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I think HN has been deteriorating lately because of comments lame jokes. There are a bunch in this story.

Yeah. I just hope that the sun doesn't stay down one day because of the so called jokes in some threads. People waste so much time trying to be funny. (sarcasm--attempted at least)

The funny part, at least for me, was the specific number of bees (8) attending to the queen. It's good to be the King /Queen comes to mind and how did they decide the exact number...
This study does not control for maternal IQ or socio-economic status. Later studies show that much of the link between breastfeeding and cognitive development is due to confounding effects (in particular, higher SES mothers are more likely to breastfeed): http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/8/e003259

> Conclusions Much of the reported effect of breastfeeding on child neurodevelopment is due to confounding. It is unlikely that additional work will change the current synthesis. Future studies should attempt to rigorously control for all important confounders. Alternatively, study designs using sibling cohorts discordant for breastfeeding may yield more robust conclusions.

See also: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2017/03/...

> RESULTS: Before matching, breastfeeding was associated with better development on almost every outcome. After matching and adjustment for multiple testing, only 1 of the 13 outcomes remained statistically significant: children’s hyperactivity (difference score, –0.84; 95% confidence interval, –1.33 to –0.35) at age 3 years for children who were breastfed for at least 6 months. No statistically significant differences were observed postmatching on any outcome at age 5 years.

The linked study also yields some odd results:

> In the total group %EBM correlated significantly with Verbal IQ (VIQ); in boys, with all IQ scores, TBV and WMV. VIQ was, in turn, correlated with WMV and, in boys only, additionally with TBV. No significant relationships were seen in girls or with grey matter.

A meta-study that adjusted for maternal IQ only (but not socioeconomic status, which independently correlates with higher rates of breastfeeding) found a very small effect on IQ: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26211556

> We included 17 studies with 18 estimates of the relationship between breastfeeding and performance in intelligence tests. In a random-effects model, breastfed subjects achieved a higher IQ [mean difference: 3.44 points (95% confidence interval: 2.30; 4.58)]. We found no evidence of publication bias. Studies that controlled for maternal IQ showed a smaller benefit from breastfeeding [mean difference 2.62 points (95% confidence interval: 1.25; 3.98)]. In the meta-regression, none of the study characteristics explained the heterogeneity among the studies.
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It sounds like, "I think this person is good at their job. Unfortunately we can't afford to have someone else with these views in our organization. I would recommend another organization hire this person."
> IRC is simplistic and hacked together (no proper spec covering everything) but you can talk the protocol manually via telnet to test things.

IRC is actually extremely well defined and documented. There is a whole collection of RFC documents related to it that are very well done. I would say it is at least as carefully specified as HTTP. [1]

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812

The extension protocols that are built on top of IRC are also well defined.

"Simple" here is a function of well thought out design not the opposite. Things that are just thrown together would be a mess compared to IRC.

[1] Source: I used those RFCs to developer an IRC client a decade+ ago.
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I didn't find that convincing at all and most studies like this are full of issues because coder productivity is notoriously hard to measure. The graph of bugs per language is just a simple count of how many GitHub issues were labelled "bug" which isn't meaningful.

I don't even know why you need a study for this anyway. Working in a language where it's impossible to mix up strings and numbers, impossible to call a function with the wrong number of arguments etc. leads to less bugs by definition. Do you really need a study to prove you're more productive and your code is more secure in a language where mixing up types is impossible compared to using a language that lets you make that mistake? You can write secure code in assembly if you want but you're just making life hard for yourself.
> Also note that Microsoft will still be able to charge money for the open source code because there's no reason that you can’t other than piracy concerns, and due to the increased legal scrutiny corporations tend not to pirate products, unlike the general public.

Yes, Microsoft will still be able to charge money for the open source code, but if the code is open source, other people will be able to distribute it free of charge or for a fee, that is not at all illegal or piracy! Open source has always meant this. Let me quote from the Open Source Definition, by the Open Source Initiative, the only authority on what constitutes open source:

> 1. Free Redistribution

> The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

All of the open source licenses listed on osi.org allow users to redistribute the software free of charge.
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You seem to be suffering from a rather common affliction in tech circles. Normal people do not care in the slightest if someone could open the calculator and cut the LED trace.
Competition between governments is harmful to citizens because in general, labour is never going to be as mobile as capital. And this is not just limited by regulations and laws (which it is). People just aren't going to move across borders because of politics, unless things get really bad. It just costs too much to move.
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You can be on Earth and just sabotage the deep space network antennas or radio telescopes or whatever they use to receive the signals to directly inject the signal in the processing pipeline.
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> I help big companies figure out how to embrace new technologies

What do you mean?
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1. HackerNewsBooks.com subscription

2. Amazon recommendations for books I've enjoyed

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I recognise the truth in what you say. We both apparently live in areas where we can afford to ring up the repair guy for fixing or replacemement.

Why you assume that is universally true is beyond me though. How do you expect societies that are incapable of adequately maintaining roads or developing safe architecture to house their population to sprout the mentality and savoir-faire for complex operations?

For sure my argument is not universal either, but I believe you transpose properties you are familiar with to a world you are not.
Depends on how long the signal lasts. If it's continuous, there's no way to take it with a single transmitter. Astronomers can detect the apparent motion of stars caused by the earth's orbit, and use those measurements to triangulate the distance to stars, even though the stars are many light years away. A single transmitter on a probe near our solar system would be very obvious.
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Disclaimer: I live in Poland, not US, so my view can be a bit different.

I use Apple Maps very often as I use CarPlay in my car (it does not have Google Maps interface). And I really appreciate how good these maps are, especially when I compare them to the initial release. They have very good coverage and are updated often enough.

The other advantage is that it really has good live traffic info. I sometimes compare it to what Google Maps or Waze offers (either when I'm stuck in traffic or with my passenger) and it usually better reflects current conditions.

The only think worth improving is calculating routes as sometimes it doesn't want to get current traffic conditions into considerations (especially when there is long route). And it is sometimes very slow in calculating routes.
Wouldnt 'they' have evolved 1000 yrs as well? By that time their own current state of evolution would look even less developed given the exponentiality of evolution.
Aren't they sealed with a window (wire mesh) providing just enough air to breath?
Nah, they're fattening us up to be the intergalactic version of Wagyu.
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Not only that, up till 2016 all the 'peripheral' parts (screen, battery, ports etc.) on MacBook Pros had been equal. Wether you sprung for the €1300 or €2200 13" MacBook Pro, externally you'd get the more-or-less the same experience, with the performance delta usually within 15%. The 'gimp'book changed that. Now, if you spring for the base model you get two Thunderbolt ports less, a worse battery, and a ULV instead of a full-blown processor.
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I think Linus is aware of the problems: http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01331.html
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> In the trial of interest here, mothers elected to breastfeed but varied in their success in expressing milk and, therefore, in the need for supplementary feeding. According to randomisation before breastfeeding commenced, these infants were given one of three supplements: a nutrient enriched preterm formula (PTF), a standard term formula (TF; used in the 1980s for feeding preterm infants) or banked breast milk (BBM; provided by unrelated donors and unfortified).

Since the mothers self-selected breastfeeding, the study makes the assumption that banked breast milk (from a random donor) is equivalent to fresh milk from the mother.

It assumes that the act of suckling on the mother's breast has no bearing on brain development. See recent evidence regard pre-term babies and skin contact: http://handtohold.org/resources/helpful-articles/the-benefit...

Finally, it ignores other (more recent) studies showing how the mother's milk reacts to signals from the baby's saliva (backwash from baby sucked back into breast). https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/growth-curve/backwash-nursi...

(Not saying these links aren't equally or more flawed, but it's avenues of causation ignored.)

Wouldn't a valid study require randomized instruction to mothers about whether to breastfeed? Is that ethical? Compliance is equally tough: breastfeeding can be incredibly difficult for some moms/babies. Further, couldn't the difficulty in breastfeeding also be correlated to the effects -- could children reject breastmilk based on the mother's health or otherwise based on the "quality" of the milk?

Please forgive if I'm asking questions that are well understood -- by no means am I claiming to be knowledgeable in this field. But I do have kids and went through hell with one of them on this, so I'm very interested in the research.
Why does the government need to place restrictions on where people build? If I build a house without flood insurance and it gets washed away, it's my loss - why does the government care?

Perhaps there are costs associated with emergency aid during a crisis. But then the solution is to force people to buy 'crisis cover' from private insurance companies. When a crisis occurs, the government collects the payout from the insurance companies.
> Descriptive science

The whole point of science is for it to be predictive though. Calling "descriptive science" (whatever that is) a science is sort of... wrong!
I'm also curious how this would work without breaking reflection
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This works by using already existing author detection software, and simply warning the author if the sentences seem too particular. That's probably a pretty good solution, though it doesn't give much assurance against other identification programs.
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> It turns out, on the complex plane the demand for native Java compilers is on the imaginary axis.

Quite the contrary.

Excelsion JET, IBM, PTG, Aicas have supported native Java compilers since the early days.

Oracle added AOT compilation for Linux x64 to OpenJDK on Java 9, with the remaining platforms being supported later. The Java 10 fork, already has Windows and macOS support as well.

The Graal team recently announced the Polyglot VM, which is actually another AOT compiler for Java.

The demand for native Java compilers is going quite thanks to Fintech and embedded development.
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how about a solar panel on the back (or a transparant one on the front).
How about heat activated.
How about activated by radiation in the air (microwaves).
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>"According to their calculations, the star was right in the center of the nova shell on the day the Koreans saw a mystery star, which means it caused the cosmic explosion."

Hmm, or it was in a different plane and is many light years from the nova and some other star, which died, or is too faint to see, or isn't charted, was the cause of that particular nova.

Isn't this classic "correlation is not causation" stuff?

I was expecting to find how they showed the Koreans recorded the position so accurately it could be matched - to the day - with a projected location of a star for which we have 3 data points?

The conclusion (in the abstract) sounds more like a postulate. It seems perfectly reasonable, but does it really follow logically from this single instance?

Presumably, if the conclusion is sound, there are enough records of novae that one can now draw _many_ star trajectories through groups of novae each caused by a single star?
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That only happened, because the majority of GCJ developers left when OpenJDK was announced back in 2009, and almost no one cared about it since then.

Companies selling commercial native compilers for Java are still in business since the early days.
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I just tried qmv, briefly. I couldn't figure out how to move files to a different directory, and create that directory if it does not exist.

Let's say I do:

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And I get this in qmv:

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This does not work:

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I was expecting qmv to create the foo/ directory if it does not exist. Even if it exists, it does not work.

Do you know if this works? If it does, how do I do it?
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Emacs (w)dired can do that in a snap.
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You have a lot more recourse with USPS, from calling the inspector general to getting your congressman involved.

With UPS/Fedex, forget it. They have bad branches too, particularly Fedex ground.

The other thing as a smallish shipper you can actually use the insurance. If you make claims with UPS/Fedex, they'll retailiate by raising your negotiated rates.
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> Many people try to portray the Sokal Hoax as a broad indictment of the wide field of everything that is considered "pomo," when really it is at most the indictment of a single journal.

Well, the problem is "pomo" being such an ambiguous term for the two of us to be likely talking at cross purposes.

There is an outstanding set of academic journal writing in the humanities whose jargon includes casual references to the jargon of the hard/soft sciences. By casual, I mean the relevance of the scientific jargon is left as an exercise to the reader.

The implication in this writing is that the argument put forth is of such profundity that nothing but the scientific concepts will do to elucidate it.

Sokal submitted an article to a journal full of that kind of writing. In his article he removed the argument and left the referents. The editor didn't notice. End of prank.

That is as legitimate a criticism of this journal as getting a fake journal to accept an article written by a python script. It has nothing to do with point scoring.

The prank extends to any other "pomo" journals, articles, and books which utilize the same type of causual science jargon. Sokal wrote a book that gives more examples of such writing.
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Gwern Branwen noted all this ages ago, and should have been cited in this paper.

https://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin%20is%20Worse%20is%20Better
At least that didn't get interpreted as "Live Bear".
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Strange - I just tried Maps on my Mac again and it was ~20s from the window opening to a map appearing (but much quicker when zooming out/in). I’m on TPG ADSL, which is usually able to stream 4K Netflix/YouTube with very few problems. But as I said, even the Macs in JB HiFi and the Apple store take a long time to load Maps, and I’ve had the same delays in Tasmania as well.

Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if PTV bureaucracy had something to do with it but it’s not as though they themselves are bad at technology, given their own app has been able to track trams and some buses for years...
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> Suggesting such a socialist solution back then would elicit discussion. Nothing of the sort can be discussed today. One whisper of the word 'socialism' is followed by 'communism' and all discussion is aggressively ended.

Indeed. That's because the specter of "Communism", aka Dictatorship was the eventual downfall of Marx's idea of Capitalism->Violent Overthrow->Dictatorship->Stateless and Classless Communism. The problem has always been, that when people get power, they don't want to relinquish it. Therefore, all Marxian applications of Communism end in this failure mode.

There are other ways to apply Communism. I type this on a Communal Operating System. Linux. There are no gulags of forced developers making all the code I use to type this. It's all voluntary, and free for all to use and partake. The only rule is to respect the community- in that if you use code, it has to be under the same license.

I could see a Benefit Corp do something similar - taking the ideas of ownership and lock them in a public trust. That way, people know what they're "buying into", but it's also not the prior forced dictator knowing what's 'right'. The Story of Manna by Marshall Brain puts this idea eloquently in his short short.

Perhaps it's time to quit using the word "Communism" because, frankly, Marx guessed wrong and tens of millions died in furtherance of that specific ideal. But the underlying ideas that we are stronger together is something that many of us understand. But it all has to do with preserving the individuals' and the groups rights. And, that's a hard balance to keep.
The fun thing is that I can also imagine how it will technically likely work too, such as test signing .msu and .cab to install code modifications for testing. Outlook recently added .msu to blocked attachments.
This was a great read. I've been in a pretty heated debate with one of my friends (As BTC seems to do) about the origins of the technical under pinnings of Bitcoin. I'm relatively new to the cryptocurrency space, but it seems like there is huge political push (Cypherpunk ideology) promoted by a vocal slice of the BTC community. Every time I ask for the history and origins, my friend credits everything to the Cypherpunk community.
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I recently tried to use Google Maps offline mode while abroad. I had a local SIM but limited coverage and limited data allowance. I also had created some saved maps via Google My Maps with pins of points of interest. It exposed a lot of bugs in the app. Off the top of my head:

- Without coverage, the offline maps work well and show the pins from my saved maps. Search also worked well.

- As soon as I came back into coverage or wifi, it would close the saved maps and then not load them again if the connection was poor.

- Also, if there is a connection, it constantly tries to load address/photos/reviews for your pins and refuses to show the name you've given them. Not much use in a national park.

- When online with a poor connection, search doesn't work and doesn't fall back to the offline maps.

- When routing, you can't add a via point when offline as it refuses to use the offline search index.

- Disabling mobile data usage for the app just caused chaos.

All in all, it was a maddening experience. It's a classic case of Google offering more features, but with less polish. I used to use other pinning apps for holiday planning, but they've all shut down or stopped working properly (Pindrop, Rego). I was hoping the increased integration between Google Maps and Google My Maps would solve the issue but unfortunately it's very buggy right now.

Of course, Apple doesn't really have offline maps so, although I use Apple Maps as my main maps app, they score poorly here. Of course, this fits with their traditional approach of no feature is better than a badly implemented feature.
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> Its the market at work

Sounds like an example of Market Failure
Politics does not work that way. People all across the political spectrum demand to be bailed out when their risks go bad, and it is pointless to adopt an ideology that ignores this reality. Then there is the issue of people whose prudent choices were nullified by rampant development upstream.

> But then the solution is to force people to buy 'crisis cover' from private insurance companies.

I see you are not opposed to government intervention, you just want it in a different form.