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For all those who are coming from Vim and experience FOMO... I learned Emacs, it is fantastic editor. Org mode, it is nice, I tried to use it several times, it is a little bit overengineered, but very smart. I wasn't as awestruck with it.

I find whole Emacs ecosystem slow. After I type, things are slowly happening one, by one. Org Mode, especially coming from Vim is not that impressive, I do respect history of it.
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I'm deciding on a Javascript framework to use in building a real time chat application with a tiny footprint. I can't use React, Angular, Ember, or Vue because they are too large. I would build the app in vanilla Javascript, but I fear that it will become more and more difficult to maintain and I will end up reimplementing many already solved problems.

Some of the frameworks that I've seen that are small, fast, and well-liked are Preact, Inferno, Mithril, and Ractive. Does anyone have any experience with these, or even better, thoughts on a comparison between them?
I found myself spending far too much time on my iPhone, and most of this time was spent using Safari and Twitter for mindless browsing.

My approach to this was to uninstall all "problematic" apps, especially Twitter. Then I used my iPhone's Restrictions settings to hide Safari, and to prevent the installation of new apps. I then asked a friend to set a passcode on "Restrictions" so that I was unable to reinstall Safari, Twitter or anything else even if I wanted to.

After a few weeks, I got hold of the passcode again (to install something "essential" :)) but I have never since reinstalled Safari or Twitter. The habit was broken. Result: no longer do I walk down the street browsing the news, nor do I find myself staying up too late browsing in bed.

It's been a positive change for me.
Thanks, missed that.
Do you mean waiting for I/O? It's already possible to do I/O asynchronously or with separate locks. The interpreter lock only applies to the interpreter.
6 months without a debugger
The crime happening on Facebook should make it far easier for the FBI to track down the real people behind it.

This is something I don't understand... the NSA is listening to everything we do, watching everything we do, but when it comes time to find criminals we still struggle. Why? If they have all of our phone conversations and emails and social media profiles and the CIA owns Facebook and the FBI doesn't need warrants and all these doomsday scenarios about how the US is a police state, why do crimes even happen? And when they do, why does it take good old fashioned police work to solve them? And why do some still go unsolved?

If Facebook is tracking everything you do across the entire web, if they know who you are even if you don't have a profile, if they're invading your privacy that much, and if they're hosting illegal content, why can't they find the real names of these people? Why can't the FBI just issue a warrant for the data and Facebook hands over the people's names and home address?

Either law enforcement doesn't want to enforce the law, or the agencies don't actually have the capabilities we've been told they do. If they had the capability, you'd think they would actually use it. But when someone is threatening to shoot up a school on Twitter, it's not NSA wiretaps that catch him, it's users reporting him to Twitter and Twitter reporting it to the police. Where's the breakdown here? What happened to ECHELON?
> reverse BlueApron service

Like a cooking class, but without any lab work?
Oh, but you can! Check out ein-mode: https://tkf.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/
Make Confide great again? No, we cannot
While I could (and do) definitely have fun speculating that more than two states might be possible to represent - I can imagine a bunch of armchair physics possibilities - I didn't mean to suggest anything specific. The Bekenstein bound is only an idea, there's no known physical way to get even close.

Maybe ionizing states, or bonds using multiple kinds of atoms, or use of radioactive elements, maybe something like that could be used to represent multiple states... I'm sure IBM & other labs are pushing to find out as fast as funding permits.
But you don't feel more than weird about using their search engine for free?

I think of the personal data they collect from me and these types of things as my payment for their "free" services.
I don't know why you think I should trust the credibility of a psychology professor on the topic of nutrition - sure, his psychological study may have "touched on" dietary issues but that hardly makes him an expert.

As for your suggestion of relying on uncontrolled anecdotes - there are far too many variables to rely on people saying that a. they lost weight and b. it was due to the diet specifically.

Bear in mind, I'm not saying all this as a way to declare that the diet doesn't work. I'm just pointing out all the red flags for yet another false diet. There are more red flags than most fad diets I've seen. Especially the claim that you can still eat whatever you want at whatever portion and lose weight.
How is this different from a regular modem?
You still on this? The Snowden revealed the FBI lied about tons of things they could do. So did the NSA. Piles of them. If you need specifics, start with "Core Secrets" by The Intercept as it includes the slides saying FBI "compelled" companies to "SIGINT-enable" their products/networks. Which means forced backdoors through secret means.

So, in courts, FBI said that targets using encryption by U.S. companies was impossible to do anything about. They needed expanded powers under things such as All Writs Act to get at the information in such devices. In secret, they were backdooring U.S. companies' products with NSA. They and the DEA were getting actionable information from those programs that they had to hide from courts under a process called parallel construction. They had to create a second trail of evidence that made it look like they found the person another way. Then, get the conviction through that second trail of evidence. The FBI was also willing to dismiss cases any time its claims were tested in court presumably because the claims were lies and methods unconstitutional.

So, the Snowden leaks, the San Bernardino case, and activity around things such as Stingrays shows the FBI will lie to courts to achieve political or legal ends. They'll even sacrifice their own court cases to protect their illegal methods. So, your claim that they won't lie in court or that court has some power over their corrupt activities is false. They consistently mislead everyone they can about both encryption and backdoors. They even exit courts when caught without any criminal penalties whatsoever. James Comey is in fact still free and directing the FBI despite caught in tons of lies from Congress to courts to media.

FBI will lie about these topics in court. They've done it consistently for over a decade now and nobody there has been imprisoned for it. QED.
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I can't really compare the learning curves of Jupyter 7 org-mode, but I think org-mode's learning curve can be very easy (a lot of people make the mistake of trying to do everything all at once, rather than just using the things they need as they need them — I've been guilty of this in the past), and since org-mode just operates on simple text files it's extraordinarily easy to share documents.
"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com."

Damnit, I'm hitting this at least once a day on HN. It's the absolute stupidest thing to have to use a webcache or proxy to view BBC content. There's no excuse for this. I mean, there is an excuse for it, but it's ridiculous.
I have often wondered about this. Interesting to see an attempt to realize and analyze the concept.
I don't know about the last part since I haven't reached that stage, but I absolutely agree with this. And this perhaps holds more true when the generational gap is too much. e.g. young people with different ideologies from their parents tend to place a lot more emphasis on their friendships than their familial ties.

Ultimately though, its all about what works best. Friendships and family is great only when the relationships are open-minded, non-judgemental, share understanding and such. It is much easier for me to express my happiness and frustrations to my friends than to my mother. But I do have friends who will talk to their parents every day and that seems to work fine for them.

Personally, I don't think it is inherently bad that this happens. Relying exclusively on familial and patrimonial ties for socializing is incredibly limiting.
There's no fixed threshold. It depends on the alcohol tolerance of the microbes that happen to be present. 2% ABV might make a noticeable difference. 20% ABV will probably last forever.

However, it's not just the alcohol acting as a preservative, it's also the yeast using up other things microbes need, such as nitrogen sources ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast_assimilable_nitrogen ). 100% malt beer wort usually contains more than the yeast needs, but fruit juice, honey, and adjunct-heavy beer wort can have lower levels, and even in the 100% malt case the yeast might be able to use all of it. The yeast will use up vitamins and minerals too. It can be a problem if it means the yeast stops working before all the sugar is fermented ("stuck fermentation"), but adding excessive nutrients is also bad, because they'll make the final product more hospitable to other microbes.
That's bonkers. When was this, and what country or countries were you both in?

FWIW though, it's also possible she unknowingly had some sort of anti-obscenity filter turned on in her settings.
The poor in Bangladesh are at least allowed to have shelter in slums. Anywhere in the US it would be highly illegal and violate many regulations.
"Can a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?" argues several points (and is quite an enjoyable read!):
1. Current analytic approaches don't reveal much insight.
2. The authors advocate for using computer architectures as a synthetic model system for developing new analytic techniques.
3. They aren't arguing that the connectome is useless, in fact they needed the connectome to even begin their analysis.

I think the Wired title is a little overblown. I work in a connectomics lab (software, I'm not a scientist yet so take what I say with a grain of salt), and we've been having enjoyable debates about the paper. It's hardly a "war".

What's kind of interesting about the field of connectomics is that the engineering challenges have been massive enough that it's been hard for many labs to do science with their datasets until recently. Several papers have come out (e.g. a fly visual circuit, two dual mouse visual circuits, a few others), but they generally are findings on relatively small volumes. Thanks to a big grant that created a multi-lab consortium, we are getting closer to doing science with a big volume. We're one year into a five year process which will result in a petabyte size open dataset for the world to use.

Because so few datasets have been adequately reconstructed, and most labs have been obsessed with the reconstruction process, I think in the future, as we do more science, we'll discover better ways to glean insight from the neuroanatomy and physiology traces. It's a new field, so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that there are new methods to learn. I'm happy to talk about what goes into the reconstruction process. :)
If you read the NHS FAQ page though it seems bunk.

This because fruit juice and smoothies don't contain the fibre found in whole fruits and vegetables.

Fruit juices don't contain the fiber, but smoothies do. Its almost like they don't get the difference between a smoothie and fruit juice.

The sugars found naturally in whole fruit are less likely to cause tooth decay because the sugar is contained within the structure of the fruit.

That also seems like BS to me. I'm flossing more apple out of my teeth after eating an apple than after drinking a smoothie (where the fruit is going more straight down). I think they think you are swallowing whole fruit and not chewing it first.
First, imagine a halite crystal. In halite, ions of sodium+ and chloride- are stacked in an orderly fashion. If you orient the crystal correctly, you can put your mental finger on a sodium ion, and move it in the x dimension, and it will alternate NaClNaClNaCl-.... You can move your mental pointer in any of the spatial dimensions, and the state you encounter will alternate between the two component ions.

To turn the halite crystal into a (hypercubic) time crystal, you would need to move your mental pointer in the time dimension and see the ions alternate, just as they did in the spatial dimensions. You could potentially do this by causing those ions to spontaneously transmute into each other, in a cyclic fashion. Or you could oscillate the crystal at just the right orientation and speed. But both of those are currently beyond our technical capabilities.

In theory, if ionic attraction behaved similarly in the time dimension as in spatial dimensions, there will be a particular resonant frequency of oscillation that would indicate that the halite had gone from a cubic spatial crystal to a hypercubic spacetime crystal. But that oscillation speed is likely associated with a temperature that would destroy the spatial crystal by melting it. Too bad. You probably can't turn a halite crystal into a spacetime crystal. If you had one already, it might be metastable enough to not melt, but as they say, you can't get there from here.

But we can flip the spin of an electron. So instead of making an ionic crystal, you make an electron spin crystal in an existing molecular lattice structure. Then you pulse a laser at it to make all of the spins flip. In that situation, the crystal structure lines up to ensure that the spin-flips occur at a particular rate. If you stop kicking at it, it stops being a crystal, just like going past the physical boundary of an ionic crystal. If you add more sodium and chloride to halite, you can make the crystal grow in spatial dimensions. Adding more laser energy to a spin crystal causes it to grow in the temporal dimension.

And like adding the ions, you don't have to line them up exactly before letting them go. You just dump them, and the crystal orders itself. So those sort-of-random kicks give enough extra energy that the time crystal can keep growing in the time dimension. If you stop kicking, the crystal might have enough internal "conductiveness" of that spin-flip energy to keep flipping by itself for a while just from the previous kicks you gave it, or even the ones you haven't given it yet. But crystals have finite boundaries. Eventually, you get to the end of the crystal in the temporal dimension, and it stops flipping. But we have no idea how long you will have to watch it before it stops, since we don't know exactly how time crystals work.
For the clever design of the language: coding with optionals is a breeze, it defaults to thread-safe reference counting, a cleaner syntax (IMHO only), .... .

For the unifying potential of the language: swift on the server (currently linux / freebsd limited), swift on mobile (Google seems to be moving in this direction too), swift on the desktop (macOS only).
Google translate is decent for some languages and really poor for others - so I'd run it by some native speakers before you rely on it for anything important.
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To be fair though, there is a difference b/w helping a friend in need of liquid capital (e.g down payment on a car) and lending money to a chronically financially irresponsible person.
There are some pretty strict limitations on this. I knew a lawyer who had to take such a defence case and he refused to look at the evidence.

He also was not allowed to share the evidence with anyone in his office: no interns, paralegals, assistants .. only people who were directly involved in the prosecution.

I think this might also be why Microsoft seemed to only have one individual looking for so much of this content. He might have been given specific clearance with Microsoft/the justice department (the guy that was in an article a few weeks back for suffering from PTSD from that job).
Was it really him? I can't wait to see photoshop analysis to see if it was CGI'd.
I think the issue of "not understanding each line of code" in Swift is due to a poor learning experience, and not the language itself. If the person teaching you doesn't inspire confidence that he knows what each line does, you should look for a new teacher. JavaScript has a much wonkier syntax and structure than Swift, especially if we're talking about ES5.
It's growing. It is seen as a business, so lots of new investment going in there. Quality of service where available privately is quite comparable or even better than their foreign counterparts.
Yes, but if the web was a new invention that probably wouldn't be in the rules.
I was thinking something similar. Though I doubt it would be an "order" in the case of a child abuse sting, it seems possible that the initial response was so tepid because there were competing motivations within FB to maintain cooperation on a sting vs. be responsive to the BBC.
>> Anyone know of more videos like this one?

Sure. Similiarities of Wave Behavior (1959)
https://youtu.be/DovunOxlY1k?t=93

The link above skips the modern fluff at the beginning. Shive uses a mechanical transverse wave machine to demonstrate the concepts involved in transmission lines, including reflection, standing waves and impedance matching.
It's still early, 2017 will be exciting times with Swift 4.

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No, that's just not valid. One thing does not become less horrible because another thing is more horrible. The relative horribleness might change, the absolute does not.

If you are against coal and therefor for nuclear, that's your choice to make. I'm against both, and thus the whole "but coal kill people too" does not apply at all to my thinking.
Government runs hospitals in every town but only poor people use them(though they put up with bribes here). Rich and middle class typically use private health care as its generally better. Private health care in cities is excellent even by western standards. In towns, its decent. Poor also turn to private hospitals when time is important or when government doctors fail. One thing government does well is giving vaccines to new born and infants.

Also, many times, you just walk up to a pharmacy and ask the pharmacist for a medicine instead of talking to the doctor. Saves money and time
I'd say the clear answer is that we can't boil down entire world movements to a single factor.
I still think $5,000 is ridiculously low. Lots of research like this fails and it happens you do the work just to be told someone already filled a similar bug before.
I feel this is on topic as it relates to you using Google services without payment.

This isn't information sharing, this is using a service which has costs (hardware, software, employee time, power, cooling, etc...). You are using the ReCAPTCHA service. If you don't pay them for that (either in time or in money) then in my opinion you are stealing the cost of that service.

Just like how if you got a taxi, then just walked away without paying. Yeah, you aren't stealing any physical goods, but you are costing the taxi company something and you aren't paying for it. And if you agreed to get a free taxi ride in exchange for washing their taxi car for them, and you just walked away at the end, that would be stealing in my eyes.

Using the reCAPTCHA service lets them use the data from it for machine learning. That's the reason they are providing it for free, and if you attempt to use the service without paying (or in your scenario maliciously provide false information, which not only doesn't contribute, but can mess up the results from those who do), I feel you are stealing it just the same.
Yeah, I have third-party cookies blocked and have never seen "i'm not a robot" captchas, it's "street signs"/"mountains" ones all the way.
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I'd be interested. I have a lot of programming experience, just started on machine learning. etc. My email is in my HN profile.
Anything can kill you. You can kill somebody with a piece of wood, a nuclear device, gaz, light, shock waves, a baby, a golden coin...

And any matter is a chemical. Using "synthetic" as a qualifier allow me to distinguish "fructose" from "paracetamol". You will less likely see important traces of cobra venom in the water.

It's not perfect, but I fail to find a better term.
Yeah, I think this is the only true fact.
I think its a case-by-case thing. I have friends I hang out with all the time and yet I would never expect to e.g. take me to the ER room at 3am in the morning. And others who I see once a month and can reliably expect them to. At some point, you have a fuzzy mental ranking of all your relationships along certain attributes. So the first friend ranks high on "fun" but low on "dependable", while for the second one it is opposite.
Honestly this sounds like overcomplicating a system just for the sake of it. Drivetribe can be implemented reliably in Django or Rails without any of these fancier "architectures". But then considering that the product itself is not innovative, perhaps they needed something to sell to their naive recruits.
Actually ended now. Recording will be uploaded to their channel later they said.
I get that but I find strange that in 2017 in modern countries water quality should still be a debate. It should be in the "problem solved" category.
It's always refreshing to see a case of literal survivorship bias.
Telltales on sails were a Gentry invention and they were long known as Gentry tufts. He's also known for disproving the 'slot effect' theory. The more complex theory is the Kutta condition covered in the article. He went to Cal (class of 55), as did Lowell North, Paul Bieker and Tom Blackaller.
We spell CMS "erb."
I am totally ignorant to Erlang (though it is in my top 5 of languages to learn); why do you think it would be different?
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> pages explicitly for men with a sexual interest in children

> images of under-16s in highly sexualised poses, with obscene comments posted beside them

> groups with names such as "hot xxxx schoolgirls" containing stolen images of real children

> an image that appeared to be a still from a video of child abuse, with a request below it to share "child pornography"

That's what I thought. None of the above things are illegal (well, maybe the last one. IANAL). The 2nd one was common on Reddit's /r/jailbail subs before they shut them down.

They most likely do violate Facebook's terms of service, but with their massive userbase, I bet these pop up and get removed faster than their staff can deal with them.
What was missing for us "old skoolers" so as to get back in touch with all those great demos in the demoscene.

<nostalgia>

I remember when I was downloading the Hornet archive (now at https://hornet.org/) or demos from The Scene (http://scene.org) using the university connection back in the 56K modem days.

I still remember my first time, Second Reality by Future Crew :-)

Unfortunately due to lack of time my last contact with the demoscene was with Iconoclast by Andromeda Software Development (http://www.asd.gr)

</nostalgia>
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