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Even if you are truly self-aware, there is no view without a point of view.

(And if you think you are truly self-aware, you have not read Thinking Fast and Slow. You should.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Certainly not the only language, see my reply above (or below depending). There are a lot of great languages which either compile to JS perfectly or have been built with that purpose in mind.
Thank you. Well it's simple: we agree that violent encounters are rare. And we presumably agree that it's not the incidence rate but that times the cost of being shot that informs your actions. So the actions can very well be changed by even a 1% chance per encounter of something like that. Would you fly with a 1% chance of death? How would that affect the economy?
"I, for one, have never understood the problem with landfills. "

Says the person who doesn't have to live near a landfill.
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Interesting that a study was reported on the exact same site, but in 2014.

https://m.phys.org/news/2014-12-gut-bacteria-worm-degrade-pl...
I would take the other side of that bet. I don't even need to work out the exact math:

You pay me $722,000 over the next 50 years, then from years 51-??? (70? 80?) I pay you the equivalent of $966,000.

I would not have to get a very high rate of return to end up better than that. Eyeballing it, the payments from the first 10 years alone, at a return of around 4% or 5%, would cover all of my outlays at the end. That's a sweet deal.

It looks like they accounted for inflation somewhat ("...in 2012 dollars"), but even returns modestly beating inflation would turn out a much bigger winner.

The bigger problem is that the govt. is not investing that money like I would if I took the bet.
Not completely different, but significantly less complex.

There are non-spiking neurons in humans as well. They may have significant role in neuroplasticity.
Yep, that was the main motivation. I should've made it clearer (I hope some edits to the post helped). It's far from the first post like this but I noticed some of the factual misconceptions seem to be picking up, so I wanted to set them straight on the record. But I didn't consider the tone enough, and I regret this. I hope it's a little better now. :-)
Guns are are more like mosquito repellent with tyranny being the mosquito. I.e. it's usually a passive defense against tyranny not an active one.

I can give you examples of countries where guns are banned and the governments eventually rode roughshod over the citizens (who couldn't do anything about it): For example, when the Jong-Il family came to power in N. Korea they cracked down extremely heavily on gun ownership to ensure armed uprisings were impossible. It has been an extremely effective measure and now N. Korea has the lowest gun homicide rate in the world.
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Police officers shot and killed last year: 63

Unarmed people shot and killed by police last year: 48

It's a touch predicament, but I don't see a universal lack of prudence.

https://www.odmp.org/search/year/2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...
You missed the follow on statement (quoted below). We would not want 1 or 2 companies to hog the visas, right?

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Fair distribution. Companies need to get a fair shot to get what they need and no single company ought to be allowed to hog the permits
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Oh, and for those who are thinking, "Huh, 6.5% return is pretty good", remember that's based on individual contributions alone. Your employer contributes the same amount on your behalf. Meaning that for a Top 20%-er, you and your employer are contributing more than you will see back in absolute dollars (ignoring inflation, which makes it worse—you and your employer give me $1 in 1970s dollars and I give you $0.90 in 2017 dollars).
Wood is biodegradable, yet we manage to use it in long lasting products.
Uber could tell if I changed devices or bought someone else's used device, giving them potential insight into my device usage and buying habits.

Is that "spying"? It's certainly tracking beyond a level I would reasonably expect...
Adding on to say that the advice provided in the parent is 100% spot on and OP shouldn't disregard it. More calories in + weightlifting = massive weight increases, especially for beginners. This has been proven time after time, for millions, including myself: 5'11, went from 133 pounds to 165 in 4 months eating ~3000 calories a day and lifting 4x a week.

5 years later, I'm still in the best shape of my life and deciding to gain weight & exercise regularly continues to be one of the best, most profitable decisions I've made next to learning how to program.
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Also, the really clever part was suspecting and then testing that the plastic isn't just mechanically broken down.
This is about microdosing. I don't think anyone here would claim that LSD has no effect - that'd be crazy. But that does not mean we can say whether or not microdosing achieves anything. Especially not in the face of experiments like Gwerns.
> In essence, they are rarely ever a good idea.

I'm not sure I agree with this. There is a massive benefit to having not just your entire engineering org thinking in an object oriented fashion, but also your entire product org. Designers and PMs having a deep understanding of the data model is extremely useful, and to the extent that everyone is already speaking in OO terms (ie: your records are already going to be structured in this fashion), an ORM makes a ton of sense.

Not only does it give you abstracted and simplified syntax for common access patterns, it gives you a shim to add in all kinds of stuff like caching, analytics etc., that would be extremely difficult without an ORM.

Of course there are pitfalls, mostly poorly constructed queries that don't perform well, but any ORM will let you write raw SQL when you need to.

If your models map 1:1 to database tables it's hard to see why you wouldn't want an ORM, and I think there are a lot of great arguments for structuring your data like that (and of course some against it as well).
Ahh yes, it's cached in fnmatchcase. It's pretty fast as well, <10µs for a basic match.
but React server-side rendering only runs on Node.js AFAIK.

There are a few solutions for Ruby, PHP and Python although I have no experience with them and how well they perform/work.
I knew about the poisonous aspects, but wasn't sure about the environmental concerns.

I've read that if your dog (or child etc) does drink antifreeze or washer fluid, you are supposed to give them vodka as you rush them to the hospital. It will stop the effects of ethylene glycol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_glycol_poisoning under Antidote section)
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It's because monochromatic filters would allow for a much larger portion of the incident light to be captured than if there were multiple filters active in different wavelengths at the same time (which you would need for color photography).

Those filters are typically wheels that are rotated mechanically.
Fascinating. Maybe a little off topic but Chinese writing system has a big impact on continuous revival of China as an ancient but united nation which seems to be a super life lasted much longer than any individual lives. (2nd answer)

https://www.quora.com/Why-was-China-able-to-develop-a-highly...
They've been having basically zero success exporting plain old internal combustion based vehicles. Let's see how they do with electrics.
Hey, I don't have any real evidence to add, but I would often read articles about LSD microdosing and assumed it was bullshit.

After trying it on myself 5-10ug / day for 6+ months, I think it's been incredibly beneficial.

The crux of it is that if you drop a full tab and pay attention, you'll notice LSD is extremely stimulating - far more than psilocybin. It has a very high level of dopamine receptor activation, which is why even 10 hours into a trip I would notice how different the quality of my attention was - in essence, it was far easier to simply be aware of what was going on.

(Note I have adhd-pi so that's part of why I think microdosing works for me)

In short, a microdose gives the dopaminergic stimulatory benefits, without being overwhelmingly twitchy. It produces a less linear style of thinking than amphetamines (adderall/vyvanse/desoxyn), but still increases general energy, focus, quality of attention etc. Colors feel a tiny bit sharper, visual acuity feels slightly enhanced, physical body control is significantly enhanced (I have far better posture and general neuromuscular control).

Obviously this isn't rigorous evidence, but hopefully it gives a general idea of why one would microdose.

One final thing - 25ug or even 15ug is far too much. IMO 10ug is the upper limit of what would be considered a microdose. My preference is 4-8 ug (obviously dosed as liquid)
hordes of hackers discover they are running a vulnerable browser :D
>>> I've spent basically zero time in academia. I've heard the phrase 'publish or perish', and I know the evils of Elsevier, and the popularity of sci-hub - but that's about it.

I don't know if they are so evil as people say. They send me nice invitations on linkedin to interview with them :D

They appear to have interesting data and text analysis problems to solve.
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Didn't they remove iFixit because they didn't like that they made a guide for Apple Watch? There are tons of apps removed for much less.
Hackers got most of it right.
The key here is they were actively trying to block Apple (via geofencing) from detecting this activity.

Any other dev would have been banned from the App Store for life, but because they're Uber they just get a warning.
One motivation, especially with a code-first work flow, is tying source control and db versioning together. With Entity Framework, you can downgrade the DB structure back to a specific point in time.
He is writing it as if ORMs are only for allowing to do queries without knowledge of SQL syntax (which is weird idea) and for forcing database to fit into OOP mindset.

SQL (in strings) is not composable at all. Your app rarely has fixed set of queries and almost always need to be able to construct 'where' dynamically, add joins, etc. SQL syntax is especially non-composable, because there once was hype to make programming languages imitate natural languages. In this case, ORM is inevitable if you don't want to have rube goldberg machines of string concatenation everywhere.

Non-OO ORMs may be not called "ORM"s but idea is the same. Moreover, Sqlalchemy Core mentioned in article is great example of non-OO ORM: it composes queries and returns result in tuples[1].

[1] http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_1_1/core/tutorial.html
Looking forward to moth holes in my fleece.
All job servers are stateless by design and easily disposable/replaceable with a fresh build so we don't back them up. we don't back up user data either – it's deleted within 24 fours (or immediately on request). the only thing backed up is a table with refresh tokens which are encrypted and decryption keys are not backed up with it.
There are a few things in React ecosystem that need to be abstracted.

1. Redux

2. React Router

3. Smart components

4. Dumb components

5. Services (This is combination of Redux, redux-thunk and axios(or whatever))

6. Webpack (CSS loader, SCSS, fonts, html, etc...)

7. And hopefully, everything with TypeScript if they can get over Flow.

Having worked on quite a few React projects, I have a boilerplate that mashes up the above combination and makes it work. With new project, I upgrade the dependencies.

But each time I start a new project in 3-4 months, something would have changed. Either its TS type defs or something in core React.

And as I discovered recently few days back - Webpack2, Router4 broke my boilerplate setup. Well, they actually improved react-router, and that made me remove some workarounds.

Every time I start, I end up spending at least half-to-one day setting up the same "Hello world" page and making sure the wiring works okay before I proceed to add functionality. That is just a waste of time. React core is cool, but I hope they had one highly-opinionated version of React that works out of the box.
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They already have non-lethal options available if they intend to stop someone. I feel like this would increase the lethality of situations where non-lethal approaches are warranted rather than decreasing the lethality of other ones.

Firearms should not be treated as implements of lethality and nothing but that. Imagine how many police shooting cases we'd see where cop claims he was shooting to wound but 'missed'
That won't help.

There are 100 billion neurons in the brain. Even if you decide on a low-bandwidth limited system, you're still looking at somewhere between 1 and 10 billion neurons.

The bandwidth is fairly low, but you still need to work out a way to address the individual dust units for both reading and writing. You have to be able to place them fairly accurately. And you also have to make them maintenance-free, or replaceable if they break.

None of this is even remotely possible today. It may be possible fifty to a hundred years from now, but by then some other technology may have appeared.

I'd guess this approach is going to seem impossibly crude - like trying to build an i7 core out of valves.
If we had 100% reliable brain to machine interfaces today, I don't think it would change much for the average person. It would be like having a voice assistant with 100% ASR accuracy. Yes, you would be able to use it silently and that would certainly be more convenient, but we have to build better bots/skills to handle that input. Maybe in 25 years we'll get there, and by then brain interfaces will be a natural evolution.
Panic isn't a tiny player, I agree, but they're not Uber. there's a possibility the human reviewer assigned to its case hadn't heard of the company. If I were a reviewer and I had no personal experience with the app or did not immediately recognize the name, I'd be inclined to treat them just like anyone else.
Don't start the free will discussion, please, the term is basically meaningless. If you try to define it with sufficient precision to make a conversation about the topic possible you get people who disagree with the definition.
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indeed, thanks :)
Yea, but they can't actually end Uber. That would make it obvious to the consumer Apple can't give them what they want.
If your application has objects, and talks to a relational database to marshal result rows into instances of those objects, you are using an ORM.
> There is bad advice for every framework/language that exists

I'm somewhat torn on this. I'm currently a JS dev, using React, and I have few complaints. In particular, without regard to the specific API, I think React promotes good models of thought and separation of concerns. It can definitely be done poorly, which can make it a pain to change, but as you say, that's true for anything.

BUT - Long ago I did a long stint as a Perl dev. Perl is somewhat infamous for the ease of writing terrible code. I can say with confidence that one can write solid Perl code that is easy to understand and modify. I actually credit the lessons I learned as a Perl dev for improving my code quality in all languages ever since, and there are expressive concepts in Perl that I wish would be implemented in other languages. That doesn't mean that the Perl community (and developers of the language itself) get to ignore that Perl was EASIER to write terrible code in - and in my opinion their(our) ineffectiveness at changing that reputation was as much to blame for the decline of Perl as the Perl 6 crawlout.

React is no Perl - I'm not trying to set up a strawman here. I'm just saying that "there is bad advice for every framework/language" can be true and still not contradict the concept that a reputation for problems warns/scares away devs. (That said, I think React isn't suffering that reputation, JS is)
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That's a bit more than Stripe or Braintree.
> which I thought was a remarkable step considering the precarious state of Canadian libel law.

Taking a University to court for calling you a fraud only gives the University a great opportunity to prove it in a public court room :)

Also you can probably interview current and former employees, like yourself. Not to talk about the presumably long list of sketchy things published, which should be sufficient on its own.

If you want to maintain some illusion of legitimacy, suing a University isn't going to get you far.
anecdotal, but I strongly believe it makes you actually sharper. Not everyone needs more dopaminergic stimulation though (I certainly do to function in society)
Charles Schwab uses a voice phrase to authenticate you for access to your account, which is already pretty brittle, but I hope this makes them reconsider more urgently.
The React API is stable. There haven't been any major changes to its public-facing API in a long time. Third-party projects that you might also depend on are not always as stable but the React team has no control over that (and third-party dependencies don't have anything to do with React itself or fiber).
I'd call not enforcing the actual punishment a slap on the wrist.
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Sorry, I should have said 'the question' rather than 'your question'. The original article attempted to pull in the author's issues with a bunch of React-adjacent technologies to what was purportedly a criticism of React, and I just wanted to make the point that this is needlessly muddying the waters.
Wow. I remember playing the original almost 20 years ago on a PC that really didn't support it at a terrible framerate. The fact that I can play it now in a browser window on a netbook without it breaking a sweat is astonishing.
Eat more, use a calorie counting app. Excercise regularly with weight lifting as the focus.

Eating is 90% of it.
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Sorry. Fixed. :-)
Reader mode is by far my favourite Firefox feature!

It is overwhelming how sweet is to read focused on the content instead on closing the next-to-scam popups that decides to open up on a random part of the article.

One interesting side effect of reader mode is that as all content has the same format, you get used very fast to compare content not based on external artifacts (font, colors, page layout), but in the actual message.
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> These claims by Musk and the FB exec are pretty outlandish.

Except that those are not claims made by Musk and Zuckerberg.

Musk-related, the article says:

> He says that within eight to 10 years healthy people could be getting brain implants as new computer interfaces.

While in WBW's article Musk's quote is:

> I think we are about 8 to 10 years away from this being usable by people with no disability … It is important to note that this depends heavily on regulatory approval timing and how well our devices work on people with disabilities.

Notice the second part, which this article totally dismisses. That was his optimistic, "if all goes perfect" claim.

From the article:

> What makes it even remotely okay that Musk and Facebook are promising the public telepathy within a few short years?

...while Zuckerberg's quote is:

> I would be pretty disappointed if in 25 years we hadn’t made some progress towards thinking things to computers.
Man, I hope the engineers who design the bridges I use paid more attention in their math classes.
I'd question if it should be considered maintenance mode if it is complete.

I understand why monolithic utility and frameworks need constant updating. It seems that in the "micro library" world, though, we should see and encourage "finished" libraries.
I mean, it's not like they're going into it knowing they're about to create a nerve agent. It even says in the history for Tabun on Wikipedia [0] that it was initially meant to be an insecticide. Sarin was similarly created as a way to find stronger pesticides, and IIRC so was Zyklon B, used in the holocaust.

So some of these scientists may not have known what their creations were going to be used for.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabun_(nerve_agent)
Correct me if I am wrong but this weapon doesn't come with 30 round mags and these mags are not easily accessible for sale.
I think your idea works out in most cases. Examples:

"Theresa May promises 'No snap election'"

"James May to stay sober for entire season of shooting The Grand Tour"
Thanks for feedback! I use them all the time on Twitter, and didn't mean to do it in a passive aggressive way. I removed them.
Funny--I learned in pretty much the opposite order: Assembly -> C -> C++ -> Java. Seems odd to go top-down but who's to say which way is better..
Interesting. Maybe there's a problem because of differing expectations then. I can also see parallels in the legal system, and in differing legal systems: the adversarial system used in English common-law countries is not universal, for instance.

Personally, I think the adversarial system is inherently and downright bad and wrong. The idea isn't to get to the actual truth, it's merely to win the argument at all costs. There might be an idea that this efficiently gets to the truth, but I don't think it does at all; this system just finds who's better at arguing. An inquisitorial system I think is superior at getting to the actual truth. See your own comment about "good for lawyering, bad for truth-seeking": I think this is exactly what's wrong with the common-law system.

Personally, do like to play devil's advocate a fair amount, but not to the extent where I need to actually win the argument, I just want to make sure all sides are covered and that people aren't missing something major by hopping on a bandwagon or engaging in group-think. There's a big difference between this and just endlessly arguing one side without actual regard to the truth or the merits of the other sides (and there may be many--another problem with this adversarial approach that always assumes only 2 sides).

Also related, personally I think formal academic debates are similarly bad and wrong, though not quite as bad as lawyering because at least with academic ones someone's life or welfare is not directly impacted by the contest over who's a better arguer.
There are many criticisms of the effectiveness of using fMRI to tease out brain function. It measures blood flow as a proxy for neural activity in a region, but this is not necessarily accurate. It depends heavily on many other factors.
Ask HN: Algorithms for the de-duplicate of content?
I've been on the hunt for algorithms that can "dedupe" content, but haven't found much.

To give a little more context:

Given a piece of content and a second (altered) piece of content. Can I use an algorithm to determine the likelihood that that second piece of content is a variation of the first?

I essentially want to store one variation of the content in my database, with references to altered variations of the content, but I need to be able to detect the altered data.

Edit:

Imagine having a million resumes (some in doc, some in pdf, some in html) and you want to dedupe them.
On the other hand, had Apple actually banned Uber from the App Store the outrage would have been insane - even right here in Hacker News. IMHO, Apple didn't have a choice but to let them go scot-free.
I read this story over the weekend, about Kalanick getting a meeting with Cook and discussing this issue. In stark contrast, I'm sure that anyone else would have their app removed and receive automated responses from apple support at best.

No, I don't think Cook needs to find time for everyone. I just find this contrast fascinating.