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> Pure BS. Newton wouldn't be able to publish through a modern Harvard because nothing would be new.

It's a thought experiment. Hypothetical modern-day Newton would have some hypothetical novel discovery.

> Instead, he kept his heretical ideas secret that it wasn't until long after he died that others had an clue about them.

It's true that Newton kept some of his religious views secret, but he made other controversial views known and was widely regarded as a misanthrope. Had modern university speech codes existed back then, Newton would have likely been fired over some controversy. As a result, science would have advanced more slowly.

That's the article's core argument: University speech codes filter out many eccentric geniuses, reducing the quality of ideas and slowing scientific progress. It's something I hadn't considered before, and I'm hard-pressed to find a good counterargument. It's definitely not dismissible as, "Pure BS."
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IPO: "Initial Public Offering"

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

ICO: "Initial Coin Offering"

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

"""
funny, your words sound like someone explaining a high frequency trading war on the stock exchange between two financial operators...
The rise and fall of Sega: from the eyes of Tom Kalinske
The average guy that was living on McDonalds menu won't do it every day as he does now.
How to Become Better at Reading
I thought the reason is Qualcomm not giving what it takes to support a newer firmware on their soc. I have a Nexus 5 on lineage and I'm on Linux kernel 3.4.0.
No, more than half of Chinese energy is produced from coal.

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

I did some research, and it doesn't seem that the mining farm in Iceland is even comparable to Chinese ones in terms of hashrate. Do you have any source?
Just my opinion from working with them everyday. Angular is more of a monolithic beast attempting do everything, and mostly it can. React is more of a microorganism with one goal, which it excels at. For me, Angular feels heavy, especially since the introduction of NgModules. I guess the million breaking changes that occurred from AngularJs to Angular2 might have left a bit of a sour taste in mouth, regarding the framework. How can they introduce NgModules in like beta 10? Angular isn't a bad framework, but the question goes down to would you rather have one framework that try to do everything, or many frameworks that each try do their one thing. There are pros and cons to both. On an even more opinionated note, I really enjoy the syntax, and feel of React(jsx)... which something I don't get with Angular components. I'm not even gonna start on redux, but it's pretty fun when you get the hang of it. As with a lot of things in programming but each to their own.
Skyways.com VTOL vehicles looks interesting but not photos.
No matter what framework or library you choose, if you go past the to-do list project you will encounter certain pain points. I worked with jQuery when it was the new kid on the block, with Angular since it first came out and now with React. Every one of them gives you grief now and again. However if you develop pragmatically you learn how to avoid those pain points early on in the process even if it means investing some time. It will pay off later on. And if there is absolutely no way to mitigate the pain - just move on to another library.

It makes me sad to see people ranting about how much typing there is in Redux or Typescript or how much boilerplate and so forth. To me this behaviour screams immaturity, because I don't know how else to explain spending energy on wining instead of finding a solution. Especially, that you don't need to look far - take redux-actions for example. Nice and simple, makes all the heavy lifting for you. If that's not cool in your view how about you actually contribute and write something of your own, rather than moan?
Well, there's BSD Now #53, although that's primarily verbal.
I use the futures from node-fibers all over the place in my backend code. It has possibly only once caused me confusion over something. If you're writing your code right, it shouldn't cause confusion. You don't need to make your code ugly to understand when things are asynchronous.
Ask HN: How to find/compare trading algorithms with Quantopian?
I, a software engineer, typically work walking distance from companies in urban environments.

My commute is typically 15 minutes. 10 minutes by Lyft.

My workday is typically 8 hours, which includes a generous lunch break of 45 min to 1 hour.

Yes, the account managers and bloggers operate on a stricter set of work ethics, primarily out of fear, and have much longer commutes. Software engineers aren't exempt from this by any means, there are easily heftier paychecks and brand names that require 3 hour commutes where you are considered lucky if get to do 5 of the 8 hours on a bus.

> It gets pretty hard to pursue a side project, art, or a hobby living like that.

Just pointing out that there is a prevalent and alternate approach here exclusive to workers that can afford it. A vibrant urban environment has lots of impromptu stimulation available. In your observed day, this seems to give back 1 hour for lunch, and an extra 1.5 hour from commuting, so upwards of 2.5 hours gained on top of the 4 hours you identified, giving 6.5 hours for creative endeavors or hobbies.

When including some stretch goals of less sleep for an hour or two, then there is plenty of time without even encroaching on unhealthy territory. Add this up over a week or year and the commodity of time becomes a much more apparent inequality.
Is anybody else getting seriously bored of the share menu being totally different in each app?
Oh good. It was jointly developed by the BBC so here's hoping they'll show it in the Storyville documentary series one day.
It's funny how you're arguing a case where an angry mob "crucifies" the poor sap who accidentally used a wrong word, when the actual event that kicked off this debate was an actual angry mob, with real torches, honest swastikas, and loaded semi-automatic weapons who not-so-metaphorically ran over a completely non-threatening young woman.

The people marching and screaming "Jews will not replace us" also don't strike me as the autistic type abhorring "group-think", considering their enjoyment of shouting hateful slogans in unisono.

And lets not get into your contention that these peoples' only fault is somehow being "too rational". Just take a look at any photos from that rally and decide for yourself if they seem to be the sort of people who got an extra helping of rationality. Hint: some of them have face tattoos.
If you happen to know, would the right comparison to elsewhere in computing be between something like reference count garbage collection (ala python ignoring its cycle detector) versus a sweeping garbage collector?
Ask HN: Should we release update with new branding?
Hey,

I joined a company where the product was very poorly executed. The initial release was crashing and hard to use, and a lot of people would register only to never return. But I must say, that still there are few users that keep using our software.

We worked hard for past couple months and in 2 months we should be able to release a very solid update. I'm not sure if we should stick with the old name / branding or should roll out as an entirely new product.

Did anyone have similar problem? What's your experience?

Thanks.
Bullet points:

- Indian constitution directly does not have any instant divorce.

- The Indian constitution provides for freedom of religion, and freedom of practice of religious traditions.

- The Muslim personal law board's interpretation was the traditional practice of divorce is inherent to Islam, and thus, via freedom of religion, something that muslim men could do with constitutional guarantee.

- This was challenged by Shayara Banu, who was thus divorced. The court was asked to rule if this practice was indeed valid.

- The court declared 3/2 against this being a core part of Islam, and that the practice itself is cruel, and unconstitutional.

For most, this is a victory of simple decency. There are worries that this should have been legislatively dealt with rather than judicially, but on-the-ground truth is that politics of appeasement would mean this option is potentially long and arduous. Right now, muslim women no longer have to worry about instant divorce thanks to this ruling.
I found this, which links to a number of quantitative trading algorithms that significantly outperform as compared with SPY (an S&P 500 ETF):

"Community Algorithms Migrated to Quantopian 2"

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/community-algorithms-migrat...

Why even build a business, create jobs, and solve the world's problems?
deduplication doesn't have necessarily to be expensive; HAMMER (the first version, not HAMMER2) has offline deduplication that is usually scheduled to run at night. This allows regular use to be quite performant and with a low memory footprint.
Of course there are tradeoffs, in particular heavy disk usage at certain hours (which can be an issue depending on the workload) and the fact that space is reclaimed only after some time that it has been wasted.
Fat is fashionable and fit
Example of Eric Raymond's “smart data structures” principle
Maybe - the bootloader must allow you to run that AOSP ROM, which only is possible if the bootloader isn't locked. Lots of OEM:s lock their bootloaders. But otherwise, yes, there's nothing else stopping you.
If you're a Harvard professor, you'll find someone to print your book. No worries.

For others, it could obviously be something that makes it easier to find a publisher. Not because it somehow proves your PC-credentials, but simply because it's sort-of proof that you have an audience.
... "Impact investing"

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

"Is this a good way to invest in solving for the #GlobalGoals for Sustainable Development ( https://GlobalGoals.org )?"
The whole subject has been a mess because of some idiotic Islamic Boards in India. Talaq is the divorce initiated by Husband while Kula is the divorce initiated by Wife. After the first time Talaq, if the Husband-wife duo wants to live again, they can live together - a married life - without officially getting married again and for them to be completely separated - which means, if they want to live a married life again, they've to officially get married - after such Talaq happening Thrice.

Living Together -> Talaq -> Living Together -> Talaq -> Living Together -> Talaq: Permanent Divorce.

But some modern idiots came up with this concept of Triple Talaq which lets the Husband tells his wife 'Talaq, Talaq, Talaq' and hence done their permanent divorce. Triple Talaq isn't Islamic and when I mean Islamic, I refer back to Quran and Hadith/Sunnah (Life of Prophet Muhammad). But Indian Muslims even clerics being dumb and ignorant not referring to Quran/Hadith, has approved this idiotic Instant Triple Talaq.

I wish some Indian Media had explained this difference better rather than calling ignorant Clerics words as Islamic.
Ask HN: Who is working on services?
With the widespread adoption of containers as an easy way to develop and deploy applications, should we be thinking of open-source solutions to system problems in terms of services instead of language-specific libraries? What are some of the problems keeping that from happening?

I've seen some great SASS products like Auth0/Algolia/Pusher/Stream. But if instead of working on Devise (Ruby auth), someone worked on an open source version of Auth0 that can be run as a service, couldn't that solution cover a bigger surface area for devs? (who may use other languages)
That's not Sharia. Please cite sources and not tar Islam with unsourced statements designed to trigger an emotional reaction.
If you are you using it for your personal project. I can offer you a free plan on https://www.getchannel.co/

disclaimer: I am the maker.
Chrome OS has first class support for Android apps nowadays. You can use a keyboard and mouse through USB OTG or Bluetooth on an Android as well.
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This is quite literally why we can't have nice things.
Fairness in this context (and often) is a highbrow word for unacknowledged, uncontrolled jealousy.
Look, the reality of the market is that most people are a lot more concerned about getting timely (security) updates than an 'open source' mobile OS.
This was one of my problems with Atom. Code works just fine even with bigger files.
Neovim recently added a Qt interface
I think they did a great job at reducing fragmentation by pulling out most of the OS into upgradable components.

All applications are upgradable, even Play Services are upgradable, and developers get the support library to get all the new things to all devices.

So I believe they did a great job at reducing fragmentation in the sense that it no longer really matters what version you have, you still get all the newest stuff. Just look at every iOS version announcement: 3/4 of the new features are in the apps: iMessages, maps, home screen...
there's no privacy when it comes to driving, it's a public activity.

but this is good, the police can focus on making sure people are not driving stolen cars, and if someone uses their own car for crime they will be easier to catch.

but this makes me wonder why cctv cameras don't already do this?

I guess this catches suspicious activity rather than being a blackbox used after the fact.
That has been done multiple times before LLVM.

Most mainframe assembly is referred to as bytecode in old papers, because CPUs were micro-programmed, some of them you could already load such micro-program on boot.

For example on this Alto demo they upload the micro-program to enable the Smalltalk environment.

Notorious common instruction sets are P-Code, JVM, MSIL, TIMI.
What do you mean rent?

I buy my phone. It's mine. I can put it on any network I like.
Why can't capacity expand to adjust for demand? Sure, not always possible, but in many cases it could be.

Kids want to go to the nearest school and the schools should be sufficiently equipped to cater for all needs in the area.

Nearest school to what? I used to go to a school quite far from my home, but within walking distance from my grandparents home, who took care of me for a couple of hours after school. I had friends who went there because it was close to the swimming pool where they trained.

We had that option because it was a non-profit school ran by a socialist cooperative, instead of the local rigid public system (talk about ignoring human considerations!).
This article already fails with it little thought experiment. Because if there's one thing we can probably agree on it's that freedom of speech today is larger than it was in 17th century England.

Since he was able to publish back then, he would be able to publish today.

Other than that, this is just the slippery slope again, although I appreciate that they throw in Newton–considering he's arguably the inventor of the slippery slope.
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They can impose whatever they want to OEMs who want to ship the Play Services and Google apps. That's pretty much all of them.

If they say "install it this way or no Play Store for you", every manufacturer will follow.
First time Manager?
If "psy-to-win"'s not a typo, would you please explain.

If it is, it's the best typo this month.
I don't believe this advice is aimed at everyone. There will always be consumers and creators will also inevitably consume. I think the advice is to simply be aware of it and make the decision to consume or create consciously. Find a balance that makes sense to you and aligns with your goals.

I think even great minds have fallen prey to the dopamine treadmills of modern media consumption. The article serves as a nice reminder that we should hop off that treadmill when pertient, for some people, that is forever. For others, maybe just when there is a deadline due.
I think 99% is way exaggerated, at least for a lot of developed countries. Places where the commutes are longest (i.e. big cities) have an even higher fraction of people who don't benefit from longer hours linearly.

Also, if "mind workers" workdays were shorter, so could the work day of the people caring for their kids, driving rush hour buses, cleaning offices after closing and so on. So the effect would grow slightly beyond the first group of office workers too.

Even if this only applies to say 10% of the population and 20% in cities, that's still a huge group of people. I don't think 4h is a realistic goal short term but we have done 40h for a very long time now. Since we began with 40h, most countries have gone from 1, to 2, 3, 4 to 5 or 6 weeks of holiday (for example). It seems natural that the next step would be shorter workdays.
Your first guess was correct. "...autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms." (https://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous-weapons)
(for some reason my comment got double posted, pls ignore this dupe, other comment is somewhere on top)
76% of American Teens Own an iPhone
> You are better off buying things from Amazon or Ali Express 99% of the time

I wouldn't say that. I buy from both, and it's a matter of know what you're getting into.

For example, in eBay, it's much more obvious which the location of the shop is (although, it can be tricked as well). At the same time, the client protection process is somewhat simpler in Amazon.
The whole idea of electron is that it is built on top of a deeply flawed framework. I can't speak for anyone else, but I cannot see the appeal to writing for something that is broken by design.
And .NET as well.

http://www.coss-solutions.nl/index.php/2013-11-18-13-59-23/n...

It can even target Azure deployments!
That's not my point. My point is YC is getting top attention and has a big (the biggest?) name in Early stage funding. That doesn't seem to translate to being a leader in picking winners though.
Interestingly, this is not what happens in ZFS [1] (unless the defaults have changed since a few years ago):

If you accept the mathematical claim that a secure hash like SHA256 has
only a 2\^-256 probability of producing the same output given two different
inputs, then it is reasonable to assume that when two blocks have the
same checksum, they are in fact the same block. You can trust the hash.
An enormous amount of the world's commerce operates on this assumption,
including your daily credit card transactions. However, if this makes
you uneasy, that's OK: ZFS provies a 'verify' option that performs
a full comparison of every incoming block with any alleged duplicate to
ensure that they really are the same, and ZFS resolves the conflict if not.
To enable this variant of dedup, just specify 'verify' instead of 'on':

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/zfs-deduplication-v2
That which DOES adapt will also perish sooner or later.
Unless one is trying to do GUI related programming.
French universities have adopted a similar system. For some reason they do not like to select students based on merit, and there are more candidates than seats, so they introduced a lottery to determine who gets to go to university. It's very curious from the outside and even being French I can't think of a good reason for this system. Basically telling students it doesn't matter how hard you work in high school, it has no impact on whether you will work in a bank or a factory...
- Grow vegetables
- Make tools
- Make cakes
- Build houses
- Build machines
- Create gardens

There are many possibilities, you could earn reasonable money from any of above examples starting from small business and not needing to learn that much before you start.
Do you really belief a 17th century university didn't have "speech codes"? Just as a hint: to become a professor at the time, you had to be an ordained priest.

Edit: From Wikipedia: "In April 1667, he returned to Cambridge and in October was elected as a fellow of Trinity. Fellows were required to become ordained priests, although this was not enforced in the restoration years and an assertion of conformity to the Church of England was sufficient. However, by 1675 the issue could not be avoided and by then his unconventional views stood in the way.[20] Nevertheless, Newton managed to avoid it by means of a special permission from Charles II"
pluma has contributed 2 commits to react: https://github.com/facebook/react/commits?author=pluma

This isn't highly relevant but it can be a probable cause for bias.
>For he simple reason that the more money funnels through the government, the less choice an individual has in how to use it.

Well, if the money funnels in billionaires and overseas corporate accounts, an individual has even less choice in how to use it (unless he is the owner of said company or the billionaire).

Whereas with the government at least the individual gets a vote on how those money should be used.

>It’s about power, and in our world, money is power.

So better than the government, where we have some say, have that money, than billionaires and mega-corps, which we don't control.
Here is some slides from Defcon 23 : https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20pre...

They did a record, replay with a USRP B210 and GPS antenna.

And here is a project that generates GPS baseband signal data streams for bladeRF, HackRF, and USRP.

https://github.com/osqzss/gps-sdr-sim
Wanna to know how to make VR videos
You are so full of crap sometimes. A FUSE port would go against many of the design principles of HAMMER2. You do understand how FUSE works, right?
Ah memories! What a great machine!
It's a thought experiment using an ahistoric Newton as a straw man to fit the argument.

An argument by an author who likes to make lists of famous people who are conjectured to have Aspergers ... I write "conjectured" because most of those assignments seem more based in hope than any historical reality, as pointed out in the comments to the essay.

Thought experiment: university speech codes allow other types of geniuses. Modern science is highly collaborative, and misanthropic lone geniuses like Newton will do little to advance most fields, but much to retard them by creating an environment which rejects geniuses that don't wish to be in a misanthropic environment.

See, BS handwaving is easy!
Not related but does Google have to pay Oreo money for using its name/image?
Quartzy (YC S11) is hiring full-stack engineers
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That's "whetevergoesarian".
Single-Molecule Transistors at Room Temperature
Islam has schools of thought that permit a council of local elders to handle cases not explicitly covered in the Quran/Hadith, that's part of why Islam spread so far.

Not every interpretation of Islam is toward the dogmatic Salafism where one can say what is and isn't Islam with showboating authority. All of this is Islamic, otherwise we're playing "no true Scotsman".

Just the same way that Westbro Baptist Church ARE Christian whether the Pope likes it or not.
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Might be a familiarity thing. Been on Android similarly long, and last few years I just stopped customizing because I was happy enough with stock.

Give me an iPhone though and I'd go insane. "would need a complete customization, redesign and rewrite" perfectly describes the iOS experience for me.
Indeed. A rational and well-socialised person, even if poor, will most certainly not resort to crimes. It is a genetic/psychologicl trait. Teaching criminals coding only results in better equipped criminals.