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This is incorrect, societies have collapsed regularly throughout history. A collapse doesn't have to be a total destruction of the society, it's most often a fast transition to a lower level of social complexity.

One of my favorite books (and a book referenced by the link above) is "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph A Tainter, he gives a great study on the nature of collapse with lots of examples (note, some of the examples are a little dated and dubious like the Ik). He also gave a few presentations on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0R09YzyuCI
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Note: That's true only for a minority of the US' individual states.
> Just being born in America makes me (and you too?) extremely lucky.

Do you base that statement in your experience because you lived in other countries and can compare, or it is just what you have been told? ;)
Where do you earn "1000s of $$" per visitor? Are you serious?

Part of why ads are so irritating is that they shove tons of attention seekers on every page just to earn a tenth of a cent.
>You have to analyze your day each day and ask yourself what you could've done better, and decide how you're going to do things differently the next time around. So on and so forth.

If you are negotiating big things every day, you are... well, really you are a professional negotiator and you probably shouldn't be listening to me. If you are a professional negotiator and you aren't better at negotiating than I am... you had better find another line of work.

I mean, yeah, we all negotiate little things every day, but for most technical people, even most technical people who do a little business, we have a few big negotiations every now and then, negotiations which can have serious negative consequences if we screw them up, and then a bunch of little negotiations every day that don't matter nearly as much as our technical performance.

I think those big negotiations, yeah, going over what happened, especially after a big screwup is a good idea, yeah, but it's not something that is going to happen every day. It doesn't make sense for me to spend too much time thinking about the guy who talked me into co-locating a server at cost yesterday. It's super minor compared to, say, developing a better burn-in procedure or figuring out how to set up customer-accessible zfs backups.

I also think that it's good, I mean, if you are not a negotiation specialist, to make it clear that you will give a go/no go some time after the negotiation, after you give it time to let your emotions settle and look at it more objectively. Remember that when negotiating in real time, if you are a primarily technical person, you are probably dealing with a professional negotiator, and should assume that they are as good at their job as you are at yours; this means that they are going to dramatically outclass you as a negotiator.
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> This is why lisp's pervasive use of linked lists can be problematic when compared to arrays (in theory)

The problem is less list vs. array in Lisp. Both tend to get allocated nearby or a copying/compacting GC will move them so. The problem is more that lists and arrays in Lisp usually point to data. For very few data types they will contain the data (fixnums, characters). Thus a list/array is often a list/array of pointers to data...
When I was in, there was at least one "celebrity" inmate living with me maintaining his twitter feed in the same way -- dictating to a friend over the phone. A twitter feed on its own is not indicative of the experience and brutality of his incarceration. Hopefully he'll speak to that himself and raise awareness. But do not doubt, he faces a threat to his safety by doing so.

I think, with an eye toward's the arc of history, that some day I'll see Chelsea Manning's term commuted and Edward Snowden pardoned.

I hope, at least. It's a disturbing alternative to countenance. In this country the prisoner is always regarded as subhuman. And his suffering is effectively irrelevant.
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One of the tenets of competitive advantage is the ability of a business's competitors to enter the market. Running a Bitcoin startups has extremely high fixed costs that cannot be mitigated (contrast with typical startups with mostly variable costs); if VCs aren't giving them funding, as is apparently the case with Buttercoin, then there's no way they can even create a reasonable Bitcoin service, especially one that could compete against Coinbase and its mountain of funding.
You said "want their app to look native", and I'm saying that, if you do not apply any styling, the most native-looking and native-behaving things in the app probably are the scrollbars.

...or are we not agreeing on what "native" means? I've long thought it referred to the default appearance/behaviour of the OS/browser.
TL;DR: On a large cruise ship the GPS antenna broke, and the GPS continued to display plausible coordinates based on dead reckoning with only a tiny icon to indicate the data wasn't based on a satellite fix. The dead reckoning error accumulated to 15 miles, which drove them aground near Nantucket.
YouTube belongs to Google. I too wonder why Google hasn't focused more of their attention on YT. It's their social network hub that works fine for about one billion people.

Do the G+ comments below YT videos make sense? No (from the users point of view) . There used to be insightful replies to YT comments including video-replies. All that has vanished, only spam remains. Beside that, anyone remember their older social hubs Google Buzz and Orkut?
Maybe in your neck of the woods the expression has a different meaning but I thought 'arm-twisting' meant getting someone to do something they initially didn't want to do. Hardly the case with the Russians and the price of oil.
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ujson doesn't error out if you have a collection that isn't serializable so you can lose individual keys. It also has issues with ints and floats that are too big (just fails out)
I can't read the page, because I don't have a "modern browser". What kind of 20th century crap is that?
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Because it makes people smile?

Also because they are actually going to make it?

Emoji is stupid shit no one needs. It also makes people smile.
The advertising industry comes with its own hidden costs. Thousands of extremely bright engineers are working every day on delivering a particular ad to a particular person. Optimizing the delivery for the last milliseconds or targeting the ad just right, if they had this or that data point.

Now imagine that advertising was solved. (I rather like the idea posted here of subscribing to an ad channel. It's not perfect, but a huge improvement) But just imagine that all the engineers currently employed by ad networks, are solving more acute problems of humankind? Cancer? Feeding the world? Harvesting solar power?
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They don't even have a conclusion/tl;dr section...
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Constantly failing? Have you actually read the literature in climate science? The models have been predicting pretty much everything that's been happening in the past 20 year.

Collapse of Antarctic ice shelves? Predicted. Ice cover of the Arctic? Surprisingly well predicted. Atmospheric CO2 ppm? Same thing.
Meteor is not just a web framework which many actually want. I can't just build a new frontend for my existing Django application with Meteor can I? Meteor is server & client with also a lock on Mongodb.
I understand what you're asking for, but when available those settings are usually set by the user, not the webpage.

Customization is a very, very slippery slope: can the web page only customize the slider? What about the tab? Why not the entire frame of the browser? The drop shadow of the window? Opacity? Alpha mask? Why just the sliders? Why not just the tab? Ahhhh....

If the web page can change the style, can the user have a setting to override it? If you make a custom style, will M$, Apple, iOS, or Android influence your design in a particular direction (i.e. ends up looking like something ported from iOS)? Or will you custom design for each system? Like, Blackberry? Or just the popular systems?

BTW - I did HD Widgets for Android. Tons of customization. A lot of it was barely used by our users. Sometimes I wish I had kept it much, much simpler. App updates can be hell...
drawback: fair bit of static maps are coming up as oceans/seas - will be fixing that
Dijkstra's comments on using Haskell as first language for CS Undergrads
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/OtherDocs/To%20the%20Budg...
Agreed that it's malformed. My point was more that I'm curious how many other libraries fail badly when confronted with an unexpectedly large port. It's the edge cases / "no-one would ever be silly enough to do that" that quite frequently lead to security issues =]
The author is missing the point that technology R&D responds to oil prices. Strictly speaking, if oil becomes scarce and expensive, alternative energy develops more rapidly. It's the cheap oil that creates developmental risks.
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> I honestly don't see a difference except in degree (and hence in jail time I'd prefer to see resulting from actions based on each of the attitudes, roughly 15 days and 15 years, respectively.)

Except for that thing about human rights and dignity, the violation of which is fundamental to the reason why there's jail time for transgressing upon it.

Whereas ads are... really just ads, as long as we don't have anything equivalent for them.
R seems to be doing well. What's the explanation for the strong growth in R on github in Q1 and Q2 2014?

http://githut.info/

(Scroll down to "TOP ACTIVE LANGUAGES")
Running an honest Bitcoin exchange isn't very profitable. Some exchanges don't charge commissions, so all rates are low. Coinbase doesn't charge customers commissions until they do $1m a year in business, which few do.
There are security benefits to disaggregation of vendors of peripherals (e.g. networking, radios) from vendors of CPU/SoC with integrated management.
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That sucks.

I recently did some interviews which were described as "can you come meet with our engineering team in more depth". Which I read (correctly) as "technical interviews", but the description was certainly a bit coy.

I think people tend to use euphemistic language to try to preserve a "we're all buddies here" atmosphere, and out of sense of discomfort with the idea of interviewing.

(Though it's not such a huge deal, to me -- any time I'm talking to someone, if we're considering working together, it's fair game to get into technical questions, IMO.)
You wouldn't agree that more than a few percent of the kind of people who were already heavy office PC users back in 1985 now use laptops on aeroplanes, in hotel rooms or at conferences or other people's offices? In fact the author was even more specific than that, and suggested that the kind of people who read the business section of the newspaper on the train, or the kind of people who used to fly to Comdex, would have no serious interest in using the time to get some work done on a computer instead. If we need evidence on this, here's a 2013 USA Today story http://www.usatoday.com/story/hotelcheckin/2013/04/30/more-t... reporting on a small decline in the "vast majority" of US business travellers who travel with a laptop.

> Is it your claim that the mere existence of the modern laptop proves regular work outside the home or office is not niche?

I promise you that the market for laptops back around 1989-90, when they started to be a real commercial hit, was not dominated by people who only wanted to shuttle theirs back and forth between home and work, still less by people who were only going to use it at home. The Macintosh Portable was excoriated for its poor battery life, heavy weight and lack of a backlight because so many of the potential users wanted something to use on the road.
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I suspect he would have been far less wrong were it not for the rise (much later than the article) of near-ubiquitous (in terms of places one might want to work) high-speed wireless networking. Not having to either to lug your data from desktop to laptop on physical media or to find a phone line to dial in to where the data lives via modem makes laptop use a _lot_ nicer than it would have been otherwise.
This is a good point - users are accustomed to the scrollbar style of the system they're using (which is often an adjustable preference), so it makes sense for scrollbars in web apps to follow what the OS does.

While my scrollbar preferences are very different from yours (I prefer ones that are always-visible, large and easy-to-grab), I agree that the web apps you use should conform to your UI preferences, and not the other way around.
I'm not sure if you're trying to play language games to be obtuse for some reason, but the right to be involved in one's government absolutely is a human right.

To say "the right to vote in a democracy is not a human right" is arguably not false, just going on narrow definitions of "vote" and "democracy," but the right to be involved in one's government? Oh yes.

Just because it is denied so many does not mean it is not still a human right.
This definition dates back far before the libertarian movement, at least to John Locke's Second Treatise (published in 1689).
Yeah I'm one of the messenger-only people, and (obviously) I'm really happy I can use the messenger-only app, but, wow, the way they handled the integration w/ the main FB app is ungodly inelegant, almost to the level of being insulting to the user, IMO.
The causes of cheap oil are many, and varied. They include:

- a reduction in Chinese demand

- increased shale oil production

- Saudi desire to reduce competition from high cost producers including Russia and shale oil

- the failure of ISIS to capture the Iraqi oil fields

- unanticipated increased production from Libya

That's just first order causes. Second order causes are things like the US desire to hurt Russian foreign exchange by hitting their exports, and Saudi desires to decrease investment in new technology.
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Australians really need to wake the hell up! Use your rights. This is not what the government should be doing. Use the Dutch as an example! (can't believe i said that but darn it!) Their government introduced data retention and the public literally took them to court and won! - source: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/12/data-retention-netherlands-court-strikes-down-law-as-breach-of-privacy
Yes, that's why I feel like this is more significant than a simple crash at first glance- no one would purposefully craft a 256+ unchecked character URL, unless they are being malicious, in which case they absolutely will craft a 256+ unchecked character URL.
As long as you are alive, you will have problems. Bill Gates once said, "life is not fair, deal with it". Some may call it a big problem, others will call it small. Focus on what is truly important, and you will move towards that.
95% of people make any decision based on what their peer group does. Only 5% make up their own mind on any given issue.

This changes issue by issue and people who make up their own mind on some issues, follow the 95% peer group on others.

This is the most revelatory insight for me from a book packed to the brim with insights and science and evidence and wit
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I don't even care if it's immoral to block ads, or if the ad companies are moral or not, I just don't want ads. I'm puzzled as to why the question even matters.
> Imperative languages really are closer to how our minds work everyday

Why do you believe this? I think it is a cognitive bias at play, where you've been trained to think this way until it comes natural, and now it's hard to see it any other way. With these lens, you see imperative instructions everywhere.

I randomly opened a wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine

In it, you'll find a sine is not described as a series of imperative steps to compute it, but is defined as what it is. Most descriptions and models you'll find of most things are this way.
Also weird crashes with ultra json, lack of nice formatting in outputs, and high memory usage in some situations
Wonder if he would get a kick out of the Hemingwrite.

https://hemingwrite.com/
The implication is that the Saudis are a US proxy, and the arm twisting is that they should change their policy on Ukraine.

In the case of Iran it's more just to try to hurt their economy.
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I find it interesting that you picked one example that involves stepping outside the bounds of human civilization (e.g. walking around in the woods) to shore up your argument--as if we should all nod along and say yes, how silly! access to drinking water, a human right??

What puzzles me about this whole "a human right cannot be something that compels someone to do something" argument is how it breaks down not just on edge cases, but on common cases.

What do you think about the right to a fair trial? Or the right to a speedy trial?

Is the right to a fair trial not actually a human right, since the judicial system is (theoretically) compelled to be honest?

That's my problem with these libertarian-derived ideas about rights, they really only work out cleanly when you're talking about owning, trading, etc. For the very wide swath of human behavior that doesn't involve material possessions, what then?
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Previous discussion when this was posted 48 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9056767
Out of curiosity I fired up IE to see what they were blocking. I'm not sure I can think of a good reason to block IE 10 (7 and 8 I can understand, 9 is barely tolerable), I've never run into a major problem with that version compared to Firefox or Chrome.
I don't agree with your comment, but I did want to point out that I think there's no Haskell codecademy course.
This should be first in the list. I was wondering why it was not in the list..
> paywalls don't work.

That's not a serious discussion. There are tons of websites out there, especially those with professional content, that you pay for. For trade magazines, one trick is to get your employer to pay.

LWN has presented the most quality content on Linux and related tech for about ten years now, and they do it professionally.

There are also lots of communities with entrance fees, like Metafilter. And even open access journals have business models of their own.

You can't survive on fees with a flood of mediocre content, but that doesn't invalidate the model for everything else.
Fair enough, "months" might be an exaggeration. But "weeks" is still a pretty long time to deal with the drug.

It is certainly not true that "alcohol is one of the only known drugs for which withdrawal can be fatal." In reality, any other GABA receptor agonist would have the same behavior, for the same reasons. There are plenty of them known: barbituates, benzodiazepines, valerian, and a ton of other sedatives they developed in the 70s and have been gradually phasing out ever since.

In fairness, it is certainly true that withdrawal from marijuana is never fatal. But you really have to be using alcohol in enormous amounts pretty much constantly to ever be at risk of delirium tremens. The eqivalent behavior for marijuana would expose you to the same level of lung cancer risk as a two-pack-a-day smoker, and for the same reasons.
That started out painful to watch as John Oliver kept interrupting Snowden, but as I reflected on it Oliver was making a fantastic point. Even though I'm a computer programmer and I generally understand everything I read from Edward Snowden, It's early in the morning and my eyes started to glaze over when he spoke in the interview. I can only imagine my parents or my grandmother being completely dismissive and shutting down when they're told any of this.

Then Oliver framed everything in terms of the "dick pic program," and suddenly captured my attention. I knew all this stuff already and his reframing put it all in a new light. That was both a really clever move and very funny.
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Extreme cases are never good examples for a general make sense rule. Most of the west ads induced consumption is not self expression purchase, but rather a desire to confirm to an imaginary false standard that ads present as something real. The aim is not self expression, but the bottom line of corp. xyz. The effect of the massive ads everywhere is found (IMHO) even in your comment: identifying self-esteem and self-expression with buying something. For a simple argument, consider all the things you buy and never used, the piles or garbage a typical western society produces.
While the TechCrunch article is a little off stating it's to save you an extra click Facebook has come out and said splitting it optimized the user experience for the majority of the messenger users. So while their statement is a little off the sentiment is accurate.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance [ft. Edward Snowden]
I for one did, and its called Noscript. And waddayouknow, it blocks ads (as a side "benefit")...
"Custom styling without hacky JavaScript "fake scroll" scripts"

You've convinced me. I did have someone once send me a design patch that used a JavaScript scrolly implementation, and I found it repulsive on every level, and I immediately rolled back the change and made it clear we would never ship anything like that, ever.

I'm glad you're in a position to motivate someone to implement it with cold hard cash, and I hope it works out.
Correct link to complete piece on Last Week Tonight channel on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
What's reason to make queue based on Redis? What will if I wish to use python with that?
They got google ventures amongst many other investors. Now they are shutting down just 3 months after launch? Hopefully they have funds left to do something else.
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There seems to be a clear need for an ad blocker that doesn't block ads, just runs them in an invisble sandbox.

That way the site owner still gets paid, and you can still get your character test fix, and no one has to suffer through blinking autoplaying crap.

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>Or was the problem merely that the right combination of features for such lightweight computers had not yet materialized?
Gets me thinking about Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Where people are banding together to maintain Walt Disney World in a post scarcity society.
I wouldn't call "easier maintenance" a "user experience benefit".

This reminds me of the talk "Is it really Complex? Or did we just make it Complicated?" by Alan Kay.

The complexity of the underlying problem, messaging, has not changed, but FB has made it a lot more complicated.
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I see the difference between the set of human rights assigned to "publicly distributed information" and "human beings" very much a question of principle and not just a question of degree.
As such, a welfare system may allow capitalism to function better. Because it makes it easier for disgruntled employees to start a competing company, or reduce the worry about companies shutting down (though you may get a chain reaction depending on its size etc).
As someone who has a paid PACER account, the charges aren't a big deal. Opinions and decisions are free. Only if you need the detailed documents as a case progresses is there a charge. It would be nice to have all that searchable with Google, but it's not a high priority.
True, but Locke was very influential on the modern libeterian movement. I think the OPs point is correct.
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