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> If you know heroin will eat your soul

That's quite a big if. If it were true then hospitals should drop the use of opioids for any type of pain management to zero. Even with the opioid epidemic in the U.S. I've never heard anyone advocate such a radical position.

> perhaps consider not doing heroin?

In a lot of cases in the U.S. opioids were pushed to treat types of pain for which they have been shown to be ineffective. So the patient needed to take more than the proscribed amount of a drug that was more addictive than a pricier alternative therapy or treatment. I can't find the source for that atm, but it appears that prescription rates are significantly higher in the U.S. than in other developed countries[1].

So to answer your question-- no. Turning down a painkiller for a pricier alternative treatment requires both a) having disposable income and b) having sufficient time and expertise to do a research project on both the effectiveness of the suggested opioid painkiller and effectiveness of alternatives. And that is assuming one would somehow know a priori to disregard entirely the advice of their own medical doctor. It's simply not serious public policy to suggest that everybody just take on burdensome, life-altering levels of pain to avoid the vaguely-worded danger that an addiction robs one of their soul.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/28...
Was better when it mentioned the name of the company :-)
Anyone capable of exploiting this issue based on the information in that blog post, already knew everything in that blog post.
Wow, that was fast! I had no idea they were XPMs, but that makes sense. (I think my favorites are SHADES{1,2}.)

I'll keep an eye out for interesting things happening with the MC400 in the future :) FWIW a ROM dump would probably let MAME start headscratching their way through it, and I'd love to plau with the UI (it looks really unique), but dumping just the fonts is a very workable start.

(I forgot to mention that that webpage has the images fractionally enlarged for some reason, making them blurry - opening them in a new tab makes them pixel-perfect.)
What's hidden in the hidden layers? (1989) [pdf]
Network effect. There's more reason to sign up for WA/FB when everyone you know also has an account.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16027058
The guy is openly arguing with an interviewer after taking a question too literally. I suspect my interview impressions would've included "candidate may be on the spectrum".

However, this entire thesis is founded on a false dilemma, because you can write an OO domain model with a compact representation.
Can I suggest instead:

Pick a market - no point in building things for people who don't have the ability or will to pay for them

Join their community - make like you're interested in getting licensed or participating. Look around for forums, almost every specialty field of hobby or business has online forums and they're generally easy to get into.

Pay attention to what people complain about and which problems come up repeatedly. You can ask people who are complaining to explain what their issues are and they'll often be happy to tell you. An even better way to gather information is dispute the basis for the complaint, insisting that The Problem isn't a big deal - as a newbie on the forum this will usually inspire someone to put you in your place with a detailed rebuttal that they might not otherwise have bothered to spell out for you.
You’re being disingenuous: people don’t use iPhones or Galaxies because they’re expensive. Browsers are free and it doesn’t cost money to change them.
I thought I understood Open Source. I was wrong
I see so now we are advocating for the suppression of Speech... Because how else are you going to prevent that? Pretty sure there are 100's of youtube vidoes on lock picking, you want to ban all of them?
I fully support questioning the wisdom of that move, but the fact remains that the government that dropped the bomb(s) was not the aggressor in that conflict... in a world war where the stakes were ridiculously high. I think thats an extremely important bit to contextualize that event, when compared with say... Nazis, Hitler, and Auschwitz.
They could be building an online social game site, or implementing a UI but using an existing AI. In which case the OO version will be easier to code, understand, render, and render history in chess notation. The only thing his methods is good for is implementing an AI and serialization.
I actually find SFO to be a really nice airport, especially Terminal 2. It's compact, which makes it easy to navigate, yet as a major hub has direct flights to a lot of domestic/Asian/European destinations. It's also relatively easy to get to from SF (~20m), which is a major plus for me.

One of the worst things about living in NYC is getting to JFK, which can take 90m+ by train or 60m+ w/ traffic by taxi. Even w/o traffic it's very expensive to take an Uber/taxi to/from JFK into Manhattan (at least ~$55-$70 one way).

Especially painful after just coming back from a trip to Austin, where you can take a clean public bus from the airport to downtown for $1.25 each way arriving in about 20 minutes!
1.- If you are in the right mindset, ideas will come effortlessly. Read articles, work with cutting-edge programming languages (even for toy projects), be involved with communities.

2.- There are no blatant problems awaiting for a solution anymore (it's 2018!). Successful startups have to provide an original, excellently-executed approach to old problems.

3.- You have huge competition; be aware of that. A whole generation has been taught to pursue the same goals as you.

4.- Finally, one always can network. Lots of non-tecnnical founders are looking for CTOs.
Evergreen: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

Also: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
I guess Intel decided to speculate data access regardless of privilege level of the target address, with the theory that what has been successfully speculated can't be accessed anyway before the permission are really checked, and somebody found a bug (or given all Intel processors are taggued as unsecure, maybe a quasi-architectural hole) that let read the speculated data or a significant subset or trace of it.

My wild guess is that you can read a good portion (if not all) of the memory (or a significant subset or trace of it) of the whole computer from unprivileged userspace programs.
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The public wants what the public gets. It's not the lack of a market. It's a lack of pride and effort on the part of the Fourth Estate to fulfill its duty to the democracy.

Put another way, why be a legit journalist when you can put in half the effort to be a hack and get paid nearly as well.
Or open the door, not just unlock.
Luckily, most writers pick better titles than this guy. If what you describe actually happened, the rules would change.
At the end of the day there was only one set of local loop copper going out to each residence. So no matter how many pieces it had been broken up into, each household was still going to face a monopoly owner of the last mile infrastructure to their residence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16017969
I remember reading a book by Buckminster Fuller, and he mentioned designing geodesic domes out of wax coated cardboard. That was decades ago. The assembly instructions, using a large stapler, were printed on the cardboard. The same could easily be done with a more modern material such as that corrugated plastic.
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The point is that the oil industry has long stated to the public and shareholders something along the lines of the 1997 advertorial: “Let’s face it: The science of climate change is too uncertain to mandate a plan of action that could plunge economies into turmoil.”

However, documentary evidence shows again and again that they had plenty of warning, and plenty of chance to investigate the possible effects. And the petroleum industry actually did research on the topic, which agreed with the general scientific conclusion.

It's not some single or small number of "brilliant people" who pointed it out, but something investigated by their own researchers, who came to similar conclusions.

The link to the NYT op ed links to http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f saying:

> We conclude that ExxonMobil contributed to advancing climate science—by way of its scientists' academic publications—but promoted doubt about it in advertorials. Given this discrepancy, we conclude that ExxonMobil misled the public.

> ... We stress that the question is not whether ExxonMobil 'suppressed climate change research,' but rather how they communicated about it [11].

as well as

> A third example is a table (see https://perma.cc/9DGQ-4TBW) presented by Exxon scientist Henry Shaw at a 1984 Exxon/Esso environmental conference, which showed that Exxon's expected 'average temperature rise' of 1.3 °C–3.1 °C was comparable to projections by leading research institutions (1.5 °C–4.5 °C) .

That is, their own researchers knew that there was sufficiently strong evidence of global warming that it could justify changing large-scale change in economic policy. It just didn't make it out to Exxon general communications.

This Guardian article is "merely" an extension of the document trail backwards by a few more decades.

As this piece points out:

> Dunlop went on to describe progress in controlling carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and hydrocarbon emissions from automobiles. Absent from his list? The pollutant he had been warned of years before: carbon dioxide.

If your argument is "if we were to take any scientific hypothesis as fact and start acting before the science was in .. we .. would have made the wrong choice", then in 1967 what was the argument for controlling CO, NOx, and hydrocarbon emissions, and why was it stronger than the argument for controlling CO2 emissions?

This isn't rhetorical. I don't have an answer to that. SRI a year later pointed out to the API that CO2 pollution was important, so it's not like this was an obscure topic even then, only promoted by a couple of influential individuals.

One easy interpretation is that there were ways to handle those pollutants, and they had obvious local effects like smog, but no way to handle CO2 pollution or pressing need, so they shoved it under the rug in discussions with the public and with shareholders.
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I am not in disagreement of any your points. But, it’s worth mentioning that, while I don’t know the reason why this is, books will no longer make you fall asleep if you practice reading them regularly. Tiredness will still have the expected effect, but the reading paper pages will not.

Again, I don’t know why it is, but I’ve observed the problem in lives of friends and family for many years. It has yet to fail.

I made a significant move to prioritize reading books, even sacrificing most of my social life for it. Ever since, I experience reading books keeps me awake rather than encouraging sleep.
What I've learned from the past few days on hackernews is that apparently I have worked at some shitty jobs. Even when I have owned a project and led it to massive success as far as the company was concerned, like under half the budget and half the timeline, its just led to someone higher up taking notice. Those higher ups then either come in and start directing things themselves because they think we cant possibly keep succeeding, or they hire someone from outside the company to come in and take over.
Maybe not, but it becomes compelling when you consider what it means for a state to go as far as to block web sites in such a manner. It isn't merely a simple act of blocking. It brings with it an entire mindset as to how the state should behave, and how much freedom it allows for its population.
>we have already passed the additional 10% of CO2 (360 ppm) in the atmosphere and New York is not submerged, and Greenland and pole ice caps are not melted.

Kinda not melted. In geological time ranges, his error is statistical noise.
It's so awesome when people create problems to fix non-problems.

I never once thought my life would be better if I didn't need to put up with those nasty keys...
Do you happen to have a link to these "content transposition" tools?
A sane compiler always give a warning when doing a comparison outside a condition and when doing an assignment within a condition.
Very interesting. I love to hear the other side of it though, because it feels perhaps self-serving.

E.g., he seems to imply the potential acquirer unexpectedly screwed them over, but no deal is done until it’s done, and this one did not really seem like it was that close.

There’s no reason for Otto to agree to an acquisition process that prevents them from raising money they desperately need if they had any reasonable prospects. As he said, they were not actually looking for acquisition. So it seems like this was a last gasp effort to stay afloat in some form, which ultimately failed (as previous efforts had).

One reason an acquisition might be looking good before due diligence and fall apart after is because things turn out to be significantly less rosey than initially presented. When you’re looking to make a deal of course you’re going to accentuate your positives but you have to acknowledge and address your problems as well or you’re simply wasting everyone’s time.

I suspect the fundamental problem is that a $700 smart door lock is a very difficult sell, especially with all the competition out there.
OO is for large problems, not 30-line whiteboard able problems. That's the challenge.
I have 2 ideas, one is, build a saas or paas that matches hourly workers with need. There are lots of work platforms, all have weak scheduling algorithms. A lot of enterprise clients ask us for this. The second idea I may execute myself but if you want to consider partnering dm me or email me at kevin at main street computing.
Try working for them. I've worked for a lot of businesses outside of IT and every single one had problems that could be solved with software. Not all of them were viable business opportunities but some of them were huge.

Actually selling them solutions is difficult though because management is often too stupid to understand it no matter how simple the solution. Plus often management doesn't actually care if they are throwing money away. So long as they think they are up to date with industry norms in the region they operate then they feel like they are doing their job. I've proposed solutions that similar companies use in other countries successfully and been met with complete disinterest. YMMV
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How would you build a GUI for your bits-based chessboard?
It does and also has adblock. Its also super easy to use for safari users since it nearly replicates its layout.
Social media is like pornography. It helps satisfy one of the strongest drives in Humans, which is being social. The need for social connection is wired very strongly within us and reading a book does not satisfy that need. Therefore reading will not replace social media.

We have to recognize that we are not robots that have to maximize productivity.

We are sitting on millions of years of evolution guiding us to make and maintain connections with other people, and it’s perfectly natural to let that happen. Of course, it would probably be better to meet people face to face, but that isn’t always an option for people due to various circumstances.
That guideline needs to go. HN submitters often summarize the content of an article more appropriately for other readers than the original writer does. Often the newsworthiness of an article isn't apparent for one reason or another.

It took me a couple of minutes to figure out that this was a story of a promising hardware startup that ran out of operating cash during acquisition negotiations.
Whereas, in Perl, we have a module for executable whitespace: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=270023

Damian Conway is a wonderful mad genius.
'Insectothopter'?

Shouldn't that be 'entomopter', or just 'ornithopter'?
I would try not to focus on ‘discovering problems’ when ‘going into the field’. Consider what you will get if you ask directly what someone's problems are: only the stuff everyone knows about and no one has solved in 200 years since the industrial revolution, ± 60 years since the first computers and ± 30 years since the commercialisation of the internet. They probably haven't been solved because there's some horrifying ROI maximalisation scheme behind it that you cannot beat, or solving the problem is terrible ROI for yourself.

Going into the field anthropology-style means participatory observation; you join those that you are researching in whatever they are doing. You try to experience their world and uncover their interpretation of it. You make an honest attempt to blend in and almost become of them.

And then you don't become one of them, because your being-different enables you to identify opportunities that others in that field cannot. And that is the stuff great ideas are made of.
markov chain text generator + grammar checker = problem solved
What do you think this fixes? Tiny info leak about kernel addresses? There are still other more reliable ways to get that (even if there is active work to remove those), and I don't believe this would yield to a semi-rushed patch with 5% mean and sometimes 30% performance degradation impact enabled by default, with Linus himself expecting to be backported (rarely to never seen on a change of this importance, and would make no sense given older kernels are even more full of simpler kaddr info leak)

This fixes something bigger than Intel could not fix by microcode update...
You picked 2 unimportant points he made and totally ignored what he was trying to say.

The point was that many people said many different things that didn't happen at all, it makes no sense to pick one that guessed it right 59 years later.
It seems to me like this claim contradicts your previous assertion that there's "no zero-sum game." The zero-sum game is, they only need so many workers, and if all your coworkers are achieving levels of productivity only possible with chemical enhancement, then you get left behind.
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J-F, I would generally ignore the downvoters. Because you have to 'read the tea leaves' to try to know why somebody downvoted you, and you can only 'make stuff up' as to the potential reason. THAT means there is no objective feedback mechanism to learn how to avoid downvoting; or, in particular, why your specific contribution was downvoted.

In my world, posting a well-reasoned on-target opinion on a website is not isomorphic with a video game, where I need to score XP or some other adolescent incentive.

So, given the lack of specific feedback, I suggest you ignore the downvoters, and do what I do, which is to imagine them as ignorant youngsters who actually think anybody cares what they think. They lack power in their own lives, and so they get the illusion of power over others with their downvote button. We should feel sorry for such creatures.

Perhaps one could try Buddhism? ;-)
Quite. Often our reasons for being interested in something are quite different from those of the audience it was written for.
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My book reading habits skyrocketed in my early 20s when I became obsessed with media studies. I only read classical fiction, if that, and your comment threw me well off until I remembered the kinds of books I see on the shelves in airports and the grocery store.
Never locked yourself out?
Seems a little bit inflated - yes, docker-compose et al, are a problem if you have dozens of services all using different databases. But then, that's a level of complexity and scale that most applications / organisations won't reach. And if you do reach that, then you probably can afford to invest in something more sophisticated to solve the problem (service mocks, etc).

For situations where the true overall complexity is manageable, I think that making sure that the environment can be entirely replicated and bootstrapped easily is actually very good discipline for keeping complexity under control.
All of the serious hackers with resources have a paid mole involved in the embargo discussion mailing list. The most dangerous people already know.

Embargo is simply a way to make sure the huge, rich cloud providers don't have their reputation tarnished at the expense of everyone else. "Stay with bigco, we fix things before everyone finds about it"
> While a tedious process, we built a close working relationship and shared their enthusiasm about our future together. On December 11th, they called me and stated they would not complete the acquisition nor revisit the investment proposal. I was stunned. The reason is still not understood.

That's the problem if your CEO is an inventor with no or little business acumen. They are always super-enthusiastic and can be played like puppets by some M&A guys with mediocre experience.

Memo: Don't be enthusiastic with "acquirers", restraint enthusiasm is the keyword. Screen them vs. them screen you.

Memo2: Deals are made to fall trough - Paul Graham. Never bid everything on one horse, don't put all your eggs in one basket etc. 9 out of 10
deals like this fall through, adjust accordingly.
“But first of all, the OO inheritance here is irrelevant. The queen is the only piece which actually “inherits” properties from other pieces! We don't need an object model to simply reuse some functions to calculate legal moves given a position. Just a few global functions.”

Don’t all pieces have a location? Aren’t all pieces movable? Might we want to display pieces? Do we want to journal them to files to save game state, or their moves to streams to play remotely?

All of these things can be done procedurally, but they also fit nicely into an OO design.
Thanks for sharing this, Jim!
What's interesting is the engine for the insectothopter, it appears to be a plastic bladder compressed with a cantilever spring. Inflating the bladder with gas pulls the wing down, which is itself something like a leaf spring, and then deflates and the wing springs back. This is a surprisingly simple mechanism that one might even be able to make without hand tools.

I wonder how long it will take the RC community to duplicate it?