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It's not just psychological research that is deeply flawed. Only a quarter of scientific drug research is successfully reproduced as well.[1]

Carl Jung claimed one of the chief factors responsible for mass brainwashing is scientific rationality.[2] Society worships the Goddess of Reason while frowning down on "irrational" and non-verifiable religious testimony.

Now that science is proven to be systemically corrupt, what will "rational" people base their understanding on?

Aside: I designed a personality test / psychoanalytical tool that was inspired by Carl Jung. It's called Critical Stimulus and it can be found at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/critical-stimulus. The printable version can be downloaded at gumroad: https://gumroad.com/l/criticalstimulus

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[1] http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_in_Jungian_psychology
It doesn't help that it's Google, that despises the platform.
I believe the implication is that, if they were forced to release their source then either:

a) they would have been less likely to deliberately subvert the emissions tests in the code or

b) they were more likely to have been found out earlier.
ESR's blogpost: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907
"The ads aren't relevant" could just as well be an argument for better ad targeting.
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It is fitting then that Singapore is teaching its students to wrangle with mathematics.
You are VERY VERY WRONG.

Imagine being wrong. You are more wrong than that.

As a brother of a autistic person, I know more people that many of us, and is patently false your assertion.

BTW, I'm a twin with my brother. And I'm not autistic. Think about that implication...
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For those more well versed that I in employee stock options, what does this mean for employees with equity options? I assume it's quite dillutive and will make options granted after last funding round worthless assuming share price stays at ipo price ?
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That really don't answer the question does it?

ESR made some claim regarding honeypots apparently, what I wanted to know is which honeypots he's talking about.
It isn't trying to kill _all_ email, or replace the entirety of what email offers but replace using email as communication intra-office.

I still email my friends and use email every day, but slack has reduced my intra-office work email to 3-5 threads a week from a 20-30 before.
Free software aims to safeguard the freedom and autonomy of computer users. I think these are important features.
Sorry if I provided incorrect information, I didn't confirm all of it before posting, just wrote what I read on other sites.I saw they made a huge progress porting C# compiler and VM to BSD, it bodes them well :)
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Doesn't help how complex your URL is if legitimate users can pass it to anyone else who can then access the file without proper authorization.
Neither one, of course. It's simply pointing out that the headline here translates the German quote of the original.
That's incredible -- thanks for sharing! I'm amazed both at the speed and the fact that they had the nearly 300 year old original plans.
Interestingly, the functional programming crowd sees it the opposite way (according to Curry-Howard isomorphism): every program represents some logical calculus and programs are proofs to some prepositions about our programs that we keep in mind writing the program (and it's possible to get a glimpse of the prepositions using types).
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There is no subtle difference (source: native german speaker.), however:

"nich" might be either a typo by JdeBP, or a pronunciation respelling of a badly (dialectally) pronounced "nicht" (though then I'd also have expected "is" instead of "ist"), but either way it makes no semantic difference...

...so JdeBP probably meant the language. However the HN article title didn't say "says" but "asserts", which makes it independent of the language.
Interesting development. Is there info anywhere of manufacturers who have undertaken to provide updates through this system?
To me the idea of printing my own violin would be to get a cheap yet decently functional Violin. The price point of $70 is 2x what it needs to be in my opinion. Going on ebay there are entry level violins for $40.

Would be cool to see an open source piano
>A monopoly simply has to have significant influence on supply of a good. In the UK that can be as low as a 30% market share.

A monopoly has economic control of the supply of a good or service, no competition and hence pricing power.

Having "significant market share" and zero pricing power in an intensely competitive market is not a monopoly, regardless of how SV has decided to co-opt the word.
This because that sub-group is very, very close to medical research.

The problem with social psychology, on the whole, is that it's highly politicized. This is especially true with regards to any study involving race, gender, or "identity" (in the sense of identity politics).
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907

Supposedly people trying to discredit open-source leaders by making false claims of sexual assault.
I don't believe this to be true. There was a genuine desire to foster a Brazilian IT industry. And it did partially succeed.

They just didn't invest enough in education and to widen the market (make them cheaper).

In the end, they thought that selling oranges to the US was more important (as the Unitron case shows).
Makes sense, don't work on building a drone company, you're too late, build a drone defense company and convince every police station they need your product.
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The way we know the harm a material (plant byproduct, animal byproduct or synthetic compound) will do to a human body is by its history of ingestion by humans. Yes, we may have a longer informal history of ingestion of cannabis.
You not only have to sift through the code, but compile and flash it yourself.
Hmm lets see...
Autochk\Proxy (acproxy.dll) - Proxy Auto Config, also provides uPNP services for NAT traversal, could cause issues if you have a system proxy configured, some applications (mainly games) might also experience NAT traversal issues, IIRC Steamworks games like CS:GO/CS:S use it for NAT traversal.

Disables quite a few Media Center services including services that are needed if you are using your PC for HTPC or consuming some services Netflix's Silverlight player used to use ehDRMInit not sure if this is still the case.

It uninstalls several performance and compatibility updates, as well as updates to Windows Update itself which might actually prevent you from receiving updates properly.

Host block, well blocks MSN, bing, Skype and some other services which probably have nothing to do with Windows Telemetry, and worse has a script that actually modifies the routes on your machine which are going to be horrible to debug, not to mention outright stupid.

echo block www.microsoft.com
route -p add 184.31.194.59/32 127.0.0.1

Seriously?
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The TPP is actually supposed to exclude China and create a competing trade bloc. It was even called the "everybody but China deal" by some people. All part of Obama's "pivot to Asia"... supposedly.

However, given the contents of the treaty, I don't think this exclusion is something that really bothers China.

China wanted in on the WTO bad. Real bad. China doesn't really care about the TPP.
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I can only think of TPP/TIPP as Protectionism... how can this go well?
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"But it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court."...do u mind explaining to me (american) exactly what that means? like if the cops arrest me and ask where i was last night and I don't tell them i was having dinner with their chief's wife (and thus not murdering mine), does that mean i absolutely cannot use that fact as part of my defense if my lawyer decides during trial it might be a good idea?" and do u at least have the right to have a lawyer present when you're being questioned like this?
Well you're lucky there... a great many of the large international banks also sell insurance products.

It's difficult to square telephone/communication companies (and, well-branded name for that political action committee) lobbying for fewer restrictions on their ability to make contracts with clients, yet clamor when other alternative competition paradigms appear.
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Once streamlined, it will probably be the best mobile framework world wide (IMHO). Great job dartisans, Good Luck!
I also hope to see it running deaktop apps, something like NW.js
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>Now that science is proven to be systemically corrupt, what will "rational" people base their understanding on?

This is not a new notion in the least. The "rational" people will continue doing what they've always done: revising their conclusions.

Science is a process, and while we can question the notion of "scientific progress" in philosophical terms, this is neither a new idea nor evidence that science doesn't work. It's certainly not evidence that science is no better than irrational thinking.

>Carl Jung claimed one of the chief factors responsible for mass brainwashing is scientific rationality.

Few people take psychoanalysts seriously these days, in large part because of their long record of absurd claims and shoddy clinical work. Jungian theory has it's place in a conversation about literary theory, but not in a conversation about science.
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Maybe not everything in it is bad, but this part is very bad.

It means other countries can not have the software they buy inspected for NSA (or whoever else) planted backdoors.

It also means that countries can not ask for source code in a guarantee that the software will remain useful if the company goes away.

What it does not mean is that those countries will stop pirating software. There's no mechanism for enforcing that.
You should read Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth. It's a quick read and digresses a lot on a fictional romantic side story, but the main character is a middle ages master mason who has grand plans to build a cathedral ... which he hopes his son will continue after his death.
It's definitely saner to use something that has a community and traction. You definitely can't argue that Dart is a saner choice of language than JavaScript. After all if they'd chosen JavaScript, Dart could be useable via compilation. So would a whole bunch of other more commonly known and probably saner languages.
Why can't Google just contribute to React Native?
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Yes, that is how it starts. It's at 0'33". Other snippets:

* 1'17" "Breakfast and dinner is on you."

* 2'06" "If you're not there, then the boat will leave without you."

* 11'42" "I'm surprised, myself, that GitHub isn't perfect. Because it's so popular, right?"

* 13'55" "We won everything that we could have won. There's nothing else we can win. Except for Gentoo maybe."

* 14'40" "Fedora's and Ubuntu's cloud editions nowadays default to systemd networkd. Which I personally find pretty amazing given that networkd doesn't even have a [Desktop] Bus interface."

* 19'01" "I use resolved nowadays on my laptop all the time. But we have not pushed it into any of the distributions. Simply because ... well I think it's better in many ways than the glibc resolver. It actually doesn't deliver anything really big for anybody yet."

* 19'40" "Most of the distributions, like Fedora, currently do that with running a local DNS server and things like that. That's something that we really don't want."

* 20'16" "The way I see resolved, what it should be, is that it does name resolution. And whether that name resolution is traditional DNS, or it is LLMNR-style Microsoft-style link-local DNS, or whether it is Apple-style link-local DNS called mDNS, should just be an implementation detail."

* 22'37" "[sd-event] doesn't try to be portable. It's actually the opposite of being portable. It's basically epoll(), a wrapper around epoll()."

* 27'34" "I personally think that user-space IPC is a really crazy idea. I really hope that we can deliver something with kernel IPC."

* 32'28" "I know that distributions have these callout scripts so that when a DNS server changes they rewrite BIND's configuration files and things like that. That's the wrong way around. Make BIND listen to the events. BIND should just take the data. It's what we do with resolved, for example."

* 34'11" "Something we will probably be not working on [in systemd networkd] is Wi-Fi support, though, any time soon. That basically means that it's not going to be a consumer network daemon. It's not going to end up on your desktop because it's useless, if you don't have Wi-Fi."

* 35'27" "I personally think that the way that [user namespacing] is implemented in the kernel is borderline crazy. I also don't think that it's usable yet."

* 37'29" "In a systemd-nspawn container you get 16-bit user IDs, how it used to be in Unix. And the upper 16 bits of the host user IDs are basically just container IDs. And the lower bits are the normal ones. What we can say is that we implemented that in systemd, and we kind of try to push people to a certain kind of [user ID] allocation when they do that."

* 39'04" "And then there's machinectl shell. I got some very confused reporting in the press: that we'd reinvented sudo, or something."

* 42'57" "Eventually I'd really like to get rid of systemd ask-password and move it to some D-Bus interface."

* 54'54" "We are not the guys to do abstracted back-end support supporting ten different back-ends. We really are the guys who want to push people towards using one and not the other."
> Firefox/Iceweasel drama
Was it a drama though? AFAIK it was pretty much drama free. Debian wanted to backport security fixes themselves but it wouldn't have complied with Firefox's trademark policy. So they just changed the name/icon and didn't make a big deal out of it.
As mentioned in the README, it's heavily based on the Python version[1].

[1] https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/shortuuid
Meh, clickbait.
Weird. Any time I've pointed out an obviously wrong listing it has been pulled down almost immediately.
> Why would you ever need uncompressed bitmaps?

Because they're incredibly easy to generate programatically. For example, here's a bunch of experiments I did to test the code and image embedding process for my site:

http://chriswarbo.net/essays/procedural

The snippets of Haskell code on those pages are executed when the page's Markdown is rendered, and the images are the results. To make this work, each function maps x and y pixel coordinates to either a Bool (for b/w), an Int (for greyscale) or an (Int, Int, Int) tuple (for RGB). These are trivially converted into strings of PPM image data (via [1]), rendered to PNG (via [2]) and embedded into the page as a data URI (via [3]). The "view source" links show all the code, although it's a bit convoluted ;)

Whilst this example is just for experimentation, I could image someone generating raw bitmaps in a monitoring situation, for example.

[1] http://chriswarbo.net/git/chriswarbo-net/branches/master/sta...
[2] http://chriswarbo.net/git/chriswarbo-net/branches/master/sta...
[3] http://chriswarbo.net/git/chriswarbo-net/branches/master/sta...
I find much of what this article says about timescales confusing.

The article says the building "has entered the home stretch of construction" but never clarifies what that actually means. Is there some important milestone that has just been passed?

(It says "six new towers will soon be added", but surely the fact that some new towers are going to be added in the near future isn't the kind of thing that can constitute entering the home stretch. It says the building is 70% complete, but that doesn't seem particularly home-stretch-y for something that's been under construction for over 130 years already.)

Other schedule-related oddities in the article: only 70% complete but 11 years to go after 133 have passed already (this could be reasonable, if construction is faster now than it used to be); "on track to be finished in 2026" except that immediately afterwards it says "some decorative elements could take up to six additional years" -- so, er, in 2026 it will be finished apart from the bits that aren't finished? (It's not like "decorative elements" are secondary to the design of the Sagrada Familia.)

Anyway, regardless of when (if ever) it gets completed, the Sagrada Familia is a glorious building even in its present construction-site state. Go see it.
>Same thing with natural plant vs chemical extracts. Much easier to overdose and get lethal dosage.

One point of contention I'll raise is that with self-grown anything one can control what adulterants are added.

A particular problem with opioid overdose is the tendency for opioid pain killers to have paracetamol/acetaminophen/APAP/Tylenol added, which when taken in large doses will cause permanent liver damage.
It's stupid conservative thinking rather than rational scientific thinking. How this sort of thinking still exists is over my head.
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The whole premises of this article is incredibly disturbing. That people are actually mad that a company is able to produce so much new value that it dramatically increases the living standards of even its lowest paid employees.

Are people so delirious with envy that they want everyone to go back to the dark ages?
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A much better approach is to incorporate measurement error into your statistical procedure.

Of course that's usually a lot easier to do with Bayesian techniques...
The Bloomberg terminal is awesome! By now its been iterated to a point where it's like the Microsoft Office of Finance. It does everything and there is no way for one person to understand everything it can do.

It also has the nice lock in feature of the 20% of features that each person needs is different. This is probably the biggest reason why no one is yet encroaching on their territory.

it you trade debt, it has your yield curves

If you trade currencies it has your currency rate matrix.

Back office, you've got PORT and MARS for portfolio and risk management.

Developer, you've got the Bloomberg API that allows you to pull real time quotes for any exchange in the world.

And if you are stuck they do something that seems inconceivable to startups today, they have actual people you can talk to that help you figure out how to solve your problem!

One other often overlooked benefit of the terminal is that Bloomberg unlocked it via Bloomberg Anywhere. This means you can install the Bloomberg terminal software on any machine you want and then login to use it so that you aren't locked to a particular machine unlike the old Bloomberg Terminals.

The downside of this is that you can only be logged in at one place at a time, but pretty much everyone uses this setup nowadays.

And there is IB the Bloomberg instant messenger, just by typing in a name you can talk to anyone else with a terminal, which is pretty much anyone you'd want to in finance.

IB is also a sneaky way for recruiters to find out who they should be contacting:)
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The concept of "owning what you do" in software is what IP laws enable.
Surprising that HN includes the angle bracket as part of the link... I'm pretty sure using angle brackets like that to delineate a link is recommended in some major RFC...

Fixed link here, thanks: http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html
> In other words, on Twitter, people say things that they think of as ephemeral and chatty. Their utterances are then treated as unequivocal political statements by people outside the conversation.

This seems to point to the main problem of Twitter: it's not clear who your audience is. Are you talking to your friends? To your family? To people with similar interests? To people you're trying to convince to agree with you on some position? Who? It's too... vague a medium to be useful for most kinds of communication.
I use VSCode for my python scripting on my super cheap and lightweight laptop I got for my outings to Starbucks, and VSCode works pretty darn well for that. I also like the integrated support for Git.
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>could care less

I literally wish I could downvote you a million times
That clearly is the future of employment.

Better get used to it now.
>Yes, we may have a longer informal history of ingestion of cannabis.

Yes, and the reason we have to rely on that informal history is a political one, which has resulted in the avoidance of primary research on the effects of cannabis consumption.
They can still do both of those things, they just can't stop the import of software that has not been inspected or had the source shared.

So a government can still choose to use open source software, and have whoever do whatever consulting on that software, they just can't refuse to allow a proprietary vendor to offer their product for sale.
One point that hasn't been addressed so far is how misleading this study is. It's looking at death rates related to prescription painkiller deaths doing a time-series analysis 1999-2010 and then correlating results to states that made medical marijuana legal over that time period. It doesn't say how they eliminated any other number of causes during that period. This is merely showing correlation not causation.

As an example people who have more sex make the most money. While we would all like that to be true there's no science proving causation http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/sex-makes...

Most of the examples given in the comments here are anecdotal. Not that I disagree with the overall tone, but this is not the study to hold up and say "This is why we should legalize"
>particularly sociology

I'll take it a step further. The reason we're hearing about psychology and not sociology is that few people take sociology seriously, as a science.

Sociology is a science like political science is a science in that any irrefutable claim constitutes a valid theory. Evidence is secondary and the notion of falsifiability doesn't even come up.

Psychology has a very hard-science core, whose reputation is so tarnished by its "social" counterpart that no self-respecting researcher wants to be called a psychologist anymore. Replace your searches for psychology with cognitive science and you'll find a lot of good, reproducible, research such as this: http://cavlab.net/?lang=en
A lot of people are worried or put off by Dart's type system, but it now also supports strong mode https://github.com/dart-lang/dev_compiler/blob/master/STRONG...
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