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> whenever the left gets close to getting their voices heard in any broad sense, you start seeing these sort of polemics attacking them for not practicing absolute tolerance and freedom of speech whenever and wherever they assemble.

A lot of people want to see what happens when this particular culture group gets power. What will they do, how do they behave?

> wholly owned by the ruling class and which has successfully kept the Overton window so damned narrow we can hardly have a conversation anymore. It is completely understandable that they would want journalists to get the fuck out

So the right wing is preventing anybody from having a conversation—but it's okay because you don't want one anyway?

> if you're curious why the left wants to tear the national media limb from rotten limb

And replace it with what, exactly?
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Whenever I see one of these MIT press releases, I know to take it with a giant grain of salt. I wonder if HN will eventually start penalizing links from them as low quality.
I do want to point out in addition to Bob Sutton's research, there's Adam Grant's research he writes about in "Give and Take." One of the main takeaways, yes there are a LOT of jerks at the top, and nice people at the bottom, but there are some really pretty amazingly nice people at the top as well, and a large portion of the book is citing studies as to why certain nice people are doormats, and certain nice people can make it past all the "takers." Bob Sutton and Adam Grant's work complement each other nicely.
It's started to lag and be very clunk for me recently (though maybe I just need to close some tabs). It used to be incredibly more responsive than facebook.com
As a founder, the whole world of startup finance is incredibly depressing and very easy to become cynical about.
I'm not particularly surprised. Actually, I would have been surprised if these restrictions weren't in place. But I figured it was worth looking into.
Initial money for stuff has to come from somewhere, and usually it's not the first customer.
Our use of non-renewable energy sources, or just even the use of gasoline/diesel in personal automobiles.

It wasn't that long ago that leaded gasoline was a thing.
I came across Amdahl's law repeatedly in my CS course.
Interestingly, I also came across it when studying for a MBA, in the context of operations management and speeding up business processes.
It's become a circlejerk:

10 years ago having a FB account was cool.
Once everyone was on FB then saying you'd deleted your account and gone off the grid was cool and all the people still using it were sheep.
Now it's cool to say you're still using it and that everyone who deleted their account is a jerk for mentioning it.

We're just going around in circles.

It's a useful tool, a time pit for others but being critical of someone because they do/don't use it is pretty weak.
Thanks for sharing that. I had seen the Klein bottles under his workshop video awhile back, but I had no idea how deep this rabbit hole went.
I've seen this as well. We interviewed a guy, for a crummy position in our division of a Fortune 1000 company. This guy was friendly, personable, had worked at Bell Labs and elsewhere, and knew the technical details back and forth. The management didn't want to hire him though - and this was after we had looked at hundreds of resumes and had interviewed well over a dozen people. The only answer I got was "I don't think he'd like it if we called him at 3 AM to do something".

Then these people go out and cry about how they can't find talented developers.
If the better business students think finance is unethical, that indicates good judgment.
Herpes dispensers. That's all I see.
I wonder if it's worth it for someone else to try to make a mainframe clone. I remember some company selling the Hercules emulator on an HP IA64 machine- PSI I think.

It would be fun to try to make an FPGA version.

Oh yeah, PSI: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/02/ibm_buys_psi/
Sometimes it seems like two different things get discussed when this topic comes up. On the one hand, we might have shortages of people with very specific skills in certain industries (maybe Fortran / mainframe programmers are hard to find, for example.)

On the other hand, the BLS data, various studies, and other sources like CEPR agree with him in the more general case:

http://www.cepr.net/blogs/cepr-blog/is-there-a-shortage-of-w...

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-201508...
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It depends. The reference source site code is MS-RSL (see the License link in the upper right).

Some of the source is additionally available under MIT from the github repository, but the reference site includes things that are not "open source" like WPF and Winforms.
Yep, if i want contact with people I will sms, call or email. I keep a small email list of close friends and we communicate better through this channel than any other and it's not platform dependent. All the people who don't engage through these more traditional methods I probably wasn't going to have any meaningful contact with anyway so nothing is really lost by moving away from a dedicated social platform.
To be fair, that one's only been around for a year or two :)
Yes, I'm taking CS now and I saw it last semester in "Advanced Computer Architecture", a year-3 core module for CS and CE student in NTU, Singapore.
Upvotes on HN.
I'd like to second the poster who said thanks for all your hard work.

It's pretty freakin' sweet to be able to develop my asp.net MVC sites in Monodevelop instead of VC. I really prefer KDE over Windows as a UI, and y'all let me work in Linux all the time now!
Yeah, all this, "I need Facebook" stuff feels foreign to me. Maybe I'm just a sociopath who doesn't care about his extended network, but I haven't used Facebook in years and I haven't missed it for one second of that time.
Original with 300+ comments: http://thesiswhisperer.com/2013/02/13/academic-assholes/
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I'm not following the "but" in your first sentence.

As for jokes on HN, there isn't much to add to what scott_s said a long time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289.
Amdahl's Law was taught in my Alma mater's "computer architecture" course. This course was primarily around CPU operation and law was specifically brought up in regards to instruction mixes and provided CPU execution units, but was then generalized.

This was the 2nd in a series of the four required courses "low level" courses (assembly programming, computer architecture, operating systems, compilers).

I am a systems software developer and Amdahl's Law is one of my standard interview questions.
Agreed, one of the giants.
But how fraction of the (happier) non-users have returned to Facebook?
> "That said, the results are based on self-reported answers"

Uhuh. I'm gonna go ahead and take this whole article with a massive chunk of salt; this breaks one of the main rules of how to do a statistically meaningful survey, so I don't see much value in the numbers.
How does one distinguish between being ethical and highly ethical?
Is this just an advertisement for PeopleSpark? Or while they're busy launching, the founder decided to sit back and spend his day writing click-bait articles for HN?

Not to mention how silly it is to say he's "bootstrapping" when he's sitting on millions of dollars. In most cases you'd be an idiot to not boot strap in that case.
I met Gene Amdahl once, when I took a summer course in computer architecture at UCSC. We got a tour of the Amdahl plant. They had a huge prototype CPU built out of TTL, which they built before making custom ICs. Each board in the prototype became one IC. Each row of cards in the prototype became one board. Each rack became one row of cards. That was how you debugged hardware designs in 1975.
In my case, I don't feel it's the Internet in general. I think it's Facebook that puts me in a funk. Oh, and I steer away from Reddit, if not feeling great. That said, I think I'm a lot older than most you you guys. I'll honesty give the reasons why I find FB depressing:

I don't have a lot of friends. I find people so self-aware on FB, I don't find them interesting. People, I used to find interesting, edgy, true individuals seemed to turn into just boring, conformists. Nothing wrong with boring, and conformity? I think it just all reminds me of my own mortality?

I also learned--I'm not the person I thought I was when on FB. Meaning--I'm more critical when I'm on that site, than in real life. Example--I go to someone's site I used to know, and see the physical age in their pictures, and it's just depressing. I see how some have given into being their parents, and it's just depressing. I see the see the car I was suspose to inherit being trashed by my nephew, I get depressed on a lot of levels. I also see that people aren't breaking down my doors looking for me--as a friend, I get depressed. I look at the news feed, and what FB thinks I'm interested in, I get depressed. I see that that the one person I thought would not have over 1000 friends, is actively trying to friend my pseudonym profile, I get depressed. She doesn't even know the most depressed civil war soldier's name, and she wants to friend him. (In the civil war, a soldier was showing signs of melancholy. A doctor decided to call his condition depression. I use that soldier's name on a FB account.)

I see my pictures have been stolen, and I get depressed. I see my stolen pictures, with a new copyright, and I get depressed. I always deactivate my account when leaving FB.
When FB, monkeys around with the deactivation process, I get depressed.

So FB does make me depressed some days. Maybe, it's just too much reality? Are we suspose to know exactly what almost everyone is doing, or not doing? What age has done? What lack of opportunities/money did to some peoples lives?

I don't hate FB, but think it needs some real competition. Right now, it's just too big. Its tentacles are integrated in too many websites. It's become its own internet? It's just to much posing, trout mouth, Kardashian, narcissism for some days. Today is that day for me.
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My comment made no claim of conspiracy, the original dailymail article did. I simply stated the G7 was still the G8 and if anybody else were to give that speech with 7 this and 7 that, 7-7-7, they'd be in a padded room haha.
Most low-flow faucets are just awful. Twenty years ago, I was lucky enough to find my favorite showerhead ever, for $5, and it's an extremely low-water-use showerhead.

It's just a simple hunk of metal, but it forces a very small amount of water out at a high velocity, mixed with enough air to give it a really vigorous-feeling cleaning action.

I've been hauling that from apartment to apartment for two decades. Love it, and it uses so little water!
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10555794.
It doesn't help to ensure anything. But having binaries out there that anyone is encouraged to sign and install, with no way to know what hidden features are there in what projects, is not a very well thought out model if Apple wants to make suckage less likely.
The city of Saratoga New York has old-style fountains: http://www.saratoga.com/waters-of-saratoga/

Notice in the map of cholera deaths that there is a brewery, but with no deaths. Supposedly this is because the workers were free to drink the product.
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Beating the impostor syndrome been most of my struggle professionally. It's like a daily struggle, you fight and move on. Like you shit everyday, you just do it whether you like it or not.
Perfect representation of why "separate but equal" was almost never actually the case.
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Thanks—changed from http://sasconfidential.com/2015/11/09/niceness/.
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I do devops/infrastructure and even I shudder at the pain of setting up, hosting, and maintains a mail server.
Ignorance regarding energy and lead can stem from lack of scientific advance. When there's only a little bit of evidence suggesting lead is neurotoxic, compared to a mountain of it, it seems like less of a threat.

By contrast, there's really no ethical excuse for why anyone in any time period would seek to ban gay marriage or racial integration.
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Soviets definitely lost the race to the Moon - that's at least the overall feeling prevailing now in Russian space circles.

However USSR did participate in that race - even though they denied that for long time. USSR did a lot on that path; I'd say roughly 80% of the road to success.

That includes N-1 rocket, which in fourth flight almost completed successfully the first stage burn. Upper stages were better tested on Earth and had higher chances of working right in early flights. Also from the way first N-1 flew one can see that engineers were systematically eliminating problems. The Achilles' heel of the N-1 rocket was engines of the first stage - NK-15, which were due to be replaced in the next flight with much better NK-33. The next flight N-1 could already be significantly more successful; but the program was cancelled.

That also includes hardware like Soyuz spacecraft, which with a lot of modifications still flies today, and D stage, which is used on Protons and Zenits to boost satellites to the geostationary orbit. NK-33 engines flew on Antares rocket and on Soyuz 2-1v Russian rocket.

That also includes lunar landing ship, which was successfully tested on Earth orbit in three flights.

Additionally USSR had a good program for exploring the Moon with robots, including Lunokhods, lunar orbital spacecrafts and automatic sample return vehicles - Luna-16, Luna-20 and Luna-24. And also Zond program - with first circumlunar flights by a spacecraft which later returned to Earth with living animals onboard.

USSR had rather good lunar program - and that was way less expensive than American one - but lost the race to send a human to the Moon itself.

However, from Russian point of view, that was just a - big, but not final - episode in space. 1970-s were the decade of first space stations, and USSR achieved a number of impressive firsts there. Losing to America with reusable spacecraft - Buran flew only once, later than Shuttle, and that was still better than no landing at all in the Moon race - Russia kept perfecting orbital space stations, and Mir was the world class orbital laboratory - some features of which were surpassed by ISS only many years later.

At the end, Russia still has a unique combination of abilities to do things in space - even though it can't match USSR's pace.
Look, I'm no fan of what we're doing to the environment, but none of the problems you bring up would actually result in a need to scale back consumption (as in a physical inability to continue). Wood is one building material among many. Extinct species and overfished oceans don't impede our ability to raise animals for consumption (which is where a vast majority of the meat we consume comes from). Ditto farming. Pollution can be (is) filtered from water sources at miniscule cost. Energy production is cheap and diversified, even beyond fossil fuels (nuclear and increasingly practical wind&solar). Water can be desalinated and pumped long distances for a pittance (I'm speaking in absolute terms here.)

Costs might fluctuate a bit, we might take the usual tragedies of the commons to horrible extremes that significantly mess with the planet and make it significantly less nice to live on, but I have yet to see an argument for unsustainability that didn't rely on either silly extrapolations or silly assumptions about our inability to adapt. If you've actually got one I'd love to see it -- more ammunition in the fight for the environment -- but I have to say I've seen a lot of bad arguments along these lines and by this point I honestly expect more of the same.
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Pretty polarizing thread.

I deleted FB two years ago. I'm a social 20-something. It hasn't impacted my social life at all, actually, and I do feel happier.

I18n friends, my family, or college acquaintances or x-coworkers who I care about are on WhatsApp, Gmail, or Skype. Close friends or dating prospects I text.

YMMV.

No need to crucify people for leaving FB. No need to act like you're superior for leaving FB.

I'll reiterate, I am happier two years later after leaving FB and I feel like I got more time back.
There's a great documentary on Netflix called Cowspiracy. It's very well sourced[1] and quite entertaining too.

1: http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/
Thanks. It's always interesting to see what people with comparable degrees encounter.
Yep I was thinking of Vedaldi's presentation - my bad, it was indeed a summer school. They all blur into one these days!
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Actually rooms are getting bigger too (and lighting is non-linear) but I think lighting is a pretty small part of all this.
I'm absolutely sure, that Einstein would have gone with the BSM-SG model. Unfortunately traveling back in time is impossible (from the BSM perspective).

Because the BSM model is the hacker approach to physics. If you can't unify a theory in 100 years, you most likely made some mistakes and a rewrite makes much more sense. Start from scratch with newest measurements and the simplest assumptions build it from ground up. Of course you must describe the different constants/forces of the standard model, but as long as you derive them logically, its absolutely valid.

Sorry, but we run out of time to wait 100 years for general physics to catch up. Paradima changes are slow, and we run out of time. Most people do not understand the great danger we are in:

arctic methane is just one of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6pFDu7lLV4

If somebody gives me a classical theory of physics with the absolute minimal set of basic assumptions possible; that fits measurements very well, uses a more strict form of logic and provides one with a physical understanding of something that could save humanity:

I fucking taking it. I learn the crap out of it and I give my best to save this wonderful planet that we trashed. I studied physics long enough that I know how most, not all of course, tick. I understand the close mindedness of many scientists.

That's why I'm promoting it, that's why I think it deserves a chance to be investigated. Quite often, when I talk with people about this model, hackers have a much more open attitude to new ideas and very often, after answering many of their questions, I often here: ohh, this actually makes sense. Especially chemists are very fast interested, because it explains, of course, chemical bindings and the interaction between particles very well and understandable.
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See, This is what people mean by "shades of gray" - And yeah, I was pushing 30 before I figured this out (and amusingly, I read a lot of philosophy in my teens and 20s trying to figure this out. Which... actually helps; you read enough, and you find that only crazies are certain of themselves. There aren't really answers to be had of the absolute sort, not in philosophy.)

Yes, nothing you do is going to absolutely harm no one else; No job is going to be absolutely "good" from a ethical perspective. Life is messy, and perhaps more to the point, ethics are messy.

However... this doesn't mean that some things aren't better than other things.

Most people would agree that, say, the way you are usually expected to act as a surgeon, when working for, say, an organization like doctors without borders is more ethical than the way you are expected to act when working in sales or finance, say, for a company like Enron, even if you are expected or required (to keep the job) to do some things we might agree are unethical as a surgeon.
In autonomous mode do they pull over properly if A. getting pulled over and B. emergency vehicles are whirring about doing their thing?
https://firefoxos.mozilla.community/device/Motorola/Moto%20G ;-)
https://firefoxos.mozilla.community/device/LG/Nexus%205 it is "Mozilla maintained" so as good as it gets =)
This doesn't happen when you're throwing a get-together of 5-10 close friends.

It's more frequent for me with parties of 100+ invites.

The way I accidentally don't invite people is

1. I setup Facebook event.

2. I scroll through a list of my friends on Facebook.

3. As I scroll through I invite any friends I think would have a good time at the party and are in town.

4. Never realize I didn't to invite Jake.

5. During or day after party I wonder why Jake didn't come. Then remember that he doesn't have Facebook

I don't think most people sit down and try to remember every person they know. Then create a list of people to invite and then use Facebook to invite them. I think they go through Facebook and invite the ones they recognize similar to the way I do it. It's also hard to keep track of who is, and isn't using Facebook at any given time.
"If asshole behaviour is a route to power, those who already have positions of power in the hierarchy and are widely acknowledged to be clever, have less reason to use it."

I've noticed this a lot in my academic career. The nicest people to talk to at computer architecture conferences are usually those with Eckert-Mauchly awards.
I think the asshole behavior as expressed by the author (i.e. rude, dismissive, passive aggressive or even outright hostile behavior) is not the source of the benefits but are often seen together.

"Assholes" don't care what other people think and they don't seek validation from them. As a corollary they don't tone down their opinions nor do they mind confrontation. Since they express their opinions with confidence, they seem smarter.

Assholes can take advantage of people, since most people want to please others to some degree. There are also people who don't try please people, but don't engage in the anti-social behavior assholes do. It's not the Nice vs the Assholes.

In my opinion too much niceness can be a hindrance. Taking delicate care that you express your opinions in a way that doesn't upset or offend anybody is great for that warm good-feel between everybody but doesn't pave the way for real progress. People should learn to take harsh critique and not let it affect them too much personally. Likewise they should learn to give straight-up, even harsh critique.
Well I for one would find a vehicle travelling at 40km/h in a 60 zone incredibly annoying, even if they're legally allowed to travel that slow.
I highly suspect those titans of innovations - in many areas - just happen to be among the first to get to relatively low hanging fruits in a new area... This pattern repeats in many fields.

Not to diminish Amdahl's achievements, of course.
It's more like you want a linter with custom rules for how you think a page should look. Actually, it's impressive to create the entire site with only content and simple layout. It's interesting there isn't a better way to manage and edit all that content...

508 Compliance is another interesting point. Open source scanner to assess if a page complies? It's another linter, it has to look at the html. I don't know much about 508 but I'm going to say from a quick look at your <html> that it's as clean as you could possibly hope for, and I would expect that latest screen reading tools would be able to navigate it. If that's not the case it says more about the particular reading tool than the website.

The facility locator! That was interesting, the default state is everything selected, please flip it to everything deselected. I haven't tried it out more because it overloaded ;-)

Benefits comparison tool also looks like it has a pretty big data set behind it, that was probably cool to develop.