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> No, both sentences rely on a metaphysical belief.

> Unless you can demonstrate with absolute certainty that there is no God, then the first and the second sentence are to be treated on the same level.

No, that's probably just a confused interpretation on your part.

When I say "Harry Potter is a work of fiction", would you object that that relies on a metaphysical belief and unless I can demonstrate with absolute certainty that Harry Potter does not exist, then that is to be treated the same as "We are being controlled by reptile overlords"?

Presumably, you won't. And why not? Presumably because you recognize that "Harry Potter is a work of fiction" is not to be taken as a statement of absolute certain fact. You recognize that this is an expression of a tentative albeit pretty likely to be true rational conviction. That is how people use language. Unless you are specifically talking about the philosophical intricacies of epistemology, that is precisely what that kind of sentence means, and there is no problem of the kind that you seem to be seeing.

> Then I was replying to a different question. I was commenting on this:

Well, who knows, maybe I am misreading what they are saying, but generally I would expect most atheists making such a statement to be well aware that all those horrible things are also part of christian teachings, and this being more of a slightly sarcastic comment on the fact that Christianity generally gets the reputation of being a "religion of love", despite the overwhelming evidence pointing in the opposite direction.
> Despite this I am seriously considering an iPhone, their stance on privacy is the only reason.

That's definitely a great reason to get one. A nice bonus you'll find, once you do, is that they're nowhere near as fragile as you fear.
And this is kind of my point: your spellchecker needs to interact with your language server.
Define "bad" for Shakespeare. Bad in the sense that he wouldn't have been famous, or bad in the sense that it would have prevented him from making a living off his work? Because I'm skeptical if the later. Copyright is the only recourse for small creators against large actors that might co-opt their work with superior resources and reach. It certainly has its issues, but it's hard to imagine making a living in the Internet age as a photographer without that barrier to discourage reuse. Most photographers make money selling their work to magazines, websites, etc, not "original works" (i.e. prints).
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I'm suspicious that Volcker breaking the back of inflation is one of the factors behind lower growth over the last 30 years.

The theory being that the Fed is good at balancing growth and inflation but too conservative.
I guess you're not native to Japanese
I see a lot of videos of young japanese in groups in streets, they seem friendly and open. Does it disappear when adult life kicks in ?
Target your projects for people who don't care about how pretty an app is. Think HN, and Craigslist.
It's because he wants to focus on building the thing, not focus on acquiring VC funding.
I agree but I think the way they need to be amended is to shorten copyright periods by at least 50%. I think it's a good thing that it's possible to make a film or a piece of music and insist on payment for its use, at least if it's used brazenly by a commercial organization.
I was just wondering, as I began to read the article: which would perform better - in-kernel 9P, or FUSE?

Intuitively I get the idea that FUSE is going to be the better performer overall because of lack of network overhead.

But I wonder how much worse 9P would be.
AlphaGoZero runs on 4 TPUs not GPUs. And that is only for inference, not for training. For training it uses 64 GPUs.

More importantly, AlphaGoZero is the final evolution. To reach this stage one needs to experiment a lot, and most of the experiments are failures. To do any meaningful research requires a budget of several times or dozens of times the amount of computing power, and this is only for one project.

The computation resources at universities are definitely not sufficient.
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Random advice from the internet:

+ If it solves a meaningful problem, a meaningful number of people will not care about the UX. That's why people can build tools lacking a polished UX for themselves...and their coworkers...and small business...and enterprise.

+ The tools for accurately solving complicated variable problems are often complicated themselves. A high end Nikon camera has billions of combinations of settings. The interface exposing that combinatorial complexity becomes manageable with a few years of relevant experience...that few years of experience is better than the alternatives for someone who is trying to solve the complex variable problems...and not better for someone who isn't and won't be.

+ Design is iterative. More iterative than agile TDD, because a new design suggests a new set of tests...the acceptance criteria keep moving.

+ If it really matters, hire a professional designer. Don't expect designers to work for free unless you are developing something that makes their life easier...like design software. Designers get lots of chances to work for free on things that benefit someone else.

Good luck.
They might if all those things go away for them but not for the other guy.
Because we rolled out the mobile update first.
This has the potential to serve as a general-use collaborative Python environment
I interviewed at five top companies in Silicon Valley in five days
It also doesn't mean that horses becoming obsolete means you can just use anyone's horse.
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Git is a technology people don't feel comfortable publicly disliking because the obvious alternatives tend to be even worse.

You don't put things on your "won't use" list because they have design problems, you put them there because you want to use something else that you like better; so decent things get disliked because you simply prefer a different style but horrible things get accepted if there's no better choice.
Julia seems similar to python, and even runs fine on Jupyter. I think https://data-sorcery.org/ (incanter) might be good JVM environment.
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how hard would it be for a bunch of semiconductor / cpu designers / cs students to team up and release a nice open hardware so that we can forget about PRISM and the likes ?
Can you not just say "someone who is interested in the same software engineering and organization practices as the rest of the team"?

I get that it's more than two words, but it clearly expresses what you're trying to say and makes it clear you don't mean what so many others mean when they say "culture fit"; same schools, hobbies, affluence, political attitude, and so on.

That said, seems like you might benefit more from people interested in different practices; people who can bring something new to the team, rather than more of the same.
> foreign shocks dry up the flow of capital into the US from abroad

In 2015, foreign direct investment into the United States was around half a billion (EDIT: trillion) dollars [1]. Between 2003 and 2014, inward foreign portfolio investment trended around $1 trillion a year [2].

Losing a significant fraction of this would hurt, but it's well within the capacity of the economy, with monetary support, to absorb. The American economy just isn't very dependent on foreign capital. Like apple pie, we prefer our problems home made.

[1] https://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2017/08-August/0817-new-foreign-...

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/notes/feds-notes/...
>"I've replaced X build step with Y build step." I don't understand the argument.

Typescript does both X and Y steps, so what exactly don't you understand?
Huh, C# moves to point releases. Interesting. Seems like a good thing as long as this doesn't end up creating problems downstream with libraries and tooling. (It all depends on MS's restraint / ability to avoid breaking changes in future point releases.)

Looking through the changes, there's nothing huge, just some syntactic improvements for the most part. Async Main is nice though!
Makes it really easy to use Azure services.
While I don't have experience with the actual buying, I am part of the marketing strategy team for a financial services company that works with agencies to help us buy the ads. Would be happy to help if you'd like to chat.
Well, all I can post is conspiracy sites but here it is:

- Look at the average daily gold price and when it's lowest

http://goldsilverworlds.com/price/gold-and-silver-price-mani...

- Look at paper ounces versus real gold in Comex storage:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-03/comex-edge-delivera...

- Dumping 1.5 bn$ of Gold longs (these occur regularly, often at illiquid times)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-24/someone-just-puked-...

Is any of this proof? No. Is it strange? I'd say so.
>The "track careers of people you rejected" idea is an interesting one, but depends very much on how public people make their careers.

I really like this idea. This reminds me a bit of the "anti-portfolio" that some VCs track (aka a bittersweet regret of the unicorns they passed on years ago). I think the same could be said of great talent that an organization passed on that then goes on to build great products, invent, and/or otherwise lead great teams despite that.

However, employment is a tad different than investment so, to me, the only caveat to this is that it simply isn't the case that every super talented person will bring about great results and value creation at every single organization.

Much of what a talented person's output depends on is the very room full of other people in which that person works with. And while "fit" is such a cliche thing these days, this is what matters so much in terms of whether or not an otherwise talented person will be successful or not within one organization versus another.
Maybe an A/B test group.
Do they get into trouble for uploading copyrighted work to youtube? Except maybe in unusual circumstances I think all that happens is the video gets removed or demonetized. Which I would say is pretty forgiving.
Actually, an electron app is very close to the security model of a browser. The fact that they do not load code intentionally, does not solve the problem that electron is able to execute injected javascript.
I didn’t read it that way. The article seems to have a balanced tone, though the conclusion is that bitcoin is kind of digital gold and lacks the economically stabilizing effect of fiat currencies.
"While there is no logical reason to suppose that bitcoin should have the same value as gold, if it did, each bitcoin should be worth approximately $285,000, 45 times the current market price. As such, one might wonder: is bitcoin still vastly undervalued even after a 6,000,000% rally?"

Only if btc's total worth equates gold's. Which is a possibility, for better or for worse
I don't agree that Matrix has excellent clients for all platforms - IMHO, only Riot Web/Desktop is usable, and that only in comparison to other open-source messaging software - it doesn't compete against pretty much anything that people make money off of. Riot iOS and Android both make it nearly impossible to handle a large amount of chatrooms, IME. And nothing else implements even most important features of Matrix.

The developers badly need to invest in a UX engineer, but are currently stuck scrambling for money as their corporate sponsorship ran out.
this already exists :

https://onlinegeniuses.com/
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Here is one that works for text on a page for webfonts, I find myself using it all the time: https://fount.artequalswork.com/
One very specific performance metric is startup time, and Sublime beats the pants off VSCode in that department. Creating new top-level windows in VSCode is also annoyingly slow compared to Sublime (presumably because it's spinning up a new browser context). Other than that, it seems snappy enough.
Honestly, if design wireframes are giving you trouble, start with something like Adobe XD - it's not the most useful tool for functional apps but it'll at least help you block everything out and see how you'd like it to look and feel.
Use ThemeForest.
Yes, but the point is, if those people don't use ecryption, then they have a problem anyway - and if they do, but their system is compromised, than the attacker gets anything anyway.
In either case, I think Signal's job is to secure the messages going out and coming in and not protecting the disk.
> The Ph.D. improves your chances of getting to work on interesting problems down the road, even if you leave academia.

What's the starting point? 0.01%? Because 100x improvement in that case is just 1%.
ETFs are the reason this is a big thing. The CME contract enables ETFs with viable size and for both long and short BTC (otherwise they would only really be possible as long ETFs, although the ETF could be shorted itself, and long ETFs would have to own the underlying BTC). In turn, that gives retail speculators (it feels difficult to call them investors for BTC...) access to BTC, which is a significant pool of money.
CBS are also litigious members of the permissions culture. They're quick to sue people infringing their property rights. They make extensive use of the DMCA.

In that context they better try hard to avoid infringing other people's rights, and it's fair enough to be angry when a huge company steals your work.
Universities should sell scientists like clubs sell soccer players - best ones for many millions. That would help to support the rest ;)
> And I would reach that age one day...

Look on the bright side, Japanese people often have very long lives. You might not live that long! :-)
I would encourage you to go volunteer with the non-profit customers you have and get a sense of their work to discover any challenges they face. Build more interactions between yourself and your customers. That's where you'll get the best learnings.
The former seems to me like a (less comprehensive but also less brittle) way of doing the latter. Higher coverage usually means that your tests are more sensitive to bugs in your code - i.e. if a bug occurs in uncovered code, your tests won't catch it.

Of course they're not literally the same, but both are ways of measuring how good your tests are at catching bugs in your code.

It might sound pedantic, but this way of thinking shows you that it's not turtles all the way down: if they'd really be "tests of the tests", then you might also want "tests of the tests of the tests". And since we obviously don't want to keep doing that, you might conclude that we don't need "tests of our tests" as well.

But since they're simply measurements of test quality, we can see that both test coverage and mutation testing can be useful and not a never-ending story.
> I think the category of "fit" doesn't need a different term at the front but more a rethink.

That didn't seem to be what $ancestor was asking for. It sounded like s/he was wishing for a slightly different phrase for a slightly different concept, vs. what "culture fit" usually means. Your "rethink" was not that. It was a complete shift from strategy to outcome. Is that help, or appropriation? Not for me to decide, but perhaps something to think about. It's a mistake we engineers often make, and I'm hardly innocent myself.
To extend on that, dotnetcore is dead in the water without a decent and supported cross-platform development experience. Visual Studio and vsmac get the job done for now, but for the long run they need something that also works on linux and is consistent across all three platforms.
I don't think so.It is now a powerful medium of currency online.But things needed to be more simplified.
And is it anymore than other big corporation? That pages lists 24 products, which doesn't seem that much to me. There have been plenty of stories about retired products at FB, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

Im not disputing that Google does this, but ever since Google Reader was stopped this has become a stock comment on basically every HN discussion on Google products (other than search & ads) and has long ceased to have any value at all, and seems to be just accepted as some gospel without any evidence that this is a bigger problem with Google than the other tech giants.
Yes but we don't have to industrialise the asteroid belt to dump equivalent quantities of crypto-currency into the market ...
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> Right now we have a fair number of studies that found statistically significant increases in productivity from more diverse teams

Are there?

Diversity defined how?

Repeatable experiments or statistical analysis of groups of companies?

It could be studied experimentally and so I am sure it has been.

The studies using statistical analysis to compare across companies are always weak and should be taken with a grain of salt.
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What if you accept applications for 30 days, then write the name of each applicant on a card, put the cards into a deck, shuffle the deck, then draw cards off the top of the deck and make offers until you run out of open positions?

It isn't merit based, but it's hard to argue that it favors one candidate over another! And maybe it's mimicking the effectiveness of your current system!
Do you use ReSharper? Keep in mind that it adds a good chunk of overhead.
Absolutely - I've used 'WTF' quite a lot over the years, never once from a mobile, nor can I imagine ever doing so.

I'm certainly not going to start taking photos of my monitor here, anyway!

Odd.
Because if I'm going to bet on someone other than Google keeping my crap secure and accessible, I'm going to be betting on myself, not on some fly by night entity with a very limited runway.
And even in the 2008 crisis, the chinese economic engine was largely boosted by the money printed in china and the ensuing local credit boom (exports have otherwise collapsed which would have hit them hard). I don't think this trick is repeatable in the short term.
> The challenge with analysis is that it needs to be done by the patient. Only they can see/hear whats going on in their head.

Based on my limited personal experience as a patient, this is quite insightful.

No medication could solve my issues with depression. What did turn my life around was when I was finally able to get a hold on the cycles that my mind goes through on a regular basis and terminate the feedback loop that leads to despondency for me. Counseling was only useful for me in that it allowed me to consult with someone with much more experience in the field to make sure my own observations of self matched the outward reality.

In my early twenties I believe I experienced a taste of what schizophrenia is, although I was never diagnosed with it. My mind would make connections between ideas that seemed extremely important at the time, but between which no connections actually existed. I developed a habit of taking notes when I get excited about an idea and then going back in a day or two to review them to see if it still makes sense. In the vast majority of cases they don't.
> As for non private universities, well that's just what happens when socialists and capitalists compete for scarce resources.

I'm going to try to interpret this as favorably as possible.

The goal of the education system in a country is to provide everyone with a good education, so that a person's success in life is only dependent on their own actions, and not on what university or school their parents could afford. To do that, you have to be able to acquire and retain talent.

This wasn't an issue until research started to move more and more into the private sector. When research is done in companies, it becomes hard to have professors that teach and research at the same time, as they do at universities. Even harder when wages become competitive.
This reminds me of the "no pictures at your desk rule" at a company I contracted at. everyone was allowed to have pictures at their desk until the guy put up a hundred pictures from his side photography business.
Honest question: What's an easy-to-use, popular cross-platform framework with bindings to a sane language? Something like QT/GTK to Python? I hate Electron, but what's the alternative? I used wxWindows back in the day, with Boa Constrictor, and I loved that workflow.
Since that page doesn't seem to be loading, here is a gist with the relevant bookmarklet. You click it once to turn on Fount, click a piece of text on the page, and it will show you in the top right the font-family, font-size, etc. (as it actually rendered on your machine vs. what the CSS says it should do):

https://gist.github.com/mvarrieur/444e8e45c31f241e5b37334d94...
> You can't be patriotic because our history isn't perfect.

This is untrue; very few people have a problem with patriotism. Lots of people have a problem with various forms of nationalism, but none of that is about imperfection of history except insofar as certain breeds of nationalism center around glorifying and recreating bad aspects of history.

> You can't be religious because it might offend someone.

While this has always been true to an extent for faiths other than than that of the most dominant local form of Christianity, it is less true (not more) now than in the past.
One of the best public examples is LKH solver for travelling salesman. I'm not familiar with problems for which proving optimality of a solution to a specific problem instance is not accomplished.

For example, for travelling salesman and vehicle routing there are many instances with known optimum.

Even for those unknown tight bounds are easily achieved.
The doomsday articles should be taken with a pinch of salt. Economy by itself has a very good recuperative power because people like to trade and get themselves into better situation.

The real thing that worries me more about recession is that a person like Trump might simply try to "fix it" and in the process claiming more power to himself which will make things worse. It is undeniable that Bush's "fix terrorism" and Obama's "fix economy" has proved to be a disaster to both safety and economy.
Honestly, just use Bootstrap. You're exactly the kind of person it's made for.
“Crypto-currency” isn’t the same as Bitcoin in particular. You can’t dump more bitcoin into the market; it’s fixed-supply.
I don't understand why it can't be served as a web app, like WhatsApp Web is :(
I am amazed to see this comment in 2017. Wtf??

Saying Africans have dark skin is a big oversimplification, you are basically saying that they are morally inferior.

Have you ever been to Africa? Have African relatives? Know African people? I am ashamed by your comment. I invite you to provide some kind of anecdote or proof for your statement. Otherwise don't spread ignorance please.
Really? Could I see some examples? Most results I've seen are on fixed approximation algorithms not on heuristics.
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A few other email addresses, including those on the WHOIS record, can be used. You can also verify using a meta tag, file upload, or DNS record.
Good point, it's potentially extremely overdue, making it a greater cause for worry.