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>Defining climate change as a "health risk" is insane, sorry. If we go down that road, any policy someone doesn't like could be defined as a "health risk" by a sufficiently creative and unscrupulous debater.

Exxon isn't being sued because oil is a health risk. Exxon is being sued because the argument is that they new it was a health risk, and took deliberate steps to hide that information from the shareholders and the public. Just like when car companies get sued for hiding information about safety problems, they are getting sued for hiding the information, not because people get hurt in car accidents.
>"Let's be clear on the difference between reproducible and replication."

I did not find this clear. What is the distinction you are trying to make?
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Not relevant, since the users being discussed are law enforcement.
What I've been gathering is that there is no way the text of the TPP could have been interpreted favorably because people had already made up their minds before seeing a word of it. Every single thing in it is getting the most negative, (often) far fetched interpretation imaginable to fit the predefined narrative. FUD wins the day. FUD always wins the day.
> So yeah, it doesn't stop private citizens or parties from doing whatever they want. It may stop you from being able to create laws and enforce them at import/export time around actually complying with OSS licenses.

The treaty specifically states a party cannot compel the owner to reveal the source code. Arguably someone violating the GPL or similar license is not the actual owner of the code.
I don't know about psychoanalysis as defined by Freud and Jung, but therapy in general is an intensely personal experience.

I'm sure there are scientific aspects that can be brought to bear on a situation, but for a lot of people the "literary theory" part is just as helpful. Especially when you stop to think how much neurosis is fueled by pop culture (i.e. status envy).
I mean that would be a pretty crappy defeat device
The kernel of the argument [Linux security]
Yes that section exactly answers his question.
You have a valid point, but you'll be glad to know that they are backing the code out into an add-on. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694
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"That brief interaction with another kid trading and bonding over a game is what makes me keep one eye on Nintendo's prospect for a pokemon phone game today."

The thing about Pokémon these days (on the 3DS) is that the entire experience can be done online. That makes it far more efficient for kids and adults to just sit at home and optimize the experience instead of being social in-person. Some folks still meet up to play, but the majority have no interest in actually meeting people to play/trade when they can just go online instead.
Previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10498271
Possibly C. Titus Brown? Here's his PyCon 2014 talk, "Data intensive biology in the cloud":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRbfKK57X8
The one killer feature missing from email, and which should be doable with an standard extension, is to retroactively include someone in a conversation, forwarding the messages you have a notifying other participants of the change.

I note that newsgroup are somewhat that feature, but they live in a different space than email, with no integration. I really wish companies would develop and push such a standard instead of reinventing 80% of the wheel, tack on their shiny new proprietary hubcap and try to displace email.

We have people pushing slack here, and it's annoying to have yet another independant channel. It doesn't properly cross polineate with email.
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definitely, I'm disappointed with slacks responses. We did a trial and have had some correspondence with their support team which has been excellent to date. So I assumed they were above some of this silicon valley elitism. I'm glad to see this kind of public disclosure. We have been a customer since that initial trial, we stopped using hipchat.
There is nothing to gain by telling the police anything. If it's beneficial to your case, tell your lawyer. Don't talk to police!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
At least in NYC, most of the drivers I talk to drive for multiple services (e.g. Via during rush hour, Uber on weekends). This is probably less the case in cities where Uber is more dominant though.
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> allegedly it will be covered by scaffolding for all of eternity.

The first time I visited, I counted myself unlucky to have visited during maintenance. The second time I visited, I considered myself extremely unlucky to have visited twice during maintenance. By the third time I saw the Kölner Dom, I just assumed it would always be covered in scaffolding.

It has been a source of frustration because it seems as if I've never seen many of the great European works of architecture in their full glory.
I went on the comment section purely to see if someone had posted this. Nice one.
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VR and psychology -- cool! I got to visit Stanford's VR lab last year. They are doing some really cool pro-social stuff that has lots of therapeutic potential. Excited to see what comes out of it over the next 20 years.
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They secretly collected phone data for a decade and nothing untoward seems to have happened! Sounds like the powers that be are reasonably responsible after all.
That is an unacceptable post, but why not just flag it, instead of the whole submission? The discussion was split into two rather interesting topics, one about why corporations drag their heels and resist change instead of using their leverage to capture the market in emerging technologies, and another about whether corporations should be held accountable for climate change. These are important topics that are of interest to the HN community. It seems like it would be worth it to try to rein in the bad actors, rather than ban the topic.
Right - but we used to struggle with the output of the last generation of sequencers too. Computing capacity and storage have scaled at about the same rate. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that the costs have come down, so we can throw more iron at the problem - these are embarrassingly parallel problems...

As an example, the last sequencing analysis cluster I setup (~2010) ran with 2x bonded gigabit networks between our compute nodes and storage and had 10TB of network storage. The newest one is running 10GigE, has 200+TB of storage, and is cheaper. And we are a small shop in this field.
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It's literally not "carpooling" unless the driver was already headed in that direction. Nobody "carpools" all day for money. That's just someone being paid to drive a car.
Correcting statistical biases
> That's both untrue and fallacious (see: no true Scotsman).

No it's not. A sound scientific approach requires that a theory be based on reproducible results. If an experiment that verifies your theory confirms your result today and infirms it tomorrow, then the theory, the experimental approach, or both, are wrong.

Of course, experiments that can't be reproduced are part of the scientific endeavour. Every discovery comes at the end of a long sequence of experiments with results scattered all over the grah. But treating them as anything other than stumbling steps that help you refine your understanding of the problem or as dead ends is as unscientific as it gets.
people can hold more than one job and still be employees
After some more looking around, it does seem like Slack has some built-in Compliance functions regarding preservation of data. That's useful. Regarding the 1+ million users, I wonder how many treat their Slack communications with the same level of evidentiary legality as email? As in, when a case finally comes to court, how is Slack going to be seen from then on?

I mean, I grew up with ICQ. It was a great tool. It wasn't in the browser like Slack, but from what I recall, it did nearly everything that Slack does (chat, group, send files, etc), minus the 'oversight' of having a central place to export communications. Private really meant private.

All in all, it looks like a nice tool but smells like a new cover slapped on an old book. Having an eccentric Philosphy PhD at the top makes for good press, sure. I'm interested to see where Slack is in 5 years.
It's much faster to write. So it's useful for e.g. game screenshots.
My experience has been that icc (the C compiler) does a very good job of auto-vectorization. xlc does as well, provided you avoid the horribly misdesigned POWER6 architecture.

I agree that gcc sucks for this; we didn't have LLVM last time I was doing this kind of work, so I can't comment on that.
It's always been that way. A good book about this is Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything.
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As per the halting problem... no it can't ;)
I like Windows, too. I've been using it exclusively for a few months after being on Linux and OS X for years. I hated OS X, but that seems like a personal preference (I rarely come across people who hate it).

I was asking because disabling Windows Update (which someone has corrected me, this tool does not do) seems more extreme than switching to a different OS.
I really hope twitter somehow makes money. I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain. Facebook, I'd rather see die in the hottest fires of all the hells.

I don't exaggerate when I say this: twitter has made me smarter. If I'm interested in a new field, I just follow the experts in that field that are on twitter. The conversations and the discussions not only make me feel like an insider, but make me explore the field in a much deeper level. Three of the fields that I have gotten 'into' because of twitter are Urban 'renewal' sort of projects (citylab, atlantic cities, etcetera), the book reviews circle, and a certain subfield of computer science I won't mention, because I'd probably be the only intersection of those fields. : P

Sometimes, some people I follow tweet things I'd rather not hear. So I simply mute them. Done. (This is however NOT a apology for all the awful harassment that does happen)

I cull my 'following' list to get to 300 people once every couple of months, so it doesn't get out of hand, and it's worked perfectly for me. I can catch up with pretty much everything that appears on my timeline. I Like twitter because it doesn't 'curate' my content for me. The day it decides to get rid of the 'everything' timeline will be the day the 'decay' begins.

Perhaps my viewpoint is tainted, but in the past six years (that's how long I've been on it/using it), the number of twitter users has been growing (at least in terms of people I know), and their quality increasing. I realize harassment is still a huge issue, but despite that, Twitter is still a great community : )
We're using Evernote for business, and it's awesome. It integrates with most software out of the box (Insightly and dropbox), or through IFTTT (Google drive). If it's not on IFTTT you can always use Zapier (for Trello, for instance).
By the way I put the question, it was a neutral question. I was mistaken about this, but I thought the tool from the link would disable Windows Update.

If someone is that concerned about spying, to cripple Windows and make it unsafe (again, a mistaken impression my part) it seemed more logical to switch operating systems.

(I recently switched back to Windows from OS X and Ubuntu because I hate OS X and Ubuntu is too buggy.)
Always with the employee/contractor issue...

It has always been my prediction that there is a legal action lurking in the shadows that will ultimately be the undoing of the ~$50B unicorn, but employee/contractor is not it (these can be resolved moving forward with jurisdiction specific revisions to driver agreements and tweaks to the actual process to ensure compliance on a jurisdictional basis).

However, the legal action to ruin the company? My guess is a class action of drivers who have been arrested/criminally charged while serving as UBER drivers. Moreover, I believe such a case would open up a can of worms including: 1. UBER recruiting/paying bonuses to drivers to leave counties where ride sharing is legal to drive in counties where ride sharing is illegal, subsequently resulting in criminal charges; and 2. UBER's payment of criminal defense counsel for said drivers (which on its face may not seem problematic, but I would be willing to bet not a single lawyer paid by UBER to represent the drivers ever once advised the drivers they may have civil causes of action against UBER).
Many states in the US force you to test emissions when you register your car.
It happened to me too. Weird
> a coroner who posts autopsy photos

How is that even legal?

shudder
I've been developing software for 25 years. There are often projects that drag, and slogs through tedious parts to implement and difficult parts to debug, but for the most part I do love my work. Making stuff work is a joy to me. Solving tricky engineering problems and fixing bugs is fun. Writing code for a product that actually ships and which people enjoy using, that is a great feeling. The meetings and HR and spreadsheets and reviews and office politics, not so much, but I've been fortunate to work for a number of startups and startup-like groups where that kind of stuff can usually be minimized.
> They are CEOs of their own companies or companies they helped grow. I don't think anyone works harder than them in their companies.

I also know people in that bracket. None of them work significantly harder than some of the house cleaners and construction workers I've met. And even if they did, it's not like they work 10 million times harder. There are only so many hours in the week.

> You say that like it's easy-peasy. Everyone can do it, right?

It's not easier than anything else. But it's not appreciably harder. Read Warren Buffet on this. He's one of the best in the world, and he describes his success as coming from talent and luck. E.g.: "I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I’d been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless."

I note also that he was born into a family with business experience. His grandfather ran a store; his father, a stock brokerage. That sort of early education is of enormous help. (I know myself; my dad started programming computers in the late '60s.)
"I wouldn't want my fork mutating every time I had a different meal, in the interests of innovation."

The meal is a good analogy. For prolonged activity a local minima of utility that is 'good enough' can be achieved. This would correspond with a single app.

The fork, however, is not necessarily the best tool for 3D modeling, composing music or some new entirely new activity.
I think if you have a bidding model where the requester can select bids from providers then your 100% safe.

However, that being said this is ridiculous! Having employees would completely change what Uber is about. Uber is a platform not a taxi company.

Uber drivers right now can:

* choose their own schedules

* turn down customers they don't want

* just stop working with Uber with no notice

All things that most employees can't do.
That's possible, but the problem isn't so much in my session being lost as it is in my services and processes not running anymore. I host a Plex server on my machine that serves the whole family, I rely on it for remote SSH if I need to get into the network from the road, I share files to clients from it, and so forth.

Really it's too important to take down very often. I've considered buying a separate box for Windows. I run Windows applications in either WINE or VirtualBox, but with games that don't support WINE, that doesn't work unless you have specific, hard-to-find hardware and an extra GPU. Since games are the only thing I'm missing out on, more and more games are getting Linux native versions, and I don't have much time for games anyway, I haven't actually pulled the trigger on the separate Windows machine yet, but one day I will.
Wow this is very close to what I was saying. Thanks for this
Reproduce: take the published data and methods, rerun the analysis, see if you get the same results. No new experiment.

Replicate: perform a new experiment with new subjects, apply the same methods, see if you get statistically equivalent results.
now what ... Accurately label psychology and the social sciences as philosophy not science.
This gets posted every Twitter article. The burden is ALWAYS on the human to make the experience. Online, offline, with a lover, on vacation, while under duress, while rich, while broke.

It's a meaningless platitude. Because people will migrate toward a more pleasant experience. They will choose things that require less effort.

Even in regards to Twitter, the "who you follow" myth is particularly ridiculous. Know how one negative comment in a stream of 100 positives can ruin your day?

One friend on a bender can ruin your whole Twitter night. One sporting event can drown out your favorite intellectual writers. "Scope what I read by username, sort by time" is a fun but flawed concept.
IBM really needs to hire a professional designer for their slides. That deck is straight out of a 6th grade science fair.
POWER/PowerPC is the same architecture that Apple once used in the Macintosh, so if you want to play with Linux on a PowerPC machine they can be had for almost nothing on the used market.

There are really only two models worth having, at opposite ends of the spectrum: The PowerMac G5 (64-bit, based on POWER4) was the fastest available but they're enormous and power hungry. At the other end, the G4 mini is much smaller and more efficient but 32-bit and not as fast.
I am being flippant here (see my other comment on this post), but giving out the people you follow on twitter would be an easy way to compromise your anonymity (assuming that those accounts don't have a large overlap of followers). Just wanted to raise awareness, and point out there are very likely companies that make money by identifying people by the accounts they follow.

: )
I assumed as much, I knew 3DS was online-ready but quite frankly there are somethings online gaming cannot replicate. Call me old fashioned.... (wanna come over and play some co-op? Bring your controller.)
Being transparent doesn't make it right. It (and the fact they use and advocate the use of Gmail in government) worries me. They're the people's government and that implies they're there on behalf of the people, to serve the people. That sentiment doesn't exist at GDS. They believe they're right about everything they do, are recalcitrant and take criticism very badly.

They are good at web pages though.
single-page link: http://www.anandtech.com/print/9567/the-power-8-review-chall...
Just as a counterpoint: the Nevada Gaming Commission has plenty of time and money to sift through the source code of every gaming device that gets deployed in NV.
What makes a bunch of VMs running on a hypervisor inherently more secure than a bunch of processes running on a conventional OS kernel? Is the trusted computing base really any smaller in practice, particularly when the hypervisor in question is KVM on Linux, or even Xen with a Linux dom0? ANd when the VMs are unikernels, it seems to me that they're really just reinvented, heavier processes with a much-hyped new name.
As a recruiter I can shed some light on the other side.

A lot of recruiters are entry level hires. In my office most people are fresh out of a big ten school or one of the well-known colleges in Illinois. These are mostly people in their first full time job. Entry level sales is generally hard but having to learn tech stacks as well makes it even more difficult. Most people don’t take the job seriously enough to learn about different aspects of development. Honestly most people are not very good at sales or writing a compelling message so that’s why you end up with so much shit in your inbox.

The other aspect that comes into play is that every recruiting agency works a little different. My company breaks down by tech stack. We have 6 teams. My team only focuses on .net developers. When I started as long as I knew what C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server was I could hold a conversation. Unfortunately many companies don’t break down this way so recruiters are working any roles they can. A lot of recruiting agencies focus on recruiting sales people, office admins, or healthcare workers, and also do IT staffing on top of that. When a recruiter has to work on multiple roles in multiple fields it’s just about impossible to be knowledgeable about all of them.

I encourage developers to work with companies that focus on IT staffing and ask questions about the company. Most developers don’t even know how recruiting agencies make money or how they find the roles that they are working.

As far as the LinkedIn spam… I actually think it’s a pretty big problem but in a lot of industries. I get recruiting in mails and emails every day from other recruiters. Corporate recruiters and agencies recruiters. More often than not I can tell I was one of 20 people receiving the same copy paste message. This occurs in almost any industry where the demand is high and people have a internet presence. Developers just happen to be in that sweet spot of high demand and often public internet presence that makes it easy for recruiters to find them.
Sadly, as long as the reality TV still keeps rolling and food is on the table, then nobody cares.
> More and more of the web is built on javascript

Yes, you should definitely allow arbitrary code to run in a Turing-complete interpreter on your personal computer to read some text in the Economist.

This isn't some advanced app or game pushing the limits of web technology, it's words and a few charts.
Twitter has fallen victim to the advertising plague hitting a boatload of other websites.

Offer your users a cheap way to opt out of ads (1$ a month) and you'll make far more money than you could ever do with ads.
>but therapy in general is an intensely personal experience.

And empirically speaking, psychoanalytic therapy has a piss-poor record in dealing with mental illness.

If you're looking for spiritual guidance, then maybe a psychoanalyst can help. If you're looking for clinical efficacy, they demonstrably don't.

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to make a relevant Google Scholar query, but be careful not to confuse psychoanalysis with clinical psychology.

> for a lot of people the "literary theory" part is just as helpful.

Fine, but this is a conversation about psychology as a science.
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WINE is an amazing piece of software, one of the most impressive out there. I prefer it because it lets me do what I need to do without disrupting everything else I have going on. I do usually have to use a VM since the programs I need most struggle on WINE, but to the extent that I can run something in WINE, I really appreciate it. It's definitely better than having to lose 10GB+ of RAM and 100GB+ of disk to a VM. With games, a VM is usually not an option due to the need to virtualize video hardware; WINE allowed me to play Source-engine games in Linux for hundreds of hours over the years before native ports came out. I wish they would get DX11 support out some day so I can play recent games, though.

WINE can make a lot of really cool stuff happen. I suggest you take another look.

Disclaimer: I contributed a patchset to WINE 4 years ago.
Not OP, but there are two monthly recurring threads by 'whoishiring', one for employees[1] and one for freelancers[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492088

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492087

Edit: formatting.