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> Suppose the device is a machine. It initially looks like it responds by beeping when illuminated. However, we falsify this theory by finding different patterns of light and dark, some of which cause the machine to beep and others that don't, falsifying that theory.

But that's not a theory, it's an observation, and it cannot be falsified, only contradicted. We observe the machine's outputs without any deep understanding of the reasons for the behavior or a grasp of why it's acting as it is. Therefore when we draw a conclusion about a repetitive pattern, and make an assertion about the pattern, we could easily be contradicted by another observer seeing a different pattern and drawing a different conclusion. Those are contradictions, not falsifications.

Say we're an alien, visiting earth, and we see cars moving along a road. By observation we conclude that the cars have to stay in line, no one can force their way through all the other cars. It's a "theory".

Then a fire truck appears and does exactly what we asserted could not happen -- it makes all the other cars move out of the way. But our "theory" is not falsified, it's contradicted. A falsification would require (a) a deep understanding of why cars behave the way they do, and (b) a theoretical falsification based on that deep understanding, not simply a new observation that contradicts an old one.

Another example. For a while there was a mental illness called "Asperger Syndrome". It came into being in meetings of psychologists who talked about it, and who eventually voted it into the DSM.

Everybody liked this new mental illness, it became very popular. Some psychologists even claimed that a lot of famous people had it -- Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein and Bill Gates, to name just a few. This roster of famous "Aspies" made the mental illness even more popular, especially among young people.

Then things got out of control, and people were actually proactively demanding the diagnosis, for themselves and/or their children. The fact that they could collect Social Security disability payments might have been a factor.

Seeing the clamor about this disease and fearing the consequences of a public backlash, the psychologists held another vote and voted Asperger Syndrome out of the DSM (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html).

So, was Asperger Syndrome falsified? No, not at all. It wasn't falsified because it was never more than an observation -- it never had a theoretical basis. As a result, Asperger Syndrome is neither true nor is it false, and anyone can contradict anyone else while discussing it. By the way, the same thing was true about homosexuality about 30 years ago, with the same controversy and the same outcome -- it was a recognized, listed mental illness, then it wasn't.

This is not science. And it won't be until we understand the brain. Understanding the mind is not only not helping, it's an obstacle, because people have come to think of the mind as a cause of behavior, when it's clearly an effect of the workings of the brain, and science can't be based on effects -- it must be based on causes.
The CERN doesn't have a CEO, though.
If you were an "expert" you wouldn't be negotiating an internship offer.

(Side note: have you considered working w/ ESR? I think your personalities are very similar.)

Also: "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while."
Forget all this pussy lawsuit bs. This is when you do the right thing by hunting down mike#2 with a shotgun.
Can you tell us,
Why you need an internship? What you did, why you consider you as an expert in the field?
How about a giant container ship full of hard drives sneakernet style? :)

Largest container ship in the world: 19224 TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent containers). Volume is about 39 meters cubed for each one. Volume of a 10TB about 392 cubic centimeters. I can fit about 99490 drives in 1 TEU. This gives me 19,125,957,600 TB of space on this giant container ship. Okay granted it might take a while for his request but it works out to be a pretty good speed.
That's not fair to this community. The overwhelming majority neither post nor think like this.
Thank you! I use a small number of ETW events (one of the reasons is that I wanted to use the console output). WPT (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/commercial...) or Perfview (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=285...) reveal the whole power of ETW, providing details such as thread context switches, DPC or APC requests.
That is just an appeal to authority rooted in the assumption that corporations never make purchasing decisions based on vendor marketing.
That's certainly an interesting theory, that voting for Trump gave people the illusion of agency in bettering their lives.

I've often thought of a Trump voter as akin to a Bernie Madoff investor. Madoff's investors were promised, and at least for a time, were delivered great returns. Trump supporters have been told that their good paying jobs will be restored, the government will be fixed, and a whole host of conservative ideals will be implemented, all immediately. Madoff's investors were unwilling to critically examine their investments, because that would be looking a gift horse in the mouth. Trump supporters seem willing to overlook any logistical concern with achieving Trump's plans, because the promised outcome is everything they've ever wanted, and must be preserved.

In both cases, a judgement has been made that the payoff is so irresistible, that any critic can be easily dismissed as someone who doesn't want the "mark" to receive what they believe they are about to receive.

In this context it is understandable why Trump supporters are so keen to accept a single correlation as causation, instead of cautiously evaluating why assertions might not be true. It is human nature to desire positive change in one's life. The more significant or positive that change, and more imminent that change appears, the less likely a person is to balance their emotional response with logical examination.
The Australian voice is definitely Australian, and the British, British, for me.

I'm British. Are you British or Australian? I've found Americans often confuse us.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.

I'm pretty sure the NYT have punctilious policies down to the nth degree about this stuff, but even if they don't it doesn't matter. Comments here should focus on the substance of an article, not one-up a newspaper's punctuation.
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Does it support indexdb, or is it not designed for larger storage needs?
Those examples also show regional variation: in most forms of U.S. English "naught" and "nil" are almost unheard of today and those examples would be "3-oh-8" and "1-zero" (or "1-nothing" or "1-oh", or maybe some other variants that would probably be marked as humorous or satirical like "zip" or "zilch").
the juvenile BS was always there, and was never a threat before?
localStorage is pretty much only thing we need these days.
True and I'm not disputing you. In India it also depends on the kind of social circle you have. I have heard of such stories myself. However, it largely depends on who you make friends with or have relations with.

But these are all incidents that have a backdrop of some sort and these stories are quite common in any country you go to. I'm not talking about such incidents. What I'm talking about is random shootings: Rarely is it the case (at least I haven't heard of any in India) that some random stranger comes up to you and starts unloading bullets just because you are of some different ethnicity/background. Be it school shootings or pub fights, most incidents that come out of USA are racial targeting where the perpetrator does not have any idea about his targets (victims).

Even the caste-based violence in India stems out of some real backdrop: Inter-caste marriages, dowry harassment etc. All these are avoidable if you have the right social circle. What you can't avoid is crazies going around with guns shooting random people based on how their look.
Any technical reasons in particular? I'm curious.

How many passes is it doing? I suspect they aren't doing much optimization then? Maybe they patch in differences in the ASTs at the IR level and work from there?
Gotta start contributing to TB now. Thanks for all the insight.
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I'm sure the NYT has a style guide they use to determine such usage, which may be counter to what you're used to.
I'm sure the NYT had a style guide they use to determine such usage, which may be counter to what you're used to.
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Ask HN: Will JavaScript take over the world of programming?
I'm Nawaz and I work with CloudBoost.io We have SDK's for JS, Android, iOS and more. We see more than 82% of our API consumption is with the JS SDK, 11% on Android and 6.8% on iOS and less than 0.2% on REST.

JS can now be used on the server (with Node), on mobile (with ReactNative / Ionic / etc), on the embedded (with CylonJS). Do you think there will be one language in the future which will make lives of dev's a lot easier?
Ahoy mantia. Nice work so far – here are some thoughts that might be useful
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a witch hunt in an accusation going looking for someone to accuse, not an accusation doggedly following the accused.
> I immediately took screenshots of these chat messages and reported him to HR.

Instead of just telling the guy never to make such a proposal again.

> this was clearly sexual harassment and he was propositioning me

You might as well call it gang rape. Sure it's one of the most idiotic ways to talk to women, however it's nowhere near a level that deserves to be called harassment, it also only happened once. I remember watching a video where a guy tapped a woman on the shoulder and people will calling it sexual assault.

It's a real shame that everything has to be about sex and race nowadays, I would rather talk about the rest of the article where she talks about corruption inside the company.
That's to be a registered engineer. It means you can sign off on human-used structures and machines. Lots of people are engineers, and just get a registered engineer to look it over and sign off before production.
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It might backfire and your company forbids HTTPS "so that employees can't disclose company secrets without IT having traceability".
I entered 890 when correct answer was 89. 89 is all shown in green at the end and its hard to know which ones I got wrong.
Other than that, really fun to play.
I would categorize that under "energy", which is still oddly absent from the 2017 version. People must see a few solar panels around and assume the problem's fixed.
It's even better when it's "Oh, he's a good person and has never done this before and I'm sure he'll never do it again" followed by studiously failing to document the incident so that every time is the first time.
Yeah, but there's for example also a Pocket Android app and iOS app. Those should get open-sourced now, too, and I heavily doubt that they were before.
The lack of a true, independent, freestanding multimedia application which can handle this sort of thing -- building and managing queues, interrupting, deleting, sorting, etc. -- puzzles me.

The browser is such an obviously poor place to stick A/V. Other than, of course, the fact that advertisers slobber over cramming every more crap down some "channel" or other.
Almost! Except if you want to store objects/arrays/numbers (localStorage only supports strings), or want your site to work in Safari Private mode (where localStorage breaks), or if you have to support legacy environments with old browsers (like many government services), etc etc etc :)
I can understand how this is an issue, however I kind of take issue in the way the article is written: starting with comparing the US to Nazi Germany and then escalating it to equate this with the Holocaust. Only then quietly noting that "they remain popular in Europe, Russia, and China." Kind of polarising from the get-go.
At Nokia there is no frontiers to innovation, they just released the game changing 3310. A true example of listening to people's ideas.
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You can back it with any storage you want :) See https://github.com/marcuswestin/store.js#write-your-own-stor... for a quick explanation of how you'd do that.
Here's a paper on economists that change their position based on the political winds. Krugman is by far the biggest offender: https://econjwatch.org/file_download/430/BarkleyMay2010.pdf?...

The conclusion on Krugman is as follows:

> To my knowledge Krugman has not addressed his overt partisanship. Until he does so, it is difficult to give him the benefit of the doubt. Krugman has changed his tune in a significant way regarding the budget deficit when the White House has changed party.
To explain the other answer a bit more: TLS upgrades have always been opt-in. The problem is that you have to be very clever where you put that option, or some (expensive and popular and dumb) webservers and middleboxes will just freak out and block the client.

The obvious place is the TLS version number in the handshake. It can say "I support up to TLS 1.3" and the other side can say "I support up to TLS 1.2" and the obvious choice is 1.2. But again, some webservers and middleboxes, as soon as they see 1.3 there, they freak out, block the connection completely.

Another idea for where to put it is in the candidate ciphers list - a "oh and I support TLS 1.3" pseudo-"cipher". The other side is supposed to just not use it if it's not recognized. Bug again, some stuff out there just freaks out.

Why do they freak out? Sometimes it's because someone thought that any unrecognized bit could be a hacking attempt. Sometimes it's because the software starts as a pile of bugs and is just debugged to the point that it mostly works today (and at that time "1.3" was never seen at exactly that spot).

So the goal of "GREASE" is to put random not-enumerated values in places like the ciphers list. Once a server or middlebox is compatible with GREASE, it'll be compatible with any future optional upgrade signal being present in those parts of the TLS handshake.

(I'm not sure where GREASE has been implemented so far, and I'm not sure if TLS 1.3 is 100% finalized yet.)
> you lose your man license.

If you want men to do something, just threaten their masculinity. It seems you know the infallible trick of emasculation.
A less of a classic but a really good discussion http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-coloni... (the whole Musk series is worth the read too).
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According to Kara Swisher (journalist), Google (the corporation) did not throw him a party: https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/836456506102947840
I've never seen a movie or television show that portrayed something I knew well, where it was accurate.

Every time I thought I learned something from a movie or tv show it was because they were portraying something I didn't know a lot about. I would be very slow to say any kind of entertainment like this is educational.
Yes, it is not environment stimulating free mind and its products.. Confusing, is not it?
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Job and other tips I learned the hard way (still making some mistakes):

Rule #1: Negotiate from a position of strength.

Fact #1: We tend to negotiate badly when we are desperate. Human nature.

Fact #2: Desperation is a state of mind. You can really be in dire circumstances but keep a calm mind. This can be learned. I know stoic folks who are cool as ice when negotiating at the precipice of existence! Super men! (This is where I fail many times.)

Fact #3: (Certainly my experience) When we quit one job summarily without alternative options already lined up, we are likely to create a desperate mindset. It creeps into our attitude and plants the seeds for exploitation. Avoid this as a rule no matter how shitty things get. Plan B first, then quit.

My advice to you is find another job but don't expect it to be better. Plan your Plan B while there.

Best of luck, bro/sis. Employers can be ruthless sometimes.

I would take some time during the next job seeking stage to do stuff I like. Travel? Perspective comes with distance.
We banned this account for taking HN threads on tedious ideological tangents and ignoring our requests to stop.

Please stop making accounts to break the HN guidelines with.
You make a good point. Especially if the definition of "politicizing" something includes "lying, subtly or blatantly, about something in order to advance your agenda". (Which I think it always has.)

That does make things harder to know, and unemployment is a good example.

To answer your question, off the top of my head I think the unemployment rate is about the same (+/- 0.5%?) as it was this time last year, and rounds to 5%. However I am pretty sure that the reason I think that is because that's what the US Dept. of Labor says.

It's an interesting example because it's not a topic on which I have expertise, so I've (tentatively, maintaining some uncertainty) decided to go with what I perceive to be the most credible authority on the matter.

I've heard many of the alternate narratives, but haven't been convinced, probably because I usually perceive some ulterior motivation along with them (leaving aside candidate Trump's insane "42%" claim, which is something different).

This is exactly what makes me despair of the current environment; I don't want to do a bunch of my own research to tease out the unemployment rate. I would much prefer it if society would promote achieving an accurate consensus on this kind of issue, by collectively punishing blatant liars and diminishing their credibility, and on the other hand reacting with outrage if the official government statistics were politicized.

That seems not to be the trendline we are on, though...

P.S.
Am I wrong to place my trust in the official unemployment statistics? ;-)
I don't think calling it a "witch hunt" (a rather loaded term) is an accurate depiction at all of what is going on. Remember, in the true sense of the word, the targets of said witch hunts weren't actually witches, which is VERY disputable and an unpopular opinion to hold in this scenario where the harassers are clearly damningly guilty.
Mozilla releases their financial reports about two years after any given financial year, so we should soon know for sure and I also just really can't imagine them having lied as a result of that.
As opposed to a hundred years ago when these were thriving places?
chatterbeak, your account appears to be shadowbanned - or at least, all recent comments show as dead
If business is about winning, then during one of the chief components of business; sales, the business is making the customer into a loser when they transact.

Is that the kind of business you're engaged in?
Have you compared it to this implementation?
http://www.ilikebigbits.com/blog/2016/8/28/designing-a-fast-...
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> How do kiosk machines now work? How can I trust any website when every use is first use?

Should you ever really trust kiosk machines? They could easily be setup with MITM eavesdropping software.

> What about https domains for images and scripts? Is the user supposed to trust each domain separately?

Presumably there could be some sort of <meta> header that listed the public key fingerprint/IDs of any subdomains that the page was going to pull in. This would make the UX better.

> Assuming trusting a domain trusts all its other domains mentioned in its content-security-policy, how is this trust revoked for misuse?

AFAIK, revocation isn't very good even with the current CA infrastructure[1][2].

[1] https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/04/24/certificate-re...

[2] https://www.maikel.pro/blog/current-state-certificate-revoca...
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This whole too-big-to-fail reasoning really galls me.

When a company is too big to fail it means that if it fails there's a systemic risk for an entire economy. Banks (and it's mostly banks), which are too big to fail are so interewoven with other banks, multinational companies and the economy as a whole that a failure can bring other institutions to the brink of exctinction and by extension wreck havoc on the entire economy.

Thousands of people out of a job does not mean too big to fail. No more being able to hail an Uber may be inconvenient, but it's no systemic risk to the economy.

Look at Enron. They had north of 20'000 employees when they imploded. And they where in a far more critical sector of the economy than Uber can ever dream to be. While it was brutal for the employees (who partially lost their life savings) and while I think there should be a special place in hell for the responsible executives Enron's demise had hardly any effects on the economy as a whole.

I'm not jumping on you personally. It's just that this too-big-to-fail nonsense in combination with Uber is thrown around an awful lot recently.

And it's utter bullshit.
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It's more like $600 rig + $800 headset minimum for room scale today. We know hardware gets cheap fast.
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I have thought of that, but my skills weren't good enough at the time.

This is my old (now unworking) code: https://gist.github.com/DeftNerd/4abf63c7d0e680d62a2cd26d534...

It was able to pull from an API of "Suggested endorsements" so I could run it from one page. That "Suggested Endorsements" API endpoint doesn't seem to be around anymore.

I'm going to rebuild using Selenium. It's heavier, but it'll be easier for me to script actions across page clicks and I can run it headless as a cron job.
For applications that have extremely fast server response times, it seems simpler to just send the HTML, keep JavaScript to the minimum and use prefetching for likely next clicks to ensure the next response is cached.

This site is fast, without PRPL.
It's only the first generation, akin to those giant blocky cellphones in the 90s. I manage one or two 2 hour sessions per day though. My wife and I just got out of a 2.5 hour one (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/125324129).
I launched a development focused podcast directory (https://programmingpodcasts.com) last week. It features over 200 podcasts in the categories you mention.

Some I listen to regularly include:

- Full Stack Radio - http://www.fullstackradio.com

- SERadio - http://www.se-radio.net

- The Changelog - https://changelog.com

- Ruby Rogues - https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues

- The Laravel Podcast - http://www.laravelpodcast.com

- Bread Time - https://breadtime.simplecast.fm
Well, Google has a history of preferring HTML above all other interfaces. Only when someone else comes along and offers a better native interface, they jump in.

Thank god there's a native iOS/Android client.
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I feel that this isn't so much a 'new pattern' as just an elaboration on 'pre-load stuff you know you'll need', which again isn't so much a pattern as just being common sense.
Very good read that gives a pretty high level description of services:

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Microservices-Designing-Fine...
Please don't post trollish comments to HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13748108 and marked it off-topic.
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"he made Google what it is today". Then he is a bad guy after all. Ten links to the same website in the first result page is not marvelous.
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