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> In that sense, the belief in (say) biblical literalism would not itself be a rational belief

I find it optimistic, to say the least, that each individual can reasonably start from first principles, discover whether there is a Creator, discover if God wants anything from us, and then comply with the requirements of God before the afterlife (if there is one). Atheism is a much more defensible position than a personal deism of any specificity.

Regarding group membership, some organizations are absolutely about that, but the Jesus of the Bible was clearly opposed to people using religion for personal ends. So there are religions that are open to hanging around for the friendship, but biblical Christianity isn't one of them.

> Now, you seem to be arguing that I don't understand the meaning of rational...

I didn't mean any offense. It seemed likely that we didn't have the same definition of 'rational' and it seems even more likely now.

> ...nobody else will care if your axioms aren't shared...

Except people clearly do care. And their response is to establish ingroups, outgroups, promote ignorance, and that's not a good road to go down. I would rather people come to an understanding that everyone is mostly rational, mostly logical, and mostly trying to live a good life. They're normal people that made other choices, in other words.

Regarding nonsensical axioms, axioms can be nonsense if they are inherently contradictory. The axioms we're talking about here pass that hurdle.
In Wardley's model, almost no software development should take place in the "six sigma" zone. Consider figure 1 here:

http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/10/agile-vs-lean-vs-six-sig...

It says "Six Sigma/Outsource" for a reason. The product is "ordered, known, measured, standard, obvious, low margin". If at all possible, this should be an off-the-shelf choice. Previously, that would have meant packaged software; now it mostly means getting something as a library or service.

Six Sigma is fine for manufacturing low-margin items, because you are trying to get high repeatability in the world of atoms. If you have one widget and need to make one million more, you use Six Sigma. But with bits, we already have near-perfect repeatability. If I have one integer and need a million more integers, the computer will do that at a reliability level well beyond six sigmas.

If software is being made in the Six Sigma/Outsource zone, it mostly means that one is reinventing the wheel. Sometimes that's necessary for historical reasons. E.g., if I'm working in a new language but need a library that doesn't exist yet, sometimes I really can just take the old spec and implement it anew. Or if I want developers to use my cloud service, maybe I need to just reimplement chunks of the AWS API, because Amazon won't give me that code.

But the great majority of software development should take place in the higher-novelty zones, where reliable project-scale estimation is somewhere between impossible and nonsensical.

(As an aside, casting people you disagree with as children is insulting.)
> its just an unpublished api they've done nothing wrong.

Not correct. A published, documented API comes with instructions on how the API can use used, and how the data can be used. Do not assume that an unpublished/undocumented API is the same, especially when republishing the data.
it's extremely hard to account for bugs that aren't discovered until later.

Pad your estimates, because you are typically going to have similar bugs (for similar projects), and you can account for those unknowns probablistically. You don't know the exact bugs that will be found, but you've already predicted that some will be found, so include that in your estimate.
Not exactly. Nokia licensed the brand for a new company.

HMD has made licensing agreement with Nokia Technologies, giving HMD sole use of the Nokia brand on mobile phones and tablets worldwide for the next decade, and cellular standard essential patent licenses. HMD does the sales, marketing and distribution. FIH Mobile Limited (Foxconn subsidiary) manufactures them.
It's at least as old as explosives. We used to call it "shell shock."
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And yet this entire subthread is about a proposal to create a social network "designed from the ground up to be a public square for civic discussion between people who disagree" that has "mechanisms to agree on facts, and tools to create arguments supported by those facts".

Isn't HN supposed to be a place for civil discussion between people who disagree?

If you write off arguments you disagree with as "tiresome" and "beating a dead horse", especially on something as basic as "what is evidence", then you're providing a strong negative counterpoint to the original proposal - do people even want a place where people can agree on facts and then disagree on the results of interpretations of those facts? Or do they want, as you seem to want, to retreat into their comfortable social network of people who all agree on the same unwritten body of pseudo-facts?
This does not look like an eval. It seems to be a script that generates a JS file. The string is not eval'ed, it is concatenated.
We do. Unit tests, integration tests, manual smoke tests, code reviews of every commit, design reviews, self hosting...

Sometimes your test matrix is too big. But I agree: sometimes you have to move slower in order to go faster overall and have better estimates. Estimates have to take into account testing and regression testing, which most people don't so it can make you look slow if you start doing that.
welcome to the pay to win era.

also i bet most of what everyone read about this game at first was paid for; people downloaded based on those initial false articles, see the bugs, uninstall, or even play like you did and gave up when you notice the pay to win scheme. but regardless, the app already made it to the download top lists and now they're even getting real news coverage everywhere.

this has nothing to do with people wanting Nintendo games on mobile. it's just a forced marketing fad like any other we always had since the 80s.
Is there a search engine which returns only websites that support https?
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Sure, but once you do that for the 4th or 5th time you'll remember that it's "sorta close to half a mile".
Lol why?
Sure it's OK if you have a small team and you can trust everyone on that team. But if you are in a big company with thousands of employees, you don't want a 'rogue' employee (or contractor ...ala Snowden) to start accessing and messing with your services without company approval - The fewer employees know the company access keys and passwords, the better.
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Well, any kind of computation that erases information (for instance, taking two bits and using them to produce one bit in an AND gate) does have to increase entropy, so those two things are already one and the same.
The official rate means nothing, the effective rate is everything. One way to get that is to look at tax revenue as percentage of GDP:

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

For OECD countries only:

http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2013/04/the_us_continues_to_be_one...
Think of estimation as an outer bound (with a confidence level). You are saying "I am 98% sure the project will be completed by time X." The more unknowns you have, the farther out you should push the deadline.

Give yourself extra time: no one will complain if you finish early.
"The SEDA, or Sustainable Economic Development Assessment ranks more than 160 countries across 10 areas including economic stability, health, governance and environment."

A country's SEDA score could easily go up or down drastically based on the weighting of those 10 different areas.

The purpose of GDP is to give a precise measure of our intuitive notion of "prosperity". This is an inherently flawed goal. GDP roughly corresponds with what we want to measure -- countries with higher GDP usually match those we intuitively regard as more prosperous. But, having citizens buy foreign holidays and plasma screen TVs with credit card debt boosts GDP. New technology which cuts the cost of some good can lower GDP. It's a flawed measure.

As with "Gross National Happiness", SEDA strikes me as an attempt to find an alternative to GDP which measures "what we really want to get at". The thing is, "happiness" is both personal and complicated.

I'm sure the society depicted in Brave New World would have both a high GDP and high SEDA score but it's not what I'd regard as bolstering "well-being". Conversely, I'd be pretty happy living in an Anathem-type society (monasteries filled with scientists and philosophers), even though they lived in material poverty.
if that was true it would be a good version of real Pokemon. every single Pokemon game was about grinding and luck. if you think any of the franchise game was about skill you're insane.
Hard to imagine, when I see all the stories about tiny modules in Node.js...but easy to imagine when I see how many JS frameworks are out there.

Still, so much of what we do these days is just tying together other people's libraries, connecting them together and maybe doing a bit of data conversion. My first step when I need to do something is to find out if someone else already wrote the software. Then I can just install+configure+move on to more interesting things.
Two examples are sending men to the moon and building the interstate system.
> It is interesting that it would be trivial for them to localize the units, it seems like they specifically didn't

So, just like a good number of apps made by Americans for use in other countries.
Companies have to help people at least to the extend that they are wiling to give them money. But of course the degrees to which companies actually help people or just satisfy a luxury need differs.

I see your craving for helping people directly and not through the intermediary of a company. In my case I want to start a company or join a company that actually helps people because I feel the leverage that a company has to help people is a lot bigger. Nevertheless , the work of doctors is of course essential.
Consider reddit, where anyone can create - and curate - a discussion board on any topic; or wikipedia, where topics are often heavily trolled by the self-appointed "guardians of the holy page."

In general, in these situations, it seems that the greater tyrant always seems to win, to the detriment of the community.
He wants to use the government's massive resources to carry out projects that he's aligned with -- perhaps even that he has control over.

...like every politician and lobbyist and capitalist, ever? How would that be a change of any sort? If this is how he thinks, why did he spend so much of his life dressing it up in "non-conformist" camouflage? He could have just said the same things that all "great leaders" do, and spared us the confusion.
I find naive and pretentious the suggestion that the average programmer's work is in any way akin to Einstein's search for the truth about our universe.

Indeed, most projects are remarkably (and sadly) similar to other projects we've done before.
Meh, i wouldn't say impossible. I worked with amazing people. We were able to hit our goals consistently. Key is to have a great team who knows what they are doing and are honest. Measure by complexity, not time.

Unless you worked on a few products, your going to be bad at estimating larger pieces. A lot of software is very similar.
Thanks for trying it out and the quick feedback - awesome.
I found out when working with some customers here that people disagreed a lot on what colors work well together. In the end I figured the quickest way to get off the ground would be to let people select colors themselves. In the end I think people who care enough to have a logo for their business will have some idea of what colors they want to use.
Okay, didn't know/remember that. The MS offer was some years ago. Then, right, the two are not comparable.
The snide answer would be America was "great back when it was okay to be racist, homophobic, and sexist." I think that characterization violates the principle of charity. People are upset about the decline of American exceptionalism. It's true that in the 60's we had all those bad things. But we were also indisputably the most prosperous and successful country on earth, with a broad and thriving middle class. People want that back.

And they aren't being offered what that from liberals. Democrats promise lots of free stuff from the government, paid for by taxing the rich more. Many people don't want that. They want the dignity of meaningful reasonably-paying work, not income redistribution. That's why they vote Republican (to the chagrin of Democrats who don't understand why they would vote against "their interests"). They believe that if we got rid of all these regulations and lowered taxes, jobs would come back and they could afford to be contributors to society instead of receiving benefits paid for by other people.
> It is interesting that it would be trivial for them to localize the units, it seems like they specifically didn't.

In addition to a possible esthetic preference for km, I had two thoughts for gameplay reasons why they wouldn't localize the units:

- Conversion to miles would have a loss of precision in the UI (2.0km vs 1.24m)
- The name of the item is a 2.0km, 5.0km, 10km egg; it would seem odd when players were discussing the game online to refer to the items differently depending what country they are from.
As a NY (and India) guy who occasionally visits the west coast, seriously? NY loves tech but the valley only wants to make money?

Consider the blockchain. Out west they try and rebuild the world with it - consider the (thiel funded) urbit. Back east we just replace banking clearinghouses with bank built blockchain.

What makes you feel differently? Also curious what the ancestry of the people doing tech has to do with anything.
Thanks for the advice. I would image a lawyer would charge a fortune just to talk to me. Any ideas of online resources about this topic that I could use to get an idea of the risk?
Yep, for sure #1 is not as important. But I doubt Twitter would want that kind of business logic open sourced.
How hard would it be to make the following after-market modifications?

1. add a physical "off" switch that cuts battery power to everything

2. (Hard Mode) Cut power to all radio chips/subsystems (GSM, WIFI, bluetooth) while leaving the rest smartphone operational for taking pictures or recording audio?
If you're having trouble, this book can help you: https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Bugs-Program-Faster-Thompson/dp/...
But Us0r is talking about their intent in pursuing the suit.

Yeah, I got the part about WeWork's "intent" already and wasn't "confused" by it, as you so kindly suggest. My point is he's using manipulative language to get his point across, which I find distasteful.
More usefully - total tax as a percentage of GDP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...

The USA is a fair way down.
This is why I prefer less to tail. You can do 'F' to have a constantly updated log, and 'Ctrl-C' to stop updating it when you see something odd and the go back to the live update with 'F' again. All without exiting less.
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From what I understand, cocaine and other harder drugs are sold by the gram at an end-user level, and by the kilogram at the street distribution level.
> on the wrong side of history

Nikita Sergeyevich, is that you?
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BTW, here is an example of a website created with weebrix: http://gooddeals.weebrix.com/ar/home
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I'm having trouble finding a reference, but there's an audio snooping application technology that will recognize what media you're watching or listening to and phone home with the details. Such an app could live in your phone (listening wherever you go) [how many apps demand microphone access, and why?], your Echo, etc.
Something along those lines, sure. I'm actually fine with people civilly criticizing religion, though.

It's the stereotyping that really sticks out to me. It would be flagged or downvoted (justifiably!) if someone called women irrational or told homosexuals that their lifestyles should be kept private.

I'm convinced that the double standard here just doesn't register for most of the HN community, and almost all the English speaking world besides. I said something to raise awareness of the problem.
That seems unlikely, as GAAP would require reserving that amount on the balance sheet and typing it to the acquisition.

What Primack describes would be like buying a house and claiming its price is what you paid as the down payment.
Wow, looks great! I wonder how does it compare to unix tool when it comes to performance in working with large files.
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Good point, either way it is ugly that normal code is now a string. It is in rollup.config.js so maybe this is imposed by "Rollup", but I'm not about to go find how the "outro" option differs from the "footer" option in yet another JS build tool.
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The problem with that statistic is that it lumps all taxes together.
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This seems like a great startup opportunity...
Actually Webpack and Rollup go hand-in-hand. Rollup just compiles JavaScript ES6 modules into a single file, dealing with only `import` and `export` statements and some tree-shaking. Webpack handles everything else, like ES6-to-ES5 conversion, bundling dependencies, styles and everything else you need to get your code shippable to browsers and node.
To be honest? I'll take 5% more efficient banks. The boring stuff is usually worth a lot more to Society. Just doesn't catch us tweens less easily

Also, if you've followed the urbit guys from the start, then you know how cultlike they are. No thanks

Source:am tween
..but when I entered my email address there the page told me they had sent me an email with further instructions. 3 hours later - no email. :/

Rant from a person who is not in Silicon Valley:

This is so fucking typical of SV. No commitments, no stability, no personal pride in keeping things working for decades if needed. Just the hunt for the next thing, and fuck whatever you worked on last month.
Yes you're right in principle and I agree.

Though some of my clients create software for others duplicating and modifying existing products with high certainty.
Most Democrats say America was great once and can be again. They talk about the era of strong unions and manufacturing jobs as the golden age they want to return to. Big government spending too, which presumably means spending directly rather than just redistributing.

It's not just Trump's wife who is stealing ideas.
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Those are measured in grams and kilos

Source: movies & TV. I have 0 experience with drugs.
Thank goodness places like Africa are THRIVING without all these draconian governmental regulations.

I guess all this government funded: infrastructure, education, public transit, etc. aren't contributing AT ALL to California's success, they should really target Sudan as a model for small government success.
Including the freely-available GCJ, a part of GCC that's not often included by default anymore.
The guy in your link did lousy routefinding, and estimated that he could walk 40 miles a day. Anyone with experience backpacking can tell you that's a ridiculous pace (for a group, one mile an hour is a good pace). Plenty of people plan out long hikes with accurate estimations.
First we need to cool the chips. We can increase cooling rate, using micro channels that carry water. Darpa verified that we can increase it to "1 kW/cm2 die-level heat flux with multiple local 30 kW/cm2 hot spots. This is about four to five times more heat per unit area than most current chips dissipate"[1]. Maybe we can do even better.

The thing is - it's expensive.

But than we can use this to build logic with memory on top ,and get huge bandwidth - and in multicore systems you could 100x performance in some algorithms , with easier programming. But this will be expensive.

But than we could start using those systems, building an ecosystem around them, generate money - and slowly, generation by generation with a moore's law like race, work on building photonics to greatly decrease power consumption - and hence cost.

That's at least the plan in [2].

Also relevant: ST microelectronics is in the final stages of opening a leading edge, commercial photonics fab.

[1]https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/03/11/microfluidic-cool...

[2]http://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/17153
Eyeballing the stats at http://caniuse.com/#search=http2 I think it's more like 85% of clients support it.
Django / other backends aren't mutually exclusive with Fastboot. You can use them together.
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Agreed that it's ambiguous. Better would have been "Pokemon Go achieved the all-time highest one-week downloads".
I work in the same construction design industry. The drawings themselves are also contractually binding. Many smaller jobs forgo the written specifications altogether.
There was not such thing like ES3 module syntax. This is just programming pattern many people used: https://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/b...

It was a great idea back then, but that was never syntax. This and similar patterns rely on the fact JavaScript is very dynamic and flexible language and enables creating closures and creating objects dynamically.

These are very powerful features of language, but they're dynamic, which is unfortunate because to know what exactly is happening in this code you have to run it. for IDEs/editors it's hard to look at your code and guess "well, it's module pattern, I see! You mean this and that". Tooling operates usually on static analysis of syntax. They use JS parsers to parse code to AST(Abstract Syntax Tree).

And here's the thing: ES6 classes are visible in AST, there is something called ClassDeclaration. This means that every programmer can install some ES6 parser from NPM and analyse ES6 classes. This means that there will be better linting, better autocompletion etc.

On the other hand - JavaScript parsers don't understand module pattern or other homegrown idioms. It's harder to analyse them statically. Especially if they rely on dynamic aspects on language. ES6 parser doesn't run your code. That's why ES6 classes, because they're static, are better for parsers, and consequently, enable better tooling, IDE support, autocomplete etc.

Situation maybe were a little bit different if we had tooling for some sort of dynamic analysis (if tools were running code in sandbox and gathered data in runtime, not from syntax etc.).

But because currently most of tooling is syntax based I think ES6 classes (and e.g. ES6 modules) are just better for analysis.

Well... to contradict what I said early I must say that actually it's often possible to analyse such things like module pattern, createClass etc. But:

1. not always with 100% certainty of the result

2. there are too many idioms. If every framework, every team and every programmer has own way of writing JS, own module syntax, own class syntax etc. it's very hard to support all the frameworks and provide tooling for all people...