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Nordic.js 2014 • Douglas Crockford – The Better Parts
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>He estimates that iPhone sales are adding one-quarter to one-third of a percentage point to the annualized growth rate of the gross domestic product.

That's amazing. This means that iPhones account for 0.25-0.33% of all consumption in the US.

(reasoning behind this: annualized growth rate is (gdp for year / gdp for previous year) - 1, so to account for 0.25 percentage points of growth means to be 0.25 percent of gdp)
Well, if you shop for it, a cardholder can get a minimum of 1% rebated back to them, more in cases of special promotions.

But yeah, it's a stupid way to run a payments system.

You would think Starbucks would give you a free cup or something if you filled up your Starbucks stored-value card by EFT instead of credit card. (You would also think Starbucks wouldn't make me accept the wifi TOS every goddamn day, when they have an app/loyalty card relationship with me.)

You would also think that maybe Apple is leaving their options open in the future to 1) link up with retailers' loyalty programs and 2) help retailers bypass Mastercard and Visa and share in the savings.
What's the cost?

How are the tunnels set up?

This looks very much like it could be a thin pricing layer over a hacked botnet, which wouldn't be right to support at all.
>This is why we need not only password locks and full encryption but panic passwords and hidden logins on every piece of electronics we own.

Yeah, that would have saved her against Mexican drug cartels and a $50.000 dollars reward.
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If you enjoy fluxus, you should also check out extempore http://extempore.moso.com.au/
Upvoted and thanks for your input.
nice idea. If not a joke, I will try it. +1 to notduncansmith :) what do you sell?
Source: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/fluxus.git/tree/
We probably aren't going to legalize cocaine or meth any time soon.
The article didn't say taking out the windows would save only 1% in weight. It was just explaning the ratio of weight to fuel consumption:

"According to the CPI, for every 1% reduction in the weight of an aircraft, there is a saving in fuel of 0.75%."

Now if you take the windows out of a plane you're not just losing the weight of those windows. You can probably make the fuselage out of a lighter material since you don't have to punch as many holes in it. The potential savings must be enough to warrant this research.
>If you're going to whistleblow on your local government online (be that a legitimate government, or a violent drug cartel), the only reasonably safe way to do it is from outside the country AND using Tor.

Unless, you know, the "outside country" is one participating in those surveillance schemes, like 5-eyes, and is in bed with your local goverment and not beyond sending a tip or two (or even supporting its own thugs acting on the ground in your country).

More or less like it has been throughtout the 20th century in Latin America.
The paper discusses putting the NTM through several tasks, and tests for "overfitting" or how well it has generalised the task by giving it a slightly longer task than it has seen during training. For example, in the copy task, they trained it on sequences of length 20, but tested the it on a sequence of length 100.

Of course, this doesn't guarantee anything, but they also take a look at some of the internals of the learnt system which are more easily interpreted, and found that it does some pretty consistent things.
Thank you guys! I've been working on issues and just got the time to add a FAQs page on the site.

See https://sleepingspider.com/faqs for most answers.

It's an early product launch. I have no monetization plan. Too early to plan that.

In the current phase I want to figure out does people like it and how do people use it, how to make it better and serves more people.

;D
When can we stop the madness and regulate drugs rather than criminalizing them? Didn't we learn anything from prohibition?? In a time when so many people are aware of the limitations of government why do so many people think that we're going to resolve the drug problems with more government in the form courts and prisons. We're just creating a market opportunity for the cartels by inflating prices and turning their customers into criminals.
I believe that web apps especially will see an Internet of Things (IoT) takeoff. Things like a web service to remotely control your house (lights heat TV etc) are prime and ready and wouldn't require that much work.

That may seem obvious for web apps; there's a wiki page for IoT. For desktop apps, I predict interfacing with mobile more. Making it seamless to go from one device to the next. We're almost there but not quite.
>VPN

Are a terrible idea. You need to trust the operator that they won't screw you by keeping logs. Since these are centralized they are always at the whims of cartels and the like. Just stop and think for a second if you won't give everything you have to them if they took your children hostage as an extreme example.

The only way to deal with a situation like the one in Mexico is to get the whole community to use something like Tor. The cartels already are so they can't kill all such connections, and if everyone uses it all the time then you can't target anyone for using it. The reporters are protected by the crowd they hide in.

This is the same reason why tor isn't blocked in the first world. It gives all the alphabet soup agencies proper anonymity that doesn't raise red flags when used in other countries which might not be friendly.
Lessig: The Marshall McLuhan of the internet age. Elliptical to the point of sometimes being cryptic.

I took that to mean he wanted Snowden to elaborate on why he feels that there are different ethical considerations for leaking information about CIA activities vs. NSA surveillance programs.
That's an implied distinction between leaking NSA programs as they relate to the American public vs releasing international CIA related material.

Very convoluted though. Lessig is just really, really deep into the context. He's clearly been thinking of these questions for so long he lost perspective.
>And what about all the customers of this cartel who give them the money to pay people enough to do things like this?

Drugs are a fact of life, they've been used since the dawn of man and will be used likely until the end of man. They're not going away.

It's abhorrent that in order to access drugs, you've to essentially send money down the chain to people carrying out such acts...but people are going to do drugs, and in the face of no alternatives, this is where they're going to get them.

The people buying these drugs, generating the income for these cartels, are so removed from the reality behind them that it may as well be totally unconnected as far as all are concerned. We, first world Westerners, are generally very disconnected from the realities surrounding many of the products we buy, from legitimate products like those manufactured by Nestle, to cheap clothing manufactured in terrible conditions in the East, through to illicit substances such as cocaine which are manufactured in South America and whose trade fuels a bloody war there.

Indeed, many of our tech products that we all here use are manufactured by Foxconn, a company whose working practices are so bad that they had issues with people killing themselves on the job and tackled it by installing suicide nets around the back of the buildings and in the stairwells.

As such, there is a lot of inherent immorality associated with a lot of the consumerism we here fuel, but the reality for us is that we are extremely disconnected from these issues.

But what are the alternatives? Go even harder on those found with drugs, while continuing to let Western consumerism promote without any interference terrible working conditions for our manufacturers in the East?

One potential solution to all these issues is to apply a similar approach to all - manufacture these in the 1st world under regulations and subsidize their sale so that the consumer points towards these regulated manufacturers rather than using products manufactured abroad.

Unfortunately, while this may be the solution, it itself raises so many other issues. If we took coke production out of the hands of South America and made it in the US, for example, what in hell's name is going to happen when the vast numbers of not just cartel members, but relatively innocent coco farmers in South America can no longer derive anywhere near the same income from them?

Manufacturing these things ourselves would also, if not greatly subsidized for promotion, drive prices for the consumer up and thus have them pointing in the wrong direction again.

It's a complex issue and personally I'm not sure of what the best potential solution may be, but I find it hard to sit here and criticize those using coke in the US from a product containing FoxConn parts where people are miserable and ending their lives because of what our demand for the products being made there is doing to them.
Yes, it literally would have since they found out who she was by looking through her phone after kidnapping her for an unrelated death of a cartel member.

Try and read the article before you comment.
Right, I have no actual citation on Anders or other C# team members regarding their position on generics. Just personal conversion. Perhaps it's way off base. Yet, the lack of lambdas, inference, and the reluctant implementation in C# 3 (only the minimum for LINQ) suggests that was not the style they were looking for. Same for the handling of async in C# - instead of a general mechanism, it's another hardcoded intrinsic. More evidence: TypeScript also looks lackluster, despite being a big step up from JS.

I've no real clue why F# was productized, but I'd like to think it was because MS realized it has to stay competitive. F# is probably the most advanced language with that level of tooling, support, libraries, etc. I know F# is the only reason I continue to target the CLR. At the same time, MS's F# support certainly feels like it's just lip service, even while their flagship language lacks basics like a REPL. (I know, Roslyn will cure all.) I've yet to see any marketing suggesting F# would be a better choice for many projects; only esoteric sciencey and maths usages see suggested.

What'd really be forward would be for MS to support Rust or a project like that. (I believe they hired the guy behind BitC but I don't think it was for language design.)
Javascript will no longer be the only viable language for working with the DOM in a browser. With technologies like asm, I think it is only a matter of time until we are freed of directly or semi-directly (coffeescript) coding Javascript in every project. If it isn't asm, I think this will happen one way or the other.
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The recent discussion on K suggests that may be the case.
A related question might be: where will mobile apps be in 5 years?

Hopefully, the answer is that web standards will evolve to allow HTML+JS to do things currently only possible in mobile apps. This would mirror the original transition of desktop apps to web apps, and would have positive implications for the internet by bringing mobile users back to webpages (though I wouldn't count on it being done in 5 years).
Developers will view REST APIs with the same dismissive disdain reserved today for SOAP/COM/CORBA. In 5 years time there'll be something much cooler, probably based on GIT. (GIT will live forever.)

The hot in-demand skill will be writing tight C code for ASM.JS based single page holographic apps.

We will commute in flying cars and poverty will be history.

Or maybe not - who knows? The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Nobody has a crystal ball, so it's really up to you.
Why are the majority of the comments here blaming the victim?

This is the death if a person who tried to stand against an overwhelming force. To try and stand against the cartels where the police didn't dare and instead of honouring her work or get death you mock her for not using tor.

If you seriously think that lack of cybersecurity is the problem then at least use this to highlight the lack of good easy to use security software.
It looks excellent. VFD doesn't say "steam" quite like nixies, but it's clearly more practical for a wristwatch.
Nitpicking here, but while the authors do use a recurrent neural net (RNN), they do not use it exclusively.

The system consists of a memory element, and a controller element. In their evaluation of the system, they use both a standard feed-forward network, as well as an RNN with long short-term memory (LSTM) units as the controller element. In certain tasks, the feed-forward network works better.

+1 on the deeplearning.net tutorials, and theano. I've learnt a lot from there.
>Unfortunately, nobody in this world has the combination of power, opportunity, and desire to take the CIA down for its crimes.

That's assuming they are something like a rogue agent, and not a coherent part of an overall national strategy (not for the common folks of course).
I like the idea of a gradual merger of the abstractions we now call browser and operating system. I think that I first read about this idea years ago when ASUS floated the idea of having a ChromeOS-like thing in firmware, but I can't find the link.

The important point is that, like microwaves, for 99% of people (even devs), it will make no difference at all who makes the software running in the background. Sort of like BIOS. It will all look and act exactly the same: basically a browser. I already see this convergence happening in mobile, web, and desktop. There will be some other contentious thing to fill the HN threads, some new interface abstraction or maybe VR. Whatever abstracts the most away while working on the most number of devices seamlessly will become increasingly more interesting.
We will move to a cloud based model and all your data will be owned by the cloud providers. Google, Apple and Microsoft are already ensuring this.

From a Google filing in court about Gmail privacy:

>Indeed, “a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties.” Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735, 743-44 (1979).

> it's "inconceivable" that someone using a Gmail account would not be aware that the information in their email would be known to Google.

Also referenced the scroogled ad campaign to support that users know and accept this behavior.

/facepalm
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It took me a week to get to 70wpm or so. I can do 100+ sustained now with not much fatigue. I had been getting hand pains in qwerty, so I switched completely during a paper in high school and haven't looked back.

I can type nearly as fast in qwerty as I used to, but it is uncomfortable, awkward, and I do make errors often.
As a clinician not surprising that procrastination, impulsivity and poor goal-direction could be genetically linked. Combinations of such behavioral attributes (along with other manifestations) are associated with certain behavioral disorders, for example, these behaviors are common among adults with attentional disorders.

Of course, just having those traits is not sufficient to establish any specific diagnosis. Digesting the article more thoroughly will take me some time. However, it does seem to show these traits appear to have common genetic roots, but the traits also cut across nominal diagnostic categories.

That last point has merit. Behavior has to be considered along with its complex context in order to determine the significance of the behavior. It's difficult to figure out connections among the many contextual variables, far too many to glean quickly. "Explanations" whether applied to self or others bear risk of being wrong.

OTOH, procrastination or impulsive action may have non-trivial consequences. If these really are causing problems finding solutions is imperative. If self-help doesn't solve it, seek professional help. Most places, it's not hard to find, and it can make a big difference. If you need it, go get it.
Tweeting outside the country is probably not an option, and it's unlikely defeating encryption is a sufficient safeguard against cartels that kidnap and torture people. Kidnapping, by the way, is how they allegedly found their target according to the article.
If rest of the world follows what apple is doing with Continuity, I would say that is where we are going.
CurrentC has no chance of catching on because it's not CurrentC vs Apple Pay, it's CurrentC vs legacy credit cards.

From a user's perspective, the current user experience around credit cards is pretty good. You get a tangible, color coded interface and a tactile interaction mechanism. Swipes work pretty reliably and the time it takes to pull out a credit card is very small.

When you're competing with a solution like this, even minor differences in UX can be dealbreakers. One thing I didn't see much talk about with the iPhone 6 launch was that Apple were the first phone makers (AFAICT) who managed to put NFC on the edge of a device rather than the center. I've tried paying with Google Wallet before and mashing a giant phone against a tiny contactless reader was error prone, frustrating and made you feel like a dork doing it. I tried it 2 or 3 times and then went back to credit cards.

I can't imagine how much worse this CurrentC solution is going to be in real life and how hard it will fail.
And its corollary: what will devices look like in five years? How big will they be? And how will be people be carrying things that big?
Zach, a good tool to find this out is TinEye.com or Google image search. There are chrome extensions for both. Right-click and bob's your uncle.

http://www.tineye.com/search/26a3a3a131eab293e69887cc889bf38...
Tesla boss warns against AI
If you like videos like this, check out Retrotechtacular on Hackaday. They have a series on mechanical firing computers on navy ship that is nothing short of mech-eng porn, and I mean the classy kind.
Explain to whom? The next employer? Just tell them you took a break. Period. But only if they ask.
>Yes, Epic and non-epic systems can be interfaces via HL7, which is like XML.

Epic has a Restful(ish) system now too. And most of the others have full on JSON APIs now.
If the ISP is compromised by the cartels as you say, then this would just leave her open to correlation attacks (e.g. "who was using Tor at time X in city Y?").

Opsec is not a simple matter, as the death of this woman shows and people like the grugq try to explain.

You need serious technical nous to get it right.
The CIA must be the most organized part of our government to carry on decades long conspiracies and liaise with every nefarious group in the world! If only they could redirect some of this management "excellence" to the more deserving and productive areas of the government that could actually use it.

I just highly doubt the effectiveness and existence of any long running conspiracy. See:

http://www.thisisnotaconspiracytheory.com
> This is why we need not only password locks and full encryption but panic passwords and hidden logins on every piece of electronics we own.

http://xkcd.com/538/
I feel sorry for the poor soul still supporting an MS JVM application in 2007...
I see web apps taking an even large slice of previously desktop apps. I believe Operating Systems will no longer matter as much (this is happening now) as they did in previous years. I would really like to see something other than JavaScript (etc) on the web.

Other than that I see the mobile app market exploding. More people will (if not already) be on mobile platforms than the standard computer. If there was a seamless way to merge mobile and web apps the possibilities are endless.
that line struck me as well. its kind of a philosophical statement, actually. mathematics is a formal logical system but nothing in computing is pure mathematics, even if the theory of computing and the theorems of cryptography are expressed in mathematics. ultimately a machine is actually DOING the cryptographic operations and that solidly brings it into the realm of physics.
Yet on mobile, we go out of our ways to make things look and feel native, even if the web's being used.

The concept of run anywhere, from a code execution standpoint, is fine. That doesn't preclude using platform specific APIs to make the application better. Like using C# but targeting iOS's UI toolkits. Or using signals from a Mono application.

While MS may have certainly intended to fragment Java, the core concept of platform specific APIs isn't inherently a bad thing.

Also note that during this time, MS supported Windows on non-Intel architectures so I'm not sure about the x86 comment.
Developing a Web App with Only Mobile Devices, Part 2: A Working Dev Environment
Yeah, I read TFA. And since I follow those stories for years, what I wanted to say was that the fact that this particular instance happened in this way doesn't mean it's the only way this thing can happen. It's naive to think so.

The reward and their "research facilities" would have gotten to her sooner or later. You do know that they also employ very talented hackers (of the Kevin Mittnick sense)? And that of course anybody who knew her identity could have snitched sooner or later?

It was just a matter of how badly they wanted to get to her...
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Read the article yourself, that is quite possibly disinformation. The situation over there is very complex, and nothing is pure truth. Unless she practiced OPSEC above and beyond what most untrained people are capable of, it was always a high risk that it'd end this way.

I've got nothing but respect for her. Her execution and the violence and organised crime is abhorrent. I wish there was something I could do.
I feel so sorry for this woman!

I'm quite unfamiliar with the specifics of the whole Mexican cartel situation, but has there been any international aid or effort to help eradicate this?
Yes, I agree with everything you said. When I said VPN, I actually meant Tor (and even mentioned it in my original post), because the concept seems to go over some people's heads.
http://blog.intercom.io/the-end-of-apps-as-we-know-them/ - This article about where mobile apps are going resonated with me. It says we're eventually moving away from a bank of homescreen icons to notification centers and all actions related to certain context are present in the notification itself (like, reply). Moreover certain products/services might not need to have their own app - piggybacking as child cards of others app notifications. Very fascinating read.
That kind of cynicism is based upon an irrational distinction.
Fax and email as services does not really age. They are simply integrated as servers, messaging applications and printers. A VCR is now Netflix minus the record button. Byproducts of the underlying network topography, storage options and short term legal agreements. A future without fax is a service restriction, not modernity.
Loose coopling?
While that all may be true, Healthcare is a completely different space. Importantly Epic is years ahead on meaningful use requirements, and they seem to have a seat at the table so to speak deciding what those requirements might be.

They also have lock in, once you're an Epic hospital, it might bankrupt you trying to switch. The training costs, testing equipment interfaces, building new data interfaces, HL7 engines, and on and on.

Additionally, if you try to switch to a 2nd or 3rd EMR in 10 years the doctors will riot.

AND... if some you new EMR should ever be implicated in killing someone, well you're done.
So in your theory, bloodthirsty murdering cartels are going to kidnap people, but let them go if they hit the panic encryption button on their phones or happen to be using a secret password.

This is an interesting view of how drug cartels work. Personally, I don't know what the penalty for "contempt of drug cartel that just kidnapped you" is, but it seems unlikely to lead to a positive outcome.
Thats a great idea actually!