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Contraceptive innovation is WAY behind other industries. Condoms are completely outdated, the pill really hasn't changed since the 1960s, the IUD since the '70s, the "new" implants are really just a minor evolution of the pill, etc. You'd think such a basic human need would be more of a priority.

My startup is helping to tackle this problem by trying to inform people that menstrual cycle data, on its own, can help prevent pregnancy with the same efficacy as hormonal contraception (and this isn't the rhythm method, despite the common misconception). While it doesn't prevent the spread of STIs like condoms, tech that replaces "modern" methods for women could change the industry.

We actually just released a marketing campaign for that exact purpose:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3PzfJ4caalY

I'm really looking forward to the much-needed innovation in this industry.
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I think the argument against the remittance case is that if you're going USD->BTC->EUR, you're probably better off just going USD->EUR because it doesn't expose you to the risk of BTC. I actually disagree with this; the remittance case can be quite useful when the government has an artificial exchange rate that disagrees with reality. Maybe that falls under the "illegal" category.

But as for illegal uses, the US dollar is useful for drugs, gambling, etc. specifically because it's very useful in legal transactions as well. There's a chicken and egg problem: most people don't engage in illegal activity, but right now if you use BTC it's a red flag that something illegal is going on. If you want BTC to be really useful for illegal transactions, it needs to be useful for legal ones and gain wider adoption.

That was my reading of it, anyway.
Not at all. The US dollar has the economic and military might of the world's most powerful country behind it. What exactly does bitcoin have behind it again?
Really loved this post when I read it the first time: http://www.bhorowitz.com/lead_bullets

Same vein.
Cars are a huge waste of money. But home ownership can be a incredible wealth building tool with tax benefits.
You can get free condoms just about everywhere (including the United States). The problem is that you get them free from your local family-planning clinic, or community centre, etc.

People who are at risk for having unprotected sex probably need the condoms to be easily available (i.e free in high-schools, free in bars/nightclubs, etc.). If they have enough forethought in order to make a trip to one of the places where they are free, they probably have enough forethought to buy them themselves without problems.
The previous book was self-published, self-edited, etc. This is a properly edited and updated version of that book. Covers up to GNU make 4.0.

If you are one of the few who bought the old one then it might not be worth buying the new one.

But this book does have exactly 2^8 pages :-)
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Do you have an example of your "pet naive unoptimized UI engine" ? Or some code to show ? :)
I feel like most startups practice hollacracy; everyone's in an open plan office and if anyone needs anything from you, they just holla atchu!
In the rural or suburban US, it is very common for homes to have large propane tanks for heating and cooking, due to them being too far away from supply lines for natural gas. The tank is typically much larger than your example.

Not to mention essentially all new homes have central A/C with one of the heat exchangers "installed on a specially constructed concrete plinth." We have plenty of space; it's simply not an issue.
It can be upsetting to see other people seemingly squander those connections. When you work hard on your own thing, and it doesn't gain as much attention, maybe even releasing first and then getting eclipsed by these competitors, it's frustrating. And then you sit there and stare at your hands, not knowing what to do differently with your own stuff to make it any different. Because it has nothing to do with the stuff, just as you say. And it certainly has nothing to do with now. It's the connections, gained 6 months, 6 years ago.
Are you silently protesting the spelling of tumblr or was that just a typo?
That's not an explanation, that's restating the fact.
Thanks for that link!
It looks like it was just updated today.
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We really are going down the libertarian rabbit hole when even the absence of government is blamed on government.
Transaction fees are typically less than the equivalent of a penny. If I want to give 100 people each a nickel, how much would that cost in Bitcoin, and how much would that cost in USD via Visa? Hint: You can't even do it over Visa, because the receiver is liable for the transaction fees, which have minimums much higher than a nickel.
hah, no kidding. The term is thrown around so easily now that in most circles it's lost it's meaning and resorted to someone with a very basic understanding of anything.
> HTTPS. They can't tell what URL a user is requesting.

I am sure they have a private key of some of the CAs shipped with major browsers lying around somewhere...
I'm going to ask:

Why do we care what teens use?

- They don't make significant purchase decisions

- Ad-views are mostly wasted on them

- The interactions and contexts they like at their age, they likely grow out of before you can monetize the longterm relationships

Why are we chasing after the teenage fools gold. Owning a communications channel that is used by adults making significant purchasing decisions on a regular basis while doing work via you channel seems to be infinitely more valuable.
You can't compare a random Italian university with Stanford and MIT. There are extremely selective schools in Europe too. In Italy, if I'm not mistaken, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa is quite reputable.
> when people realize the only value Bitcoin has is in the belief that Bitcoin has value.

We aren't on the gold standard anymore, that's how all currency works now.
agreed, but you're too early. The current buzzword your looking for to put in your marketing material is 'Machine Learning'. Revisit 'Combinatorial Optimization', possibly combined with 'Cloud' again in a few years.

Edit: hey great post of yours btw. http://jeremykun.com/2014/09/29/hybrid-images/
Bitcoin has also pushed the art of cryptographic hash calculation forward. This helps us better understand how to protect ourselves from large-scale (government) brute-forcing of password hashes, for example.

As others have said; Bitcoin is more than just a currency.
Many Facebook users don't know that their news feeds are filtered by algorithms
Oh, I'm not saying there isn't a pro-government bias. I'm saying that it's just a bias, not a complete rejection. If you're pro-government, you can be lazy, but if you're against it, you can still be upvoted, you just have to work a little harder to overcome the bias.
Be honest here.

Would you have bet money that Truecrypt was backdoored?

I don't think many people would have. Because they didn't really believe it. They thought an audit would be a "good assurance," but I really doubt many of them considered donating the money to Truecrypt, and the relative value of each.
Basic economics are just, like, what the man wants you to think, man.
Of course you have agency in government.

You do vote, don't you? You go and meet your politicians, right? You talk to your fellow citizens and organize among them, right?

I, as an individual, have put policy bugs in local politicians' ears just by showing up, shaking hands, making a persuasive case.

And that's just from a few years off-and-on involvement, no money changing hands, no campaign funding, etc.

I guess if you stay home and do nothing, then yeah, you have no agency.
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I'm not trying to paint all governments with the same brush. I'm just saying that, perhaps, you don't know anything about Somalia and are just using it as a strawman against small government.

edit: it's one, single country that has had a very violent history, not a case study in deregulation of markets.
So what would you place in the "legal/useful" quadrant in the author's post?

Maybe I'm just lacking imagination but it seems that bitcoin's uses are 90% speculation and 10% illegal. What's the killer app that's actually going to make it a useful currency rather than an asset resembling a dutch tulip?
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if you can't see who's bottom of the spine to kiss, it doesn't make you the one.

One can look at the Borg for the example of ultimate flat organization - they have only Queen - and they have highest possible communication/collaboration at the level beyond wet dreams of the open floor office zealots.

Anyway, i'm eagerly expecting our management to start pushing on us Lean Agile Scrum Holacracy in the near future. We've already been Leaned, Agiled, Scrummed and as for getting Holacratized ... we'll adapt too. Resistance is futile anyway.
We, the People, can elect representatives that do have a say in our economic policy.
We're all adults here

Almost certainly not true.
> - Facebook is infact full of old people. People are stuck using it because most people have it.

Yeah, and most people I know really only use it for chat, and only out of convenience.

I will occasionally use FB to post pictures and content to curate my public image in case people want to search for me, and most of the people I see on news feed appear to be doing the same thing. The rest are posting stupid content which they will regret making public in 10 years.

Personally, I'm still trying to find a social networking tool which provides truly transient, private communication which is securely deleted and not logged or mined by the company providing the service. Snapchat seems to come closest to this model, but the fact that it is limited to mobile and it's weak encryption prevent it from being used for actually meaningful conversations.
The honest answer: tax evasion and money laundering.
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That's how currency worked when we were on the gold standard, too.
Looks like we'd have to install it and play it to know how the gameplay works. Is it based on a well-known puzzle that's already described online somewhere?
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Dude, don't be so shallow. You'll be surprised, but HTML, CSS, and JS are not the web. To realize this simple fact, you can try looking up the statistics on the number of websites made in vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, or see how many there are the 'Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS developers' out there. That means, if you only know HTML, CSS, and JS, you can't make practical web apps, and you can't be a web developer either.

I am familiar with HTML, CSS, and JS, but can't make anything except the simplest static website.
Just a typo. I fixed it.
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Microsoft's patent promise does not override the MIT license. Whether or not the MIT license implies a patent grant is an open question not yet tested in court. If that unconditional (implicit) patent grant succeeds in court then Microsoft's patent promise is unnecessary. If that fails in court, then the patent promise protects compatible implementations (like Mono).
Got any examples of using Ghost as a non-blog CMS?
I'm curious to see if anyone has rolled out any sites or themes using Ghost in the way that Drupal and other CMS' are used, to moderate a website's pages, specifically not for any blogging purpose.

Thanks.
Holacracy isn't about getting rid of managers. Keep an open mind and keep reading about it.
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You describe the Western Union of bitcoin. The game changer will be the Nasdaq of bitcoin. The frictionless issuance of stocks bonds and dividends will change everything. Operating agreements will be codified in software and organizations can operate entirely transparently with a degree of accountability never before seen.

Why would this be cool? Communities can come together and finance join ventures that were previously too small to be viable (incorporating, compliance, lawyers, bribes, etc). Money can now be pooled and organized in a way that mitigates the risk of theft and corruption. While the software isn't ready for this today, I think it's a short matter of time before we get there.
Truecrypt was always open-source, the source was at least always visible if it wasn't an OSS-approved license.

Truecrypt's primary installation base was Windows. Where's the audit for that?

I don't think the developer quit out of spite. I think they quit because they felt underappreciated, overwhelmed with un-fun requests related to the audit, and were very rudely awakened to the fact that it's easier for a project that implies Truecrypt is backdoored to raise money than for Truecrypt to raise money.
It's nice that TypeScript is aligning itself to ES7... though I'm not sure quite how I feel about the type system. It's very similar to ActionScript3/EcmaScript4, which I never saw much actual advantage to.

JS with small modules, using functional object composition over OO practices is easily testable and predictable. Although all the OO sugar will make some happy, to me it's half a step backwards.
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No, I can't. I think the ability to edit disappears after a while.
The ergonomics seem right for walking about and catching buses/trains/trams. The Beats headphones my students sport include that socket on the headphone end so if the lead gets caught, the plug pulls out.

My huge Beyerdynamic cans would represent a health and safety issue if worn outside the house and the 400 Ohm impedance is not a good match for battery powered devices.

The humble Sennheiser HD201 headphones seem fairly popular for those less well-heeled students upgrading from the supplied ear-buds mind you. Lots of bang for the buck.
A couple of inexpensive PIR sensors and a couple of wireless IP cameras.

Sensors can trigger video camera, then images uploaded to cloud. Or just use the sensor built into camera (not as good).

The same sensor can alert your phone, and send image after which you can choose to alert cops or take more pictures or trigger alarm or even talk to the intruder all from your phone.

Some security cameras have "alarm out" and "audio out" for connecting optional alarms and speakers. I like Lorex IP cameras, but there's plenty of choice.
Fair point.

I think when it comes to getting side-tracked, it's partly to do with the current 'pull' model of going into the phone for information, vs a 'push' model of the information coming to you. Though, as you point out, either is distracting and self-discipline is the real answer to staying focused.

The critical thing there will be managing what notifications you get, and which you silence. This is why iOS 8 made such a big change in the way notification permissions are handled.
This is good to know. Thank you for the great work. I've been looking for alternatives, but I think I'll stick with TC for now.

1. Download it for your OS : https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm

2. Verify the hash : https://defuse.ca/truecrypt-7.1a-hashes.htm
Why would you not want to consider the step failed if it didn't produce all its expected targets?
The article addresses debris-related engine failure mitigation.
They seem to be creating two classifications, one sort of "correct, pristine" meme that somehow mutates randomly and is somehow more natural; another which is apparently a bad thing, which is a meme that is manipulated to intentionally spread.

But this is a poor distinction. All memes as we think of them are artificial. There's nothing more natural about the changing shape of pottery than there is about cropping a photo and applying text to it.

A meme is a idea, an element of culture. When they spread they persist. The idea of making an image macro is a meme, the idea to share it online is too, the subject is too. They are more or less effective depending on how likely they will be shared. If I were to make an image macro that wasn't interesting and nobody else repeated it, it's still a meme, but it's impotent and it dies out.

The difference between image macros and pottery is more to do with how we communicate and how we handle new ideas. The Internet makes exposure to these things so much wider. But similarly we pass them on because of the simple feedback that we get, the e-pats on the back, the LOLs, the well playeds, the trolling. This is also promoted by the wide exposure. If you post an impressive image macro to the internet, you might get a response from 1% of the people who see it. You might get someone to copy it 0.1% of the time. In a place like reddit that might mean you have it copied 10 times for one post. If you were in ancient Assyria and you developed some equally impressive pottery technique, you'd be lucky if one person you show it to appreciates it and incredibly lucky for someone to want to copy it.

The Internet is kind of like a rainforest or coral reef for memes. Food is abundant, so all sorts of small but curious diversity pops up. They're not the most effective ideas, just the flashiest, and in some ways this might detract from the strongest ideas because they're not as flashy.

But that has nothing to do with how we define memes, but rather how easy it is to share information on the Internet. I don't think you can say it's a good thing or a bad thing. There's a lot of diversity in ideas with something as abundant in meme food as the Internet, it leads to a bit more chaos and people, genetically, are adapted to a much slower rate of information and change.
Does any American website enumerate in their terms of use the software that you are allowed to use to access them? Could they?
I think the etymology of the word "nerd" has evolved to mean that you have a deep and detailed understanding of a particular subject.

I more see it used as a way to signal that you are interested in a subject relatively more than whatever main group you identify with. So someone would call themselves a "book nerd" even if they only read a couple books a year, because most of their friends don't read at all.
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Google just released its 2014 Android Security Year in Review, an intensely data-driven report intended to bring transparency to the vulnerability of phones running on Android. Its findings: fewer than 0.15% of devices that only install from Google Play had a Potentially Harmful App (PHA)—apps that pose a threat to users or their data— installed. Overall, fewer than 1% of Android devices had a PHA installed in 2014. Apple, Microsoft, and Blackberry haven’t released similar figures."
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>Computer science is often treated as an offshoot of mathematics when, in reality, you need to do far, far more writing than advanced math. Most students are going to be leaving school and working on professional programming, where they'll largely work with a group of people jointly maintaining systems. And these systems require good writing skills to effectively write documentation for the code, as well as writing the design documentation.

Computer science is an offshoot of mathematics— or it was until everyone decided that "computer science" meant "software engineering."
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How do you explain the improvements that have occurred since the collapse of Barre's regime? That seems to indicate that anarchy cannot be blamed for the poor conditions in Somalia compared to, say, wealthy Western nations.
Ah, interesting. It's been a very long time since I learned anything about Greek; I was imagining the root as "holos" as in "rule by the whole". Thanks for the clarification. I'll try to stop being annoyed by the word now that I know it's not actually wrong.
All social networks have value, if 1.) they enable forms of communication you find valuable, and 2.) you can find the people that broadcast relevant information.

Personally I find niche social sites to be far more valuable than general sites.

HN is social news for technical audiences.
Reddit is social news curation across different demographics.
GH is social software development.
Facebook is Linkdin for my personal life.
Tumblr is lazy blogging. Very noisy.
Snapchat is faster picture texting. For many people this really is just cereal-bowl-boring.
Instagram is photography made easy. I'd probably use this if I had more friends into real photography, but as-is it's just more cereal bowl pics.

There's always noise but niche networks encourages higher quality because people care about the niche. Social noise is much less acceptable there. General sites will always just be "random shit no one wants to hear about in person".
There's definitely a certain breed of people who get off more on showing other people that they're AT a concert/event rather then participating in the experience of the event.

It's evident that some people express little interest in the music being played, but rather enjoy taking selfies with the artists in the background.
Heh. :) Even though I could, I won't disagree with you.

Anyway, I view most comment sections as informal/idle chit-chat, and not courtroom/dissertation situations where everything needs to be cited and/or "proved". When I'm commenting I'm usually smiling to myself or amused, not angry or trying to "win" anything.
This is a similar course with some overlap: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15251/