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That was not the point I was trying to make, sorry.

GP said:

>> People can hold beliefs because they have certain consequences.

> Nearly all beliefs are of this type. I believe the Earth orbits the Sun because it's helps me predict the seasons.

I think there are a lot of beliefs that are held not because they have beneficial consequences, but for other reasons.

Religion as a belief is held by most people because they have been brought up with it. (converts nonwithstanding)

Scientific theories are believed (i.e. held true, used for explanations of reality) because they predict stuff that actually happens and can not be falsified.

Both of these are not believed primarily because their belief has actual consequences IMHO.
> ITER is not a power station it is a research project

And the article states this pretty clearly. Much more clearly than the ITER website and slogan of "Unlimited Energy".

Unlimited energy should refer to the input, not the output (of which there will be none).

ITER is a political project. Its purpose is to transform research money into jobs or contracts for building companies.
But you need access to sunlight for solar panels to work. You can't have that constantly due to the rotation of the earth. Or if you move further away from the sun. Or into the constant shadow of a planet or moon, to shield your scientific equipment from sun radiation. Or even underwater/underground on earth. Etc.

So there will always be a use case for fusion energy, if it works.
His logical reasoning skills seemed to be quite all right for Google when he passed their (challenging) hiring process. How the hell he managed to lose that while working there?

As for his writing ability, it may not be at the level of Mark Twain, but it seems quite eloquent to me...
I don't think that's true. You just need one party to be on good terms.
Original publicity materials: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/01/cancer-vaccin...

Paper: https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aan4488
But who/where do we draw the line for "ethical" design? Every design decision is on a spectrum, and anything above helping someone eat, sleep or shit, is to some degree "un-needed" design.
Maybe youtube could secretly encode keyframes in your browser.
What happens when diagnosis? Seeking help (add your own scare quotes) will get you amphetamines with an expensive monthly 5 minute refill appointment.
Huawei made one of the Nexus phones.
Meltdown allows information to leak across ring boundaries. Spectre by itself doesn't. Meltdown is relatively easy to fix whereas Spectre is a more fundamental issue with how most modern chips are designed.
Exactly - The fast learns, the slow remembers.
Yes it is. I think it's also Elon's very own :)

And yes, it was carried into orbit with the upper stage of the Falcon Heavy.
BTC survived Mt. Gox and Bitfinex, NEM survived Coincheck, and fiat currencies survived many a bank robbery. Investor perception is low because the theft hurt early adopters, but I think that the technology will shine through sooner rather than later.
After writing a lot of tools for game designers, I've found a simple rule: if a system you're creating is Turing complete, throw it out and just give them a normal scripting language.

Rationale is simple: game designers will ALWAYS find ways to use the system in the most insanely complicated way, and it's far easier to debug and fix things in a normal programming language rather than another system full of ad-hoc conditions, weird triggers, global variables and other complexity that starts small but always snowballs throughout development.
>and a patent on an obvious and straightforward solution is a major hindrance to everybody else.//

Which is why every patent act has the requirements of novelty and non-obviousness.
It doesn't have 3D, but what it does have is 8 and 16bit chunky graphics modes, which make doing software renderers a lot easier than the planer modes of the old chipsets.

With chunky graphics, you can write out an entire pixel with a single write, which is essential for rasterisation in software 3d games.

It's not like PCs got 3d graphics cards until late-95, the AAA chipsets released in 1993 might have allowed the Amega to hold on until 96, get proper Doom clones (and maybe even quake clones) and then get it's own 3d accelerators.
Yes, it's a real car and it's not inside anything. There's a thruster attached to it and that's it.

I made a mashup which adds some music to it :)

http://awesomestarman.glitch.me

(autoplay audio, works on desktop only)
So you're comparing a security researcher saying:

“We don’t know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation-state. China or Russia would be my first guesses.” in the early stages of an investigation into a massive botnet that grew much faster then even its creators expected.

And the government of the UK officially naming Russia (and to your second point, specifically the Russian Military) as being behind an attack.

I sometimes feel like modern society has been attacked by a context-eating virus.
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I believe they just do what they like and having fun.
Maybe, you have gathered some info about planned obsolescence ? I find that subject very interesting too.
I think the US is far more likely to be able to persuade most states to extradite you than China is.
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This was a relatively recent (last couple yars) change, I’m guessing in part driven by pressure from their new enterprise sales push, due to the more vigilant regulated enterprises in US and enterprises in EU simply unable to purchase services due to Google’s data access and use being so pervasive it violated regulations.

It is not clear to me from papers up through, say, 2016, whether you’ve achieved a guaranteed (compliant by technical architecture rather than by policy) level of access and data separation. Direct conversations had also made it clear it was not yet achieved.

You mentioned GDPR which indeed should require you to have to do the right thing soon, but it allows policy vs. technical controls. Bad actors don’t care about your policy, and good actors make inadvertent errors.

I’d like to know if/how the tech under the hood has changed o support the last couple years’ contract changes and upcoming EU compliance.

If anyone can point me to more recent papers or talks that evidence how it’s now impossible for, say, even a motivated bad actor in support or bad actor in SRE teams to violate data policy, I’d appreciate it.

Even if you can only talk to me off he record, I’d appreciate it.
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Ask HN: If you had 7k to spend on a SaaS launch, what would you do?
We're a small, bootstrapped company whose SaaS product has been in public beta since 2016. We're finally about to launch commercially and have been advised to spend real money to try to capitalize on the launch. We've set aside 7k.

I've contacted a few boutique PR firms in my area (Sweden) and my distinct impression is that they don't get what we're trying to do and lack the connections necessary for us to get placement where it matters. (Our product is "Excel for apps," a web service enabling anyone with spreadsheet skills to create line-of-business web apps.)

If you were in our position, how would you spend the money? Would you hire a PR firm or would you try to do the work yourself and spend the money on advertising? Or do something else entirely?
CalDAV has some issues - we're working on making it easier to work with at https://devguide.calconnect.org/

(when I say "we" - I haven't actually attended a CalConnect for a year, due to spending half my life traveling as it is - but FastMail has sent someone to every event for the past few years, and Ken has been going for ages before that)

And JMAP calendar support will be really nice:

http://jmap.io/spec-calendars.html

With the JSON format on the standards track now:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-calext-jscalendar-00
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Please no, the carbon footprint is just too high:

https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-mining-guzzles-energyand...
There are options other than amphetamines, and many of them are tried first because they are cheaper and have less side effects.

Not to mention that therapy and just knowing about the problem can help too.
Those are not macro-scale arguments, and both have strong counter-arguments: Pharma can still make money manufacturing, distributing, and selling, and it does for out-of-patent products. Their patented products are often born in government and university research labs, and are privatized in what amounts to rent-seeking based on a public good.

Anyone who has written books about specific kinds of software development knows that business is perhaps 10% as big as it used to be because manuals and experiential knowledge are freely available. Things change. So should patent and copyright protection. See you at the local stage production of GoT.
The amount of effort.. Good job!
Also, what are they sending? My natural response to this would be "well of course they do" because presumably most phones come with some software/services from the manufacturer.
> likely a result of evolution and specialization

Economically speaking, I suspect this is more to do with the superior position of women, as a class, in setting the standards of what an acceptable relationship looks like.

If husbands are willing to do heavy lifting, wives would be economically irrational to do their own heavy lifting. I'm pretty suspicious that the deal offered to a housewife comes with better quality of life outcomes than the deal offered to most engineers. I've always assumed it is linked to the relative excess of young men to the number of young women (something like 107:100 or close to [1]).

It makes sense to me that the group with most power in establishing a relationship would choose not to be an engineer if they could be, say, mind the house.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_ratio
The StarCraft community created a level editor and a scripting language around a buffer overflow in the game: http://0xeb.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/StarCraft_EUD_Emu...
True, there may be uses cases for it. But with renewables price collapse in the last 10 years, and very likely further at least 2x price reduction of solar and slight on wind, this is no longer a make or break thing for humanity. More research and commercialization of advanced batteries would further reduce importance of fusion. I am getting to think that fusion has nearly ran out of time. 10 years down the road, potential market for it may become too small to justify the immense expenses - and by that point, 'mainstream' projects are not expected to bear fruit yet.
> With more constraints in the language, one gains greater power to reason.

Not only that, but you can also apply more tools onto it, treating the code as data and having a chance to use that as input data for totally different purposes.

Another classic example is structured text. If you want to aggregate facts from that, this is totally easy when the data is available in a simple JSON structure. If it is a simple HTML site, this is slightly more involved: you need to scrape the site and recognize irrelevant stuff ( navigation bars, tables only used for layouting, etc.). But if it is a blob of Flash code that happens to display the text in some shiny way, you are essentially becoming a reverse engineer, and your tool will almost certainly break apart with every change / new version of that structured text.
Yes, it seems to patch a licensing function at 0xEC95FD4 [1] to always return 1, by patching the jump at 0xEC95FE2 (that should be only taken for the always-allowed H263 codec) to always be taken, thus always allowing all codecs.

[1] - https://q3k.org/u/8e3173aef341df726e4f38f30e58417239423250f3...
About not being updated: there are linters, and if you impose a rule that you can only check in code that passed the linter, then essentially you are writing a newer, better version of C.
When I look at "discover" I basically only see somalian people. Is that just me or wtf is happening?
Isn't the bug in Super Mario just exposing the underlying system's Turing Completeness?
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> The system was put in place to protect us

That's a little bit overly generous.

It was put in place to incentivize invention and creation. But I think clear with examples like this that it's holding us back. There are so many people, and there is so much innovation, and so much ability to understand how something new works that these laws do nothing to help the public.

And even if they started with the public good in mind, we are now far from it.

As other responders are suggesting: scrap it completely, and see where things end up.

And even though we are discussing patents, the benefit to the public is ten times larger for copyright.

Copyright maximalists had a stroke of genius when they started calling it "intellectual property" and "IP rights". This allows you to make it a moral issue, rather than a public policy issue (which is what it really is).
Facts are used as evidence, which he what he did. There's nothing wrong with that. If you have a better explanation then let's hear it but all you said was that you believe it's "probably socialized" based on what exactly?

This article explains in great detail how that is not the case in any significance and there are even examples where men and women have been socialized oppositely and still end up choosing typical gender interests.

> argument seemed to be based upon some inherent difference between the sexes

Yes, men and women are different.
What happens with a lot of this stories is something gets carelessly published, a lot of people read it, and then it's retracted and the retraction is seen by far fewer people.
E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15022997.
https://www.economist.com/news/international/21726276-last-w...
So it's normal and ok if being wrong got him fired? No matter, as that isn't what got him fired. He was fired because it's good optics in this climate. And I'm asserting the climate isn't good.
Would anyone even care about the Facebook ad spend and meetings with campaign officials if it were Israelis or Saudis instead of Russians? I think if you do this mental exercise a lot of the "Russiagate" stories start to look weird.
Because you're an idiot. People don't want influencer content in the first place. And people want their personal communication separated from what is posted in public. This was the whole point, it's what made it great, how it separated the private from the public so efficiently.
> Damore’s screed was also rife with fallacies and unsupported generalizations, let’s not forget that

Was it really rife with fallacies? Lee Jussim (professor of social psychology at Rutgers University) wrote:

> The author of the Google essay on issues related to diversity gets nearly all of the science and its implications exactly right.

Geoffrey Miller (evolutionary psychology professor at University of New Mexico) wrote:

> For what it’s worth, I think that almost all of the Google memo’s empirical claims are scientifically accurate.

Debra W Soh (PhD in sexual neuroscience):

> Within the field of neuroscience, sex differences between women and men—when it comes to brain structure and function and associated differences in personality and occupational preferences—are understood to be true, because the evidence for them (thousands of studies) is strong. This is not information that’s considered controversial or up for debate; if you tried to argue otherwise, or for purely social influences, you’d be laughed at.

http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...

It doesn't seem reasonable to characterize this memo as rife with fallacies or unsupported generalizations when multiple scientists are willing to go on the record saying the memo's science is generally correct. I have not seen similar in-depth rebuttals from other scientists claiming it's wrong. (If anyone knows of one I'd be glad to read it. I have seen brief quotes from scientists in articles written by reporters, but nothing with depth or analysis.)

EDIT: I wish I understood why I've been downvoted so that I could improve my comments in the future. Would anyone be willing to explain the downvote?
We'll all be dead soon and none of this will matter.
Because the number of operations in a sort is bounded. You can perform any sorting algorithm without turning completeness because you don't need the while loop basically.
Not just jobs, I can't even watch movies or play single-player videogames when I'm not on my medication (both things that I really enjoy doing and they help me unwind)

You have no idea the mental anguish from having to rewind a movie that you are watching alone (because other people won't put up with this) for the 3rd time because you still missed an important plot point a few minutes ago. It makes enjoyable things feel like work, and then you don't want to even try. The things that are supposed to help me relax just end up causing frustration. Or even the irony of not being able to fall asleep because I keep getting distracted thinking about stuff that I forgot to do today...

Medication and therapy literally saved my life.
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It was early in the morning and I thought the title said to pick out the ladybug and i still got it right.
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It's a human following a script... which is still impressive nonetheless, even if for nothing other than the patience and planning required to do something like this.
You mean other stimulants? LSD works quite well, but is problematic for other reasons (social stigma, prison rape, etc).
No it didn't, but it was started in 88 when keeping planar modes and adding 1280x1024 still made some sense keeping compatibility. Adding the DSP would have made a few new niches. In 93 it was all a bit too late - and they weren't even ready to ship then.

3D was in Hombre that was the PowerPC. Wildly different and no compatibility, so heaven knows how that would have played out. Only that was when we were all starting to play Doom at work :)

Edit: I searched and found this from Dave Haynie - who always seemed pretty straight talking. Weirdly some of the dates have 10 years added :D The 3D section and the following on Gould and Ali seems to sum up the train wreck pretty well. eg:

"When he got to Engineering, he hired a human bus error called Bill Sydnes to take over. Sydnes, a PC guy, didn’t have the chops to run a computer, much less a computer design department. He was also an ex-IBMer, and spent much time trying to turn C= (a fairly slick, west-coast-style design operation), into the clunky mess that characterized the Dilbert Zones in most major east-coast-style companies"

http://www.landley.net/history/mirror/commodore/haynie.html
> "...hopefully in a way that makes it clear that they are mutable, and maybe even informs users if they've changed since last view."

That would be amazing, and as a happy Fastmail customer I'd love to see it implemented. I am in full agreement with your blog post, and Google's AMP-email plan only further cements my position to excise Google from my life as much as possible. As much as I love seeing new and emerging technologies, there are times when one must say "that's too far".
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Why would that need an official competition? To find out whether women can race competitive a fun race would suffice, I think. It should be easy to find sponsors for that, media attention would be high.
People talk about research involving indicators such as "ability" and social factors. But have anyone asked the
boys and girls before college, or before starting a graduate degree why and how they make their choices? It seems to me that doing it on scale, like 1000 participants, in a given fixed country, would clear the picture.

In a way, they are voting with their choices, and all we need is a focus group.
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Interesting! I hadn't thought of it that way. Those examples are wild.

And yeah, human perception of sound was something I had wanted to explore more, but I didn't want it to be even longer... might be interesting as a follow-up (although I don't know exactly how to visualize it...

Thanks for the feedback :)
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No, I mean non-stimulant options like Strattera and Clonidine, and a few others that I don't know off the top of my head. Also there has been some studies that show some antidepressants can have positive effects on people with ADHD.

And like I said, there is also therapy and lifestyle changes that can have a huge impact as well. I'd say that the benefits of my therapy and the medication are about even in terms of effectiveness of managing my ADHD.
It's a tax paid by the tenant, not the landlord. The tax is based on the value of the property (separated into eight bands). That is, the tax is not tied to the income or assets of the person who actually pays it. I'm not aware of any equivalent in the US, except maybe city taxes in major metropolitan areas, but I believe those are generally based on income.

If developmental policy has a goal of increasing home ownership, it seems really strange to tax tenants for renting, when they could be saving that money for a down payment instead.
Thanks for the feedback; I saw this further down the comments as well. Will give it a shot!

EDIT: Yep, sounds way better. Will definitely have to look more into this! Thanks again.
> online tracking

Do the websites you visit define who you are (with zero context on why you visited it)? Do all the friends you have provide clear signal to what you want?

I don’t care how much $$$ is poured into ML, garbage in will always be garbage out. Something has to feed the model and if it’s all passive clicks with no strong signals from you, you get crappy results generally.
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Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16377736
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