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Why wouldn't multiple TODO lists work for you? Just a UI/UX issue or is there any reason?
>he freedom is intended to mean 'free to criticize the government', as that was called sedition in past ages.

And then the US has these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone

Also sedition seems to still be illegal in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition#United_States
> Unfortunately, they couldn't turn it on universally; there were a lot of programs that "knew" that malloc() would never return a pointer with the top bit set, so they used it as a flag for their own purposes. Such programs would break horribly in 3GB mode when pointers could have the top bit set.

Fascinating story. Never knew this. This dedication to backwards-compatibility is something Microsoft was known for. Reminds me of how they took great care when writing Windows to ensure perfect compatibility with old, horrible DOS programs, going so far as re-creating DOS bugs that these broken programs relied on. I suppose they were just accepting reality: if a user upgraded to Windows and some third party program broke, the user would blame Microsoft, not the incompetent application developer.
None. Schools should be teaching students the dangers of posting publicly, not fostering and then exploiting the ignorance.

What are we paying scholar for? To educate students!
> It will change once our future Politicians, CEOs, Generals, Judges, Celebs etc start seeing their lives and decisions get effected by all that data about them out there.

That's happening now. Savy students with an eye on becoming a Judge have been sanitizing their online and public presence, making it very difficult to figure out what their stance is on any given topic. I imagine that prospective politicians are doing the same thing.

Here's what the American Bar association has to say about social media:

http://www.americanbar.org/publications/gp_solo/2015/july-au...
Man, I really enjoyed this author's viewpoint. This passage in particular voiced something I've been unable to express:

> Yet consider: in order to construct this spectrum, it is necessary first firmly to establish what it means to be “man” and “woman.” Even if you are “genderqueer”—convinced that your gender identity does not conform to the social norms associated with your sex—alienation from social norms depends on the perpetuation of social norms. Thus if you are a gruff, muscular, assertive woman who has adopted the genderqueer label, girlishness must continue to be associated with garrulousness, weakness, and passivity for your identity to scan.

> In short, the spectrum depends on stereotypes.

About a year ago I started to question my sense of gender, and ended up arriving at the "genderqueer" label. But not because it felt most right, just less wrong than the other labels. About six months later I came to a similar conclusion as the above passage: so what if I don't do stereotypical $GENDER things, why should that prevent me from identifying as $GENDER? Doing anything else seemed like a special sort of narcissism, or a hobby -- not sure of the right words, but it seemed like a needless/useless waste of time and energy. That, combined with realizing that I don't want to define myself by my gender, helped me stop thinking about this for the most part and, i think not coincidentally, feel a lot happier about myself.
Actually CMS is only five years older than G1. The first published papers for G1 are from 2004. But yes, G1 has a long history of scary bugs. There was a time a few years ago where practically every week a crashing bug was fixed.

G1 addresses certain problem areas of CMS and replaces them with others. Honestly I hope in ten years from now we have better choices in HotSpot than CMS or G1 but right now it doesn't look like it (if you don't count Shenandoah with has other issues).

Having that said I have recently seen G1 performing exceptionally well in production: 120ms GC pauses with a 120 MB/s sustained allocation rate with basically default settings (apart from GC logging).
Maybe. But the documents make a pretty compelling case for mental illness, because they also indicate that he expected to talk to the President about freeing Kayla Mueller, and became unhinged after she died. Lopez's grandiose claims about his connections to ISIS were in fact fictional --- it looks like he was being set up for an advance-fee scam.

None of this is meant to excuse the criminal mental health care system in the US, which is, I think, criminal.

I think it took over a year in Lopez's case because pretty much nobody gives a shit about people in this system.
Why don't you do it?
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Ericsson clears up this misconception in PEAK.
> it's the Toyota Carolla of whatever it is you're looking for.

Corolla, not Carolla.
> I find the constant desire to have to self identify on every variable is becoming tiresome.

Right? This is super frustrating to me as a current university student. It seems like gender identity is just another way of tribe-association that is particularly popular among the rich and well-educated. It functions in the exact same way as identifying as a supporter of a particular football or baseball team. Deeply frustrating to have to engage with this, especially because honestly it is tiring and hard to think about.
Then why would the prosecutor be motivated to have him "forcibly medicated?" They clearly were taking an interest in his "treatment."
In addition to what others have written, I give an increased priority to things that will help me learn other things in the future.

If I have two topics on the top of my list, and I expect one of these to provide new mental tools, or meta insights about learning or cognition, I'll pick that one.

I also give a higher priority in general to techs that will cascade into improving my speed on future projects in the most generic way. For example I consider that learning how to automate something is never a lost cause, even if I can do it manually at the same speed, because it increases my knowledge about automation, which will be useful down the line.
Ask HN: Want to create a library for web development any ideas?
I want to spend the next month or two creating a library, and was wondering if anyone had any ideas they thought would be successful, but doesn't have the time to do it. I was thinking animation libraries from a suggestion, however there seems to be a lot of them. Maybe there isn't one great one yet?

Anyone else have any ideas of suggestions?
What do you think involuntary psychiatric commitment is? This is what it is. Yes! The prosecutors believed --- with some justification --- that Lopez was crazy. The system is set up to err on the side of indefinite psychiatric detention.
Well, the actual disk you buy in the store, no, that's mass production. Nonetheless music, movies, books are still covered by intellectual property laws and considered as intellectual works, but yeah that's not legally art.

The laws I was referencing in my first comment are more concerned about what is sold in an art gallery. A limited edition album would have its place there (even if it's a terrible one), not an album from Prince that sold millions of copies even if the later is socially recognised as a piece of art.
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And yet people often complain that this site is becoming too mainstream, too inundated with content of low intellectual value, and that there are few actual "hacker types" here. To the point that accusing the site of turning into Reddit is specifically pointed out in the guidelines as something not to do.

Does a "hacker type" correlate strongly with a certain race, gender or nationality? Is one political point of view more valid for "hacker types" than another? The guidelines of the actual site uses the qualifier "a good hacker," implying one should not only be a hacker, but "good" Good at what? Programming, startups, or conforming to an archetype of a "hacker" personality?

Even "intellectual stimulation" tends to lead to the belief that only intellects of a certain type should be considered valid. Dang has to constantly correct people who assume that content which is intellectually stimulating, but not explicitly about startups or technology, is off topic or detrimental. Hacker News is not what some people assume it is. The "good hacker" archetype itself is the problem, as people differ wildly as to their interpretations of it, and by extension, in their belief in what the true theme and purpose of Hacker News is.

Yet what really separates the average Hacker News user from the average Reddit user? I don't know how many users HN has, but Reddit has tens if not hundreds of millions, so one can assume the average Reddit user is not necessarily less intelligent than HN. Reddit also has a number of high quality subreddits which are heavily moderated and used by experts in their field, so I'm not certain HN possesses more technical acumen than Reddit, either. Quality of articles? Many things posted here also appear on Reddit.

Why, then, do Hacker News users seem to detest Reddit so much? Because among the few commonalities in the various interpretations of the hacker archetype are elitism and a distaste for mainstream culture, and new users want to appear to be "good hackers" and hating the mainstream is what people think "good hackers" do. Yet read the comments here, especially in controversial, non-technical threads where posturing as a "good hacker" has less value. Most are no better than, or even worse than, comments in similar subthreads on Reddit.
Hey, I remember using it back in 2005, when extra 28 MB made a big difference. :-)

It was surprising slow, though still faster (and quieter!) than HDD.
Which apparently has nothing to do with Xiaolin Wu's algorithm.
Surely Uber's reason to exist is to be ready to take over as soon as robocars are good enough. In a world where taxis are cheaper than owning a car, the winner is the one with the software and userbase that can organise the most journeys efficiently, offering discounts to merge rides, running buses and trains when enough people want to go from the same A to the same B
This also converges with my comment about giving more priority to learning things that will help me learn even more things and faster in the future.
well I want this and I don't do it because I'm already deep in doing other stuff (I bet the parent comment has the same reason). And even if I wasn't doing the stuff I already am doing I have a backlog of stuff, some of which would be highly innovative, that I am not doing that I should find the time to dust off and begin working on again. Asking someone to do something is really just saying - I'm too busy, if someone with the requisite skill is looking for something to do please consider this an upvote!
My wife works as a nurse in the Emergency Department of a hospital in Washington state, which has a shortage of mental health hospital beds available for patients. They are forced to board these patients in the Emergency Room for days at a time. The rooms often have no windows and are not set up for long term care. If the patient wasn't crazy before coming in, they will be by the time they leave.

The stories she has make my engineering job look like some kind of kindergrten. Patients trying to eat their own feces, trying to hurt staff members. Just remember techie folks that there is a whole other world out there where very bad and difficult things do happen.
I agree that there is some group think at HN, but it is significantly better than most other sites. I believe it's impossible not to have group think as society is conditioned to favour certain beliefs and values, particularly through media, law and education.

As an example, I dislike prejudice and believe in a level playing field. This often puts me at odds with Political Correctness and feminism (eg. I disagree that sexism is a male behaviour (eg. The use of the term misogyny to reenforce this belief) and I condemn sexism by anyone). About 50% of the time I am modded down on HN. Challenging sexism from a feminist a guaranteed mod down at The Verge and a near certainty of being modded down at Ars Technica.

So, I consider HN to be more open minded than almost all other forums, save one. Many users on this other forum are mindful of the PC trap and discourage sexist terms like misogynist (instead of the more balanced, less political term - sexist)
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In The Netherlands I imagine it would go like this:

He would annoy the AIVD (or RIVD?), at some point possibly breaking a law (the threat). The AIVD isn't authorised to arrest I think, so they would make a complaint and a police officer would come to his door, interrogate him, recognise the mental health issues and send a note to his physician.

The physician would call the guy and try to get him into a voluntary institution or at least to see some kind of therapist on a weekly basis. Let's say the guy is unreceptive to his.

Next step is that a social worker in his neighbourhood (this is a new system called wijkteam) is assigned to him that will visit his residence once a week. The worker will knock on his door and try to connect and build trust, family and friends are encouraged to participate in this process.

If the guy screws up too bad though, and the police gets involved another time or two the physician will be asked to authorise an involuntary treatment and he would end up in an institution of which would be much like a rich state in the US (NY, CA) one I think.

Note that nowhere in this process there would be a solitary confinement or separation from his family. That might happen in the NL but I can't imagine it would ever happen for more than a few days.
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Hey, don't knock skydiving -- Life is never simpler than it is in freefall with 6 seconds till impact.

The way I see it, you're presenting two distinct but related problems.

The first is that you're choosing romantic partners poorly. And this is just a hunch -- but I think you're choosing women not because you are attracted to them but because you think other people will be.

Because if a beautiful woman has chosen you, it is proof that you have value as a man. In other words, the drive to become romantically entangled with beautiful women is more about insecurity than anything else.

And women can smell insecurity like shit on a shoe.

Of course you feel insecure that she really likes you -- because you don't actually like her. What you like is that a high value woman is validating your very existence.

Which leads me to the second problem. You're deriving your sense of your own worth from other people.

And it's impossible to be consistently happy when other people have control of your happiness.

When a woman tells you you're not being man enough -- she's giving you a precious gift -- once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

You're probably not very decisive. Women like to be able to make decisions big and small -- but they hate hate hate to have to be the one to make decisions.

You absolutely must take that burden off their shoulders. So next time your partner asks where you want to go for dinner -- immediately make a decision and answer. Then be prepared to negotiate because she probably had something in mind when she asked the question in the first place.

And they pay very close attention to where you fall in the pecking order among other men. So if you want to be "man enough" you've got to face other men with confidence and courage (I don't mean fighting -- that's the refuge of the tragically insecure). A book that might be helpful in this area is "the way of the superior man".

You can't shrink from conflict. You have to face it head on and deal with it gently. You see, it is only possible to be gentle if you're powerful. Otherwise, it's just weakness. And this world absolutely will not abide you being weak. You're not allowed.

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. And likewise, we men are meant to have uncomfortable lives. A man is safe when he avoids conflicts, but that's not what men are for.

hth
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Details are kinda loose on what chrome extension the author is talking about.
I've bought the book and would highly recommend it to others wanting a glimpse into what it takes to become an expert performer.

There are two main differences between deliberate practice and purposeful practice.

Deliberate practice requires a well established field where there is a clear gap between the top performers and those entering the field.

The second difference is having a teacher who can design practice activities to help you improve on very specific skills.

Taken from the book "Deliberate practice is purposeful practice that knows where it is going and how to get there."
NY and CA state-run mental hospitals are deeply unpleasant and staffed with overworked, underqualified doctors who have caseloads consisting of the very most difficult patients in numbers that would overwhelm private-practice doctors even if they were just teenagers with mild eating disorders. Is that the case in the Netherlands as well?

(For whatever it's worth: the NYT piece doesn't say Lopez was ever held in solitary, or that he was denied visitation by his family --- but solitary confinement is a distinctive US problem and a legit contrast to draw with the Netherlands).
If they say they need you 3 hours before, that means that they need a bit less time to process everybody, say 2.5 hours.

Now, the only thing they need is that the queue doesn't run dry during those 2.5 hours. That means half the passengers can arrive 1 hour 15 minutes later, one in five about 2 hours later. If you are one of them, you help those coming early in the sense that they are less likely to have to waste time waiting in the check-in queues than in the slightly less annoying areas behind it (and of course, the early-comers help you to spend that hour in even less annoying circumstances)

And of course, assuming they have the capacity to process all passengers leaving every day, large airports could parallelize processing over multiple check-in queues, get processing time down to 30 minutes or so (using 6 check-in queues and a smart way to distribute load across them), and ask you to be there 60 minutes before departure.

I do not really see why they do not do that. There used to be a problem getting luggage on board the right plane, but with modern luggage processing, all bags end up on the same conveyer belt, anyways.
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Ask HN: Should I quit the well paying job that I hate
I am working at a late stage startup with good compensation and the stock payout would be pretty good if it could exit.
The problem is I find my job to be boring and unfulfilling. I don't think I learnt much over the past year. Now I am almost depressed after days after days' bug fixing (mostly) and some uninspiring tasks.

I need two more years for the stock to be fully vested. Now I am thinking if I should quit so at least I could find another startup at least I could have interesting work to do.

Would love to hear what you guys thought! Thanks!
Thanks to mkagenius for using a reasonable title. Sadly, the actual article went with the tabloid-style "First Gene Therapy Successful Against Human Aging."
Birds are definitely limited by aerodynamics, biology just says well screw this it ain't worth it because life forms are limited by the amount of energy available to them.
If we take the heaviest flying bird today it has a wing span of about 3M and a total wing surface of slightly under 1 m/sq the Quetzalcoatlus you've mentioned has a wing span of about 15m and a total wing surface of about 35 m/sq, back of the envelope math means that about a mass increase of about 12 times over the Kori (heaviest bird capable of flight) results in about 30-35 times the increase in lift surface (and we are still unclear if the damn thing was even capable of powered flight or not).

And again you are missing the point Solar Impulse can lift about 1000 lbs of w/e if you want to scale it up either increase the thrust by 50 or increase your lift surface by 50 to get to that 50,000 lbs cargo you want.
If we ignore load baring and drag than 3 Solar Impulse aircraft combined could lift 3000 lbs that's it.

We can argue about this till the sun doesn't shine it won't change the fact that solar flight will never be a viable option for cargo transport.
But it can replace other things, things that for example are well in range of the 1000 or lbs of payload that any reasonable designed solar aircraft could carry - surveillance, communications, weather and atmospheric monitoring equipment etc.
They could potentially replace satellites, and increase the endurance of both military and civilian drones considerably but no one is looking at them to carry cargo because it's simply silly.

Also if you want to move 50,000 lbs today by air it usually won't take less than 6 days, the only thing you can really ship overnight are small things that end up going on commercial flights not cargo flights.
And while it's also true that a container ship can take 21-30 days from say China to the US about 14-15 of those days are spent in local transit and loading, the sailing it self a cargo ship can do within 10 days of good weather with the average being probably closer to 12 or so days due to weather and fuel economy.
I've seen many attempts, but nothing has really taken hold as its really difficult to do right. Rather than pointing at libraries that can "help", I ask you to instead point at any places it's being done well in production, especially at scale.
A good article, but if you take a look at the 7 problems that SENS "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" identifies as needing to be solved to address ageing the telomere length issue is just one subset of single issue (cellular senescence). Furthermore they appear to have fixed this only for a single cell type - white blood cells which are easy to obtain and do gene therapy on.

Nonetheless it is still encouraging progress...
"We do have a fancy solution that we are working on, but I don't want to make a specific promise yet." - CEO of CloudFlare [1]

But read the discussions [1][2], it doesn't sound like they are looking for a good solution.

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11404770
Good stuff, looking forward to reading more of your book.
We've been synthesizing one liquid hydrocarbon fuel for thousands of years; ethanol is pretty similar to jet fuel in energy density and combustion. I think the possibility that in the future we'll have cheap solar/wind grid power and use that to produce ethanol, rather than charge batteries, is more likely than people think. Ethanol production isn't terribly efficient, but if your input power is sustainable it doesn't really matter.
> "Imagine if your wallpaper could run apps"

Uh. No thanks.

I think the technology has some great potential, but why does every tech article have to dumb everything down into some iPhone analogy?
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You should probably tip your Uber driver from now on
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> they hold back the progress of the human race by limiting access to the bleeding edge of human knowledge - all for the sake of money

Pretty good description of Academia in general.
Yeah, and 70% of features of React in 5% of the code!
Better to use Epic Privacy Browser with a built-in ENCRYPTED proxy that's fast over SPDY (not a simple unencrypted http proxy).
"battery-free computer" = fancy word for RFID tags with a programmable CPU