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Curious you drop the adjective "overwhelming" in your quote and confuse scientific theory with hypothesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory
"In modern science, the term "theory" refers to scientific theories, a well-confirmed type of explanation of nature, made in a way consistent with scientific method, and fulfilling the criteria required by modern science. Such theories are described in such a way that any scientist in the field is in a position to understand and either provide empirical support ("verify") or empirically contradict ("falsify") it. Scientific theories are the most reliable, rigorous, and comprehensive form of scientific knowledge, in contrast to more common uses of the word "theory" that imply that something is unproven or speculative (which is better characterized by the word 'hypothesis')."
I'll need to make the decision about homeschooling in a few years. Do you have any studies you can share that support that conclusion?

At face value, it seems more difficult to socialize children than at traditional school with hundreds of daily social interactions from a wide variety of backgrounds, personalities, and teamwork opportunities.
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Fact-checking can say things like "true but misleading".
Building a web demo for a native iOS app in the mobile apps era
Despite the politics, and crazy economics, China future looks amazing, because of the huge of human potential. If I were 20 years younger, and having the possibility of an interesting job in software programming, I would go to Shanghai or Shenzen.
Interesting read, thank you :)
no, but I doubt that if I ask him what X-bar theory is, that he'll have any clue what I'm talking about, and that he would even think I'm talking about a theory of generative syntax.
OK, so I picked an extreme example.

But as others have pointed out, choosing accepted fact checkers is subjective and contentious. Do we then need fact checkers about fact checkers?

Many claims have moved from conspiracy theory to fact in recent decades. Now there's a class-action case about CIA experiments with LSD, and the principal investigator will testify. Before Snowden's leaks, how many people thought that the NSA was intercepting so much stuff? Consider allegations about using poor people to study effects of terminal syphilis, measure Pu excretion rates for body-burden calculations, or look at symptoms of lethal full-body irradiation. Which of those (if any) are unconfirmed conspiracy theories?
They stopped bothering. They had some demo screens a few years back, mira-something I think, and a few products that used it, but nobody bought it because the colors were terrible due to the entire "e-inks generally don't require backlights and so massive contrast issues" I think the tech got bought up and pretty much shoved in a corner somewhere
Years ago I read paper describing a project to develop a process for electrowinning iron and sulfuric acid from sulfide ores. It was sort of economic in Norway because of cheap electricity an because iron sulfide was a waste product. It's not economic because of the cost of electricity. But if solar starts regularly producing $0.0 MWhr electricity it probably would be economic to run intermittently.

Found Source:

http://www.ulcos.org/en/docs/Ref03%20-%20Electrowinning%20-%...

tl;dr: If solar creates periodic conditions where the marginal cost of electricity drops to zero that opens up market opportunities that didn't exist before.
Systems programming languages with GC exist since the late 60's, with ALGOL 68RS being one of the first ones.

Since then a few remarkable ones were Mesa/Cedar, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon(-2), Active Oberon, Sing#, System C#.

The reasons why so far most of them didn't won the hearts of the industry weren't not only technical, but also political.

For example Modula-3 research died the moment Compaq bought DEC research labs, or more recently System C# died when MSR disbanded the Midori research group.

If you want to learn how a full workstation OS can be written in a GC enabled systems programming language, check the Project Oberon book.

Here is the revised 2013 version, the original one being from 1992.

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html
Right - nobody is going to want that ocean front property in 100 years knowing they'll be underwater themselves in the next 25.
I'm extrapolating there, based on arguments I've read about geology and evolution.
It also required quite a lot of fissile material and wasn't all that powerful. Dropped on lower Manhattan, it wouldn't even reach midtown Manhattan. See for yourself at http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/. I was actually quite surprised to realize that a "city" in 1940s was something much smaller than what we call a city today.

The point I'm aiming at is that nuclear weapons are (still) something expensive, hard to make, and useful only for nation states with large military budgets. Going for dirty bombs would be a better strategy for terrorists.

The second point I'm aiming at is that nuclear is not as scary as Hollywood seems to have made us believe.
How are the bots different from the standard twitch chat?
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I think I submitted an application but I'm not sure. I've also updated my resume. Is there anyway to check in?
well, the world is better than it ever has been, but it feels worse. objectively, we all have a higher standard of living, longer life expectancy, and more opportunities for education than generation in (known) human history. what we (as a whole) don't know how to deal with is having access to the internet.
To make it extremely clear if it wasn't already obvious, I'm Chinese and I've lived both on the mainland and in South East Asia.

> This is a common misconception, especially by people who have never lived in China. They just have to be careful not to publicly blame any politicians for the issue or try to organize some group activity to protest it.

You've contradicted yourself pretty quickly; you haven't disputed my main point: people on the mainland on a whole are not willing to rebel and dissent against people and ideas that are above them like the authorities or even their own parents - this translates to other parts of industry and major schools of thought. For example, one of the reasons the Internet has a decentralized architecture is because its designers didn't want to give the US government centralized control over it. Bickering with your peers over trivial things doesn't count, willing to question your boss, teacher, or someone higher in the food chain is what matters.

That said I'm not saying that things can't or will never change. I'm just pointing out the major obstacles to innovation on the mainland.

> Also, just to point out, in the West, the majority of people aren't exactly "rebelling against the status quo" and showing "opposition to the norm"

Not everyone dissents, but there's a large enough portion of the population that does to push innovation and progress.

> because they can march in a protest or sign a petition.

It's easy to make fun of it, but yeah this shows how ingrained rebellion and dissent is in our culture and accepted, which is one of the main foundations of innovation.
Doesn't India provide food subsidies to its poorest citizens?

Why would it be hard to believe that wealthy Western countries feature extreme or even abject poverty?

America had some huge tent cities filled with previously not-homeless families living in them following the 2009 meltdown.
First of all, it is a complex place. All big countries are.

Creating an original product/idea is different from innovating upon an existing one. So is Google not innovative as they did not invent internet search? ApplePay is less innovative because Alipay (handled USD660B in 2012) was started in 2004? Or Wechat is not innovative because whatsapp was there first?

I am not Chinese but we sell software in Asia. In a smaller box, they have to be more innovative because of all the crap rules they deal with like Great Firewall. Sure, many of the copies are of low quality and pitiful. However, similar to the hindi word - jugaad, everyday innovations are made using whatever is available. In many ways, they are more flexible than the Japanese who defer more to standard practices and hierarchy.

Eventually some made it better than the forerunners. Wechat started as a messaging app but has outstripped whatsapp in terms of applications. It is so tightly integrated in everyday activities, i.e people pay for their daily groceries, buy mcdonalds, it has voice messaging way before whatsapp introduced it, withdraw sent messages etc.

I feel that the culture is only antagonistic towards people who don't like the political status quo, not business. Didi (uber), DHL type of services are illegal at the beginning but gained legitimate status eventually because of its usefulness to the society. The propaganda is not helpful but I don't see it as any different from religious propaganda. If you can ignore it, you are fine. (Well, some people claimed religious people are less innovative, but that is another discussion)
Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda
For those unfamiliar, what sort of companies, products, etc has this innovative scene fostered?
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See bachmeier work on D to R integration.
How re-colored images of Lincoln make him more “lifelike”
Just to clarify:

LDC master is on 2.073.2 right now (the latest DMD release), with a 2.072.2-based release imminent, and work towards 2.074.0 (currently in beta) already underway.

GDC is sadly a different story, though.
It's definitely a different taste in what folks want out of their RPG. Being able to bake bread and stack crates is exciting as a "world of possibilities" sort of deal, but it's also narratively dissonant from going on a big adventure where you are the Hero. It sucks up a lot of time and once you're done, you've forgotten what the adventure was about - kind of proving the point Sid Meier took home from Covert Action.

However, at the time, again, it was definitely something new and different. Games in the 80's were more often conceived of as puzzles to solve, rather than worlds to explore: adding lots of surface detail was how Garriott perceived possibilities for immersion. A lot of games followed similar-yet-different paths of piling on stuff that made the games tedious in the early 90's. By the middle of the decade people were calling the whole genre dead, which is hyperbolic, of course, but reflective of the move towards streamlining and thinking about UX across the whole design, which left "traditional-looking" games out in the cold.
People have been writing OSes with GC enabled systems programming languages since the late 60's.

Would you consider the employees of UK Royal Navy, Xerox PARC, ETHZ, DEC, Compaq, Microsoft as insane developers?
>Hierarchies could still emerge and responsibility could still be delegated. (Again, see Valve.)

Valve is a very small, very selective company, which rarely produces new products. Despite all the overtures about freedom, there is still a central point of control that can and will put the kibosh on things if they're not going the way they want.

People have a psychological need for authorities. If you don't give them any, they will make their own out of the nearest willing "charismatic" person, who will emerge as a de-facto authority. An explicit structure is better than mob rule.

I don't think anyone believes wealth inequality is not a problem, but I don't think non-hierarchical structures are going to do anything to solve it.
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> A) People need to buy groceries. What will you do when they're at your door with pitchforks, pissed because you told them to "go eat cake"?

It's a good thing I have the police and military under my thumb to quell all uprisings. If I were smart, I would elevate them to the upper class and remove their current class loyalties.

But a more practical answer: What's stopping those with (economic resources) from continuing their views that those without aren't human. That they're causing upheaval in society and their plight is baseless. That they should be locked away, or worse.

> If you just give people money to spend, that will drive the economy at the bottom. It's basically like the opposite of trickle-down economics and I think it's much more sustainable.

This goes against your first point. Basic income is assumed to mean "just enough income to buy vital products, services, and utilities." Commodities don't drive the economy and innovation. Unless, you propose a "workless wage" where the average person gets something like 70k just for being alive.

Which then, why work? The average joe doesn't care about the same things most HN users do. They'll simply stop producing the labor that serves as the foundation for so many "innovative" and "cool" companies.

So on and so forth, the economy crashes.

> Also, there's growing awareness that sociopaths aren't good for society, so arguments along the lines of "oh quit whining and suck it up you pussies" are starting to get a lot more pushback.

I fear it's a similar situation to drug addicts. Crack-down hard on the, relatively, low-level crime, instead of starting from the top. Similarly here, crack down on the most obvious, and less intelligent, of the pack and you're just strengthening the sociopath's genome.
I suggested a compromise limiting them to manual jobs and the like, in which the performance is easily measurable for example.
Are they tying individual PII (name, UDID etc...) to the location data or are they anonymizing it?
> Trying to invalidate a counter-example directed at your by appealing to my priors is tantamount to an admission that you have no meaningful point.

No, it's not. I provided you with a list of exceptions to free speech in the United States, and your hyperbolic counter-example is clearly excluded by it, whereas a hiring manager asking a question about past salary is not. Are you able to find a category there that corresponds to simply asking what your previous salary was? If so, please share.
Step 3 doesn't quite work. If not being a Boltzmann brain implies that you are a Boltzmann brain, then it is irrelevant that this logic no longer works under the assumption that you are a Boltzmann brain. The first is enough to show that not being a Boltzmann brain is impossible, the second is not enough to cause a paradox.
My first job paid me $25,000 CAD a year.

My next job paid me $90,000 CAD a year. (Investment bank)

My next job paid me $160,000 USD a year. (Google)

All numbers are all-in comp. All junior dev roles.

Should the bank, and Google have offered me $33,000 and $40,000, so that the new salary isn't too much higher then the old one? Would that satisfy your notion of fairness? When new grads hired by the latter are getting paid $150,000/year?

You are hired to do your new job, not the old one. What the old one paid has no relevance.
House Republicans ask FCC to police internet providers on privacy
Very worried about confusing oldschool OOP style
> https://godbolt.org/g/IQ0O06

(And, of course, the entire main() disappears on -O1 and above: https://godbolt.org/g/FAWtak.)
Why not go now?
.. and don't get me started on Ascension. Had really high hopes for that one :/ https://qkast.com/share?channel=19&moment=1491604242821
So promulgate and make certain a UBI, but roll back based on new concentration of wealth within the upper quadrile than the lower three quadriles itself reversing course so that "oh, we do not need the UBI any more because", where is that Congress of sorts, excluding the upper quadrile, and specifically its mailing address? Because based on my two posts above, approximate number, I would like to make myself useful rather than a glance at the sayings of the upper quadrile, glance at the sayings of the three lower quadriles, and once-a-lower-quadrile-for certain and now all over the map depending upon which UBI I should maybe be entitled to unless I am recused for being a spokesperson for that lower three quadriles, another way to make Dad proud of me were he still living. Or something. [ if the reader of this reply will forgive me, I am not certain if I am agreeing or disagreeing with the post to which I am replying, but confirming to myself that I can post within YN as a new skillset. Critiques welcome, but probably will not reach me as I doubt to read this same thread tomorrow. Doubly apologetic. Thanks.
No, I do not have studies. Tokenadult https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tokenadult might have something like that. He worked in public schools for many years and ran/runs the website Learn in Freedom, one of the early pro homeschooling sites (http://learninfreedom.org/).

My knowledge of this is rooted in having been involved in the online gifted homeschoolers community. I was briefly Director of Community Life for The Tag Project. http://www.tagfam.org/ So, you can take my word for it as a SME or you can contact Tokenadult and see if he can hook you up.

I do think your assumptions are in error. Good socialization is not about a wide variety of superficial relationships. It is about having positive interactions that teach one what one needs to know. I do know that studies show that kids who go off to boarding school do best if they figure out how to artificially replace the natural family unit with a close group of caring friends. But I don't have links to anything. That is just remembered off the top of my head.

Best.
Kayak’s new travel site is… a spreadsheet?
Too bad the differences in translation styles make it really easy to spot which is which without even having to really read. :/ And I'm not even a native English speaker.
> (I have no direct evidence of this except the majority of public arrest/sentencing of cyber criminals, and generally people in the blackhat and organized crime scenes are not teens)

According to Wikipedia, the ages of the people arrested in connection with LulzSec were (sorted): 16 17 18 19 19 20 21 21 23 24 24 29. Plenty of teen representation there, and even low 20s is still pretty young. (Those ages are at the time of arrest, but most of the arrests were in 2011, the same year LulzSec was founded, so they would have been about the same age when they committed the crimes - albeit likely younger when they first got into the 'scene'.)

Similarly, Lizard Squad: 16 17 17 22. (Main activities were in 2014; ages adjusted based on the number of years between then and the news articles specifying the ages.)

Neither of those groups were terribly sophisticated (mainly performing DDoS attacks), but neither is the person(s) in the present case, who just culled passwords from old leaks and got the media to make a fuss.

Anyway, getting arrested ≠ committing crimes. To get arrested, you have to (a) go after a high-profile target and (b) successfully attack them (where DDoS counts as an attack). Lots of kids do things like DoSing personal rivals (and their Minecraft servers), which is definitely a crime but unlikely to result in an arrest. The younger, the more petty...
Thanks for sharing.

Friend of mine started a company called Resolver Systems to do that for Python (end result). Nice experiment but bad timing for launch just before the crisis. Have got some algorithmic and infrastructure things in D, though plenty is done in other languages too. I ported Bloomberg API to D - it's open sourced bit currently not yet directly used in production. May start to be in coming months. It's not so hard to turn spreadsheets into code (its rarely the spreadsheet itself that does something complicated) so would rather rewrite that than try to do it automatically because code is easier to read, though I had dinner with a Dutch girl who is a professor who works on spreadsheets as functional languages.
It's reasonably comfortable. I'd probably put my leg down if I was going to be doing extended typing - I tend to pull it a little closer when I'm mostly consuming (shorter reach for the screen). I do regularly use it in bed and on couches though.

I am 6'1", for what it's worth. I supposed it's possible that this is more comfortable with longer femurs.
ZSTD.

It is superior to Brotli in most categories (decompression, compression ratios, and compression speeds). The real issue with Brotli is the second order context modeling (compression level >8). Causes you to lose ~50% compression speed for less then a ~1% gain in ratios [1].

I've spoken to the author about this on twitter. They're planning on expanding Brotli dictionary features and context modeling in future versions.

Overall it isn't a bad algorithm. Brotli and ZSTD are head and shoulders above LZMA/LZMA2/XZ. Pulling off comparable compression ratios in half to a quarter of the time [1]. They make GZip and Bzip2 look outdated (which frankly its about time).

ZSTD really just needs a way to package dictionaries WITH archives.

[1] These are just based on personal benchmarks while building a tar clone that supports zstd/brotli files https://github.com/valarauca/car
I think a lot of languages that get popular have to have a thing. Like a thing they do well, and hopefully change the world a little...

Python had math and has lots more maths now.
R also has math and started to kill Python, but now Python has Tensorflow and PyTorch.
Scala has Spark.
Java has Tomcat, and everything that followed, which is probably 20% of the world's mass by volume.
Go has Docker
Ruby has/had a railroad or something?
JS has well, f... I don't know where to start here.

Does D have a thing?
I'm a little confused by your comment. Are you saying that Chinese writing relies on a semantic component, but that this component is indecipherable to the vast majority of readers of Chinese? That does not sound very useful, especially when it comes to literacy.
>The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which underlies Arrival, has been debunked for years in academia

Well the "academia" has been debunked for even longer -- especially when it comes to soft sciences, so that doesn't say much.
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