skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have an easier time categorising a disorder as a disease rather than a moral failure when we see clear neurobiological correlates.

But as we know (or at least currently believe), the separation of disorders into "hardware" (non-moral/impersonal) and "software" (moral/personal) is ultimately an illusion: The material substrate for our personality is precisely our neurobiology.

For example, ΔFosB overexpression in the Nucleus Accumbens following repeated reward stimulus is "the most significant biomolecular mechanism in addiction since its viral or genetic overexpression (through chronic addictive drug use) in D1-type medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens is necessary and sufficient for many of the neural adaptations and behavioral effects (e.g., expression-dependent increases in self-administration and reward sensitization) seen in drug addiction" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSB#Role_in_addiction)

If we reach a point where we also find sufficiently convincing neural correlates for the more "high-level" aspects of addictive psychology and personality, wouldn't that eventually lead to us treating the whole complex in non-moral terms?

My feeling is that we intuitively choose the conceptual structure that we feel is most functional, given our state of knowledge. Morality is just another model for predicting and interacting with the behaviour in question, albeit less formal and more heuristic-based.
That says MOND is a non-theory, so now I'm even more confused since this theory "builds on" MOND.
Weird for anyone else, yes. For him it's just a networking front.
How so? You have a limited option to outsource what you bundle via "frameworks", but that concept only go so deep. You can bet your behind that if the format ever takes off, every flatpak will contain their own copy of libc on up just to be sure. This similar to how every Windows program ship with a VC++ DLL bundle, just to be sure.
And so hiring managers simply reject older candidates out of hand.

No matter what level of training/education the candidate has (and likely his existing skill set far exceeds the value of a ruby boot-camp), the preconception will preclude it ever being seen at certain shops.

Rather than pretending there is no ageism and it's all the candidate's fault, what is needed is a list of companies that simply will not hire people over 35. That way we can all stop wasting eachother's time.
I keep seeing that more and more from people on the left, particularly in contexts where it doesn't make sense. Like this one. You can't believe, at the same time, that Bush was stupid because he invaded Iraq and Hitchens was very intelligent even though he supported the invasion.

That's not whataboutism.
Whatever may have changed on the surface MS will always be MS, ie. dictating what you can and cannot do with your machine. Hell, you even need their permission to dual boot now. How is that progress? I lived through the years of the MS monopoly and watched them intentionally leave IE festering with standards incompatibilities. They set back progress a good 10 years before Mozilla and Google took matters into their own hands. I learnt my lesson - never trust anything that comes out of Redmond. MS "embraced" open source silently kicking and screaming as Google and Facebook set about building the future. Their biggest frustration these days is that it's not so easy to extend what they embrace but it won't stop them trying.
I dont follow your point. I'm not asking MS to sell me a linux version of their tablet. I"m saying they shouldn't use UEFI or other proprietary bootloader tricks to keep me from wiping windows off and installing my own software on it. That would be cheaper for them to do than spending extra development time to keep me out.
Industrial Revolution 4.0: How ready are we?
I really do not want to waste my time debating this with people like you who are willfully blind but what you are saying needs a counterpoint. More than 10 woman came forward claiming it was not consensual and the number is probably bigger than that. It doesn't surprise me to read your excuses. It is probably the same thing that everybody that voted for Trump tells themselves. It's one thing to go for a kiss and get rejected, it's a completely different thing to go directly for the breasts and pussy [1]. But you already knew that.

[1]http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/woman-says-she-was...
Love, mainly. The best of dopes.
principle of parsimony
It's still integer only scaling.

OSX uses slightly different trick - it creates a framebuffer that is @2 scale and lets the hardware to scale it down. (iOS goes even further and has @3 scaling).

Which is the right approach - for example, one of the rMBP options is to have 1440x900 (2880x1800) resolution, which to the native 2560x1600 is the ratio 9/8. Nobody is going to track that 9-th pixel for each block of 8 pixels in software. Using hw scaler is simpler, cheaper and has smaller margin for errors.

Frankly, implementing fractional scaling is waste of time, resources and would produce software that is slow, buggy and bloated.
That's defeated by a USB mouse jiggler [1], which is apparently commonly used by the type of people who seize computers in the wild.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/CRU-Inc-30200-0100-0011-WiebeTech-Jig...
C# is a much better drop-in replacement for Java.
So what do you think it would happen if Oracle just made OpenJDK offline, withdraw its developers or even nastier changes to OpenJDK (left to imagination)?

Which of those listed companies would try to keep OpenJDK alive and drive the JEPs?
And who is that? IBM?
No, it does not. See my reply below.
Won't somebody think of the 'Nebies'?!
I read #2 about kids and beer bonding and it really irks the heck out of me. This is our industry? A bunch of selfish immatures? Nice.
we don't care where you're from. I'm not running a little 'who's a citizen tally' in my head.
Iocell, FreeBSD containers manager forked from iocage
Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density
How have your colleagues who became managers fared?
According to that I am net negative when I go to work. (Although I too am significantly more product at home)
Oracle of course, so they can do whatever they feel like to OpenJDK.

I actually doubt, that given the interest other companies have shown regarding saving Sun assets, anyone would bother to pick up OpenJDK afterwards.
Chinese leadership and macroscopic geopolitical strategy.
Absolutely. By all means bundle the JVM because it is a dependency, but do not bundle Oracle's JVM/jre in your container images.
It's the closest you can get in Scala to represent an empty value whose type is `Tuple`.
Outside of HN, it's not very different than any other mainstream language, and I'm saying this as someone who doesn't work with Java at all.
> Alarmed at the prospect of being unable to trust all 24,000-plus Debian packages, most of which are built on package maintainers’ laptops, the Debian Project has pushed hard over the last three years to make as many packages reproducibly buildable as possible. As of this writing, 91 percent have achieved that goal, and the project hopes to hit 100 percent in 2017.

91% already? That's pretty impressive! I remember when they first started discussing this but haven't tracked the progress at all. Happy to see how far long it's come.
He's using his position of power to silence and intimidate the women, not to seduce them.

As evidenced by all the women who said that.

What you won't go to the police about -- what you will let some one do -- is not the same as what you want them to do.
Subway Therapy Post-It Notes Will Be Preserved
For a long time, I've said that Super Mario Bros 3 was my favorite video game of all time. Lately though, when I think back on the hours I spent playing Super Mario Land 2 on my original Game Boy, it may take the crown. Amazing game! First appearance of Wario! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Land_2:_6_Golden_C...
FuseBox: A blazing fast JavaScript bundler/loader with a comprehensive API
Clara: Retaking rules for developers
Very true. You can't have multilateralism and cooperation when no one else is even on your level. Its like cooperating on a software project where only one person knows anything about programming; its very one sided. We are simply seeing the effect of 12 Trillion in debt to the Chinese leading to huge growth for their economy. Russia is still 1/15th the GDP of the US and desperately needs reduced sanctions and for the price of oil to increase. That is why they were happy about Rex Tillerson being SOS.
Maven, where your build script is actually declarative XML that might or might not run. Maven, which spends a minute contacting random servers all over the world only to tell you there is a closing tag missing.

I still have a repository where Surefire (hah) refuses to run any tests. Impossible to debug. No, that pile won't be missed.
Hey sorry, clearly my comment came across as "Rust doesn't have X, when it should!". Clearly poorly communicated on my part. I really meant to be discussing: How there are two populations each with very different sets of perspectives/priorities.

I was trying to discuss the divide (maybe come up with reasons for it - potentially improve it), not the lack or need for tools. I was just providing concrete examples using Java vs Rust build pipelines. It might have been better if I had stuck to abstract examples like: "I find it fascinating when something like X is so obviously a priority to me(us), but it takes a lot of effort to convince others that it is a priority at all."

I hope that is more clear.
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses"

-- Bjarne Stroustrup [1], Creator of C++

[1] http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that
CoreOS is fairly popular isn't it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13197159
As someone who appreciates apps that tailor to each specific platform and respect that platform's unique features and guidelines, this scares me.
Well... I just reread Roger Zelazny's Amber series, and recent political events did lend a certain surreality to the Amberites' magical fast travel system (named after certain playing cards).

So you'll be missing out on some things.

(They're good books. Read them.)
It's the language of choice in most college programs. Though I won't be surprised if Javascript supplants it. Node.js feels like the new JVM. And it even has Clojure running on it.
All I can say is that it is true. Look at this article, and please try to ignore the provocative headline, I just can't find a better presentation of the data: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-white-republicans-mo...

You can explore the data yourself here: https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/variables/vfilter?keyword=&...

As you can see, 15% of white people think black people are more unintelligent than intelligent. 35% think they're more lazy than hardworking. 25% wouldn't want a relative to marry a black person. 20% wouldn't want to live in a half black neighborhood. And this is just people with conscious biases that they're willing to report on a survey.

We can argue about what counts as "a huge portion", but these percentages represent tens of millions of people. There's so many ways to show that racism is still a huge deal in America, but it's really easy to think "I'm not racist, I've never seen anyone be racist, these people must be making it up".

I doubt I'm going to convince you with this comment, but it's stereotypes all the way down. The idea that only old rednecks are racists is itself a harmful stereotype, because it simply is not true.
When you can't see the difference it says more about you than it does about the other person. His statement isn't about consent, it's about an abuse of power.
Would such a technique be effective in reverse: causing a specific malformation? If so, could this be used to design "magic bullet" antibiotics for antibiotic-resistant pathogens?
You might be mistaking H1-B with L1 visas. H1-B allows you to switch companies; L1 doesn't.
It fits the generic GC performant network server designed for large teams in mind. A large segment in Java land.
Industry 4.0: Building the digital enterprise [pdf]
"Toughen up" is never the answer.

"It is entirely possible to misinterpret friendly ribbing or banter as something far more malicious. "

This is still entirely the fault of the one who mistakes ribbing for actual team building.

"To assume the worst of someone who genuinely means no harm, and to suggest they should be punished, censored, and shunned."

Telling them to knock it off is NOT censoring.

"Where, perhaps, simply asking them firmly to knock it off, explaining you are finding their jokes hurtful, and giving them the chance to change their behavior, is perhaps more appropriate than forming an internet lynch mob based on assumptions of malice"

Because no one has ever faced retaliation for doing just this. No one, upon hearing this from a co-worker, has never ratcheted up the "friendly ribbing".
Centralized computers of reputable projects are much more secure than private computers of individual developers
Wow! Great story.
Say that you want to estimate what is the chance that observation 1 fits theory A just by accident (the lower this chance is the higher your confidence can be that theory A is "real").

If theory A has parameters you can adjust, it becomes easier for an observation to fit the theory just by accident (because you can adjust the free parameter).

This is a fairly flawed description, but it should be a good enough ELI5.
Well, they needed both drones to locate the source of any sounds detected in the water. With only one drone, their tests can determine what sounds were made (and maybe some general vicinity), but not as accurately from where.

The Chinese already surprised a US carrier fleet by deploying a submarine fleet that "ambushed" a carrier when one of their subs surfaced in kill range to the carrier, undetected.
It's not 100% guarantee of a scam. I live in Uruguay and forwarding services are very valuable to me.

It is extremely unfortunate that scammers are using them, this means a lot of sellers won't sell to me :( .
Once you find the person stupid enough to accept crap pay for doing something that earns you tons of profit - are you sure you found a person smart enough to do what you need?
> Is Debian really built on private computers?

"Depends". Package maintainers usually build the binary package for their arch themselves (typically x86_64 nowadays). The ~dozen other archs are built by buildd, which also largely runs on hardware* controlled by private people / entities as far as I'm aware.

See eg. https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi

* you can really forget building software on emulators. Way too slow.
Honestly? It's just easier 99% of the time. And I don't mean easier in the sense that you could give Arch to a linux newbie and expect it to work.

But if something breaks in Arch, I can almost certainly just open up the wiki page and fix it. Ubuntu keeps breaking stuff over and over again that I just don't know how to fix.

EDIT: Thinking about it, a lot of those issues probably also come from the fact that I usually don't reinstall my OS. With Arch is designed for, but Ubuntu/Fedora/etc. not so much.
I'm not old, 32, but this problem worries me. My plan for addressing the "Must keep up with latest tech" problem is to CREATE the latest technology. My hope if I create enough of it that in 15 years I'll be that old guy who created tech X or Y and nobody is going to bother wondering if I can keep up. Will this plan work? Who knows.

Best way to predict the future is create it right?
Iterative Code Reviews: New to Preenly
I don't think you're wrong, per se, but barring that I'm really unclear on what point you're trying to make.
From the discussion section of Verlinde's paper[1]:

> We have shown that the emergent laws of gravity, when one takes into account the volume law contribution to the entropy, start to deviate from the familiar gravitational laws precisely in those situations where the observations tell us they do. We have only made use of the natural constants of nature, and provided reasonably straightforward arguments and calculations to derive the scales and the behavior of the observed phenomena. [..]

> In our view this undercuts the common assumption that the laws of gravity should stay as they are, and hence it removes the rationale of the dark matter hypothesis. Once there is a conceptual reason for a new phase of the gravitational force, which is governed by different laws, and this is combined with a confirmation of its quantitative behavior, the weight of the evidence tips in the other direction.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02269
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13197159

> Cargo was announced in March 2014, earlier than both.

Thats fair, and a part of what I meant about "they didn't know about them", because working for Amazon right out of college, I've been using things like Bazel/Docker/Travis for 5+ years now.

I actually meant it as a discredit to people who work in the industry for not exposing these tools earlier. I did a poor job of communicating that (it was after all like 3 am :P).
Are you trying to steer me towards a fallacy like this? -- Both men and women are paid for work, therefore they are equal. Powerful men and not-powerful men receive very different treatment when they are subject to ideological questioning. Powerful men tend to be believed when they claim ideas and emotional states. Not-powerful men tend to be not-believed, or accused of lying. Sometimes, even surface signals can be sufficient "proof" that certain emotional states or ideas apply to them.

In fact, as far as I can tell, you've agreed that the powerful do come under criticism, just that they handle it better?

I'm saying that the system is generally rigged for the powerful, even if "the system" is a social/subcultural context strongly influenced by progressive women.
> String theorist Lubos Motl savaged Verlinde’s ideas in a recent blog post: “I wouldn’t okay this wrong piece of work as an undergraduate term paper.”

I find this rudeness and pedantry in academia infuriating. There's no justification for this level of nastiness -- not in private, public, peer review, or science as a whole. Seeking out the unknown and creative explanations thereof is the hallmark of good science; check your ego at the door. I know nothing about him... but in my book, Lubos Motl can go pound sand.
The Sketch VR template and its accompanying Unity project, which projects the Sketch document onto the inside of a 14-meter sphere, is a VR prototyping workflow that never occurred to me.

I wonder if Serif, makers of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, would want to expand in this direction: Photo (Serif's Photoshop usurper) just added a very interesting real-time 360° view (https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/new-features/). HMD support would make this a viable, standalone VR sphere-prototyping tool.
Ah, now that's a separate question. Your original assertion was that he "sexually assaulted many woman by his own words." Have you conceded now that that isn't true?
HR is not your friend. HR is the company's friend. HR will do whatever it thinks is best for the company, not what's best for you.
I doubt most enterprises would be willing to go back to C++.
The JVM: it is not only Java than runs on it, but Scala, Clojure, Ceylon, etc. Although many of these languages support other compilation targets (JavaScript, for example), the JVM is always their main and most powerful platform.
This is just "preposterous". Either the author has an overblown image of Google or has no selfesteem.
Totally OT: I read "Einsteins graffitti" and could watch my own brain trying to make sense of the sentence. And fail.
You would enjoy James Burke's Connections series. It is curiosity driven.

There are very few Renaissance men (and women) around today. I've met a startling number of people who spend time online but never encountered Wikipedia, there is also very large number of university students who have no interest in reading. This goes to show it is not about access to information or elite institutions.

That doesn't mean it's not worth doing. It is probably more worthwhile because fewer people are doing it. One prominent example among ourselves is Gwern, he is a great example to us. A lot of the most interesting threads on HN are where the discussion is regarding something not obviously connected to programming, such as woodworking. The most famous AMA in Reddit's history was a vacuum cleaner salesman, which was fascinating and bolstered my regard for Redditors as a healthy if fractious community with a native curiosity not evident on most social networking sites. In my opinion the best people have a mixture of useful values from different social classes - working, middle, upper. LessWrong has an expression parallel to this I'll paraphrase as 'hold your identity loosely'.

If anybody feels like they're stuck in a rut, unmotivated to be 'curiosity-productive', check out 'Japanology' on Youtube. Peter Barakan could make anything interesting. I always get a lift after watching his documentaries.
I will rather take Maven a full day over a few seconds with Gradle.
"Notably, the reports do not suggest any direct tampering in election results, and there’s no evidence that any such tampering took place. The report also doesn’t suggest any direct coordination between Putin and the Trump campaign, which the FBI investigated and ultimately dismissed earlier this year." - Forgive me but if this is true then I am failing to see where the wrong doing is or why this is still going on and on.

Pro Tip: Don't host illegal private servers in bathroom closets with IT workers who plead the 5th to congress when asked about the server if security is your primary concern.

Pro Tip 2: Don't give your credentials to phishing emails if you want to be in charge of national secrets.

I see a lot of finger pointing but not a whole lot of responsibility being taken over what was discovered in those emails. Like why did Donna Brazile get to be DNC chair after she was discovered leaking debate questions to Clinton? The hacking is a red herring as a consequence of "extremely careless" security practices
The KDE upstream developers release a distribution called KDE Neon that is based on Ubuntu, with an extra file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d which provides significantly newer builds than what Ubuntu / Kubuntu offer.

They offer two flavors of this distribution-- one meant for end-users with the stable Plasma releases and one with bleeding-edge git builds. The bleeding-edge git build now defaults to Wayland, but the build meant for daily usage does not. AFAIK, they aren't yet recommending that downstream distributions default to wayland. Hopefully it will happen in 2017!
No. If you live long enough, you will get cancer eventually. If you're unlucky, you can get cancer at any age, even if you give over the entire focus of your life to its prevention.
> This is an indicator of the bubble you're living in

And your comment is the epitome of another very common bubble: the language police / SJW bubble.

You come across as if you think that censoring strangers on the internet (for what is actually the most common usage of a most common English word) is actually going to bring about some positive change in the issue of sexism. And you do it with the utmost arrogance, as if you were the messiah of equality.

If you talked to people like that in real life, noone would give you the time of day. I know I wouldn't.

> It might be worth taking a step back and asking yourself what other things you consider normal might actually be disrespectful.

Have you ever tried this yourself?
But the "then" and "else" parts of the Rust "if" are expressions. What you're talking about doesn't seem to be related to which things are expressions, it's more like being able to eval code at runtime.
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I am not sure I understand this: if I develop an application and distribute it using the installer that embeds the JVM, then I owe Oracle??
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