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Not only is lack of replication bad, but I think also excess of new research is bad too. Everybody makes their own unique study, too different to compare to existing research, too small a sample size to be reliable, too singular among thousands of equally unimportant and unreliable studies that it goes unnoticed and unused.

Really, those researchers trying to do something novel but being incompetent at it, should put their skills to use replicating something else instead. Sure this would lead to them being seen as 2nd class scientists. But we still need that service, just as we still need cleaners even though they're seen as 2nd class workers.

Universities are the ones providing the incentives. Their management should be stopping and thinking about if their policies are adding value to scientific knowledge or subtracting it.
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Heads of co-ops or well-run businesses (eg Costco)?
Gravity train (theoretical means of transportation)
"Each question must be put to exactly one god" means you can't ask one question to all of them and get three answers. One question, one answer.
Who said you had a yard?
Labour...

$10 * 40 * 4.3 * 1.10 (taxes, bennies, etc) = $1892 per month.

Rent...

Etc...

Basically no one can accept that children might survive without constant adult supervision so costs are astronomical.

The cheapest daycare is having 2+ kids and getting a live in care giver that way rather than pay 2X for daycare you pay 1X and divide it over 2+ kids.
"writing text editors in javascript"

Just 5-10 years ago, that might have been considered a joke. Now I wonder if you're referring to a specific project. And if it's already deployed as a Droplet. ;)
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I couldn't find any helpful resources for setting up HTTP2 for Apache on Ubuntu. Hope this if helpful to someone. Please leave constructive criticism so that I may improve the post, my workflow, or the commands involved.

P.S. Never been one to blog or submit posts to social media, but after doing it for the first time I feel a weight has been lifted off my chest.
Someone who describes, among other things, the collapse of the Soviet Union as "the world-historic defeat of the working class in the 70s-80s" is operating within a much different framework than the rest of us.
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I think your probably right. But then, 3.8 million animals were killed in Australia in September alone for human consumption.[1]

Although I do feel a bit moralistic about dog breeds that have been selected for specific physical appearance characteristics without much apparent attention given to the animals health. Pugs are a good (bad) example, the RSPCA takes a pretty dim view.[2]

Papillons have only minor health concerns although patellar luxation, seizures, and dental problems can be issues. Additionally they can be at risk for PRA, intervertebral disk disease, and allergies. [3]

It amazes me a bit that "dogs" are all the one species, Canis familiaris (which translates from Latin to 'family dog', cute). I wonder what we could do with humans if we selectively bread them for hundreds of generations.

1. http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/7218.0.55
2. http://www.rspca.org.au/campaigns/pedigree-dogs/the-pug
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillon_(dog)#Health
In Germany, kindergarden it also free.
> Inflation is not caused by price increases.

No, inflation is defined as the rate of increase of general prices in a particular market, however that market is bounded.

> It is caused by an increase in the money supply relative to the value it represents.

Because the markets for different goods and services are to a certain extent distinct, and because populations of different levels of wealth demand different goods and services, redistribution always causes increase in the supply of money chasing goods and services demanded by the group benefiting from the redistribution (and a decrease on the other side), at least in the short run (in the longer run, its effects on overall productivity, which depend on other details, will determine the effects.) As a result, you'd expect redistribution to cause some inflation in the market for goods and services demanded by the beneficiaries of the redistribution.
There's a ton of people who don't need assembly. Including security engineers that work in C with tools like Astree or Frama-C. Then, tools such as CompCert compiler can handle the rest. ;)

Blackbox and reversing, though, certainly need or benefit from assembly. Depending one what one is analysing.
The article quotes someone speaking about the foxes:

Foxes in Class I are friendly toward experimenters, wagging their tails and whining. In the sixth generation bred for tameness we had to add an even higher-scoring category. Members of Class IE, the "domesticated elite," are eager to establish human contact, whimpering to attract attention and sniffing and licking experimenters like dogs. They start displaying this kind of behavior before they are one month old.

It took them a long time to get them to mostly reproduce with those traits (the modern ones only reach 80%), but the traits appeared in 6 generations.
Use common sense instead of Supreme court's sophistry. Why should a one school which admits general students for general education should not be subject to a state regulation only because the management is Christian ? Education is a perfectly secular activity like running a taxi service. Having tight regulation to one regulation where as total exemption to another religion seems stupid.

It could have been a minority rights issue if this exemption was limited to say a church run institution for religious studies. But then why not give same exemption to Hindu school for religious studies ?

Another catch. Some Indian states like J&K and Kerala have Hindus as minorities. But Hindus can not run minority institutions despite this. Reason ? Any minority institution needs to get a N.O.C. from National Minority Education Council but by law only Christians and Muslims can be members of this council and are allowed to give permissions only to Christian and Muslims schools.
Yeah another caution of mine. I would very much not like my projects to be a causality in an internal political war at Google. Who knows what might happen down the line...
Baltimore. That is like saying abandoned buildings are cheap in Detroit.
I don't know why people aren't asking the same question for JavaScript. Certainly, that call is going to cause trouble sometimes. Just try it on the string "<smiley emoji> I love it." (HN is unhappy with emoji, apparently. Surprise! Stuff that doesn't fit into UTF-16 often breaks all sorts of things.) The results are rather unexpected. But it works often enough that I assume people just don't really think about it much.

That's the trouble with string manipulation: it's usually easy to make a 99% solution and hard to make a 100% solution. Swift is attempting to prod you into the 100% solution by making the 99% solution more difficult, and the 100% solution maybe a bit easier.
This is how more normal (hunter gatherers, stone tool using farmers for example) human societies work, with kids in multi-age groups of both sexes. Also the grandparents play an important role in childminding.

Jared Diamonds recent book "the world until yesterday" is on the topic of stuff we can learn from such other societies.
Why don't most academic conferences make their budget publicly available?
So we need the original authors to come back with their own re-replication. Instead of throwing their published paper over the wall and moving on, they are the people in the best position to actually defend it and address problems with replications.

This publish-and-forget behavior annoys me about researchers. Sometimes I find results that look like they'll useful for my (non-academic) work, but the paper containing them is the final say on the matter. There's no version 2, there's no other work improving on it. It's just a dead end.
>>That is the economic definition of inflation.

No it isn't. From Wikipedia:

"In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. When the price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services. Consequently, inflation reflects a reduction in the purchasing power per unit of money – a loss of real value in the medium of exchange and unit of account within the economy."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation
This seems intuitively obvious.

Is there any particular research on this topic that would provide some depth for the curious?

How do you go about qualifying and reviewing the abilities and performance of non-adult caretakers in a way that is also useful to their own development?
Court system is incompetent because of constitution. Indian constitution is ridiculously complex lengthy and takes a very "law to fix everything" stand compared to something like American constitution which places liberty of individuals at core.

Courts waste a lot of time on technicality and morality rather than pure pragmatism and sense of justice. For example a murder in India is not just a murder. Depending on the gender, age, reasons, motives there are at least 45 different laws that can be applied. Murder out of religious superstition would warrant a totally different legal approach than say murder in domestic abuse because at core the court is not looking at it as violation of person's right to life.
Look, I've accepted nothing I can say will convince you.

But, if you think that is how it works, good luck.
Swing didn't have baseline alignment until Java 1.5 iirc, so you couldn't put a label next to a text box without it looking dorky. And the controls felt slightly uncanny on every platform.

No thanks, wouldn't buy again.
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I agree with this analysis, while I agree with the thrust of the book, sometimes when trying to do in-depth research on some of the topics, it seemed to me as though some of the sources were a bit dubious and/or hard to come by. I still liked the book and feel it's very instructive, but I took some of the detailed work with a healthy pinch of skepticism.

There's some other books that I've felt the same about, like sociopath society by Charles Derber. While the overall thrust is interesting, upon looking further into some of the claims, it was pretty hard to square all of the details with what was written. Either I wasn't privy to the same sources or first hand accounts, or some of it was a stretch from some alternative sources.

If I ever get time I'd love to do a detailed review of the facts vs. other published accounts of some of the specifics in both of these and other books.
Citation is provided by the comment above. You can check this activists blog which may cover other doubts you have

https://realitycheck.wordpress.com/.
On the other hand, cats are allowed to travel freely throughout Australia, including to and from Tasmania, and yet we can't keep our native animals as pets. I'm super keen for a domesticated Possum breed, or a domesticated Tasmanian Devil breed.
Yeah, these seem like the obvious costs + ones you would expect with almost any business. Based on the title I expected something different or interesting to be revealed.
UK STILL don't fixed those issues?

UK since middle ages was already infamous for having cities (specially london, but not just london) that have energetic problems and rely a lot on coal (and now other fossil fuels), leading to the infamous killer fogs, and to the victorian fashion (in victorian era, people tried to use stuff that would not have issues in a highly polluted air, for example extremely thick and dark curtains, so that people don't notice you aren't washing them a lot...)
I'm afraid that may be your fault. What style you pick doesn't matter much (consistency does though) so you should just pick one.

It really baffles me that anyone could spend so much time on something like that. I'm sure there are lots of more exciting (or more pressing) problems to solve on the projects you're working on...
Supreme Court is not the final stop for application of common sense. Anything can be defined as a minority right.

For example does it make sense to give exemption to a christian businessman calling it a minority right ? You can but that would be against common sense just like in the education case.

The serious effects of this law is that while Hindus have to jump through the draconian provisions of RTE, a church run school need not. Guess which schools will run more efficiently and grow at a faster rate and provide better education ?

I am not sure why minorities should have a different set of rights than the majority. Uniformity should be the foundation of law.
It looks like you're using built-in collection types in the resulting JavaScript without accounting for the fact that Swift collections are value types, not reference types. Do you plan to address this? There's another third-party Swift implementation out there focusing on Android which does the same thing and buries this drastic language change in the fine print, which is rather unfortunate.
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>Now you are trying to rewrite the discussion

Take it from someone that used to be very uncharitable in my interpretations of other's words and actions and was subsequently very argumentative and hostile: this is something you need to extract from yourself.

The sooner you take that step the better because it takes a long time to retrain yourself out of bad habits. I'm still working on it and every time I fail I wish I'd started sooner.

And even if you think I'm wrong, look at this way: You're not going to convince the person you're doing this to of your accusation and the other people reading it are going to ignore your argument and will just think you're being a hostile asshole. At that point you may as well be talking to yourself.
The part of our welfare system that treats medical problems is already pretty awful at doing so. UBI sort of came onto the scene as a way of dealing with both public healthcare and loss of jobs to automation.

In theory, UBI can pay for cheap treatments, and insurance (private or public) would pay for the rest.
I have zero sympathy for people in this situation, because it's their own fault for being in it. The solution is super simple: Stop working for free like an idiot.

If a company won't pay you to work on what they want, tell them you'll get to it when you get to it. If they have a problem with that, tell them to pound sand.

Further, releasing a bunch of stuff as open source, and then complaining that nobody contributes back, or doesn't contribute enough, or only contributes because they personally benefit, is a little ridiculous. Nobody forced you to give away a bunch of work for free, so don't make it sound like you're some kind of martyr.
Reproductive maturity at 10 months, so wild to at least some offspring fully "tamed" in less than a decade of selective breeding.
This is false. Well, it may be true in Erlang, but its false in Haskell, where there is always clear separation between equations and effects/state no matter the source (IO to other services or local state). Not to mention that there are tools such as STM that let you deal with state in a much safer and less error-prone way.

Separating the state between multiple communicating services is basically the same strategy as OOP (objects that communicate via messages and encapsulate state) but with stronger encapsulation requirements (access only via API, you can't just "reuse" methods willy-nilly all over the place but you have to come up with a sensible library or a third service, etc etc).

It works, yes but it works about just as much as OO does. Which is... not very much. And it also comes with its own tradeoffs (good luck getting atomic changes over multiple microservices)
It was a weapon when we I was in school. They might want to think twice to the power of some large number. (evil grin)
Some people don't have bank accounts.
What's wrong with Common Lisp? Caveman2 is great.
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Hm, I'd say both but quality first. The engineers aim was to make something that would last forever, the goal was that nothing would go wrong with it, but inevitably over the years something would and in that case it'd better be convenient to repair as the its so damn expensive you cant just buy another.
I think you should volunteer at a charity that engages in work that you care about and then decide if you still want to donate.
If it had a rat, I'd want it to be this specific one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPK_ij0llc8

The cats' expressions are priceless. :)
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Apple is an interesting position here because of their massive clout. They could have introduced a language that looks like COBOL crossed with APL and it still would have been immensely popular just because they have such a huge base of fanatical developers. I think you're right that this sort of thing could pose trouble for adoption of a normal language, but Apple doesn't need to worry about it so much. I'm hoping that this will allow them to push the Right Thing even though some developers don't like it.
Thanks Ian for all your hard work!

Ian's projects are what they are today because of what he has invested in them, without any guarantee of reward. The work that he has done will remain even now that his willingness to maintain these projects 'for free' has waned.

It is the open source developer's responsibility to fight for their own OSS/life balance, and it is good to see Ian taking this step to stand up for himself. Hopefully Ian's transition away from his own self-admitted naïveté will go smoothly -- these projects will continue even when he chooses to ignore destructive input and/or give an outright 'no' (or 'not right now') when necessary. Ian and other OSS maintainers do well to take a few pages from the lean startup customer support desk handbook: creating email templates, personal developer/contributor FAQs, etc. No doubt this blog post will serve its part as something Ian and others can point corporate developers to as a not-so-subtle hint in the future!

In my own very limited (and far less impressive) experience, I have found maintaining a list of alternative projects to be very helpful. Then, when someone brings an urgent need to my attention, I can point them to the list so they can solve their problem without me. One such conversation went like this:

>
> Hi ______,
>
> I will not be able to resolve these issues in what it sounds
> like is the timeframe you need.
>
> My recommendation would be that you install the trial version
> of a tool on the list of commercial alternatives: [url]
>
> One that I have very limited experience with is [url]. The page
> also lists all of the free tools that I am aware of.
>
> Thanks for reporting these problems; I will create issues to
> track the progress of resolving them.
>

Edit: PS. Hopefully Ian will invest some time in sharing some of the details of his positive experiences in OSS, perhaps even in interactions with the corporate world. In addition to what not to do, examples of what has worked well could make it easier for others to request more of the same! This discussion seems to serve both sides of this coin as well.
What about the GPL or LGPL prevents you from using it at work? Do you use Linux?
My point is, you can lobby against both.
The claim doesn't necessarily mean that it has dominated interpretation of American history, just that it "arguably had a greater influence...than any other single book". Much of how we think of American history is still influenced by school curriculum (i.e. textbooks). After school, we're still influenced, even if only subconsciously in the way we're influenced by Coca-Cola ads, by decades of traditions and status quo interpretation. The fact that Columbus Day is celebrated as a federal holiday -- and that many of us get the day off -- is going to be a persistent influence to the average American, including those who vote.
I agree. I will be surprised if the facilities dont have to pay some kind of liability insurance too to protect themselves from legal abuse.

However there is no evidence spending time with children has any benefit.
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Re: your edit–that's an interesting idea. It seems like in practice it could be abused but in terms of your goal it's probably better to favor practicality over edge cases and a minority of people that would abuse it.
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How would you feel about the more conversational, "If I asked you if B were Random, would you say da?"
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Yes it is a shame we can't keep native mammals as pets. I would love a pet sugar glider. Americans can keep them, but not us [1].

1. http://www.news.com.au/world/australias-sugar-gliders-at-the...
That's what the earned income tax credit does.
While you can construct the answer to "Does 'da' mean 'yes' if and only if you are True?" from "Does 'da' mean 'yes' if you are True" and "Does 'da' mean 'yes' only if you are True", you cannot construct the answers to "Does 'da' mean 'yes' if you are True" and "Does 'da' mean 'yes' only if you are True" from "Does 'da' mean 'yes' if and only if you are True?" alone.

Note, in particular, that at the end of the three questions in the solution you still have no way of discerning whether 'da' does, in fact, mean 'yes'.
Steve said a lot of things that smelled _way_ off to anyone technical. I remember calling him out on that specific "this isn't html5" line he liked to parrot years ago.

He either knew he was bullshitting, or he didn't have enough technical understanding to actually understand his own platform, and if pushed on anything remotely technical, he'd basically just throw his cofounder into the ring to overwhelm everyone with the (admittedly very clever) optimizations they were doing at their rendering layer.

I ran _fast_ the other direction, the whole thing gave off a horrible vibe.
Interesting story, about a (very) early 8 bit leds plus switches style computer with a discrete custom CPU. I was amused at the assertion that this computer (with its 256 bytes of Ram) could "handle word processing". Perhaps they mean processing one CPU "word" (=byte) at a time ?
> Don't forget that it should ideally be cryptographically random.

I thought that went without saying, nut yes, it must be cryptographically random (not ideally—it must be).
Exactly. The people arguing to "close tax loopholes" don't understand that it's not loopholes being used by companies who haven't yet repatriated large sums of money. It's a product of sovereignty. Those companies need to be incentivized to patriate their money, but the current tax regime simply makes keeping money abroad the financially responsible decision.
Intrinsic benefits = the good feelings and relationship building you get from raising your own child, as opposed to spending your time & attention serving strangers in a restaurant.
short sections of self-modifying code execute more slowly

Unless you're optimising for size, SMC'ing little pieces is definitely going to be slower. But e.g. in loops that do a few hundred iterations, saving a cycle or two by getting rid of some opaque predicates quickly adds up and the cache/pipeline-flushing overhead (few hundred cycles at most) becomes insignificant.

After all, as the parent comment says, a JIT is basically SMC'ing huge blocks of code, and it's definitely faster than the equivalent alternative of a bytecode interpreter.