to force the phone's owner to divulge the password. Why isn't that enough?
Arbitrary code execution in Mobile Safari, POC for iOS 7.1.x
Not only that, but they're issued in secret by secret courts.

This article is very disturbing.
I agree it's odd that they're actually marketting it as anti-law enforcement.

There are certainly other reasons to appreciate secure encryption though. But "not even a disgruntled apple employee, or one paid by your business competitor" brings up questions that are not good marketting to put in people's heads. Even "not even a hacker, cause we used actual secure crypto" is not what they want people to think about.

Now, personally, I include "not even law enforcement" in my list of attackers I'd like to defend from, and there's nothing wrong with that (and there's not supposed to be in America, the 4th ammendment and all). But the fact that it's actually good marketting generally (or at least they're betting on it) -- well, we have Snowden to thank for that. And I doubt it will last.

Also, of course, there are a variety of reasons the iphone crypto as a system isn't all that secure -- including but not limiting to the fact that we still have trust apple (we can't see the code, or the code in the updates pushed out regularly).

Not that I disagree that it's a benefit to make it harder for law enforcement
This article very much on point, and it also emphasizes why you should stick to monolithic architecture for as long as possible.
The author's complaints about Xamarin might be true, but it is also likely that Xamarin is less broken than any other cross-platform solution. If a client insisted on one code-base for iOS and Android I would choose Xamarin.

Doing what Xamarin does is VERY hard and Xamarin hasn't had big-time funding until recently. And they can't stop and just fix bugs, like the article author would like. Xamarin is on the treadmill and has to keep up with two platforms that are in competition with each other. The only good news in that is that they will probably converge in terms of capabilities. But, damn, I wouldn't want that job.

3rd party dev tools are a thankless and usually VC-less pursuit. The investors are probably hoping for an exit in the form of Satya Nadella taking C# and VS cross-platform and using it for Microsoft's own apps.
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Apple's architecture decision proves a quiet point - that Apple feels it has been illegally pressured by the government (notably the NSA) to crack too many cell-phones, and that their own business and the rights of their users are at risk from an overly aggressive government. I interpret Apple's move as a self-defense mechanism to attempt to stop the immoral actions of a government over-stepping it's bounds, and to protect the people that Apple cares about most - their users.
This actually isn't entirely settled law. Some argue that the 5th ammendment protection from self-incrimination would give someone the right not to give up their passcode. But different courts have ruled differently in differnet situations/jurisdictions, so far.
I guess they forgot about Tennessee.

It's really anywhere that's better than Detroit.

I vaguely remember reading that $3000 of the cost or producing a car in Detroit went to the union (pensions I believe) due to agreements made in the 60's to keep salaries down. That's a huge competitive disadvantage.
Since I am bald and respect my own hairlessness, I prefer the term "bull-faced lie", since I have much less respect for bulls. ;)
The public is interested in (and is served by) a technical solution to lawful search warrants because the public no longer believes that lawful warrants are just.
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