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I loved MythBusters early on, but I haven't been able to stand watching the show for several years, save for the occasional episode. You know the drill: the heavy editing, the grating narrator, the scripted conversations, the sponsored "myths", the filler explosions.

The fun for me was always in seeing Adam and Jamie doing the actual research and building in order to test a myth. I liked being able to follow their thinking process. They would sometimes run into dead ends before even getting to the building stage, forcing them to rethink their approach. That gives a better picture of what science and engineering really is like, too. I suppose there's always been some scripting and editing, and the early seasons were flawed in other ways, but it definitely seemed to be a lot more genuine early on.

It's not about an entertainment tradeoff for me, as I simply don't find the current show format entertaining. But then, I guess I'm just not in the show's target audience anymore. I can accept that. Some good news, though, is that Adam and Jamie have started a website [1] where they (primarily Adam) show off builds and gadgets, without the shackles of the TV show format. For example, [2] is a video in which Adam Savage explains a tool stand for 14 minutes, which I honestly found more entertaining and interesting than any MythBusters episode I can remember seeing recently. I like seeing the nuts and bolts of their builds and experiments, quite literally.

I hope the final season ends on a high note. All things considered, it's been a good run, and the team behind MythBusters deserve a huge amount of credit for what they've done.

[1] http://www.tested.com/
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWQAYfGxsPE
If they've already done the engineering it's not a big cost.

For all we know, this kind of thing is nearly COTS in the FBI/NSA/CIA/TLA world. The question becomes: do they let one of their toys fall directly in to the hands of a security researcher?

They would be stupid to do that. On the other hand, some agencies better than others . . .
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You didn't say that they should take the middle more often, you just said that they should take the middle.
My understanding of reviews is there's a lot of payola going on.
Yeah, generic design pattern which is minimal, compact and simple.

Yeah, why would I use mathematics in programming.
I agree entirely with the premise that WordPress is not the most impressive codebase in the world — but that's not why people select it.

The reason that sites opt to use WordPress is that the editorial interface is familiar and the plugin ecosystem is very robust. The reason that sites stay on WordPress is that upgrades arrive for free every couple of months and do not break backwards compatibility.

WordPress's performance has improved over the years largely as a result of the rising tide of CPU and RAM upgrades and improvements to PHP and MySQL themselves — and more recently through integrations with Elasticsearch, which WordPress works particularly well with.

It's also possible to use WordPress as a framework and to develop elegant code using its APIs, which is largely what my firm does (I run one of the handful of agencies that partner with Automattic to provide WordPress consulting to big companies). But that's the exception, not the rule, and most of the prospective developers we interview who have WordPress experience can't use it the way we want.
I am pessimistic about this. The NSA fiasco hurts the interests of many American tech businesses, especially those operating a cloud, but you don't see any signs of US government changing their mind on surveillance. At least in the United States, money can influence politics. Yet the tech companies fail to change anything. In China, the power is inverted: politics control money. If censorship is good for the party but bad for business, then business just have to work with that.
Mathematicians used the "naive" concept of a set as "a collection of objects" for thousands of years, and it led to a major crisis in the foundations of mathematics that was only resolved by establishing a rigorous system of axiom's that define what a set is.

So I disagree that a "set is more than a collection", with the qualification that the concept of a "collection" that is not associated with any axioms whatsoever, is meaningless. Why do I say "meaningless"? Because this "naive" concept of a collection leads to a number of logical paradox's that can only be resolved by using a system of axioms to define these collections.

So it's true that you can define sets by various axiom systems that are not
the same, but these systems all exist under the umbrella of "set theory".

Using the "naive" concept of a collection is fair enough, since we all "know what you mean", but only as long as your point isn't that category theory is more fundamental than set theory.
With zsh:

$ $(tool) search $(pattern)

res1

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# press arrow up, home, r= (`, end, `)

$ r = ( `$(tool) search $(pattern)`)

$ tool install r[1] r[3]
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> tl;dr: It's 25% of the top 10 million websites according to Alexa over the last 3 months, and only includes top-level domains (So skips counting the millions of WordPress.com subdomains).

Nit, from someone in this industry: A top-level domain is .com, .net, .org, etc. The Alexa statistics only include second-level domains, which is what fully qualified domain names without hostnames are called.
Yeah I know :) but it wasn't the place to bitch and moan about that since it had very little to do with that subject.
And I've already complained about it that day :P
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526551

There is so much nonsense with the new VAT regulation and so much internal contradiction that I'll be surprised if it won't explode within a year or so.
I just dropped 50lbs in 4 months by eating porridge, salad and cottage cheese and salad and baked fish, no sugar and few carbs.

Pizza was my kryptonite, after a few weeks I stopped craving everything else but Pizza :).
You generally can't do that and cook in a home.
Testing things out is the very core of science, and these guys drilled it into a generation of kids.

Armchair scientists like myself like to read about science, but without people actually having a look, we're back in ancient Greece.

Makes you wonder how much we'd have achieved if people had gotten off their asses a bit earlier than a few hundred years ago.
Source for those #s? Curious
Blogger hasn't seen any development in years. I expect Google to shut it down when enough users have left.
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Show HN: One API to easily integrate multiple clouds or IoT devices in your app
Can we please stop describing mildly unsettling thoughts about technology as "dystopian?"

You are gaining convenience at the theoretical expense of small businesses at some point in the future. This is hardly the stuff of Orwellian nightmares.

[In fairness, I assume the "dystopian" subheading was chosen by an editor, and not by the writer himself (his own phrase: 'hardly utopian').]
Launched with a brand new technology. What do you think and how can we improve it?
Surely you'd be hired for a post-doc because your doctoral work was relevant to the project they were hiring for?
The recent Oregon school shooter did that.
Hypocritical Red Hat hopes to leverage patents to cement Linux market leadership
The problem with this is, generally speaking, it doesn't cost an ISP much more for everyone to be using their connection versus everyone not. All the infrastructure runs 24/7 regardless if you're using it or not (if you really get into the math, yes it costs slightly more electricity for equipment to use more hardware resources, but again it's pennies). The real costs come from upgrading the infrastructure to keep up with your top demand, and paying humans to maintain it all.
Google and Amazon account for 57% of all online revenue.
Don't you use any product of China? If so, is that means you help Chinese Nazi government do the evil?
The number of cloth diapers you need to buy is roughly proportional to the amount you'll go through in one day. So learning that babies typically go through 3X diapers/day instead of X doesn't actually change the cloth/disposable tradeoff.

That said, 30 seems high to me. Our kid probably peaked at about 8/day.

(We started with cloth diapers, but the amount of time washing them was just too high.)
I don't doubt it, but I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Would you elaborate?
> was not to be colonized by Belgium but not to be colonized at all.

There was no such alternative if you were a weak, divided nation in the first place. Please look at what happened in other places with a similar situation (even China during a long time). Once the European nations stopped fighting each other they looked for other territories to conquer at the time - and this, by the way, not limited the the recent world history at all. Territorial conquest is something that started that was documented even in Antiquity, although we did not call it colonization then.

Most countries have been colonized many times and there's almost no connection nowadays between the actual "natives" and whoever is currently ruling.
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One of those habits developed over millenia to ensure the survival of the species. Eating is the opposite of procrastination.
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The rubber bands would hold the case in place but the case is not strong enough to sustain the device. In other words: move your head to fast and it flies away. Hands prevent that.
Have you ever been involved in interviewing any of these "experts" for entry-level positions? It is amazing how incompetent and uneducated (in their chosen field) someone can be and still graduate university. With good marks even.
The string "Null" is very different from NULL

Which language(s) struggle with this?
Well, a year ago I'd see "low effort" jokes or simple statements downvoted or removed. I'd see many discussions which had disagreeing replies one after the other, all positively voted.

So perhaps "Hn's habit of downvoting" has evolved over the years.
If you can explain clearly why something "sucks," then that explanation will spread and soon enough everyone will agree that you are right and the thing is useless and bad.

But if you notice yourself spreading irrational FUD under throwaway nicknames, and people don't seem to quickly catch onto your point, it may be that secretly and fundamentally, you are trolling.
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I think a lot of these SF-based food startups are filling a need that exists because of SF's fairly bad model of urbanization. Things are kinda dense, but not really, and it's very hard to get around.

If SF was a more spread out city like Sacramento or Houston, driving to a grocery store or a Chipotle or an inexpensive eatery would be trivial to get your food. If it was much more dense (and easy to get around) like Manhattan or Bangkok or Tokyo, it would be trivial to get prepared food at any price since restaurants and street side cooks of all kinds can effectively get to dense districts to sell food.
I bought my MacBook off eBay cheaper than on the Apple site or Amazon. It also came with AppleCare. It was brand news as well. It has a US keyboard (@ symbol over the 2) and came with a US plug AND a UK plug.
One wonders what the world would look like if Google hadn't dropped the ball on Blogger.
Actually, I work in this space and we (and our competitors such as UberEats, etc) all tap into the restaurant's down time when the kitchen currently isn't being used. That's essentially the pitch as to what's in it for them. Give us your kitchen between 9-10 and will give you sales you otherwise wouldn't have had.
Pretty cool. Do you have any particular use-cases in mind? I could imagine it rolled into a bigger suite of social media management tools for brands. It could help them follow the people who follow them on other channels or something. Not sure about the consumer use-case, though.
So difficult concepts are useless... got it.

>Anything is easy to teach, it just takes a single person who undersatnds it.

Spoken like someone who's never taught a difficult subject.

More to the point: this is what anti-intellectualism looks like, and it's not something to be proud of. If you made the effort to understand the occasional cryptic idea, you'd be amazed at the number of useful things you would learn.
Any consultants on here that have to deliver/maintain WordPress sites? If so, mind sharing what your basic workflow is?

There are many articles on the web, but they are mostly for very entry level users. The fundamental problem my company runs into with WP is that only a theme can be meaningfully checked into version control. Everything else, including installation of plugins is coupled with entries in the database. And of course the database also includes changes necessarily made on the production instance, like comments to blog posts.

Any thoughts or links to posts on this greatly appreciated.
The generic benefit of a category is the proof that it satisfies the identity and associativity laws. This lets you write "generic proofs" that work for any category.

For example, take the following example type:

newtype Example f c a b = Example (f (c a b))

instance (Applicative f, Category c) => Category (Example f c) where
id = Example (pure id)

Example f . Example g = Example (liftA2 (.) f g)

You can prove that if `c` satisfies the `Category` laws and `f` satisfies the `Applicative` laws, then `Example f c` also satisfies the `Category` laws.

This in turn lets you take any `Category` and keep extending it with as many `Applicative`s as you want in any order, confident in the knowledge that your extended `Category` still satisfies the `Category` laws.

This is a common pattern in code that is organized around category theory and/or abstract algebra and I wrote a post showing a simpler example of this phenomenon (using `Monoid` instead of `Category`): http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/07/equational-reasoning-at...
Yup, a bit like caviar in texture and taste, I find, but sweeter.

Sheep eyes, on the other hand, are disturbing as they balefully glare at you from your bowl of soup.
I think it's really important that kids learn the concept of programmability: that all of this is just instructions. This is not a widely-known thing!

In the UK, all children are now expected to learn coding in school. What this actually means is putting 7-8 year olds in front of Scratch. AND IT WORKS REALLY WELL.

Writeup of my daughter's experience: http://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/127964136013/it-turns-out...

There's been a zillion simplified languages intended to get kids coding, but Scratch appears to be the one that works.

She's one of the academically-bright ones, but I asked her teacher about it and he said the average ones and the academically-bad ones also like Scratch. So it's doing job number 1 right: get the kid actually interested.
> handing out a $5 pair of sunglasses would prevent the cataracts in the first place (these are pretty much all UV induced).

I've also heard that vitamin sufficiency prevents UV induced cataracts, is this true and on what scale would vitamins be sufficient? Introducing a particular crop with the particular vitamin to the local farmers, potentially a GMO crop, or selling supplements or adding vitamins to food (e.g. in the Netherlands I know virtually all bread has government-encouraged iodine to prevent iodine deficiency illnesses and effects, not sure if it's a worldwide standard, but iodising table salt is common practice for the majority of the world, too) might be a practical alternative.
Can anyone tell what are the differences between a TinyCoreLinux image and a Rumpkernel, and the practical implications of those differences?
The problem is not with automation's obsolescence of human wage labor, but with capitalism's lack of functionality to deal with the consolidation of wealth that follows. Capitalists may not feel comfortable with workers owning the means of production, but they will have to make some concessions to society (example: single payer healthcare, free education, basic income, something else?) in order to maintain a healthy stability.

Capitalism makes production incredibly efficient (a great thing) but it is not the best at improving the human condition when there's no profit to be made directly.
In other news, why did the "Shaanxi Jiuli Robot Manufacturing" company think it was a good idea to design its robots to look terrifyingly skeletal?

Edit: from the company's website: http://www.sxjlrobot.com/eproductsdisp.asp?id=%2882%29
Here's a link to the original announcement:

Announcing CGT: http://joschu.github.io/
There is http://versionpress.net/ but it's still on early access.
Ask HN: Is cold fusion a Black Swan?
It's entirely possible that I don't understand what a "Black Swan" is, but given that people have been predicting it, and the ramifications of lower cost, carbon free energy are predictable, and given that there is no "Psychological Bias" against believing in Cold Fusion - just a really gnarly technical/science problem to solve - it doesn't seem to fulfill the definition of a black swan as defined here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

What do others think? (HN was the only audience I could think of that was familiar with Black Swans.)
>I and most competent programmers have no idea what a category is.

By your own admission, you have no idea whether or not category theory is useful to you.

Take pride in your ignorance if you like, but at least don't claim to know what you're talking about in the same breath.
Interesting, I would've recommended Alfred over Spotlight specifically for that purpose, if you're searching by filename. I just tried a test and Spotlight was initially unresponsive and then temporarily beach-balled while searching, whereas Alfred was instantaneous. (This is on El Capitan.)
The only thing that could possibly split humanity into "a handful of gods" and "the rest of us" is the ability of the "handful of gods" to prevent "the rest of us" from building or running the same automation.

Will "the rest of us" just give up on automating anything for ourselves and mindlessly become dependent on using the systems operated by "a handful of gods"?

I hope not.
> They depend on humans behaving as interchangeable units of labor.

This isn’t a new problem...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q030WNZvXrA

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Love it! Similar to AWS Lambda and webtask.io — just one ask: can we please not call this stuff `serverless`?

https://medium.com/@mhausenblas/serverless-get-in-the-sea-49...
And here I thought the title was literal and expected a Transhumanism piece that made it into the Guardian.
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"My only point is that ganging up is no solution - which they did because of the emotive issue. In the long run, it clips the wings of the individual."

While "ganging up is no solution" might make sense if there were alternatives, in this case, it seems likely that "ganging up" was their only chance of getting paid. It seems like the police in this case, saw the unfairness of it and sided with the workers.
To run an effective extortion racket you don't just have to convince your victims that they will be hurt if they don't pay - you also have to prove that they won't be hurt if they do pay.

There wouldn't be any point in paying a $1m ransom for a $50m boat if it was going to get caught by 49 other pirate groups on its way to safety. So when a ransom has been paid, pirates escort a boat to safety.

DDOSers can't offer any such guarantee; it's not like one DDOSer can stop another going after the same victim. And to my knowledge there aren't any websites where victims can post reviews saying whether the same DDOSer targeted them again later on.
That made my day.
I got Anxiety Attacks reading that article and some of the comments here. A shitty codebase with a kinda useless API on top of the cockroach of databases. Et voilà, the perfect platform to make the web a little bit less stable, less performant and contributing to the increasing trend of low quality code.
The non-religious gave away 33% more; that is significant along with that level of increased altruism was consistent across all socioeconomic backgrounds.
I agree with your points, but always wonder why shared hosting is often PHP/MySQL only. E.g. if you are using Python, say Django or Flask, and want to outsource your devops (i.e. shared hosting) you do not have many options.

Of course, there is pythonanywhere or you might want to use PAAS like Heroku, but I find it interesting non the less. Is it so much more work for shared hosting providers to provide Python?
Except no one ever spoke of transpilers when C compilers generated Assembly, C++, Objective-C and Eiffel generated C and so forth.

It was just the output of the compiler.
He got very lucky - as not only was bumping into the Marshalls remarkable, but he didn't end up on Eniwetok/Enewetak or one of the other nuked atolls, where only radiation sickness would have greeted him.
Simulator ride almost like a real
>Last week a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a video showing a tiny drone flying through a lightly forested area at 30mph, avoiding the trees – all without a pilot, using only its onboard processors. Of course it can outrun a human-piloted one

except it didnt :(, it barely missed objects few meters in front of it. No path planning, more like last second panic reaction.

more interesting imo are computers playing games, like defcon CTF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnyCbU7jGYA
In general yes (not so much in my particular case though), but even then entering a new research project, even if it is close to the one you were working on before still take some non negligible time.

But you are right, the time to complete step 1 from my comment may vary a lot and might be short in some cases I guess.

In my particular case, I did my PhD on "cryptographic implementation security against physical (side-channel and fault injection) attacks", and my post-doc is on "privacy as control". I chose to apply for this post-doc rather than take one of the few that were offered to me on my PhD topic, because it also interests me scientifically a lot, plus it interests me politically. On the one hand it may have been a bold (or stupid? we'll see that later :)) move career-wise, but on the other hand it was a good time to change topic, as it may be harder to do later when you are even more specialized. And that is not specific to me.
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