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The problem is overbooking, though. Corporations are getting preferential treatment by being allowed to sell services which they're not going to fulfill.

The boner people on HN have for objectivism really does get quite old.

Rather interestingly, you see this sort of mirroring in other areas of neuroscience as well. One example is the simple cell receptive fields in the visual cortex [0]. If you take a natural image, slice it up into a bunch of small patches, and run independent components analysis (ICA) on them [1], you end up with patches that look a lot like simple cell receptive fields, implying that the visual system uses something very similar to ICA to process information.

In the same way, you can run ICA on human speech, and what you get back are gammatone filters, [2] which are commonly used to model the auditory system!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_cell [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_component_analysis [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammatone_filter

I found Gibson's writing style to be a bit difficult to get into when I first started reading his work. I started with Neuromancer and I'm currently reading The Peripheral.

At first I was a bit mad -- it seemed to me that he left out a lot of detail regarding the scene and the characters -- he just seemed to give the reader a few hints, and left them to construct the rest of the scene on their own. Dialogue often unfolds without explicit reference to who's speaking, leaving you to infer it based on speaking style and content. He'd also provide you with a couple sentences about a city or a structure and then move right on along with the action, movement, and interaction characters have with the environment.

Since I then have to rely so much on my own mental construction of the characters and the story, I end up surprising myself later on in the novels with how vividly I picture things as I'm reading, and the level of detail I can see. It's as if the reader takes as much of a part in constructing the story as Gibson does.

I'm rather doubtful this is true. Any sources to back up your claim?

This isn't about "showing off morality." It's about making the tech community welcoming to people of all genders. Your attitude is part of the reason that doing so is so difficult.

He should change it. Regardless of the intention, this is how it will be interpreted.

Seconding this. I'm now unable to use CAPS LOCK on my Mac as ESC, which makes using vim slightly more of a pain.

Exactly what I was reminded of when I saw this. Very cool stuff.

This is some of the best pop-sci writing I've read in quite some time. Hat's off to Carl Frederick; itching to go read some of his science fiction now.

I generally agree with Stallman here, in that people should be allowed to use pseudonyms, but I often wonder if the pseudonymity that places like Twitter, reddit et al. provide just serves to facilitate widespread abuse and harassment. Online harassment is a pretty big problem, especially against women. [0]

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/08/online-...

Hopefully this pushes Signal developers to transition from a Chrome app to building a desktop-native client.

Supplementary information and methods for the paper can be found here [0]. A more condensed version of the methods (in presentation form) can be found here [1].

[0]: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v11/n5/extref/nn.2112-S1...

[1]: https://courses.cs.ut.ee/MTAT.03.292/2014_fall/uploads/Main/...

I dream of the day that I can program while backpacking through the Appalachians.

Also, title should be fixed -- "Excerise" -> "Exercise".

The author might have been referring to this study:

http://www.ipearlab.org/media/publications/Changes_in_Dispos...

I believe he's talked about how Soylent, for a lot of people, is meant to replace meals that you'd rather not spend time cooking and cleaning for. i.e., not social gatherings and BBQs.

Yep, just checked. It's not here at all. Were you asked to sign in again after you revoked?

The amount of self-aggrandizing and general contempt for people I see on HN really astounds me sometimes.

I'm running iOS 9.3.2, and signing in to Pokemon Go caused it to have full access to my Google account. Just revoked it and looks like I can still play the game just fine.

Perhaps they misconfigured the Google auth sign-in? It's rather worrisome that it's this easy for an application to gain full access to your account, though.

It is a bit discouraging. And keep in mind that the game is technically still in Alpha, everyone.

I find it interesting that there are so many complaints about the UI / keybindings. I agree that the keybindings are a bit confusing once your start, but I didn't find them to be that difficult to master. No more difficult than say, learning to use Vim effectively.

However, certain things do become issues once your dwarf population scales past 15 or so. Checking dwarf occupations manually (e.g., to make sure that there is at least one dwarf who is currently assigned the furnace operator occupation) becomes a pain, so I'd suggest using Dwarf Therapist [0] to manage that. It also lets you quickly check other things, such as whether any dwarves are feeling particularly sad.

Also, I encourage people new to the game to check out some of the stories that the community has generated throughout DF's existence. The game's ability to generate interesting scenarios that lead to good stories to tell your friends is perhaps the most interesting part of the game. Boatmurdered [1] is a classic. Roomcarnage [2] is currently in the process of being told and is quite good.

[0]: https://github.com/splintermind/Dwarf-Therapist

[1]: http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/

[2]: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139393.0

Sure is [0]. Really grateful for it. I don't think I'd be able to play this game without using Dwarf Therapist. Generally it becomes way too difficult to manage dwarf occupation assignments once your population shoots past 15 or so.

[0]: https://github.com/splintermind/Dwarf-Therapist

Moving through the activity made me feel very uncomfortable, to the point that I simply stopped and closed the tab. I wonder -- supposing others might have had this same experience -- how this might affect the data.

Your comment adds nothing of worth to the discussion. So what if you don't see any problems with meritocracy? Explain why you feel that way.

Other typo: "who's knowledge is incomparable" should be "whose knowledge is incomparable."

Thanks for the guide; I enjoyed reading it.

As a recent beginner to Haskell, are there other big outstanding issues with the GHC to watch out for?

What I wanted to say upon reading this article, and you laid it out quite nicely. Thank you.

> Here, if someone gets my master password all is lost.

Not true. They'd need to know your keywords, which don't necessarily have to be "github" or "facebook" -- e.g., you could choose a consistent pattern, yielding "git##hub" and "face##book".

Agreed. On another note, some of the research they referenced here is that of O'Keefe, Moser & Moser [0] which was absolutely groundbreaking. It dealt with decoding the neural signatures rats produce when navigating rooms -- allowing us to peek into their "inner coordinate system," in a way. Perhaps there are interesting questions to be asked about augmented intelligence when approaching spatial tasks from this kind of perspective.

[0]: http://www.nature.com/news/nobel-prize-for-decoding-brain-s-...

You should know better; it's made by Microsoft. However, like with Atom, you can disable telemetry:

https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-di...

The point is that even if you personally didn't look over the source code, you'd be able to if you'd like to, and it's likely that people other than you have already looked at it.

This greatly reduces the opportunity for a developer or some other entity to introduce malicious code -- and even if that occurs, you reserve the right to remove it yourself and modify the programs you use as you see fit.