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Not wearing a seatbelt is legal in many places, or at least not enforced. And enforcing brain zapping would be even harder, because people do it in the privacy of their own homes.

But the argument isn't about legality. It's whether scientists should work with these people. They are going to brain zap anyway. The scientists have nothing to lose by collecting their data. They could also give helpful warnings and information to limit the harm.

But above all don't call them idiots for trying this. There are desperate people with serious conditions that are willing to take a small risk for anything that might help their condition. The medical system is very slow, conservative, and risk averse, in adopting new treatments. So people that want better treatments are forced to take it into their own hands. If doctors offered this treatment today, this wouldn't be an issue.
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People have found that the game is using an invalid Google Maps API auth token.

The speculation is that this was done deliberately to ease server load.
I understand that md5sums help you know you got the same copy. Why not share his resource directly instead? Also, what if someone gets the same resource "Formal Languages in Logic: A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis" under a different md5sum (for example, the format or edition is different)? It seemed somewhat useless in this case.
We briefly changed the URL to https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/brain-may-flus..., which this article points to, but changed it back because this article contains more background info. We kept the less baity title, though.
This isn't an apples to apples comparison. The Pokemon Company is over 18 years old and has brand recognition.

Kinda ironic considering the girl who wrote this works for Periscope.
The reason they use JavaScript is because it's known by many and the examples can be tried without downloading/having an additional compiler. There are at least two dozen concepts on the list there - the value of illustrating new concepts for some with a known quantity far outweighs the downsides of having to start with a fresh environment.

I will say though for the exact cases you mention, they probably should be clear why this isn't exactly the concept as described.
Keep advocating against Microsoft, Apple, Sony and Nintendo on HN, maybe one day they will listen to you.
I'm not sure that I think of zombies as following routines.

I don't know that I really get the point that this is making.

Perhaps people would be more happy with their work if they focused on the act of serving, than the inherent enjoyability of the task?
That exists today, it's called a credit card.
In what way was Common Lisp a "dump"?
Projection operators do not collapse the wave function. Put some mixed state in, and you'll probably get some mixed state out (for some states it may be pure, but not all).
Closed source is not more secure and of higher quality than open source.
I just disagree with the entire argument. What is "baseline"? I would be so much happier if I had a private sushi chef who made me dinner every night. I would be so much happier if I had a personal trainer who gave me a workout twice a day, every day. I would be so much happier if I had enough money to only work on topics that interested me, and quit anytime I feel like it. I would be so much happier if I could pay for college for everyone in my city so that everyone had equal access to higher education.

My answer to "how much money would make you happy" is infinite. There will always be something I spend money on to make myself happier.
He was probably expecting an article about Dragonforce ("the hardest metal known to man"). Super-hard metal sounds like it would be an interesting genre, if slightly cheesy.
Spouses share communal property. Hard to argue that your husband can't be allowed to use a common resource of the household.
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Thank you for a terrific description! I learned something today.
Yea this is key. You can't teach a kid who is hungry, or worried about more pressing issues.
The theory is whatever tells you what you will observe in the real world.

On the case of QM, that's the set of equations, observable operators, and the instructions of hoe to interpret them. None of those predict anything alone.
That has almost nothing to do with the post you responded to. Electric bikes are faster than normal bikes, and people treat them as mini mopeds rather than normal bikes (and there's already a problem with bicycle/pedestrian collisions).
Ugh, sorry, I meant to type "rubber" and typed "plastic" instead. Rubber both resists scratches and permanent deformation, no?
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Root is interesting. I want it to be able to more easily develop on the device, mount loop filesystems, etc. But I think it would be acceptable to have a container or chroot with a restricted root user and possibly shared storage accessible through a bind mount.

Maybe installing images could be supported through a self-signed key and fastboot.

Is there anything device-wide root is needed for on modern Android?
> most electric bikes I see are ridden dangerously to pedestrians; by NYC deliverymen (doubt I've ever seen a woman on one), swiftly and silently sneaking up to run you down on sidewalks or the wrong way on one way streets.

Both of those uses of a bicycle - operation on a sidewalk and riding against traffic on a one-way street - are a violation of NYC traffic law [1]. The operator is the one causing danger, not the bicycle.

[1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bicyclerules_engli...
Not everyone is able bodied and has nice showers at work to change in.
Would we buy "Government Software"? What about "Government computers"? Any of you tried to go to the California DMV's in the Bay Area lately? How is Government single-payer health care (the VA) working out for veterans?

Given this sentiment why do we feel like single-payer Government schools are the answer to educating our children?

I just don't see how we can get incentives inside of a government system to align with our goals of efficiently educating our children.
This should eventually be cheaper then gold for jewelry and castable an also it might be weldable or at least be able to braze ?
I think this goes to show that theoretical backwards compatibility doesn't matter nearly as much as de facto backwards compatibility. As this IOCCC entry shows, every single C++ revision has been a breaking change to the previous revision. A naive interpretation of this would say "well, C++ is not useful for enterprise use because the language is constantly changing". But in reality it doesn't matter, because the backwards-incompatible parts affect code nobody would intentionally write (excluding IOCCC entries!), and as a result C++ has a deserved reputation for stability.
> SignalFx seems to have a nice workbench for this with direct visual feedback in the UI, so that you can work on existing data to get the right result.

Wavefront does as well; I'd recommend you compare it for competitive analysis.

So would you say your product is in direct competition with these offerings, or do you see it more as a complement to them?
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I was looking into buying a bike for commuting from Mission to SoMa until I noticed how there are multiple hit and runs reported every week. Several times have I witnessed Uber/Lyft drivers (with me as a passenger) endanger bicyclists during the morning commute. How do they solve this in other cities?
Right, the last I heard he shifted focus to Minecraft VR I believe and I haven't looked into it since then.

However, You can embed Racket in the Native C SDK examples if that's what you're looking for..
> the definition of a Cartesian closed category in most textbooks expands to something like 20 equations, but you can simplify it down to the usual few equations which specify a model of simply typed lambda calculus

Has that been written down somewhere convenient? I'd like to have a look.

By the way, I found lots of your comments on your post history also very interesting!
Matthew Butterick uses both in his typesetting applications: http://unitscale.com/mb/technique/dual-typed-untyped-library...
Keep saying lock-in is good for the industry, and good luck finding anyone not taking you as a shill.
Was going to enrol in the course but I hate coming up with new passwords. Please have a Google login.
Essentially no researcher has found that your anecdotal belief matches the data they analyze. Why do you think all of the studies that indicate diminishing returns of income on happiness are wrong?
I am the author of parts of it, namely the network virtualization engine. A mod can retitle it if they want.
How does a non-linear irreversible phenomenon emerges from repeating unitary linear interactions?

Given that a reversible linear mechanics is so much more useful than one that isn't, I think it's way more likely that the universe isn't in fact linear, but the best way people got to mapping it was to shove all the non-linearity at the border of the mechanics, right before they get something from the experiment.
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i interpreted this as: this was written by security experts (cryptographers), not expert programmers. this means the algorithms are generally ok, but the implementation is wacky (and issue prone).
The research in this area overwhelmingly disagrees with you. The concept of a baseline happiness is very well studied and supported. It's not difficult to search for.

I think you'd probably be surprised if you had billions of dollars how much less happier you would be than you expect. There is a reason billionaires don't act like they're high on heroin 24/7. Money isn't some magical happiness generator that ramps up with every extra dollar available.
In New York, one thing I have strongly noticed is the decrease in smog even on rush hour crowded avenues. This alone has made it drastically healthier to go outside whether it be on bike or walk. Just a few more years and we will be able to avoid long trips to the parks and do recreational walking immediately outside of our doors.
Wasn't the original paper not that happiness decreases after $75k but that you get diminishing returns drastically afterward? For example, more than 50% of billionaires would be more satisfied with their lives while around 75k only about 42% would be and that at 35k it's 20%.
Here's one of many examples: when you're defining types you have to think of names for them. That's a high-energy mental operation.
I think it's besides the point to discuss the specific definition of avoidance/evasion/planning/etc.

Also, many countries has a law that basically says that anything a company does to reduce their amount of taxes without serving a business purpose is illegal. In other words, if don't have a very good reason for why your taxes are paid in the Bahamas when 99% of your sales is outside the Bahamas, it won't fly in court.

I think the responsibility is with governments (though I do think many companies act immorally) to provide a fair, simple tax-system and to prohibit and persecute tax evasion/avoidance/etc.
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Why do we focus so much on the educational method, and whether or not teachers can tackle it? Here's the key line in your comment:

What he missed though was the ability to calculate quickly...this I had to get him to do at home...

I think the biggest problem in U.S. education today, and why us throwing money at it isn't working, is that parents do not take a "leadership" role in their child's education. Common Core was fine because you eliminated the weak points. But I think it's far more common for parents to abdicate responsibility for educating their children to schools and teachers. And society basically reinforces this idea. Many of my successful, educated friends are barely involved in their kids' educations, only making sure homework gets done, yet they don't realize they could do so much more! Schools and teachers don't (and can't) care more about your children than you do, so I think we need to see a re-centering of responsibility back onto parents.

And yes, I know the common response is that many parents simply do not have time to be more involved. But the average American watches >2 hours of TV daily (never-mind Facebook usage), so I think parents would be more involved if the "system" incentivized and encouraged it.
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Why do you asume is communal and not property of one of them?
That would be a shame. Skype sold (twice!) for billions of dollars, and the Wire investors should have access to internal growth metrics to justify a long-term investment. Like every messaging app that relies on network effects, some growth is inevitable. I've been steadily adding new contacts, each installing Wire for the first time.
Diary-reading was bad form even before. If you want your adolescent child to never ever trust you again for the rest of their life, go read their diary.
> Lazy evaluation should be called a generator if we are doing JS specific naming conventions.

The two are actually orthogonal -- generators are a control-flow structure where control keeps re-entering an existing function context and returning from it (basically, a coroutine), whereas lazy evaluation is a language-semantics choice where every value starts out as a thunk (bit of code) with enough information to compute the value, until resolved to the result.

Generators in the Python or JavaScript sense aren't really doing "lazy evaluation" in the Haskell sense, IMHO, though I can see how one sees the parallels (infinite sequences, etc). You can have the same "infinite sequence" by just defining an iterator implementation that always returns a next value, without the use of generators/coroutines.

Likewise, there are other uses for lazy evaluation than generator-like infinite sequences. For example, lazy evaluation lets you build a (finite) table of values in a memoized dynamic-programming problem, where each value is an expression that refers to some of the other values, and the lazy evaluation semantics ensure that (i) only the needed values are computed and (ii) once a value is computed, it's memoized (the thunk resolves to its result). You get demand-based computation and memoization "for free" from the language runtime.
"warns that sleeping next to your smartphone—the one that emits 3G and 4G signals all night—affects your brain patterns, restructuring your brain cells and likely preventing you from allowing your brain to clean out waste material properly."

Does anyone have any kind of evidence/study of this kind of effects?
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It's just not important enough to do.

Startup resources, business priorities, customer behaviour...
"Does the study have at least 10^4 subjects?" That's the first thing I check.
> Have you noticed that you never speak in concrete terms, only pejorative adjectives? Saying you find something "laughable" and not "agreeable" is a feeling, not a refutation.

Well, neither do you.

I mean, if I have to spell it out for you (but the summary is that they take languages that aren't good examples of typed languages and make conclusions based on those). But more detailed breakdown:

First slide. They make their own languages (first issue) snd have people solve small problems (second issue). Advantages of static typing really kick in for larger projects. Also, different type systems have different advantages so this comparison holds little informational value

Second point, they are talking about code that has already been written, it doesn't say how much time was spent making the code correct. I really don't know what to conclude from their data though.

> His point there is that all that static boilerplate you write to make a statically typed language happy,

He's ignoring statically typed languages with type inference. They have been around since the 70's.

> Some other study compared reliability across languages and found no significant differences. In other words neither static nor dynamic languages did better at reliability.

How do you measure readability (notice that good research would indicate this).

> Part of that was reflected in size of code. Dynamic languages need less code.

They are comparing python vs C/C++/Java. Code terseness is orthogonal to type systems. Why do they not include say, Haskell?

> Another point he made is that writing static types is often gross and unmaintainable whereas writing unit tests not.

Hahahaha, what? Unit tests are more maintainable than types? And he gives a C++ example?
There are some bright spots, like Cambridge, but there needs to be vastly better enforcement of having drivers keep a distance from cyclists. If cyclist-aware autonomous braking were required for cars, that might do it in a few years. But American drivers are angry and incompetent.
I don't know. I really like the moments where Alan Kay appears out of nowhere, tells where your idea squanders the potential of computers, points to 60's-80's prior art that did it better anyway, and disappears in a puff of smoke.

The last thing our discipline needs is us thinking we got it all and it just needs polishing.
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Nuclear accidents are far more likely to get news attention though. No one cares about coal pollution.
I've commuted by bicycle while in school in Toronto and at a couple of jobs since. But I've ceased to be interested in sharing roads with cars. The weight-scale of the two vehicle types is just too different, and I don't bounce as well as I used to. I do love biking on trails though, and welcome the additional trails being built around the nation and here in Pittsburgh.
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But nuclear had far scarier edge case failures, and the industry has discredited itself by constantly claiming these are "impossible" as they continue to happen.

I don't disagree that coal is worse. Coal is one long protracted industrial accident.
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Some of these things could be solved with better electronics. Like providing tagging/tracking technology that would keep thieves away, and a proximity warning that would flash a bright taillight at cars coming too close or approaching too quickly.
There's the other aspect too, which is each country has their own cluster, so they can (and do) think of excuses to hold back updates just for them.

So software gets out of sync, the mobile app releases need to take that into account too.
Not higher top speed. Unless you change your gear ratio's, the electric motor can't keep up with the normal top speed going down hill.
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We're building an eHealth startup marketing to individuals. The team is three engineers/scientists, so we have great tech-- and limited graphic design or marketing skill.

We're getting ready to push out a beta version, and realize that our corporate image is terrible. We need a name, logo, color theme, etc.

Minimum price from decent brand agencies seems to be around 1,500.

99Designs/Upwork can give us something for a few hundred, but it isn't the full package, which means inconsistencies and lower quality.

How would you frame the question?
Wow, I meant 3K thanks for pointing this out ;)
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At the risk of misunderstanding...this article seems completely wrong to me.

1. Technical nitpick: NP-Hard problems are not 'mathematically equivalent'. I assume the author means to refer to NP-Complete problems here. NP-Hard is a larger complexity class that may include things that are harder than NP and not equivalent at all to the set of NP-Complete problems.

2. The existence of a physical NP-Complete oracle does not imply that P = NP with respect to classical computing. If tomorrow we discover a physical process that solves travelling salesman in linear time, that does not necessarily mean that P = NP, it simply means we now have a physical oracle for solving the problem.

This is the same as with traditional quantum computing. We didn't fold BQP into P when we discovered quantum computing.
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Other mixes of Au/Ti have been made and used. There is plenty of prior research which the paper also cites.

The phase diagram posted in another comment shows that the region in which this particular phase exist is fairly small. Additionally the paper mentions that they had to add a few trace alloying components to stabilize it in that phase. I.e. it takes some effort to get to the point.

And even if you can spot a trend by lining up properties of various alloys on the right diagram, investigating that trend may be out of scope for the research you're currently doing.
I understand what you're saying but I think it goes without saying that we've started paying more attention to quality of user experience for software in the past twenty years.

If you genuinely disagree and believe the 90s were as ripe with quality tooling and documentation as 2016, well, that's a bit strange, but you're certainly entitled to your opinion.
If you read the linked article, they find "...sensitivity to low-level radiation to a subtle degree...". Except they strapped cell phones to users' heads.

Given that cell-phone radiation falls off at a factor of 1/r^2, I would imagine the effects disappear very quickly as the cell phone gets further from your head. Also, the 2nd study used 10 sleep-deprived men. That's a pretty small sample size.
Typescript big value for me is code completion and refactoring. Their language server is like running the compiler on every keystroke. The squigglys are almost the same as what the compiler would say.

When third party libs have dts files, it's a joy to use them.
I really wonder how far this project will go.
It has been some time since I've been in school, but I still remember that horribleness of the standardized test. You spend weeks hearing how important it is, and we spent days sitting there still, in silence, filling in the correct multiple choice answer on a sheet with a #2 pencil, hoping the teacher didn't think we were cheating if we were stretching. For hours and hours at a time. The tests took a few days. They told us (perhaps wrongly) that we couldn't miss school during that time. Sometimes we were told we'd be deducted for having a wrong answer, sometimes not. I'd rather do college finals each year or split the stuff up over the course of the school year so it is less of a burden.

The reason teachers can't grade them is because the schools use them to grade the school and the teacher - some states, it determines funding for the schools. Too low of a grade and you lose funding, meet the goals and you gain.