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Micro Men is available on youtube [1] and is definitely worth a watch. The scene were one of the characters is eating noodles using multimeter probes as chopsticks made me smile.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM
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Yeah? Fallacy-fallacy right back at ya.
"Would you be content letting them throw people in jail for nothing more than text typed on a keyboard?"

Yes! Of course!

Your line of argument is exactly like "I didn't kill him. I just moved my hands which happened to hold a knife which happened to travel through his chest."

Outcome matters. Intent matters.

Deconstructing real actions until some supposedly bizarre conclusion is reached does not matter.
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What is the best platform to ask R coding related questions? Here is my question on stackoverflow :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31246498/plots-dont-change-with-changing-dates-in-shiny-dashborad-in-r

but noone is responding. Can anyone suggest the solution to that?

Thanks in advance :)
absolutely terrible... Atlassian has just lost my appreciation..

look at DigitalOcean about how it should be done:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3048196/greek-startups-cut-off-fr...
I didn't mean to contrast coerced or mandatory labor against working for the love of it.

Far from it. I wanted to highlight the fact that certain things that we do require a certain level of skill acquired over time via practice and persistence. These have value (for others) and will be traded (in return for value) and that's what comes to be known as work.

Replace sherpa with doctor if you may and Mt. Everest with heart surgery. Yeah, I could possibly find some talented medical practitioners who study the human body for the love of it (that's how the field of medicine was born to begin with). However, if I needed a heart surgery, what would be (a) my motive to go with one specific individual among them and (b) their motive to operate on me ?

Yeah, open source exists. So does indie music, underground/unpublished books/comics, art, etc etc but the argument I was making is that the product of all of these (ie: knowledge of medicine, software, music, art..etc etc) also holds 'value' to those who are not skilled at these and this value will be traded and that does become work -- 'the doing what you love doing and getting paid for it' type of work. At the end of the day, I will differentiate between 2 cooks who indulge in cooking for the love of it and offer some sort of 'trade-in' so that the better one prepares food for me, in return for something that I love doing (although maybe, possibly, not as well as a peer).

You see what I am getting at ? Work is a consequence of acquiring something (a.k.a skill) not the reason behind acquisition of something (money/relaxation/lifestyle...blah blah).
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It should, on OSX this is.

> It is useful to have a command search for when you can't remember.

I never saw it as a search method, just a quick way of finding the menu item you're looking for. It also brings the menu itself up to the view which gives you the location itself.
You can read the Act in full here:

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2015/0063/latest/w...
Did they actually have a system, or where they throwing large numbers of incredibly bright people at it and giving them pots of money to play around with?

Management Accounting techniques are generally based on knowing what the process is, or what the output looks like, ideally both. I would suggest that the atomic and space programs have involved many problems, at various recursive levels, where the process to follow, and what success looked like, where unknown going in. Research & Development is one of the classic cases for where Management Accounting techniques are consider useless or counter-productive.
You're being down-voted rapidly, but your thinking (while a bit hairy in places) is doubtless representative of the popular initial and pre-contemplative reaction to such ideas.

> the problem is, most people on this planet (over 90% that's for sure) with current mentality wouldn't work for some mythical greater good when given more free time.

Facts not in evidence. Ie. can you substantiate your claim? What meaning does your 'work' have there, given the very careful definition of 'work' in the OP.

> they would be sitting in front of TV more, been drinking more etc.

Arguably absent new TV shows coming online, and rapid reduction of beer availability, they may get a few friends together and start generating entertainment, or brew their own beer, etc.

> gotta love these theories for 12 year olds which work with these theoretical people units of some star trek era. Real people with hate, greed, massive egos, slacking around, not giving a franction of a fk what will happen to this world after them, and so on.

This assertion reveals more about you than about the author of the original article.

> mkay, so maybe not all deserve so much free time, because it would be spent entirely selfishly. who will decide who gets more and who less?

Are you suggesting that you're happy with the way that it's currently decided?

> heck, give me more free time, and I'll travel more, have more adventures in life. some greater general good ain't the priority here, more focused on closest people around me.

An interesting claim. Have you had periods of your life, between jobs, after school / college, etc - where you were working less than at other times?

I'm curious why you think that given more free time, you'd focus it on the people closest to you. I thought the evidence suggested that volunteerism rates go up, social circles expand, and so on. This actually makes more sense to me -- if I had less free time, then I'd, as you say, focus more on the people closest to me, at the expense of people I knew less well.

> what about coming up with some way to reward more challenging work more, reward more people who bring benefits seemed most worthy to community? and make this reward interchangeable so they can use their rewards to fulfill their needs and wishes? sounds slightly familiar...

Again I'm moved to ask if you're happy with the way that various societies currently identify and evaluate challenging work, or the 'most worthy to community' and then reward it.

Are you proposing that the current system(s) are satisfactory for everyone, and/or that they're satisfactory for you, and/or should they be satisfactory for everyone (else)?

The current system has led us to a point where there is a massive imbalance of wealth and resources - and with no sign that it'll be re-balanced any time soon. There's no evidence it's fair, and no reason to believe it's stable or a long-term tenable trend.
Other than "homo sapiens", no.
> mhodgson says: "Once you understand how git works under the hood it's actually fairly easy to predict that performance will be poor. A simple checkout involves accessing 100s if not 1000s of objects. Also, you can't fetch these all at once because the objects you need to fetch are determined based on a nested tree. So you have to query the tree all the way down, getting each nested tree or blob based on the previous tree's contents. So ultimately you're doing 100s-1000s of queries for any given git command. Each query is fast, but even at 1-2 ms per query it adds up quickly."

You can do such queries on the server side if necessary. Doubt that'll immediately be possible with the given API; but there's nothing stopping you from doing that.

> So the question is, what sort of data store would be extremely fast and scalable for storing git? A graph database? A key/value store? Seems a little odd that the plain old file system is the fastest option.

But git is not a "plain old file system". It has its own indexing and builds up search datastructures in memory.
why would these robots be willing to work for free?

For the foreseeable future robots will be machines and have no will.

Robots don't need to be nearly as intelligent as humans in order to replace us in many areas. Nearly 100% robotized factories are already a reality[1].

Self-driving vehicles are at the verge of removing 3.6 million jobs[2] from the US transportation industry.

The dumb, slow, reliable "general purpose robot" (e.g. car mechanic) and his cousin the specialized, "intelligent appliance" (e.g. self-driving car) will change our world long before any kind of robot-consciousness might become technologically viable.

[1] http://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/1786484/buildin...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Does blame change though if there are ways the AI can
prevent this series of similar accidents, but they choose
not to? [...] Is it inconsistent to expect the AV to avoid
getting t-boned, but not expect it to avoid getting rear-
ended?

While I was in college I worked on some wheeled robots that played a competitive ball game. We wanted to avoid collisions between robots, and to win the game.

One of the things we found was: If one team has great collision avoidance and the other team has no collision avoidance, the team without collision avoidance always wins. When there's a contest for the ball the team without collision avoidance just blasts in there, and when the team with collision avoidance back off to avoid a collision they lose the ball.

If autonomous cars were so good at avoiding accidents that you could merge aggressively and they'd always brake, and run red lights in front of them and they'd always stop, manual drivers might learn to do that.

Riding in a Google autonomous vehicle would be a pretty shitty experience if you knew you'd get four or five emergency stops in every journey when assholes decide to cut you up :)
I must disagree with you about the prospects of revolution. As I've come to see it, a radical cultural shift is taking place, or is about to take place, in the technological fabric of most post-industrial societies.

This is related to the growing trend, or rather movement, to redesign central databases in terms of blockchain-based, cryptoeconomic systems. As the vast majority of the world's Internet, its economic, political, and legal institutions, are built in a way that concentrates management of central databases between vested authorities, there is now a very real threat to re-appropriate, if not entirely automate into irrelevance, the state's most important functions.

This is profound on many levels since it doesn't depend on the currently existing system. You don't need to believe in the futility of the current system. It's not set in stone. It can be challenged in a very realistic sense. In truth, the most essential aspects of economic life and governance can all be re-created and re-engineered in the code of social networks. All this can all be done without violence. All this is possible without trusting a single politician.

If that's not a recipe for revolution, then nothing is.
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The main problem with using a public key as your identity is that once it is leaked, you no longer have an "identity" (or more exactly, it's not uniquely you). There is no way you can change your identification without changing your identity.
can anyone recommend more papers/algorithms/reading material on layout algorithms in general? I'm very interested in layout algorithms of smaller node/edge counts (less than 1000). most material I've found is geared towards "big data" and hundreds of thousands (or more) of nodes/edges.
I think there's a lot of fondness for Acorn, at least here in the UK but I'd like to offer a slightly more accurate history.

I was the owner of many Acorn machines including BBC B, Master, A410, RiscPC 600. The hardware, clearly designed or at least originated by Sophie Wilson was remarkable. It was robust, well designed and incredibly expandable. To this day there is not a single computer that actually made sense more than anything that Acorn kicked out. A human could learn everything about it in intimate detail without a problem.

However the software was a source of constant pain. Firstly nothing was finished initially when the Archimedes came out. The Arthur OS was apparently named as a "A Risc operating system by THURsday" because their internal OS project, apparently Unixlike, went down the crapper during development and they had to hack something up quickly so they had a minimum viable product. What I ended up with was a barely usable OS that consisted of a quick port of Acorn MOS from the BBC Master series and a naff GUI chucked on top for my £1400 investment (a hell of a lot back then and even now) that wasn't fixed properly until RISC OS 2 came out in 1989 so I sat there with a lemon for a year. After that we were stuck with a cooperatively multitasked operating system with a worldview completely different to anything else at the time or in the future. A lot of progress was made but it never had any prospects despite a lot of us clinging onto the initial investment.

Now I certainly enjoyed the platform but in retrospect, I'd have invested my money in something else back then if I knew what was going to happen.

I full respect the achievements here and more importantly the legacy (I have 12 ARM processors still in various things in my house!) but for us footsoldiers who paid up back then, it wasn't all love and happiness.
How do you restart the spin? It stops once you query a specific item and while I can manually turn the presentation the automatic spin never resumes
HN downvotes jokes, even jokes that are funny, and I prefer it that way.
Since nobody mentioned it yet: iOS autolayout has its roots in Cassowary.
The energy is still going to have to go somewhere.

Some of it will go into the crumple zones, the rest will go into burning rubber and throwing passengers against their restraints.

The question is whether a person is better able to withstand being pushed from the back with rapid acceleration, or absorbing the energy of a collision.

I do not have an answer, but I'm very interested where I could find one.

You mention whiplash in another comment. Wouldn't you avoid most whiplash with a properly configured headrest?
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Multi-key addresses would be more robust. Plus, when it's an Open Asset on Bitcoin blockchain, then you can "rotate" keys by moving your identity into a different multisig address when one of the previous keys gets compromised.
How to block canvas fingerprinting
All of the examples you and many others in this thread are giving are already illegal, under currently existing laws, in most, if not all countries. Threatening people with violence, encouraging others to commit violence against other people, actually coming over and stalking people. All of those things are crimes already. There is no need to make another law that makes it illegal to do something that is already highly illegal.
Ironically also a great way to perpetuate the nerd stereotypes :)
That gave me a good chuckle.
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Let author of this thread decide if he falling in love or just "being attracted". I don't see reasons why you can decide how to name it.
Could something explain to me how FHE could allow for arbitrary computation?

For example, how could a server using FHE possibly execute any algorithm whose steps are data-dependent? Like, if the client gives the server an encrypted number and asks it to "return 'good' if the number is even and 'bad' if the number is odd", how could the server possibly do that without actually knowing what it's returning? Heck, even knowing the LENGTH of the return string would be enough to tell the server what the input was!
I too owned a whole bunch of Acorn stuff. Most of the software was excellent. The best basic interpreter around and a very good shot at a DOS.

The Acorn 'Unicorn' was excellent but too expensive and this is roughly where the parent comment comes in. So Acorn did a lot of good stuff before they lost the plot, roughly around the time they released the Archimedes, which was an amazing machine for the time but the Amiga had far surpassed anything Acorn could offer software wise and the ST and Commodore were gobbling up the lower end.
Yes, it is generally accepted. But people don't like it. For example it explains why there are more men in high-status positions, which again, people don't like, and try to rail against ("We need more women in XYZ!").

For an even more "untouchable" subject try: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
Most satellite footprints (imagine a cone from the satellite to the earth) are quite big I'd guess, so the need to launch into a truly polar orbit to capture all of the poles isn't needed.

That said my knowledge comes from playing KSP with the scansat mod.
Brainstorming Will Kill Your Team’s Creativity
Brainstorming hides two major problems:

1. No-one is clear on the structure of the session and it becomes a waste of time, rather than a way to stimulate ideas
2. Brainstorming does not prepare to the next steps: prototyping, testing, and implementing
it's not at all anything moral.
it's business.
the french and german banks lent to Greece not out of charity, but of profit, a profit earn at the risk of insolvency.
Now the Greeks can pay back, that is, the french and german banks failed their business.
if the EU is to bail out, it's bailing out the BIG BANKS, not the Greek People.
Clear ?
Business is business. why the banks would do this risky business, because their principle amount and the interest earned are guaranteed by EU. the situation now is that if the banks win, they have it all; if the banks lose, the eu people pay for them.
if you cant help blaming someone, blame the BANKS and their ruthless risk taking.
Much of this controversy is driven by the community's loss of trust in the site's administration. Do you think the tactic you suggest would be constructive toward rebuilding that trust?
it's not at all anything moral.
it's business.
the french and german banks lent to Greece not out of charity, but of profit, a profit earned at the risk of insolvency.
Now the Greeks can pay back, that is, the french and german banks failed their business.
if the EU is to bail out, it's bailing out the BIG BANKS, not the Greek People.
Clear ?
Business is business. why the banks would do this risky business, because their principle amount and the interest earned are guaranteed by EU. the situation now is that if the banks win, they have it all; if the banks lose, the eu people pay for them.
if you cant help blaming someone, blame the BANKS and their ruthless risk taking.
was my first guess too
Second that, especially since David Braben was recognized formally as well and he wouldn't have stood a chance doing what he did without Sophie Wilson doing hers first.

If you took her work out of the world a surprising number of items would suddenly stop working.
Given that this is an unproven experiment that could potentially be misinterpreted as something more, that could a feature, not a bug.
London is good if you have experience in something that's currently hot - for example, as a big data contractor you can easily pull £100-140k. If you don't have that, there are probably better choices.
Oh goodie, another opportunity to sow confusion into one if the few remaining libertarian bastions of the internet. I'll be sending my EQUALITY+SECURITY>FREEDOM zealots to downvote anyone who defend the unimagimable horrors of bullying under the guise of FREEZE PEACH LOL STUPID WHITE MALES. Freedom is literally worse than the Holocaust, Jon Stewart taught me that.

Australia is literally the progressive apex of the multiverse for doing this. Literally.
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>This is a law that will never help a single person

What makes you say that? There's a lot of nasty stuff like revenge porn that goes on and is hard to prosecute under existing laws. Why won't an act like this that bans it specifically help anyone?
Well... actually you are arguing that they aren't crimes. You are arguing that governments should not be given the power to limit what you see or hear. Threats fall under that umbrella.

You say 'let readers and listeners decide for themselves what they want to hear', but that is exactly the course of action of this legislation. It's not a proactive government censorship stopping any abuse from happening, but a post-facto avenue to pursue for readers and listeners who do feel abused. There is no 'right to hear' being removed here.
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That's very hyperbolic. The law is about threats and abuse - and is actually fairly specific as to what that entails. No one in this thread - or any comedian for that matter - is trying to incite a specific reader to take his or her life. If they were then boom - if this is in NZ there is now a law that will get you locked up.
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Haven't you heard, Safari is the new IE.
Going from a BBC Master to an Acorn Archimedes 310 at the College I was working in then was like going from an Apple ][ to a Mac.

Archimedes 310s(?) were in use for medical graphics applications (expanded RAM and I think I recall they had floating point units of some kind). There was also a parametric CAD application that was used by Lucas(?) for a bit. The music software Sibelius was released first on this platform having been coded in assembler by the brothers Finn for speed.

The subsequent financial and ownership history of the ARM processor design isn't as inspiring I'm afraid.

So yes gongs for MS Wilson!
One usual citation is Global Sex Differences in Test Score Variability (DOI: 10.1126/science.1162573).

It uses standardized test scores. I quote findings below. Remarks inside parentheses are mine.

"The third column in table S1, reports the estimated male/female variance ratios with standard errors in parentheses. In all but five countries (There are 41 countries) we can reject the hypothesis that the variance ratio is equal to one at 5% level. In all the countries where this hypothesis is rejected, the variance ratios are larger than one indicating that the male variance in reading is higher than the female variance."

In other words, male variance > female variance with 95% significance level in 36 countries, and no statistically significant difference in 5 countries. There is no countries where female variance > male variance with statistical significance.

There are various interpretations of this result. The usual interpretation is that there is a sex difference in variability. Another interpretation is that since variability difference is not universal (in 5 countries it is not statistically significant), variability difference is cultural. The later interpretation is argued in PNAS paper cited below.
Seems to be a slight issue with your site on mobiles, somehow your button is overflowing onto a new line:
https://imgrush.com/Qryn4-uvcegH.png

(resolution is 1080x1920, using Firefox on my Android 4.4.4 OnePlus One)
Byzanz uses the gstreamer framework, which is massive. It does a video capture which is encoded on the fly to gif (or other formats).

But I upvoted you anyway, because byzanz IMHO is the easiest/fastest screen recorder to use for this kind of task (far better than the more popular recordmydesktop).

I successfully use byzanz with screenkey (from AUR) to record terminal sessions very effectively.