revdinosaur

Interesting, is this true for males of all species or is it limited to human males?

You realize that Walter White is an anti-hero; a tragic figure not to be emulated... right?

But to your second point, yes, HPPD[1] is a serious condition.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percept...

I would argue that his ideas, outside his domain, are not communicated well because they are not well-formed. Criticizing him for being boorish and ill-informed about social issues does not take away from him being an accomplished biologist. Assuming that he's just botching the expression of an otherwise worthwhile thought is furthering that appeal to his inappropriate authority.

It's dehumanizing to the victims to dismiss allegations of sexual assault because of a convenient theory that aligns with your politics. While it may be your version of Occam's Razor to assume that this is an internationally-coordinated plot against him, I find it much easier to believe that a person with a lot of public self-regard could be guilty of one of the most common crimes committed by humans: acquaintance rape.

What's really frustrating is watching people conflate Assange with Wikileaks and defend the individual as if he's the organization. It causes people who are skeptical of rapists and cult-of-personality individuals to be made out to be anti-whistleblowers and that's not fair. I think Wikileaks operates best as an anonymous organization and not under the control of a figurehead.

Do you include in your estimate those who may currently be JS developers not by choice but due to the vogue of web apps?

I'll refrain from pointing out the strong political biases your sources because I did cite the NYT, but I wish to note their use of tone arguments to highlight waste. $22M a year spent on teachers awaiting arbitration sure sounds like a lot as a number out of context. Take a minute to note that they have close to a $20B[1] yearly operating budget, putting the cost at roughly 0.11% of their spending.

I don't wish to make the argument that this makes the spending or this practice ideal, but rather than in scale of the NYC DOE it does not appear to be as large of a leakage as the press might like to make it seem.

[1] http://schools.nyc.gov/Aboutus/Funding/overview/default.htm

I'm not in disagreement at all. This is a valuable purpose of the press.

This is an oft-cited phenomenon, but it should be noted that this policy started to be dismantled 4 years ago [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/nyregion/16rubber.html

I find your frequent use of "tumblr-isation" as a negative to be alarmingly anti-intellectual for this site. Do you realize that the terms you pick out, "privilege" and "patriarchy" are of academic origin from Gender Studies and that they have been co-opted by Tumblr? It seems that your entire case against Shanley is that they write in the convention of their academic peers.

Well that line of reasoning is exactly what I was referring to. The reporter doing due diligence and fact gathering is in ill taste, but responding in kind and releasing personal information about her is justified? That doesn't hold water, logically. I don't think anyone is that naive. It's alright if you're upset about divulging Nakamoto's personal details, it's the tit-for-tat mentality that comes across as childish.

This has a tinge of pettiness to it, don't you think?

I worry about any economic system that is defended almost entirely with a verse that, at best, belongs on a coffee cup.

I think that it does, to some degree, in order to fulfill some of the promises that proponents claim will be delivered in the near future. There are ceaseless calls by BTC advocates for retailers of all kinds to accept bitcoin payments. For this to happen on a large enough scale there needs to be distributed demand by a great number of consumers, not frequent demands by a few edge cases.

I don't entirely disagree, but even still people understood both of those things conceptually before they existed. Credit, arguably, predates state-backed currencies and PayPal provides the same functionality as a bank for online transactions. Bitcoin is a traded commodity represented by long hashes stored on disk. It's very abstract and coupled with its current volatility it makes it hard to pull people in if they aren't already convinced that its massive deflation will make them rich.

That said I have mined and sold bitcoin (luckily a few weeks ago) I just remain skeptical about its viability to go mainstream considering these and many other barriers. I was personally frustrated by it when making a recent purchase due to the fact that my buying power fluctuated by 10% while proceeding from shopping cart to checkout.

I think the argument against your anecdote is that it was the best solution for you--no doubt a technologically literate person who has confidence in their mental model of what bitcoin is. For the general populace, it's a distant novelty still which reduces its general practicality greatly.

Suggesting that future developments will make these jobs obsolete is a weak argument against improving their conditions today. Also, if improving the quality of life for their human employees rapidly advances automation developments then why hold back progress in two places?

TinCan[1] does that, at least with text. There was a discussion here a few months ago about using AFSK to control external hardware that spurred me to hack together a script that allows this (output only) on iOS Safari[2] and I use it to control some Arduino projects.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hubski.com...

[2] http://sixteenmillimeter.github.io/Javascript-FSK-Serial-Gen...

While this is true, one only needs to be a vendor who ships products to begin to associate metadata with purchaser's wallet address and start breaking down that privacy. Multiple addresses works in theory, but we don't know how often it's practiced. I'm not sure it's really as far away from that kind of direct correlation as you think.

Thank you, these sorts of timing attacks are very interesting. I was asking for clarification because I am curious about vectors such as these; vulnerabilities in JS runtime or in HTML/CSS. This thinking was spurred by an article posted here not to long ago[1] about timing attacks on CSS and SVG shaders through requestAnimationFrame.

[1] http://www.contextis.com/files/Browser_Timing_Attacks.pdf

Just to clarify, as I've seen many of your responses to posts on this subject, you're advocating against use of javascript encryption in client-side applications served through the browser.

If the encryption library were running on a server using node.js or packaged into a mobile app using a framework like Phonegap it doesn't matter that the implementation is in javascript, does it?

I'm not sure that's fair. It is bulb shape and it emits light. The source of the light happens to be the sun. This is kind of like saying that tungsten lamps aren't lightbulbs because they don't work when not supplied with electricity. They're truly acting as a substitute by spreading light around a darkened area.

rev.dinosaur @ gmail if you've still got some

This is a great hack, very clever. You mention on the GitHub page that you use a comparator to convert the signal for the ATMega168. I know that the ATmega328 has an embedded comparator so I'm wondering how easy you think it would be to create a library for Arduino projects?

I currently have a few projects which are bound to servers so I can control them with web apps and this seems like a great way to liberate them from the network. Low-level analog signal processing is about where my knowledge comes to a screeching halt (hence using Arduinos in the first place) but I'd love to play around with any AVR code to try and implement this for high-level language hardware people.

That sort of claim seems to warrant extraordinary proof. Do you happen to have any?

Is it really so ridiculous to question the claims being made here, though? Also "there are crazier things than this" is an incredibly bad argument when defending a product that has, in early stages, claimed it "automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition"[1] prior to any published tests. Admittedly they have dialed back the rhetoric, but is that enough to dismiss someone asking for some demonstration of proof?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5745707

I have a small printer on the cheap end of the spectrum. I started off printing things from Thingiverse because I was having a hell of a time trying to create STLs from the 3D modeling software I already knew (Lightwave and Maya). It worked but my toolchain was a huge pain and the resulting geometry was not always sound for slicing to gcode.

In recent months I started using openSCAD and now almost exclusively print things I generate with it. I still check Thingiverse to see if people have already created things I'm attempting to make, which I see as the real power of this whole experiment.

I took a look at your source, but upon reading it saw it as a gesture to taint the data I provided so wasn't sure of its relavence to my status as a citizen of the US. I take issue with the "traditional historical" definition of a citizen supposedly applying to any person in the US. Wars today are fought largely with munition so beyond the scope of personally obtainable firearms that it is absurd to think that even armed persons with truly automatic firearms would be able to defend an attack by a foreign or domestic military force.

Do you have a better source of information which provides alternate takes on the correlation? Generally people attack the source of information they want to disagree with and say "correlation does not imply causality" when they have no data to counter.

Again, I am unclear on your definition of our citizenship. Are you suggesting that this event altered it?

If your definition of complete and total failure is "no casualties to civilians or law enforcement" after the suggestion was made to citizens, then you are correct. Also, your statement about us not being traditionally defined citizens seems to have something to do with low gun ownership in the region? I would like to refer you to this: http://www.vpc.org/press/1204death.htm

I think everyone following this has read the article you linked, and you have a valid point. But I think that you are in error if you're endorsing the idea that because something is normal or happens often (like casual banter between males) that it is inherently non-harmful.

The tone of conversations between other males often repels me, but the reaction to calling them out for it is worse often then simply putting up with it, as Adria Richards is experiencing. The focus is shifted to examining the complainant rather than truly evaluating the matter at hand. It's extremely unfortunate to witness or experience and is undeniably regressive in my opinion.