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> I'm seriously surprised at how many people here are fans of Yudkowsky

In my (admittedly extremely limited) exposure to him as a person through videos of his talks and some of his transhumanist writing, I didn't really get the impression that he's anything but a very nice and gifted person. So I think this practice of judging or dismissing entire lives by applying a simplistic theme is an antipattern, and this is true here, too. There's a reason why ad hominem attacks are generally frowned-upon.

Yes, I personally found the certainty with which several conclusions are asserted as universal truths on LessWrong in general offputting at times, especially when used in conjunction with the Rationality label, insidiously implying any other analyses of the subject matter would be inherently irrational.

However, some subjectively bogus tenets notwithstanding, I still think it's a valiant and intellectually stimulating attempt at building a new philosophical framework which could potentially keep up with science and future human development. At the very least LessWrong Rationality is a good basis for an ongoing discourse on the subject, and at its best it demonstrates a unique exploration of ethics and, indeed, rationality.

You may argue most or even all of this framework is lifted from earlier philosophical and scientific achievements, but in some areas standing on the shoulders of giants is actually a good sign you're in the right place.
Although I'm involved in both these enterprises, let's not confuse their goals.

CommonMark is currently focused on the task of giving a decent spec for the core syntax and robust, efficient implementations; extensions will wait til that project is done, but certainly aren't ruled out.

Pandoc has always been in the game of extending the feature set. Here are just some of the Markdown extensions pandoc supports: LaTeX math (which can be rendered in a variety of formats, including native Word and MathML), LaTeX macros, inline LaTeX, automatically numbered examples and cross-references to these, automatically generated citations (using CSL styles), super and subscripts, strikeout, figures, YAML metadata, definition lists, several styles of tables, fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting, header identifiers, and footnotes. scholdoc just adds a few things on top of all this (and many of them could be implemented in pandoc filters). As noted in one of the other comments on this thread, most of the features scholdoc adds are under active discussion in pandoc as well. So it's not that pandoc and scholdoc have different aims; pandoc just moves more slowly, because it has to worry about how features are implemented in many more output formats, and it operates under some other constraints that scholdoc rejects (e.g. trying to avoid the use of English words like "Figure" for syntax cues).
Appreciate the meta css rules to explain on hover. Now let's build an ascii rasterizer on top http://imgur.com/VyEAzsm.
There are different approaches to being direct - one can be brutally blunt while still having the recipient maintain dignity. I prefer this approach in general - the trick is if the person does not take it well, then you stress that it is not personal, or meant that they are necessarily a bad developer.

It is shocking to be on the receiving end, but it forces the person to think about it more and internalize it better. I have seen it give great results for people's subsequent code, including my own. The developers have all thanked me for it and feel the approach has helped them grow immensely.
Nice idea. Even just preventing the information to get sucked up during search engine indexing and cached in the description can be a valuable side effect.
s/over 3 days/no more than 3 days/
I don't understand why the trackball died. I can move a mouse pointer much faster with it than with a trackpad.
Google's G1 had also a trackball. I think this was the only smartphone with a trackball.
Neither one has requested permission to use the microphone.
You could motorize it so it moves maybe half a desk width per day in the absence of any other movement. Just put a rubbish bin on the downstream end.
Because it's a sure way of getting a RSI? I've used of the thumb type and it was awful, couldn't stand a week.
You are correct in so far as you are correct ;) The flip side however is the large quantity of jobs that are not really useful but are simply created for a variety of ignoble reasons. Worst among them is the creation of jobs for the purpose of improving "employment rates". Nearly as bad is the proliferation of bureaucracies --typically the creation of paper trails and overseers to monitor other paper trials and overseers. The "work ethic" can lead to perverse incentives, to "make work" where none is really necessary.
Normal or not normal? If a work can be found in pi, then one would think a Finite State Gambler (FSG) would succeed on the portion of pi equivalent to the work. But FSGs cannot succeed on normal sequences, meaning this sequence would be non-normal.

Of course this begs the question of whether a number normal over an infinite sequence can contain sub-sequences that are non-normal - sequences of 100 tails will occur in sufficiently large completely normal (randomized) sequences of random coin tosses, e.g.
Yes. I liked the no faxing part too.
This is also known as value _creation_ versus value _transference_:

http://halfsigma.typepad.com/half_sigma/2008/03/value-creati...

I do not completely agree with the guy's views; in particular I do not believe in there being anything other than value transference, and value "creation" means you are closer to physics, transferring value at a physical level, than to politics and sales, transferring value from other people. But it does cut the bullshit.
I.e. if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about.

But even people who have nothing to hide have a lot to worry about, because merely coming to the attention of the government can be disastrous.

Say you're caught on camera at the post office or the corner gas station. There's an ongoing investigation, and the government observed that the subject of the investigation passed that camera yesterday. They decide to capture all other passers by within N hours of that event. You fall within that window.

The investigators do this with every other camera available to them.

Since you and the subject are going about your business at one location, there's a fair chance that you both have gone about your business in other nearby locations. Say you pass that filter.

There's a fair chance that you both were at some location at the same time, maybe even within eye sight of each other. Now you're a person of interest, and your name appears in the investigation.

Now remember that any law enforcement agency is fundamentally a bureaucracy. Almost no one actually knows how to manage; some are accidentally good managers, but most have been "Peter principled" up into management. Since we're enlightened enough to know by now that almost no one knows how to manage, we've tried to bring some fairness into the employee evaluation process, by using metrics.

"That which gets measured gets done." Any rational employee is going to pay attention to what he gets evaluated on. Number of tickets written. Number of suspects questioned. Number of arrests. Number of convictions resulting from arrests.

The investigation is going slowly. The investigator hasn't been out of the office for a week. His boss has been glaring at him lately. The investigator picks you to get himself out of the office. He visits you at work because you both work days and it's more intimidating to a subject to be embarrassed and nervous in view of co-workers. You've just suffered a minor injury to your reputation.

Surveillance shows that you both visit some location often, and often at the same time. Church. Store. Post Office. Or maybe you have an acquaintance in common, even if you don't know each other.

"We'd like you to wear a wire and contact the subject." Nah, I don't want to do that.

"It looks bad for you that you come into contact with this subject often. I'd hate for you to be investigated yourself." No really, this is not my thing.

"Remember that thing you thought was innocent and legal? It actually wasn't, and we're prepared to offer you a plea deal." Um ... OK

Totally made up but plausible scenario, and probably played out with different details daily. But at least the investigator is still in the running for an upgrade to his GS rating.
Probably to install nginx from the ports and use that. I don't think supporting web sockets would fit the scope of the base system.
HTC Hero and original Desire had one too, not sure when HTC stopped or if anyone else used them though.
Oh hey btw I didnt mean at work. I dont goof off when I'm on the clock. I meant after work.
They need to hide their cameras better then. That thing is very obvious.

And if a random customer blows your sting operation, then I guess it's bad luck or bad planning. You can't expect people or journalists to know a camera is part of a sting operation.
Ok, we changed the url from http://time.com/3728441/microsoft-keyboard-folding/ to the Microsoft page.
Anyone have an idea what that aberration is in the hook of the Q?
So we need starving children to convince alcoholics to give up the bottle and do drudgery work no one really needs? Er.. What?

I think you've made the perfect case for this article's point for the need for a different "frame".
It is all too common to see developers experience burnout from 60+ hour weeks in order to attempt to meet a deadline because managers were awful at planning.

Another pattern I've seen is the dreaded "artificial deadline" from on high. A project is structured to meet a tight deadline, resources are reallocated, nights and weekends are worked, stress ripples through the team. At great emotional expense the deadline is met, and the team submits the project, victorious.

And then nothing is heard for several days. No feedback from the heavens. Inquiries are made, and it's discovered that, well, no, in fact there was no particular reason this project had to be finished by that particular date. Managers have moved on, checkboxes have been checked. Because the project was nominally successful, the episode is used to further confirm the management theory that "the dev team needs deadlines, even arbitrary ones, or things don't get done." The project size and time frame is now baked into management's institutional memory as the new baseline.
"For example, they do not plan to add syntax highlighting blocks (the ```some code``` on GitHub) to their implementation, because they believe that it is outside the scope of markdown."

To correct the record, fenced code blocks have been there from the beginning: http://spec.commonmark.org/0.18/#fenced-code-blocks.
Are there any advantages to using this over other methods for large text?

Also, can anyone think of any practical uses for this?
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How many people are actually working on distributing clean water, growing food for nourishment and making shelters, relative to the size of the workforce?

The point of the article isn't that we could never work ("work will doubtless always be necessary"), but against the glorification of work and the condemnation of those who choose to do only the necessary.
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You might like https://www.trulyergonomic.com/store/index.php or a Kinesis with the height adjusters http://m.thewirecutter.com/reviews/comfortable-ergo-keyboard...

Edit: reviews of other mechanical ergo keyboards: http://www.anandtech.com/tag/ergonomic
I've still got mine. Occurred to me today that I should be buried with it.
But that is a date convention for innumerates. Any assocation between pi and MM/DD/YY is ironically tragic (or vice versa).
Blackberry curves had it.
A Review of Graeber's Essay on “Bullshit Jobs” (2013)
Seems cool, but the order they list the supported devices (iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows) tells everything about their current self-esteem.
It all sort of clicked for me when I realized Modernism was no longer a style or a democratization of architecture but rather a reflection of a lack of investment in the built environment.

I'm actually a lapsed architect. I was really passionate about making great communities and urban environments but the realities of capital and our political structures just don't make that feasible right now. What an unfortunate industry where the best buildings were created a century ago. Who wants to be apart of that?

Regarding VR helping architects: Maybe? Robots CNC'ing interesting facades might help even more. Unfortunately technology has been used by architects to undercut other architects, and not for the benefit of the building. This is a fantastic article that I agree with:

http://www.utexas.edu/architecture/center/benedikt/articles/...
Take a look at Chisel (http://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu)... they call it a "Hardware Construction Language" instead of a HDL, as you describe how the hardware works in chisel code, which is just a Scala embedded language. It is then able to generate FPGA or VLSI optimized verilog, and a C++ cycle accurate simulator. I have been using it for the past ~9 months designing a new chip.
Pia don't get me wrong, I think all the initiatives taken in isolation are for the better. Heck, I've been stuck in Belgrano after 2am and the only options I had to get back to Retiro were taking an expensive taxi ride or take two hours on a bus. I get it.

As someone who spent countless hours in public hospitals in La Plata, I applaud giving nurses a tool to get the rewards they deserve. I wonder if my favorite nurse - Gladys - who cheered me for hours every day while I was laying on a bed feeling like crap, is using it. She grew up in a slum outside La Plata. I remember having conversations with her about what I was doing with my startup in Sacramento and how the whole thing flew right over her head: there's not much time to get acquainted with the internet when you work extra hours every day and you go back to a home without internet.

And that's the general gist of it: all these things are great, but they are not really accessible to everyone. The people in Chaco or Formosa who barely have enough to support their families don't care about internet polls. People who first need to survive and barely have access to basic education won't have a vote in this "democracy". A democracy of the lucky few is no democracy.

As to the funding: a greenback goes a long way in Argentina, and YC gives a substantial amount of money to their startups. I'll take your word, and that of your associates, that the money will be spent on the startup. I believe you, but that doesn't mean it can't be used as a straw man by some disgruntled government supporter looking to discredit your work.

About the US influencing Argentinian politics... I'm not saying there's anything more sinister than the obvious influence exercised through diplomatic and economic means, but denying the US considers every country within its sphere of influence would be myopic. I can guarantee that the US doesn't like this new string of leftist South Americans governments one bit.
That doesn't fold though. It's a foot wide and 4cm thick. The whole point of this new keyboard here is that it folds, and that it's really thin, so that it's like 6" x 5" x 1cm, and can go in your handbag or coat pocket.

Much better prior art here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Palm-Vx-Portable-Keyboard-105Keys/dp... (has 2 fold points, feels like a laptop keyboard)
I meant "all JVM implementations of languages that also exist in C". Sorry I was unclear.
The title of this post is misleading IMO. Real title of the story is:

"Why A Mortgage Is Not Actually An Inflation Hedge Itself, But Can Provide Access To Investments That Are"

I don't even think his argument is totally correct, because buying a house on a mortgage is in many ways a leveraged investment in real estate, which certainly could qualify as an inflation hedge in and of itself.
I added a sequencer - but also added a record to wave feature so the performance part of it should now be a lot more fun :)
Record to wav is now possible! :)
Here's what the parent is referring to http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong#Roko.27s_Basilisk.

I'm in agreement regarding the absurdity and group think of Less Wrong, for reasons that aren't that relevant to this thread. That said, HPMOR is a fairly entertaining read, once you can get past the feeling that you're having an ideology forced on you through Harry's point of view. The book reminds me of things Ayn Rand has written in that sense.
Not as much effort as you might think. Command-line rendering of html (including css and js) and taking a screenshot is not very difficult. If a site used this method, and someone is highly motivated to break that captcha, the effort put in would be nothing compared to the benefit of bypassing the "security".
As for the citation, there is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive_sequence

If this is correct, then you are correct, the conjecture would hold if pi were normal. But then wouldn't an FSG be able to succeed on the sub-sequence? Of is that acceptable, provided that the FSG fails on the overall sequence?
the thumb type cured me of rsi. i swear by them ... can't go back to the dragging type.
I find this useful. Quick way to exit firefox and save the state of all your tabs in one quick shot :)
I would gladly buy something less portable than that if it was still at least somewhat portable and was half as comfortable as Microsoft's Natural Keyboard line.
One of the joys of emulation is not having to use the lousy keyboards some machines came with. Might as well just use the real thing.
I'm not sure the problem is invertible like that: https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/3516

There may be no shortcut.
location = 'data:text/html,<script>location = "location.toString + \"A\"";' + 'A'.repeat( 100000000 );
Highly recommend picking up the book (The Psychology of Computer Programming)

I have a low attention level, and one of my favorite things about this is you can really jump around and pick up the chapters from anywhere.

Also despite the title of the book, its actually a very light and entertaining read.
> I'm not sure how this is different from HDDs?

HDDs don't have a set end of life. Instead you use them till the die naturally. SSD you need to be notified when the end of life is.

There is nothing inherently wrong with either way, it's the action AFTER the death (of either) that is the problem: HDDs do they best they can even after a failure. SSDs just die because they are programed to, not because they have to.

Saying: But you are warned does not excuse that.
It's possible. He did however make an offer to reveal the entire plot to anyone who could puzzle out a fairly minor part of it pretty early on.
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I have yet to see a good stylesheet for AsciiDoc's DocBook output for creating a decent PDF. Do you have recommendations? I love AsciiDoc, but am only using it to generate HTML right now.
The future of PCs are phones that you lay next to keyboards, mice, and monitors. The best of both worlds.
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It's bluetooth so it's compatible with any bluetooth capable OS.
But the types of work people do these days are increasingly unconnected to the production of goods and services. In fact, you could argue that a lot that work is in fact anti-productive because it introduces unnecessary extra steps and crippling bureaucratic overhead to production.
It's not so hard to explain: he writes well and generally has something interesting to say. This is more than enough to keep people reading.

That doesn't mean everything he writes stands up, but he's smart enough that you have to think a while about what might be wrong with his arguments, and that's entertainment enough.
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Did they removed the windows logo from it? <3
I had a tri-fold one from Taurus back in the day. Worked really great with my pocketpc.
This is almost perfect. They didn't reinvent the keyboard of course, and I expect the typing experience to be somewhat crap but still... compared to a 5inch touchscreen and for $99?

Wait - how in the world is a bluetooth keyboard not be compatible with Android 4.2, iOS 6, etc? [1] Isn't a bluetooth keyboard, a bluetooth keyboard? Is "support" defined as "exactly what is says on the label" (months of battery life), or "pairs; keystrokes appear on the screen"?

(10 minutes later of googling later)

Maybe I have partially answered this for myself: This claims bluetooth LE (4.0), and these are the OSes that "do not support it". Question: Is the 4.0 Low Energy mode "exclusive"? Can 4.0 hardware talk to 3.0 devices, even if they draw more power?

(to the wikipedia stations)

Bluetooth Smart is not backward-compatible with the previous, often called Classic, Bluetooth protocol. The Bluetooth 4.0 specification permits devices to implement either or both of the LE and Classic systems[2]

So here comes an actual question: Is this exclusively LE?

If I know Microsoft at all, this will be exclusively LE and it will suck. If you claim "months of battery life"[3] you can just as well throw in an "unofficial" fallback mode to the classic stack to make it work with, oh-only every device built since the late 90s, even if it is "weeks" of battery life.

It is just like MS to introduce an artificial limitation of only talking to 2012+ stuff for no reason... ("almost there"). Although I genuinely hope I'm wrong.

On the plus side, if this is the case, I would stake a considerable amount of my fortune (let's call it $10) that within months of release, some chinese manufacturer will come out with a close-enough version of it which will play with all the bluetooths, even if "accidentally" (older chips being cheaper). That will be a laugh and a definite purchase, and that will make this rant relevant, because I'll be all clairvoyant-in-the-downvotes.[4]

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/support/compatibilit... then select the UFK from the dropdown. MS, where's my permalink?

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

[3] Not holding my breath about this. We'll see.

[4] Parting thought: Bluetooth is as old as USB. That blows my mind a little.
I'm seriously unsurprised to find the token why-does-anyone-like-Yudkowsky-he-doesn't-have-a-PhD-and-hasn't-even-saved-the-world-yet criticism in a thread about his Harry Potter fan fiction.

He's a great writer, and that should be more than enough for the purposes of recommending a thing he wrote.
What I find more interesting given how much people love high ceilings why they won’t pay the extra cost of having them? What is stopping the market supplying what people want?
Is there something about a camera at a post office that is worse than e.g. the cameras my local police department has mounted on certain street corners?

The Post Office is a federal agency. And this is Fox News.
Moderators at research and question social networks need to learn to critique and codify questions instead of people, and repress the aggressive tendency to escalate people based on how intelligently they form terms alone against help.