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There is - experience in critical situations of similar nature. Experience makes it less severe and more manageable. Couple personal examples.

I did teakwondo and kickboxing. When I was starting Teakwondo (~16 year old) first sparrings were dominated by fear and anxiety. I didnt know how to act, what to expect, I was physically shaking. Fast forward few months and I was in control, anxiety turned into excitement, fear into caution. My body and mind learned to use that sudden adrenaline injection to my advantage. Two years later I moved to kickboxing. Its very different sport, more violent, faster and can be significantly more painful in the ring, nonetheless my experience from teakwondo translated perfectly. Since then I had couple of dangerous situations on the street (drunk idiots, football fans etc) and again I was in control of my body and reactions, my previous experience of being punched repeatedly in the face inside the ring helped me stay calm :)

Second example is virtual. Eve Online is a space themed MMO. Everything you own in the game has to be earned or paid for with real money, and all losses are persistent and final. Someone kills your ship worth two months of heavy missioning? its GONE forever. This design choice makes Eve Online the only computer game inducing real fight-or-flight reaction that I know of(outside tournaments/leagues). Losses can be as small as 10 minutes of your time (couple of cents), and as severe as $1000 blink mission ship you spend whole last year to build. First PVP fights in Eve were exactly the same as my first sparring 10 years before :) heart pounding, hands shaking, sphincter gripped tight etc :) and mistakes ending in expensive wrecks. It took some time and experience to fully take control of the situation.

Can write something about bike riding(crashing), but it will be the same story again :)

I wonder if pilots with military background, trained in battle sims in high pressure situations, are significantly better at handling emergency. My own experience makes me think definitely yes.
This is the most ironically stupid thing about hacker culture. It's just as 'follow the leader' as directly following the leader, and it makes the culture and the people in it definably predictable.

Actually reasoning about stuff when stuff can be reasoned about, and considering most opinions to be superfluous nonsense is the right direction. Opinions follow abstract models. You can pretty much find a computational or mathematical model, throw some nouns and verbs on it, and bam, you've got an opinion that has nothing to do with reality.
You may also enjoy two books by Edith Hamilton as more "preparation":

"Mythology" is a summary of the most common "stories" of Greek and Roman (and a bit Norse) mythology, good to understand contents and allusions.

"The Greek Way" is her "love letter" to Greece - why it was (according to her) better than our society, the differences in general thinking compared to Egyptians, Hindus, and "us modern Westerners", why we still have much to learn from the Greek.
There's enough resistance to legalizing Marijuana. Let's see how that goes, first.

Many ethical issues have to be solved first. Several hard drugs, for example heroin, methamphetamines and crack, are almost impossible to use without "abuse". So you have companies selling this stuff to people so they can harm themselves. It will be tough to make these sales a better ethical choice than banning these drugs.
The Simulation Game
Could you elaborate on your point about the recording of crimes prior to the 1960? I'd be interested to see a source and a few google searches didn't bring up anything.
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That's still leaving women's lives in the hands of criminals. Why not allow a woman to control her own body as an independent contractor? This is how the heavily regulated brothels work in the state of Nevada.
indeed, it's a matter of juggling competing maintainability considerations and there are cases where it can make sense to couple components tightly.

that said, in practice our UIs contain relatively few one-off components, and it often requires less dev friction simply to use the standard event pattern than to weigh borderline cases to shave off a little indirection at the cost of tighter coupling. the problem of "too many events in the system" is avoided by letting complicated components handle events from their own subviews and not just blindly bounce everything down to a global mediator. e.g. if no other views have to know about the 4 dropdowns and slider within MyWidget (and they usually don't), then MyWidget can handle all those subview events itself and simply present a single unified 'i've been updated' event for other consumers. essentially narrow the public apis between different actors in the overall system.
Is this only about facebook tracking users via the like buttons on websites?

If so, I'm expecting the same reaction in the future about google analytics.

From the other hand, {facebook,google,random company} did not force someone to put the appropriate {buttons,code} in their site. Me thinks there's going to be some kind of settlement without too much fuss and they'll keep doing business as usual for an even more sucky web.
> Also, where does prohibition of a substance produced by an activity that exploits human beings fall?

It isn't inherent to the substance that people were exploited. Labor laws cover that. You are using arguments that equally apply to sweatshops. No one goes around arguing we have to prohibit shoes because of sweat shops.

> I wonder how many of those addicted fully understood the risks?

If they are an adult and didn't understand the risks beforehand, that is on them. For the most part, you can't really protect adults from their own choices. It isn't practical [or frankly] possible. They just become criminals as prohibition has shown. Criminals who only break the law in regards to themselves are going to do it anyway. You can't magically protect people from risk when its clear people will do it regardless of the legality.

Its commonly understood addictive substances are risky. We aren't talking about some guy in China sneaking a harmful substance into baby formula.

> Of course, one may also ask the same for other jobs; is "If I don't produce garments for the next 12 hours, my children won't eat tonight," slavery?

That is kind of my point. Situations like you describe are solved best by other solutions. [e.g. Welfare so people aren't that level of desperate]
I think you are correct, I don't think he means popular ideas are likely to be wrong. Just more likely to be misused or misapplied. As in the linked article, they received a lot of advice to use rails not because it was the right tool for the job but because it was the popular tool for a vaguely similar job. Also no one had the knowledge to comment on their selected tool because it wasn't the popular tool.
If they had simply used a dart board or other randomized device, I bet they would have made the same $40M but saved the $2B.
I'm not sure about it being poor piloting or bad training to shut down the wrong engine. My kind of flying involves no engines at all (I'm a glider pilot), but my understanding is that shutting down the wrong engine after an engine failure in a multi-engine airplane is a somewhat common mistake. Experienced pilots do make basic mistakes, sometimes even more often than inexperienced pilots, because they let their guard down.

I believe the true failure here wasn't shutting down the wrong engine, but trying to shut down the bad engine at all while still so low. Shutting down a failed engine is not a priority. It can windmill and tear itself to shreds for a little bit while you keep the airplane flying, get to a safe altitude, and figure out what to do. Multi-engine pilots I've talked to about this have said that it's standard procedure not to shut down a bad engine below a certain altitude, precisely so you're not screwed if you go for the wrong one by accident.

A common cause of aviation accidents is a pilot responding to an emergency by making it worse. A safety class I went through recently presented a case where a pilot thought he was low on fuel, decided to land at a nearby airport, botched the landing by coming in high, fast, and downwind, and crashed off the end of the runway. Turned out the fuel gauge was faulty. There's a famous C-5 crash that's similar to this Taipei crash, in which an engine failed, the pilot shut down the opposite engine by mistake, and then botched the landing because he flew as if he still had three engines instead of two. A semi-frequent cause of glider crashes is a pilot failing to lock their canopy which then comes open in flight, and the pilot tries to fix it instead of flying the airplane. They key isn't to ensure you do the right thing fast, but to make sure you prioritize and don't do anything fast that isn't immediately necessary. Engines fail? Find a spot to land, right now. One engine fails? Keep climbing and breathe, then take your time to decide what to do next.
Currently: Emma, by Austen, and Debt: The First 5,000 Years by Graeber. Both good.

Recently finished Austen's Persuasion and Dickens' Oliver Twist. I'm trying to fill in big gaps in my reading of major English novels. Both were good. Dickens seems to have more compassion, which I appreciate. The two most moving scenes belong to his two worst villains. Persuasion was great though, and in many ways (compassion aside) a better novel than Dickens', not that they really deserve to be compared to one another. Persuasion's the first Austen novel I've managed to finish; usually I bounce off them in the first chapter or two. Looking like I'll make it through Emma, too, but it's certainly rougher going. Made it farther than I did on my last attempt, anyway.

The Things they Carried by O'Brien is up next after Graeber, probably, on recommendation (and loan) from a friend.

I haven't read it recently, but I feel compelled to recommend Revolutionary Road by Yates at every opportunity.
> Doesn't explain the statistical violence peaks of the 1970s and 1980s in our society

This probably came because of the creation/rise of gangs, an organization dealing with things very similar to the Mafia.
Related to this, how have people found running Yosemite compared to Mavericks, performance and compatibility-wise?

Are you sorry you upgraded? (I'm asking for a friend.)
It's turtles all the way down.

Using a lightweight, comprehensible framework is good, until you hit the limits of that framework and start pulling in lots more libraries to fill the gaps (the Sinatra/Cuba world). Using a heavyweight, complete library is good, until you start suffering from bugs caused by incomprehensible magic buried deep inside (the Rails world).

I see the same problem in microservices versus monolithic apps. If you use microservices, you have a lot of duplication and inter-component configuration management complexity. If you use monolithic apps, you get the big ball of mud.

Or, as I sometimes put it, "Which kneecap do you want to get shot in?"

The underlying problem isn't fashion, or bloat. It's that software is very, very complex. Unless you're doing hardcore embedded work in assembly language, you're building a raft on an ocean of code you won't read and can't understand.

A friend of mine put it well once. He said that you should have deep understanding of systems one layer from yours (ie your frameworks), and at least a shallow understanding of things two or three layers away (operating systems, etc). If you don't have some grasp of the things you depend on, you're relying on magic and are vulnerable. But you can't realistically expect to know it all.
General aviation crashes tend to have completely different causes than airliner accidents. Pilot error and maintenance issues are the biggies.
"CAs explicitly deny issuance to domains that have popular brand names in them"

That requirement only is so incredibly stupid and gives no more safety than not being there. Who draftet this crap, seriously?

What popular is changes rapidly, sometimes overnight.
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Yeah I found that but that doesn't tell me what anyone actually uses. I've tried each of the open-source and freeware apps, I'm asking this because the rest seem pretty pricey for a bootstrapper.
That's the goal of startups, right? (Or IPO, but that is rare.)
I think you meant The New ''Turing'' Omnibus :)
I do realize that line by itself looks a little nasty, I'm sorry. I meant it to be taken together with "And we're all frauds to some degree, because we all tell ourselves stories about ourselves that feel good."

How about without using the word fraud, which can be a little more loaded than I intended, I simply stick to the line afterwards– that we feel gnawing pains, etc whenever our actions are not consistent with the beliefs we hold (or claim to hold).
Title is a little generous about "hidden", the exploit revolves around API & Framework used to power the parts of the control panel, and its authorization scheme being broken.

I do think its too bad that setuid binaries don't have additional restrictions, like 100% must be code-signed or must be run in a sandbox-exec[1] based on that signing.

[1] - https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
Maybe you'd like to follow that up with "The Art of War", by Niccolo
Machiavelli? :)

I'm in the middle of Paulo Coelho's "The Zahir". The next one in line is
"Thinking, Fast and Slow", by Daniel Kahneman. I'm really looking forward to
that one!
In the linked paper, they describe their choice of 180nm as optimal for power. Given the tools they used, they could make an even smaller computer with 130nm or 90nm technology. But the power draw would be higher according to the graph. Or they could add more memory instead of a smaller size.

The CPU is absolutely tiny, not much larger than the temperature sensor.
Grab a raspberry pi 2 starter kit. I just ordered one for $84.99 shipped from Amazon.

The damn thing runs on Linux now. I'm about to have a lot of fun with some raspberry pi projects!
Smithsonian 3D Model Library
Casino Royale - It's kind of jarring how different the book and film versions of Bond are.

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - partially read it before online but couldn't get into it, bought the book and hope to nail it this time.
How is the crime?
Sure, what I meant was that the hardcoded CSS could perhaps be a bit more useful. Useful and consistent across browsers--that's wishful thinking, of course :)
I support the legalization of prostitution. If someone makes a conscious decision about what they would like to do with their own body, and that includes having sex in exchange for money, then that is their prerogative and they should have the opportunity to do so via a well-regulated "system" of sorts.

"Illegal pornography" is too general a term for this type of discussion. Sodomy is still illegal in many places throughout the world, including fourteen states in the US as of April of last year, but is something that can be a very enjoyable experience for everyone involved. If the "illegal" pornography involves individuals who are capable of making a conscious choice about the acts they engage in, then yes, it should be legal. If the "illegal" pornography involves coercion and/or rape of anyone, or animal, involved, then no, it should remain illegal.
Adobe Flash, gives you a layered timeline, transitions you can apply/create on elements you put on the stage etc, and you can do it all programmatically too. There are multiple export formats including gif.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU6BwCPv3Ak

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-create-your-fir...

If you're comfortable doing it in code there's also JavaScript/HTML like this library which came from / uses Flash methods but I'm not sure how you go from this to gif:

https://greensock.com/get-started-js
I upgraded. I haven't had any problems that I wasn't already having in Mavericks (Anyone else have kernel panics when sleeping with a thunderbolt monitor attached?).
I would also add a condition that the person running the hedge fund has a large portion of his own personal wealth tied up in the fund. Skin in the game is probably the best kind risk management.
True, the demo doesn't show the sign up process, but you only have to sign up once and after that, buying certs is as simple as in the demo. (And the sign up process is itself very quick.)

Thanks for the feedback about the credit card processing information. I'll think about how to make that information more prominent.
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> ...is "If I don't produce garments for the next 12 hours, my children won't eat tonight," slavery?

I think this is often overlooked in definitions of a freedom and liberty; "the freedom to starve" is a pretty low bar for freedom. How can we structure a civilization that we're free from coercive choices like "take the only available, shitty, demeaning job left, or starve to death"?
"That didn't prevent further criticism, and many comments followed recommending Rails and Sinatra as alternatives based on familiarity and popularity."

Ah, the "industry standard" argument, where industry standard seems to be defined as "whatever I've read the most blog posts about", or "whatever was used at my last job", or possibly "what I learned in school (last year)".

One of my major dissatisfactions is newly hired, junior (or mid-level) developers coming on board and then immediately wanting to change everything to be more "industry standard". They rarely seem to try to understand why we're already doing what we're doing, they almost never seem able to explain why what they want to do is strongly better, and they frequently just go off and do it, leaving a pile of projects each doing the same task in different ways.
That last line is important. Depending on software hardly anyone uses means depending on software that hasn't been torture tested in production. And frankly, a lot of the ugly weird parts of mature code are scars and armor from the wounds suffered in the real world.
Check out http://www.theinterngroup.com/ they can set up internships in Melbourne and Hong Kong. Full disclosure: my wife works for The Intern Group.
Good Luck Being Born Tomorrow (part 2)
This is kinda exactly what I was NOT meaning. You're talking about ways of handling the "known unknowns" - trainable scenarios. The article already talked about that. I'm talking about taking the whole issue off the board, including the "unknown unknowns", that you can't train for except in the most general way, by shutting the fight-or-flight mechanism down completely.
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Sorry, I just epiphanised (don't worry, I'll clean it up later).

My "amazing thought":

One day, these things will be like Lego. You may care that your younger sister ate one, or the dog buried that part in the garden, but you won't "really care". not like a computer, or a phone!

If standards for mesh networking and cluster computing become a tiny bit better (and more widely adopted), these things are the internet of things. Almost everything else is obsolete.

Self powered, independant micro-modules that can somewhat autonomously join and depart from processing pools mean that upgrading your "home computer" means buying more Lego (or a new table, or light-bulbs, or a car) and moving it within range of the other stuff in your house. There will be no computer, just interfaces to your local compute cluster, which you probably won't personally own much of, due to shared processing power agreements with your neighbours and friends.

I know none of this is original, and I even get that this is the "big goal" of the IoT, but It's actually happening, and we get to see it happen! (along with a wonderful new bag of problems relating to super-distributed trust, cost, control etc.)

Sorry, over-excited, taking myself off to bed now.
I am a Strange Loop elaborates on the ideas from GEB, while also being more personal (which GEB definitely isn't). Some people I knew thought it was repetitive, less enjoyable, and less artistic than GEB. In some ways I agree with those criticisms. But if you want to know more about how self-reference actually leads to consciousness and more about Hofstadter the person I recommend it.
I think part of the hesitancy of body cams is how do you solve the problem of hours of useless video of them sitting in a car, etc.?

Is it worth it for a municipality to have a body cam going when they hand out a speeding ticket? Or any of the 99% of the boring stuff they do (loud neighbor, minor traffic accident, etc.) That is likely to cause a lot more BS court time. Each $50 device could end up costing taxpayers $1000's if the idea is to record every encounter.

Maybe somehow tie the body cam to start recording on key events: police person exits their vehicle, they start running (gyroscope?) or when they un-holster their weapon (gun or taser), and ability for manual start.

I don't have any expertise but it would be cool to have it just recording to some device in their vehicle, then if they are too far away it records locally and syncs up when they return. Vehicles could be transmitting event data to HQ and live video after an event triggers. This could help with officer safety where an officer might need backup but can't ask for whatever reason.

If a person wants to do something malicious, they just need to cover the camera or make it "malfunction" - its not going to stop that activity.

I think the path to sell this type of thing is officer safety and officer CYA for their own careers. Also for more experienced officers - video of expertly handled encounters could serve as training to recruits on how to handle difficult situations like domestic violence.
Which knee do you want to get shot in is the best way I've heard this explained. Ever.
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Perhaps. I usually go for the three star reviews and actually read the comments.
Notable is the story of Arrhichion who won the Pankration when his opponent surrendered even though he died in the attempt. His corpse was crowned and proclaimed the victor.
I think you can go even cheaper in Thailand, though.
There are definitely coworking spaces. I just spent two weeks working out of Kohub on Koh Lanta. Had a great time and even ran into the creator of the framework I specialize in, he was on the same island. Hung out with some guys working on a Bitcoin startup, some other freelancers. Had a great time.
It's probably because you don't need to explicitly flag a container as a grid with a class. I think that's what he's getting at.
Getting around to finishing Marc Andreessen's blog post collection [1].

[1] http://a16z.com/2015/01/09/pmarca-blog-ebook/
I've used google web designer for a few simple animations:
https://www.google.com/webdesigner/
The Greeks invented mixed-martial arts? And did it naked?
Yes! (although minus the thunderbolt monitor)
I think you're right, but I think the distinction between "killed by a computer flying an airplane" and "killed with no human in the cockpit" is important.

For one thing, I think it means the transition will be easier than most people fear. As we get more and more automated, we'll start making entire flights from gate to gate without human intervention. At some point, somebody will say, "It's been three years since the last time a human airline pilot actually did anything, so clearly you're all comfortable with being flown around by a computer, let's take that final step" in a convincing manner.
You can see this right now, with some reviewers carrying a "Verified Purchase" badge next to their review.
You are only looking at the economics of accidents which are very rare. Economics also exerts a powerful influence on operations and with modern airliners with supercritical wing sections they can really only achieve optimum efficiency for hours on end on autopilot.
Twice-recommended, I'll check it out - thanks :)