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> His statement isn't about consent, it's about an abuse of power.

Yes, the context is one of bragging about power. But he literally said "they let you do it." In what way is that not a statement about consent?
The norm? Which would be the general public? I think you will find anyone who can solve an equation is an exception to the norm. A computer programmer of ANY competence, even an amateur 12 year old, is 3 standard deviations outside the norm. And if you're going to restrict your norm to just computer professionals... you'd best run some numbers before making assumptions.
Folks, the observation doesn't test Verlinde's idea, this tests a very general class of models, such as the well-known MOND scheme.

> Milgrom, however, supports the work. He also points out that according to his own 2013 analysis of gravitational lensing data in galaxies, MOND produces similarly impressive results as Verlinde’s gravitational model does in Brouwer’s study.

(Also: http://motls.blogspot.ca/2016/11/verlindes-de-sitter-mond-is... )

This data cannot distinguish between Verlinde and other explanations for MOND-like behavior. We've long known that MOND seems to fit a subset of all observational data better the dark matter, in particular the Tully–Fisher relation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tully%E2%80%93Fisher_relation

However, for the rest of the data (e.g., the CMB, large-scale structure, the bullet cluster), MOND is generally considered to give a worse fit than dark matter, or to be silent (because it's not obvious how to extend MOND to a complete cosmological theory). That's why experts think the totality of evidence supports dark matter.

Nothing has changed.
If you're getting started on a budget, it's perfectly valid to start with the phone you have and a Google Cardboard.

The high-end systems are significantly different, but there are a lot of UI concerns that you can still address with Google Cardboard.

That said, a Vive plus a good enough PC should run you no more than $1750 today, and it will go down pretty quickly.
> I needed hardware upgrades every year to keep my computer running.

I'm finding this hard to understand. Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 all seem to be about the same, spec-wise, and it doesn't sound like you were upgrading anyway. I don't understand in what sense you would need to upgrade your hardware, which, in any case, is the same hardware used in Macs - Intel processors and so forth.

> You cannot live without an anti-virus and even then chances are that you will end up corrupting your system and has to do re-install windows or format your hard disk.

For many, many years now, Microsoft has provided Microsoft Security Essentials, AKA Windows Defender, which is all that most people need.

I have a laptop from 2006 and a desktop from 2009, both of which are my (a developer) primary/sole work and recreation machines. I have never had to reinstall Windows or format my hard disk.[1] In my experience these were things you had to do in the Windows 95/98/2000 era, but not since, barring some catastrophe like a trashed filesystem caused by a failing harddrive.

[1] Though in the interests of full disclosure, I did elect to replace the laptop harddrive with a solid state drive, and at that time I did install a new version of Windows rather than bother with transferring data from the old drive. As to why I did this, well, in 2016, an Intel Core 2 Duo is pretty slow but the easiest thing to upgrade is the harddrive.
https://mic.com/articles/154169/leaked-apple-emails-reveal-e...
One interesting alternative to Java SE would be an OpenJDK JVM bundled with one or more of the superior alternatives to Java the language.

Such a package with Scala might make major inroads into the enterprise over time, with virtually no risk. Clojure is also a widely respected JVM language.
Well I don't know about that. If you have a datatype whose constructors can't throw, it should still assert at run time about its state that it's been initialized. Like, you have to actually do that, of course. So there's more surface area for mistakes inside the object, but from the outside of the object, which is what I think this sub-thread is talking about, they get caught at run time.
NASA just launched 8 satellites from a rocket dropped from a plane at 40,000ft
Checksums of source tarballs is a feature in practically all distributions.

I'm familiar specifically with Arch Linux (example PKGBUILD https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/P...), Homebrew (example Formula https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...), Slackware (example https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.2/development/avr-gcc...)
Yeah I saw that episode of Bob's Burgers too.

Edit: In all seriousness, the man and the elephant were already scheduled to be killed. So it sucks, but he did so many amazing things that this is easily overshadowed.
Well, it's wrong to steal other people's email.

Of course, it's also nice to have to some transparency to what happens behind the scenes.
> There can only be one big man in town, and [Google is] clearly it.

This is still mostly true, and Amazon is in an even more interesting position than Microsoft will ever be in.

I buy cluster-compute time, movies, and sacks of organic flour from the same company.
> I've gotten to the point where I record all of my time I spend in the office in order to protect me against claims of sexism because of how detrimental it can be to my career.

I don't know about your employer's policies. But my employer would definitely fire me if they found out I was doing this. I don't think this advice is generally applicable.
Lessons learnt from my failure. Launched my product one week ago
One week back i released my product .

Voblet - A better way to send,organize and share links.

Website : https://voblet.com

Explainer video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0q6ZiiC2Do

I worked on this for almost 10 months.I expected it to be a big hit and thought people will start using it when they see the video. But it didn't happen. I failed to gather interest, these are some of the lessons learnt.

1) Explain your product in one interesting line

When you post about your product in producthunt, reddit, hackernews, twitter etc. You should be able to get people interest with just your one line.No body has time to read your description and watch explainer video. When someone asks about your product and you failed to get his attention in one sentence.I think you should revisit your product and make it better and strong in at least one aspect.

2) Have at least one big differentiating feature

If you have a competing product which is already popular.Doing small improvements will not make users install your app. You product should be very good in at least one thing than your competitors. Making things better is not sufficient.You can build user base on that and keep improving.

3) Have tools to get info on user behavior (Google analytics etc)

For your initial launch, you will spend more time on writing code and making the functionality work.After the launch to make improvement knowing user behavior is important. Spend more time on gathering all the events,user interactions using google analytics. Have metrics based on your server logs etc.

Next steps for me:
Back to zero.Working hard in making improvements .Will launch my next version in few months with some big changes.

Please leave your feedback on my product if you can . If you want to add any things to the above list please comment,it will be helpful :)
a male "alpha"/masculine-type coworker pulled this trick several years ago. self-deprecates about his weight. he was fairly good at conversation/joking/etc, and somehow he made these self-deprecating jokes somewhat funny. He wasn't even obese, just a larger guy. One day the coworker sitting right next to him poked fun at his weight, and suddenly it wasn't funny anymore, and the "victim" of the joke reported it to HR. People can play nasty tricks, and so I second your advice to not partake in any form of "teasing".
Why is this business model legal? I mean, suppose I give you a candy, wait for you to eat it then ask for payement aguing that it's obvious I'm not giving it for free. I'm sure there are forgotten laws protecting against such a business
There were many reports of tested bad battery life.
If a woman lets a man kiss her and gives no sign that his advances are unwanted, I have zero patience with later (usually much later) claims about sexual assault.
And yet they bought java along with all of sun with the money they made doing just that.

Their strategy works.

They're not kind or well thought of in the dev community - have they ever been? They don't care.

They're interested in having enterprise decision makers on their side.
Definitely. Spain is behind Italy, then Portugal and Greece last.

Pretty sad.
Yeah, that doesn't seem like the sort of thing anyone reasonable would do.
Lubos Motl hasn't been in academia for almost a decade. Almost everyone inside and outside it finds him obnoxious.
Or people simply want to avoid installing the proprietary software that is bundled with Oracle JDK. With the added benefit of running the same JDK on your dev machine and on your servers.
Thinking it's a tech solvable problem = 1M mistake.
http://fortune.com/2016/12/15/obama-fcc-chair-resignation-st...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/trump-will-have-n...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/12/15...

Any candidate put forth by the republicans will attempt to do so, yes. And in the meantime they have a 2-1 majority and will likely aim for it even before that happens.
How to Charge for Your Open Source Software
Ok the word 'All' implies quite a bit, but I definitely think it's an issue in a lot of industries. Yes age and experience definitely get you to much higher positions but I was thinking of 50+ aged people losing their jobs and then having to find a new company to work for. I've worked in a variety of places and definitely see the trend of it being difficult to get hired or to fit in. The company I currently work for basically runs all of the healthcare in my state and for team lead and supervisor positions upper management seems to prefer people in their early twenties because they're more "pliable". There are men and women here that are older and needed a job to support their family and they're stuck making way less than their experience dictates. I see them getting passed up for promotions and opportunities all the time. Obviously I can't definitively say it's ageism because I don't think things like that are always explicit but from talking to them they definitely infer that that's the reason. Could it be a lack of ambition or that they used their fire up at their previous jobs? Maybe. Something like this is never black and white so who knows?
This is honestly the strangest logic I've read on this site. You're basically arguing for exploiting workers by undervaluing them and saying it's ok because people's lives change?
Let me tell you something. There are 2 choices in front of you:

1) Loose hope & leave the job - If you choose this option, your PO will come as a winner. After you leave, no one would care if it was your mistake or her but people would most probably forget the incidents and think positive about her. Most of the people will think you had some issues and you left the job. You might find another job but there is no guarantee that you will not find another PO or for that matter any collegue/manager with whom you will NOT have similar issues.

2) Continue in your current Job and commit yourself to improve the situation. Life is presenting with a unique opportunity to you where you can learn how to take control of situation when people disagree with you. IMO, you can learn something very unique out of this situation even if you happen to loose your job after 6 months. This will build a character in you in how to face tough situations. A career is a long journey where you will face situations where people disagree with you. Learning this early in life will help to understand and act better in situations like this. I would say don't worry if you will get a permanent offer from this employer and continue looking for other Job options. If you do find a good job offer then whether to choose that offer should be completely a rational decision based on career growth, salary, technology and not because you are having people issues at your current job. Changing a Job is a life decision and you should be the only one who should take this decision.

Now, there are certain things you should do to improve your current situation at job. By your question, I feel that you had a direct confrontation with your Product Owner. She might not had liked this direct confrontation and is not happy with you. Have a 1:1 discussion with her and understand what you are doing wrong that is making her upset. In the end you will come up as a much more stronger person than her.
Don't forget MySQL.

It's not that Oracle ruins properties, the same could be said of Microsoft over the years, but that they tastelessly ruin them.

Bundling the Ask Toolbar with Java is absolutely insulting. Not even Adobe stoops that low.
This is actually a very serious problem.

Not necessarily astroturfing but high quality topics are easily swept from the front page or the replies turn into an endless slop of loony-spam by people who's ideology is threatened.
Exhibit A: Richard Stallman.
> Which of those listed companies would try to keep OpenJDK alive and drive the JEPs?

The question should rather be: Which of those listed companies will Oracle sue for doing so?
True but stealing the email affects one person, Podesta (and its his own fault). Whereas the contents of the emails affect 330 million Americans.

Why don't you rebut my comments instead of down-voting like weak minded person? I wasn't aware we were in your safe space.
It's not different because this experiment can't discriminate between Verlinde's ideas and long-known alternatives to dark matter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13197214
Let's fight the good fight. Preemptive job security...I like it haha.
When I mentioned "general recursive functions", I was thinking about systems that define functions using a system of functional equations rather than using a lambda term.

Example:

odd 0 = False
odd n = even (n - 1)
even 0 = True
even n = odd (n - 1)

I think "rewriting system" is something similar. (I'm not an expert in this stuff so I'm providing hints for further reading more than anything else).

In these systems, recursion is "built in" to the formal language itself.

On the other hand, lambda calculus does not have recursion "built in". All variables are bound by function application so it is not possible to have recursive bindings like you see in these recursive function systems. You can define recursive functions using mechanisms like the Y combinator but these work by reconstructing something over and over as the computation evolves. It's different.

In McCarthy's paper, there is a system of toplevel recursive functions and there is a LABELS form that behaves in a similar way. Lambda calculus has neither of these.

One resource that describes recursive function systems of the kind I'm thinking of is the book "Lambda-Calculus and Combinators, an Introduction" by Hindley and Seldin (especially chapter 4).
There are many examples of projects maintained by a cooperative effort between multiple corporations.
I don't see the potential victim as very sympathetic because they were trying to blackmail someone who they knew had no legal recourse.

You can make anyone want to kill you (and attempt it) by threatening them appropriately.
Curious what you're looking for in a path+querystring builder.

For ASP.NET controllers, I'd use attribute routing's URL generation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/controllers...

If you want a separate library for use outside of ASP.NET, and you want something more sophisticated than UriBuilder, there are several out there. I've used Superscribe in the past, but I just looked around and Flurl looks pretty neat: http://tmenier.github.io/Flurl/
I agree. no one has a problem with how i dress. it isn't brought up in a "fix this" sort of way. it is brought up in a "oh look, another new ninja turtles shirt" way. My clothing choices aren't inappropriate, but many of my coworkers prefer dressing more formal, which makes me stand out. I don't view it as teasing of any sort so I'm ok with it... but I'm aware that other people might be hurt by being called a poor dresser.

And I would agree with that about the spectrum. My point was more that the only issue arises when someone doesn't realize they are being offensive:

Trying to be offensive -> clear violation -> handle it.

Recipient speaks up -> clear violation -> handle it.

Trying to be playful, recipient offended but doesn't speak up -> unclear that it is in fact a violation -> may wind up unhandled resulting in issues.

Trying to be playful and everyone gets along -> no violation

If you're trying to be playful and the recipient doesn't respond well, they shouldn't have to speak up to end it. So if you cant read someone, the "dont keep pushing it" is a good default to have, but if its apparent everyone is having a good time, no biggie.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Thanks.
The big theoretical challenge is "restoring" me to a state that has never existed. I want my brain's atoms restored to a young arrangement of atoms in terms of health but while retaining its old arrangement of atoms in terms of learning.

There is an existence proof for one or the other but not for both at the same time.
His "quirks" are what harms his message. The same could be said for his long-time collaborator ESR who has some quirks that are beyond eating shit from his feet.

You want a spokesperson for something they better be worthy of respect. That's their primary function. It's not being a sage of truth.

People listen to those they respect, and his behaviour at times is so out of line that he spends more time destroying his credibility than communicating.
Working in finance:

1) Go to finance for the money

2) Stay there because work and people are interesting
Thanks for both your original and resubmission. This really made me think about "my own opinions", which I've started to realize are often just other people's opinions (often that of the elite press) hoisted upon me and tricked into thinking are my own.

With much of modern intellectualism simply being an adoption of other people's ideas and beliefs without actual independent consideration, this was a refreshing perspective.
The focus on his intelligence is a distraction. He's a war criminal. Who cares how smart he is.

This is like discussing something written by Leni Riefenstahl titled "Hitler was a better artist than you."
Yeah it irks me when people with kids think they are better than people who don't too. ;)
I kind of thought that it was a new microsoft.

Then we switched to office 365 at work. New app icons keep appearing. I love checking them out.
They still seem to release a lot of clone like software:

MS flow = ifttt [1]
MS planner = trello [2]
MS forms = google forms

"MS Power Apps" seems interesting but I haven't had a chance to explore.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/micros...
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/06/microsoft-officially-launc...
Looks like it's an annual tradition!
I helped a family member to get access back to his instagram account which also got hacked and got his username changed. What we did was follow the instructions in https://help.instagram.com/contact/740949042640030 and kept in touch with the instagram staff via email. They kept asking various security questions during email and finally sent a recovery link.
Go ahead and round it to nearest 15 or 30 minutes. But showing raw battery charge doesn't have the same info about whether my workload is going to drain that in 2 hours or 5 hours unless I pull out a stopwatch to help teach my computer to count.
clearly, undisputedly trying to spy on China

Get a map. Look at where the drone was taken. See how far away from China it was.
I don't think GWB is stupid. But I've never really gotten this article: Keith Hennessey spends some time claiming that if GWB were a student at Stanford, he'd always be getting high grades without trying, and whenever he did deign to try he'd always be at the top of the class.

It seems like a high act of trollery, especially since we do have transcripts of just how well he performed at Yale and they don't offer nearly as rosy a picture of GWB's academic acumen.

To the extent that he's successfully getting people to not trust media representations of public figures, good on him, I guess.
He did a pretty damned good job cheerleading and holding things together immediately after 9/11.
Users flagged it (likely without actually reading the post itself, since the title is clickbaity but the post is balanced), and others (including myself) upvoted it until it became Unflagged is all.
Is it possible for tooling to maintain a lot of these quirks and then implement additionally on top of areas it falls short?
This article is about the collection of emails, it's not about the vote counts. It is just a clickbait title.
C++ is as much as dead in the enterprise outside of a few niche concerns. It's just too hard to get right.

C# and Java are significantly more forgiving and for most use cases are perfectly adequate. Performance is a reasonable concern, but not the primary driver of language choice.

If you look at the sort of Java code some people churn out in an enterprise environment you'd be glad they weren't using C++ which has significantly more sharp edges. Throwing random exceptions isn't as bad as periodically segfaulting for no apparent reason.
Show HN: RamdaScript, Clojure-esque Lisp that compiles to Ramda.js
Dotnet is fully open source (mit licensed) for more than a year now. Let's just say I knew which of the two ecosystems to pick half a year ago for a new project. Java (as an ecosystem) is going down the drain as oracle has no clue what the dev world wants and where they are pivoting towards. Commercial frameworks and commercial languages are fast on their way out.
for what it's worth, this article was posted about a week ago, already.
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The central equation in this paper is 4.40. It doesn't seem to account for some galaxies recently discovered that are almost entirely dark matter.
There are operating systems with "major problems" out there. Linux isn't the only *IX.
When exactly do I need to pay for Java?
When I develop with JDK?
When I download java from https://java.com and install with default settings?
When I download the installer from https://java.com and distribute it alongside with my java programs?
React Native doesn't make it so you share UI code between platforms (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/platform-specif...). What you get to share is all the business logic between tailored UIs.
>Tear down the UN since it has failed. Russia, China or the US will always block something. The security council is clearly dysfunctional.

This is the point of the UN. Major powers get to block things with a vote instead of with force.
My brother in law, a classmate of Bush's at HBS, said he seemed of pretty average intellect for that group.

HBS students in those days were, as a group, pretty smart.

Bush's real intellectual shame as president was his ignorance. He didn't think hard about most public policy issues until he decided to run in 1999. His debate statements were pretty obvious bluffs. I referred to him as "evil" for running despite being so ignorant and hence unqualified.

None of that precludes him having figured most of it out by the time he'd been president 4-6 years.

I really, really, really, really wish our current President-Elect had 1/3 the understanding Bush took office with. :(