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We've given serious thought to this issue but it really does not seem to have been the case. All our contacts have behaved ethically, unless they're lying to our faces, which I find very hard to believe. It seems to have been a rogue developer at AJ who chose to ignore established practices, and is now being kept out of harm's way (while unfortunately leaving the situation to exist). As far as escalating--well that can never end well, can it? I'd be okay (not happy, just okay) if they just took it down or moved all remaining assets over from us to them, so that it's no longer costing us out of pocket.
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I disagree with the author but this position is consistent with his thesis: that basic science hasn't advanced as dramatically in the past half century as it did in the preceding half century, even if its exploitation has.

The reason I disagree with the author is that there's an ebb and flow, and the advances of the period 1915-1965 built on a lot of other interesting work done before 1915 (the period from Maxwell to the end of WWI were amazing too; Einstein's three astonishing papers dated from 1905 and of course themselves built upon prior work).

I think we're just in a tough period where we've reached the limits of our current tools (both theoretical/mathematical and experimental) -- essentially the rowboats of physics and biology are wallowing while people understand the implications and try to catch up.
Showing respect for the subjective deserves, well, respect. But it is the insight into the objective that is interesting, and I think that it should be recognized as a law of Nature that if something (or someone, for that matter) is trying to be good at everything, it (or they) is bound to be not very good at anything in particular. I am not seeing, for instance, how emacs can come even close to what IntelliJ has to offer to Java developers - short of having a faithful IntelliJ clone written in elisp, of course.
That was not my experience. I found that as I worked my way into elite institutions people were just playing more sophisticated, elaborate forms of the monkey-see-monkey-do game they were playing everywhere else.
I think it's more that, they are systems that model what we know about gravity and light, just taken to an extreme point where light can't escape. That speculation is where the notion of black holes came from in the first place. If you have a physical system that behaves like gravity and light in some way and is easier to study, it's pretty reasonable to turn the dial up to a point where analog-light can't escape from analog-gravity and see if it can confirm your theories about black holes. It could quite easily lead to surprises.
Extensive discussion of this editorial here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12525616
Gwern has a lot of pointers to research on nicotine, and its effect as a stimulant.

https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
What's an "average rapist," and what are you implying about their selection preferences? Do tell!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_black
I'm not sure how your program worked, but my experience in the States was very different. Gifted was determined based on a high general or specific intelligence score. In elementary school, the gifted kids were given special acceleration in math and reading, and were commonly accelerated a grade or two in specific classes or every class.

And general intelligence is heavily correlated to success. http://www.vox.com/2016/5/25/11683192/iq-testing-intelligenc...

I don't know if your program was different, but your anecdote isn't very convincing. Did you compare the percentage of noteworthy outcomes for students inside and outside the program? What do you consider noteworthy? Has your opinion of them from elementary school colored your views?
Haha, no, they're always laughing at us. First and foremost they take the money. Then they force/trick you into loading 200MB of crap to get a kB driver loaded. Then they ignore you, except for the multiple, obfuscated spywares the driver bundle installed.
Great.

Now, if instead of starting with a half-baked implementation in Java that involves 36 configuration files and an artisanally sculpted Maven build, how about we make a spec, in terms of API docs and compliance tests.

Anything conforming to the spec which passes the tests is considered a valid implementation.

(Had to get that off my chest. Thanks.)
Two startup mistakes I don't want to do again
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12525809 and marked it off-topic.
Either (a) you most likely agreed to an arbitration clause when purchasing the printer or (b) customers don't care enough. Or both. My money is on the second one.

Customers are cheap and lazy. If their printer breaks, they go buy a new $40 one instead of doing research and finding a quality one for a few hundred. "What does this $300 laser do that this $40 inkjet doesn't!?" You mean besides last longer, actually work when you need it to, and not have nozzles that clog up?

People continuing to purchase cheap PoS printers and just accept that "printers break after a year; get a new one" is what allows this nonsense to keep happening.
Great, but then you'll notice that many other people also like to have a high quality apartment and a stipend. Eventually, you have to give it to a lot of people, and those who work on low salary and pay their rent for a not-so-high-quality apartment will not be happy and many of them will also acquire a status where they deserve a high quality apartment and a stipend.
Can somebody explain what is going on in the video? I understand that swinging at this kind of ball is some kind of a loss, but what if he saw it is going to hit the ground and did not swing? Would it be a lost round for the pitching team?
What about folks who have taken no online courses, but instead have MS/PhD degrees with a specialization in related areas (Machine Learning) and want to use this course to get into the self driving space?

Also, what will the workload be like? Can this be done on evenings/weekends while holding a full time job?
Thank you! I also didn't see the DMCA takedown as especially angry or hostile. It's the established way to (try to) take down infringing content, not a lot of room for emotion that I see. For a person it's quite something to receive one, for a business with a large online presence not so much I think.
It doesn't have to be webpages. I know gmail already uses schema.org for parsing flights, reservations, appointments etc from inbound mail. So it's not a huge leap to assume this could be used to mail todo,milestones etc to a contributor, and have something at the other end know what to do with it.
More on the subject: http://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstractio...
Such as who?
So there are/was sufficient amounts of existing code that assumes that int is 32 bit, but not enough that assumes long is 32 bit?
I have limited experience with this, being in the Sacramento area, rather than the Bay Area.

However, my experience back in the late 90s / early 2000s went reasonably well. I was working for a newer department in a firm owned by private equity (which had been turning modest profits in one division or other for 20 years). We were purchased by a fortune 1000 company. As a team lead and key contributor to some of the infrastructure around the place, I received a nice little bundle of options, which were actually worth a little something in a year or two. Anyway, I stuck around for a little while during the transition, eventually got fed up with the parent company's stupidity, cashed out, and moved on. The options pretty much paid for a 6 month sabbatical while I retrained.

The numbers in my region sound tiny compared to SV numbers, but we bought a 3 bedroom house on an acre (in the foothills) for $140 K back in the late 90s, so you didn't need a 200K / year salary to get by.

Since then, I have worked at places that either offered some kind of pension, or had significant yearly bonuses. Show me da money! :-)
It also shows how bureaucracy intersects public and private spaces and how powerful it is at determining economic relationships.
Ask HN: I am 21 and lost
Hello I am 21 and seem lost. I can't seem to figure out what is it that I want to do with my life. The friendships that I have seem false, why is that. Has someone past through this same experience?
Non/Never-smoker here. I started taking Nicotine lozenges when I first heard about this a while back to self-medicate ADD/Depression (too poor to afford insurance, will have it in 60 days and this will stop). It works incredibly quickly, and incredibly well. I take it as needed, I've gone over a week without using it and it's not remotely an issue. Zero rebound depression. Definitely helps focus.
The answers given don't make sense together, and don't fit the question. I am speculating that the usual way (for people who don't prefer interacting with machines to interacting with people, which would be most people) to read this is to assume someone was careless/sloppy, and to mentally "correct" the answers to the nearest thing that makes the most sense before answering.
Is there any brand of printer that that doesn't do that kind of thing?
Right. int is much more common than long.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12526194 and marked it off-topic.
My response was flagged for some reason. I don't think that is a fair flagging. It skews the discussion and is tantamount to censorship. I believe I responded to the counterpoint in good faith. To whoever did it, I welcome your explanation as to why you felt it was justified.

Here is my original response that was flagged:

Well, the reason why I came to the conclusion that you don't value obeying the law is because of your example about the hassle it would be if someone kept notifying the authorities about you violating Section such and such. It's a hassle because someone is forcing you to obey the law. The implication is that when no one reports you, then it's fine for you to conveniently violate that law because you think it's a bad law. If that is the wrong implication, then please correct me.

I meant my rhetorical question about obeying the law to be in the context of your example. But I should have been more clear about that. A better revised question is "so you don't think you should have to obey laws you disagree with?"
Our opinion of a law does not have any bearing on our responsibility to obey it. If we think a law is stupid, we can try to get it changed, but until then, we obey it. That's how rule of law works.

I have no doubt that your industry is ridiculously over-litigated. But I'd rather all businesses obey all the laws (and work to change the stupid ones) than decide for themselves which ones they'd like to obey and which they get to violate with impunity.
It depends what you mean by 'round.' The batter has a 'strike zone', that is, if the ball is pitched there, it's considered a strike. Generally, this zone is from the knees to the mid-chest.

A batter has two numbers: balls and strikes. When the batter gets 3 strikes, they're out. If they get 4 balls (pitches that aren't in the strike zone), they walk (advance towards first base).

If a batter swings and misses at a pitch that would normally be a ball, it's considered a strike. If he hadn't swung, it would have been considered a ball.

The point of the video is that at the professional level, batters should be able to tell quickly when a pitch will be as 'off' as the one in the video - so why wasn't the batter able to?
> If I'm in the jury and I can easily cut/paste - than that is on you.

A copy-paste litmus test is silly. You don't get to copy and paste Harry Potter just because it's in plaintext. Creators don't surrender their rights just because it's easy to steal them.
A point I sneakily acknowledged with punctuation.
Wait is the drop of morse requirement only for tech or for anything up to extra as well? Last time I started to teach myself morse, it did not go over... well... at home.
How much does mental illness play into homelessness in Italy? Seems to be a common issues here in the US.
Yes, if he hadn't swung at it it would have been counted as a "ball". If a pitcher throws 4 "balls" in an at bat then the batter gets to move to first base for free (a "walk").
I'm not sure really, it seemed to come naturally. Perhaps even as a symptom of depression.

It might have helped that I stopped carrying a smartphone. I guess things like sitting on a train without any entertainment counts as meditation, although I never really think of it as such.
Ask HN: Articles / Stories on failed experiments
We often find and share great resources on successful startup/growth stories but little to none on many failed experiments before that. Failed experiments are not mistakes. A lot can be learned if we share more insights on why they failed.

Share your own story or a link.
Gifted children are very likely to suffer from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome (the opposite of Dunning-Kruger). Because they're gifted, they tend to hold themselves to a much higher standard, and don't even realize it. Maybe that's also unhealthy, but it's pretty much the opposite of arrogance.
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fangraphs has good, data driven baseball articles.
I agree with this important article.

In the large open source project I work on, we have a prolific contributor who is systematically going through the entire code base, "refactoring" some of it in way the impairs my ability to read, understand, and maintain the code (even code that I originally authored). Over time, we've added scores of new macros -- as result ordinary C knowledge is now insufficient to read and understand what the code is doing.

As the author suggests, the guiding principle should be factor only when it results in a net reduction of complexity. In some cases, the cost of adding new abstractions outweighs the gains from Don't Repeat Yourself.

There is some value in having some blocks of code that can be read in isolation, even if there some bit of repetition between blocks.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the HN guidelines and ignoring our request to stop.

Personal attacks are particularly unwelcome here.
The quote/joke comes from the intro of Garrison Keillor's radio show "Lake Wobegon", about life in a fictional city in Minnesota. So, hopefully that makes it a little less depressing. :-)

---Alex
For Apple Beats Audio was a talent acquisition (eg: they got the founders, Trent Reznor and the like) for Apple Music, and a technology Acquisition (Beats streaming service and content is powering Apple Music) as well as buying a profitable accessories business.

Apple has great gross margins on computers because they have such operational excellence in building them, but still a Mac makes much less margin than headphones- at any price point along the quality curve.

Accessories are just generally really profitable.
And I'm done with the Internet for today. I will go out into the world, and try to interact with people. Some days I need a kick in the butt.
This is just a link to another article. As per HN Guidelines[1]:

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

The same applies to your other submissions of this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=shellify

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please change the name then to "rational trigonometry", not rational numbers. I was thinking that the only numbers you were using involved the ratio of integers, but I did not see this explicitly here. That or I don't read it correctly.

There's a specific definition of the set of rational numbers which doesn't quite mean what I think you meant when you include it in your title. I mean, it's your code, you decide what you call it but it will most likely confuse others.
Why not take the financing for this basic income and build things like housing instead?
Some people don't even study, and guess their way through the technician (lowest level) license exam. It's that easy.
I am firmly in the DRY camp, although obviously there are limits to how far you should go to maintain the dry-purity.
In my experience, the biggest issue with copy-pasting code is that someone else (or your future self) will edit the code in only one of the places, making the codebase inconsistent. If abstraction gets too costly, I have found it useful to simply add a comment in both places, "copied from x" and "pasted from y" respectively. Or, if there are constants involved, break those out as global constants.
I would have taken it more seriously if he addressed security and unit tests. His perspective here is sophomore. He is right, but not because of what he wrote. DRY isn't just about abstractions, it's about the cost of writing new code. And testing and security verification are hidden costs to duplicated code.
That's fine, I posted the story expecting exactly that. And to be fair our original post missed details that needed clarification. Always a tough choice between a short, shareable story and a longer, complete one. People have all the right to doubt our claims, and I hope I've been able to post sensible replies.
> Take your troll bs and

Please don't respond to a bad comment by posting something like this, which only makes the site worse for everyone.

Instead, when you see an egregious comment (and your account has karma > 30) you can flag the comment by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag' at the top.
Point taken, though I disagree with your assertions that credit cards don't have much to do with classical banking and that they are not about promotion.

It's also true that banking services are entirely different from facebook. But the goals are similar.

I guess one way to restate my opinion in a couple of lines would be

There are markets and customers that are not immediately in the operational radius of a local bank. Any bank that can create offerings that would appeal to such markets would stand to gain profit.

Also to flip the discussion we could ask if facebook were to create a bank how would they do it?
One of my favorite ways to gauge "how far we've come" is that I remember connecting to a BBS in Europe in the early 90's that boasted 30 gigabytes of downloadable files. That would have filled up about 20000 floppy disks, and barring any kind of creative phreaking would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to download.
> If a batter swings at a pitch that would normally be a ball,

Minor nit:
Swinging at a would-be-ball isn't a problem. Missing a would-be-ball is.
Can you simultaneously be a traitor and correct in both your original, faithful actions and your later, treacherous ones? Could Baron have done the right thing given the ambit of the Post's newsroom, and the Editorial Page also the right thing in putting forward the argument against blanket clemency?

Clearly, the Post's Editorial has quietly excused a lot of its own conduct. I'm less interested in the argument about the Post's hypocrisy --- because I'm sure I'll end up agreeing with you about that.
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I see, thank you! So, not immediate loss probably, but wrong decision that added to the tally of strikes instead of tally of balls. A follow up question: do pitchers intentionally throw this kind of ball, or was it most likely unintentional and the swing was a saving grace?
Well, except I'm using "Correct Horse...". Oh. Well, I'm actually using a similar scheme to that, but I don't want to give too much away :).

Actually, I think you're probably right about the ease of brute-forcing passphrases in practice. That's not to say some random person is going to get access to your SSH key[1], but if you're actually being targeted as a "person of interest" by a nation-state you're probably SoL unless you're actually practicing due diligence... but then I think that's generally the name of the game, no? I mean OPSEC is still a thing even if you're only doing stuff that's shady-but-definitely-not-illegal.

[1] This isn't quite a "thing" yet, so some random burglar who steals your laptop isn't going to be attempting brute force.
The problem likely isn't DRY, the problem here is poor abstractions.
Just to make sure I'm getting this right, your suggestions are to:

#1) Build your own printer.

#2) Write your own firmware.

These don't seem like good options at all unless you've got lots of time to burn on something like this.
the problem is all these stats are lumped together for all types of restaurants all over the spectrum.

yes, a high end place can easily raise prices and make more money. plenty of them do exactly that.

low end places are squeezed both on supply and demand side, and can not easily do this, or the owners are simply afraid.

if you raise your prices by 6% but business drops by 10% because your customers are price sensitive, and the same month you are hit by an unexpected cost, then what?
From Leah Rowe's page on libreboot about cutting ties with FSF[1]:

>She would also like the $6120 USD that she donated to the FSF since 2015 to be refunded to her by the FSF.

[1] http://archive.is/C07AP
Ok, we s/numbers/trigonometry/'d the title.
I have found 8 commits (https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/logcheck/logcheck.git/log/?q...). Seven of those change 1-2 lines, the other updates the copyright file.

As far as I can see:

- 6a4bf69 has not been reverted

- d4a97c5 has been reverted in 8050b2d

- 5f7da05 has been reverted in ccc183d (webmin)

- cf5e9d3 has been reverted in 792a996 (webmin)

- c6634da has not been reverted, he is still listed in debian/copyright.

- 82f8600 has not been reverted (was extended in f24650f)

- 7f8efa8 has not been reverted

- e4f4889 has not been reverted

So, out of 8 commits, 3 have been reverted. The 2 webmin reverts were followed by deletion of the whole webmin file the same day (5785901).

I don't see how three reverts are "a flood of notification e-mails" or that "The lead developer had reverted every single commit I had made."

But I agree that the commit messages of those reverts should have contained a reason.

Obviously something went wrong. But I don't have enough information to call it a dick move.
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They do have a documented procedure for this, posted on http://america.aljazeera.com/tools/terms.html - paragraph (V)(B). It likely does not apply to Al-Jazeera worldwide, though.
They are probably thinking of Beauvoir and Sartre in particular. Good luck finding a scholarly source on the issue though, unless you're quite happy with citing A Voice For Men or random angry blogs.
I've not been in the Red Lion while parliament's been sitting for years, but it used to have a division bell from the Commons a quarter mile away plumbed in, so MPs could leg it back round the corner when called upon to vote.
What does Amazon gain from an anti-Snowden article? Should we be worried about the privacy of our purchase history and AWS instances even more than we already were?
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