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"Free will" negates itself as a useful concept whether you embrace or reject determinism (either one's will is a function of body and environment or its not in which case it is arbitrary), so I don't think it's a relevant consideration to the veracity of determinism or PWT in general.
I have bipolar 1. What I do is "go meta" and think over the situation and discuss it, how I feel, and how I perceive the situation with a friend or counselor to sanity check. There are times when this fails (co-morbid anxiety disorders), but I find being able to talk through a situation helps immensely. Most of the time, I can even reason out of an anxiety attack or panic attack if I have support close by.
High trust societies are typically ethnically or culturally homogeneous. It is far easier to feel empathy for someone that looks and/or acts like you.

I get the sense that this homogeneity is no longer seen as a benefit (for both good and bad reasons) and so expect that we are going to expend even more energy on coordination in the future.
Isn't AT&T the only major US carrier doing IPTV? The results have been pretty bad. They were using multicast for a while but scrapped it.

I'm not aware of anyone planning a large IPTV rollout; it's been dead for years.
Well, it's nested structs whether you like it or not. There are pros (no messing with private state in new and untested ways) and cons (you get all the private state even if you only need the one boolean) associated.
this is super interesting to me, in my "research" into dyslexia, I find that folks with very high dyslexic traits also happened to be incredibly spatially aware. Coincidently, they also happened to be excellent artists, often in sculpting.
the delay is about 30 seconds. and yes. people text and talk about esports all the time. it's the fastest growing market of entertainment for men 18-35.
Athletes are often held up as role models. Why shouldn't their character be relevant?
Many manuscript management systems I've used ask for email address for the suggested reviewers. It's a really bad idea. The editor should do at least minimal checking of the reviewer's position and expertise, and having an email ready to go in the system facilitates skipping that.
What's the difference between a setter in languages like C# and any other method call?

I agree that if you class Foo with a property:

public string Bar {get; set; }

and used as:

foo.Bar = "baz"

It does look like just another data structure. But what's the difference between that and having a method:

public void setBar(string value)
{
_bar = value;
}

It is just as easy to add logic to the property later on:

public string Bar{
get{ return _bar; };
set
{
...some logic;
_bar = value;
}

As it is:

public void setBar(string value)
{
..some logic;
_bar = value;
}

In fact, they both compile to roughly the same thing.
"well .. i am a big believer in the two layer separation"

I believe in this too. Not only two layers, if necessary there can be more.

For that to work, well designed interfaces are quite necessary.

"tcl + c .. are not exactly that and i believe a more modern combo will be better"

You don't necessarily need to reinvent Tcl in another "more modern" language to achieve that. You can compile Rust crates to dynamic libraries (.dll, .so) and use c types, or ffidl in Tcl (http://elf.org/ffidl/) to call the functions in your DLL-crates. Or write a small Tcl C extension to wrap function calls in the Rust code. That will do, without rewriting Tcl in Rust. For the other way around you can always call the Tcl library via its DLL interface in the same manner (which is the way to embed Tcl interpreters in other programs).
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I've noticed the baseball thing. Baseball is the only sport I sometimes enjoy, and our stadium in Seattle (Mariners) is usually decently attended when I go to games, but watching away games on TV, I sometimes wonder, "Are they playing in a stadium that doesn't allow spectators? Because it's basically totally empty."
I'd say so. A 20 mile ride (and a short nap) is my go-to way to get back into a project I'm stuck on.
I remember watching the 2006 Super Bowl at a friend's apartment. One room had the SD broadcast going and the other had an HD brodcast. We'd be watching them line-up in HD and hear cheers from the other room because they already saw the play.

There are lots of delays today between different broadcasts. Just try to follow a sporting event on twitter or a forum and you will see.
Yep, we still believe in the humors theory of medicine. In fact, there is a popular app to help remind people to get their blood drained regularly. There are also billboards reminding everyone that washing your hands is a waste of water. We also believe that the sun rotates around the Earth. As such, since we are the center of the universe, everyone laughs at the crackpots who suggest that we would ever want to travel to other planets or even the moon.
/s

Of course, there has been a good way to kill ideas - evidence with real world effect and patient engagement of naysayers over time. It makes me sad as from the 1500s - 1900s we had so much invention and progress and revolutionized people's thinking about the world, and we the heirs of all of that despair that we can't get rid of bad ideas. If so, the fault lies with us, and this fatalistic view is a bad idea that needs to be killed.
Corporations are literally (including my former company) and publicly creating initiatives to hire more minority and female employees. This means that race and gender are now being considered alongside merit, and white males are now at a disadvantage. If this isn't the very definition of bias, I don't know what is.

It's the usual conflation of equality of opportunity with equality of outcome.

The fact that is that this is racist behavior, but people these days ignore it because it's en vogue.
Though I agree a service could definitely come about to handle millions of concurrent viewers (I wouldn't be surprised if Youtube could/almost could handle it), I just want to point out those 14.7 million concurrent viewers were across all services. So not one service handling it all. Twitch, Youtube, Korea's Twitch (forget the name), and I believe China has a few major streaming companies.
(i tried to type "segfault" instead of "default" before autocorrect mangled it).

The most common signals you get in this situation are SIGSEGV and SIGBUS. AFAIK you can't catch it in Java.

You can get these errors in circumstances that don't involve physical IO device errors, you can also get them in cases where the OS decides you can't get to that file (eg another process truncates it, or you run out of space writing to a sparse file, etc).

By proper use of read() i meant being performance conscious. read() will usually have to copy the data into your buffer, whereas mmap() can just give you a virtual-memory assisted view of the kernel buffer cache. To eliminate this as a source of slowdown, you should size the read buffer so that it fits in CPU cache but still results enough work per read() call that the system call overhead doesn't get you. Around 128k is often close to the sweet spot.
In the short term, it is called IP theft and is considered negative. In the long run, it is called the diffusion of technology and is considered positive.
You're describing IP-based cable TV, minus the splitting because the ISP can do multicast on their internal network which stretches to your router. Exactly the same way many ISPs do it today. This doesn't change anything about how content is sold and consumed.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Backfire_effect

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/

What should be evident from the studies on the backfire effect is you can never win an argument online. When you start to pull out facts and figures, hyperlinks and quotes, you are actually making the opponent feel as though they are even more sure of their position than before you started the debate. As they match your fervor, the same thing happens in your skull. The backfire effect pushes both of you deeper into your original beliefs.
The National Maximum Speed Limit law was passed in 1974 and repealed in 1995. It's been repealed for longer than it was in effect. Virtually all of the lower 48 US states have an interstate speed limit on the order of 70-80 mph.
Not the OP, but I think (and I agree) he or she is stating that other shows failed to capture what made PTI good. When there were a couple of shows like PTI or Around the Horn it was great. Now there is basically national, local sports talk radio. Except with none of the fans, just yelling journalists. At least with local sports talk some of the redemption is that they are fans. I cut out sports talk radio almost a decade ago for podcasts. And I cut out ESPN about 3-4 years ago when I could get what I wanted elsewhere and none of what I didn't want. I am a sports person. However, I will not watch ESPN unless it is for a game. I just don't get any value.
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Yes to all of those things. I used to work for Riot and the level of fandom is no less than any other sport I've ever seen. I'm not personally a fan, but people definitely watch together and chat/text/tweet each other with what is happening. The community in America is smaller than NFL fans.
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I know it's a weird question, but I've been thinking about the years of shoulder and arm discomfort I've felt throughout my career. I'm beginning to think I have long arms.

It always feels like my arms are too long to find a comfortable position, not just while programming but also while driving a car. Every office chair and desk combination seems to have the arm rests sitting too high relative to my shoulders, which increases the tension in my shoulders and upper arms, leading to intense, lasting pain. I can never seem to adjust my chair to a comfortable position. I've finally been able to minimize the problem by seating my laptop on my lap and using the built-in keyboard and trackpad, ditching the mouse completely, but the pain still comes and goes from time to time because of angled position I have to hold my hands in to type with the keyboard so close to me.

Does anyone else here on HN have this problem? Did you solve it, and if so, how?
Putting Facebook aside, how can you possibly not think Google is doing important things?
Watch ESPN via Android on embedded TV apps is pretty decent.
Time to learn the magic of "yes, but...".
Maybe, except all evidence is that the restaurant industry is not reproducible year over year. Trends change, a new competitor opens down the block, or maybe the big employer across the street announces layoffs spurring customers to rethink their discretionary spend.
"Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled...

David St. Hubbins: What?

Ian Faith: Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town."

Boston and New York at least have large populations of college students, but certainly they're not iconic of what Americans consider a "college town".
The time it would take to debug and correct your Verilog code would greatly exceed the extra time needed to write in VHDL, in my opinion.
As a bike commuter in the Boston Area, I saw the BRIDJ vans (they were actually bigger than vans but smaller than busses, but I have not a name), during my commute. I could never see inside to see if the vehicles were full.

I looked into using them, but they didn't serve my area.

Seemed like a good idea, there was even talk they would be used when they cut late night T (bus) service again in Boston.

For an City that has such weak transportation, and terrible winter weather, they'll be missed here.
I have a friend who left Yelp after 2 months. Told me that he'd get aggressive legal action if he revealed "how Yelp really makes money".
I'm one of the co-authors of this post and co-founders of SigOpt (YC W15). I'm happy to answer any questions about the post. You can find the code to replicate everything here [1]. More info on the research behind SigOpt can be found here [2].

[1]: https://github.com/sigopt/sigopt-examples/tree/master/dnn-tu...

[2]: https://sigopt.com/research
Money's a helluva drug.
I don't know much about the science of vaccines so I won't address your point there. But I will say your comment is a good example of why I worry about the uptick in news of fraud and other bad practices in science, as well as the replication crisis is social psychology. These cases may be systemic or isolated or somewhere in the middle, but they erode public trust in good science. And with the 'post-truth' atmosphere of the politics, I fear a snowball effect.
I see this is the startup world as well. There are many people who seem to not want to make a business so much as sit in a coffee shop, dictate arbitrary product design decisions and network with people in an attempt to "crush it".
No, the most logical interpretation of quantum mechanics is that you can't measure things without using particle interactions, and particle interactions change what they interact with.
That is all correct. I guess it just varies with what is considered "very low" and the personal taste of your accountant.
> Felt like people'd been deliberately obtuse to keep me from learning.

Well, that's one way to put it. What's really going on is they are trying to describe an abstraction from a user's perspective. So you could say the point of abstraction is to be "deliberately obtuse" in a productive and healthy way.

It's also common for people to try and fail to abstract things. Bad abstraction can be a net negative. It's likely that was what happened here.

And, to agree with you, OOP as a taxonomy of physical objects is both a pervasive and a bad idea. The point of classes and objects is to group data and functionality together. The things you do with a "Rose" may or may not look like the things you do with a "Cactus". Forcing them into the same hierarchy of behaviors because they are both "Plants" is injecting extra requirements into the system.
This is what they used to do with the venerable Mac Pro tower, built as recently as Mid 2012. The heavy gauge aluminum construction was a work of art. People pick up Mac Pro G5 shells and use them to build tables, benches, etc.

I am hoping that Apple returns to this sort of design philosophy. It's quite frustrating that many of their iMacs are not (easily) user upgradable. Upgrading an HDD to an SSD requires cutting adhesive, suction cups to remove the display, disconnecting not-meant-to-be-disconnected cables from comically delicate sockets, and similar feats of delicacy.

The Mac Pro redesign applied the same sort of anti-consumer bullshit.
I suppose it's in the title, but I was disappointed the article doesn't even attempt to provide some solutions.

The one proposal the article makes is poorly thought out.

It's become clear that in today's political culture ignoring or dismissing bad ideas without properly addressing them with at least feigned respect pushes the on the fence population into echo chambers where the idea can be confirmed as good, e.g. anti-vaxxers, flat world believers, etc...
Yeah, we saw doubling of speeds. 50/100/150 all got automatically upgraded to 100, 150, and 300mb/s.

Then when Spectrum bought them out the mid tier disappeared; oh, and prices went up.
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Apple did. It came with a G5 processor. Most people didn't want to pay the exorbitant prices that Apple wanted them to pay for things like Apple-compatible AGP graphics cards and such when PCs got the same thing at literally 1/3 the price, and they pretty quickly fell into irrelevance.

Apple would probably go the exact same route as they did the last time and fail just as miserably.
I tend to be pretty skeptical of all things crypto, but this seems pretty cool. It's not very useful, but it seems like a fun concept.
I would say it depends on your position in your place of work, but there are multiple examples of this. I prefer historical ones, say for example NANP (the North American Numbering Plan).

I'm not sure what country you're in, but here, these 10 digit numbers and their various prefixes (NPAs AKA "area codes") are literally burned into the consciousness of most citizens, without them even realizing it. Additionally, all modern cellular services here are still following it in some sense or other, making it an example of highly entrenched technical debt. I'm pretty sure that the design of this system bled heavily into most other countries' telephone networks as well.

A small number of engineers probably drew up this plan on a chalkboard in the 1940s at AT&T, without a clue as to the magnitude of future ramifications.
Sure, it wouldn't be the end of the analysis or necessarily the thing you'd use to communicate the data. But here's a paragraph from the article about the distribution of the data:

As I ran the addresses through a precise parcel-level geocoding process and visually inspected individual blood lead levels, I was immediately struck by the disparity in the spatial pattern. It was obvious Flint children had become far more likely than out-county children to experience elevated blood lead when compared to two years prior.

"It was obvious"...
Points taken. And I agree that we should design systems to work with the natural tendencies of humans. But we can do better than (and I'm being reductive here) capitalism's current "eventually everything will optimize out even if poor people starve to death because they weren't born with money." In fact, I'd argue that 'modern' capitalism really is only activating a small portion of human nature (that is, the self-interested part), and shielding us from those aspects of us that are caring for others and concerned for other human beings. When we put everything from the value of private jets to food, water, and healthcare on the same value metric (money), and then tell people that whatever amount of money they have is indicative of what they are worth, it's no wonder we as a society wind up treating people as objects instead of human beings.

Anecdotally, the US is a nation with more than enough food and shelter for all its inhabitants. Yet many people live on the streets, often because they were born into poverty. This goes against most people's "firmware." Yet capitalism takes no account of that part of human nature (I'd argue those parts that make us 'better than animals.').
I love how he just throws in that story about running into "Alabama" and how she looked sexy. From a younger man I might have been tempted to call it a "humble brag" about how he chatted up a cute girl but didn't bother pursuing anything. But from an older guy, it made me smile because it's the sort of thing we sometimes just remember for years.
>There is overwhelming evidence of discrimination against people who are in minorities and against women, and as these people are largely excluded from power due to that same discrimination

I'd say there's more "overwhelming evidence" of confusion of equality of opportunity with equality of outcome, but this is an unpopular opinion to even suggest, because people like yourself immediately throw around accusations of fascism and white nationalism for asking the wrong questions.
I actually find it more difficult to walk on flat concrete than walking on a trail with rocks and roots and leaves. I weave all over the place because there is nothing to keep my attention to where my feet are being planted.
I miss pg. He was really cool. I understand why he left, I think, but...

I miss your comments too! You should write more. Both essays and comments. I think it's easy to care too much about image and whether someone might stir up controversy. But you have genuinely interesting things to say. Even if HN doesn't feel like the kind of place you can say them, it still does a lot of good.

I don't know. Sometimes it just feels like you and pg stopped believing in us. Which I guess is understandable. One year it went from HN feeling like a part of the community to feeling like we're an adversary. After all, we -- the internet at large -- are small-minded reactionaries, right? Why bother?

But it's a perception worth changing. The old guard is still here. HN grew up, so there are more voices now -- there's more to sift through. But the voices that pg once enjoyed talking with are still here.

Setting all that aside, though: have a nice day! And thanks for everything you've built.
I think you're being too quick to throw out the baby with the bath water. We know there are epidemiological risks to foregoing vaccination, dating to well before peer review and drug manufacturer incentives were problematic.

If you're concerned about the incentives of vaccine manufacturers to produce safe products (which is a reasonable position), I think a better response in this case is to call for more transparency in research and manufacturing.

Why accept a known large risk in an attempt to reduce a risk that may not exist at all?
You highlight choice like you're being sarcastic, but is there anything that stops you from looking for a job? If it's a big deal to you you'll make it a priority, if it's not a big deal to you you'll stay where you are.
I'd argue that this class _does_ provide tangible economic benefits. Unfortunately, there are some folks at the margin who don't. The difficulty is in drawing that line.

Apart from the liquidity, the large algorithmic firms have traditionally spent like crazy on computing. It was this hardware spend that allowed Sun to pursue a strategy where most of their software was open source.

Has Wall Street harmed you more than having freely available Java, Solaris forks, and ZFS have helped?
I don't think that's enough. Particle interactions are unitary, but measurement looks non-unitary from the point of view of the observer.

Reality is intersubjective, but not subjectivist.
I really wish it was easier to roll your own. I'd be more interested in a local co-op that forced competitive pricing and services, forced speed upgrades and allowed more choices.

Across the US, even in major cities, most residences don't actually have a "choice" in their provider.

Something I recently learned when one of our renters tried to get Satellite services in a heavily-wooded area.
I encountered this the other day: friend of mine has a zip code associated with a major city, and puts the name of that city in their mailing address. But the land is not incorporated in any city. City government was trying to enforce city laws against them and use the mailing address as justification. Stupid.
Sure, it makes sense. But reality is complex. The amplitudes of the wave function are real (no puns intended) and the Bell inequalities are also real.

It's not just about incomplete knowledge.
Would whistle blowing laws apply to private companies?
I go jogging outside by the creek. That works, really, really well for me when I'm stressed.
I wouldn't be too surprised if that view was something they'd had before but didn't use because you had the more interesting second stage feed during a normal launch. Today they couldn't show anything from stage 2 because it was an NRO launch and there's a lot of secrecy around what those even look like.
pocketcasts on android is what i use, and i know it has silence trimming and playback speed from .5 to 3.0 in .1 increments.

I have the paid version so im unaware if some/all of these feature require the paid version
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I'd call that "still a setter". I think the concern is that if bar is more about the representation of the object than the behavior, you're not operating at the right level of abstraction.
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