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Completely agreed. I glossed over this aspect because I felt like it distracted from discussing the core claim that amphetamine lacks potential as a recreational drug, or that calling it 'speed' is somehow fundamentally inaccurate. (It's inaccurate in the sense you describe, that of regulated versus unregulated dosage. But saying you can't get a therapeutic benefit from what 'speed' refers to, often methamphetamine, triggered my pedant senses.)

I've been told the same thing about meth's neurotoxicity, and that the major difference between the two drugs is that amphetamine is slightly neurally beneficial and methamphetamine is slightly neurotoxic at therapeutic doses.[0] I figure any neurotoxicity involved has to be slight enough for Desoxyn to stay out of Schedule I in the US. As a counterpoint, there's evidence that points to brain damage from antipsychotics and those are still definitely prescribed with regularity.
(http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/antipsychotics-and-...)

Of course, to my knowledge there's no real therapeutic replacement for antipsychotics whereas if methamphetamine was doing significant damage to patients it could almost always be swapped out for a safer drug. (Not to mention that methamphetamine was invented in the east and amphetamine in the west, so historically amphetamine has always been more popular than meth in western medicine to begin with.)

[0]: A quick check of wikipedia corroborates.
All abstractions degrade runtime performance. Even "zero cost" ones, as they get you to think in less efficient ways, about things like encapsulation, and whatnot.

If runtime perf degradation is really unacceptable to you, you shouldn't be writing in functional languages, or even C. You should be writing in raw asm, as low-level as possible.
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It's not my definition. I just happen to agree with a lot of others, many who don't post here. It's also not new. I just remind people of a view, you might never heard of, because you never were involved in Lisp meetings, Lisp conferences or Lisp standardization efforts. Lisp is old, and many younger people don't know much of its history and evolution.

See for example Pitman, Lambda the ultimate political party

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/Lambda.html

Published in Lisp Pointers (a regular Lisp magazine, published in the 80s/90s) in 1994.

> Lisp users are accustomed to being able to write programs that take program texts in different dialects (or older versions of the same dialect) and process them to bring them up to date. No single common linguistic feature supports this. And yet, Lisp users are accustomed to expecting that there will be some way to accommodate the needs of compatibility and translation.

That's is what makes Lisp, in my opinion. Sharing of code, implementations, libraries, books, tools, ...

A language spectrum serves a diverse community. It is not a dead body of abstract and vague principles. It grows out of sharing and communication.

Kent knows the Lisp and Scheme landscape very well. He worked as developer, in standardisation efforts (both Lisp and Scheme), as an implementor, editor, author, etc.
Actually, I think untranslated features are already lart of the game.
A while ago I asked my GP to change my title of address from "Mr" to "Ms". It turns out whatever system the NHS (or possibly just my GP's surgery) uses to keep their records absolutely didn't expect that and has no provision to handle it.

I bet it's perfectly possible to change from "Ms" to "Mrs" or even from "Mr" to "Fr" or "Dr" but try to go from "Mr" to "Ms" and the whole thing HCFs. So there's now two records for me in the NHS database one for a "Mr" me and one for a "Ms" me.

It's confusing for medical peeps who need to access my records and could potentially lead to some humiliation for me (though usually people tend to assume there's some error in the system and don't pry any further).

I've done the same thing with my bank and there was no trouble at all. It's just the NHS so far.

On the plus side if I could spawn a few such doppelganger records I might even get some protection against people gathering "metadata" on myself.
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Hm, that bot makes loaded statements and attacks some groups. It also directly mentions several persons by name. Yet another sexist and racist troll on twitter.

> nothing true is ever said in Florida

> you can't be sexist to men

> straight people don't deserve pride
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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12624338
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> This is fantastic to hear about! Sarah Nyberg

Sarah "Pedo" Nyberg is a troll himself. And Gizmodo is now Gawker 2.0 .
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>religions

Can yiu tell my why, please? I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but I'm curious as to whst you're alluding to.
Have a look at this link, which I think I found on HN sometime ago. Hydroponics and fish working together in Detroit. www.modeldmedia.com/features/indoorurbanagriculture052014.aspx
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Plenty of advertising, car sales, consumer financial products, lotteries, etc... rely on people not having an innate understanding of math, and especially probabilities.

Hell, if people understood those issues, they might even have something to say about Gerrymandering and the electoral college!
Go ahead, sacrifice your life and make WikiLeaks what you want.
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The thing is, the higher rents for more floor space and separate offices are very tangible metrics for beancounters, whereas suboptimal developer productivity isn't. And that doesn't change when a company stops being a startup (by whatever definition).

My own anecdotal experience is that I have never, ever, seen private offices for devs. The private offices I know are all given as a privilege (for some boss), not for productivity.
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I added this link earlier which is following this idea, its a great story www.modeldmedia.com/features/indoorurbanagriculture052014.aspx
The majority of my peers don't have a GitHub account, most of them quite competent programmers. Do you suggest to discriminate applicants based on their public activity? Do you suggest it's somehow more fair than a general question?

I like how you cast me into some mean soulless generalized interviewer and started bashing down your pain points, while I actually don't interview people. But a simple algorithm question is not out of line on a programming interview; it's not whiteboarding or take home assignments. It doesn't take much time to answer, it shows you have some very basic CS knowledge at least. I did not use bubblesort outside of CS101 class some 25 years ago and had to actually think about its runtime complexity, but it was not hard and it did not take long.

Again if you think basic CS knowledge has nothing to do with your job that's on you. Should add that I'm not really comfortable being grilled in any way on the interviews, it's not a very good dynamic. But I don't see any general, dignified way to filter out non-performers. Unfortunately just credentials are not enough in our trade.
What's possible is that while you were essentially forced to learn to concentrate (and therefore developed the skill), many don't know they have to learn. They're semi-interested in the events around them, don't know it's a problem and don't know the solution is to develop the necessary skills.

Chitchat in an open room filled with developers and their challenges is different to the drone of a loud machine, or chatter of factory workers whose interests might not overlap with yours. It's a bit like having the internet at your fingers - far too easy to be distracted by interesting chatter.
Come to think of it, why do first/middle/last names need separate fields in a database, in terms of bookkeeping?

Why do I absolutely need to be filed as [Ms] [Evil] [Z.] [Ombie]? Wouldn't [Ms Evil Z. Ombie] do?

I don't even see how a family name relates you to your own parents when it's very likely there may be a few thousands, even millions of people with your last name, and even with your own combination of two or three names.

Does it make any difference when someone is searching for you if they do a search for [Mr] [John] [Smith], rather than a [Mr John Smith]? It's only a combination of name and address that can (at best hope) to disambiguate two people with the exact same name and there's no reason to try and do that in a field-by-field manner. If you can match one string without spaces you can match n strings with n-1 spaces right?

In fact why do we absolutely need more than one line for a full address? That just causes more problems than it solves, doesn't it?
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isnt that what Realm is trying to do on the mobile side ?
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I work on the video streaming sector and we get the shivers when a client wants a web application. And if anyone thinks media producers will allow their content to be streamed over a DRM free channel they're either naïve or stupid.
What Google, Netflix and others want is to stop the mess this is currently on browsers.
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I keep reading this positive stereotype about women needing to be twice as good to make it half as far, and yet this outcome would be a the natural consequence of that if assessment was to suddenly become fair. People need to better choose their 'ladies in the workplace' stereotypes methinks. Unless it's true, in which case...

Let's see, 20% Women in STEM x 2 x 2 (twice as good; and, multiply by two to make up for half as far) = ... 80%

Q.E.D.
Seconded: Infinifactory is also much more visually intuitive/rewarding.
Why do you assume that it's the social status of the person that drives this behavior? Why do you assume that people "with money" find this behavior acceptable?
> Personally, I lean towards the belief that some internet with strings is better than none.

Some Internet with strings is better than none. But, some types of Internet with strings is better than other types of Internet with strings.
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Just realised that most of the above is from 2014 - here are some recent works:

A novel data structure to store the whole graph: https://almob.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13015-016-... Software is here: https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/theo/research/seqana.html

This one maps the whole DNA space using markers: http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7914

Here's a paper that looks at the total genetic space of several individuals, but with read mapping alone, no graphs: http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s130...

Most of this is based on open source or openly available software. A big company that's closed source is NRGene from Israel, I've read good things about their DeNovoMAGIC/PanMAGIC but I'm unsure how that stuff works exactly (apart from massive short read coverage).
Exactly. I use Quora very rarely but every time I choose a plain fake name and it has always worked with zero hassle.

(I need a new one because many times I don't remember the other one or the password associated with it).

The only thing "real name policies" do is annoy people with unusual names; they can't do anything against people using fake names on purpose.
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I see this as a knn approach in which the distance is a function of the strength of the edge between the vertices.

In the retrofitting paper cited in the comments there is a process of smoothing, that is feeding back the message or information to update the states of the graph (example in the modern ai book). It doesn't seem anything new.
Noise may be disturbing but I can filter that out. I have a lot more problems with stuff that raises to the level of my consciousness and triggers processing there. Words like build or defect, grunts by known users/testers of my code, a manager mentioning aspects of the schedule or features that may have implications on code or architecture.
> It is shared. It's just that everyone has to go through to mental work to truly understand.

Except, I can hardly see that. At least, I see you trying - most people do not make an attempt at all.

FYI, I am a Computer Scientist.
You're implying that management bases its decisions on scientifically founded research. I've never noticed that to be true just about anywhere. Most corporations don't implement best practices in, well, anything. Why should office layout be any different?
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Doctors and their diagnoses aren't infallible. Why assume Doctor A is sinister, as opposed to unaware or, worst case, incompetent?
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Then only big medias companies will be the only ones able to reach as many users as possible. You have no idea of how expensive it's right now to target just browsers. Small producers will be constrained to only publishing trough their channels/platforms.
Quora has been completely ruined by dogmatic Silicon Valley thinking and poor monetization attempts.

Content cloaking, removal of the credit system, deliberate choice to promote crappy clickbaity answers as opposed to quality ones, aggressive question length limits...

I think there is definitely space for someone to recreate the original Quora without the delusions of grandeur. A place for people to exchange questions and answers on any topic, without misguided attempts to remove "bad" questions, whatever that means.
Would you rather they were crushed, and all the employees that had nothing to do with this (of which there are tens of thousands) were harshly affected?
Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine is another gem by Damian Conway: https://yow.eventer.com/events/1004/talks/1028
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Oh, I don't know, let's math it. I keep hearing that women need to be twice as good to make it half as far. Sooo, 20% women in STEM x 2 x 2 (twice as good; and, multiply by two to make up for half as far) = ... 80%

Q.E.D.
A fascinating subject. From a medium can come a new system of patterns. Like waves, really hard to figure their math, if you study water molecules. Plus waves are medium independent, and it gets really interesting as waves cross into a different medium (it bends).

Software is like waves, it needs a compute medium, but is independent from it. And software in the broad interpretation as information processing, indeed your brain seems like a compute medium, your mind is the information processing.

As for consciousness, the article mentions a follow up, anybody know if that exists somewhere? Personally I think consciousness is a pattern of information processing, a lot like reinforced learning[1]: keeping a history of observations, actions, and plans, and continuously introspecting and judging those plans.

So I wonder, if you run such an algorithm on a computer, would that feel like something to that program?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning
Producers don't watch BitTorrent statistics. They send a document asking stuff like: will my product be DRM protected?
If you answer no, then farewell pal, they won't allow their content to be on your platform.
Like everyone else, I also keep asking myself the same thing. One thing that helped me was to read more about Existentialism, especially the work from people like Camus or Sartre.

TL;DR there is no meaning or even the necessity of having one. Existence comes first, each one of us can craft their own meaning.

Hang in there, my friend!
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I am not saying ALL the questions there are stupid. I am saying that Quora exists because it allows such questions to be promoted.
I've done some "high pressure" development as well (not as bad places as these - the excess noise levels would have killed my productivity)

While pressure helps and you won't sweat the small stuff, at some point you just wanted some peace and quiet and think about the problem
That does sound good as a working environment. Strangely, I still hate most of the software they produce and find it a PITA to use.
How do you know it's a murder if there's no conviction? I'm not sure I understand this Stat.
Sorting, queries, personalised content (Hey [first name]!) are some examples.
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Isn't it a little convenient that the backdoor was installed after the data breached that supposedly happened before that, according to Yahoo, and also that the backdoor was installed after the USA Freedom Act passed?

I'm starting to have serious doubts about whether it's even true the backdoor was installed in 2015 and not earlier.

Also, Yahoo started implementing email encryption early 2014, so I would imagine the government would want a workaround as soon as possible. The data breach supposedly happened in the fall of 2014, after Yahoo had started implementing encryption.
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Thanks, this view looks really interesting and I hadn't looked at it deeply.

With that said, do you have any advice on how to use it in practice? Timeline profiles tell me my app goes through maybe 5MB of heap per second, but when I use this feature for say, 5 seconds, it tends to report 2-3 functions as having allocated 16kb each. (And if I run it again, I get similar results but with a different 2-3 functions.) Is it just reporting a very small subset of allocations?
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The most surprising thing about this is that people actually use Google Plus.
This is what will happen and Firefox can kiss its ass goodbye when it comes to, at least, playing video. Not sure about Chrome, but Safari and Edge can easily ship with EME and CENC support. Giving this possibility to open source browsers is a sensible thing to do. Because DRM, at least for video streaming won't go away.
There's a lot of legacy in it.

You usually want the last name separate when you want to be able to sort users alphabetically by their last name instead of their first name or nickname. But this admittedly makes less and less sense in the age of search and monster datasets.

Also: for personalized content. "Hi John" is better than "Hi John Smith" when sending email. There's a gazillion ways to fail extracting the first name when a name doesn't follow a [first] [last] name format.
Names

1. They're separated because other data sinks you share with want them separated, like the tax office.

2. They're separated because people want to call you by your first or last name depending on the situation, and they don't want to force you to fill in every variation. What's your name; what's the name you want us to call you; what's your name we should put on any mail to you; what's your "more formal name" like we'd use if we sued you?

Addresses

2. That is often a requirement of postal offices. They're pretty amazing in that they work at all but a lot of that is because street, suburb, state, country, are often on different lines. (But of course some countries have completely and utterly different differentiations for this, too).
I suffer from this, too. My solution has been to just write whatever code comes up and then commit it to its own branch. The anxiety of doing things right is then removed by the action of doing it. I can later revise the code and fix whatever issue it may have. Try it out. Its liberating.
I apologize if I'm wrong here, but I believe that the word you were looking for was "disingenuous" rather than "indigenous".
As a native English speaker, if I'm talking, and someone does that two-palms-gesture, it's mildly offensive. It means "just stop. I'm not really listening to you anymore". On the other hand, if I've agreed to use that gesture with my colleagues to mean something else, it's not offensive, because I'm not a moron. My problem with that gesture is repurposing a gesture that already means the opposite - it introduces an element of ambiguity.

It is also unbelievably patronising to suggest muslims or greeks that work in the article's team and are trained in this unusual form of comms, that they don't have the quite low bar of maturity required to not be offended by a gesture that is offensive in their orginating culture.

As for suggestions of "PC gone mad", that is 100% your injection. I'm actually quite in favour of PC, as really it's just the extremists of that movement who are fools. As Dara O'Briain said to a heckler who shouted out "Fuck PC!": "Yes, fuck those PC people and their manners".

Frankly, offense should only be taken from a person's intent, not from words or specific gestures (negligence can also be a form of intent here). Compare the phrases "He's a slimy, despicable excuse for a human being" and "He's a lovable old cunt". Which one of those means the speaker holds the subject in contempt? If you're taking offense at a phrase or hand gesture regardless of intent, location, culture, or context, then you're a moron and shouldn't be pandered to[1][2]. People that try to make the world safe for those kind of idiots are those PC extremists mentioned earlier.

[1] inject video of Mr Rogers 'flipping the bird' here - only a moron would be offended given the context
[2] or for another example, an anglo visiting a tribe where the women don't cover their breasts - we would think them an idiot if that anglo took offense
The title is missing year 2012. ("This entry was posted on June 8, 2012 at 4:53 pm")

Does anyone know what happened regarding all this?
Germany even had a chancellor with a pseudonym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Brandt
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Are there any documented attempts of fuzzing Git? I would be surprised if there weren't any bugs in its file format - I once tried to fuzz it myself and found bugs in xdelta3, used by Git [1][2][3][4], but it feels like there's much more to find.

[1]: https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta-gpl/commit/413efde5877d8a698...

[2]: https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta-devel/commit/995f5e6bde7b8b2...

[3]: https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta-devel/commit/093e0652845fe93...

[4]: https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta-devel/commit/0602d66d9582c20...