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I was a collaborator on the SNO project. I worked with Art McDonald, who co-won the 2015 Nobel prize in physics for the project.

There were hundreds of people involved. We couldn't have done it without the hundreds of people. While Art was a fantastic guy and a tireless worker, a good chunk of his contribution was management.

i.e. A competent manager. He not only understood all of the physics involved, but a good chunk of the engineering, along with having decent managerial skills. No one with skills solely in an MBA, or theoretical physicist, or civil engineer could have done it.

Even if he didn't win based on something he mathematically proved, there's no question he's one of the top physicists around.

If you look at the Nobel prizes as the "best of" awards, and not "the guy who invented something all alone", it becomes a bit more palatable.

On top of that, the Nobel committee is limited by the rules of their foundation. Even assigning Nobels for something done 5 years ago is arguably outside of the directions of the trust.

So yeah, the article isn't theoretically wrong, but it's wrong for practical purposes.
If you're working on a Linux workstation, Docker will spin up and run much faster than either VirtualBox or VMWare. This alone makes it worth switching.

I don't know what the current situation is on Windows or MacOSX. Back when I used them for my own work, the only choice was to run a VirtualBox instance running Linux and then run Docker on top of that. Clearly that solution is more of a lateral move from Vagrant.
I'd be curious what about it is wrong?
Agree that ketogenic diet is definitely worth a look.

The science behind that is that cancer calls can live on glucose only, while all other cells in the body are able to use ketones as fuel. Starving out cancer cells is definitely a good start.
Note that at the time, private citizens owned weapons up to and including cannons (at least on ships.) So what was allowed at the time? Everything. There were no weapons bigger than cannons at the time.
Was an iPhone ever needed as an adequate solution to some problem?
Maybe the net impact of this is an explosion in Tor usage...
Google Pulls Russia's RT Network from Premium YouTube Ad Program
From the perspective of someone who works at Docker, we still use it to quickly spin up machines to test the installation of Docker on various kernel setups / OS's.

It still has its use-cases and Docker can't cover some of those special test cases since it shares the kernel with the host system.
Based on Gambit-C: A scheme to C (or javascript... and I think there may be other targets) compiler. Comes with a Scheme->target compiler, then compile that code, and deploy. So, you write in Scheme, and deliver in C...

Comes with an interpreter. Supports macros, etc. and Gambit supports easy C FFI, option for infix syntax, massive threading, full numeric tower

Easy to hack on (in my opinion), and performs very well. Gambit-C has been my "goto" Scheme for the past decade.

Could be used as an "extension language", but not its main purpose. Mostly, a way to deliver Scheme code that runs fast.

Racket has a better IDE -- but I like the simplicity of Gambit-C.
Google's YouTube and Gmail Are a Focus of Russia Probe in Congress
yeah, I'm looking for similar VoIP product too
How is it abominable? And how do you propose advocation of peace to be divorced from politics? It is necessarily intertwined.
I still dot get that. I can see how they made that move based on the situation at the time, but if not with the iPhone then by 2010 at least with the iPad launch they must have seen how much things had changed. It also was far from too late to pivot back into ARM. Look what Apple managed to do in just a few years starting from scratch. It’s not as if Intel worked out an alternative strategy either, if so where is it now? They’ve still effectively got nothing worthwhile in the mobile space after a decade.
Hiring QA for iPad and Web App (remote)
What ever happened to cloning? (2016)
Its not the same warranty with most brands - my current car has a 4-year warranty for almost everything (excludes tires and a few other things that are always excluded), whereas the similar pre-owned models have a 4-year that only covers the engine.
That is not necessarily true. Under some circumstances it can be true. For example, if a community builds more luxury apartments entirely in addition to existing apartments, then yes some well paid people will probably move out of the existing apartments into the new luxury ones, making apartments available to the lower paid.

However, if inexpensive apartments are either bulldozed or remodeled to become luxury apartments, eliminating inexpensive options for the lower paid. That has been happening in Mountain View and probably in San Francisco which the Guardian article directly discusses.
It specifically says that it was a multilevel marketing/pyramid scheme, not a Ponzi scheme.
Tradition. Each study is a riff on past studies. To make things more comparable, you want to change only enough to make your study novel. Therefore, you often use the same analytical methods and report the same indicators as past studies.

5-year survival is just one measure of health. You proposed two others, but none of them are the complete picture. They're all about the same really. Best is actually looking at the distribution of each metric you care about, but then those curves are hard to compare.
I have seen enough "super-smart" investors pretending to be dumb, unsophisticated and to have never been told of the risks when an investment goes bad not to have some sympathy for these investor sophistication thresholds.
Sure, but (our models of the functions of) neurotransmitters don't have that much to do with biology, either. For example, the local level of dopamine in a neuron is understood to be something like an encoding of a confidence interval associated with the computation, such that where synapses in the sensory (NMDA-excited) and model-predictive (AMPA-excited) regions of the brain come into contact, the dopamine in each region bubbles up as a bunch of coefficients that adjusts how comparisons between data and predictions shake out, temporarily biasing whether "branches" to error states (i.e. the activation of higher-layer neurons) are taken.

This works just as well whether you are modelling biological synapses with plasticity, or compositions of functions with training via backpropagation.

The only real difference is that NNs aren't usually "physically embodied" (i.e. embedded in a metric space with radiative signalling to non-connected but "local" neighbours) in the way they'd have to be to get the "area-effect excitation" effects of neurotransmission.
Do you have data to back up the claims that a) prostate cancer and its consequences kill less people than breast cancer and b) that men aren't systematically victimized by society?

For the latter, I'd say that this topic is inherently sex-specific and thus in a way, has to be sexist. Obviously we wouldn't be talking about prostate cancer if it was leukemia, but it is not. Discussing the survival rates across genders is a legitimate topic and it might turn out that men at more danger - apart from prostate cancer, keep in mind that men commit much more suicides [1], usually take much riskier jobs and in some countries are forced to participate in the army. As a source, I would recommend The Red Pill movie by Cassie Jaye - a woman who called herself feminist until she actually researched what masculism is about.

Also, it doesn't have to be a "battle of the sexes" as you put it. Working on male health does not mean stopping research on female health - it's just that prostate cancer definitely isn't getting enough exposure. It would be great if we learned to acknowledge that we can fight for our gender's rights without shouting how the other one oppresses us.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide
Ask HN: Other than crypto-mining, what are some other rewarded computations?
Most everyone has heard of cryptocurrency mining at this point, but what are some of the lesser known cases where you can put your computing power to work? I have heard vaguely about "donating" processing power to NASA for some kind of research but I don't know many details.
> Most univ libraries are not ‘officially’ open to general public

Public universities generally, and some private universities as well, have (ususlly non-free, but also usually inexpensive; e.g., UC Davis is $60/yr) provision for public privileges.
It's supposed to be political, that's the point.

I like both the EU and Obama, but don't think they deserve them.
Science is a subset of crime.
I would probably go with the Lenovo T420 to get the best bang for your buck. An i5, 16gb of memory and an SSD will be more than enough. My home gaming PC used a 3rd gen processor until about 3 months ago, I was not limited by the CPU at all (I wanted an nvme SSD and the new AMD Ryzen processor)

Your #2 isn't ideal as you'd undoubtedly struggle with 4gb of ram. Chrome and Slack can be a huge memory hog, on top of what PyCharm and your actual application use. You could upgrade the ram, but you're already spending $450.

My primary work machine is a MacBook pro (2014), but it is by no means necessary. My next laptop will run linux.
Thanks for the feedback. I think you're right and we're interested in exploring what we can do to help people more in the future. One of the really nice things about Cloud Firestore is that documents are versioned with timestamps in such a way that we could definitely detect and expose conflicts and let you decide how to deal with them... It's mostly a matter of identifying the common use cases and then figuring out the right API to make them possible without going too far into the deep end of conflict resolution.
Isn't that an even better reason to freeze your credit reports, given that Equifax was hacked and they are providing knowledge-based authentication for the USPS and who knows what other services.
Re your point #4: From the article:

"Parks drove a Pontiac G-6 convertible with a license plate that read “crtgrdn,” for “court guardian.” In the past twelve years, she had been a guardian for some four hundred wards of the court."

...

"Norheim awarded a guardianship to Parks, on average, nearly once a week. She had up to a hundred wards at a time. “I love April Parks,” he said at one hearing"

I would be shocked if this guy isn't getting some kind of payment from Ms. Parks.
A naïve question for someone who doesn't really understand Ethereum: Why are smart contracts needed here ? Would it not be possible to send specific structures in a blockchain with the icon and the url, and just using a now old-style thing like Bitcoin ? What do nodes need to agree on ?
Traditionally, cancer was considered "cured" when the patient survived 5 years without evidence of disease. We now know that quite a few cancers, including breast, have a significant rate of late recurrence, ie, after the five-year window. But it's still a very strong psychological milestone for the patient and a convenient and practical benchmark for the clinician.
>Studies, data, conversation, and thoughtfulness around these issues are welcome and needed

I posted a top level comment that links to a study and another link to an article which links to several studies and got downvoted to oblivion. I don't think this sort of thing is _actually_ welcome here.
Because of lisp machines, Smalltalk/the Alto - the popularity of java and the popularity of golang? As well as a disagreement about what "systems programming" means?

But when you can do real-time video processing in an (at the time) young alternative implementation of python[1] - I'm not sure what we're arguing about anymore..?

[1] https://morepypy.blogspot.no/2011/07/realtime-image-processi...
Unless you need to spin up OpenBSD and FreeBSD instances with an almost like Docker workflow. That’s where I use Vagrant still.
Ask HN: Have you ever been granted profits interest units? How to evaluate them?
I have an offer from a fairly young tech startup as a software engineer. The startup is an LLC. They have granted me "profits interest units" instead of stock options or RSUs. All they have told me is that you have N units of profits interest in the company. They won't disclose a percentage number as to what this represents as a percentage of the total "profits interest units".

HN has a lot of discussions around evaluation stock options, but I haven't seen any on "profits interest units". Have you ever been granted profits interest units? How to evaluate them?
The new rules language (which was already used by Cloud Storage) is a full programming language. It's not turing complete, but that's by design. Still, you can declare functions and do other complex things that were never possible with the Firebase Realtime Database JSON rules.

We're working on opening up the tools to work with the rules language so you can test and iterate more easily.
How a Single Mom Created a Plastic Food-Storage Empire
Hard to explain externally, but it relates to RAM size allocation + throughput in the underlying distributed database system.
The crypto-currency the world needs is one which detects pyramid/ponzi schemes and fraud in general.
> Also, macOS is a Unix[0]. gnu/linux is the 'nix like os around here ;)

That's technically correct, but in practice, a Linux-compatible OS is much more valuable than a Unix-compatible OS, if just because Linux is what runs in production.

MS acknowledges this with WSL.
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Ask HN: Any Examples of Profitable Open Source Projects?
Alfred Nobel only wanted to reward people for making discoveries. There are many reasons one can argue that this is counterproductive (Like this article points out, science is not a single-person endeavor, but even more importantly is that it invokes a huge survivorship bias: You only get the prize for being correct, so someone else who did just as important work on another theory that showed that it was not correct will never be rewarded.)

But in the end, it was Nobel's prerogative to do what he wanted with his money. We can argue whether it would have been better if he had done something different, but it is what it is. It's not a reward by a government or any community or democratically elected organization where we really have standing to argue that it should be different, it's just a committee trying to follow the century-plus old will of a single person. If we don't like what it does, we don't have to pay attention.
Not for nothing, but the US was founded on the basis that violence is just in the face of an unjust government. We can't idolize the Revolutionary War, and then turn around and tell people they should always follow the law no matter what.

If we are going to assume that the government is always right and there is no reason for violence ever, then we should just do away with the second amendment. I dont think that amendment is super useful in the age of tanks, jets and nukes, but the idea of violent revolt against unjust rule is still there
Uber for iOS granted secret screen recording entitlement
Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B
Anonymous currencies. Dash, monero, zcash.

Feeless transactions. IOTA

Fog/Mist computing. SNM, Golem

Decentralized marketplaces. Many, syscoin is my favorite.

Identity tracking for IOT. Centralized solutions might exist, but WTC and the like are interesting.

Decentralized governance. DASH, Lisk, more
Beyond the other points in responses to your comments, keep also in mind that the publishers bundle journals in subscriptions, and they have every incentive to bundle them in most annoying ways, in order to maximize the amount of subscriptions academic institutions need to buy.
Can this be used with the old firebase sdk? Upgrading looks like pain
Anyway, for the WaPo you can click on your browser's Reader Mode button and that bypasses the paywall. However I stopped to read the pop-up and they have a $20/year international subscription, so I decided to pay for that.
They tried is as a test balloon and, with the new data they got, saw that they can't get the numbers to where they would need to be to be profitable.

The alternative here isn't that they would run something of that size indefinitely, knowing that it will lose them money. It's Google behaving like every single other company currently in existence: deciding up front that it's too risky and not even trying.

At least it created some nice data showing how the legacy ISPs react to competition. Just in case anyone ever needs to prove that this market isn't working.
I see talk in this thread that uses the term 'private key'. Which makes me think about using a literal cryptographic private / public key combo for this sort of thing.

Say I have a private key, and I want a business to have a way to ID me. They give me a key associated with me in their database, and I encrypt it with my private key, and give the results back. Now when someone wants to do business with them in my name they must turn those results back into what the business has in their database. So long as I keep my key safe the business can leak data all they want.

This would shift all the work for security over to the citizens though, which could have mixed results...
I do not believe this is entirely true. Hashimoto had to change his name to hide his background, for example. Many Japanese are extremely hesitant to speak about this issue at all; it remains a very sensitive topic. There is evidence of recent employment discrimination and marriage discrimination, especially in western Japan. Japanese silence on the issue speaks volumes.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2009/01/20/issues/bre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin#Social_discriminatio...
That GIF is neat, but I don't see your ad when I look at the page.
I use Vagrant as a common means of describing a VM. A VBox user on Mac or Linux can launch my box using a known, reputable base image.

The same code and constructs can be used in Vagrant as with other elements or phases of deployment; scripts, runbooks, playbooks, recipies - all can be used locally the same way they might be at cloud scale.

It's a major win for me, I hope Vagrant has a long and fruitful life.
I use it on a team of 3. The main reason for not using Docker is 2 devs use mac full time, and I have a macbook air for when I'm not at home w/ my Linux desktop. So we'd have to use boot 2 docker anyways, which uses Vagrant. So might as well just use Vagrant. Its not perfect. A lot of file watchers do not work right or are slow. "Git status" just hangs the box, and nodemon / pm2 watch don't work unless I enable a special "polling" flag. But it beats the status quo of on boarding a new dev & telling them to manually setup a dev environment. On boarding new developers went from months to an hour, which is mainly due to Ansible... but Vagrant is a means to being able to test Ansible scripts.

Another gripe is we have to edit the Vagrantfile & adjust the CPU / memory usage for each developer. There's no way to have a local override AFAIK.

We also have another Vagrant box that emulates our IOT devices, which runs X server. That's been a huge productivity gain in that we can just change code live, instead of having to rsync code to a physical device to test it. .
Because it's fundamentally about a political objective, I think it's nonsense to even talk about it being divorced from politics, even if it could be awarded posthumously.
Real-time GCs with microsecond latencies do exist.
That's The Daily Mail, I'm not sure that "journalist" applies.
Ponzi aside, let's say it's the greatest cryptocurrency idea. The SEC has right to use their Howey Test to determine whether it's a security. Based on 1,2,4 below, is this not ICO's?

Under the Howey Test, a transaction is a security (or investment contract) if:

1. It is an investment of money

2. There is an expectation of profits from the investment

3. The investment of money is in a common enterprise

4. Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party

Based on their recent cyber division being announced, there is seemingly a strong possibility of review/conviction if launching an ICO as a US citizen, no? Soliciting an unregistered security carries 20yr prison term. Are dev's factoring this as possible risk?
I'm more interested in what Cruise Automation, GM's robotaxi subsidiary is doing. The in-house Super Cruise efforts are roughly on-par with the various autonomous features that are trickling out from a bunch of OEM's. The incremental approach to autonomy is maybe intuitive to Automakers, but you've got to deal with the vigilance decrement, and the handoff problem, and all the complicated matters of policy, liability and regulations surrounding these incomplete systems that still depend on keeping the driver in the loop to one degree or another. What's the real gain to be had from implementing a bunch of gimmicky features in the comparatively small luxury car segment?

Robotaxis on the other hand stand to be disruptive in the Clayton Christensen sense of word, and even if it wasn't, I'm pretty firm in the belief that being bold and taking on the whole self driving problem as a monolithic entity is in the long run more efficient than trying to do it piecemeal.
I'm trying to understand what value you thought this anecdote added to the conversation.
Want to briefly hijack this thread to quickly point out that there is no such thing as a Nobel Prize in Economics. Literally a Swiss bank made it upon the 70’s and dubiously said their prize was to “honor Alfred Nobel”. They were very forceful and never backed down from the prize, ultimately winning the PR battle and forcing the real Nobel org to sort-of acknowledge them.

They did this to originally award distinctions to conservative economists like Milton Friedman, though today they’re a little bit sneakier and will every now and then sneak an award to someone like Joseph Stieglitz.

You can read more about it in the somewhat sanitized Wikipedia article which only hints at the dispute that lies beneath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...

EDIT: I understand the downvotes for the incorrect factual background. I want my main point to be the issue of economics not doing a great job over the last 30-40 years when these awards were begun / the general retreat of Keynesian economics in favor of Neoliberalism. That being said it’s sometimes mentioned that the peak of a scientist’s productivity is right before he or she gets the Nobel (Memorial) Prize due to the resulting fame, so perhaps other economists are to blame.
They do verify names. I have had packages shipped to my house on behalf of friends, or in a hobby business name, and don't get notified like I get for my packages.