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"No one talks to anyone from other companies, to the point of awkwardness. ... Especially people you see every day!"

Ugh, you clearly don't get some people.

It's probably one of the reasons why they have the coworking space to begin with: they don't want to interact with people! Ain't nothing wrong with that!

They want to get their shit done and go home and do other shit.

Also, if they're halfway competent at their business, why do they need to know what everyone else is doing?

I've done the coworking thing for a while, and the social interaction/collaboration thing literally doesn't come close to working the way you think it would.

If you're hoping for some serendipitous interaction where you magically find that big project or cool new collaborator or etc. you'll be sorely disappointed. Because, many people at coworking spaces have literally been there since it first opened which can be years.

I was at one with a tax attorney. I'm not going to like collab on anything with the tax attorney. Seemed like a nice guy, but I'm a developer and he has no money to spend on software so...

Now multiply that story by nearly everyone in the coworking space and you'll see it quickly becomes...a place to do work and that's it. Which is awesome and exactly what we needed!
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Start one, and see what it becomes. Your right to speech will be unimpeded.
I know this may be perceived as nitpicking, but I am generally annoyed whenever the reproducibility/reliability crisis is referred to as a problem in science, writ large, rather than a specific problem in specific scientific subfields. This seems to be particularly common when the articles are written by practitioners within these subfields, such as neuroscience, biology, or psychology.

There is no reproducibility crisis in my field of science - astrophysics. To back this claim up, I searched at Retraction Watch for any mention of the top tier journals in astronomy & astrophysics - specifically, ApJ [1], MNRAS [2], A&A (none found), Icarus (none found), Nature Astronomy (none found) - and found exactly one correction and one retraction. Now certainly errata are published constantly, and I would be foolish to assume that just because Retraction Watch didn't catch many instances of scientific fraud or abuse within my field, that it practically doesn't exist. But no evidence for a "crisis" seems to exist, at least in my corner of science. Astrophysical research appears to be quite reliable and reproducible. For similar reasons, I haven't heard of a reproducibility crisis in analytical chemistry, or optical physics, or mathematics, to name a few - or, close to the interests of Hacker News, computer science. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm not saying this to bash non-astronomers, or non-physicists, or specifically life scientists. Biologists, neuroscientists, and psychologists are crucial participants in the greater scientific enterprise and their efforts lead more directly to alleviating human suffering than my work ever will. But when talking about reproducibility and reliability problems we cannot conflate different scientific disciplines with vastly different cultures, practices, and norms - a crisis in biology does not imply that physics has one too. Physics may have its own problems, but they aren't the same as the ones in biology.

Witness the rise of groups such as the Flat Earthers, who are rejecting basic scientific knowledge known for literal millenia.(Eratosthenes, anyone?) Or witness the anti-vaxxers, abandoning modern medicine for charlatanry. Pretending science is a monolithic enterprise and abandoning a fine-grained understanding of the validity and power of different types of scientific evidence just gives these movements strength, feeds their delusions, and weakens the prestige of scientists when we do need to stand together.

[1] http://retractionwatch.com/category/by-journal/astrophysical...
[2] http://retractionwatch.com/category/by-journal/monthly-notic...
I don’t see the harm in anthromorphizing. Fluids want to move faster when they move from wide to narrow tubes. My computer isn’t happy if it’s too hot inside the case. Evolution wants to make genes that successfully reproduce.

If someone else reads higher order intentionality to it than that, why should that stop me from using a convenient turn of phrase? Sure, if someone wants to think that I’m implying my computer is sentient then they’re odd and incorrect but I’m not going to stop saying it. It’s convenient.
There already is Bittorrent.

The distros are getting distributed over Bittorrent and since more people have it and know how to use it than IPFS, there is no point in distributing it over IPFS.
> Second, there is no such thing as remote artifacts that are immutable.

And yet, that's exactly what Maven Central artifacts are.

And why Maven Central is rock solid for reproducible builds while supporting versioning.
Nautilus, this may get you more page hits, but it's not convincing me to renew my subscription.
Curious to know whether you've allowed full access to it?
Completely ignoring the fact that we contributed to the current situation by killing 20% of their population during the Korean War. Wonder if not doing that would have been a more effective deterrence?
I recently got back in touch with a friend from highschool who's parents were really well off. They actually bought property on the East Coast just so that he could claim residency and get in-state with this really haughty college (I cannot remember which one). He now has several philosophy degrees and works at our old highschool as a librarian. He seems very unhappy with his life as well.
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It just didn't make sense to buy more F-35A when they might buy the B model. Combined with the X-2 / F-3 development, I'm trying to figure out a why.
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For a moment I was hoping this to be some groundbreaking air pollution feat, alas. The naive downside of not being a native english speaker :-)
If it’s trivial and fixes have been offered, why hasn’t it been fixed? Is it controversial?
Check out Freedom:

https://freedom.to/

It's a "here's a list of websites I don't want to visit at these times, don't let me visit them at those times" app, kind of like the chrome/firefox addons that do the same thing (e.g. BlockSite), except it works at the VPN level (so it's not browser dependent). There's also a phone app.

I really like it. The only achilles heel I've found with it is it doesn't play well with corporate proxies.
The universe may include random, or changing elements, we truly don’t know yet. At any given moment, Maxwell’s Demon might be able to describe a complete wavefunction which amounts to “the observable universe,” but we don’t really know if the evolution of the wavefunction would be deterministic.

Mind you, the universe could be infinite as well, which would throw a bit of a wrench into it. All of which is to say that there may not be an algorithm the universe follows, even in principle.
Does IPFS actually take the peer's actual geographic location when picking one? I thought they just search for peers in the local LAN and if they don't find one, they just go for the one that's closest to them according to their PeerId (Kademlia DHT)
Nope. I'm done. See you all in meatspace.
Great topic!
Can't they just stop the spread of false information in general? I feel like by saying it's targeting the alt-right leaders, it's doing precisely what those groups want - to attack the Press because it's singling them out.
Ask HN: How you manage files on your computer?
I am interested in knowing how you name, structure files and folders on your computer.
Nothing very specific in mind, probably www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/ which I believe is a remake, or was remade, and is also an adaptation.

I can’t remember if Orphan Black is about that.

More recently, Altered Carbon or shorter format I saw on Dust toyed with similar ideas.
Sounds like he always eats his food cold when he shows up at dinner parties.
'At least six J-20s are in active service, with tail numbers 78271-78276 identified. Another six were believed ready to be delivered by end of Dec 2016.[86] On 9 March 2017, Chinese officials confirmed that the J-20 had entered service in the Chinese air force.

In September 2017, the J-20 officially entered military service with PLAAF, making China the second country in the world after United States wielding fifth-generation stealth aircraft, and the first in Asia.[87][87][88][16]

In January 2018, Chinese media reports that J-20 is in full operation-ready deployment.'

Yeah, that all sounds great as propaganda. It's clear to any knowledgeable observer that the J-20 likely still has significant issues. As I mentioned before, it's also not at all clear how stealthy it is as well. There's a reason no other stealth aircraft has canards...

"in two years’ time, if not before, America is likely to lose its monopoly of radar-beating stealth combat aircraft with the introduction into service of China’s Chengdu J-20. This has a much longer range than America’s new F-35 fighter and will be a serious threat to American warships in the Pacific."

Carrier based F-35s will be in service soon (or already are in the case of the F-35B), countering the range advantage. All that said, the F-22 is the true counterpart to the J-20 and will likely mop the floor with it if necessary.

It's worth noting that for strike aircraft like the F-35, the main goal is avoiding detection to bomb targets. Stealth aircraft have no advantage over any other aircraft at detecting other stealth aircraft - making the J-20 no more of a threat than any Gen 4 aircraft.

"Another system, yet to be named, would provide China with an ability to knock out targets as far away as 400km, a far greater range than any other air-to-air weapon in service. It would threaten aircraft that currently operate safely from a considerable distance, such as tankers and planes used for airborne surveillance and control. "

Yep, that's interesting. I wonder how our jammers, anti-missile missiles, and directed energy weapons will fare against it...
Free speech, as long as it's liberal free speech.
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Cancer hit a friend of mine not that long ago.

And as I was biking to work with my two kiddos the other day, I was thinking about him.

What would be my ideal day? I wondered. What would I do with my time if I had gotten his diagnosis of a more or less non-treatable form of pancreatic cancer?

I thought about it. And I realized that it would start just like that one. Biking with my kids to daycare and then work.

It is hard to put into words the myriad reasons. Everyone has their own reasons why they go the way they go to get where they want to go.

I know few things in life but I have found my bliss biking to and from work everyday.
That depends on what level you are. If you are the best developer on a medium sized project, or among the best on a large project then it is a win for the project even if it is a loss to you.

The best people on a project should be on the least important parts. The second best people lead the important projects, and thus grow to the best. In the mean time the best people are on something that isn't that important anyway, so if someone has a question there is no reason not to interrupt them and ask. This also leaves your best people free for when marketing has another "great idea" so they can ask before promising the impossible (and in some cases they can get something now instead of waiting for the entire project cycle)
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This has been causing me more and more despair the more I think about it. I feel like the US had one chance to decide how most of it's cities were, fundamentally, going to be, and that chance ended about 50 years ago. The choice made was "design everything around cars". This now looks like a disaster on a near cosmic scale. Even worse, it's almost impossible to reverse.
This is a real problem. I noticed that all my (infinitesimal) karma was received on comments which were a few hours old.

The brilliant comments which are 1+ day old all went to a blackhole nirvana.
I guess you misread me. The Dataset API is somewhat fine, much better than queues for instance. However not clear from documentation how to do more complex stuff, or how to integrate it with the rest of TF stack, specially the new Estimator API.
All it takes is one person to really mess it up. It's kind of like breaking the ice -- the barrier to actually making the area go from "clean" to "not clean" is much higher than just making it go from "messy" to "slightly messier".

In an office with a dozen or more people there's a pretty high chance there's at least one person who is lazy, "too important" and/or "too busy" to clean up after themselves.
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> What is the problem with there being a race element as well?

What about competition makes it some universal good? The entire field of game theory exists because direct competition creates paradoxes and dilemmas, and cooperation can result in greater rewards for everyone involved.

More specifically, doesn't anybody else remember the numerous scientific misconduct scandals that have plagued China? In their race to be first they've been willing to sacrifice research integrity to get there. When we see 40% of biomedical papers from China having problems (http://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/18/four-10-biomedical-pap...) I'm not entirely sure I'd trust their result claims.
> I find it hard to believe that any company would allow daytime drinking.

Allow? In some cultures a beer or glass of wine at lunch is perfectly normal. There is also a big difference between having a beer and downing a 6-pack.

I personally would avoid a beer at lunch because it makes me tired, but I wouldn't think much of it if someone had a beer with their lunch.
> It would be not much fun living to be 200 if the last 120 years were spent in a bed or wheelchair.

While I agree (and while I additionally think any plausible advancement of that degree would necessarily need to increase healthy lifespan), I'd also say that it'd be inherently preferable to dying, and it would give 120 more years to solve those problems. We can come up with a lot of medical advancements in 120 years.
Laura Loomer is pushing the narrative that last week's school shooting was a false flag operation, and that the students were actors paid for by left-wing agitators. That is 100% disinformation.
The thread on "HN Ignore Downvotes CSS" reminded me that often the initial reaction may be negative, but over time if the comment is good it will go net positive. Sit back and enjoy the ride--or at least I wouldn't jump to conclusions based on one (or maybe two?) initial votes in the first couple of minutes. And keep in mind that the HN population is big enough that there will be noise, and more so as the topics become more contentious.
Twitter is choc-a-bloc with conservative accounts. That's a deeply dishonest (if unsurprising) story lede.

(The comment to which this is a response originally included a link to a recent Russia Today story suggesting Twitter was purging conservatives).
I see this as good news, no country should rein supreme as that would most certainly allow it to misuse it's power, instead having two competitors guarantees, to some degree at least, that neither will abuse it's position.
Precisely this. I escape to a coworking space for some peace and quiet, which isn’t always possible because the high-pitched cackling from our glass-wall neighbors cuts through most building materials. I don’t want to talk to strangers, I want to get my shit done. If I want to talk to strangers I’ll go to a bar, or the internet.
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> All of the non-technological reasons, to me, boil down to globalization.

I tend to agree that globalization plays a significant role. However several of the listed factors aren't directly related to globalization, and have more to do with US culture and domestic economic priorities:

"the race between education and technology"

"the ‘superstar effect’"

"market structure and monopoly power"

"capital accumulation"
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This is one of the things I think about, the alternative options that may expand in the near future. But it kind of goes against half of what I want for him. You're not really breaking out of your parent's orbit and flying on your own when you sit on a computer at your parent's house. It seems like a good option for people who are past that age, living on their own. But I want him to go out and meet new people, make some mistakes and learn from them.
Your suggestion is literally what Medium did. From the article:

> The “Hate Speech” section has been significantly expanded […], disallowing posts that “glorify, celebrate, downplay, or trivialize violence, suffering, abuse, or deaths of individuals or groups,” including “the use of scientific or pseudoscientific claims to pathologize, dehumanize, or disempower others.” Also prohibited: “calls for intolerance, exclusion, or segregation based on protected characteristics, nor do we allow the glorification of groups which do any of the above” and “hateful text, images, symbols, or other content in your username, profile, or bio.”
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That's certainly a very interesting way to structure a domain deal. If you don't mind me asking, was this through a specific marketplace or via private sale? A domain marketplace with this model could be very beneficial to bootstrapping startups that could use the branding of an expensive domain, but don't necessarily have all of the capital yet.
One thought I had was that species evolved to maximize the survival of the species, not the individual organism. Once an organism is too old to reproduce or contribute to the survival of the species, it's probably better to die than becoming a burden to the rest of the members of your species. It sounds cold hearted and brutal but that's just how nature works. Maybe it is possible for an individual organism to reproduce and live forever someday but that would be very hard to achieve and we're probably stuck in a local maxima.
Seems like if Amazon won't issue a corrected 1099, the victim's next stops should be his state AG, the IRS, FBI, and/or similar. A crime's been committed, Amazon is getting 40% and refusing to do anything about it.
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Highly. Because the corrollary to what you are saying is that parents “shouldn’t” do the best they can for their children.

It’s not wrong at all to work hard so that your children have a better life. For many people, this is the singular reason they work so hard!

I can only aspire to give my children the privilege of a first class education and upbringing, as my father did for me. It’s only recent political movements which try to cast this as something to be ashamed of, or something that needs to be counteracted, and I think many people rightly have a problem with that.
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Yes, it’s from the preface to the first edition.

Incidentally, the earliest expression of this idea that I’ve seen is from a talk by Fischer Black [0] in 1963, published a year later in a volume on LISP [1]:

Programming style is not a matter of efficiency in a program. It is a matter of how easy it is to write or read a program, how easy it is to explain the program to someone else, how easy it is to figure out what the program does a year after you've written it; and above all, style is a matter of taste, of aesthetics, of what you think looks nice, of what you think is elegant.

Although style is mainly a matter of taste, a programmer with a "good" style will find his programs easy to write, easy to read, and easy to explain to others. ...

In particular, you may have acquired special programming tricks that you are very fond of, and that aren't used by other programmers, but that don't make your programs much more efficient. I urge you to stop using those tricks. As Samuel Johnson once said, "Read over your compositions, and when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

In other words, make your style simple, not complicated, even though the complicated style may seem to have some abstract virtues. ...

0. Yes, this is the same Fischer Black of the Black-Scholes duo of financial fame. His PhD, informally supervised by Marvin Minsky, was on artificial intelligence. Myron Scholes, for that matter, was also a good programmer and made money programming for economics professors at Chicago while he did his PhD there.

1. F. Black, “Styles of Programming in LISP,” in The Programming Language LISP: Its Operations and Applications, ed. E. Berkeley and D. Bobrow (1964), p96 (p106 of the PDF): http://www.softwarepreservation.com/projects/LISP/book/III_L... [PDF]
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> What is missing from co-working spaces is some kind of housekeeping rules and enforcement...

What’s missing is simple walls. Four walls with a door. What’s missing is privacy and silence, which we have apparently collectively decided is not necessary for all tech work.
I was prodding at what I perceived as dualism above; was curious how deep it ran.

However, to your point, I'm willing to bet that our need to use heuristics and approximations has more to do with the mathematical inability to reverse-engineer chaotic systems than anything. It's not so much that we just don't have the time to build a more complete picture. It's that it's actually impossible to do so.
This is really too bad. I loved Swype and used it since it was in beta. It was always (and still is) better than every other keyboard and gesture-keyboard for me. I tried switching to GBoard for a while because I felt it was inevitable that Swype would eventually be discontinued due to lack of updates. But even after several months of usage, Swype was still significantly more accurate, fast, and responsive than GBoard.

RIP Swype.
(tangent) An old friend of mine claimed that he could get very low-ball offers accepted for used cars by showing up with his entire bid in hundred dollar bills in cash, he said that people were so mesmerized by the sight of literal stacks of currency that they would accept lower offers than they would for other "cash" offers that were otherwise some form of bank transfer.
That's odd, Gboard doesn't do that for me.
Swype has supported swiping your email addresses for years — just add them to the dictionary and swipe over 'a' for '@'.
yes it is class and wealth. how could you even begin to think otherwise? do you truly think everyone who is rich is just 'smarter' than all other humans?

if so, what particular mechanisms exist for some truly idiotic child born with a trust of $1M, $10M, or $100M to lose their wealth?

> For example: George Soros. Came from a wealthy family. Utterly destitute after the war. And now he's rich.

So he was likely aided by his class, which was never lost when he lost his wealth.

this whole charade that all billionaires in the entire world are geniuses who came from the bottom rungs of society is just a story to instill hope on those ambitious enough to believe there exists meritocratic societies. the media loves to talk about 'new money' billionaires who are, inarguably, quite intellectual (elon, zuckerburg, jobs, etc) - it's just so less sexy to focus on the much larger number of billionaires who just inherited it all...

let me guess, next you're going to tell me that everyone who is a celebrity movie star, tv actor, artist, and photographer is just the most talented in their respective fields and class and wealth had nothing to do with it?
Nice. I like the emphasis on just finding a role within your dream company first and then transferring internally to your dream role.