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>People who can understand the world view of another with no emotional connection are psychopaths. If the cheetah were human we’d be considering custodial sentences.

groan

Can we please stop repeating this myth?

Psychopathy is the lack of empathy or remorse paired with impulsiveness. Psychopaths are self destructive as much as they are other-destructive.[0] The ability to feel empathy (and whether people do in practice) probably varies significantly between people and not having significant amounts of affective empathy doesn't generally lead to psychopathy.

Moreover, cognitive empathy can absolutely be used for good ends. Affective empathy can lead to pathological cases when it's misdirected or overly sensitive. It's important to remember that when somebody feels affective empathy, they're not magically feeling what the other person is feeling. They're feeling what their brain is telling them about the other persons condition. This can justify all sorts of abuses and horrors in the name of 'somebodies own good'.

It's a fairly common story for narcissists to make a point of how much their sense of affective empathy means they're being hurt by the people around them having emotions.

[0]: Look at the DSM criteria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorde...
Ditched ubuntu with 12.04. Linux Mint Debian Edition is all you need.

should you be allergic to systemd, Devuan is pretty nice as well.
It doesn't work like that for long long time already. For small businesses / pages FB has been very difficult, if not worthless.
I don't understand why it has been posted there
Everything looks better in French.
Seems like a really cool idea. I can't wrap my head around what I'd do with it, but it's cool.
Damn! My bad. The author didn’t make it public, yet. Can this be deleted?
Learning Ansible is not easier than dragging and dropping a file onto a server and having it run with no extra work.

They weren't saying it was hard but that it is not as easy as PHP. PHP is one level up from a static site for most beginners, you can simply drag and drop a file on many shared web hosts and get going. That is the attraction.
In Aalto Uni there is popular legend about Erwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwise

I don't know what to believe.
Ah, that might be the company i heard of. Thought they only did near-field.

Yep, that looks very close to what i'm making.
This puts them closer for an IPO for sure, buying stock today!
It's turely an optional backend for just DEBUG purpose, like preview layout on desktop. I'll think about it, thank you. Welcome to post more ideas. It' realy helpful for me.
> In PoW, ultimately the miners have the say.

This simply is not true.

The hard protocol rules _define_ who is and who isn't a miner. If you violate the rules the system's participants are enforcing, you're not a miner anymore as far as the protocol is concerned.
Seriously ?

1) Shadow of Mordor (2014). Tomb Raider 2013... 2013. Less than 3 years for both of them, and that's just a few. Saints Row IV, released in 2013, on Linux in 2015. I could go on and on.

2) There's about one game out of 5 that has Linux Support these days. Some on Day 1, most of them within a year or two of their Windows release. Of course there are 4/5 with no Linux support, but that's expected with a library that just started 3 years ago. And if you have 3714 games on Windows, you probably have a bunch of non-games in your library in Windows as well.

3) No, you could not play most Windows games 5 years ago on WINE. Tons of them failed miserably to even start. DX9 compatibility has never been better than now, so actually for most DX9 titles you can play more games than before. DX11 is a gap, but that's something that will disappear progressively as well.

4) OpenGL did not tank, it's still widely used in many industries. Oh and even the latest Doom on Windows actually uses OpenGL and NOT DirectX.

5) WoW, Warcraft 3, Hearthstone, Starcraft 2, DIablo 3 play fine on WINE nowadays. Overwatch does not, because it's DX11. but that's an expection.

No, really, it's better than it's ever been.
How does quantum mechanic's randomness come into play here?
Thanks for information! ExpressVPN is pretty good. I checked it at free vpn check service https://2ip.io/privacy/ and it shows a high level of efficiency.
"Privacy" and "Social Network" are kind of incompatible. Every other social network shows your profile name, profile picture, and background one - otherwise how would friends you forgot about add you?
Space mining could have some interesting effects on the gold market, assuming it can be done profitably. The asteroid 433 Eros alone likely contains more gold than was ever mined on Earth. But that indeed won't happen within 5 years.
> This can be extended to many more examples like trolling on Urbit-hosted forums for instance.

See, it seems nobody understood that the very first thing people do in a new social space is see how it actually works (not just how it's claimed to work) and how the social boundaries work.

For an example of fully rampant typical mind fallacy in Urbit, see the original 2013 version of the security chapter: http://archive.is/UK8So About two-thirds of the way down, you can actually watch Yarvin transmute into Moldbug as he starts pontificating on how humans communicating on a network should work, and never mind the observable evidence of how they’ve actually behaved whenever each of the conditions he describes have obtained; oblivious that the very first thing people will do with Urbit is mess with its assumptions, in ways that its creator literally could not foresee (due to typical mind fallacy), though he might reasonably have been expected to (given the entire history of people on the internet).

Yarvin doesn't seem to understand this. He explicitly stated in his blogging as "Moldbug" his belief that order is good and chaos is bad as a universal principle, a visceral belief. (in http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-mi... )

The trouble is that the real world doesn't work like that, and literally all the interesting stuff happens at the boundary between order and chaos.

(Phil Sandifer's recent book Neoreaction a Basilisk goes into this point about Yarvin's belief system in some detail.)
In one video Knuth told that the he was about to publish(or published do not remember) a research paper on cryptography and the defense department asked to not publish. I think that might in the same period.
Wait, since when is Opera a Chromium fork? They've been around a lot longer than the Chrome project. Unless they had a radical change of heart recently that I haven't heard about yet?
Great, it's the 19th century all over again.
The SecureBridge with support for RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin is released
We're talking about Trump though. The time between his experts issuing a detailed complex policy document in his name and him completely contradicting it in public is likely to be measured in hours, not days.
1) Global trade was not as established prior to WWII - there is a market incentive to maintain alliances. We don't even have the production means to make everything we need anymore - we're too inter-dependent.

2) Facebook and Snapchat and other social venues made possible by the Internet make it hard to sew mutual distrust among the nations of the world. If the Cold War happened today we'd see the propaganda from both sides on Twitter - I think it would be harder to mislead people with 2+ perspectives.

Every generation does think it can do better than the last - but I personally think there are a few major differences to set us apart. :>
On a different note, Knuth amazes me in his religious belief. Its fascinating to see a mind which can write TAOCP and still believe in religious stuff. Absolutely Fascinating.
Thanks for the link. I have wanted one of these belts for years! But I can't believe how expensive it is.
Looks like a short ad-post for Moqups 2.
I would not limit it to DEBUG. Lots of apps have separate layouts for tablets. Tablet views while not ideal, can work as desktop apps.
I rather enjoy these little random nuggets that get posted to Hacker News.
The rational exuberance of 5G
"Google has been carbon-neutral since 2007 and we are committed to powering 100 percent of our operations with renewable energy sources," said Marc Oman, EU Energy Lead, Google Global Infrastructure.

That's absolutely amazing! Well done!
Peter Kogge's 'The Architecture of Symbolic Computers' is a great book on Lisp and Lisp machines and much more. It explains a lot of the questions this post has elicited.
A bit off topic, but I was excited about that lossless jpeg (re)compressor you guys had developed, is there a chance it will be open sourced ?
Thanks for the tip about "Everything". Tried it for the first time now and, oh boy my life just changed.
This is incredible! I'd like to see that quick ASCII search implemented into Windows.
The included webserver is also fantastic.
Patents over physical mechanisms are somewhat defensible IMHO. Generally they really do need to be innovative because physical processes are easier to understand (unlike software) and so they are harder to defend in court.

Additionally, from the article it looks like patents were only one reason no one else is as good - it seems more like no one else had tried to build anything like them.

Also, Amazon is generally seen as good for consumers - they force down prices like no one else. They might not be that great for warehouse employees though.
I find autostore to be a much cleaner solution than the adhoc system amazon uses. With the amazon system you need a lot more space and staff to fill those shelves. In addition you have to be careful not to load them top heavy.
Récursion as a literary device is intellectually stimulating, hence on topic. Furthermore, the y combinator is also about recursion.
And it seems that Flash and Adobe Reader don't use the sanitizers, according to the article?

Tangential, anybody knows how Apple handles fonts?
Earliest support, in the late 90s and early 00s way before Valve jumped in was from Loki Entertaiment who ported many AAA titles. Individual developers like id and Epic also released Linux versions of their titles back around the same time. Of course after Loki fell and it started to become apparent that Linux wasn't going to take over the desktop there was a very long period of virtually no AAA games on Linux.

There are now more games on Linux than there ever have been thanks to the rise of indie games, crowdfunding and Valve's efforts with SteamOS. Just a while ago Gaming On Linux noted that 8 out of 10 of the current most popular games on Steam are now available or coming soon on Linux.

I hope Valve really is in it for the long term as the Steam survey numbers (floating around 1% for Linux) are still very poor and most non-indie developers don't find the saler figures to be worth it. I don't think things would become as nearly as bad as they did back when Loki folded even if Valve decided SteamOS is dead though, thanks to indie games and Kickstarter.

Not having VR with HTC Vive on Linux/Steam machines on day one seems like a missed opportunity. It's a new platform where it would have been easier to get a significant portion or even all of the games also on Linux.
I like 10. Massive backlogs of shit you won't do are pointless.
This has been my view of Amazon+Kiva as well, there is obviously some problems with rolling out Kivas everywhere since little has happen. The problems I've seen stated are the big initial cost of deployment, like invest at least ~$1 billion to save $1.8 billion, this article also mention really flat floors. I also guess it's hard to iterate the design if you change all warehouses directly so to spread out the risks you go slow.

According to the article Amazon now have 30k Kiva robots and that in all of the US there are about 200k more warehouse workers since 2007.
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Thankfully facebook events never really took off in my social groups. Currently it's just a couple of Watsapp groups (core friends/activities/classes) and an increasingly daunting email thread for a wedding later this summer.

Although your comment makes me wonder if there is a space for a more specialised 'events' app. Maybe this is where the Google/Apple calendars are vaguely headed.
Paint of Persia by dunin
I'm just making predictions. That this will become a malicious advice meme. That lots of people will lose all their files over it. And that microsoft will probably disable it.

This exact thing happened with system32. And deleting a system file somehow seems much more obviously dangerous than entering a command you don't understand. "rm" looks pretty harmless, and someone could come up with a backronym that even makes it seem sensible.

In fact I wonder if this is the reason pasting into console is disabled, or at least hard to figure out, on Windows.
Another ZCE here :)
Published on 12 February 2013: "300 Million Users and Move to WebKit"

https://dev.opera.com/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-web...

"Opera sends 90 out the door"

"They were sacrificed for strategic choice to dump core technology, with Opera's proprietary engine Presto and JavaScript interpreter Carakan"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5237967
Yes, ads are too big a vector for malware to ignore, so turning on ad-blocking is non-negotiable.

That being given, the only alternative for NYT and friends is for subscription which they don't have the taste for, since it gives them the true value of their journalism.

The difference in this true value, and older ad-based value: their take from the revenue-sharing agreement with malware-creators. We just got better with dealing with malware, and their malware based revenue took a hit.
Pity none of the developers of these "Photoshop/Illustrator Killer" apps ever considers a Linux version.

I may be an untapped market of one, but I don't think so —of people currently using OSX and Linux, who would switch to Linux full-time in a heartbeat, if only there were some decent graphic design apps available. Everything else I need to do is already covered.
That's a great addition right there. Google needs to create global free internet now and everybody will use Google Maps software on his GPS.
Someone always hits 'reply all' and ruins it for everyone.
I love Haskell but I feel it attracts the most golfy code. E.g. Yes you apply the dot operator to itself but why would you?
Humans have a knack for adaption. We'll figure out the employment problems that result from automation and robotics. We'd make great pets.
"On the other hand, there's going to be short term turmoil as people scramble to find new jobs in an increasingly automated world."

Depends how short the "short term turmoil" is. If its 20+ years then it could blight an entire generation.
This is cool! Thank you.
> It's interesting how well they've pulled this off without poisoning the well and alienating their user base.

Who says they haven't? Just because people endure it for now because everyone else they know uses it doesn't mean they'll all stick around.

Re:ads. So shocked people still bother to buy them at all, seen companies throw 7 figures at it with only a fraction of an investment back from it (1 mil invested got about 80K of product sales IIRC). Always advise wayyyy against it these days.
Does your direct manager code now or does he have an extensive coding background. If the answer is no, then the problem is not completely yours.
Look see my above comment. There's no need to downvote me, I'm just making a prediction based on a very similar situation that happened in the past exactly the way I describe.

Whether or not users "need" to be protected from stupidity is an opinion of course. But it's in Microsoft's interest to protect their users, and users want to be protected. So who is to say they are wrong to do so?

I find your assertion that the world would be a better place if more people made serious mistakes, really hard to believe. A 10 year old ruining his parents computer might teach him a lesson. But how much does he gain from that lesson, really? And at what cost? Would you personally help distribute malicious advice memes, if you really believe this is a good thing?
More often than not, they're not mounted correctly. When it comes to headlights, too many cyclists (most?) do not think of their bike as a vehicle. The headlight should be a solid light and the light beam should not be parallel to the ground. the primary purpose of your headlight is there to help you see where you're going. If it's not, you don't really ride in the dark. As with any other vehicle, being seen is a secondary reason for lights.

I've been commuting by bike, year-round, for 17 years. While my commute home may require lights, my morning commute requires them. (It's at 3:00 a.m. and some stretches have no lights.) If my headlight was parallel to the ground, it would not let me see where I am going. Oh, it will show a person or vehicle, but it won't let me see the road. It's aimed at a spot X feet in front of me, enabling me to see debris on the road, as well as anything huge.

Properly aimed or not, a headlight is only going to let a motorist (or anyone) see you if they are coming towards you. I can see them coming, too. A good reflective vest and secondary lights (helmet, side, etc.) is necessary to let people see you from behind or the side. (The vest is useless if the car is running without its headlights on, which has happened to me a few times in the morning.)
I'd say the clichés became so after Shakespeare.
All I want from facebook is a time-ordered list of everything all my friends post.

No filtering, no reordering by 'importance', no weighting by how often I 'like' or respond. No "you clicked off the page and back, we're gonna show you different stuff!".

Just a simple time-ordered list. Apparently this desire is wrong.
If your boss hasn't complained about how long you've spent thinking you haven't thought hard enough. /s
From a business point of view that is okay.

You're not one of the users that brings money directly to the fb platform but you help keep the network effect in place.

Obviously Facebook can't be all things to all people, so these types of complaints doesn't really show that Facebook is weak, but rather that it is strong and has a lot of auxiliary users that helps keep core functions valuable.
A monopoly is a specific thing, not just an insult to a company you don't like.

Most monopolies can only be sustained through state intervention, which is why large government is more of a problem than large companies like Amazon.

This situation is fantastic for the consumer - companies competing to lower prices and increase service.

As the story says the market has responded quickly and the industry is growing, precisely how things are supposed to work.
>The side effect of those changes, the company said, is that content posted by publishers will show up less prominently in news feeds, resulting in significantly less traffic to the hundreds of news media sites that have come to rely on Facebook.

Then, I might use facebook less than usual.
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This is how atheists define atheism.
Also read this : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12005869
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Non-repeatable reads
"In conclusion, our analysis of past, current and future trends in technology and network evolution, suggests that the increased momentum we are seeing around 5G network deployments relative to prior eras is the result of a coincidence of prevailing winds of both technological and business (human) value, and is therefore a case of ‘rational exuberance’ about the future."

I can't agree more! Awesome analysis.
For very local or niche businesses I would say you're right. It's much easier, and cheaper for them and their customer to just maintain a Facebook page, rather than trying to build a website. I don't see a way for Facebook making money of these companies though. It's the companies that bring the audience to Facebook in this case, not the other way around. Facebook in these cases are just a glorified mailing lists.

For mainstream businesses, like chain supermarket, Coca Cola and car makers, I still maintain it's wasted effort.
> I'm sure most of my friends have no idea I'm seeing this, and if they did they would probably interact with FB even less. I'm very hesitant to interact with FB at all now, and just do a quick scroll through every other day.

That's exactly how I feel. Facebook shows to me, to the right side of the screen, a feed of all the comments and likes my friends make everywhere on the site, even on pages I don't like or on walls of people who are not my friends. It's like some kind of "spy mode" which makes me reluctant to comment anywhere (what if my friends will read it?).
I have in fact set it as default, but the watch still likes to ask "which number".
The consumer surplus created by cheaper and faster goods will lead to people purchasing other products and services, which will create new types of jobs provided that nobody does anything stupid with regulation.

It's always been this way.

Besides the population of most countries is starting on the path to decline.
What technologies to use to make a cross platform desktop app?
I was thinking about electron or Qt. It is simpler to make apps in electron but how much performance am I sacrificing.Are there other viable options?
Can't the compiler warn about this?
You're the one spoiling HN with your insults and disruption.
So, it's a ad-blocker that replaces ads with their own ads... Nope, sorry, not interested...

"The new Brave browser blocks the ads and trackers that slow you down, spend your bandwidth, and invade your privacy. Then we put clean ads back, to fund website owners and Brave users alike. Users can spend their funds to go ad-free on their favorite sites."
You fail to understand that you just made up the price of 500,000. No one will invest. BTC, however, has reached the current USD value by natural market forces. You don't get to just make up prices, and neither does BTC.
Helping your mobile app to break through
I'd be interested in the health and safety of working around these systems.

It feels like the sort of thing it would be very easy to forget the danger of as there's minimal moving parts and no scary sounds.

Surprised a henchman hasn't been thrown into the danger area in a James Bond film yet.
The more a person wants to do a job, the less compensation they will demand because the emotional satisfaction they get substitutes for a part (or sometimes all) of the compensation. When there are a lot of people who have a strong preference for doing a job in a particular industry, they collectively drive down the price of their own labor into the ground.

Companies will only pay what they have to.

Some examples of industries where tons of people work for shit money (less than a person of their abilities could earn in other industries) or even sometimes for free because of an emotional attachment to that industry are showbusiness, art and academia.

Then you have the opposite examples, like working on an oil platform - most of those people would earn less money if they had picked a different industry, because they have to be paid more to agree to live on an oil platform and do a shitty and dangerous job.
As in Laravel Artisan? That's not a dependency manager.

Granted, Composer is slow, but it works so well, mainly when package developers tag and release packages properly though. What issues do you have with it?
Everything looks better en Français
Already the case on the French wiki (and it was on the top of the article for a long time). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mise_en_abyme.jpg?us...
Yo I came across a comment you made a while back asking whether there was a scripting language that does rust-like lifetime checking. That thread's archived now so I have to tell you here, it exists https://github.com/pistondevelopers/dyon
I don't really see the point, personally. But you seemed to really want it so
Who got rich off the student debt crisis