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Usage of <y> (and <th> for that matter) in place of <þ> predates Caxton's press. An example of a scribe substituting <y> for <þ> in manuscript can be seen at [1], a legal document in an English chancery hand from c. 1445. The use of <th> was already very common in the Middle English period, with <þ> (or later <y>) retaining use only in sigla (common scribal abbreviations). See [2], a page of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales from the Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410) for example.

In fact, many (most?) of the works printed by Caxton himself actually do feature a distinct <þ> glyph, though it is limited in use to sigla (it never appears without a superscript <e> for <þe>, <t> for <þat>, …). His first printed English work [3], printed c. 1473 while he was still stationed at Bruges in what is now Belgium, has a distinct <þ>; his later works printed at his own press in London do also, such as [4] (which is printed c. 1480 in the typeface characteristic of his press).

For some related discussion, see [5].

That said, I share your dismay that we no longer have a <þ> (or, honestly, an <ð> or a <ȝ>, though [ð] and [θ] are allophones and the <gh> once represented by <ȝ> is now often silent). I just wouldn't be so quick to blame Caxton.

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[1]: http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/scripts/examples/chancery6...

[2]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Ellesmer...

[3]: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displayPhoto.pl?path=/service/...

[4]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Brut_Chr...

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15678583
I can't seem to follow your argument. If you want DRM-free, lossless, digital music to download and own you can buy it from countless shops - from iTunes (well, not lossless) to platforms like Bandcamp to niche stores like Boomkat.

I think the music industry, in contrast to its Hollywood sibling, has very much succeeded in offering DRM-free content from a wide range of stores, shops and platforms. Physical media like CDs aren't relevant to this development.

Of course a subscription-based streaming service like Spotify can't operate without DRM. It's the whole point of the service: If you stop being a subscriber you lose access to the content.
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Maybe this guy is trying to set a precedent, but can't he just say he forgot? It's not like the government can prove he remembers the password when if he claims he does not.
These cache vulnerabilities can probably be mitigated with lower performance penalties on CPUs with Intel CAT. It's only available on Intel's Xeon SKUs though.
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This shows how the USA is completely hostile to its own people: not only nothing has been done to punish Equifax, but the government will block any move to regulate the activity of this incompetent and borderline criminal company.
Have you ever hired not-senior engineers? Like people with 3-5 years experience? Or are there none of those on your team? I always wonder because 90% of hackernews posts are looking for seniors.

Thanks!
As mentioned above, I've found myself noticing when other people are engaging their system 1 response instead of their system 2 and allow and encourage opportunities for system 2 results to arise in conversations and conflicts. It's been really productive in that way.
Haha, that announcement became quite the running joke inside of Google, with people generating "advancing our amazing bet" memes whenever a project it tech was deprecated.
> I think in some other languages (e.g. C#) there was also some confusion and change about that.

Nah. They wanted references, they got references. The issues were an oversight related to scope.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater maybe? Here's a fixed version of your statement:

"The default Turbolinks progress bar that can be removed with one line of CSS gives the impression that things are slow on slow connections."

Turbolinks is not perfect and has some drawbacks, but it also makes things faster in 99% (100%?) cases in my experience for almost 0 development effort.
This is a disastrous idea, historically proven time and time again to be a disastrous idea.
Someone at work just showed me today what a “Bash Bunny” is. I feel like everyone on Hacker News has probably known about these things for 5+ years but still scary...

https://bashbunny.com
Yip, pretty much. Might help with the upvotes from overly sensitive people.
So, if you hit Senior at 5 years, what’s after that?

What about the guy with 25+ years of experience?
MIME/multipart and Golang
Power corrupts. Politicians are powerful. Large corporations are big targets; everyone wants a piece of that action.
I heard that the CEO was an early investor and holder in Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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I think we need to see very large scale attacks based on this data, before anything gets done. Something like in the tune of a trillion dollars exchanging hands in a few hours, that would probably bankrupt a few large companies and make them force the government to do something about it.
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Exile is the consequence, in this and most other cases.
Saw you were being down-voted, seems unfair, it's good to have a counter-example or an opposing view in a discussion. Maybe it seems to much like a recruiting advertisement...

> After about $70k in salary, people are happy anyways.

Unfortunately living in DC/VA/MD on that you are competing with private companies which pay more and thus housing and well just about everything is a bit hard to manage on that salary.

> I honestly don't understand why anyone would do obvious & routine things at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc

What's stopping them from pulling a bait-and-switch. Telling kids they'll be doing exciting stuff that Google and Facebook haven't dreamed of yet, then being a stuck converting perl scripts to python, twiddling excel spreadsheets or writing TPS reports. I think most people would expect more routine working in a govt agency than say at Google.
Elementary student ;-)
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The domain is finute
It also has some cool stuff regarding block size as well.
It's a variable block size where am miner can pick a block size they want to mine instead of the fixed blocksize issues of btc.
Bash Bunny
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> This is also an issue at Stanford, UPenn and so on.

Stanford has an endowment of 22.2 billion. UPenn has one of 12.2 billion.

The University of Missouri school system has an endowment of 1.2 billion spread over 4 campuses.

I doubt that Stanford and UPenn would feel the pinch over the next century. Even the income off the interest of the endowment would probably suffice for campus upkeep and professors' salaries.

Missouri's timeframe is drastically shorter, as they have four times the physical facilities to take care of and ~4 times the professor salaries.

Also, who would be easier to find grants from either the public or private sectors? Stanford professors with industry contacts, Ivy League professors with that cachet, or somebody from a regional public school?
And if the diet is very high in fat? The body will convert the fat to glucose?
Tichy is one of a kind. Such an interesting person (or maybe just a creep ^^)
Interesting. The highest one there is "Clinical Psychologist" at $110k sure it must be a joke or it's a different NSA than the one we are talking about. Or maybe that's "the polygraph" department.
Putting off the Android version for two years is a great way to have your potential Android audience move on to your competitors and squander any marketing and networking effect.

Noone remembers your app exists after a few months, why did you expect anyone to give a damn about your product after two whole years?!
How often do you get people commenting on the weight of the card and where do you live? I have the Amex platinum and the CSR and honestly I was concerned that they’d draw too much attention.

They haven’t, and I’m happy about that. I suspect it’s because I’m in the bay area and both of those cards are common out here.
> It was very important to the other researches that the models produce the 'right' predictions which at the time was runaway global warming. When the models didn't show this it was presumed that the models were wrong

Sorry, you have claimed that the scientists wanted the 'right' predictions, that was runaway warming.

I repeat, can you link to any scientists saying in 2006-2007 that the most probable outcome was runaway warming?
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>Throwing away compatibility with other languages and working against the processor are not goals I'd shoot for, and wrapping basic arithmetic in try/catch blocks doesn't sound like a very good payout for doing so.

Almost every popular language launches an exception when you do a divide by zero.

>Your processor has instructions that add/subtract/divide/multiply floating point numbers according to the IEEE 754 standard. What you propose is to then check in the implementation of JS after each instruction to see if the result is NaN, which is going to be a speed reduction of at least 2-3x, though I would expect it to actually be higher than that because branching can get expensive. (Making a note to go try it and benchmark)

Try it, I'd like to see the results. I'm not too familiar with the processor implementation, but something tells me that if every system level language implements exceptions for division by zero then the cost must be minimal. Also how would it be a 3x slow down? At most it's just one instruction.

Interestingly in some languages integer division by zero throws an exception and floating point division by zero returns some kind of infinite or NaN value.

If this behavior was propagated down from processor design, I'd say the processors made a bad choice. Why is this behavior specific to floating point? Why is the behavior for integers different. Either way when I say poorly designed, I mean poorly designed in terms of usability, not speed. Clearly, javascript wasn't initially designed for speed.

>Throwing away compatibility with other languages and working against the processor are not goals I'd shoot for, and wrapping basic arithmetic in try/catch blocks doesn't sound like a very good payout for doing so.

Like I said, the purpose of a division by zero exception is not to be caught. It's to prevent a buggy program from continuing to run. The only place a division by zero operation can legally occur is if the zero arrives via IO. In that case it's better to sanitize the input or detect the zero rather than catch an exception.
> Will corporations develop religion

According to the Civ1 tech graph, which I consider the authoritative resource, they just need to develop philosophy and writing in order to research religion. They definitely got the writing part nailed. Also they are dabbling with philosophy. I think they'll make it.

On a slightly more serious note, some people (yep, I have read Sapiens) would argue that religions, ideologies, and corporations are all variations of the concept of shared belief systems. That is, the human ability to collectively make stuff up and pretend that it's real. Thus, corporations and religions are more or less the same thing. It's an interesting way to look at it IMHO.
> The skeptical view point isn't even "warming isn't happening".

What the heck?
Most Linux distributions provide torrents for disk images.
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what field are you working in? my cs grad student experience was not like that.
I vaguely remember some threads from last decade where Linus trashed PowerPC and s390 TLBs. I wish I could find them and reread with this in mind.
Nice try, dairy industry
It may not be a popular opinion, but why are these tech founders and VCs always judged and pointed at by reporters and such? I mean yeah, if they engage in illegal behaviour (sexual asssault) and stuff there should be punishment as with any other citizen. But in any other case, why don’t tech reporters focus on the tech? Rather than on the morals or sex lifes of the founders? It seems to me that founders are now under public scrutiny as if their company sold morals.
Writing portable programs for different filesystems
old news. https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-...
> CRU East Anglia of Climategate fame went much further and actually published their results and I'm pretty sure none of them are in jail.

Now it is clear that you have an agenda because or you don't know what happened on East Anglia or you're just lying
For clarity, let me emphasize: The people I'm talking about stood out among professional mathematicians, not just among the general population.
good catch. Removed from list.
Noscript.
Because protestant work ethics declared reality evil?
Anyway, this post got banned :)
Having worked extensively with JIRA in the past, I will say that whoever designed it had to have done it with clear intention.

JIRA has an uncanny way of attracting to it a very specific (and valuable) person inside organizations.

I mean the person who is obsessed with the creation and quantification of knowledge worker processes that are subtly complex. This complexity naturally gives plenty of fodder and massive surface area for engagement and features —- one can spend hours tweaking JIRA workflows, running reports, and playing with the query builder. And we all know that once a user is engaged past a few days you’ve got them, almost like a kind of pair bonding. They have bonded with your software, and they’ll be forced to spend their days in it. If there is some ritual like work involved all the more better.

I’ve seen these guys come in from other organizations where they’ve used JIRA and the first thing they do is push for its adoption and use. There could be plenty of other things to tackle and I’m not here to make the case JIRA is or isn’t a good tool, has value, or is more or less important, I’m just sharing my observations. When you’ve literally made it your job to be the JIRA master, you are in fact more concerned with the performance of the work than the actual work product itself. It’s like the difference between introverted and extroverted personality types. Some people come in and want to get their hands dirty with the product and code, while others want to setup JIRA and start tweaking workflows.

Another brilliant thing I noticed they did was to optimize the scrum display for large TVs. Many issue trackers and other tools simply don’t look good (not readable) or are not functional on a massive 70” screen. The purpose of this is clear: for standups and planning meetings where it is used in a group setting (usually by the JIRA advocate/master).

Another big thing is the daily e-mails. It’s a way to show your boss and co-workers you’re doing something without telling them directly. And it makes people feel good to see activity, regardless of what is actually being done, it’s often times more important that people are working together, as 90% of all work done in JIRA is irrelevant anyway.

People talk bad about JIRA and despite its flaws you’d do well to study its workings if you are at all interested in building a similar B2B or enterprise app that requires a certain manipulation of the end user.
Both of those state there is a slowdown in enrollment percentage (and only .9% at that), not absolute numbers. There are still more international graduate students in 2017 than in any previous year.
That’s not a secret, evidenced by the relentless reminders in every HN crypto post comment section.

I can’t argue with the value of these reminders, though.
> traders mostly don't need to be anonymous.

Not sure I follow -- you suggest exchanges should send out who placed an order in the book, in addition to the price, amount, order type, etc.? Wouldn't that be a massive breach of privacy? Or are you not talking about exchanges?
I pay for Spotify though
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Makes sense to me:

1. I stated that morality isn't absolute
2. I provided a contradictory moral framework to the parent poster, leading to a different conclusion

The fact that you, me, and the parent poster all disagree about points 1-3 seem to hint that morality isn't absolute, no?

(Note I have not outlined my personal beliefs in my post, just posited one possible line of reasoning.)
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The claim wasn’t factual, it was blatantly racist. How do you fight an unfactual claim with data? How would you prove that Americans were less or more productive than foreigners? These kinds of claims are not designed to be argued with data, they are simply designed to be decisive and hurtful.
Yup, our well is steep :).

See also this subway-style ∆v map of our system (inspired by a similar map for Kerbal Space Program): http://i.imgur.com/AAGJvD1.png. I feel it would work great as a poster on a wall.

The map really brings home the point that "Low Earth Orbit is halfway to anywhere in the Solar System".
I max out my $200 Uber credit and $200 airline credit each year on my Platinum, so I do a bit better there than the Sapphire Reserve would get me.
Beyond Compare is a good tool. It allows to compare full directories, ignore whitespace, etc.

I recommend Perforce's as a merge tool because it is better than average at the specific task of merging.
I usually can keep it straight by thinking, which branch would Linus think is his? That’s ‘ours’, and the new, potentially code-breaking branch is ‘theirs’.
For anyone using JetBrains tools like IntelliJ or similar, note that they all include a nice diff/merge tool: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/running-intellij-idea-as...
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You can do the same as a contractor and make double.
> Candidate on the spectrum is less suitable for position that requires communication with customer or other people

A candidate with certain communication skills deficits is less suitable for those positions; while that may correlate to some degree with being on the spectrum, it neither necessarily implies nor is necessarily implies by being on the spectrum, and while an interviewer hopefully is qualified to assess that kind of a deficit, they probably aren't qualified to make an ASD diagnosis.

Further, while it's absolutely legal to discriminate on skills, doing so on actual or perceived medical condition is more legally troublesome. So, it's far better all around for the interviewer to confine themselves to observed facts and assessments that are both relevant and that they are qualified to make, rather than playing psychiatrist.
Your job in building a product is to eliminate all the ways that don’t work
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Where do I start meeting people? Seek out networking events online?
It was exactly my reaction from reading this title.

A.I and Big Data are in themselves tools, but access to those tools is highly more likely if wealthy. So they will be used toward the self interest of the wealthiest, and, consequently against the interest of the poorest.

Cambridge Analytica and the Trump election comes to mind for example.
Facebook uses technology to carry out its core operations, so would not they be performing technological disruption of the social domain?
s/Indian students/international students ?
To ketones.
I think that a Swede would disagree with you that this is an A with a ˚ diacritic; Å is seen here as a seperate letter and granted its own place in the alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85#Place_in_alphabet
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Switching to AMD or not upgrading your kernel are the only options I can think of.
I use uMatrix and uBlock Origin and didn't get auto-play...
You're wrong about point 2. Java has backward compatibility but there are a few exceptions. On top of that, the library's that come bundled with the jdk have a few backward incompatibilities of their own.
These might be small things to fix when your codebase is small, but for enterprises with codebases of millions of lines, these issues turn an upgrade in a major challenge.

Apart from that, there is another reason why companies don't upgrade and that's because they are locked to a certain java version by their application server. Upgrading to a new java version would require upgrading the application server as well, which would cost a lot in terms of licensing and which would introduce some risks and overhead of its own.
> Second, take a look at what happens to people who do leave the government. Very often, their salaries go up in the private sector. This is especially true for specialists like the folks who work at the NSA. Seems like they can hack it.

Well obviously. If the employee is competent, then of course they are more likely to leave. This exact method of adverse selection, where the good people leave, is the exact problem.
Semantic patching can be good to resolve conflicts, but version control operates with non-semantic changes.

This can be frustrating at times, since many code bases cannot be reformatted or refactored because it affects version control history.