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How did you get 10.6 running on Powerbook? Afaik, 10.5 was the end of line for PPC Macs.

I do have a PPC Mac too, but with Nvidia graphics, so Linux is not a solution for me :(.
AFAIK it's mostly used to describe people who don't vaccinate themselves or their children.
How come there aren't any "anti-civil engineers" who go around claiming bridges aren't safe or "anti-aeronautical-engineers" who "believe" through common sense that planes can't fly? Electricity is reading our brainwaves. Vacuum cleaners suck out our souls. If there are they are rightly recognized as crackpots in need of psychiatric help.
The author tries to make some fair points based on anecdotal evidence, but at its core, the article simply states that "I had a strong opinion about X that i imposed upon others. After being influenced by a romantic interest, I biased in another direction. Now I have a (new) strong opinion that i wish to impose upon others.".

In other words, the fundamental act is still same, it is just opinion that has changed.
I would not recommend game dev on twitch, example: handmade hero, awesome project, super great guy, but it is nearly impossible to follow what is going on.
Confirmation bias works both ways. In one way or another everybody is influenced by it, whether you're on the right side, or the wrong side of facts.
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> Most recently, Lundin and Lidgren reported that they had submitted their paper to the journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, but that the editors declined to have it reviewed; and that even the non-reviewed preprint archive, arxiv.org, refused to accept it.

Since when is a journal under obligation to review or accept a publication?

They're free to publish it on their own website.

> I wish I could remember the name of the physicist whose career was destroyed for no more than being publicly seen to entertain the possibility that cold fusion could be real.

Well, history will vindicate him if it is real. That's the way these things go and cold fusion is not an exception to this. Any kind of very much off the beaten path scientific idea that turns out to be true after all has gone the same route. There are even cases of Nobel prizes being awarded many years after the original discovery.

One thing I do know about cold fusion: nobody to date has been able to demonstrate beyond doubt the production of a net energy surplus over an extended period.

And since evidence would be very easy to provide we don't need to rely on rumors for this, just show the device and we'll call it the breakthrough that it is. And I'm sure that even nature would be more than happy to publish the write-up in that case.
You're missing a big part of the argument here:

>Go tell arachnophobic parents that you must put spiders on their child because society depends on it, and see how that goes

When children don't receive vaccines it is not just seen that they are endangering themselves, but other children aswell because of the possibility of spread/mutation (whether this is true or not it doesn't really matter, that's just a majority of public view at the moment).

So unlike the spider example, a direct vaccination example from a pro-vaxor's standpoint would be that NOT vaccinating everyone will put children in harm's way.
I'm so not surprised by the comments here, so far.

The core points here are good ones:

- In a fundamentally emotional argument, you 'win' with empathy, not by beating people over the head with the same (very reasonable) arguments they've heard a hundred times.

- Vaccines are certainly effective, they are the correct choice, but there are also absolutely legitimate reasons to distrust the medical and scientific arguments (as pointed out in the article, both medicine and the science behind drugs have been spectacularly wrong more than once). That's something that has to be addressed and overcome, and not just with numbers.
Thanks for the link. Whilst I'm not arguing with your point, I believe I've never used the term "object database" to describe GoshawkDB, only "object store". I guess I'm struggling to find a more accurate term than "object store" to describe GoshawkDB. I don't like "document store", as to me "document" tends to be something human readable.
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Example httpd(8) configuration for anyone interested.

http://pastebin.com/u5q9g8K6
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I'm probably missing something, but I don't see how this is feasible. Moving all firmware to a device that lives on an external bus means that you must either create a 'trustworthy' distribution channel for all supported firmware (including all system components and peripheral devices), or support only a select few devices and forbid adding any new peripherals.

In general, most of the firmware needed for system components is streamed from the main SPI chip to the various components as they are configured by the main system BIOS. Thus, there mainly is a single chip we are concerned about. However, the author identified a second embedded controller )EC_ flash that is also usually present, so we end up being concerned about 2 flash modules. The author addresses other firmwares - the main one being discrete GPUs - and suggests having a system that does not include them.

> Also, I have to disagree that FPGAs are ideal for the architecture proposed by this paper. Performance and state issues of an FPGA aside, they're field programmable, which seems more vulnerable than 'microcode updates'. Of course, you could just disable field programming, but why even use an FPGA in the first place?

If your only interface between the computer and the FPGA is a three wire interface that emulates an SPI chip, that does not provide any vector for reconfiguring the FPGA. The bitstream for configuring the FPGA is provided via a completely separate set of hardware pins.
Although a degree seems to be a poor predictor of performance in a software engineering role (http://blog.alinelerner.com/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-comput...), I am sure the percentage of people with degrees at Google is higher compared to "normal" companies.

I have some insights in Google-Zürich and the percentage of Masters and PhDs is above average compared to other companies. (Disclaimer: I live in Zurich and I used to code for a living. Now, I hire engineers for different companies in Switzerland. If you look for a tech-job in Zurich, check out my story "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT" on https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... or ping me at the mail-address in my HN-profile.)
Well, most people in the pro-vaxx community won't deny that vaccinating has risks. The risks of not vaccinating, however, are bigger in a lot of cases. I think that's the most important message in the article, that their concern might be justified, but that the coin has another side.
There are many, many factors, but that's one. Income inequality mapped with social mobility is called "The Great Gatsby Curve."

The usual suspects have the highest social mobility - Denmark, Norway, and Finland plus Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the...

Social safety nets actually lead to an increase in social mobility.
> In one way or another everybody is influenced by it, whether you're on the right side, or the wrong side of facts.

I disagree. I'm always on the right side and am never influenced by confirmation bias - at least that's what the comments I approve on my blog say!
FWIW, I have more often seen the term "lowering" used by people who do research in this field and "desugaring" mostly among industry developers.
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Isn't it supposed to be 6000 (4k before Christ and 2k after)?
I decided to create a twitter app that allows people to post 140 character rap, and challenge other people. I wasn't able to test because of a lack of users / ability to promote due to low funds.

http://tweetabar.xyz

The site pretty much explains how it works, and was supposed to be used as a "Coming Soon/I need Testers" medium, but failed completely haha.

I suck at front-end btw.
The CIA did more for the anti-vaccination movement than any kind of scientific publication ever will. People that are afraid of vaccination are so for many reasons (some of them totally nonsense, others with some basis in fact). But to have actual proof that a three letter agency used a (fake) vaccination drive to gather DNA from large numbers of innocents in order to get at a fugitive was something we could have really done without.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccin...
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Damn, this is something I've been saying for a while (and also written a more succinct blog about[1]). The anti-vaxxer parents are victims of fraudsters who do this for monetary gain. It's the same story as with all pseudoscience.

Attacking parents will not stop it. Education and holding fraudsters responsible will. But education has to be, marketing wise, on the same level as what fraudsters are pumping out. Currently it really isn't (save for a few exceptions).

[1] http://thescepticalpirate.eu/vaccinations-dont-blame-parents...
There's a 'flat-earthers' movement apparently. Compared to them, anti-vaxxers seem like sensible people.
This is a deep observation and it's how a lot of Art works: it's not the immediate object/product/action that makes sense. It's when you put it into a context to generate meaning.

To persevarate: I'm sure if the author ever breaks up, he'll cop to being led around by his hormones. In the meantime, his unaware writing is a bold sample of the process of mental rationalization.

And in that way, the artist is often in a bind: to intentionally produce a work that reveals an unconscious incorrectness, in order that other can properly contextualize it. The artist must be wrong in order to be right, to ruin their reputation to grow one.
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There are many developmental problems that have been correlated and in some cases proven to be caused by the obesity of the mother and the child.

Yet there's no credible anti-obesity movement. In fact, many of the same parents who worry about obesity worry about making children self-conscious about "body image" and tolerate obesity--even though 400 people die every year from Anorexia compared to 300,000 yearly deaths from Obesity.

Why it's acceptable to worry about risks from vaccines but it's off limits to discuss a mother's or child's weight problem is a big, dangerous, mystery facing society today--especially because 2/3rds of Americans are overweight or obese.
If sentience isn't the requirement, where do we draw the line on AI? Do we have to treat dead things nicely?
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I am curious to see more opinions on this study.
The speaker argues that good relationships improve our health and success in life. I wonder how much of it is the other way around though. Maybe cause and effect are inversed?
I would gladly purchase such a device were it available at a reasonable price.
1. https://github.com/dherman/neon-bridge/blob/master/lib/index...

2. https://nodejs.org/api/globals.html#globals_filename

3. https://github.com/dherman/neon-bridge/blob/master/lib/proje...
If someone has an irrational fear that can pose harm to their child (or other children), the person should do something about it. Never letting a child to play with others, based on the fear that something might happen to in wouldn't be right, would it?
Glad you like it :). We're working on the last mile stuff right now (updating the manual, website, etc.) -- it will definitely be out before new years!
Um, no, she's an idiot, and you're justifying it her stupidity.
Sure. Yelling at people doesn't seem to help them with their irrational fear, and may well make it worse.
The difference and paranoia arise from the intangibility of microbes and electricity/software. The closest you'll find are the "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" people who exercise doubt in the face of the strength of structures.
I almost married an anti-vaxxer. And then I realized there are another couple million people in this country I could marry and not have to fight over that stuff about the rest of my life.

It wasn't just vaccines she was worried about. She was also vegan. Only ate organic. I'm fine if those are your choices but I don't want them forced upon me, or a lecture when I eat a hotdog, take an aspirin, or drink milk.

Constant fear of everything in the environment requires psychological help.
The whole anti-science movement is in parts self inflicted. If someone reads one day that scientists discovered "walking" causes cancer and the next day that "walking" is the key to eternal living it is no wonder nobody takes any form of evidence serious anymore. We just see those studies coming out every other day - and journalists certainly playing their part by over-hyping them.

Once you realize how hard consensus finding is and all the personal interests and agendas involved, including the "big" failures of science (e.g smoking is save), I can see the point of people rejecting science as subjective.
I have to disrespectfully disagree, because my filter bubble always shows me that my views are correct.
I've been saying this about password managers for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9731361

"The fundamental design flaw of all of these compromised password managers, keychains, etc. is that they keep state in a file. That causes all sorts of problems (syncing among devices, file corruption, unauthorized access, tampering, backups, etc.)."
>both medicine and the science behind drugs have been spectacularly wrong more than once

On the other hand, non-medicine (alternative medicine) and non-science (pseudoscience) have been spectacularly right more than once. That's the point. Agree with empathy angle and need for emotional arguments, though.
Collected 40+ realtime weatherstations to one map.

Just for personal usage and for some friends.

Good to see where the wind is for surfing/sailing.

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If you read the whole article, it's pretty clear that he hasn't missed any aspect of "the argument".

From the article: "But vaccines only work when everyone buys in. Public health depends on anti-vaxxers confronting their greatest fears for the benefit of others."
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Luvit.io - libuv + LuaJIT is also in the same space.
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> "anti-aeronautical-engineers" who "believe" through common sense that planes can't fly?

There are plenty of people who won't fly because they're afraid it will crash, despite that being tremendously unlikely.

> Electricity is reading our brainwaves.

I got some great pamphlets in my mailbox about how the neighborhood powerlines were going to affect my mood.

But, no. They are not in need of psychiatric help. They're just wrong about something.
Considered harmful is one type of essay.

Considered harmful is great format because the title makes it clear that the author is intentionally taking one side and he is then free to concentrate into one side of the story.
It should be addressed with legislation making it a felony not to vaccinate your children by a reason early childhood age (e.g. 6 years or something), whether put in public school or not, and making proof of vaccination a requirement for federal aid for that person (e.g. student loans or assistance).

There are certain things that should be up for public debate and discourse, left to the courts, or up to personal preference. Vaccination is not one of them. "This shot will give my kids autism" is not reasonable and should not be treated as a reasonable concern any more than "Obama is Kenyan" or "We didn't land on the moon" should.
The exceptions in this list are almost entirely due to possible allergic reactions. Take flu vaccines - most of them are created via eggs, so people allergic against eggs cannot use these vaccines, until especially prepared without using eggs. If no vaccine is available for your child, it should skip this especial vaccination. This also is the reason why it is so important that every child which can, should be vaccinated. If a small percentage of the population is not vaccinated, they are still safe/no danger to society due to the protection given by the vaccinated part of the population. This is not a reason to skip vaccinations for non-medical reasons.
> but if safety is your priority you should probably look at things other than C

And those things are?

C is the low level language we have. Now compiler writers decided it'll work like a high level language, except for all the actual benefits.

We'll probably get usable C compilers that work (in fact, this already started), and some stuff only good for old code.
The repo looks to be here:

https://github.com/combinatorylogic/clike

Because you have a functional and also imperative language (pfront?) that your compiler is written in, you avoid memory churn by ensuring "visitor nodes are chained together", is that right?

So pass fusion for compiling clike does away with the destructive matching and rebuilding of untransformed subexpressions by linking pointers back to the original.
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I understand your reluctance for using term "document". I don't like it much
either when it comes to JSON entities, but I can't find any better term, much
less a widely used one.

Look at the matter this way: CouchDB, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch, all use the
term "document" to describe hash containing data of JSON-compatible model.
They already do so, and they are quite well known in the field. It only makes
sense to follow their lead, so your potential users can recognize capabilities
of your application easier.
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The real question I think is what are the preconditions to "get rich in tech" and how do you get to those preconditions?

Assuming you're not in a position to get the typical pedigree associated with the preconditions, e.g. Stanford/MIT/ C.S, how does a "typical" engineer become amazing. I would love a comprehensive guide on how to do this.

Being great at your job is one thing, meeting the preconditions associated with getting rich in tech, is another.
As @jzila pointed out this didn’t include the potential energy, with that included, the energy comparison becomes more stark.

The Falcon 9 v1.1 weights 557.6 tons and the number floating around for New Shepard is 40 tons. So that would give 496 gigajoules of potential energy for the Falcon 9 and 36 gigajoules of energy for New Shepard.

For a total of energy of 616 gigajoules for the Falcon 9 and 36 gigajoules for the New Shepard.
Sounds like online poker all over again ;)
Because the examples you're giving are clearly ridiculous, even to the layperson. Obviously planes can fly, nobody has ever gotten their soul sucked out by a vacuum cleaner, etc.

Now first let me say I think vaccines are a Very Good Thing, but people have actually been harmed by vaccines: it's extremely rare, and happened more in the past than it does today, but it can happen which makes it much harder to shake peoples' paranoia.

Believing electricity can read your thoughts is clearly crazy, but believing vaccines are harmful can just be a case of not understanding/respecting the probabilities involved.
A really good article. Similar things are happening with so many things in our lives (feminism for instance). The worst is when people begin to deny the existence of real problems (like with vaccines, although they make sense, there really is some risk for the people that get vaccinated).
A thorough literature review of a field you have no training in is a rather significant undertaking.

It's nice to take a look at individual papers sometimes, but without a lot of context it's difficult to be sure you're interpreting them right.
But this is also true for playing the stock market.

Indeed, the stock market and fantasy sites are extremely similar, with the same fundamental issue -- a small number of people with a technical and information advantage are essentially skimming the table clean of the entry fees of a lot of people picking randomly or emotionally.
I know a couple anti-vaxxers, and they are very rational, but just selfish, people: they don't believe vaccines are evil in general, but rather they believe what is, basically, true: it is best of all if everyone else is vaccinated, but you aren't.
There is also a "religious" movement, who believe all kind of crazy things about the universe and evolution. And there are a lot of them (in the US at least)....
I looked at this article as a simple case study in being compassionate.

For me, learning to be compassionate has been a pretty big deal. While it is clearly great from a moral perspective, even from a selfish perspective it provides value. Just like the article states, it greatly improves communication and cooperation. Beyond that though, being compassionate makes me feel good.

I definitely recommend practicing compassion, particularly if you tend to be naturally critical, judgmental or cynical.
> legitimate reasons to distrust the medical and scientific arguments (as pointed out in the article, both medicine and the science behind drugs have been spectacularly wrong more than once)

Viewing failures in isolation is not really helpful. You need to compare them to successes and the failure/success rate of the alternatives.

Things get even more complicated when you start distinguishing cure/ineffective/harmful.
FWIW, as someone who does a lot of work with parsers, that block case is a bad example, as it is not at all ambiguous and does not make the language more difficult to parse. C and C++ have tons of things that make them frustrating or even nearly impossible to parse: if you just write down the naive description of this feature from Ruby you will see there are no ambiguities and it never even requires more than a single lookahead token to decide if you are using a hash or a block argument. A very similar example from JavaScript between and object literal and a block statement is actually a legitimate issue, but this feature of Ruby is so benign you can probably parse it correctly dropped into the middle of the file at the { with nothing but a single token of look-behind. The "splat" example, though, is spot on: there you have a context sensitivity. (Not so much in the [/" one, though: this does make the language more frustrating to parse, but only because the language is clearly defined over characters instead of tokens; but it is still a better example than the block argument.)
Using purely functional data structures and an AST walking interpreter one could make this fairly compact.
Wait you mean you don't log into JSTOR any time someone mentions something outside of your field of expertise?
It's true. Everywhere I look I see confirmation bias.
In general I'd say gambling is seen as "Playing games of chance [with money] for the entertainment/enjoyment value".

Honestly though I reckon it's a fine line between a person day trading their pension, a spread better and a poker player.

At the very least I'd love to see how it's distinguished legally.
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Watching the first couple videos, it looks like his claim, of building Quake from scratch, is not at all what he's actually doing in these videos, which is walking through the existing Quake source.