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If you want to call something irrational, at least make sure it's an action, rather than a belief. It doesn't matter what zero-cost belief someone holds until they put their money where their mouth is.

The whole point of this thread is that modern neuroscience is showing us that the classification of schizophrenia in modern terms was not rational either.

It makes sense to work at higher level information, at the level of feelings and dialogue, than at a lower level, e.g. epigenetic circumstances or neuronal metabolic disorders, if one mistakenly overestimates their grasp on the phenomenon.

Furthermore, there is no such thing as "the genes for schizophrenia" - nor would I be so quick to dismiss the skepticism he brought to the preexisting field of analyzing people's problems, just because he became a mythical figure in pop culture to the point that more people have a mistaken view of what he wrote than have read him.

Why did it matter what he wrote? Because there were many things he wrote that made people recognize things in others. Of the things they recognized, what worked either lasted and was retained, or fell out of mode due to people becoming fed up with him as long ago as the 1920s, or served as a benchmark/competition for others to test ideas against to find any that worked better. It really doesn't have much to do with stymying conversation because of cargo cult thinking..
Shouldn't you focus on those guys who will have a commercial benefit out of such a service? If they have a benefit, they will pay - because they earn somehow money out of it.

Asking private persons will lead into goodwill purchases - which I'm not thinking that this is scaleable...
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Perhaps the problem is lack of industry experience?

I have plenty of ideas. All I see are problems that need solving. There are so many things broken in web/IT that they can't be listed here. I have a file with literally hundreds of problems that need fixing and that's just scratching the surface.

Example, I think someone already mentioned this earlier but have you ever browsed a bunch of corporate websites - I have seen so many websites that are so horribly broken that it's just crazy - there are literally MILLIONS of broken websites out there. You could start by looking into why that is (I've been thinking about it and believe there's numerous business ops just in that area alone)...

I recently wrote about how the first company I worked for ran their entire operation (which was quite complex) with a few dumb terminals and a few Z80s clocked at 4MHz, running something called TurboDOS:

https://coffeeandcode.neocities.org/remembering-turbo-dos.ht...

I once wrote an entire oil rig data acquisition system in TurboBasic in a weekend. You could use ON TIMER to called a routine every second or so, no assembler required. ON KEY and ON TIMER gave you event driven programming (ok primitive but effective). There were things like INPORTB and OUTPORTB (I think) that could write directly to ports for control and data acquisition.

So are we going back in terms of productivity? What can you do about that?

Are you still waiting for someone to come up with a viable alternative to JavaScript?

You could almost come up with something by looking at trends like the move to multi-machine, multi-processor, multi-core, multi-threaded and there are so many things that could be moved to that model for scale. Then there are the tools to help profile and debug those things. Example: Elasticsearch - Lucene was/is a great library for search/indexing, but the Elastic search guy (Shay Banon) saw the opportunity to scale that to multiple machines.

Scale drives a lot of innovation: look at innovative technologies like Redis for example.

Another example - SQL databases. Have you ever set up a MySQL replication cluster and kept it running 24/7? Sure there are excellent services like compose.io and the new kids on the block like Cockroach Labs, but highly scaled database with ease of set up and management is not really a solved problem. Just keeping the darn thing up and running is often a challenge.

Like I said, I could go on and on...

p.s. yes, people are right - a bit of competition is not necessarily a bad thing...
Would you consider Democritus a genius? Or Zeno?
Talk by CD Projekt's CEO about not using DRM, and dealing with piracy: https://kotaku.com/some-real-talk-on-piracy-from-a-witcher-3...

Their approach always made so much more sense to me.
Proving theorems in Agda or Idris is like programming in more rigorous variant of Haskell. Proving theorems in Coq is... different.
I avoid using my work computer for personal purposes for reasons of both professionalism and privacy. I don't care what the company says about the computer. Unless they're outright giving it to me, it's company property. And every employment contract I've ever signed says a) company property is not to be used for personal purposes and b) the company will do as it sees fit with the data that's on company property.

I would never do things like banking on a work computer. I only use the work computer for online shopping on occasions that I need something personal for the office (say, snacks or a new mug). I open personal email on it only in a browser (I'll occasionally respond to something there that's too long to type out on a phone and can't wait till later). I don't really use social media in general, but will occasionally visit LinkedIn on the work computer because that's sort of work-related. Personal chats during work hours (if necessary) are conducted on my phone.

Everything else waits till I get home. For the privacy and security of a computer that belongs properly to me.
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This is what unmoderated forums do to some people who have no filter for conspiracy theories. And when there is, of course, actual money involved.
Sorry, but all those people he helped to blame themselves for being uncurable, those are something to glance over, right?

Oh, you are a paranoid schizophrenic.
Well, im not going to admit defeat and helplessness- i got a reputation to run here- no Sir, you are eternally afraid for having a shorter wiener then your father. This is genius, yes, but of the marketing kind.
If this is true, then there will also be a measurable environmental impact to playing the game.

reminded of the unexpected (or at least, in the early days, under-reported) energy costs associated with cryptocurrencies...
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How important is GPA?

I will soon get my Master's degree in CS, but it is via the path of least resistence. Therefore GPA is not shiny. I decided that spending my finite time and energy can be better, so I concentrated on coding (my own projects) and socializing, sports and games etc.

When I studied for exams, at point where I knew that I was going to pass, I shifted to other projects.

Next year when I join the workforce and start looking for jobs, will low GPA bite me?
We had an interviewee showing up in shorts and t-shirt. Turns out he wanted to combine the interview with a tee off time in the afternoon. While not customary (even though we don't wear suits/business attire at our company) he totally got away with it and it didn't affect the interview.
I don't know how he was 'wrong about almost everything'? I just searched the article with the same name.

Penis envy? Well, I saw myself and read myself about women who desired to castrate their brothers for example because they attributed their envy and jealousy of parental attention to them.

Oedipus issues? Seriously? I believe every other mother or father out there in emotionally incestous relationships with their kids.

Id, ego, superego? It's a model of consciousness, pretty primitive, but still useful. You basically split everything into 3 buckets - e.g. compulsive lust, fetishism goes to id, rational thinking to ego, overresponsibility to superego.

Oral, anal, phallic, etc. stages of development? There were much more better theories by Theodore Lidz and Erickson.
I want to believe this is true.
There's an obscene amount of software used in the enterprise that is an absolute pain to use, and inefficent too. Basically nobody in their right mind would use this stuff if they weren't being paid to do so - and if someone created a nicer alternative, the people using it would lobby their bosses to switch. Basically, the design/usability/UX revolution that has happened in the consumer IT space in the past decade has not made nearly as much of an impact in business software (especially when it comes to software aimed at non-IT companies). Companies like Slack have shown that you can make SaaS go almost viral if you address a real pain point in a way that the people on the ground understand and like.
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Ask HN: What would happen with our sense of time if we went to space?
In games or movies, I have never heard: "Hey, it's soon midnight, we should probably go to sleep". In space, our everyday sense of time seems to not exist. Would our watches and clocks be useless in space?
Reddit is different, you don't have public profile with you identity. The upvote and down vote are true opinion of people.
Or it was the schizophrenia that made him heavily addicted to weed?
I had no issue recognising any of those immediately.
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Where it's being used it's a tool for paramedics, not EMTs.
I would not call him genius. Alfred Adler perhaps was.

Freud was a misogyn and a drug addict, and he proposed a lot of theories that leave modern people scratching their heads. Eg he attributed almost all mental problems to sexuality, coined the ridiculous Oedipus complex, and once called girls „strange little beings without a penis“. Sure, the field was at the very beginning, but why did he always have to bring penises into play?

He happened to found the first thought school for explaining mental illnesses, but most of his ideas have since been accepted to be wrong or way too crude.
I'll add another implementation, Mines from the great sgt-puzzles collection.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

It has an option to "ensure solubility" similar to the one @gergoerdi mentions above.
This is awesome! But, I wish there's one similar for Ruby - as I'm not sure if I want to learn Python now that Ruby is in my toolchain.
Maybe this CSS thing is too trendy for the author ;)
It is also finding a balance of course. All these technologies you mention are good for most webdevelopment projects. No point in writing everything in a different language
Nice work! Looks tempting... until you realise you need to integrate your service with a whole heap of other platforms. Or build scale. Classic Build vs Buy — are you building a core capability in your product, or are there more important things you should be focusing on?
If you don't mind me asking, how long have you been recruiting for and what size/type of companies are you recruiting for? Top tier, Fortune 500 or just mere funded startups?

Context is everything.

Also, I find people abuse the word signal. How are you generating your signal? And is it just within your domain of companies you recruit for or across the whole industry?
> In 2013, we announced an early success of RCN: its ability to break text-based CAPTCHAs like those illustrated below (left column). With one model, we achieve an accuracy rate of 66.6% on reCAPTCHAs, 64.4% on BotDetect, 57.4% on Yahoo, and 57.1% on PayPal, all significantly above the 1% rate at which CAPTCHAs are considered ineffective (see [4] for more details). When we optimize a single model for a specific style, we can achieve up to 90% accuracy.

66% with reCaptcha and up to 90% when optimised is much higher than what I can achieve with my actual brain. Maybe I should consider using a neural network to answer those, it happens quite frequently that I need 2-3 rounds to get through reCaptcha.
You said every doctor should have one with them "like a stethoscope". I don't know where you got "replace" from...

My point is that a stethoscope is an essential tool for assessing every patient. An ultrasound is a specialized tool for assessing a very small subset of patients.
Webpage yes, its contents no
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Impostor syndrome is one thing — but you might want to know a bit of how fashion is structured if you work at Thread!

I got a ton of points during an interview at a similar company by mentioning my uncle’s fashion brand as something “they might not have heard about”. Instant braggadocious “try me” from the interviewer. Turns out, my uncle’s sneakers are genuinely cool.
According to reliable source, The Inquirer, citing reliable source TorrentFreak.
I’ve only interviewed in jeans and a tshirt, never had issue, but was thanked by one company for not showing up in a suit.
I would be bothered that someone dressing excessively formal might act excessively formally - after all, dressing formally is normally a deliberate display of conformity.
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This is such a great document. I have referred to it quite a lot in my last job as we were restructuring our test. We mainly had unit tests that we'd just try to make green every time after changing code. It didn't stick well with me that we'd just rewrite the code in a different syntax (Rspec DSL). You don't really test anything in that way.

Just be prepared for a lot of shocked reactions when you say 'Most Unit Testing Is Waste' to people who have not been softened a bit to this concept.

I really like this way of thinking. The next chapter of getting into this subject are the live discussions (5 videos) between Kent Beck, David Heinemeier Hansson and Martin Fowler talking about TDD (which relies a lot on unit tests): https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/ I enjoyed these a lot too and the combination of these sources has really improved my testing.
This is actually a very good question. The halting problem only applies if you can write a program that loops forever. In other words, the halting problem is only a problem in Turing-complete languages [1], or in languages that admit uncontrolled general recursion. (Likewise for Rice's theorem.)

Simplicity is explicitly not Turing-complete: it is not possible to write a Simplicity program that loops forever. In other words, Simplicity is a total functional programming language: every Simplicity program will finish computing in a finite number of steps.

See Turner 2004 for a great introduction to total functional programming:
https://github.com/mietek/total-functional-programming/blob/...

Totality is also important in the context of theorem-proving: if we're interested in treating programs as proofs, and types as propositions, then the type system of our language must correspond to a consistent logic. Otherwise, if we could write a program that loops forever, we could prove any proposition, and so our logic would be inconsistent. Languages such as Agda, Coq, and Idris are total, and writing programs in them is constructive theorem-proving.

Wadler 2015 places the above principle in a fascinating historical context: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as-...

[1]: Some argue that Turing-completeness is not a property of languages, but rather of their runtime semantics. McBride 2015 has more details: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e291/5b546b9039a8cf8f28e0b8...
Not just better idea, but also more money to promote it.
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Really nice indeed, but I think it'd have been much nicer with actual examples/equations.
This went a different direction than I was expecting from the first paragraph. I thought it would go in the direction of "work for somebody else, so you can learn the problems/inefficiencies/pain points in their area and then build a startup fixing those".
> Let me know if you find a review that says otherwise.

Personal experience from having got a 5S at launch. And every iPhone with Touch ID since.
This URL only loads a blank white page for me. It's probably because I keep JS disabled, but I really wish sites would degrade more sensibly.

If you absolutely require JS for the content, I understand, but please display some minimal page that explains things. Even if it was just ugly plain text, I'd be much more willing to enable JS for you :)
The outside world being outside of America where pretty much no one cares?
Haha yeah Science papers are about providing a high level explanation of what you did, in real words. Then you hit em with the 100 page supplemental that's got more detail than 3 papers' worth of research in other journals
You could also just mail me the drive if you get tired of it...
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"Hello Hacker News! Thanks for all the views. Due to increased traffic, Plot.ly won’t serve any more plots until tomorrow. Come back then?"

A bit off-topic, but it teaches us a lesson about avoiding getting locked-in by too many services. If I'd use a plot in my blog post I'd like it to keep working even when I get more traffic than usual. Especially if my whole blog post is useless without it.
It's much easier to get your idea website up and running, but also much more difficult to get traction without spending money.
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True but which mentions nothing about Face ID working at a distance or whether he even tested that.
I guess that's the basic idea behind http://oppsdaily.com/ and similar.
If you are in China, please read this article.
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Everytime I reflect on Zeno, I get halfway closer.
The browser vendors are the only actors who might be able to make this work.
Dude, were your interviewing as a software developer or as a delivery man? For the former, I'd rock up in a suit and a bike helmet, but only if I really did ride my bike to the interview.

As it was, I interviewed for Google in a suit (no helmet, I took a bus), even though the instructions recommended against it. This was in Switzerland; and as far as I can tell, nobody even noticed, let alone cared, what I was wearing.
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The point is that there isn't a cracked version (yet).
My instinctive response is "but it's garbage collected, so what use does that have on embedded?". Most of the stuff I'm doing is fairly soft real time though.

Am I being too closed minded and a garbage collector that ran quickly enough would still allow for a useful design space?
It's from March 2016.

Source: https://danluu.com/
Why would you not use it for things like web services? That's one of the main goals of the language.
Could you be more descriptive about the "close call" you had "with the boundaries of perception"? I've been using cannabis daily for over a decade to be a normal person, having found that it removes my anxiety, and allows me to operate as a normal individual in society. When I am not using, I become a terrible anxious mess who can't even talk to clerks in stores.

Also your last sentence seems incomplete - did you intend to complete your thought, or at least use punctuation?
True but it does show exploration and curiosity to at least try another language or two. If you’ve been doing .NET or PHP for 5+ years without even trying something else I’d treat it as a red flag too.

Level of interest is the #1 quality in the great programmers I’ve been around. If you aren’t exploring even a little that’s a concern.
I said "can". I don't know where you got "should" from.
I was about to say that too. I've also used many languages (PHP, Java, C#, JavaScript, C, C++, Scala, Haskell), and even though one language might have been especially good for the task at hand, it would not have been so much harder to do it in one of the other languages. I feel like a statement like "use the right tool for the job" is pretty meaningless.
And you attribute this development to the weed because correlation is causation?
I'd challenge that. I have been using the Telegram native client on Windows since ~3 years and I don't remember having it ever going beyond 100 MB usage of RAM or ANY spikes in CPU usage (usually ~60 MB and 0% CPU). It usually sits there, quietly. Maybe its using more RAM when I take a call with it, but since its going back to normal after I finish (or it's always just low), it doesn't matter.

I am using Slack since more than 3 years too. I have tried their web-app, desktop client, iOS app, everything. The iOS app is pretty good and gets constant love. Both the web app and desktop client are pretty much equal in performance: laggish and slow. My laptop has only 8 GB RAM and a 3-4 years old CPU. The next Lenovo I'll be getting is available with max. 16 GB RAM.

I have switched to the web app in my Chrome since ~2 years, because after all, the desktop client does eat more RAM, since it will have 2-3 extra processes, whereas running as a Chrome tab, those processes already exist anyway (i.e. GPU process).

To have the Slack tab always open as a single dedicated window, without the toolbar and tab bar etc. I use this as a bookmark:

javascript:(function(){window.open('https://your-company.slack.com', 'Slack', 'scrollbars=no');;})();

I am also using the WhatsApp web app (also tried their 'desktop client' for a while), it's about the same experience as with Slack. Crappy.

Coming all the way from ICQ, IRC, Miranda etc. Telegram is the best chat client I have ever been using. The iOS app is great and about the same quality as the WhatsApp app (which is maybe slightly better), but since most of the time I'm infront of a real keyboard, I'd rather use the desktop client, which is just really snappy. The product design comes close to Apple products. All the drag&drop features, selecting of multiple messages/pictures, search, hotkeys ... Someone really did an effort and thought about all these small details. You can't imagine how easy it is to show all sent photos, easily browse through all of them with hotkeys and they show up instantly, or show all sent URLs, and so on. It is so good, that many times, I'd rather get up from the sofa and sit down at my desk to type a 2-3 sentence message to someone, than using my iPhone (WhatsApp or Telegram or iMessage). Oh and it has bots! I actually did one! Announcing delays and stuff for public transport in my town, using a server with php that is doing all the web crawling. I'd never even think about doing that in Slack.
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I don't think I've read the inquirer articles before, but is this a standard?

> EARLY ADOPTERS ... have been quick to moan that ...

> ... gamers have taken to the Steam forums to whine about ...

> DRM all too often seems to make users lives' a misery

They're just talking about a broken game, right? (That will likely get patched in a few days/weeks)
Small consulting company (~30 developers).

I only interview for developer positions.

For me a signal is something (good or bad) that hints about a the developer skills and curiosity. They can be as simple as knowing about their preferred programming environment: if you claim you are a 5+ year senior .NET programmer and you haven't even heard about .NET Core to me, that is a bad signal.
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I don't know if this is legit given lobste.rs community's rules. So if it's permitted, I would like to request an invitation here. Thank you!