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I do research in this area, and it frustrates me (although you have no control over colloquial use)

"Antisocial" roughly means "sociopathic" or "not abiding by societal rules and norms," generally with the implication that this not abiding is at others' expense.

.. as in the DSM and legal use of the term "antisocial personality disorder."

The author means "asocial" or "introverted", as you point out.

The author's choice of term is actually very poor writing in this case because it's a scientific paper, and scientific use should be followed, especially when you're discussing behavior.

It's particularly confusing in this case because "antisocial" in its formal sense could actually be meaningful in this context, as in freeloading bees, or those that otherwise take advantage of other bees to their detriment in a game theory sense. There are many evolutionary theories of antisociality that are based on this general sense. So the article's word use is very poor.
Wouldn't a false equivalency be if the author said all jobs are equivalent because they share some common skills? Seems like you might be claiming a false "exclusivity?"

I'm legitimately asking because I had to just admit to myself that I didn't really know what "false equivalency" means and looked it up.
Haskell people see Ocaml as a language with too many features and complexity? really? Haskell, a language with a billion extensions? Have you ever tried compiling ghc?

I don't know about ocsigen(i don't do web development), but i guess all web frameworks are more complex than they need to be.

I haven't even mentioned all the formal verification stuff(coq, a verified C compiler, frama-c etc.) that come from inria.
I mentioned PHP because the GP was saying languages like PHP that comes from denmark etc., but nothing from France.
Plowing in Winter perhaps?
If it isn't an operating system, it shouldn't be called an operating system.

He isn't trying to rethink the desktop/workstation OS. If he's found a way of improving upon existing desktop environments, it should be clear what improvements he's made and how he has made them.

It seems it's written in Node Webkit (NW.js), which - if I understand correctly - allows you to build desktop applications in the same way node.js allows you to build applications which run in the browser. He appears to have used this to prototype a desktop environment. Rewriting a desktop environment, for efficiency, in C and using Xlib would itself be a major undertaking.
I'm with you on the cowling containing the failure, there is no other explanation why the cowling would disappear as one piece, the amount of force required to shear that module off the front of the engine is substantial. I really hope they will be able to recover the part but I fear we will never know which is going to make puzzling out how this could have happened extremely hard. Though the people working on these cases never fail to impress with their ability to retrieve the story from a pile of fragments you need to those fragments to begin with and the most important bits are missing here.
I'm curious what you feel they left out?

I also think there is something to be said about media that is accessible to all and not just those of a certain political persuasion - the people that need to see/hear how futile the war ultimately was aren't going to watch something that calls them all traitors. The military, political, and social realities of Vietnam have such clear application to our current society, so I personally hope many people see the show.
Unfortunately the imprinter fails on instant-issue cards without raised numbers, so it slows it down even more when they have to write all the numbers down.
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Can you post the link to the previous submission? I can't find it. Here it is ok to repost if the previous submission didn't get too much attention. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I agree that the title is too alarmist.
Inside the New Proposal That Exacerbated Uber’s Board Divisions
Abrasive but True: I can argue the point James Cameron was trying to make
Thanks for finding this. Once you read a bizarre sentence like that, you begin to suspect that the level of research Brown puts into subjects which you may know less about, such as religious history, to be similarly dismal. I doubt these kinds of books are even a little bit instructive as the article makes out. Rather they leave you knowing less about the world than you did before you started.

However, I couldn't help but read a bit further, where the Achilles Heel of TRANSLTR is identified - 'rotating clear text':

> The notion of a rotating cleartext function was first put forth in an obscure, 1987 paper by a Hungarian mathematician, Josef Harne. Because brute-force computers broke codes by examining cleartext for identifiable word patterns, Harne proposed an encryption algorithm that, in addition to encrypting, shifted decrypted cleartext over a time variant. In theory, the perpetual mutation would ensure that the attacking computer would never locate recognizable word patterns and thus never know when it had found the proper key. The concept was somewhat like the idea of colonizing Mars-fathomable on an intellectual level, but, at present, well beyond human ability.

Of course, neither Harne nor the notion of 'rotating clear text' actually exist!
Helps to have a concept of scale here. This is a tiny town in the remote fjords in northern Iceland.

The speed is likely caused by tourists looking around and not paying attention, so grabbing their attention will probably work in this case.

Starting point in maps street view - zoom out and walk around the town for 5 min - you'll gain a better perspective on what's going on here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@66.0739609,-23.1207479,3a,75y,3...
Actually mozilla means Mosaic Killer as their sole purpose was to replace NCSA mosaic browser to become the n°1 browser.

It was the internal codename and user-agent for netscape and became the name of mozilla a reminder that their objective is to be the number 1 browser and the new target to replace had been IE.
This illustrates that if drivers feel less safe then they drive more safely and pay attention more.

It is one of motivations for removing all signage so drivers feel less safe permamently.

http://thecityfix.com/blog/naked-streets-without-traffic-lig...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/remova...
However you feel about it, it would be incredibly worrying if Google started ignoring local laws because it disagreed with them; it doesn't have any particular moral high ground from which to make such decisions.
Rather click-baity title -- Microsoft bought a company which specializes in optimizing your cloud spend. So, if you're a company who leaps before you look when provisioning resources in the cloud, that might be helpful. Otherwise, you're thoughtful and manage your spend like a rational business should do -- situation normal.
> If the Constitution they wrote didn't pass the popular vote of the referendum, general elections would be repeated and the process would start again.

That's a very optimistic view of the situation. In practice, the instability resulting from not completing the process would have had dramatic consequences. Among other things, there was a Cold War on which could have easily started a new civil war.

> the francoist regime turned itself into a democracy following its own laws and procedures.

But exactly because the prime mover was the regime itself, there was always a chance it could go back on its steps. Compromises had to be made to ensure the transition would go through smoothly, as it's always the case.
I second this recommendation! Here's some more reading for anyone interested in Hofstadter:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a3278/why-watson-and...

http://www.basicai.org/blog/hofstadter-2017-09-25.html
Risk to the passengers. If there is no imminent risk then it is better to wait for the right device than to risk passengers falling off ladders from 10 meters and higher, the A380 is a huge plane and those doors are pretty high up.
I can personally attest to this; I commented a short while ago about how I've been conditioned to almost completely ignore huge "Download Now!" buttons and the like.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15374013
I typically have odd thoughts that are often wrong. But I really like quote from 'The Martian', "let's science the shit out of it".

I don't know if it's possible to science your way out of depression. If in some way the curiosity gives a small enough lift to keep you getting one foot in front of the other and learning about what's causing your depression.

It at least seems relatively risk free way of tackling depression. Learn about the beast and track what you do and what changes your mood.

But is this something you can tell people that are seriously depressed or is it just another useless bit of advice?
My guess? Liability.
That's true, and I agree that the openness and controlling your own data is important in a general case.

Though I can pretty much guarantee these devices are not directly posting transactions on a blockchain, the cost in CPU power and battery consumption is too high and the devices would cost way more than $6 in that case.

If there is still a server in between making the transactions, does it still make sense to invoke the "blockchain" terminology? To me that is where the hype part comes from.
Sony's most valuable contractor
Bartosz is an excellent educator of difficult material.
> What Franco did was to ban Catalan language from public institutions.

Like schools. An entire generation missed out on learning Catalan at school like my own mother. Call it whatever you want but that to me feels like forbidding a language.
Any large bright signs at night should ideally restrict themselves to orange/red, and be of brightness appropriate to dark-adapted eyes. Even a lot of recent traffic signals have blue–green “go” lamps which are excessively bright.

The new LED car headlights (especially seen on luxury cars) are universally awful: distracting, blinding, and wreck your eyes’ adaptation. When they show up on a tall vehicle like an SUV it’s even worse.

Same goes for most LED streetlamps. Too much blue, too bright, and directly in the field of vision for drivers and pedestrians. Most new streetlamps could have their luminance reduced by half or more and have the blue part of the spectrum entirely removed and perform better at lighting the street while using significantly less energy.

For best lighting, if planners cared about quality of life or road safety, there should be more, dimmer, lamps spaced closer together, on lower lightposts, and better shielded to the sides, so that lighting would be more even instead of having some blindingly bright areas and others lost in shadow. Of course, that would defeat part of the purpose of switching to the new lights, which was to reduce the number of lights (because they could be made brighter and therefore placed high up and far apart).
> I've already addressed the weakness of this rationale

You're addressing the wrong rationale. I'm saying that everything started out the way you suggest and none of those things survived.

> It's entirely possible that the dominant social forces support regulations while said regulations do harm on the balance.

It's entirely possible we're living in a simulation controlled by malicious aliens. Anything is possible. But when deciding how to organize our society, we don't have to give all possibilities equal credence.

> The opinion of the average person on a complex economic subject

Yes, but I'm not talking about average people. I'm talking about expert participants in the system, ones with differing interests. When chefs and restaurateurs and doctors and public health officials and eaters of restaurant food and consumer advocates all say, "Yes, we think some basic mandatory health regulations are a good way to run things" then it's a solid sign the regulations are not some sort of one-sided, exploitative thing like the guild system.

> There's a reason we have a court of law with deliberations in the justice system.

Sure. A justice system that time and time again accepts reasonable regulatory burdens in pursuit of broader shared benefit.

> I don't see why you mock this viewpoint. The government is not our dad.

Yes, exactly. The government is us. We the people. When we the people say, "Roads are great, but they would be even better if everybody going the same way drove on the same side of the road," that's government. Does this take away from the freedom of somebody to be independent of government constraint? Sure. Is that a worthwhile trade? Most think so. Is the fact that everybody with roads converges on either the drive-on-the-left or the drive-on-the-right solution and basically nobody minds a sign that this is not some irrational tyranny? Yes, definitely. Parallel evolution tells you something about utility.

I mock it not because there's anything wrong with wanting that kind of freedom, but because some people become fundamentalists about it. I am happy to mock fundamentalists of all stripes. Especially ones who entirely ignore the many other kind of freedom in favor of a fixation on a very particular kind.

> The rest of society can stay out of cryptocurrency.

This is something you are welcome to pursue in a private context, but not a public one. You want to build your own racetrack or lot and drive whichever way you want? Go crazy. But if you want to drive in the US, your options are narrower, because your choices no longer affect just you.
I think that removing all signage would have a similar effect: short-term reduction in accidents, but then a rebound (or worse) once drivers adapt.
Hi All,

This post was inspired by a post I stumbled upon: http://hackerhmb.tumblr.com/post/45169323236/how-i-beat-depr...

I thought I could shed an anecdotal light about my processes and ways I beat depression.

I hope you guys can all find something of use in here. I included a lot of resources on studies, blog posts, and books that helped me throughout my battles.

This is actually my first submission to Hacker News and I find that this might be an appropriate Medium to show my story and help anyone in the community fight back who is struggling.
Same - it drove me to spend all the time I could behind sound & lighting consoles through high school and college.

There’s something about live production operations that software engineering - even on the ops/oncall side - doesn’t come close to. I’d seriously consider taking a significant pay cut to sit at a console with a headset and run something in real time.
What does the age of their account have to do with the correctness of their statements or the attempt by GP to shift the burden of proof?
Intel Unveils Neuromorphic, Self-Learning Chip Codenamed Loihi – ExtremeTech
Agree with the idea re: futures in general, but there are presales for physical goods that most agree aren't a security...
The article shows pictures of 5 different angles on that crosswalk, and they all seem to work.
> “The development of materials that can float for ages, and the rising levels of seas due to climate change, make the possibility of these events larger and larger.”

I'm very curious how the total observed sea level rise of 19cm over the past 100 years has had any measurable effect on cross-continent species transfer by rafting.

I don't mean to belittle the current, or projected sea level rise, but merely point out that it's unhelpful to the climate debate to falsely attribute problems to climate change.
A developer that does not use mail :-) that is very unlikely
They missed a great opportunity in the title: "When It's Good to Bee Antisocial"
Most homeless are temporarily homeless, and such assistance would be a huge help to get them back on their feet. It is very difficult to pull yourself back up when you don't even have a secure place to sleep. Let alone shower or keep clean clothes. Homeless shelters help a little, but you end up needing to wait in line much of the day to get a spot making it real hard to go looking for jobs.
I seem to remember a simpler version - it was a scratch card, which had the address fully visible (so you could check the balance was correct) but the private key hidden behind the scratching area. That way you could reuse the bill or scratch it and transfer the amount.

Can't seem to find it again, though.
One only has to look at huge crowded Asian cities, where signage is present but effectively ignored, to see that removing signage doesn't really help. The accident rates are just as high if not more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
I think you're missing OPs point. A git repo's history shows changes to the source code but not necessarily underlying git usage patterns since many git operations don't live in the history.
Why the mining pools of course. Who's gonna broadcast your transactions if not the miners who solve the hash?
Turns out there are alternatives to chrome other than firefox. even open source ones.
I'm being sarcastic at someone's suggestion that Hiro's name ought to be changed. I'm not actually suggesting any of this happen; it would be a travesty.
Okay, fine. Then we ramp it up by employing hundreds of clowns to hide in the bushes on the side of the road and jump out when the driver least expects it.
>That's a very small number of people, not all of whom are well paid.

By 2006 about a quarter of MITs entire graduating class went to Wall Street. Some firms were offering $400K salaries to junior level positions. They weren't just taking huge numbers of people, but the ones they were taking were the best of the best. Other companies at the time had a terrible time recruiting anyone because they couldn't compete with that kind of money.

The problem with this is I don't think these firms are actually doing anything productive for society. The amount of work, money, and resources that go into getting a nanosecond edge for high frequency trading is just obscene. And all of the stuff they develop must be kept top secret and under NDAs. So even if they invent something cool by chance, they can't share it with the world or let anyone else benefit from it.
The new LED car headlights (especially seen on luxury cars) are universally awful: distracting, blinding, and wreck your eyes’ adaptation. When they show up on a tall vehicle like an SUV it’s even worse.

Headlight brightness is somewhat of a balance, between blinding oncoming traffic and not being able to see far enough ahead. Dark adaptation has its limits.

(AFAIK it's actually HID lights which make up most of the ridiculously bright headlight market.)
Sometimes one needs to adapt to the outer world :) I use Whatsapp even though I hate instant messaging and phone calls (I like communicating at my own pace when not face-to-face, and I dislike any sorts of smalltalk on the phone or messaging), because communication is a two-way street, and sometimes conforming is easier. I disable last-online and blue ticks in Whatsapp so it's more e-mail like, definitely improves the experience.
of course you speed things up, it takes a bit of time to go through the process of removing the icon and disabling it on a fresh install. when you have several install to do, it quickly adds up.
It's increasingly hard to distinguish satire from news reporting too, but as you point out that can work both ways.
The plane flew for 2 more hours before was able to land.
> The francoist party of Fraga only won 16/350 seats in that Congress;

The prime minister was still an ex-Franchist and the UCD had plenty of old hands around. The Franchists still had huge relevance in the army. The drafters were still moving with a somewhat limited room for manoeuver.

> could tell the writers to go back to their drafts until the result was to their liking.

Not really. These things don't happen in a vacuum, the longer the process and the higher the risk that it things could go pear-shaped. There was active terrorism and of course cold war activity. Compromises were made, which were good for the times but not necessarily the best overall.
Having bright blue headlamps makes it harder to see into the shadows even for the car’s driver, because it causes the eyes to be less dark-adapted. Older halogen lamps work better in practice. The newer LED lamps only sound better in marketing materials, and based on junk metrics created by the industry itself.
I talked to the person who wrote a program that displayed reactor data on a computer screen. She wrote it in FORTRAN in the late 80s.

They're still using it 30 years later. She confirmed that her programming passed Y2K with flying colors.
"Screams of x" is an educated guess, not a conclusion.
Hah. I say we skip the middlemen and deliver electric shocks directly to the driver's hands through the steering wheel at random intervals.
Not sure what you mean.

If UBI is, let's say $40000 a year and you do various jobs that land you $10000 you now have $50000.

Why wouldn't I take that?
Here are some examples: Proprietary, got integrated into firefox for no apparent reason (hard to disable), had a security breach and privacy issue, got bought by mozilla for an undisclosed sum (millions), promises to open source have only been promises so far, acquisition turned to have been more a bout buying the 10 millions user base to get into mobile and 1 billion entries to feed to the upcoming recommendation engine.
Iraq war killed over half a million people. That was in 2006. We still live with the turmoil it created. Who the hell are you to cause such a death rate? You saw a video and it was chilling huh? Have you seen videos of Abu Ghraib?

Iraq was NOT invaded because Saddam was a dictator. Saddam was a dictator when Donald Rumsfeld was still his best buddy (yes he was!) or State department officials were shaking his hands. You're missing the point completely.
While I agree with the overall sentiment here, on an unrelated note I noticed someone commented “If I saw Terence Tao’s name on it I’d assume it’s true” (I’m paraphrasing what they said)

That kind of assumption has actually bitten Mathematics in Academia in the past:

“
In the final sentence of the same paper, Gödel added:

In conclusion, I would still like to remark that Theorem I can also be proved, by the same method, for formulas that contain the identity sign.

Mathematicians took Gödel's word for it, and proved results derived from this one, until the mid-1960s, when Stål Aanderaa realized that Gödel had been mistaken, and the argument Gödel used would not work. In 1983, Warren Goldfarb showed that not only was Gödel's argument invalid, but his claimed result was actually false, and the larger class was not decidable.
“

So although statistically assuming the proof is correct for a super famous “genius” mathematician isn’t a “bad” assumption since you’re “probably” correct in that assumption.

That’s not the same as certainty.

And before using that proof in further works

It’s very important for some others to go through and validate the proof as well.

Even the smartest humans are plagued by the simple fact that they are human and thus prone to mistake/error from time to time.

Source of the anecdote:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/139503/in-the-histo...