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FIX often standardize everyone's favorite custom fields after few years. The problem is that nobody is upgrading yet keep adding custom fields to their implementation, even worse sometimes back-porting tags from newer version but in incompatible ways (5.0 SP2 was released on 2011, but I've never worked with anything above 4.2 that was released 15 years ago.)
Don't use networks that don't share their code. Don't use networks that hold your data and don't give you raw access to it. Share directly with your friends instead of a large corporation.

Edit: Instead of downmods, please post reasons why you should use networks run with secret codes and which suck your data into their proprietary databases.
I doubt there is any (for the user). While there are many benefits to keep using an ad blocker.
then what about devs writing control software for cruise missiles?
Nope, not my area. But then the initial statement seemed more general.
The thing is the paper makes so much money from print advertising that to them it is cheaper to print and deliver papers. It's the old trope people like to recite about social media companies that "you're the product being sold to advertisers." For a variety of reasons your eyeballs are far less valuable online.
C. Elegans is the greatest model organism that has ever been studied. It was specifically selected (by Sydney Brenner) as a model for its properties:

it eats E. Coli, the most common model organism. So it's a model organism that lives on a model organism.

it's transparent so microscopy is really easy.

it always grows the exact same number of cells in the exact same place .

Among those properties:

first multicellular model organism to have its genome sequenced. C. Elegans continues to astound: 35% of its genes are homologous to human genes and the human forms can be used to replace the C. Elegans ones with minimal phenotypic difference.

each terminally differentiated cell (of which there is a fixed number) ends up in a specific location, which were identified in a heroic effort by John Sulston

Each of those cells can be targeted individually, both genetically and optically, allowing for very powerful experiments.

The Nobel Prize went to Brenner, Sulston, and Horvitz for their work.

the full neural connectome of the C. Elegans neural system has been mapped.

RNAi was discovered in C. Elegans.

OpenWorm is a project to build a virtual model of the organism. Having a complete model would require immense computation and storage, but OpenWorm is a reasonable approach.

Dollar for dollar, C. Elegans research pays off better than any massive science project I know of in biology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans
The writer seemed to be suggesting the censorship could be temporary, and lifted after no longer fresh and less likely to be retweeted.
Also, though probably not true in your case, it sounds like actively following the account means these rules don't apply.
I wouldn't recommend it though - as a long time FileMaker user and developer, I couldn't be happier to finally get out of this platform by learning a real web framework (Rails for me, Phoenix is on the horizon though).

FileMaker has its strengths, but the web isn't one of them. The results are subpar in my opinion and will always feel like a rapidly converted and FileMaker-branded, bloated and slow webapp. Just look at the generated HTML - it's an endless tree of nested divs.
remember, someone wrote the emissions defeatos, AND maintained the code for seven years until now.
Yes, I would advocate that.

I meant really that being clean shouldn't be a precursor
The OPM breach revealed the identities of every CIA agent and undercover FBI/ATF/DEA agent, but nobody from the Office of Personnel Management is being held accountable for allowing that to happen. Name one bit of information that Snowden exposed that is as harmful.
Thanks @neurohax. Your advice will help.
This is following the Economist's model - you create the illusion that the digital+paper is a great deal, which drives your print sales (and more advertising space).
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I agree that prisoners are unfairly stereotyped, and that we employ systems in the US which set up negative feedback loops which almost guarantee recidivism. These should be dealt with. We should have better job training and counseling while inside, better education programs, better control over violence (if this is possible), and possibly wipe public records clean when certain criminals are released.

With that being said, I personally believe that prison needs to have some sort of punishment aspect to it or people won't buy into it. If the general perception is that "justice" is not being served when crimes are committed, my guess is that extra-judicial reprisals will start to occur.
I can't remember (and the doc is filed away in the basement somewhere)... It was all handled by the immigration lawyers of my employer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units

You can use units which are very neat and pretty logical for some things - and very inconvenient for others.

That's, I think, the reason we have all that variety of units, which don't quite follow the same system. Centimeters are there just because of utility in less than strict cases; may be brains are simplifying by dropping unnecessary precision digits from consideration. Same for Kelvin - we don't measure temperature in, say, electron-volts, not only because Volt isn't a natural unit.
Wow, waking up early helps? I generally find it difficult waking up early.
Aviation GPS typically have a greater update rate, and support WAAS (wide area augmentation system) and RAIM (receiver autonomous integrity monitoring).
Thanks. That article was posted in 2010; does anyone know if it's still accurate?
I think the treatment of prisoners in the US is a big part of the problem. European countries don't force prisoners to wear orange prison uniforms, or transport them in waist chains and leg irons.

Sometimes respect and dignity for the prisoners by the prison authorities can go a long way towards reforming the prisoner.
Blendle’s Secret Weapon Is Its Toolkit
The cost isn't only about "production" per se; the increased cost also comes from meeting regulatory, reliability and testing requirements.
The problem with "the GPL is freer than the BSD license" is that it's the wrong question to ask, because the perspective is too narrow. What matters most IMHO is which license will lead to the largest and most viable ecosystem of free software. If you take this perspective of a whole ecosystem instead of the license of a single project, a lot of complex dynamics and unintended consequences need to be considered, and it may make more sense to investigate empirically instead of armchair arguing.
The consequences for speech should resemble an asymptote, always approaching zero.
Python Implementation of FIPS SHA3 and SHAKE
I don't think that DEC ever really managed to market AltaVista and Alpha to the extent it could have in the rapidly growing period of the Internet.

In 1996 they had some sort of program to provide discounted hardware to web startups, I worked for a company that took advantage of it, and while I was there started adding their great high availability system.

This revealed perhaps their biggest problem, a legacy system, you might say, of configuring and selling hardware, the very process of buying it from them was difficult and required acquiring all sorts of domain knowledge.

Some years earlier when they were all proud of their expert system that would correctly configure a system, I compared it to buying a Sun workstation where the most difficult decision was choosing your preferred keyboard (e.g. old school Sun/UNIX vs. PC layout, and language), and the right power cord for you country.

I think they largely failed to capitalize on the dot.com boom, especially as COMPAQ was fumbled just about everything they were doing when they bought DEC in 1998, and when the dot.com bubble went bust....
Are they any open experiments to integrate wikidata with AI systems of any kind?
Oh shucks. And here I was thinking about trying it. I guess my inertia has saved me from kilohours of wasted time and effort!
I agree that parents are better at determining their needs, but that's why they need to become self-sufficient. While they're not self-sufficient, they should be given only non-cash contributions so that they can survive while becoming self-sufficient, which makes them truly free to make determinations for their family. A parent can't really say he/she is doing that while they're on anyone's dole.

I've seen the model I've advocated work well dozens of times in reality.

Please understand that all of the groveling before "empirical results" is thinly-veiled hypocrisy. How many times does someone see a dense academic document and say "Oh, this totally changes my opinion on this controversial issue"? Almost never; if they agree with the outcome, they beat everyone over the head with it and call them denialist for not accepting it, and if they disagree, they insist that the outcome is biased, that there were "flaws in the methodology", etc.

If I did give you an article, study, or paper that supported my claims, don't pretend like it would matter. 98% of the time, people will accept propaganda that supports their existing opinion on controversial issues, and nothing else. It's why our media is the way it is.
Of course there are no fundamental rights. If I had the largest gun in the world I could just kill everyone denying them all rights or force them to do whatever pleases me. Rights are agreements between humans - you want to live, I want to live, so let's agree that killing people is a bad thing, let's have a right to live. Nothing more, nothing less.

So if the population grows to some level that becomes a danger for the sustainability of our society, then it is in everyone's self-interest or the interests of their children to voluntarily limit the number of children they have. And if the majority of the people agrees on that, then having more children than the society believes you should have becomes a punishable misbehavior.

So right now you can imagine to have the right to reproduce but that is only because we did not yet have the need to regulate it because the population is not yet too large. But there is absolutely nothing that makes this an eternal truth. Once the population reaches a critical level you face the decisions to either limit reproduction or to see your children live a miserable life in an overcrowded world. I would definitely vote for limiting reproduction because I value my few children having a good life way more than having many children having a miserable life.

And this has nothing to do with being ruled in one way or another, the society itself should come to the conclusion that it is a necessary policy.
Point taken, but causation is hard if not impossible in this kind of area (we're not dealing with physics here), and do you want to wait 20 years to see the results?

The immediate problem is that the costs of US courts and prisons are extremely high (1) and they are still growing quite rapidly. Jailing one criminal for three years costs over $100,000 (aside from the other social costs that other people have pointed out), which would cover a substantial amount of intervention.

Further, US prisons hold very large numbers of poor people, because poor people have the biggest motive to commit crimes (nothing to lose), and the least ability to pay for bail, lawyers or other treatments (eg for mental illness). I'll take correlation if it shows that interventions help poor children to avoid this fate.

(1) Quoting Wikipedia: "Judicial, police, and corrections costs totaled $212 billion in 2011 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2007, around $74 billion was spent on corrections according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics."

"In 2014, among facilities operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the average cost of incarceration for federal inmates in fiscal year 2014 was $30,619.85."

"In California in 2008, it cost the state an average of $47,102 a year to incarcerate an inmate in a state prison. From 2001 to 2009, the average annual cost increased by about $19,500."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
> Similar to these Norway has a life-sentence limit of 20 years ( I think ).

21, iirc, but also with a recently added clause that allows them to hold someone for longer (5 year increments) if deemed still a risk (i guess the stress test of that clause is behind bars right now).
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Are the referral links really necessary in this context? The fact that you don't even mention the CD names makes this feel like click bait for Amazon referrals.
Yes, to me, as a SI person, argument for 12-based system looks ridiculous :) . Starting with "we don't have 12 digits" and then just saying there's no problem with division by 3 - you sure can handle the .3333... infinite tail in your head; by 4 - those .25 with properly adjusted comma - by 5, 6, 8, 9... It's all just a matter of habit.
>And that's a big part of what makes me continue to support Lessig over Sanders. Remembering how great Obama sounded in 2008, and seeing how that turned out, I give it a very high chance Sanders would be exactly the same.

They're not the same at all. Sanders has a long history in Congress. Obama was a junior first term senator. Sanders is very specific about what he'll do. Obama was deliberately vague.
>If I guessed wrong, then feel free to ignore the rest of my comment.

[proceeds to ignore comment]
Show HN: Derive4j – Java8 support for ADTs, pattern matching, and more
Derive4J: a Java 8 annotation processor for deriving algebraic data types constructors, pattern matching and more!
Hey, I tried emailing you, but it bounced back.
"The public has been made aware that programmers can be culprits. This will make it more likely that the next time something goes wrong -- a plane crash, a fire, a flood -- that the public will jump to the conclusion that some programmer caused it. Yes, this is a stretch; but it wasn't so long ago that the concept of programmer implication in disasters was non-existent."

"...it wasn't so long ago..." What?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 -- This has been a thing since at least 1985 and probably far longer.
Thanks! I'm not the first to talk about using IRB for interactive fiction, but I think I might be the first to do so using nested defs. :) IRB-based Zork would be awesome! I hope someone does that.
> Dividing 1 foot by 4 is much easier than dividing 30cm.

That's of course very subjective. One has to remember that 1 foot is 12 inches, where in metrics one only remember once all prefixes and applies them to all units uniformly.
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Part of the problem with those is that a lot of companies (including big ones) have started sending notification and "what's happening" updates them without an opt-in, which causes users to think they're spammy and mark them as such. LinkedIn and Twitter are particularly big offenders here, but there are a lot of others. Twitter even likes to periodically invent new kinds of email notifications and newsletters, and opt you in to them by default.

Gmail might be making this a little better by introducing a middle ground, moving those kinds of emails out of the Inbox into either the "Social" or "Promotions" boxes, where they're less likely to be marked as spam (although probably also less likely to be seen).
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing this personal story, as I really think there are a lot of "music consumers" who think - and act - like you. The funny thing about music is that it, well, has no "inherent value" as soon as it's created. It's a matter of finding an audience that values the music enough to want more. I feel culinary art is sort of similar - there's no "perfect recipe" for a successful restaurant. If there's an audience, there's demand, and just because, in theory, somebody could make the same dish at home (i.e. download a pirate / clone recipe) doesn't mean the original loses all its merit.

I'll admit that Napster, to me, was an avenue to find things that I couldn't get my hands on otherwise. My favorite search term was "remix" and I got unreleased / international tracks that I still love to this day. I'm a consistent Beatport Pro customer, about $20 a month, and I buy physical CDs for artists to both help their traditional sales metrics and simply for nostalgia. I can't tell you how happy I was to buy the last Columbia release by Weird Al and be a part of giving him his first #1 album release of his career. Yeah, it's kind of hokey, but that's what's so fun about music - from cradle to grave, there's no shame in loving what we love.
Thanks @alansmitheebk. Your words give me courage to fight back.
The offending code could be obfuscated through all manner of requirements documents.

Without being able to see the actual code and requirement documents, all claims about them are pure, idle speculation.
The title derives from a single quote of someone that claims prisoners in Germany are not put in prison as punishment, but only to protect the public. But that is simply not true: punishment most certainly is a goal of accusers and most prisoners certainly feel punished by being locked up, so that goal is at least partially achieved. The major difference is that the government does not consider it the main goal and other goals, such as rehabilitation, are given more weight than in the US.
It may not have been actual code. Perhaps only values in a look-up table? Perhaps even values in an area of a multi-dimensional array that was never expected to be used.
Using predictive analytics to source better interns
We are working on using data from social networks to classify interns into red, blue and yellow based on reputation to help recruiters source better. As a recruiter/startup CEO, does that sound valuable?

We want to build the learning graph(http://jonbischke.com/2011/02/11/learning-graph-reputation-graph-massive-disruption-in-higher-ed/)and have been looking for an entry point and the intern-recruiting space looked like a great entry point. What would be some other ideas using big data in education?
Ask HN: Technical interviews went amazing but HR is not answering my emails now?
3 months ago I sent my resume to company X for the position of software engineer. (Company X is a very well known company that makes GPUs)
It seemed like the perfect position for me given that they were looking for someone with good C/C++, Java, Perl skills (those are my strongest languages), knowledge of OO design patterns and machine learning was a bonus (I have talked about deep learning in many big ml groups).

I got contacted within a couple of days and went through 3 technical interviews, which went amazing! the interviewers pretty much welcomed me to the team and one of them even said: "wow you really know your sh*t so I will stop asking now"

The whole process was poorly organized and the interviewers all though they were the first person talking to me.

Nevertheless I felt pretty confident that I was getting the position (specially because the position was very Perl-centric and I happen to be very involved in the Perl community) but the HR lady who was helping me only contacted me to ask me if I would consider relocation (I said yes), then she said the HR manager was away, then she said the same thing and now she is not answering any of my emails.

I could just apply to another company, but I was really excited about that position and I have a lot admiration for the company.

A friend suggested me to email the head of HR, what does HN think I should do.
The internet has created a weird environment where repercussions for socially unacceptable speech (even if taken completely out of context) can be dramatically more severe than any harm that was caused by the original speaker. In general, a distasteful tweet or Facebook post shouldn't cost someone their job, make them a target for anonymous threats or make them fear interacting with society at large any more than it would have if the message had just been spoken. There was a good piece on NPR recently that explored a number of examples:

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...
Optimizing a Box of Crayons with Hierarchical Clustering and D3.js
But you may have to sign a noncompete. Massachusetts needs to make noncompetes illegal like California. It's holding them back from competing against Silicon Valley.
> However, I'm not certain that's the case.

I am.

> That would hold if we assume all things which fly (aside from animals, obviously) are under the jurisdiction of the FAA by default.

There's plenty of statute and precedent making it blindingly clear that this is the case.
Cool article about the craziness of Ruby. Ruby is a frustrating language. The oauth gem, for instance, redefines '==(val)' on the AccessToken to 'Base64.encode(self.signature) == Base64.encode(val).'

This stuff feels really dangerous and unnecessary. I spend a lot of time on code reviews pointing out bad features of Ruby (and Rails) that we shouldn't be using because they break application flow and make it significantly harder to reason about the code for the small benefit of decreasing a few lines. But it's certainly fun to talk about :)
This, exactly! I have problem sleeping early at night. Thoughts and anxiety prevent me from sleeping. I don't have insomnia, I feel very sleepy, but very afraid and restless.

Also, I get overwhelmed by any task at hand. It starts getting procrastinated. Fear creeps in. Confidence takes a hit.
Are you describing these ratios correctly? A 20% summit:death ratio would mean 1 person summits for every 4 who die, right? Is this really death:summit, or is it summit:attempt?
Buying a start-up (assuming they already have proven the product) is much less riskier then building it in house.
We had a guy fired basically because he was an islamophobe. He was annoying people with his "opinion" all the time. That did not work out pretty well with all the other colleges so he did not get jobs. Nobody wanted to work with him. His chargeability was messed up and then he was gone.

I'm pretty OK with that.

Generalizations never work.
80k is roughly the cost of jailing one US adult for two years.

"In total, 6,899,000 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2013 – about 2.8% of adults (1 in 35) in the U.S. resident population."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
> The NSA literally has the right to spy on you

Wow. Seriously, why would you think they had that right?

If the link in their HN profile is to be believed, the person you are replying to is almost certainly a US citizen. The NSA is not authorized for domestic surveillance, as General Alexander admitted when he perjured himself in front of Congress[1]. It's in their charter, it's in the 4th Amendment and a couple hundred years of legal precedent. We even addressed these limitations in the Church Committee.

So I really don't understand why you would believe they had the right to spy on domestic targets. Besides, the game played by the FVEY members is letting GCHQ do the spying on US targets, not the NSA.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUY_MBzc42o#t=882
"no using" -> "not using". sorry.
If we're going to compare human conversation to network performance, I think the limiting factor with speech is throughput, not latency. If I have a complex idea I can start explaining it pretty quickly, and whoever I'm talking to will understand the individual words I use easily enough, but it still might take a while to communicate the whole idea.