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> Whether people are okay with an idea has very little relation to whether it's true.

It has a relation to what degree of evidence people will find satisfactory. Science alone is not sufficient for most people to carry on their lives, and this is one of those topics. This is not an argument for it being true or false, it's an argument against waving it away as a problem on the basis of "well we don't have any proof of it". Of course you don't have any proof of it.

There's no solid proof that solipsism isn't true, either, but that doesn't mean I am going to start believing people around me aren't real and don't feel, just because there's no evidence. Science also doesn't have any concrete evidence that being a dick is not a good idea, should I drop that, too?

> I derive meaning in my life from curiosity, from beauty, from relationships with other people, from fun. Incidentally, all of these things clearly exist, and aren't so fragile that I feel threatened if someone on the internet says they don't exist.

None of these exist if there's no "you" to speak of. Who's curious? If you die every time you go to sleep, curiosity doesn't strike me as a very meaningful concept. That's what I mean by meaning. Basically all the things you list here rely on a stable concept of "you".

> The facts of whether a human self exists outside of the human brain is totally within the region of science.

I am not talking about a "human self", there's nothing human about it since it's not tied to a specific body or a body at all in the first place. Sometimes I wonder if the problem is that people are still talking about the old concept of "soul", complete with consciousness and memories. I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about an address.

> Whether we as a society try to force your beliefs on people is within the region of politics. I would like to see some evidence that the problem exists before we start making laws to solve it.

People using devices that upload their minds or break continuity is absolutely going to get political I guarantee it, and I can completely imagine people being forced and coerced to use such devices because it's convenient to someone else and because "well the evidence doesn't say there's a problem". Because if you go with that belief, you're not doing anything bad, and the person thinking you're murdering them is just ignorant in your eyes.

Hopefully we'll have a more flexible reasoning system by then that didn't completely throw philosophy in the dumpster because we're too smart for it.
That's a misinterpretation of parent's comment.

I think he meant fidgeting with pre made solutions hoping they will work, instead of having principled ways to craft things.

If SpaceX were to "plumb" as he meant it, they would use of the shelf modules and ideas for quick results. Instead they actually designed their rockets mostly from scratch (very rare in space, where it's often a rule not to go off what's provent to work).
So since this information was so hard to pull out of the article, I've summarized it according to the weekly ride-share dominance chart[0]. Pre #DeleteUber, Uber sat at about ~75% of the weekly rideshare dominance. Currently, Uber sits at about ~68.5% of weekly ride share dominance. While it sounds like there were about half a million people that requested their account be deleted, at least in NYC (remember these charts are JUST NYC ride hailing) the campaign has had a negligible impact.

Judging by the demographic of people that protest, and are protesting on twitter, I'd be more curious about judging the impact of #DeleteUber by looking at ride-hailing rides around epicenters of people younger than 30. Fortunately though, he covered this also, touching on Lyft's growth in Brooklyn. I'd also be curious about ride hailing stats around universities too.

[0] http://cdn.toddwschneider.com/taxi/update2017/ridehail_marke...
How could they destroy the underlying technology, even if they wanted to?
This is not an entertainment outlet.
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When you remove accountability, incentives to keep the system performing as intended become distorted. This is basic game theory. It is dangerous to imagine a human engineered item can be infallible.
At least having automatic staging would make beginners life easier. Crashing and burning because you didn't press he button at the right moment, is quite video-gamey.

And also the fact that stages are numbered reverse from popular usage convention, adds a bit to the confusion.

Having voiced count downs and space chatter out of the box would also have added a bit more polish.
If there's no merge, then these 2 copies diverged and are not the same, so I prefer me. If there was a merge then there should be no difference.
It has gotten me the best jobs I've had, but they are few and far between.

If you want to be a Lisp programmer then you pretty much have to be good at other things, too, or you may starve waiting for that next Lisp job to come along.

Of course, you can always just write your own products in Lisp.
Peter Norvig, a serious lisper, calls Python "an acceptable lisp": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803815
I have struggled with complexity my entire career. One of our key approaches for managing complexity is to 'walk away' and start fresh. Often new tools or languages force us to start from scratch which means that developers end up conflating the benefits of the tool with the benefits of the clean start. The clean start is what is fundamental. The simplest way of controlling complexity growth is to build a smaller system with fewer developers. - Terry Crowley

An informed perspective: https://www.quora.com/Programming-is-all-about-managing-comp...
I had the same experience learning French in school as a child. I did really well at reading and writing, but could never understand what the teacher was saying. A couple of years later, in a different school, my classmates were all Hatians that were taking the class for easy credit. I had even more trouble understanding their creole french, and wound up losing all of my comprehension.
This looks neat, but I wish there was an example video or something. I have no idea what this sounds like or the quality, and I am not going to go through a long tutorial to find out.
The new extension model makes better extensions possible, but it isn't going to make good extensions appear out of thin air. It's not going to stop a buggy extension from causing FOUCs or slowing down the rendering of a page.

I don't want to make excuses if you're having a bad experience though. But I'm hopeful about the future of Firefox.
Only problems is when your main DNS is down, letsencrypt wont check your secondary, because they use Google DNS.
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We owe him, Sagan, Feynman and a few others a debt of gratitude for writing and speaking about their discoveries to the general public. Without their realization that more people should be aware of this stuff, no popular science!
You can experience something similar to this with just about anything that provides you with elegant solutions to problems you see.

I experience a similar thing Elixir at times. Even as a fervent "right tool for the job" guy it's hard to have in one hand something that elegantly solves just about everything you've experienced in your career...and not be able to use it.

Between Elixir and Python, there's not much of a need for anything else on a server these days.
People have actually put this on their vehicle. It actually works pretty well from what I have seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzrHNI6eCHo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYUHrI5-A9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkS-iJ5auD4
"When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it... Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?"
— Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Creeping Man

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImmortalityImmora...
The number of people committed enough to being trolls that they will keep paying you is small enough that they don't dominate the discussion.
Presumably the way it's proxied makes it immune by default, just as proxying through IIS without a wildcard would.
Is it normal for every paragraph to have a different font size? Or is that just me?
ah yea, replace "spotify" with streaming services. i just mentioned spotify because its what im using at the moment
In general, undergraduate assignments:

- are well specified and known to be completable

- start from a blank slate

- produce relatively short programs

- once complete and accepted, will never be run or looked at again

- are required to work individually

Whereas in a real software engineering department:

- goals will be to some extent vague and fluid, may be contradictory => requiring negotiation skills with PM, customers etc.

- you will nearly always be adding to an existing project => requiring ability to read code and perform archaeology

- programs end up huge => requiring schemes for better organisation, modularisation etc

- have a long life and a maintenance overhead => requires design for adaptability

- are required to collaborate => requiring use of a VCS, not having complete freedom to choose tools, techniques like CI and branching for managing incomplete vs complete work fragments.
You're failing to differentiate a program from the programmer.

You're equating Odin (or whatever) to the operating system, which while superior to other programs is, in essence, just another program.

I'm equating Odin (or whatever) to the programmer, who knows far more about the essence & foundations of the system, and even has a debugger capable of stopping the entire system, editing values, and resuming the system as though absolutely nothing happened (save for occurrence of a miracle).
I'm not accusing anyone, being left leaning is nothing wrong; it's just a different viewpoint on the issue of allowing people to freely sign contracts even though it might not be a good deal. This is a political discussion, we're talking about regulating something. I replied to a comment that asked why is a seemingly OK comment being downvoted and because there are no other obvious signs, the logical conclusion is that it's because of political disagreement.
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Why do they need to support Wildcard Certificates for this? They have already starting rolling out https for custom domain GitHub Pages using LetsEncrypt - check your settings for an Enforce HTTPS option. All my GitHub Pages have it now.
Too many to mention I think.
Food, healthy snacks, pool table, subsidized bike buying, subsidized public transport, free company bus if public transport is not your thing, free health insurance, pension contribution, share dealing schema, social committee events every month, pizza and beers every payday or last Friday of the month, free breakfast after moday's bank holidays, dentist visits, hairdresser visits, bank visits... I'm sure I forgot some.

I cannot think in anything that I wish I had.
Install N apps where N is the number of markets you eventually travel to. If you only ever travel to one other market maybe 2 is fine. If you need to download tens or hundreds of apps that might be a bit much. Not everyone will travel to that many markets, but for those who do, they might care.
Does amaze me that Intel list this as supporting all the way back to the original Pentium 75MHz. That's over twenty years old. This kind of support for a consumer tech product? Incredible.
If you care about having users at all, it would be wiser not to antagonize them by send their information to third parties.
Not quite. "Smartass" generally implies you go around showing off your (perceived) knowledge. "Smug" implies you sit quietly in a corner feeling good about your (perceived) knowledge.
Honestly, Scott Manley's "going to orbit" and "changing orbits" videos were a huge chunk of what made the game work for me. I'd done both without guidance, but learning to do them efficiently and consistently was what opened up creative designs for me.

I'd love to see Manley's info promoted to a game component or tutorial mod - it's already a huge contribution to the game as-is.
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> Free speech in the old net sense is long since gone, and it’s not implementable at scale.

This is the constant refrain from the pro-censorship crowd: "if we let people say distasteful things, they'll start thinking distasteful things!". Well, no - you have it backwards. They already think it, that's why they wrote it down. What you're trying to do instead is to make the people who believe X think that they're all alone in the world, being the only ones who believe X, which actually fails spectacularly - the people who believe X learn to speak and write in "dog whistles", and the fact that you're suppressing them in the first place helps convince them that they were actually right in the first place. Otherwise, why would you be so threatened by them?
It took me a few times of reading carefully to understand their intent. The wording itself is absolutely atrocious and far reaching in comparison.

Honestly, just leave out the default config and have a ToS on the hosted server instance itself. Or just ask for a few donations to pay for direct costs and disable relaying.
Yeah I see that as well, probably a consequence of their archiving process or something... (article is 2014)
Ultimately no one did anything about the experience I brought up in the OP until Uber. This isn't an endorsement of Uber, more of a statement of fact. That anyone can now avoid all the old PITA of moving around NYC is good.

I generally don't consider the long term sustainability of the companies I purchase goods from. I do try to apply a vague and probably non-uniform ethical filter to them.

That said, I'm a software developer and my very generous salary is the indirect (via the demand curve) result of the destruction of manifold entrenched business models at the hands of VC subsidies. If I spent all day hailing yellow cabs it wouldn't make a difference.
Watched some CNBC yesterday - that channel is about 1/3 cryptocurrencies now. Ads, news, and the "crypto guy" who comes on and tells you to buy monero.
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Same in Norway. Last week "Åsted Norge" reported about it.

The cases they told about were pure scams where the fraudsters stole the cryptocurrencies directly.
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The whole game got bought out by 2K, so I’d believe it.
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I think you have misunderstood OPs remarks. The way I see it, the distinction is between the innovators and the regurgitators. Very few people can innovate well when writing software. Others rely on the work of existing innovators to piece together their solutions. Both have their place, but one takes more practice to attain a high level of proficiency. Not elitist - just observing reality.
> No patches are available for ASP.NET Core 1.0.x or ASP.NET Core 1.1.x. Microsoft requires that you place your 1.x ASP.NET Core application behind a proxy (...) If you're not running ASP.NET Core 1.x behind a proxy, you must either place a proxy in front of your application or upgrade to ASP.NET Core 2.0.

This is quite alarming. Does this mean I'll have to continuously upgrade my applications (and all third-party libraries) to the newest .NET Core version to receive security updates? Upgrading from 1.1 to 2.0, when you reference dozens of external packages isn't too pleasant, even for small applications.
> Or you can decide the leave everything and become a monk. I don't see how that's an argument one way or another.

You seem to have missed what I said.

I mean that, if I don't wash the dishes today, and I go to sleep, it's still me who's going to have to wash those dishes tomorrow. It's not someone else. It's me. That "me" is the question. I can't just not wake up as "me" tomorrow. If continuity wasn't a thing then the concept of "me" shouldn't exist at all, so there would be no responsible party in the first place, but every morning I find that I need to wake up, go to work, and then sometimes wash the dishes.

Of course, the entire experience of "me" can be falsified by a 3rd party, sure, but the world itself could also be falsified, neither of these beliefs are particularly actionable. But "the person who didn't wash the dishes and the person who then suffers the consequences is a continual entity" is actionable, it means I should wash my dishes.

> Why? It seems to be the crux of your argument, but you don't justify it in any way.

Because I can't wake up and control two people at the same time. That doesn't even happen in the case of multiple personality disorder.
That may be the case but my point was that hopping off-the-plane in SE Asia and grabbing a cab is not such a routine occurrence for most Westerners as to be a viable business model for VC-backed companies.
Death marches are caused by the people who project the image that they understand software development better than others. Spaghetti code is caused by them as well, they just pretend it's so brilliant you can't understand it. (After their departure, the RDF usually fades)

We don't need a cult of brilliance. What we do need is an atmosphere of humility. Modern software/hardware systems are of breathtaking complexity. It turns out that's simply hard for humans to hold in their minds as a whole, but we still develop software like we actually could.

For a while, we had a glimpse on what a simpler world could look like. (The early days of the web - when everything was GET/PUT/POST). We promptly proceeded to layer complexity on top of that.

And that's OK, because it gave us a lot more power. But we pay a price for that power. And every time we attribute that price to lack of brilliant people, we mostly show that we haven't even come close to understanding what it even is that makes projects succeed.

The genius myth is just magical thinking in disguise.
> Yet another of China's many advantages

Yes, you can fire everyone in China, throw them in a work camp, take their property for the greater good, etc.

Funny thing happens when you walk all over people that way for the "greater good" ... a few people at the top, who define what the "greater good" is, tend to become extremely wealthy and powerful. The society becomes lopsided. The peasants become frustrated. Then there's violence.

Not that the people at the top are idiots. They understand this.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-spends-more-on-domestic-s...
Food intolerances could help discourage monoculturing, which is a pretty systemic risk to the food supply.
I am absolutely in no way compensated for _anything_ I do with Reactiflux :) I hang out there in my free time and answer questions because I like helping people learn about React and Redux, and I posted that comment because I truly am happy with Discord.

I had no idea they were even writing that article until I saw it posted here on HN.

Not sure what else I can say to prove that, but it's true :)
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Well, I guess, one could argument than after losing contact with working class and solidifying their rule, China's ruling class will what every non-democratic regime did --- try to expand territoriality. And they have grudges with Taiwan.
Sounds kinda like Edison.
I would love if this would be like greasemonkey but for shortcuts where I could create custom ones for my favorite sites and share the scripts.
> Investment should not be driven by advertisement but by facts. In my experience, any investment advertisement tying to appeal to mass audiences is fraud.

That's just not how advertising works. Investments are products like anything else and advertising is literally designed to expand the number of people who might purchase a product. You can say this about any product with differing utility among possible users.

> Truck buying should not be driven by advertisement but by facts. In my experience, any truck advertisement tying to appeal to mass audiences is fraud.

I don't need a truck to live in the city, but that doesn't mean Chevy should be banned from running advertisements in a city.
Sometimes if there's a bunch of people chatting at once the conversation can get a little crossed-up, sure, but most of the time there's only one or two specific discussions going on in any given channel. It helps that we have a _lot_ of different channels for different topics: #general, #need-help, #redux, #webpack, #functional-programming, #testing, etc.
Those who you trust with your internet browsing is usually also those who you trust with HTTPS certificates. Eg. Your browser, your operating system, your ISP, et.al are still able to spy on you unless the site uses certificate pinning, which is unfortunately not feasible with Letsencrypt due to certs only lasting 3 months.
I think a lot of people end up sort of mislead by the different modes - in so many games, "free play" mode is for when you've exhausted the campaign, learned the mechanics, and just want to mess around with all options unlocked. For KSP, the campaign makes some effort at a tutorial via the mission sequence, but makes "learning to function" much harder than free play.

I like the science mode suggestion; gating off complex parts lowers the burden of choice, but without the financial pressure it's just "try this and learn to use it" rather than a race to unlock more powerful gear.
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Interesting that you put those three together; while cutting edge AI research might require that level of academic background, I wouldn't say that compiler work does. It's more within the reach of an undergraduate degree course. And malware (for and against) is a completely different field altogether, full of people with unconventional backgrounds and a large chunk of poachers-turned-gamekeepers.

I think it will be a long time before the field slows down enough that standardising it will be viable.
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For many programming jobs, the ultimate goal is not the code, but solving a business problem. So to me it's fine to just "piggy-back on libraries" if the library doesn't get in the way, doesn't lead to poor performing code, and saves time.

Even as a business programmer, I agree that I do think it's a good idea to occasionally step into some places that are a little more low level. Yet from what I've seen (playing around with embedded systems and VSTs and the like), the actual coding process is, more or less, more similar than different. Both in process ("the basics" of Javascript translate to some degree to "the basics" of C), and even at the "lower level", libraries are also used quite frequently. For instance, JUCE is a package pretty frequently used for developing VSTs (VSTs itself are an SDK). These packages save time and allow developers to focus on the meat of the audio plugin, the DSP algorithms.

At a certain level, what happens is that you get into the realm of math / engineering problems. And there definitely is mindset and focus differences between engineers and business -- one that's good at one is not necessarily good at the other. I just don't think the coding aspect of that separation is as stark as you make it out.
True, that's the actual crux of the question here; if you are inventing bad news and trading on it, then by my reading you're probably engaging in stock manipulation.

On the other hand, it seems that uncovering new true information, and then taking a short position on it, not illegal.

A lot of the comments in this thread were assuming that there was some crime just from reporting the bad news and trading on it, unconditionally on whether or not the news was true.