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Just reminded myself of another option:

https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca
> it means someone thinks that the software isn't worth the value being asked

Um... or it means, that it means that (utility - list price) < (utility - FREE).

If there are no consequences, a HUGE number of people are happy to just get something for free. And frankly, with enforcement near 0, it's a logical conclusion.

It doesn't mean there is anything wrong with your price. It means people are happy to steal if they won't get caught.
As long as you use framebuffer consoles.
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Ask HN: Java tools for clone detection and removal?
I'm gonna go with the character disorder of narcissism on this one, though that can certainly combine with psychopathy.
Lost 26kg (25% of my weight) in 2013. Doing great so far. Stepping on the scales every day makes sure that weight gain doesn't creep up on me.
Please don't comment like this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13897306 and marked it off-topic.
By "rigor" you mean "math". But economics itself is the best proof that math can be used to cargo-cult your opinions to fame and fortune.

While there are some attempts with evidence-based policy, these sciences just aren't really at the point where math is useful (yet).

Math mostly requires reducibility: the ability to split it into small parts and look at these individually. That approach worked incredibly well in physics, and with the Manhattan project at the latest, it proved that it was mightier than any human endeavour before it.

But while, theoretically, everything could be reduced to physics, that isn't always the level of abstraction that works best. If you're depressed, a physicist isn't going to help you. Medicine may – but a psychologist, even though the discipline is scientifically flawed - is still an important tool in the set available to us.

Sociology is psychology on a population-scale. In that regard, it may be almost impossible to reduce because of nonlinear effects, chaos etc. That severely limits applying results from prior experiment X,Y,Z to situation B – because what you usually do is split situation B into components (B1=X,B2=Y,B3=Z,...), each of which is quite generic and has been studied in detail. So you'd have to run your own experiment on B, and the questions of sociology would require you to run an A/B experiment, with both A and B being, for example, New York.
I'm pretty sure you don't need a PhD to figure that one out!
Section 8 isn't a failed program.
> Nearly all airline tickets seem to be sold at very different prices for exactly the same good.

There's nothing illegal about the same product being sold at different prices at different times. Or at different prices from different retailers. Or about slightly different products being sold at wildly different prices (ticket allows changes or cancellations, for example).

Airline ticket price variation is mostly due to those things, none of which is directly discriminatory in the sense of offering different prices to different people. Although they are all, to some extent, deliberate market segmentation (trying to encourage people with higher budgets to pay more).
Yeah, hyperbolic statements abound. I laugh at the thought of 'arcane art' being used to describe XHR requests!

Abstractions awesome and can be very powerful...but please...
> I think the argument is that the economics need to change. People need to stop being irresponsible - we need liability when someone is negligent, just like in any other engineering discipline.

I totally agree with that and have been a long time proponent of liability for damage caused by software bugs.

But that would have to be all bugs, not just some classes of bugs.

> Show me another language with no garbage collection, memory safety, C/C++ level performance that has been anything other than academic.

D.

And by the way, rust is only 'memory safe' as long as you don't disable the safety mechanisms, so I think 'memory safe by default' would be a better way to describe it.
I often use google to find the answer, then go read the man page for it.
I understand some of the subject, but I didn't understand the point this article is trying to make. There's a lot of the usual popsci about QM, and then this...

"In this case, the physicists hypothesised the act of measuring time in greater detail requires the possibility of increasing amounts of energy, in turn making measurements in the immediate neighbourhood of any time-keeping devices less precise.

"Our findings suggest that we need to re-examine our ideas about the nature of time when both quantum mechanics and general relativity are taken into account", says researcher Esteban Castro."

joe_the_user's link to the original paper is infinitely more useful than the article itself. The paper seems to imply something fundamental about how anything that we can use as a lock must function, then lays the usual assumptions from QM on top; that makes sense, although who knows if it's true?

I don't get the sense from the paper that it's something we could reasonably probe with current or near-future tech. Worse, their conclusions about whether or not spacetime intervals can be absolutely defined may rely on an arbitrary level of precision.
> So like why don't they just fucking do it.

Google shovels billions into these absurd projects that never go anywhere and nobody blinks because it's Google. They announce projects and then cancel them just before they hit store shelves, or worse, after they've sold some and then decide to arbitrarily brick them. It's just Google being Google. Nobody cares.

Apple removes a single connector on their product and everyone goes apeshit. "Apple's doomed!" "Apple profits are going to suffer! Sell!" Doesn't matter that their device sold in record numbers. It's about perception.

Apple has to tread carefully. They too unbelievable amounts of shit on the Cube, a computer that in retrospect was just one stepping-stone on the path towards the very successful Mini, and on other "failures". They're allergic to public humiliation like that, and a desktop computer that sells only in low volumes is a failure.
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Apologies for the oversight, you are 100% right and I should have definitely included those.
What parse open sourced is not what they were running on their backend. It also now doesn't come with devops, new features, etc.
Sometimes it's a matter of the law not being enforced. In the case of airline tickets, the price differences are mainly due to market fluctuation over time.
As a school reform idea, no. Putting blacks into the general vicinity of whites does not appear to cause them to have better educational outcomes.

I don't find this too surprising, actually. It would be pretty strange if white people emitted pheremones (or whatever) that improve the educational performance of people around them.
They offer you the job before they know if you're going to move or not, so it wouldn't make sense for that to affect the salary, unless you mentioned upfront that you planned to abscond to Iowa or wherever.
Does iMessage work without utilizing a real mac's serial number? I learned my lesson after I used the same serial to get it working on my hackintosh and then I got locked out on my real mac. Ended up resolving it after a few support messages.
I'm mostly with you, no diff - but some psychologists do make a distinction, both have no empathy, but the sociopath has spent much more time learning how to manipulate others and may have a desire to appear normal in order to get away with more stuff; whereas it may never have occurred to a purer psychopath that he or she should really try not to stick out so much, since s/he doesn't naturally see things (including him or herself) from anyone else's point of view.

Historically, the term sociopath was first introduced as a replacement for "psychopath" since, for some reason, there seemed to be stigma attached to that term. Later introducing "Antisocial Personality" was tried as another attempt to duck the stigma. Somehow it didn't work, can't imagine why, and the terms have been at least slightly repurposed by at least some psychologists.
Regarding VSTS: The swimlaning of items drives me crazy.

I also could not manage to filter for undone items, that are assigned to me or have a parent assigned to me. (the parent thing is the difficulty)
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I built a crazy fast Hackintosh using the intel 8 core 5960x CPU. 17000 on Cinebench. However I sold it a week ago.

Being iOS developer really sucked, as I needed to upgrade OS X for Xcode but the CPU wasn't supported with Sierra for 6 months.

Also I spent at least 2 weeks of work on it during the year I had it. So not worth it. But there are slower cpus that are better supported. It was fun the days it worked though:)
> Intellectual humility was associated with a greater willingness to believe and vote for a candidate who changed his position on an issue. Being open to the possibility of changing their own beliefs, people higher in intellectual humility view such behaviors more positively when observed in others. Interestingly, however, the effect was obtained only for participants who identified themselves as Republicans even though intellectual humility scores did not differ among Republicans, Democrats, and Independents.

(DOI: 10.1177/0146167217697695)

It's very badly written, but it says that correlation 2 is present only among Republicans. Which, as you said, doesn't negate point 1, but it's still a weird and interesting result.
The way you've conducted yourself in this thread is a bannable offense on HN. I've not banned you, because your other comment history is better (though you've not always posted substantively). If you do this again, though, we will ban your account.
I bought my Mac the first month they appeared in 1984. I won't bother you with the ensuing history, but I will raise a question related to it:

I remember when Apple could not offer a retail OS, not without cannibalizing hardware sales. If Pro desktops fade, is that still true for that segment? Or could they offer something Xeon only (to keep out commodity laptops) as a legal Hackintosh? Or do certified configurations a la Oculus? If their profit is in mobile, and cloud services, it might help more than hurt.

FWIW I like Debian now, and the non-intrusive UI.
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In their paper, "Clone Detection Using Abstract Syntax Trees"[1], the authors wrote, "While cloning may be unstructured, it is commonplace and unlikely to disappear via fiat. Its very commonness suggests we should offer programmers tools that allow them to use implementations of abstractions without breaking encapsulation."

It seems deep learning would lend itself towards semi- or fully-automated code refactoring tools, such as:

* http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/Clone/index.html

* https://github.com/JnRouvignac/AutoRefactor

What other tools are available, preferably open source and IDE-independent, that can help eliminate duplicated Java code?

[1]: http://www.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2004-05/F/6431/Resea...
I think any kind of release and hoarding exploits without doing what's possible to get the holes closed is un-ethical no matter who the recipient is, there is not much in terms of shades of gray there.
Indeed. And worse, we have antitrust laws on the books already. All that remains is to actually enforce them.
There are other countries who went much further in their support for the poor, with much better outcomes.

...and to argue this along racial lines is simply preposterous. The idea that allowing businesses to discriminate poor minorities would actually help them is the worst kind of revisionism. The world has come a long way since the 60ies.
The probability of hitting a slow asset and hitting the 1-percentile goes up as the product of the number of assets. With 30 independent requests, one has an 80 percent chance of hitting the 5% latency percentile. Ouch.

If your sites have lots of requests, you will have to use a CDN to get good TTVC (time to visually complete). Reduce request counts and pull in the 99.9 percentile latency numbers.

800ms is an engineering flaw used to make their statements more :bold: dramatic :bold:. I will probably downvote netlify posts from now on.
You can't attack another commenter personally like this, regardless of how wrong they are. Please don't do this on HN again.
I consider these passively-stable waste disposal solutions that are supposed to last 10,000-1,000,000 years without maintenance over-engineered and founded on dubious assumptions. I think that something like surface dry cask storage in a dry, geologically stable area is a lot better. The facility should have ongoing monitoring and the capability to re-cask units every few decades or centuries. If there's some weird failure mode that can't be discovered in artificial accelerated aging tests, future caretakers will be much better poised to cope with the problem if they actually have access to the waste. You don't need to try to invent a language that will survive into deep time, you don't have to use gargantuan safety margins to in an attempt to offset the unknowns of deep time, and so on.

What if the maintainer-civilization collapses? And what if nobody a thousand years from now knows how to build steel and concrete vessels or detect ionizing radiation? The somewhat cold but IMO correct answer is then those future low-tech humans will not suffer much risk from our spent fuel, relatively speaking. Making steel and concrete, making radiosensitive photographic emulsions -- these are 19th century technologies. If humans of the distant future don't have even 19th-century-equivalent technology, they probably have such high ambient morbidity and mortality from infectious disease that leaking nuclear waste will not much diminish their quality nor quantity of life. Not to mention that the most dangerous components of spent fuel -- short- and medium-lived fission products -- will be diminished a billion-fold or more after 1,000 years pass.

Spent light water reactor fuel fresh from the reactor is orders of magnitude more hazardous per unit mass than any stable element. But after 1,000 years or so the hazard is greatly diminished. At that point it's more akin to a mundanely-hazardous waste like cadmium. Nobody plans how to communicate the hazards of cadmium exposure into geological time even though it endures forever.
"In the 1990s, it was very probably a naive comment about the state of the art of AI at the time."

And it's exactly the same right now.

Any competent discussion also needs to take into the account the various special interests who want it to be believed that AI is taking over irrespective of whether that is the truth or not... and why they want that.

It also needs to take into account the various crass errors in many of the economics papers on this topic - including basing the probability of automation on how "creative" an economist considers a job (Oxford) or creating economic measures which make no mathematical distinction between a Chinese factory worker and a robot (Ball State University).
Max Weber's theories on Protestantism being the cause of success in America have been pretty much thoroughly debunked when you control for differences in aptitude amongst the religious sects that arrived to America in it's early history. Not to mention his work led to the founding ideas of the Frankfurt School lol.
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Maybe should have been titled "A Discord Server for Functional Programming Discussion". The current title of "Discord and functional programming" suggests it's a post by the Discord devs, which would make sense based on their other recent engineering posts.
> On HN, commenters have a personal identity (which of course can be a pseudonym if you want). If some users want a site where there are no such identities, only free-floating comments with comment IDs, they should find or create such a site and participate there instead. There's room for lots of different kinds of internet forums. HN is just one kind, but it is that kind, and the reason we have moderation, including account bannage, is to preserve it as the kind of site it's meant to be.

I don't digest HN this way, at least - I prefer to separate the message from the person writing it. I'm also pleased to note that there are far fewer comment-reviewing/ad-hominem rebuttals on HN than on Reddit, and far fewer 'celebrities'.

On the flip side, I'm aware of some of the downsides of anonymous posting, so I can't disagree with you there.

I'm just afraid that a lot of times that you warn against throwaways, it's towards a controversial post (that's usually downvoted for being unpopular, but not otherwise against the rules of the site). I believe those posts have a lot of value, at least in reminding people that there are other perspectives and that nothing is 'obvious' (and maybe getting them a bit more passionate :) ). I'm afraid of these disappearing, as I've seen happen on sub-reddits that become debate-free echo-chambers.
I guess it came through like that unintentionally. I had a bad time dealing with procrastination back then, where I was writing up snippets and thoughts on a blog instead of working on projects that really pushed me forward in life. Tweaking html and whatnot.

I feel that most people crave attention more than they crave growing in whatever they are writing about. Maybe it all boils down to how I felt back then. These days, I read much more and write very little. It fits me at the moment, and I am better for not craving others attention and approval.

Oh well, I'll stick to fountain pens for now. :)
> For less than the cost of the Switch you can buy a "shitty watered down PC", that has MUCH greater performance, plays Blu-Ray, Netflix, and whatever else you want.

Can you link me to where I can buy this other portable gaming console which apparently even has a Blu-Ray player despite the small form factor?
Square Incident Summary: 2017–03–16
Oh, no.. this surely will not be another bad site, where company's upload virus infected ripped software and torrents to movies in continuously worsening quality. And surely the reeducation camp will succeed this time.

Is it really so tough to accept the simple fact that entertainment (games) is like a lot of other industrys (nuclear power, bread) a half socialized industry - meaning the state will intervene on shortage and pricespikes. Absolutely noone of those politicians you get to meet as lobbyist at fency dinner partys has a real interest on reducing tv-show and games piracy.

The day they would close the Consolecolosseum, because those plebeians did not pay the entrance ticket - there would be a riot to end all riots.
Sure you can turn your back to the bloody show, and preach to the good in man sitting on the ranks for entertainment.

The industries assembled here have taken alot of those "none"-customers there jobs. Now want to take there free entertainment and there food, while they wait for the lifes to drop to zero?

I want it written down into the Pre-Revolution-Chronicles that i did not support this madness.
Huh? Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu, Oracle... aren't successful?
>Taxpayers are paying $5,249 per bike

So progressive!
This is in response to the Square outage previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13887400
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Fantastic discussion
I think it is more about a general lack of trust; I think (my opinion) that neves was talking about choosing a technology for religion vs for pratical reasons.
Modern Western society seems to associate quantitative research with "rigor", and to believe that it is more objective than qualitative studies. Rather than take this approach, I believe it would be more worthwhile to say that all research will be influenced by the author's societal positioning. For example, consider how economists choose what metrics to use in their experiments. It seems to me impossible to say that those choices could ever be unbiased, free of influence by external forces.
What's interesting is Peter Thiel is one of the few rich people who accepts and says it openly that creating monopoly is the only way to get extremely rich. Although I don't like the deals he does to get government contracts, I can't deny that he's quite successful in creating monopoly.
It might be worth testing what makes one feel better. But you should do it with a blind study, to avoid bias and placebo effect.

It could indeed be that Roundup causes prolbems , although rationally thinking, the pesticides used in organic farming could be a more likely reason - e.g. copper is far more toxic to mammals (LD50 30 mg/kg) than Roundup (5600 mg/kg, safer by a factor of 100), and the amounts used in organic farming can be higher then those used with Roundup in conventional farming.
They seem to be saying that any measurement regime, in achieving the necessary accuracy, will cause arbitrarily large measurement uncertainties. The authors at least, seem to think that this is fundamental, but as you say, it might just be a limitation of our current notion of a highly accurate clock.

It might not matter though, if this is another in a long line of essentially non-falsifiable ideas.
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Accepted criticism. At times I wonder if it's worth it or not but I think the preparation is warranted considering how I have to just kind of commit to this whole thing if I play on moving cross country with my fiancee.
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It very much depends on the market. Someone pirating a $40 table plan program is almost certainly pathological, granted. A lot of other software is totally unaffordable for keen amateurs or people in developing countries.

In my field (music technology), most software ranges from hundreds to thousands of dollars. A serious composer might have $30,000 worth of software licenses. Cut-down licenses are usually available, but they're often too barebones to be useful; paying for software that's worse than the pirated version is difficult to stomach if you're on a tight budget.

I fully understand why a 19-year-old EDM producer might choose to torrent Ableton Suite and Komplete Ultimate, rather than trying to find $2,000 for full licenses or paying $300 for a tiny fraction of the full functionality. Even the cut-down licenses seem absurdly expensive if your price anchor for software is $0.99.

It's a really difficult problem and I'm not sure what the solution is. I suspect that there's now a tragedy of the commons problem - piracy is so rampant that the costs are being priced into software, which just makes it less affordable. The minority who do pay for their software are subsidising the majority who don't. Heavy-duty DRM solutions like iLok[0] have barely made a dent on the problem and created a huge amount of annoyance for legitimate customers.

The bigger players are deeply integrating their software with proprietary hardware[1][2][3], which seems to be a promising approach.

[0]https://www.ilok.com/

[1]https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/maschine/prod...

[2]https://www.ableton.com/en/push/

[3]http://www.uaudio.com/uad-accelerators.html
sounds like thats possible thru regulation and permits. but sounds like the city doesnt want to work with 'em given the exclusive with motivate? (that exclusivity is very bad taste imo)
> it's rarely actually OSS-licensed

It seems strange to worry about licensing in a community predicated on violating a term of an OS license.

Is this a problem because source code isn't available?