skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dogma: a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.[1]

You aren't offering any evidence or justification besides the statement. I might as well say, "in my experience, ``reproducability (sic) is a waste of time''" -- what's the point of that?

Instead, I'm providing concrete examples of why it's a waste of time, and rather than anyone arguing the contrary, they're doing exactly what you're doing: Repeating that there's some point of "reproducability" (sic). There isn't, you're wrong. End of.

But whatever, my background isn't physics, so what could I possibly know? Running engineering teams for the last two decades that have to develop and deal with high volume, high uptime application servers only means my systems have to work and make money, not that they be "reproducable" (sic).

[1]: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dogma
Somehow related: https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
Not React specific, but how do we tackle SEO for a site like Yelp, where SEO is very important? I want to turn an article-based site into a SPA, so it can consume a stateless API and horizontally scale. But I fear it'd lose a lot of pages in Google.
> And I've never (even before the biology work) assumed the "non-ionising radiation can not cause cancer" to be a true statement. You can only come to that conclusion if you assume that ionisation effects are the only pathways that can cause cancer.

...and it is not justified to make that assumption, because there is reason to believe that there is another possible pathway. DNA is known to be conductive, and it is known that due to the shape of DNA in chromosomes it can act as a fractal antenna and non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation can induce currents in it.

It's also know that damage to DNA can change the conductivity of the damaged section. Some major researchers suspect that part of the mechanism cells use to detect and repair DNA damage makes use of this by looking for sections of DNA where the conductivity is not what it should be.

If this does turn out to be part of how damage is detected, then it is possible that currents induced by non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation when the DNA acts as a fractal antenna could confuse the repair mechanism causing it to fail to recognize and repair damage that would normally be found and dealt with.

Here is a submission from a little over a year ago about the fractal antenna aspect of DNA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9447964

See my comment in that discussion for some more information on the possibility that this is connected to DNA repair and a link to one of the major research groups that is looking into this stuff (Jacqueline Barton's group at Caltech).
Okay Microsoft gets a ton of hate for the, but the standard for today is software that automatically updates and often even one cannot control update at all since the software resides in the cloud. Maybe this is the most egregious case so far, maybe it isn't, but it's clear that we'll be seeing a lot more of this in the future, not just from Microsoft.
Very interesting! Maybe one day it will be normal to write code that morphs directly into hardware via omnipresent FPGA blocks present in our CPUs.
Companies are bought, not sold
How WebGL is reinventing Flash’s legacy
For the record, they are clearly not saying anything in a clear manner here. It's all pretty crappy marketing speak (coming from a marketer...and a freelancer) to support what is 100% a PR ploy.
Similar article but no subscription required: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/05/federal-study...
what's the difference between multiple clusters in account and multiple node-pools in cluster?

I guess pods still may migrate/replicate between nodes in different node-pools, but can't between nodes in different clusters.

Anything else?
yeah. one would say that even before study, this

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/images/cancer_2020/brain_othe...

and this

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/images/cancer_2020/leukemia_i...

would show at least some acceleration

the only thing that really moved the average:

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/images/cancer_2020/all_sites_...

was this, I think related to HIV:

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/images/cancer_2020/kaposi_sar...
Not really. That carcinogenic hazard hazard category is a favorite of scaremonger reporters. Lead, engine exhaust and chloroform sound scary but they aren't known to cause cancer. This is Class 2B - "This category is used for agents for which there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and less than sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals." [1]

https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_tab...
32bits can only address max 4gb ram and I think video ram was counted for or some other overhead. With 2gb the 32bit maximum should have no effect.
DNA of ancient Phonecian could make us reconsider history of human migration
In what circumstances would logs grow exponentially? I imagine any approach would have trouble with logs that grew in size that quickly.
> Cellphones or wi-fi today are like cigarettes in the '40s.

That is exactly the same question I am always asking. But with most controversial topics this could be true.
To my knowledge, antibiotics inhibit crutial bacterial functions such as protein synthesis in bacterial ribosomes which causes cell death. To survive, the cell mutates its ribosomes which costs energy and makes them less efficient but functional again. If you are lucky, the bacteria need a long time before finding an efficient mutation. A combination of multiple such attack vectors can further decrease the efficiency at which the bacteria operate, giving your body an advantage. However, finding new attack vectors (which don't interact with human cells) takes on the order of ten years. So resistance is still a big Problem.
Aaaand tends to turn itself back on. "Accidentally." Oops.

(Also, my "malware" comment was about the forced upgrade to WinX, not about WinX itself, as I have even noted in the last sentence.)
Really? I've no idea what that product is but I hardly think it's a "thinking" problem, more a managing expectation or shit requirements gathering problem. If it was necessary to search in a certian way over a certain size in a certain time, you could make the appropriate trade off. Sounds like you just wanted to bitch out about a particular product pal.
Quick Sequence Diagram Editor
This is art. It reminds me a 2004 french projet called "la Poudre Verte" (Green Powder)

http://www.poudreverte.org/

> THE SOLUTION FOR ALL YOUR COMPUTER PROBLEMS. The exclusive process of the green powder guaranties permanent and stable information systems.
The Brazil Nut Effect: Why the biggest nuts rise to the top
I'd also argue the customers are also real losers, more so than employees sometimes that often times can find another job really easy.
They weren't running the Windows Server on their server then, which is a pretty reckless thing to do even without going into T&C aspects of it.
Everyone does this. Try sending an image of child sexual abuse through your gmail account and see what happens. Google even tells you they do it for rights enforcement:

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

> For legal reasons

> We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:

> * meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.

> * enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations.

> * detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.

> * protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Google, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.
Gmail marking self-signed certs as unencrypted
Student was definitely in the 1%. His dad owns a company that's on stock market, he has his own gaming servers company in China. He wore suits worth more than my monthly salary.
A decent toolchain of various libraries and build tools is an opportunity to avoid bigger problems and nasty, subtle bugs when you are working on large codebases. I continue to have my share of them, which tend to be in areas of the codebases I worked on that is principally jquery spaghetti or undisciplined Backbone code.

I'd rather deal with the dependency hell; that's an opportunity cost. I'd rather deal with my current toolchain than having to tell stakeholders that a particular aspect of bad code is beyond repair and needs to be replaced badly, at the cost of a large time sink.
That's what I meant with "really cheaper". Sure, bandwidth costs are lower with Hetzner, but that's not everything.
It's more of a notification than a question dialogue. It tells you that Windows 10 is a "recommended update" now (instead of optional which it was before). That means no matter how you close the window, now you'll get the update unless you actively disable it in time.
This sounds like a good time to mention https://perspectives-project.org/. It augments the standard CA trust model with one based on figuring out what certs everyone else is seeing, and whether or not that's changed recently.

I think it's been a little bit inactive of late, due to poor takeup - but it would certainly benefit from more users and more people contributing to the project.
To be fair, a meta-analysis is already done, and it proves there is a link: http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/
This was in 2013. We had a Chinese liaison/translator who worked with us in the USA-she's the one who convinced me not to return the gift. It could be she also got a gift and had an interest in keeping it-couldn't say for sure.
Greedy oracle deserved
What she could not get was a Blackberry. So rather than use the approved device, she decided the simpler solution was to host her own email and just use a off the shelf device? Nothing about this makes any sense.
Thanks for the summary, very interesting!
If available. If not, you'll quickly learn to not open 50 tabs (it's not like you're actually browsing in all of them). Had to work on such a PC out of necessity, and :5 tabs should be enough for everyone" ;)

But seriously: 2 GB on Windows (7) is still usable, even though not entirely comfortable. (Of course, on LXLE, 2 GB is a lot, but that's an entirely different can of worms)
Korea will pay to move your startup to Seoul – and why you should let them
I have a question about computer-generated proofs, as I am doing something similar.

When you encode the search tree as a proof, is there a technical name for that technique?

In my situation I encoded the proof as a sequence which is just the depth-first linear labelling of the tree. Then I proved why the sequence represents a proof. But if there is a most standard terminology/literature on this step, it would make it easier for me to talk about.
Funny idea but VERY uncreative otherwise.

How about a pushbutton to generate a company name, smart ass hipster description (some SaaS thing), valuation, 'featured on ...', founder names and pictures, etc. To give a VC value for money: something to talk about :-)
As a wealthy person once explained it to me: half the fun is making a ton of money, and half is finding a way not to pay (or just a tiny amount of) taxes.

Exactly; that leaves none of the fun being in actually spending it.

Going WAY off-topic now, I split the very wealthy into two groups. Rich people, and poor people who happen to have money.

Rich people think differently. They've got a whole lot of money, and now they can stop worrying about that and get on with doing things. Bill Gates deciding to team up with Rotary International et al and see if we can't finally kill Polio stone cold dead with the extra help of all this money that seems to be cluttering up his bank account. This is the action of a rich man.

Poor people with money have the same concerns and same aims as they did when they didn't have money. They just buy a more expensive watch, a more expensive car, move their social status group to be around other similarly wealthy people and signal at each other, keep thinking about making more money.
You can add box.net to the list. I used a one-off email address on their service and it got leaked. They were at least honest enough to confirm it did indeed happen to them:

We were recently informed by a handful of users that they had received spam email at the address associated exclusively with their Box account. We scoured our own systems and checked every possible scenario, and didn't find any evidence of our systems being compromised. Thanks to information sent to us by our customers, we were able to pin down that a third-party email service we used to send our newsletter to select users in February, March and April had been compromised.

No other information beyond email addresses were ever exposed to this vendor.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused our users. We continue to be committed to your privacy and keeping their confidential information safe. As a result of this issue, we're leaving this particular service provider immediately and consolidating all of our customer communication efforts within a single vendor with more robust security practices.
Plenty for Java too and components for iOS and Android apps
The Boundaries of Westphalia
"If you want privacy, you must be a child molester or a terrist." Obvious troll is obvious.

On a more serious note, "everyone does that" makes it okay? Really?
https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites has quite a list.
Tati en partenariat avec Mademoiselle Agnès pour une nouvelle ligne
Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
> Personally I can see why they would be frustrated with people refusing to upgrade a decade old OS

Why?

They can just end support for old versions per their EULAs and shut-off access to the update servers.

Canonical doesn't care if I'm still using 8.04, they have no responsibility or liability for old releases. Why would MS be any different?

There's a deeper reason for this upgrade push but I don't know what it is.
interesting, this is by the way xdg-app rename for people who were wondering
Xamarin is hardly a MS product, and they shut down RoboVM pretty much immediately after purchasing Xamarin.
1) It appears I was wrong. I just tested in "private" mode, since it never happens to me otherwise.

2) WHAT THE HELL, IMGUR?
Tutankhamun's knife of meteoric origin
If they start annoying the developers they are lost. So they don't do stupid things there. But it looks like they never cared or plain stopped caring for the end users.
I am certainly not surprised by this change. I'm just glad I switched to Devuan a few months ago. I don't read every changelog, but I would have been furious if I'd discovered my screen session gone. Having this enabled by default is moronic and shows real short-sightedness on the part of the Debian packagers.
Edit: I was wrong. Apple, please fix.
the first line of HTML code in that Fiddle link is:
https://facebook.github.io/react/js/jsfiddle-integration-bab...

What you are missing is that you probably don't want to develop by putting your code in JSFiddle.
The point of auto-correct is to fix it when you fat-finger something, not when your belief of how to spell something is "wrong". There's a reason auto-correct isn't a thing on desktops.
The Facebook Newsfeed Is the Tabloid of Our Generation
I'm not sure how valid that claim is, since Content Blockers are a thing on iOS and I'm sure there are similar solutions on Android.
Along those lines of thought I remembered an article about a troop of baboons with no alpha males left.

http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/11/the-baboon-tr...
Have you consider being higher up the technical career path, technical team lead (You will be in demand if you excel at this) or Principal software enigneer comes to mind immediately. They will be other paths.

Career paths of these sort are usually only present in large multi-billion corp, not so much in startups.
Yeah, yeah. IF that upgrade was onto something that works like the existing setup, and especially IF it gave ME a choice when to upgrade, no problemo. See, I may have had reasons for holding onto W7, and they weren't "let's spite the Redmond people".

Opening up shop in the morning and finding that none of your equipment works anymore, despite having been perfectly fine yesterday is EEEEEEXACTLY the reason people are refusing to upgrade (because no drivers for WinX, because fuck you that's why, Where Do You Want To Go Today - Windows X Or Windows Ten?). Replacing Microsoft's frustration of "the adoption charts are not high enough" with my frustration of "okay, companywide downtime while IT repaves from backups and scrambles to block the now-rogue vendor" works for them (externalizing costs, hooray!). In the shortest of short terms only, alas - the trust we had in the OS is gone, this could happen again (e.g. at any time in the future MS could decide that their old OS cannibalizes the sales of their Windows Up To 11, or whatever). NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.

(Technically, "we want you to upgrade because we want you to upgrade" is a bit of circular reasoning)
Glad you asked it.

Upwork is a race to the bottom, the cheapest developer gets the project, at the cost... of the quality and experience.

Gigster is more realistic, I don't know how much I can talk about this.

We are working with a team of fellow Gigsters, and we work together to estimate fairly the project. We are obviously against the race to the bottom, and we desire cool or interesting projects.

Fairly means: Developer is happy with the quote, the timeline / timeframe and the scope. Product Manager is ready to help his team to achieve this project with a happy customer and a happy team.

Of course, we do have problems sometimes. But Gigster happiness, that means: Product Managers, Developers and Designers is crucial and I feel it personally.

Finally, I will say it bluntly: I am a developer, and I am not paid 40 $ / hour to produce a stupid idea which will change the world.

If you want more information, I think that a Gigster employee can explain more about his experience.

(sorry for the unstructured explanation!)
I'd forgotten that Symantec had acquired Verisign at some point and they are huge certificate supplier. I was planning to untrust Symantec but not sure that is feasible for the Verisign certs too.
A new Curl logo
Lol. That's nuts. You'd have ruined her rights to her gift if you returned yours ;-)

What a sneaky trick!! Who says the Chinese aren't brilliant.
Love this idea, and the copywriting on the page is absolutely brilliant!

I hand-rolled my own solution a while back on my own server, simply creating a random forwarder and "tagging" it with a description, so I can always go back and lookup what fw839kopa4 was for... It's a ugly hack, but works.

My ugly hack has the added benefit of not accepting just any email address, but only those I explicitly defined. On the flip side, I have to run this small script and can't just give out citibank.myname@mydomain.com to anyone on the fly.
The author addresses this in the article: “Good Mac apps should feel like Mac apps, and good Windows apps should do likewise. If iTunes for Windows feels like a Mac app, Apple’s doing it wrong. (One could argue Apple’s doing it wrong with iTunes everywhere, of course…)”
>> some is sent to Microsoft

> Which means they don't send EVERYTHING

In any mathematical or logical context, "some" can be a proper subset of "all" or equal to "all". Any lawyer or judge thinking logically would agree. If the matter had to be confronted in court, Microsoft's legalese covers the case where they capture and store everything.

Another way they can hedge is by not capturing something innocuous and uninteresting, like words you type into Microsoft Help or Group Policy Editor. Now they can say that they don't capture and store every single thing.
The Super-Bug Nightmare We Always Feared Is Upon Us
Finding Developers for Your Startup Is Like Dating. And How to Master It
They need the data to know whether you meant eg "from" or "form", which they get from context by looking at hundreds of millions of occurrences.
And a particularly stupid way to react to cell phone radiation fears is to insist that cell network base stations should be moved away from schools and there should be no wifi base stations. Think of our children!

What that means is, of course, increased exposure. The kids are not going to give a way their phones, they'll continue using them. When there is no wifi, they will be using the LTE or 3G or 2G networks. When the base station is further away,the phone will transmit at higher power. The phone itself is by far the dominant source of RF power to people's bodies.

Thus, ignorant parents want to decrease radiation, and the very proposals they make would increase it. Whether that really has any impact, we don't know, there's no proof, or a good theory about possible mechanisms, just speculation, mostly based on fear and suspicion.
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Me and a friend did this at university with the Ogre 3D engine and failed miserably, because I didn't know much abut C++ or thread safety.

Fiber safety is much more easy to assure than thread-safety. Under Windows using fibers is very simple (just use ConvertThreadToFiber on your current thread if you have not done already and then call CreateFiber) in opposite to POSIX systems where you will have to roll up your own implementation of fibers (or use some existing library which is not part of the POSIX standard).
Or just set two registry keys and never think about it again or have third party programs running

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3080351

Just save the following in a .reg file and run or add the keys manually and you never see any of the upgrade crap ever again. At least I never have since last July when I did this on a Win7 machine.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]
"DisableOSUpgrade"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GWX]
"DisableGWX"=dword:00000001
Continuous Deployment/delivery with Jenkins and Visual Studio Team Services
Why your opening line might put off your perfect match.
I think it's more towards the school of thought of 'if it isn't easy, most people won't.

Installing an ad blocker isn't as easy as installing an add on someone links, you have to actively search for it (and require root on Android? Not 100% sure about that. For chrome this is, I have ff on my Android).
He isn't talking about the legality of it at all. He is talking about what the browsers include in their trust store.
Why would you run Windows Server on the receptionists machine?
Sweden's six hour work day
Install Linux Mint on it and you'll never get another phone call about using the computer again
The nature of the problem dictates it can't go on record. I can only add I've heard the same anecdotal from my international students, not necessarily about Harvard but similar higher-tier schools going for $50,000 admission, probably with more fees for a certain GPA.

The degrees for cash are sold abroad from what I've gathered. I highly doubt the money goes to Harvard directly-instead it probably pays off the service offering the degree first, with money to admissions directors, professors and whoever else needs to look the other way. It'd be hard to hide huge sums of money in the US system, but possible abroad with in-person or otherwise hidden pay offs to people on the inside in the USA.
That may not be true. UVA is not ionising and possibly increases risk of skin cancer.

Non-ionizing radiation can cause chemical reactions (photochemical, heating, burns) that damage cells and might lead to increased cancer risk.

I really doubt if that is the case with mobile phones but I think it makes more sense to look at the epidemiological data rather than make a bunch of hand wavey arguments about the radiation. There are a hell of a lot of cell phone users and if there is a risk worth being concerned about I think it should have shown up before now.