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I'm sorry; I really want to like novel languages, strongly typed language, portable languages, and a bunch of other boxes that scala does check. But stuff like this... what?

This may be my most reddit-worthy comment in the history of Hacker News, but sometimes you see a spade, and you just have to call it a spade. Scala has the most utterly bizarre priorities.
Sure, but I'm pointing out that this strategy relies on real customers encountering an error. I caution people to not forget that is a failure for us trying to ensure reliable websites.
> Horlicks for people that are sick and hospitalized in India

You'll be surprised how deep the rabbit hole goes. Horlicks is heavily marketed and distributed by its owner Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK). What is less well known about GSK is its kickback and corruption network throughout India and Asia. Doctors/nurses/hospital admins would get kickbacks in the form of lunches, dinners, entertainment, trips, conferences, gifts. In China, GSK was fined $500 mil for corrupting doctors. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29274822

Even in the US, where the scale of corruption is arguably lower, GSK was fined USD$ 3 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical...
Transition Watchpoints: Teaching Old Debuggers New Tricks
If you watch the video, it's not just throwing the leg, there's also a behavior where they hold the legs in their mouth and slam it into the ocean as hard as they can by bending sideways. Considering dolphins use those muscles to swim, they are likely very strong, considerably stronger than human arms tenderizing meat with a mallet like we do.

I don't see why you would think leaving the legs alone for ten minutes would be as effective as hammering them for ten minutes. What's going to bleed out and go lifeless quicker, an arm left alone or an arm being beat on?
Show HN: MailShell – Execute shell commands through your email
I think in most cases the polyfills end up being pretty expensive to use. I know that's the reason why I'm not able to use a flexbox polyfill at work for IE9 support, though not sure if this particular feature set would be as bad to implement.
Speed up your prototyping process with these Justinmind features Part 2
I am saying "these days" because from what I understand in past times anthropomorphizing animals used to not be as frowned upon in literature. I might well be wrong though of course! If so apologies, I did not mean to imply it as a fashion or as a negative, just that sometimes I feel that the simplest explanation (dolphins like a treat) should win over the more complex one (octopuses must have some great nutritional value)
Basically the same kind of thing gets marketed here as nutritional drinks, that basically end up being vitamin powders and glucose. While I'm not sold on the notion of something like Soylent as a dietary replacement, at least they're not just mixing sugar and chicory starch and calling it a day.
OWASP's cryptography advice is almost invariably awful, and that password storage thing is among the worst of it. It's better now than it was when it recommended against password hashes (note that it still recommends "cryptographically strong salts") but remains factually incorrect in more than one place, including the notion that PBKDF2 is better than bcrypt (the opposite is true).
Sure there is. It's simple. If there are abrasives and cutting tools hard enough to drill rock, they will also carve through whatever steel alloy you care to bring to the party. Admittedly brick isn't the optimal choice for demonstrating my point but I can't find my favorite video of this guy drilling a sink drain out of a solid granite boulder so... Also, we are talking about ATM housings, not the internal cash box. You really think they're constructed out of unobtanium?
Fun fact: Iridium was called Iridium because iridium atoms have 77 electrons.

The constellation actually uses 66 active satellites. Turns out they overestimated how many they'd need, but didn't change the name.
There is a slim chance STALKER 2 will happen, as Sergey Grigorovich reopened GSC Gameworld in 2014, making Cossacks 3.

When asked about STALKER he said that it is a possibility provided GSC can make a successful (and profitiable) go of it again, giving them the resources to make a true STALKER sequel.

On the plus side Grigorovich resisted all attempts to take over the STALKER IP, I'm convinced he wants to do it right, if it is going to be done at all.

On the other negative side, most of the original STALKER devs have joined other companies in the time between GSC first shutting down and reopening.
Idea :
Saving all the git and stackoverflow searches made during the day.

Thought :
We hit Git or stackoverflow mainly to check up on something that we don't know about. Saving all these searches is something to begin with . Making sense of all the data by the end of a month is something which I have work on next. Else it will all turn in to dumps of "never seen again" data.
Basically, having an overview of all new topics searched and digging in deeper in to interesting topics is the idea.
Do it, don't look back.

(and I'll take this opportunity to thank everyone who works on FOSS software, paid or otherwise)
As an aside, I strongly recommend Bovril as a "post" hangover and fasting aid. Add jalapeno and pepper or spicy sauce to it and it has a lot of filling properties and the salt restores what has been lost during drinking. Your milage may vary.
linux is useless for sound production as well
I think in this case, it's not that big of a deal. We're talking about a town where the primary transportation method now is cars. If the Uber partnership goes south, there are a number of other options for residents (basically whatever they do to get around now), it becomes mostly a matter of convenience/cost.

The town is basically just subsidizing a small-scale private service that would probably exist anyways to cater to a small portion of the already small population. To put it in perspective how puny this program is, look at the cost: 225k over a year or so. That's less than it costs to run a single bus.
I find the font colour/weight of "Available for free on Mac, Windows, and Linux" almost impossible to read. http://imgur.com/a/AUVxr
Yes, the union members produce the goods and services.
Solving the Water Jug Problem from Die Hard 3 with TLA+ and Hypothesis
No, check out my original comment. Innisfil is 4 times the size.
IPFS is more low-level in terms of that IPFS is a protocol (in reality a collection of protocols) for P2P data transfer. Together with IPLD, you'll get a full suite of protocols and data structures for creating fully distributed P2P applications.

ZeroNet is a application for distributing P2P applications, using Bittorrent for the P2P layer. In theory, ZeroNet could leverage IPFS to get a better and more modular stack for the actual connectivity and transfering.
I can understand Guinness being recommended (at the time), now Lucozade seems just a modern marketing gimmick
OpenVMS: State of the Port to x86_64 – April 3rd 2017 Update [pdf]
> I actually meant that you always had to make very clear that the product doesn't exist yet.

That wasn't clear to me. It looked like you were proposing the sale of a nonexistent product. If you're openly and clearly stating that it's basically a preorder, then sure, that's fine. That sounds like a tough sale, though.
Understanding “Taming the Meta Language”
Administrate is hiring in edinburgh work 4 days but get paid for 5
if by firewall you mean an EXTERNAL firewall (pfSense box or something), sure, but how do you trust the windows firewall? And anyways what if you do want software updates and the telemetry is sent as part of your update request? Unless you have deep packet inspection and drop the telemetry packets how are you going to make sure the data does not go out?
I know it's all in CSS but the graphics look like those generated by https://github.com/fogleman/primitive
you don't actually need 5 grand to buy the options, you just sell 5 grand worth and keep the difference. Sounds like he may have walked away from a lot of money.. he would have had a 34,000 dollar check.. paid out ~25% in taxes and been ahead.. oh well
It used to be, briefly, unfortunately it had to be removed again because create-react-app has a zero-configuration policy and SRI can break pages served without TLS unless Cache-Control: no-transform is set on the server [1].

[1] https://github.com/waysact/webpack-subresource-integrity#pro...
Like, whatever else Eax Melanhovich said: they don't seem to have suggested the chart showed a first second and third as-if that had any significance.
The crucial difference is that with a password manager, passwords are protected by a master key, but not derived from it. So you can rotate passwords whenever you want, either proactively or reactively, mitigating the effects of a password database compromise.
Low level, yes. But, old? We cover AES, HMAC, stream ciphers, GCM, RSA, DH, SRP, and elliptic curves. The criteria for inclusion on the first 6 sets of challenges was "had to be something we took advantage of on the job at Matasano". It's not textbook stuff.

Part of the point of the crypto challenges was to illustrate why people shouldn't work directly with low-level primitives, as a sort of antidote to the kind of advice OWASP gave out.
A little side project of mine is a chrome extension to be able to read (or write) summaries of articles on Hacker News.

It is in alpha stage right now, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts about it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mnmn/kepcdifhbfjep...

Screenshot of how it looks like:
https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/MNMN/blob/master/screensho...

(note: the "+" button is only available for users that are "editors". If you try it out, your user doesn't have that enabled by default).
It is a consequence of countability, but I like to think about it this way: a real number is, roughly, an infinite sequence of "random" digits. What is the probability that your infinite sequence of random digits will randomly settle into an infinite repeating pattern? That's obviously, zero, right? No way that a random process will produce an infinitely repeating pattern.

But just because it's "probabilistically impossible" to pick a rational number doesn't mean that they don't exist.
Yes and no. Basically if you open a customer support phone line for anything mass-market-facing, you'll regularly encounter people who are utterly clueless but feel entitled, people who are assholes, and people who want to defraud you.

Some customers are really problem people, and a private company is not a charity in business of teaching people how to live in a civilized society. So it's a reasonable business decision to try and get rid of some of the customers (or risk your support people burning out); the issue is not whether to do it, but how to do it without risking additional damage to your business.
I once saw fresh octopus prepared at a seaside barbecue place. The first thing the octopus did after the cook grabbed it from the kiddie pool full of seawater was to wrap its tentacles around her forearm. Before it could get too firm of a grip, she threw it down on the concrete floor with a loud smack and disassembled it with a cleaver while it was still stunned. It was pretty intense. I can see why the dolphins would have a complex strategy for dealing with the much larger octopus they consume.

Now that it's become clear that the octopus is an intelligent creature capable of solving problems and making plans, I'm going to eat less sophisticated mollusks and leave octopus to the dolphins.
If you can't work with just one typeface, it means you know nothing about typography.
"Why does my cat keep bringing back dead mice? He doesn't need to hunt, I give him all the food he needs!"

'Why do you keep having sex? You already have all the kids you want!'
The most notorious monopolies of our time. The things which bring down our economy with their shenanigans every so often because they so thoroughly own the political and legislative process. Huh?

Grocery Stores? I don't see how that applies... they tend to be highly customer-focused, and they certainly don't do the equivalent of bricking a product after selling it to you because they didn't like your tone.

Still I take your point... if you're a Unicorn then you play by different rules, until/unless it all catches up with you (as it is with Uber). If however, you're not a telecom monopoly, a giant bank, or just crazy like Uber (if for example you're trying to sell IoT fricking door openers) then you are in a very very different position don't you think?!
Or hunting something dangerous is just fun?
awesome.
Few of the levels like level 23, 24 found them a bit difficult ,Can't find a solution. would have been great if there was a solution where i can compare my results with it.
Interpreting personality from books to predict hangouts is a funny endeavor, but I can see how Mishka's would be his choice. If it isnt the good coffee, tea, and pastries, Mishka's is filled with college students and professors, many of whom are scientists. Obviously scientists play a central role in his writing. Delta of Venus attracts the more alternative crowds, as well as english lit students and the like. The people there have edremind me of some of the characters and settings in Green or Blue Mars.

In any case, these are just passive musings. I frequent Delta of Venus because I like the patio.
An awful lot of medical data is complex.

Here is what you really want: Large amounts of curated/quality controlled data with ground truth that you can aggregate & share. Preferably with multiple studies and time points and/or followup. That is stated in rough order of difficulty to acquire.

Here is what you typically get fed into an learning pipeline: 1-2 orders of magnitude too small, with all kinds of noise, and no truth data(i.e. at best a bad proxy).

Hand-waving about unsupervised learning won't solve many of the really difficult problems (although it has uses, obviously). Neither will hand-waving about transfer learning. In some areas most retrospective data sets will never be really available because of consenting issues. QA is hard - the sheer variability of clinical systems in the field, not to mention protocol and practice differences, is often astonishing.

So where does that leave us? To make a real dent fast I suspect you need to focus on data availability, not problem. Ask the question:

What are the fastest path(s) to collecting large volumes of clinically representative data with some QA in place, consented for the ways we want to use it, and with real clinical truth or a decent proxy we can get at in an automated or semi-automated fashion? 1000 Bonus points if real outcome data will be available in future.
Most people close the bathroom stall door before they poop. They appreciate privacy. I think a lot of non-technical people just don't understand how this relates to privacy, which is a different problem.
Sorry, I should have phrased it as a positive-outcome post-Singularity environment. Mainstream audiences might not grasp the nuance between post-scarcity and post-Singularity, but when I read the series for the first time, the Mind-level AGI figured prominently in setting The Culture apart from Star Trek. Around that axle, Banks wound into his setting near-unlimited, near-free energy (the Grid), galaxy-spanning capable FTL (1-200,000+ X speed of light), carefully-orchestrated anarchy as a practical and efficient "government", and all the other accoutrements. It is amazing Banks didn't readily yield to the temptation to use the Minds as a deus ex machina, and instead showed how they would also grapple with their own limitations, frustrations, doubts, etc.

Even more important than the sheer existence of the Minds was their egalitarian disposition and relationship to their pan-human co-citizens, and interesting tangentials like the Minds' polite yet firm declination to Sublime. I will sorely miss Banks' weaving of the tales of the proto-Culture, and how the early Minds came about to that position.
Bioshock was such a step down in many respects compared to System Shock though. I wouldn't say it was deep at all.

The most interesting part of that game is Rapture itself, the mnechanics and general gunplay just sucked honestly.
I would even argue it's the opposite. The book by biologist Frans de Waal - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?[1] was in a lot of best book lists.

[1] See a review about it that explains his findings. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/how-ani...
I certainly didn't find it unwatchable, but I agree with your sentiment. It's a little rough around the edges, especially with pacing and tone. It's kind of the uncanny valley of Top Gear. Something isn't quite right. That said, I still found most of the episodes entertaining, and there are a few great moments.
I'd use my rpi for this, but it's on the wrong vlan...
There is no norm or enforcement for citations. That is your personal preference. I don't want to spend time chasing down and writing citations. Fact checking is really up to the reader. There is no rule written that says all comments must have proper citations following APA formatting.
This isn't the detailed list, here it is: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/configure/...

I know Windows is a large piece of SW, but this seems "quite" big for the "Basic" level... :/
Some potentially deadly foods are considered a tasty delicacy. See, fugu [0]. Which can be really, really really poisonous [1]. It makes cyanide seem harmless in comparison.

Although I just learned from Wikipedia that apparently we figured out how to raise non-poisonous pufferfish. Neat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin
Dead body found
It is very tempting to offer solutions to fix "the democratic process."

Unfortunately it's very difficult to fix something without clearly understanding the problem - let alone the root cause.

While many of the proposed solutions, including this one, are worth exploring, society simply isn't moving in this direction.

The powerful are not incentivized to work on obvious solved problems that enhance democracy, like gerrymandering and first past the post voting systems.
IIRC autopilot is so good that current planes are almost pilotless, but passengers will get extremely nervous.

Pilots do an exhaustive checklist before starting the flight. I'm not sure how automatable it is.

(Perhaps it may work for military transport outside war zones. You can just order the soldiers to use the planes.)
Microsoft finally reveals what data Windows 10 really collects
It does seem so.
Or just add a 433MHz and 868MHz radios to phones. Number of usages will be countless.

(Ways to have fun with that will be countless too.)
FPS-RPG is generally used to describe some of the games you mentioned.
What happens, in your experience?
Yesterday I was in a theatre for a unique showing (at least where I live) of a documentary on greece's golden dawn party rise to power (they have 17 (18 at first) people in the parliament). Party leaders clearly stated that votes is the path to power and legitimacy. They know this and they use the argument in the rethoric: wer are nationalist, not neo-nazy or racists and people do vote for us.

The fact they are neonazis... I don't see the connection with grabing power through elections (I mean, it's not a neonazy strategy... any parties can do that). But they read mein kampf. But again, I don't know how it plays out in their violence and their conceptions of the state. And yet the parrallels ar striking.
Some products are better off not existing at all. A lot of IoT devices are in that category.
Remember when that student was kicked out of CCSU simply for making a weaponized drone (which isn't illegal)?

http://fox61.com/2016/03/07/teen-who-made-weaponized-drone-s...

But it's ok for the state to do it?
This surely won't backfire in any way.
Then I think you need to talk in specifics, not general statements. When you compare our systems with the 'default' of having no system (i.e. anarcho-capitalism), it seems rentiers (i.e. owners of capital/land) are directed even more resources. So if you blame the system, you kinda have to be specific in what aspects you're blaming and how they could be improved.

It's also not necessarily bad that some wealth is directed to rentiers, if otherwise the wealthy would have no incentive to use their wealth productively.
I'm not sure if you are hung up on syntax or strategy, but you can use "fr" other than at the end.
I ranted in another article regarding Microsoft's Explorer Advertising about my frustration with MS conflicting with my desire to support the good work some of their teams are doing, such as C#, Visual Studio Code, and Typescript. After reading through the comments here about everything this covers and which cannot be disabled, I'm putting my money where my mouth is and I'm stopping all further use of C#, F#, Visual Studio, Typescript, Azure, etc. I know that my individual loss means nothing to MS, but it's clear that MS is dying to attract developers to their platforms; as such, we who are outraged at MS's privacy violations need to act together to reject MS technologies, as that is one of the few things that they will listen to.

Disclaimer: These concerns of course extend to other companies actions, but in the context of this article MS is the most relevant company.
Actually, it's the "we shouldn't anthropomorphize" which is poor reasoning. Because of course we should, we should just call it something else.

I am not really aware of any mammal behaviour that I cannot somewhat relate to at gut level. You may say I anthropomorphize, or you may say I equate, it doesn't really matter. There isn't a physiological or neurologic feature we don't share, me and all those other mammals. I have some language and some reasoning power to top it all off with, but our sensations, reactions, emotionals, motivators, fears, pains and joys are clearly of very similar nature. Of course they are - they run on the same basic hardware architecture.

And now, if you will excuse me, my dog wants to go for a walk. I know exactly what he means.

[Edit: typo]
> No one plays CoD for the single player.

I did, when I actually bothered to play CoD (the first Modern Warfare was probably the last one I enjoyed) and couldn't stand the multiplayer.

When I had been used to games like Quake, Unreal and Battlefield the multiplayer in CoD always seemed so half-baked.
Thanks Michael, just sent you a note!
Always impressive to see HN find unbroken ground for the expert fallacy.
There was a class action lawsuit over the preinstalled carrier iq agent that did this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ

If you have a clean android phone I suspect there no monitoring going on. For example if you use a community built mod or build AOSP yourself.
So true. I started side projects so many times without staying consistent and it created this self fulfilling prophecy of "I'm not good enough at coding, I can't build a real web app". Then for http://www.averageweather.io I finally decided to just keep working at it every day. After a few months I was comfortable with python, Django, js, heroku, and postgres to the point where I felt I could build anything I wanted if I just put in the time.

Then something like http://www.thealccalc.com took me like an hour since it is far less complex.

So ya, just keep at it, google for answers to your questions and just keep learning.