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>Since Kierkegaard was totally forgotten and wasn't rediscovered made popular in Germany by Boltmann till the 20th Century

I don't know where you got this, but it is an exaggeration of the truth. And unless you think the same thing is just waiting to happen to all the other philosophers that surrounded him, doesn't change the fact that most philosophy is tossed aside for good reason.

And yes, the same can be said of many different fields.
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You have a homebuilt mac? Like a hackintosh? If so, I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't owe you any kind of security assurances.
Yeah, but if the American event had had only one woman and three dark-skinned people there would be the inevitable discussion on "tech's diversity problem" branching off into various allegations of sexism and racism. That's what I'm taking a pot-shot at.

I'm glad that in Mumbai, people who enjoy building cool things can do so without worrying about the average skin shade or visible secondary sexual characteristics.
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Last entry on Feedly is from 13 hours ago. When navigating to news.ycombinator.com/rss it shows no entries.
It's not clear if your comment approves or disapproves the one you've commented.
Historically, as Lifespan increases war and poverty decrease. Its very easy to imagine the parade of imaginary horribles. Those horribles look out of place on a graph of global human fulfillment over time. It's so easy to dream how bad it could all go, that comments focusing on that are 10x the number of comments imagining any of the positive outcomes. Apparently the amazing and wonderful things people create together by not rotting and disappearing are harder to imagine.
It just searches google and when I click it, they still want me to subscribe.
> I don't see how anyone could possible claim GAE or similar offerings from Google compete anywhere close to what Microsoft or Amazon is providing.

I think your information is quite out of date. GCP is competitive with AWS for many use cases and certainly is better than Azure.

The days of GAE even being the primary offering are long gone.

There's a reason that if you look at DevOps tools they all support AWS, most also support GCP, but very few support Azure.
OK, but small and medium businesses with server racks in the closet are also one billing dispute with Comcast Business (or power outage lasting longer than their 5 minutes of battery UPS) away from downtime.
In this case the posted article can't even be found in the first page of search results.
6th to 2nd is a heck of a downshift. It's hard for me to imagine driving around at 30 in 6th, too. The engine drone would be pretty obnoxious.
Isn't that how Samsung hides Absolute Computrace rootkit/spyware in the hidden partition ?

I read that it can not be removed not even by reinstalling the OS. But it looks like PC manufacturers like Lenovo found a way to hide the same rootkit in their BIOS.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/53698/detecting...
the tech community's attacks on trump were and continue to be very personal (he's a lunatic, etc.). he doesn't owe them a damn thing, much less a policy meeting where he's open to their ideas.
I'm 40, in tech years that's like 1000. I also see value in hiring experience but explicitly factoring by age discriminates against a protected class in the USA. I think a lawsuit is in my future if I use this for placement at my company.

Of course, if you simply rebranded to talk about "experience" rather than "age" then solvelem probbed.

Also, age != experience != skill.
I was only talking about the 'list of function calls' aspect of assembler and Lisp, not the type system. I agree that Lisp has a type system and assembler doesn't. Forth is another language that also has very simple syntax that approximates the 'list of function calls' style that I would say isn't unlike a macro assembler either.

I am writing a new language with built-in garbage collection that I think is quite superior to other languages. I have created a full standard library with almost 1,000 built-in functions and none of my data structures (lists, maps, trees, stacks, indexes, tables etc) contain pointers or linked lists (that use pointers). I sold over 30,000 copies of a language/database system in 1987 so I think your last comment is quite inappropriate. I have know about Lisp since I started CS in University in 1975.

Linked lists are horrible data structures when being used as well as when being freed (your garbage collection comment). I use simple dynamic multi-typed arrays instead of linked lists (pointers) and they can be freed in 1 chunk or a bigger version can be freed with a few memory de-allocations. I get full cache locality and improved speed of allocation and de-allocation.

I would love to see an incremental GC that can copy all linked lists nodes into contiguous memory automatically. Nice trick if you can do it but that doesn't help you if your linked list doesn't cause a GC.
What FCC-related promises has Trump made? I know he's said a lot of unsettling things, but nothing springs to mind regarding net neutrality or the like.
An oldster in HN world is someone over 32, right?
If Russian hacking is really the threat that it has been made out to be in the last few weeks, the question the media should be asking is: why did the U.S. Government do so little to counter it for so many years?

Oh, wait, that would potentially point the finger in the wrong direction. The narrative is supposed to be "illegitimate president", right?
It's a pity that this didn't work out, but it's good that this was covered in a newspaper, because it's useful as an example for other discussions.

There are a lot of drugs that have a nice idea and perhaps a promising preliminary test, but in the final double blind big clinical try they fail.

* Don't believe blindly the overhyped new magical drug that is tested only in vitro, or a few patients.

* The cost of the drugs is not only the cost of producing it. They have a lot of cost in research, trials, and also the cost of the research of all the other drugs that flopped.
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Thank you for writing this. I use a password manager, and whenever I see someone say "it's unhackable because of the encryption" I want to tell them this, exactly. All someone needs to do is to surreptitiously send your password to their own server and all your passwords are owned. It's not difficult.
From what I've gathered over the years, dextro-amp is primarily responsible for focus, attention, and (potentially) euphoria while levo-amp is primarily responsible for peripheral effects like anxiety, jitters, and other "body-centric" things.

As a result, I've always understood d-amp to be considered more abusable and part of the reason for the mix in Adderall and generic equivalents (although it's also allegedly a better mix for treating most ADD/ADHD).

It's why you can get Adderall if you're diagnosed with these disorders but it's rare to see anyone prescribe Dexedrine (which is just d-amp). Abuse potential is higher and also l-amp lasts longer so the mix may be seen as more effective overall as a pill you take once or maybe twice a day.

Never heard of Evekeo though.
There are always power dynamics in corporations. It's called office politics. They'll always exist because that's how human relationships work.

Some people are better than others at relationships. Your prejudice for so-called "gymbros" aside, most employees have underwhelming relationship skills, and anyone can learn to play the politics game well enough to have a good career. Blaming being "short" is just excuse-making.

Ironically, someone trying to arouse a mob mentality by making such an issue public is playing office politics just as much as anyone else is, only in a more underhanded way, since instead of advocating for themselves within the workplace, they cast themselves as victims and invite others to "rescue" them. Isn't that a dysfunctional relationship dynamic? At least as dysfunctional as the dynamic it alleges to opposes?

This whole debate seems more temperamental in nature. The idea that her being defended by her boss was "sexist" (akin to tumblr feminists' whining about door-holding as a sign of sexism) just strikes me as offense-taking for the sake of it. And the tech industry's dominant temperament (they aren't known for being particularly masculine, though I assume most of them will be offended by this description; this isn't meant as an insult BTW, to each their own) is likely to be much more receptive to damsel-in-distress-type narratives as to the exact same relationship dynamics happening between men of higher social stature and men of lower stature.
Interesting idea. Let me talk about something very tangential, if I may: a minor branding query.

Why go with "A Qureshi Media startup. Contact us at contact@qureshimedia.com" in the site footer?

It made me wonder "hmm, why haven't I heard of Qureshi Media, let me check them out, they are probably some huge media conglomerate." To my surprise, http://qureshimedia.com/ appears to be the website of a consultancy that includes the less than inspiring text "Our new site will be up soon."

If you are managing multiple established brands, having that in the site footer makes sense to me. For what appears to be a company's only brand, I wonder if it might be better relegated an "About" page. Thoughts?
Usually when I'm faced with putting a try/catch in an expression in Java, I end up wrapping it in it's own method.

It's not the nicest solution, but it would allow targeting Java without disrupting the code structure too much.
Deja Vu.... Didn't we just have OldGeekJobs posted on here a while ago?
Microsoft has done some very good things and some very bad things. I'll let everyone else point out the bad things because there seems to be plenty of that.

I personally like the:

Surface products,
Typescript,
C#/F#,
.NET Core,
Visual Studio Code, and
the Hololens.

These are all recently new developments for Microsoft that are really awesome. The fact that a lot of this has become open source is even better. You have to give Microsoft credit for one thing, they've shifted the company so much and that is impressive for a large company.

I enjoy Azure but I understand some people's frustration with it so I exclude it from the list above, I get that it's contentious so I'm leaving it off.
It most likely is out of date, but I've continued to see the same sentiments echo'd from other people recently, so haven't bothered to fully revinvestigate. I got the impression from my time with Google's offerings that their culture of "we're consumer focused, not devop focused" (anything from API's to reporting) completely plastered their offerings in the cloud space.

>most also support GCP, but very few support Azure.

This might be a case of different tech stacks, but nearly everything I work with supports Azure. Sorry to ask this, because it might be easier for you to provide an example or two what you specifically know doesn't work with Azure versus me providing everything that does (and of course, these should be semi-popular tools in whatever "stack").
Nope, it's also a scarce resource. And similarly to water, excessive use is (usually still) bad for the planet.
Microsoft used to have a really good reputation for developers. Used to one of the few companies where each developer had their own office.
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Would you rather have the problem of paying for your loved ones to still be around and healthy, or the problem of them being dead right now? Seems like a good problem to have. Imagine if their brains and bodies were still equivalent to 50 years old. You probably couldn't convince them to stop working. I detect lots of bitterness to the young male and foreign and little for old and citizen. Medical progress gets rid of old people too, they just remain young instead of dead.
Hmmm. I agree with this more than I thought I would have.

I think the real thing here is that the reason to protect against self-incrimination is really a protection against abuses of the justice system, against the ability for judges to force false confessions out of people. If you somehow knew that that a piece of testimony would be guaranteed honest and guaranteed uncoerced, is there still an argument for not requiring you to testify about it, just because it's about yourself?

I think we're left with diafygi's argument about muscle memory, that a suspect may have literally forgotten the passcode and the courts shouldn't be able to say "No you didn't."
These are just as respectable:
https://research.fb.com/publications/
https://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html

I have a fair bit of respect for Microsoft research lab's and it has also done a fair bit of interesting work in hardware, I was talking about Microsoft as a company in it's totality.

I always viewed Microsoft research labs as a spot of bright light in an otherwise relatively dark company, perhaps that is slightly schizophrenic of me.
Powerful 2-in-1 that works as a laptop and a tablet; runs sandboxed apps from a web store as well as traditional Windows apps; built in AI assistant; excellent pen operation; built in accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer; cloud integration with OneDrive, Office programs, email etc with the ability to continue work from different devices; face-recognition or fingerprint log-on; increased security features....

Yeah, it's hard to see any innovation compared to your granddad's laptop ;-)
>The other important one is that Tcl has no types.

Is it that it has no types or that everything is a string? asking, not stating.
It's all fun and games until trying to make a point by electrocuting a pachyderm.
Same problem on our end. Some environments work for some users and not for others. Have tried all the StackOverflow suggested answers with no luck.

Reported issues but haven't heard back
There was a similar, bar less dramatic, case in the UK recently - where police swiped the phone from the hands of a suspect as he took a call, and then kept interacting with the screen to keep it unlocked long enough to recover the evidence required.

In retrospect, it's a pretty obvious attack vector.
Right, I don't like to single out people to put them forward as "spokespeople for their group". As an immigrant myself it's kind of weird that people see me as some kind of representative of my culture/country. I don't see myself as not very typical for my country at all.
No, this is a ridiculous claim.
I think there is something to be said about "Not Giving A Fuck". People should try it. Sometimes people just speak, and sometimes people get offended. I believe the vast majority of the time, no offense was intended. Words are just words and they cannot relay perfect messages 100% of the time. The best thing anyone can do is keep their ego's in check, do your work and do it damn well. Let your work create the narrative. Nobody's going to shit on someone who carries the team.
"Gals"
Do you need a real bank account or just a routing number?

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Dolls

As in Guys and Dolls. Isn't it a 50s american slang thing?
We're trying to avoid the deep sea getting hot, remember?
I was sympathetic to her plight up until the 'personal impact' part. It seems to me that the author is using hyperbole when describing her physical/emotional impact on herself and her family to gain some form of sympathy from her audience. With statements like this:

>This strife has shattered all of our lives like nothing else before.

Based on this statement it seems to me the author and her family have yet to face any real travesty. There are varying degrees of severity in harassment and to me this case seems mild to moderate and not in any way a cause for the health effects described. I also believe it also offers some insight into character and possible extreme sensitivity to perceived injustices/slights. I also agree with other posters here in regards to only getting one side of the story, much context is missing.
This. I've made comments like this more then once on HN: people see 'microsoft' and they think it is just the company selling an OS and office suite and forget or don't know there's more to it. The research for one, which has indeed been going strong for decades, but now also the hardware side which does have at least some innovation to it imo.
Because real journalism costs money to produce.
It's called the benefit of the doubt. You're free to believe one person is telling the truth and one person is lying, or that both people are telling what they believe happened, or whatever, but making that decision before getting both/all sides of a story is not the best way to get the facts.

Just like someone shouldn't read this woman's story and say that everyone above her at Apple should be fired, you also shouldn't read it and say that she's obviously just too sensitive or lying.
I have read some stories where various airgapped systems were "compromised" in some way (microphone picking up CPU harmonics,etc). See here for example: https://thestack.com/security/2016/06/24/even-speakerless-ai... Obviously those are fringe cases and not practically exploitable outside of a specific environment today.

What I think the danger with a super intelligent AI is being able to correlate massive amounts of data to see patterns we miss or things to try, and never being bored. Look at automated exploits today vs the old "hacking by hand". Brute force attempts not just on known patterns, but being able to create new tests and analysis.
From TFA, the reasons mentioned are Russia's annexation of Crimea, war in Ukraine, cyberattacks, and flying of military aircraft near the border
Can anyone on the latest update of macOS confirm whether the time prediction is also gone from Activity Monitor > Energy at the bottom?
IIRC, Pale Moon is based off a fork of ESR24, so they're already on their own for any security fix backports at this point.
iTunes like screen saver for Spotify
Without being ideological about baggage from a decade and more in Microsoft's past, it's easy to see that the company it is today has a large and diverse set of products. Many are good, I'd still say some are bad. But it would be simplistic to remain suspicious and attached to an expired narrative.
An example of how NOT to use "boy" or "girl" -- (being a dick)

Its less about the actual word, more about the context.
> A machine learning researcher, a crypto-currency expert, and an Erlang programmer walk into a bar. Facebook buys the bar for $27 billion.

https://twitter.com/ml_hipster/status/438418306769244160
Russian reality TV show Game2: Winter to 'allow' rape and murder in Siberia
Does the MPG indicator actually enable anything? You can do all the things you describe without it. It's hard for me to believe that there's anyone independently discovering from their car's MPG indicator that minimizing throttle/brake usage improves mileage.
"Current policy forces them" is pretty strong. In 6 years on an H-1B, I switched jobs 4 times.

More recently, USCIS has given guidance on a "grace period" for H-1Bs who lose their employment- they now have up to sixty days to find another sponsoring employer.

Yes it could be easier to switch jobs, but "force" is not correct.
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the maintenance cost for a ARES-type rail system. For pumped hydro, your ongoing maintenance is largely going to be maintaining a pumping system (to send water up) and a generator system. Hopefully you build your reservoir properly so that it lasts for 30 years. For rail, you have to have to maintain a large number of moving parts. It won't be cheap to insure all the parts are greased and good to go. I think it's a lot easier to maintain a set of pumps and generators than it is to maintain what is essentially a rail fleet filled with gravel on a mountain.
Have you personally tried the Hololens? They appear to have oversold the qualities of at least the first version.
Good point, I never thought of applying that technique here, it always struck me as a no brainer decision. The reality is you need to hear a few objections to start understanding the mind of the prospect and how to counter their objections.
The real benefits will be things like a decent contract with e.g. proper treatment of overtime, sensible safety policies and so on. Which you absolutely get to free-ride on.
So, in your opinion, Trump is big-hearted?
Autism as a disorder of prediction [pdf]
Because he told the store that he didn't care and just wanted the hardware.

Which is a perfectly valid and understandable viewpoint.

As is the store's viewpoint that no matter what is said now, the average consumer (not GP poster) is an asshole and will try to bring their purchase back a week from now citing all of the problems that they just said would not be a problem.
Facebook won't help build a Muslim registry
I'm sorry, you'll have to wait til I die to see my awesome todo list.
The empty tuple/unit is not the same as void. It has exactly one possible value, void has zero possible values. A way to write it in Rust is `enum Void {}` (an enumeration with no options).
Yeah, we all live in our own bubble. You're right that I was being condescending. My goal was to point out that things that appear indelibly true to you may not be universally true throughout society. Probably not a fight worth having, oops!
What a silly thing to be pedantic about. It doesn't change anything - the output could get stuck at either state. Moreover, it was meant as an easily understood example. Can you really not envision a software bug that would lock someone in the car? The point is, the mechanical design should allow the occupant to get out, regardless of any fault in the electronics or software.
Interesting. There was this company called Vignette (in the same period). They too were doing .com projects for clients, and, IIRC, using AOLServer which I read was in Tcl. Tcl was used for the projects.
> Arranged marriage seems pretty horrible, but in talking to an indian coworker recently, they commented that having to find your partner seemed pretty horrible to them

It's the part where people are forced where they don't want to that I don't like. There's plenty of people married to someone introduced by their parents. You should be able to take another path when you want to.
The query language for Riemann uses a parser made with ANTLR. ANTLR has many compile targets, so it was reasonably easy to port the parser from Clojure to Nodejs.

https://github.com/riemann/riemann/blob/master/resources/que...

https://github.com/nextorigin/riemann-query-parser/blob/mast...

I'm using it with Godot2, a Riemann-like streaming monitoring system in Nodejs.

https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2-dash