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This thread is slowly devolving into the linguistics equivalent of the poison scene in the Princess Bride :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL4c9gCRSKY
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So I am going to go off in the opposite direction and say that often people who apparently can explain things clearly and concisely, using pithy aphorisms even, do not really have any deep mental model at all. I'll quote a poem for you, that I feel is apt here:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

I feel that many deep concepts are the same: the best practictioners might lack all conviction. They cannot distill any articulation. They have nothing clear to say that explains their understanding.

In fact, when I've pressed for some, they have been frustrated.

All of my gurus are the same. They simply cannot explain what they know clearly and concisely.

Is it because I only go to Gurus for information that is inordinately difficult - that, I can find the simplest explanations wherever, so those are not what I ask about? Perhaps.

But as a metric, I simply have not found people's ability to express concepts clearly, or to distill concepts, a good proxy for their understanding them; nor of their level of insight; nor of their mastery of the domain.

In fact, I can almost go as far as to state the opposite: the only people who can clearly explain things, are people who are completely wrong about them. (This is an extreme position and I probably am going a bit too far in this direction. I may not actually believe the sentence I Just wrote.)

Basically I completely reject the premise - I think we completely disagree about whether it is a useful or good heuristic, or even correlates in the positive direction!
Right, so you're continuing to make things up by pretending that education anywhere that isn't the US is the same as education in the US.
seriously, it drives me crazy that people think there's any meaningful difference between salts besides marketing. it's NaCl, sometimes with iodine or small impurities. people buy himalayan salt because it sounds exotic, but it's just salt.
You can't have it both ways. If it's so easy to spot, it's easy to emulate. And how can you rely on motives? What you have is evidence, from which you infer motives. When there's so much avowed certainty with such subjective evidence, one must suspect an agenda.
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I would be nice if Google put resources behind a project like this. Same with gopherjs.
How large of a file are you talking?

I just opened a 9.75mb JavaScript file in VS Code and it edits it quite well. It syntax highlights the top of the file immediately, and it does take quite a while for the highlighting to work its way down the file (I'd say about 20 seconds). But as far as editing goes, you can jump anywhere in the file and edit without any hesitation, instantly.
> If people can't get there, or park there, then its less valuable to them.

So the natural response to that is to force businesses to have greater value? Is this not exactly what market forces would do naturally? A business with insufficient parking would have less value than one with, and would therefore compete less effectively.
I immediately thought of the "Opulence, I has it" commercials from DirecTV.
I'm not interesting in discussing anything with someone that deliberately misinterprets what I say in order to fix a strawman that they then set alight.

I never said any of what you're implying I said.
> Your argument amounts to a tautology.

Only when you make up some argument for me...

> A car is necessary under current driving conditions is not the same thing as a car being necessary under any driving conditions.

That wasn't my argument at all. I was simple stating that when making an argument using personal experience as the basis for what is and isn't "necessary" is likely to leave out a lot of people with valid concerns. My example wasn't to push an agenda for or against cards, but to show how some people may come to an entirely different conclusion about what is and isn't necessary, currently.
If I statically link is my code inherintly LGPL or could I still license MIT?
In today's world of text editors, I'd take VS Code over anything. Anything at all. This notion that webapps must be bad is ludicrous.
Still missing the whole cross-platform GUI thing though.

$ ./red
Compiling compression library...
Compiling Red console...
--== Red 0.6.2 ==--
Type HELP for starting information.

>> view [text "Hello World"]
*** Script Error: view has no value
*** Where: catch
I meant 'would be in C++ either way', typo.

C++ has been gaining constexpr features for years. These have nothing to do with D at all, except in the sense that all languages everywhere influence each other slightly. Certainly constexpr wasn't drawn directly from D.

if constexpr was the obvious logical next step. It has been suggested and proposed for years. Yes people formally proposed static if, which was heavily inspired by D's static if, but that proposal was rejected because it was poorly designed, and C++'s new if constexpr is about as different as it's possible for two compile-time conditional compilation constructs to be.
Quite so. My wife and I have raised three children into their teens without ever having owned a car. This was not problematic, precisely because we live in Tokyo, a city mentioned in the article as having enlightened policies on parking and public transport.
This may be a little like cheat codes for fantasy fiction, but look up Sanderson's creative writing course lectures. It is meant for aspiring fantasy fiction authors but it has also made me a much more critical sci-fi and fantasy reader.

I pulled it up: 2013 Lecture 1: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YydnShI45jSbRdMeyQ-S... start here. This YouTube account has all of the lectures. As an avid fanfic reader these lectures were immensely enjoyable especially as it is essentially one of the preminent authors of this era sharing his secret sauce freely.
Unleashing use-before-initialization vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel [pdf]
I think it is a short hand slang for "I like cars painted red." or "I like cars colored red."
SPJ must be the bounciest computing-guy-over-30 I've ever encountered. Always a refreshing pleasure to watch any of his performances =)
See also "Kessler syndrome":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

And, if you speak German, yesterdays "Sternengeschichten" podcast by Florian Freistetter is about this problem:

http://scienceblogs.de/astrodicticum-simplex/2017/04/07/ster...
The title for this post should be changed to "a piece of the wire messenger server code open sourced." Most of the source is not open source, you can't run your own.

Also, holy shit they're storing a lot of information about their users:

* All of your contacts.

* Unencrypted profile information for everyone.

* Every active conversation you have.

* Every archived conversation you have.

* The frequency that you communicate with your contacts ('top contacts').

* Every group that you're in.

* The unencrypted titles and avatars of everyone's groups.

Wonder what will be in the rest of the database schema if they open source it.
If LGPL was "viral" even when linking dynamically, there would be no point in it (it'd be like GPL).

So, yes. You can use MIT.

Of course, the dynamic dependency still remains LGPL.
No most of the source is still missing.
Sadly I have to upvote this based on personal experience.

Was reading this thread right after the thread on John Goodenough. There are different things that happen as one gets older that one wishes didn't. Still, it beats the alternative.
>Your bias that rickshaw == poor isn't kind either

why else would they be risking their lives by riding 12 to a rickshaw?
There's a BEAM language with Python Syntax I believe
> Those terms would seem to mean anything you write using Qt can't be deployed on a closed platform.

This sentence is missing a "closed source". If you license your application under GPL, you will have none of these problems.
There's another thing he doesn't seem to mention: the problem in all learning systems of converging on and then getting stuck in local maxima.

Perhaps when things get stuck it is in fact rational to be irrational-- to strategically adopt odd heterodox modes of thought or even employ a bit of randomness (Monte Carlo methods) to shake yourself free of a local maximum.
+1. It certainly helped that they had a computer and a digital projector, rather than the old overhead projector, but most never used the whiteboard part.
There's a lot going on in this article, from a lot of different ends.

One of the big tensions (among many) that I'll focus on is rootless containers. Frankly it's a bit silly to think containers are useful when you need root on every system to use them- do people on academic systems simply not get the ability to use containers? As we move towards multi-tenant, "hyper-converged" systems (things running lots of workloads), figuring out who/what to bless as OK is a critical bottleneck, one that needs a lot of trust.

So the idea has been gesticulating around of "rootless" containers[1]. There's a lot of recent excitement and work- @lordcyphar has started a dedicated website for the idea, https://rootless.containe.rs [2], which gives a broad status overview of the pieces. The "runc" alternative to docker merged rootless recently, after a year in progress[3], and recent work focuses- as the article hints at- around the filesystem side of things. He's building orca to build oci standard images, and although strongly hinted[4] I'm not sure how exactly that factors in to supporting rootless.

[1] https://www.cyphar.com/blog/post/rootless-containers-with-ru...
[2] https://rootlesscontaine.rs/
[3] https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/774
[4] https://twitter.com/lordcyphar/status/849951277744181248
>implying he isn't an entrepreneur working on his own projects

>implying he isn't enjoying it
Quite a bit less than enough :-)
Angular core team here, we're restructuring some of our docs at the moment and this is super useful feedback. Thanks!
Science is a PR game. If you lose the PR game, you lose all of your funding and your operation gets shut down.
'freedom caucus' is a proper noun referring to an organization, they wouldn't need to know the meaning in order to use it. also you seem to ignore the possibility of using some machine translation assistance (eg for short phrases or sentences) which could account both for irregularities and correct verb conjugations.
> the fine article, which you clearly have not read

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> " ... easily imagine intermediate users running up against ... "

Something tells me the author isn't imagining the 12-13 year-old target audience when writing 'intermediate users'. There's nothing wrong with reviewing it from a different audience's perspective of course, but it doesn't do to ignore it if you're going to complain about the device's specification.
I'm not sure that's fair to say, you can recognize patterns, spot and attempt to emulate something, but that doesn't mean you actually are doing it correctly. Lots of militaries try to emulate the US military but cannot. Operational expertise, tempo and other factors are really difficult to nail down and something that's developed over time and with practice.

I think what you're saying is fair, but the only nation state actors with the right combination of evidence, agenda and motives would be Russia. Who else?
15 minutes is "a trivial distance" and an entirely different animal from the public transit travel times from affordable areas in the US.
Modafinil is instant release, so it's hard to take therapeutically. Tolerance builds too quickly.

I'd be interested in an slow release format since the drug can be bought over the counter where I live.

Though it's not even in the same ballpark as amphetamine. I fly back to the States just to re-up my Vyvanse prescription.
FWIW, Angular's release cycle is roughly based on the same cadence as React :)
Other problems with DNSSEC aside, the crazy thing here is the suggestion to replace the Web PKI with a system that has taken longer to migrate towards safe key sizes than the existing solution. 1024-bit keys for end-entity certificates were deprecated in 2013 and the last 1024-bit roots were pulled in 2014-2015 (ish?). I don't feel like the CA/B Forum is a particularly fast-moving body, so this is pretty telling.
fascinating that the road to improving the expr evaluator is better opcode dispatch and jit -- same tradeoffs every programming language project is looking at right now.
I wonder if, in the future, something like 'Planetes' would become reality. Space janitors in some sense policing space junk in orbit be it operators controlling collection robots or actual human space-walk collectors themselves.
It's the same kind of failure as highway congestion: too many people are using something relative to its capacity, because it's really compelling, and as a result it gets worse for all of them.
Probably worth mentioning this is a paid report for one library they use, not the Wire app.
Oh come on, guys. Sure, sampling from the tails of the distribution means you sample points with low probability, but if you sample them with disproportionately low probability, you're simply failing to accurately sample the distribution.

Translated: if you don't try crazy ideas sometimes, you're not accurately modeling the chances an idea is crazy.
for our purposes, to solve is to understand.

is there a single physical process or entity we can attribute consciousness to?

our high level understanding of consciousness is that it at some point emerges from physical processes.

this emergence is the interesting problem that we have essentially no grasp on.

we obviously have broad understanding of emergence, and pragmatic intuitive applications of it, but consciousness is not one of them.

if we understood when, where, how, or why consciousness emerges, we'd be intriguingly close to creating it.

I mean, you are making claims (roughly "we understand consciousness"). And I am just asking for some research that supports this.
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Once I saw a robot that pretended to be a pirate.

Matter of fact, I think I saw it at Disneyland...
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e) easier to take a family/group in a car.
a lot of purists explicitly hate that idea, and I can understand why. I'm not for or against it, myself.
You can choose to build practical denser cities even in huge states. There'll just be more space between them.
The thing is we never know whether approving X is a type 1 error or not approving it is a type 2 error. So right now we cautiously make, say, 99.9% of type 2 errors and only 0.1% of type 1 errors. We need to relax the requirements a bit, so that the split is, say, 95%/5%, where the 5% type 1 errors are minor (as in, won't cause a huge catastrophe).
In what way does it make any sense at all to refer to a collection of drugs and supplements as a "stack"? You use the word stack as if it could only possibly apply to one particular type of usage, when that is manifestly not so.

Therefore you disrespect your audience in the extreme, and you expect them to spend their time on your website and figure out just what type of stack you're actually talking about.

If you want to refer to it as some sort of stack, then you need to apply appropriate modifier words to indicate what type of stack it is -- is it a web development stack, is it a continuous integration stack, or is it a drug/supplement stack? Or maybe there are even better modifier words that would more accurately describe the particular type of stack that you had in mind.
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I was hopeful at first. A large VC funded company with a big full time team should run circles around a small open source effort, but their security is still way behind Signal. I was also quickly put off by their "less than honest" marketing.
I speak 3 languages including Russian. I agree with the throwaway's post that it sounds like someone was trying to write like a Russian but didn't do a very good job.
If it's twitching without permission, it's not a puppet.
Not to be glib, but maybe you're reading the wrong books. Someone did explain it clearly and in a way that resonates with people that have not programmed in a functional paradigm. As an example, the link below [1] (which has been posted here to death), explains things very clearly, provided one has the patience to read it carefully and do the exercises.

It's true, though, that one will not necessarily, as you put it, 'immediately "get" all aspects of it'. Many things worth learning, this one included, require a bit more diligence. As Euclid famously explained, there is no royal road to functional programming.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html
I followed this up until the final comment, which seemed to come out of nowhere. Each human doesn't provide the same value to each scenario. Case in point, your opening sentence singled out "radicals" as having an entirely separate influence.
I tend to not care if its the placebo affect or not when it comes to stimulants like these. I care more when its something like "cures cancer" or not. If the medicine is supposed to make me focus then I dont care if its through a chemical reaction or placebo as long as I am focusing more
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Honestly though, how does leaking tools from the NSA whom Trump was suspicious of just a few weeks ago constitute an attack against him?
The first time I ever saw a hacker at work
You won't be well versed in the vernacular of any political event unless you follow the news. But that's just as true for native speakers. You seem to imply that people who learn tens of thousands of words to communicate in a foreign language would be unlikely to learn the additional vocabulary of the current events. Especially the big events. Could anyone with a British friend in Twitter never hear of the NHS bus, for example? Unlikely.
Did you reply to the correct person? I never said anything about discrimination, nor did the person I was replying to.
The solution to that is to properly set expectations. If you're releasing an early preview or MVP as if it's a polished final product then yeah, you'll get bad reviews. If you set expectations of "This is a preview release to get feedback so we can make changes to meet YOUR needs" then you should get feedback. If you've set expectations properly and get bad reviews at that point you should be able to go back to them and note that the review was for an early-stage trial balloon.
Not totally sure what BaseX is, how it compares versus Base64, especially post HTTP deflate compressions, but I'm not sure I like it. I'm pretty sure this kind of exercise is better left out, and that everyone should just use zstd on whatever encoding so as to decouple problem domains.

Round two of skepticism: msgpack is a niche player with no clear big corporate sponsor. Protobufs, flatbufs, and thrift are all actively making faster better quicker implementations, but I can not off the top of my head think of any major msgpack lovers. Avro also seems to just generally have some fast impls already, especially on platforms I care about[1], so credit there too. I ought review, but out of hand I can't think of anything distinguishing about msgpack.

Definitely nice having some alternative to Salmon protocol[2] (as in Buzz, OStatus) on hand. Alas I believe it's again fully encapsulating, versus say http signatures[3], where the signature is decoupled from the payload. It takes both types!! Neither is right.

[1] https://github.com/mtth/avsc/wiki/Benchmarks
[2] http://www.salmon-protocol.org/
[3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures-06
Read up on black swans. There are risks that can destroy everything that has come before it. These are worth defending against and building resilience against. Messing with genomes has unknown unknown risks that could turn into black swans. Tread lightly where there be dragons.
I suffered from serious short attention span and it started to affect my job. I convinced my doctor to prescribe me ritalin abd boom i started meetimg my deadlines. But once my dose ran out i had to visit the doctor again and that's when I realised modafinil was available otc in my country. I never abused and was using it only when my work suffered seriously. For months I didnt have any problem and the 'no side effects' of this wonder drug was too good for me. But a few months later i started getting serious rashes and blisters in my mouth, it took me a while to nail it to modafinil. I have stopped it since and the rashes have never appeared again but then my work statred to suffer again. I went into some real psycological issues too. But after much reflection i decided to quit my job and try a different field. And it made me realize a very simple lesson, which i knew as a child, there is no real prosthetic for passion. I just love what i do now and am able to do well at my job too.
I'm going to push back on this and say practice talking to strangers in person, because common discussion on Hacker News is almost nothing like the way most people communicate with each other.
For an alternative to modafinil, I would like to take the opportunity to recommend trying ginseng.

I take it as gelatine capsules (good quality from a serious vendor), one every day. It takes a couple of weeks before it kicks in for me, but from then on it has a distinct effect - I can think about programming problems with a lot more clarity than usual, even when tired at the end of the day. Quite weird really. Traditionally one would run a three month course, then stay off for a couple of months before starting again.

There is always the possibility of placebo effect, but I've tried a lot of things and this one feels real. There are also real scientific studies showing enhanced mental acuity from using ginseng [1][2][3].

Of course is has the benefit of being a natural remedy (and legal, if you care about that).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20676609

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16401645

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20737519
> It would be very weird for anyone to make assumptions about their identity based on broken english.

They could be haven trying to disguise themselves, maybe fearing a grammatical analysis or somehow exposing some fingerprint in how they construct sentences.

And as throwaway claimed, if you speak both English and Russian (I do), and have heard many others who speak both English and Russian for a many years you start to pick up patterns and understand when someone is speaking with a fake-make-it-sound-Russian style.
Not the OP, though I have been involved in fertility treatments. And I do feel conflicted knowing my family's genetic history will be passed on, both good and bad. Long term a reliance on these things could be a net negative for society as a whole.
You solve that by doing a limited first release. Don't advertise to the whole world or pay for a TV commercial. Target some customer groups you think would like the product and have a few of them use it. The early feedback is invaluable.

Even after you have a mature product, you can trickle out new features this way. Sometimes customers will come to you a feature request and even ask to help you beta test it, because they want it so badly.
Or walking.