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The peer-review is mixed with a reductionistic structure. Each scientific area is specialized. The articles are reviewed by people in the specialized fields. Often they find something that is not entirely in their field of knowledge. That is because they are trying to "science" something new.

So they can produce theories that seem a solution from their field of knowledge, but are not valid in another field. The peers will not see this problem.
Another problem is that engineers that try to apply this science find practical problems. But because they are seen as "of lesser knowledge" their practical criticism is often rejected.

The best example I know is the "theory" that magnetic fields can bump into each other, producing energy. In this model the fields are made of flux lines, which can bumb into other flux lines. The flux lines will then break and reorganize, producing energy.

Yet, as I write this, you may already think that this is bullshit, because flux-lines are imaginary lines to describe a magnetic field.

Now, with this in mind, look at magnetic reconnection. This is a theory made scientists specialized in astronomy, and not in the area of electromagnetism.

I believe that this problem is in every (specialized) area of science.
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As far as I know, they've just mudded up the language, so it's not obvious that you check "Yes, please report all my friends and associates wlan ids/location and store them in one huge database that's available to Google, law enforcement etc. And once you've clicked yes, I don't think they ask again.

In my (Sony) Marshmallow/Android 6.0 phone it lets one choose: "Location mode": "High accurancy" (Use GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or mobile networks to determine location), "Battery saving" (Wi-fi, bluetooth or mobile networks) and "Device Only" (Use GPS to determine location).

Just now noticed it says "High Accuracy" (I believe Google Maps will nag you into submission on this, if you try to use GPS only).
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I quit cold turkey after 7 years of smoking and I'm really glad that I did.

So with that I can say: the pain of quitting doesn't last only a day, it's good you didn't experience depression, I never had depression before or after that but I was clinically depressed for 3 weeks, I was apathetic about life in general, would wake up and not feel motivation to do anything, I'd do them anyway because it was a routine (eat, shower, work) but I really felt I'd never be happy as I was before.

It began to fade after the first week, during the second week I'd still feel urges to have a cigarette after a coffee or lunch, or just when I was bored. Third week was easier and by the end of the first month I was over the initial withdrawal symptoms.

But again: it's not "just a day", it's not really "omg, this is so easy, I'm over it". I had to constantly remind myself to NEVER had a drag, I got drunk during the third week and it was a pretty good feeling to deny a cigarette a friend wanted to share.

I was a 2 pack a day smoker during the last year of smoking, that might have impacted how much the withdrawal symptoms lasted or how strong they were.

It's on of the best things I've done in life, it also gave me a huge boost of confidence to do other stuff, my mindset nowadays is "I quit smoking cold turkey, I can do almost anything when I commit to".
> The big companies (and TLAs) have good intelligence, as shown.

They don't have "good intelligence". They had access to Google's confidential information specifically for the purposes of discovery in this trial. That's why Google is asking for sanctions. They basically abused the discovery process and revealed privileged data that they should not have.
LDAP management on non-Windows systems is like stepping back 30 years.. last I checked, there wasn't even a supported UI for directory operations (typing DN's by hand is for the birds!)

Windows AD in all its subtle brokenness is a great deal easier to use.
Right, but are you also skilled in writing garbage collectors? (You may be, I'm not assuming you aren't. I'm not.) Otherwise the fact that you can read Go more easily than C doesn't make a difference, as what would you do after you've read the code if you don't understand what any of the algorithms or why they are designed that way?

I'm sure it's very good that as much of the runtime is written in Go as possible, but I think people are being too optimistic when they hope it will empower people who aren't already skilled in compilers or garbage collection to contribute.
Good find, I'll take a look into that.

And yes I do not recommend using this for serious purposes (that is, I am the author).
I think that's an overly critical reading of a kind of flowery blog-post, and putting a lot of emotion behind what I think was more "hey, try this and see if it helps" as opposed to "DO THIS".

I do agree that if it was being offered as a panacea for all modern woes there'd be reason for harsher scrutiny, but as it stands, it's just some blogger opining that having less might help a bit since they believe it's an unfulfilling task for the amount of time and effort.

Also, it's not as if this blogger is the only person to suggest minimalism; there was an article on HN not too long ago about how minimalism is kicking up in Japan - a casual search for minimalism will show that it's an idea with some following that is a style of philosophy more than anything really.

I'm not sure why this prompted such a harsh reaction, since it's just a fluffy article.
How do you mean? The 1.5 benchmarks showed Go cleaning up a 250GB heap in 5ms.
I'm a bit surprised, I was using the stock Android for Nexus and in my case the results were logged. Just as other people are reporting: every single application usage, call or what-have-you. I also had turned off everything I could find in Settings -> Google Account.
My only nitpick is on No Alpha, you can't beat the market on securities that everyone is tracking (mid to large caps). Companies with low institutional ownership (usually small or micro cap) are not well-researched so there is still money to be made, provided you obviously do the rigorous work to analyze them. It's the basis for how Warren Buffett got his initial capital before he turned to GEICO and created the megacorp Berkshire Hathaway.
I suppose my mistake made it an order of magnitude more amazing!
Show HN: We were tired of listening to crappy startup pitches, so created this
We organize hackathons and events and the most challenging part is always the same - pitch review/listening/watching. We created a tool wich allows saving the time when picking up right teams.

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I would say "Divide and Conquer" should be a 0... it is that useful and it can be applied to many many different categories.

So many things seem intractable and formidable in complexity yet once these things are broken down into pieces things become clear. The Asana CEO once talked about this. Breaking things out provides clarity and once you have clarity productivity is massively increased.
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Indeed; it's a discrete approximation to the infinite impulse response exhibited by all sorts of physical systems leading to the characteristic exponential decay.
I doubt it. That would expose them to massive fines and exclusion from the entire EU market. Dark patterns in gathering information, as what Facebook has been doing with shadow profiles etc are bad enough - actually having a "delete" option that doesn't delete data (or storing data that a customer can't a) correct if wrong, and b) get actually deleted when they ask for it (and c) get a copy of on request) are all explicitly illegal in the EU, AFAIK.
Suspect parent was asking a rhetorical question, but what data are you looking at? Not sure it's true universally.

Shelter (UK homeless charity) broadly agrees with parents claim that privacy & other residents are a significant problem.

http://england.shelter.org.uk/campaigns_/why_we_campaign/tac...
It makes sense when you consider they believed the war would succeed, in terms of installing a peaceful and compliant regime in Iraq. After all, nobody holds inquiries into military victories.

The success in shifting the justification for war from WMD to getting rid of Saddam, or even less plausibly, fighting terrorism, shows that marketing strategy partly succeeded. Blair still justifies the war in terms of having got rid of Saddam Hussein. In short: they didn't know, and didn't care.

Remember under Bush there was also Wolfowitz and Feith's Office of Special Plans, which supplied Bush administration officials with cherry-picked, dodgy, raw intelligence, bypassing the CIA.

WMD were never a credible excuse for war in the first place, rather (ironically) a legal argument. The mere existence of chemical weapons is not a reasonable premise to launch a war. Claiming a castrated Iraq was any kind of threat to the United States or Britain was ludicrous.

Finally, there was no bluff going on - that's revisionist history. Saddam was complying with weapons inspectors right up to the time the invasion began.
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I do agree that mine was a quick, to of my mind comment . But it looks suspicious at first glance. He is not all that high and mighty as he's sounding.
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The meaning of the word "exist" implies that it has some way to be detected by conscious observers.

Consider this: if I tell you there about a parallel universe you can never detect or discover, how does saying "BUT IT EXISTS" differ from saying "GOT YOU, IT DOESNT EXIST"?
1) Might depend on service provider handling the domains,
2) Company bureaucracy and organizational incompetence - the one who gets the reminder does not have a clue what it means.
Kind of funny that these pages require you to log in with a Google account. I don't believe Google won't record any data without the browser in question being signed in...
That, and tuning the covariance matrices can be tough and time-consuming.
Stress is often a factor in health related issues.
I imagine that believing it is preventable will lead to less stress.
I think it will really take off with self-driving cars. It's going to throw gasoline on the sprawl fire. I'm one of those that can't wait to move an hour or so out of the city.
Is it important if court has tested the license? A software license is like a will, in that it describes the authors intention in a legal binding document. A infringer would need to prove in court that their activity does not conflict with the requirements of the license, and the words "non-commercial" would be quite hard to sneak around. The main reason that FSF and similar activly advice against such license is primarily because "non-commercial" is ambiguous and there is a clear risk for the recipients/re-distributors if the original author starts to act abusive. A common example I have heard is public schools vs private school, where the later is a commercial activity and the former is common viewed as not. How that would translate to a student using it in a student project would be up in the air.

If I where you, I would instead copy the license of the unreal engine. That is, you don't look at the commercial status but rather on profits from products that include your work. If someone is earning profits, regardless of the nature of the organization who do so, then a cut is required to be given to you. Its simple, it fixes the school problem above, and there is a "industry" example to use if it ever became a court case. The big drawback is that its not an open source compatible license.
You should delete this.
The best advice for very busy professors is to find the correct researcher working on their team (scan papers for the one that seems to be coauthor in the field you want to ask about). Most of the time it'll get delegated to them either way and if it's interesting enough it'll eventually reach the professors.
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Even if it did delete it, it could also be "deleted this particular copy of my data"
So the perceived benefit to limiting them is to stay ahead of them in what they know about you?
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I feel like this needs an explanation?
Whilst I like the list/site, I would offer an opposite view:

People believe voting can make a difference,
Politics has been shaken up for the first time in a generation,
Just over half the population are getting what they voted for,
Those of us in border towns should see an increase in jobs,
Change creates opportunity,

Personally I voted to remain, but I just keep seeing how it's going to benefit me personally. Which is more luck than most will get.
Cool idea. Wouldn't it make sense to add the badge to your own readme?
Have you any (peer reviewed) evidence of this? There is a lot of Internet hype about "carbs are bad, fat is fine" these days and other conflicting health guidelines. I am not saying its wrong, but I would like to see some proper evidence of it.
Curious if semantics of this subdomain of "allowed/legal" programs will be easy to understand, or will it be "try and see on case-by-case basis if your code compiles". Still, this way or the other, probably user will have to gradually learn and build intuition, as with learning any other aspect of any programming language.

Also: will be/is the lifetime-checking done in the same way in the interpreter, even though it uses GC? Otherwise, those are in effect two, I think significantly different dialects of the language.
I don't know about you, but I'm not going public places in my underwear at 3 in the morning. It's a little absurd to state that there's no expectation of privacy on the web.

That, and Google isn't like one man sitting on a corner. It's like a network of guys, on every corner - that compare notes every evening. Regardless of why they do that, it's hard to call it anything other than surveillance.
How can a mind have the intelligence of a human and not be aware of itself? It's a great question that still mixes the idea of intelligence with Consciousness.

A Paramecium can discern where's the food, how to run away from an unpleasant spot and stop all activity when anesthetics are present and resuming while its effect is gone.

It can do all that and it does not have brain-cells, nor a lot of intelligence and still the experiment shows that it can stop and re-start like all other conscious beings.

Is not self aware, but we cannot prove that it isn't experiencing its own little qualia.
It's safer to assume everything you input into a device is being recorded regardless of settings. If I want privacy, I'll use Tails OS with Tor. Since that's a pain to use I just don't do or write anything on the internet I don't want tracked back to me.
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My first impression is - they want their own https://fancy.com/
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It's not my experience that cities have bad raw veggies and fruit (I've lived near Boston and in NYC). Be that as it may, if you cannot find raw produce, you may want to look for the frozen stuff. http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/frozen-vegetables-are-hot

"Nutritionally speaking, frozen veggies are similar to -- and sometimes better than -- fresh ones. This makes sense, considering that these veggies are usually flash-frozen (which suspends their 'aging' and nutrient losses) immediately after being harvested. Frozen veggies were often picked in the peak of their season, too."

I have a fruit (blueberries, cherries, mango, banana) and greens smoothie almost every morning. The banana is the only thing that's not frozen. It seems healthy, although I admit, it's not low-carb.
You can't generalize from personal experience.

I smoked less than 3 packs of cigarettes in my life, stopped 15 years ago, and I still get cravings. Alcohol on the other hand has zero pull for me.
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Interesting back and forth. You should read the book "Scarcity, why having so little means so much" [1] it is a really interesting investigation of the mental impact of not having enough.

[1] http://scholar.harvard.edu/sendhil/scarcity
Ha. Probably so. I just hope it doesn't become a movement.

I didn't look through all of them, but the excerpts look promising:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=peanut+butter+jel...
You keep calling for people to see the homeless as human, but you're not doing it yourself. You seem to have some infantalized, romantic image of them where they are not capable of doing any wrong and anything that happens to them is the result of external forces out of their control.

But they are human. They may be wonderful people down on their luck. They are also capable of being horrible people, committing crimes without any particular excuse, and making bad decisions that are every bit as much their responsibility as it is mine when I make bad decisions. That is irreducibly part of what it means to be human, and if you take that from a group, you have dehumanized them. And in the aggregate, a group of them will inevitably contain some of the latter.

You can't address the problem by neglecting that fact. Many have tried, and as always happens when the solution doesn't match the real problem in the real world, those solutions failed. If berating people about homelessness was the solution, the problem would be solved already. That solution has been tried a lot.
Maybe it's not an article for everyone, but just somewhat rich people who feel like they live cluttered lives? I thought the start made that clear. On hacker news, there are likely to be people in exactly that situation, since programing pays well and entrepreneurship is a rich man's game. Not all articles have to be about the poor or useful for the poor.
It's not to say I didn't have urges.. doing something for almost 20 years, anything, is hard to let go of. But that nail biting aggravated irritableness lasted about a day for me.

Part of it may be that because of the whole bike racing thing, I had had several occasions where I'd been through weekend long periods I couldn't really get to smoke, or had to make due with patches or gums. I would also immediately light up when I got away from those friends. Those times, I'd also tried white-knuckling through weekends, been just as irritable, but it kept going for days like you said. When I mentally made the switch to not smoking anymore though, it was different, much easier than those 3 day weekends ever were.

I've heard lots of people say the same thing to me, once you do it, you know it's done. You're not just holding off for a few days or seeing how long you can go, you're just mentally done with it. Or maybe I just tricked myself and it worked. :)
Your allocation times will go up as the heap gets fragmented and the it becomes harder to find places to put new items. This is especially true of large interconnected data sets.

Further, depending on your data access patterns you can see data access start to degrade over time as well because the memory locality is worse.

GC benchmarks are great at showing how well 1 part of memory management is behaving (ie the deallocation step) but it doesn't do much for talking about the other 2 parts, allocation and access.

That said, I use Go lang every day and the GC improvements to date have been great, especially given the kinds of memory patterns lots of the services I write have (small, short lived items that aren't really connected to each other). But there are definitely memory patterns where Hotspot will smoke the golang memory system and that doesn't begin to describe something like Zing.
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I have absolutely hit this bug before, multiple times. However, I never put it together that the 'ID' was causing it.
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was wondering if you could recommend up-to-date books, similar material on CSS which go over best practices, advanced topics. For some reason they are hard to find. Thanks!
Admittedly this is for Excel 2003, so only ~20 years. I think there's a good chance that this bug was theirs ;)
Is there any research about whether users prefer web "applications" (SPAs and everything related) or good old web pages?[1] Hackernews and sites similar to this work on pretty much all browsers and devices. So, other than clients wanting to put big CSS banners and animations and using bootstrap and The Theme™[2], is there any valid reason to intentionally bloatify a page?

Edit: Sorry for not being clear, I meant websites where SPAs are not required, and plain old websites would do. In other words, do users (unconsciously?) prefer eye-candy over readability?

[1]: The benefits which users will prefer "applications" for like progressive enhancement with offline first thingy isn't here yet, and virtually no one is using it in real life. So please don't count on that yet.
[2]: http://adventurega.me/bootstrap/#
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I heard this yesterday and immediately removed my TP-Link device from the network.
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there's an unobserved state that changes over time according to relatively simple rules, and you get indirect information about that state every so often. In Kalman filters, you assume the unobserved state is Gaussian-ish and it moves continuously according to linear-ish dynamics (depending on which flavor of Kalman filter is being used)
If the entire continental US rebels, who exactly are they fighting against?

If there is a civil war, you kind of have to assume that each side is going to have access to some of the US's resources.
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A lot of cancer is self-inflicted such as smoking cigarettes. Even though they know smoking is bad for them and they've had relatives that have died from tobacco, teens continue to use it and become addicted to smoking.

In NYC, cigarettes cost $12-$14 per pack it is against the law to buy cigarettes until age 21. Countries that have universal healthcare such as Canada, UK, France all have tobacco taxes that exceed $5 per pack. Our US Federal tax is about $1.

The high cost of tobacco and the increase age for buying tobacco (now the same as drinking alcohol which is also 21) helps to prevent teens from becoming using and becoming addicted to tobacco.