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Accident of history, I suppose; most of the other primeval forest would have gone a long time ago. The remaining patches in the UK, for example, are tiny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_woodland

E.g. in 1773 Samuel Johnson’s famous tour of Scotland he complains about the lack of trees in the country. As far as I understand this was due to resource depletion for construction and fuel.

WW2 also caused both direct destruction of woodland and huge resource pressure across most of Europe.
what sort of coding do you do on the spro? I'm going to be buying a new laptop / ultraportable / tablet in the near future, and I'm curious about this.

Can you comfortably run some kind of linux VM on it? What kind of external keyboard does it support? How does the display hold up in moderate lighting conditions?

For a lot of work, I've got a desktop, but I use my 2013 mbp at cafes and such. I mostly do node and frontend work, so while a strict windows dev env is feasible, I prefer linux.
It's concerning to me, but not for the reasons you listed. Naming names isn't the only way to out someone on such a list. Details about time, place, personalities, specific words said, etc, can unintentionally out someone.

And it's not just the accused that could be outed. The accuser faces the same issue.

I don't see why it's odd to have some concerns about this approach. It clearly requires a moderator with some skill, or a mistake could really hurt someone.
I believe the Cantonese/Vietnamese saying goes "anything with four legs, except table and chair; anything that flies, except airplane."

The Great Leap Forward conditioned the survivors to eat absolutely anything that moves. They'll even eat sea stars and jellyfish, without even gagging. While the rest of the world wonders how to dispose of the frozen gorillas[0], the Chinese are already wiping the fryer oil off their hands and throwing away the skewer.

As tourists, they have an international reputation in the hospitality and tourism industry for eating literally anything you might care to put on their plate.

[0] The Simpsons, "Bart the Mother" (10:3). According to Skinner, the pigeons are eaten by the Bolivian Tree Lizards, the lizards are eaten by Chinese Needle Snakes, the snakes are eaten by snake-eating gorillas, and the gorillas freeze to death during the winter.
> If I have a companies with 2000 engineers and I have projects in ML, Rest Servers, Cloud systems, etc, it makes vastly more sense to rely on one language to do everything, because it allows me to shift engineers from one place to another without them having to learn a new language.

Well, CIOs tend to think so. I think they are wrong, and that this is one of the reasons enterprise-internal technology is so bad.

You aren't actually going to.move engineers between those tasks very much, because each of them relies on fairly deep domain knowledge, and, in any case, it's unlikely that the size of demand between those tasks shifts enough that it makes sense to shift a lot of people around. And, those you do shift around are going to have a lot of work coming up to speed on domain knowledge (which is going to have a huge impact on how the language is used), which will dwarf any language-transition effects. And, furthermore, the places that do stuff like this aren't the kind of places that attract the kind of talent that could manage to the transition between these divergent domains well; what they almost invariably end up doing to deal with short-term shifts is hiring specialist contractors in the more in-demand area, and for longer-term shifts reducing headcount in one area and hiring new people in the other.

At the same time, you are inhibiting productivity in most or all of the individual domains by not choosing the right tool for the specific job.
The Independent had an ownership change recently and dramatically shifted from journalism to click bait.
Dalton and even Lazenby actually hold up quite well. Perhaps it has more to do with the script and directing than the actor. The films of these least "successful" Bonds are among the best Bond films, and far better than the worst outings by Craig, Brosnan, Moore and even Connery.
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You're right, the site went down before I could look at the team page but now that I do it seems those people aren't on it. My apologies.

Although, they don't need to in order for it to be an ad. But to be fair, content marketing is a better term. And a good piece of marketing at that. It tricked me (intentionally or not) into thinking those people worked there and if I was a client that might get me to buy.
> The former president of the US was a black man, he was arguably in one of the most privileged positions in the US / World.

That's not what privilege is. Its about how society treats people as a whole. As as a whole, white men benefit from their gender and race. Yes there are white people who are poor or have other issues. Yes there are black people people who are wealthy or in positions of power. Citing individual examples doesn't discount macro trends
Thanks for this. I'm (perhaps unduly) annoyed that this article went with "Just as important, intelligence is profoundly shaped by the environment." 50/50 genes/environment has become a safe way to avoid outrage, but as far as I know it's not something any actual academics believe - genes and environment cause qualitatively different effects with substantially different variance. (Environment in particular appears strongly capped on upside.) Summarizing that as "just as important" is sloppy and unhelpful, even without taking a politicized stance.
I understand the desire to see tech related stories, but HN is not a newspaper with an editorial staff. If the community doesn’t think this is a topic worth discussing, it will not bubble up. If you are seeing it on the front page, it’s likely of interest to this community.
a university degree costs a fortune in the US.
I still value the comments here more than anywhere else on the internet honestly. So i don't really mind the occasional off-topic post.
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Zero xml files.
Welcome to the bottom of the curve! On the plus side, this means you're doing pretty well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/head-in-the-cloud/20170...
The G stands for generation as stated in a reply above. Each generation represents a standard that it attempts to achieve, which is loosely agreed amongst a bunch of companies (e.g. Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung) in order to lay down a worldwide standard so that phone companies, telcos etc... can align their research and development.

'The goals of 5G technology can be summarized in the following value points:

1,000x increase in capacity
Support for 100+ billion connections
Up to 10Gbit/s speeds
Below 1ms latency'

Specifically the difference in 4G and 5G. 4G was mostly about increasing speeds and bandwidth in terms of increasing efficiency, using MIMO (multiple input and multiple output) strategies, duplexing, carrier aggregation ...

'5G is aiming on providing pervasive connectivity to lay grounds for fast and resilient access to the Internet users, whether they are on a top of a skyscraper or down under a subway station.' As you've alluded to there have been a number of advancements since 4G was released to the public. To implement 5G it will leverage the latest research in the area including beamforming, vRan and bunch more.

So as you can see mobile communications standards are more than just about frequency bands and includes improving technology for end to end communication. Hope that helps!

Ref: http://www.androidauthority.com/4g-and-5g-wireless-how-they-...
Ref: https://www.ericsson.com/research-blog/5g/massive-beamformin...
Ref: https://insight.nokia.com/how-vran-helping-future-proof-mobi...
That's why you research the effectiveness of charities before donating. (Personally I follow GiveWell's recommendations.)
Sir. Daugman has left the job incomplete.. there still space for research. "Liveness" checking is of course a challenge in such cheap and simplistic setups..
Anyhow, for operator-attended application scenarios it is still ok. On the other, I see biometrics as a convenience feature in physical or logical access control scenarios (As long as the security level is at least equal or higher than conventional methods).
Critical functionality implemented in client code rather than the backend.
50 years from now, What kind of programming language we will be using?
Especially with the rise of AI and machine learning, what could be the future state of modern programming languages?
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> There are plenty of languages that do something better than Java

I agree and I never said otherwise. I specifically addressed three of the languages you named (Python, Go and C#).

> Now we are traversing into "my opinion is fact here".

I'd love to see someone argue that Go or Python have superior tooling to Java and the JVM.

> Yes, let's dismiss every other language

I'm not dismissing every other language, I don't even use Java regularly, I'm dismissing two of the "modern" languages you named.
That's the truth. But our society will only move as fast as we say to. All of this, economy, technological advance, social issues all exist in our mind. Surely a giant such as Microsoft could be dedicated to being at the forefront of a wave of events
Not to disrespect Moore — the man is a legend in my opinion, and he'll be sorely missed — but I tend to agree.
What you are describing is called a Sybil attack. This voting scheme is super broken against Sybil attacks.
And that's to sell it all off instantly by putting in the absolute least amount of effort possible. The point is that exchanging a million dollars worth of bitcoin is not difficult.
The Bond of Sir Roger Moore, enjoyed being James Bond. The Bond of Daniel Craig, seems to hate being James Bond. I for one prefer the escapist Bond of Roger Moore.

On a different note, whenever I watch those old Bond movies and see the photos of the actors, I am reminded again of how short life is. The actors in the James Bond movies were picked to be some of the most glamorous people available when the movie was filmed, and now they are gone or else very old.

It seems like the modern day Ozymandias.
What about the submarine Lotus Espirit?
Good to know. I've always been interested in New Hampshire.
Dragged them out to an ocean halfway between two islands, imho.

Custom collections in a statically-typed language without macros or generics or templates is masochism. I was very disappointed back in 2005 that it took competition from Microsoft with .NET 2.0 to force the Java leadership's hand to finally provide that missing feature.

Why even bother with static typing if coders are constantly having to type-cast and null-check everything?
Glass eye I'm not sure about either. That seems along the lines of using a fingerprint reader on a prosthetic hand. Sure, you could mold a fingerprint onto one and scan it, but with a sophisticated fingerprint sensor it's going to look like a fake finger. Do we deliberately make everyone's fingerprint scanner weak to allow someone without fingers to use it?

Maybe the answer is to introduce a "weak mode" option where most users could have the scanner verify "yes, this is a real eyeball," and if someone with a glass eye still wanted to use iris scanning in a way that can be copied by a photo, they have the choice to disable the security measures.
Brosnan is the Bond of my generation. I loved Golden Eye, but I think the later films were just bad, not because of the actor(s) but because of the script and plot.
I have encountered this too. Some of most useful personal coding time is spent to exploring something new or solving a real problem with a quick and dirty solution. At no point do I set out to create a full polished, deliverable thing. I don't even know if I will solve my problem or understand the new thing! Why publish such code? A carpenter doesn't varnish and sell every single bit of wood that is practiced or worked on nor an artist present every single sketch.
We have two acres (1 acre cleared) and don't use any pesticide or herbicide in our yard so I'm sure they will have plenty of natural forage to supplement their grain and room to stretch their legs.

Our biggest concern is the local wildlife which includes mink, weasel, raccoon, skunk and fisher cat. We've seen every one of those creatures on and around our property so I'm trying to devise a critter proof chicken coop to put them in at night and wondering if I should get a dog as well.
Do you think there's no point in bettering the mind?

I don't know whether mastering Chess or Go makes you a better thinker or not, but it certainly might, and many people think it does.

So if you become a better human thinker than you were before, who cares if a machine can still beat you at the game? It's for your own growth.

A machine is probably also better and sitting and thinking of nothing, but lots of people will still meditate.
While there are instances of false accusations, isn't the larger problem in our society that people are harassed or abused at work on a seemingly regular basis?
Fair point and I do appreciate that you took the time to comment on what could've been an unwanted slip.
> let's also step back and consider why someone would value things like evidence-based judgments and due process.

I agree wholeheartedly that there is nothing wrong with valuing evidence-based judgements and due process. But that is not what I was ranting against. Conflating the trope of immediately jumping to a concern about false accusations while ignoring victims with "valuing evidence-based judgements and due process" is, however, a pretty good example of what I am bothered by.

I think the real thought experiment is: Why would so many of the HN comments jump to worrying about the false accusations, without paying any heed for the victims?

I think the answer might be, most of us here have never had to worry about being harassed at work. Most of us here don't know what it's like to be worried for our safety -- psychological or sexual -- at work. Most of us don't know what it's like to be subjected to a constant stream of microagressions from coworkers. So most of us can't imagine what many minorities in tech go through on a daily basis. That's just because most of us fit in.

What all of us can imagine is being falsely accused of doing something bad. And so since that's what we can imagine without effort, that's what we talk about, and worry about. Availability bias.

Falling prey to the availability bias doesn't make you a bad person. But you can learn to be better.
I wish HN would implent tags so we could just filter out stuff like this. I mean, it seems a bit disrespectful to flag it, but it is clearly off-topic. Sadly, so is much of the content on HN these days, especially at weekends.

I've upvoted the Reddit thread and am going to just leave this un-voted because I agree it simply doesn't belong here. Sad though the news is, as someone who grew up watching Moore's Bond films.
The top comment on that post is incredibly disappointing.

Unpopular though it may be, things like working memory, granular abstraction comprehension, and logical reasoning capability are highly correlated with g. And g is largely immutable under "training".

Soft skills are, therefore, far more teachable than hard skills.
He did impress me in interviews where he talked about imitators of the Bond franchise and how Bond changed over the years. This included the comment that it changed with the time and it was correct it did. He had praise for Daniel Craig and his version of Bond. His self depreciating humor was always good, like when he called Craig and actor and those interviewing him were like, and you?
I hate these sorts of titles, because some of us DO work with petabyte scale datasets. I know the article does mention the types of use cases that Hadoop is good for, but the title just comes across as arrogantly dismissive.
And with another nail in the blank slate coffin, let the prevarications begin, e.g.

"Feynman was tested at 125"

and yet

There are some points to consider. There are and have been various publishers of IQ tests over the years and various forms of test. We don't have any clear idea what IQ test Feynman took or what it emphasized.

The IQ test that Feynman took was probably scored by the quotient method, meaning that an attempt was made to estimate his 'mental age' and the result was then divided by his chronological age and, finally, multiplied by 100.

IQ tests aren't scored that way any more—instead, a distribution of test scores is formed by giving the test to a large sample of test takers. A result one standard deviation above the mean of the sample group gives an IQ of 115, and so on.""

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/11/08/richard-feynma...
> The former president of the US was a bkack man

...and when he was reelected president, the Free Expression tunnel at NC State was spray painted with the confederate battle flag background, his "Hope" pose portrait, and in huge bold black letters the word "NIGGER".

Racism and systemic oppression didn't get solved just because you can cherrypick examples well.

I don't see non-white people oppressing white people because Trump is in power, calling them/him a "cracker" or other slurs, on the same continuous intensity. Which is a good indication that society is still skewed.
Travels?
No infrastructure secret management or very bad infrastructure secret management:

* Private SSH/AWS API Keys in Github

* Shared Prod Passwords

Not applying updates to infrastructure regularly
And because a customer who must have one feature will pay for the other features they don't need if that's the only way to get it.
but my question was, why should it be superlinear?

Genes with linear interactions would still grant evolutionary advantages.
Picking up a madly chirping box at 7A.M. from the post office is certainly a magical experience.

And yes, as soon as I juggle my cats out of the basement, the chicks are moving down there.
Related: https://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-th...
The mailing list isn't just for calling out your supervisors, and the article implies that the managers of the list do give people the chance to respond. It sounds less like a way to anonymously out inappropriate or offensive behavior and more like a way to give examples after the behavior has already been dealt with.
Not keeping software and systems on a regular update schedule.
Or linear regression
From the report's webpage (https://www.rsph.org.uk/our-work/policy/social-media-and-you...):

> Follow the Young Health Movement on Instagram

Irony is never lost.
> Putting a Surface on your lap is the worst experience you'll ever have.

If true, that would be a wonderful life.
"For Your Eyes Only" will always stand out to me as the highest quality Bond movie he did. They were trying to take the franchise back from being too many gadgets -- I think it worked well. Love the ski chase scene.

That said, I still think "A View to a Kill" is the most enjoyable campy Bond movie.
Agreed, my personal favourite JVM language is Clojure, but Scala and Kotlin are also great improvements over plain Java if static typing is your thing.
Actually they have it right at the beginning. Hens don't know if an egg is fertilized or not. Most will just lay and leave. Some go broody and will sit on the eggs until they hatch. Some hens will sit on the eggs (and collect any nearby eggs and sit on a pile of them) until they die if they don't hatch.

We have about 100 birds and at any given time two or three will be broody. We collect the eggs everyday so sometimes the broody hen will just sit there on nothing or on one of our "fake" eggs (we put fake eggs in the places we want the hens to lay their eggs). We'll remove the broody hens from the coop several times a day until we break them of the habit. That usually works.

Occasionally we'll have snakes get into the coop and eat eggs. If the snake gets a porcelain fake egg that pretty much the end of that snake eventually. Rattlesnakes are more difficult, but we've gotten pretty good had removing those, too.

Our big problem this year is hawks (our chickens free range). We've lost about 20 birds this year just to hawks. Just this last weekend hawks killed three (flew away with two and mostly maimed a third I had to cull) and one hen got away missing her tail feathers and received some deep cuts our vet stitched up. She got away because our dominate rooster attacked and killed the hawk after her.
MS built out an entire hardware line that mimics Apple's hardware line and then put up counter points to Mac alongside each competing Apple product. It is obvious and Microsoft's collective ego shows. It is a very late response to Apple's old campaign, they have moved on completely.
As a front-end developer I'm curious about this. Do you have an example to share?
You conveniently ignored the "or with a simple Python script that scans your files" part.
I agreed with the article at the time it was posted. Now I use Spark for various sized data sets. Specifically Zeppelin + Spark is a great combination.

Then again, Spark doesn't really need Hadoop, I see more and more people using it with Kafka and Elasticsearch for all sorts of fun stuff.

And as other commenters pointed out, you get read-only SQL (very powerful SQL) for free. The other day I joined an elasticsearch result with a CSV file in SQL.
There is usually a few HR hours put into every interview, plus you are adding 1-6 more people at various levels of the company who might be a part of the interview. Most of the people doing the interview don't have any real training in it, and don't do it as part of their job. They may do ten full interviews to hire one person(Or more). So yes, their time is more valuable because more people and more hours are involved. The cost for hiring a person, in time and resources, is the sum of the costs of all 10 of the interviews.
No amount of management oversight can overcome a failing business model... If the revenue starts slowing down, you adapt or you die. It is the ability to adapt that is crucial, so you need to keep your employees (your tech people in this case) very happy, motivated and free to pursue what they believe is the next model to make peoples lives easier (which will start generating revenue again).
The latter. It just seems wrong for a language to require python just to install.
The other "primeval" forests are relatively small patches, they're not proper self-sustaining forests, Białowieża is the only one remaining. The biggest "primeval" forest in France is 25sqkm, Pyhä-Häkki in Finland is 13, Perućica is 14, Puzzlewood could be called pocketwood.

Białowieża is 3000 sq km, the World Heritage Site portion is 1400sq km.
Well, if you compare any human child with a snail you'll find that the human does almost infinity better at answering questions on IQ tests so we could say it's all genetic. Or we could take a sample of humans and feed the control group but not the other group over a course of a few weeks and see that environment plays a huge role. But over the range of upbringings we see in the US and genotypes we see in the US it's more genetic than not. But that doesn't mean that that's true across the globe. If some dirt farmer from a place with no iodine in the salt, no folate in the bread, and no access to modern public health, medicine, or schooling comes to the US their kids will tend to have an IQ something like 20 points higher.
For the local colonized populace, not for Jesus.
The blog post doesn't actually say that 5.8.5 repairs old backup records. Does it?
Taken (very) broadly, I agree. A list like this shifts a burden onto those of us who have privilege, as we're now aware of the bad shit that goes down around us that before we might never have seen.

Hopefully it makes us uncomfortable enough to change our actions, thus obviating the need for this discomfort at all.