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MMA isn't fighting, it's a sport. The one interesting thing to come out of it from a martial arts perspective, was Gracie challenging the idea that grappling wasn't an effective strategy even against people with a lot of striking experience. But it has rules, it's one-on-one, no weapons ... it has very little to do with real-world fighting.

That said, someone that's been boxing for a few years is more likely to win against someone who has no form of fight training. But he might not win against someone who's been in regular fights the past few years.

People that actually fight, do so to win. That usually means two, three on one, bringing a weapon against someone that's unarmed etc. Being able to choke someone out doesn't help all that much if his buddy is going to knife you in the neck while you're doing it.

As for Aikido, I love Aikdo. And if trained for self-defence, it could probably work well enough - but that requires training in an environment where you have people around you to that know how to use the attacks your trying to defend against. I've rarely seen an Aikido dojo with people that are good at kicking, kneeing, punching and elbowing people. It's not even that often you'll see people with a decade of real judo practice under their belt. Without a few decades worth of such experience, it becomes impossible to truly practice Aikido techniques with an aim for self defence. If nothing else, there's a strong tradition for practising defence against multiple attackers in Aikido.

On the other hand, in terms of being fit, clear of mind, of freeing oneself from the idea that one has something prove, letting go of ones pride -- those are things that can certainly get one out of fights. And situational awareness and not being a moron is probably 99% of the key to successful self defence.

After all, if you know you're headed to a fight, you'd be better off going the other way, or pre-emptively calling the police, or getting some help - so that the fight can be avoided.

As for Karate - it can certainly be a good foundation for self defence. But there are numerous styles, and numerous ways of approaching Karate. If your focus in competition sports, it's unlikely you'll end up great at self defence.
No, I said, “how” they’re closing it. If you click the OK button, the dialog box should close but you would expect something to happen. The issue is that people are unhealthily conditioned into clicking Cancel, and Flash and Java never get updated, and everything is terrible. So, Microsoft designed a dialog that is less likely to get Canceled.

Now there are reports that Windows 10 is installing when you click the X in the title bar. I have not seen this happen. Maybe this does happen, but on the other hand, I always see people closing dialog boxes without fully reading and comprehending what they say. With the scheduled install option, your unwitting “choice” could even have been days ago.

I think the situation is sort of bad, but the situation started sort of bad. "No software project is ever done, so you are always really buying a subscription, and the sooner you realize it, the sooner you can act like it." - Neal Ford. More to the point, Windows was never yours. It was always Microsoft’s. As long as you are using something that is not yours, it’s advantageous to use the latest, best-maintained version that you are able to use.
For anyone currently trying to self-medicate with illegal drugs. Please, please get help. There is no shame. Im a recovered heroin addict. I lost everything and am currently rebuilding.

I started on the opiates and benzos to self-medicate. I had all the symptoms, panic attacks, getting really ill whenever i took a break. Complete lack of perspective. Just stress from all sides, work, relationships, bills. Insane working hours for years. So, of course as my tolerance rose so did the dosage and strength.

CBT, therapy, meditation, exercise and stable routine are what i have utilised to get myself out of what i would call, without any sense of over-dramatising, hell.

It is not worth it. Please, please get help. There is no shame.
Given a huge skill gap and inability to factor out methodology differences, I cannot see how such a study can be done at all.

Anecdotes are the best we have. Far better than a pseudoscience with agenda.
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Ask HN: Choosing the perfect baby name with data?
Did you pick a great baby name using a lot of data and some software? If so, please tell me how!

It seems like there are a lot of considerations, and although billions of people have done the process on paper, I wonder whether I could create a shortlist by setting some constraints (with software) about:

- Popularity in specific countries (not too popular, but not unique)

- Length

- How it sounds with the baby's surname

- Whether there are any famous serial killers or whatever with the same forename+surname combo

- ...
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Reality Check: Have Leave campaigners changed their minds?
I'm saying the average number of engineers is pretty high (because it's an average, it's skewed up).

Regardless, quibbling over this doesn't really detract from my broader point which is that every time you see a company go public, that's hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers that made some money off their options. Some got rich. Most probably just ended up with an above-market salary. Others (those who just joined) get a tiny amount. The same applies for acquisitions, though obviously you'll need to scale the number up or down depending on the $$.
Does Roosevelt/Churchill's demand for unconditional surrender not count?
TapReason uses A.I. to decide the magic moment to recommend an app
Or fatter tyres, with the advantage that you can go downhill faster with the extra grip.
Is it a good idea to try to run the du command in the root directory?
They open sourced a tool for code search: https://github.com/google/codesearch

I don't know if it's the same, as I just heard of it from a YAPC talk a few days ago and haven't tried it, but it's called "Code Search" so it seems likely.
It's very scary.

Almost every time I check some thing in the news or public opinion, it's either wrong, misinterpreted or too simplified. Often it's just people talking from their ass. It's amazing how we can word as a society.
I wonder if they also distribute binaries internally. Otherwise, setting up a developer machine could take really long. Like installing Gentoo Linux :)
Brexit: Berlin eyes Britain’s tech talent
I think he means more like madrid for instance. All the traffic is underneath the walkway level in the downtown area. It is really great to not have any cars. Because of this they have room for giant plazas everywhere and it makes for a much more pleasant experience.
<Backspace> does this, since XP I think - ^↑ doesn't seem to work for me in Win 10.
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But thats private people. We talk about "companies" that build products here. Thats a huge difference IMO.

We all know in the civilized worlds a private person wont happen much more than a small fee. A company would most likely be destroyed after a very expensive law war.
Creator of the device here. I'll address the few points that were raised in the comments section:

- Our device is used by thousands of users from all ages... even by elderly people

- We're about to launch a smaller and simpler version (no tactile interface, just a clickable scroll wheel), which will be sold at less than $50. Mooltipass Mini Prototypes have already been used for 2 months, with a better acceptance factor than the standard version

- We made a password keeping solution seeing that still very few services implement the different mechanisms created by the FIDO alliance (U2F & others). Unfortunately passwords are here to say for several years at least.
On Windows, once in a while there is a Patch Tuesday when the only update is Internet Explorer, a program that I neither wanted, nor installed, nor opened since I got tired of it years ago. Clearly, I need to reboot my computer for this.

On Ubuntu, certain packages are labeled as needing a reboot, and when you update them the control menu thing with a gear in the upper-right corner turns red, and the Update utility says you should reboot. Then you know you should, but it doesn’t force you to.

EDIT: There’s also Ksplice, which was going be a standard until Oracle bought it, and Red Hat kpatch. Those allow you to update a kernel without rebooting. Most other programs still require restarting, but Linux benefits from a saner architecture, where the web browser isn’t an “integral part of the operating system,” and the font renderer for the GUI and for printing is not part of the kernel. You need to reboot less.
It means that I, as a dependency author, can make a breaking change and push not only the updates to my library, but also the updates to all my dependents in a single commit. Using a dependency packaging system like NuGet is a workaround for me not knowing who all my clients are. In a monorepo, I can have perfect knowledge.
> Well, it's about the same level of security as other messengers like Facebook Messenger/Skype/.. [...]

> Yeah, it's possible to have security like Signal [...]

Actually, WhatsApp has implemented Signal's encryption and they worked together with Moxie Marlinspike (the developer of Signal) who verified those claims (or something along these lines. I'm not 100% sure this is how it happened, please take it with a grain of salt). So at least one popular messenger implements security that is better than Telegram.
> How is that functionally the same?

In both cases the company is confiscated from the owners.

> it is unrelated to this conversation

It shows what happens when companies are confiscated from the owners. Note you suggested more than just VW, the entire industry.
One could publish such a software anonymously. All the data is already publicly available from trackers.
1- GM, Ford, Chrysler lobby congress to enact the strictest NOX limits in the world. While at the same time having lenient limits on other exhaust fumes killing thousands of people every year, so that we can continue our gas guzzling SUV and Pickup truck craze.

2- VW faced wtih dilemma. Stop selling diesels altogether, or go rogue and yolo your way through emission tests.

3- Get caught and fined.

Well played, GM, Ford, and Chrysler. GM, Ford, and Chrysler were behind in Diesel tech, so this as a great defensive move to thwart Japanase and European automotive competition.

Moral of the story is: You need good lobbyists if you wanna be successful here.
IIRC there's already a spec for this, usually it's called something like PAN (Personal Area Network).
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To be fair, there is another catch-22, which is that a low valuation means the startup is early-stage, which means your options are worth less.

So sure, you can early exercise, but there is a greater chance your early exercising will lose you money (if the options end up worthless).
Darcs: patch calculus version control
If a machine writes 1000 poems and a human chooses the best one did the machine make a poem with emotion or a human?
I think the point of the article is the elitist attitude and rule by "we know best" is what brexiters hated about the EU. It's now ironic that elitists are calling to invalidate the vote.

I think the question of direct vs. representative doesn't factor. It's the elitist attitude that prevails regardless of style of democracy.
Do not forget that this very "self esteem" thingy is almost exclusively American. The other nations do not even think in such terms.
I think the way you should think of it is that there is only one "canonical" version - otherwise the "canonical" version is fragmented, and the fragments can contradict eachother.

And god damn, I hate Mark Shuttleworth for using that name for his company.
We added a column for "blocked" and I periodically check them out if I'm assigned. Works pretty well.
The ongoing firebombing campaign against Japanese cities also killed more.

The bombing raids against Tokyo alone almost certainly killed far more than Hiroshima throughout the war.

And it included the most destructive single bombing raid of the entire war. Operation Meetinghouse [1] burned a quarter of Tokyo to the ground in a single night, and may have killed as many as 100,000 - more than is believed to have died in the immediate aftermath of Hiroshima (though possibly fewer than the total Hiroshima death toll, depending on which estimates are right).

[1] http://www.wired.com/2011/03/0309incendiary-bombs-kill-10000...
I noticed that as well. Part of me is saying 'easy come easy go' - weightless nomads &c.

Part of me is thinking where do England's new companies come from.

We'll find out in the next three to five years. The news machine wants dramatic events now but this one is more of a glacier.
The sites that I use too often, including PhoneRadarblog doesn't use ad part that annoys me.If opening that site helps the person who fills me the knowledge and entertains me,why I need to use some adblockers.Please ,Opera don't destroy their hard works.Let them entertain us,most of us don't care swiping a little to skip the ad.
In this way Atleast I can contribute something for their works for us.
In the meantime, some smart scientist notice that the exhaust from fracking is pretty poisonous and sometimes even radioactive... (lots of fracking wells release more radioactivity than highly regulated nuclear power plants).

Thank god the big oil lobby massages congress to enact legislation that naturally bound pollution released through fracking/digging/drilling does not count.
The "communist country" has a capitalist economy.

The "free country" has total electronic surveillance.

The "federation" is run like an empire in a dictator-like fashion.

And north korea, the "democratic republic", is the most oppressive regime in the world.

What a world we live in.
commercials have their uses: bathroom breaks, quick runs to the kitchen, making sure the brats are in bed, let the dog out, let the dog in, and most important, discussing the show as it has transpired thus far.

but I suspect that for many people once the channel is set they really don't want to have to do much more than change the volume. it simply is not worth the investment and I would bet a majority don't have a dvr
In that case, you don't get to complain it's too expensive. I just dont think its good for kids to grow up in a tiny apartment.
I was coming here to say this! It makes my eyes feel weird, it's dreadful
If you are not racing (and thus not subject to racing conditions) and you want to go fast, you should be riding a fully covered recumbent.

There's only so much that toying around with slightly better uprights can do.
This is exactly the fallacy that dynamic proponents are constantly running into. Do not help them by reinforcing such claims.

Static typing bears important semantics far beyond a mere "validity checking" and compile time optimisations. And this fact is overlooked far too often.
> What is, however, absolutely clear from the original study is that incompetent people have a highly inflated assessment on their own abilities: in all four experiments (!), the people with actual 10% abilities rated themselves at 50-70%.

I'm not sure this result is as surprising or as explanatory as D & K advocate.

If I ask you to estimate anything you have no experience measuring, then you'll probably ballpark around the average, maybe drift a bit above or below average based on how favorable you feel towards the thing you're measuring. That's exactly where everyone lands in the responses.

It's not like people in the 10th percentile are suddenly rating themselves in the 99th percentile or anything, most people are taking a blind guess that they're doing ok, pulling their weight, just a bit above the middle of the pack.

It shouldn't be surprising that this isn't correlated with performance, because "performance" and "evaluating the entire field of performers" rely on different skills and knowledge. You can be good at a thing and have never judged anyone else to rate them, let alone judged a sufficiently random sample of the population to get a sense for the average skill there.

We shouldn't have ever expected these things were correlated to begin with.

If you want to improve self assessment, don't just become more humble and self reflective, don't practice the subject in question, just go watch several random performers. Ranking what quartile you're in relies as much on knowing how random people do as it does on self evaluation.
I think the nationalism vs globalism framing is correct, but somehow misleading. I love the cultures of countries, but am a globalist.

I don't like that capital is far more global and well-treated than labour is, but at least the EU made some strides in the direction of more movement for people.

However, while in principle the EU is great (my only problem is that it isn't globalist enough), the practicalities seem to have been co-opted by international capital.

For instance, law-making powers are still reserved to the Commissioners. Politicians who never have to run for elections again are not the right people to put in such a role, and yet, that's what happens.

The Council of Ministers are even worse. All the national governments get together, fight, make a decision that the EU then implements, then each national government goes home and blames the EU for it.

Meanwhile, things that would actually make life better for the people of the EU (roaming charges are a good example) are held up for years because they damage sets of national interests.

Don't even get me started on the Euro.

On the other hand, the EU means that western europe and some of the rest has been in relative peace for over sixty years now, and there is definitely more of a sense of common identity across the countries, which is brilliant. We've changed from young men dying in the muck to old men arguing over idiocies, and while that's not a perfect change, its still better than the alternatives.

But the forces of maximising profit by shifting work to lower-cost countries are the real causes of the hollowing-out of much of the UK outside London. This, along with perceived loss of identity, causes those people to lose faith in all of the internationalist movements which are backed by capital, and vote Leave.
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I lament the days where HN was a place for intelligent discussion. Today the top post to submissions like this is an idiotic populist gut feeling, complete with dubious metaphors, calls for violence, a complete lack of any understanding of why things are the way the are and how we got there, as well as a blissful ignorance of proposed and/or tried solutions to age-old problems.

There must be something in the water these days that spurs these insults on sane discourse, I have a vague feeling of recognition when going over current events in politics across the world the last few weeks...
> The human-written poetry develops a single, coherent subject with each passing line

Yep, thats it. The machine-written poems make seemingly correct sentences, but fail to create a coherent sense. Its quite easy to spot. The machine-written parts use: The Pythonic Poet (http://ischoolreview.com/iSR_Grav/entries/entry-6). It works with markov-chains and support-vector machines.
If you want to go even faster (on human power alone) lie even lower.
It looks like local index and search tool like ack and ag. While above I'm talking about the whole service.
Ok, Putin is a dictator (duh). How is that ANY worse in ANY way than what America has? Seriously, people, get over your ridiculous democracy addiction, it's killing more people annually than all other drugs combined.

Westerners are so brainwashed, you think your shit smells better than everyone else's. It doesn't. It's worse in many respects. And even if it IS better in some respects, nobody wants your shit pushed down their throat. If people like something they see, they're clever enough (AND enabled enough) to bring about the desired change in their own countries. Nobody needs you to save the world! Go solve your own problems.
one could. I however would'nt suggest playing with this laws. Just create a Torrent tracker frontend that is able to do this, so you only "classify" information on the tracker side, which is most likely not illegal in most countries.
"The most favorable launch window for such a probe would be in August 2018, with arrival at Uranus in September 2030".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Uranus
Depends on how much body weight you start out with. There's such as thing as too skinny.
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Not yours specifically, but yes, I find the 'herd stupidity' as displayed in your post and the many like it to be the single most scary/worrying trend and greatest threat to a prosperous, peaceful future.

One post like yours, I shrug my shoulders and/or roll my eyes and move on. A continuous barrage of populist drivel like it, anywhere 'the average voter' gets a chance to express their 'opinion' on anything really - I worry what goes through the minds of all those people I see out there walking through the city when I look out my window, and how stable they really are; and if that collective instability might culminate into a real societal upheaval given the right circumstances.
With all the Bluetooth car hacking going on and with the emergence of "connected cars" and self-driving cars, you'd think they would've introduced some stronger security features for Bluetooth 5.0 as well.