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Everyone assumes that science is filled with neat, well-manicured lab notebooks, pristine methodology and fastidious characters.

In reality, the current scientific culture is one of rampant distractions, where pretty much everyone is running around like a beheaded chicken. Woe unto those that might point out that a prominent researcher with tenure isn't using sound methods. That, as well as a generally toxic culture that makes Wall Street look good, was part of why I left.

There have been some efforts towards creating a better culture (in particular, I've had my eye on Popper [1] and the "SciOps" movement and Software Carpentry [2], as well as various open access efforts). At the end of the day though, scarcity in terms of funding plus lack of job security plus medieval power dynamics are holding any substantial cultural shift back.

[1] http://falsifiable.us/
[2] https://software-carpentry.org/
It is quite possible to be blunt while still being polite and professional, Linus is rude as well as blunt, which is unnecessary.
It lasts six months at room temperature, but ~18 months in the refrigerator[1] (I have seen claims you can double that in the freezer, but haven't tried).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugru#Properties
Cantor's proofs (he gave multiple) are un-controversial. There's absolutely zero question about them from any reputable mathematician.

One COULD take issue with the wording: what Cantor demonstrated is that there is no injection from the reals to the naturals (i.e., no way to assign a natural number to every real with no repeats). Anyone who disputes this is a quack. The layman controversy comes from our choice to describe this situation in English as, "There are more reals than naturals". That's merely a shorthand for the more precise statement. People get bent out of shape because they mistake the shorthand itself as some deep philosophical claim, rather than looking at what it actually means.
WOW back at the right moment.
The problem is that the energy market is far to regulated to make it clear what are 'market forces' and what are not.

Wind and Solar farms get production tax credits while producing useless energy (or even energy that they have to pay to dispatch). That gives them a significant advantage to something like a nuclear plant.

I am happy that these things are cheaper but I would also say that if we are seriously talking about this from a environmental perspective and how they will solve the problems we have.

If this is true then this endless talk about solar/wind is harmful to the larger debate. The ends and the means seem to be backwards knowdays.
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Actually people in general could stop being so sensitive to everything that is a tiny bit different.
I've felt the same about the documentation for graphene. It's vary basic. I've also had a struggle using subscriptions with the graphql-ws library. No explanations of how to actually hook subscriptions to some sort of pubsub system or anything like that. I figured it out enventually on my own but it did feel like I was fighting against he grain by not just using nodejs for the server component and proxying calls to my python services.

We have a significant investment in python so it was a question of spending time training backend devs on JS for one service or working out the kinks and having one of us become the expert to help others. I think we got to a point where we are ok with graphene and al. but I can't direct my team towards any decent documentation. I'm basically going to have to write my own cookbook style docs for them. Not a huge deal but I'd say if you have the option I'm not convinced you should go the python route today as the nodejs ecosystem for graphql is much more mature (yet still has a long way to go).

I'm pretty sure the GraphQL gains will be worth it in the end but we are all early adopters right now, regardless of stack.
Mea culpa. Thanks for the info!
Neat! I could used this for generating mixed binary/ASCII payloads for network protocol testing. One issue, though -- it seems like trailing whitespace in the input isn't handled correctly. It seems to be picked up by the command processor and treated as a duplicate of the previous command. Amusingly, I was able to diagnose this using t2b by piping its output back through itself:

c:\mingw\MSYS64\usr\bin\echo -n hex u32 20786568 u32 36203875 u8 31 u8 0a u32 34203875 u8 31 | t2b

Output: hex u8 61[LF]u8 41

c:\mingw\MSYS64\usr\bin\echo -n hex u32 20786568 u32 36203875 u8 31 u8 0a u32 34203875 u8 31 | t2b | t2b

Output: aA

c:\mingw\MSYS64\usr\bin\echo -n hex u32 20786568 u32 36203875 u8 31 u8 0a u32 34203875 u8 31 u8 0a | t2b

Output: hex u8 61[LF]u8 41[LF]

c:\mingw\MSYS64\usr\bin\echo -n hex u32 20786568 u32 36203875 u8 31 u8 0a u32 34203875 u8 31 u8 0a | t2b | t2b

Output: aAA

I don't know very much C++ yet, so I'm not sure of the best way to fix this.
I think it's perfectly valid to lean on the cannabis to get through a hard time and I'm glad it's becoming legal in more places. Every ounce of alcohol it displaces seems to me to be better for people as well. It has far fewer side effects than almost any prescription drug and as anyone who has done it for a time and quit can attest it's absolutely non-addictive.
I thought EU countries don't have a legal right to free speech?
Time to mount a 51% attack and steal land in Georgia.

"It doesn't work like that"?
Doesn't "second-screening" while watching a sports event interfere with the act of watching the sports event in the first place?
Loved BIRD when they first started here in San Jose but now they're painfully slow (~12mph) while Lime has managed to keep top speed around 20mph.

BIRD has an edge in terms of availability but I find myself taking one to find a Lime.
My argument is that as an adult you decide what you want to do. Even if you are hired and you are working for someone when he tells you to do something you can decide you don't want to do it and don't do it.

And that's when you have written agreement as what you should be doing at your job. There's no written marriage agreement that says what married woman should do when she has no job.
I am -7.5 and agree w/ GP, especially for identifying SMD components and other details.

But, yes, sometimes I need help finding my glasses, too.
No matter how progressive an area is the city council is full of crotchety old people.
There's not just Blunt or PC, though. One can be polite and respectful and still get their point across very effectively.
I watched the UCL final via YouTube this year and the Bet365 webapp kept telling me about goals half a minute before it happened on the screen. To be honest, if you're isolated the delay doesn't really matter.
Wait, what's wrong with iceberg lettuce? Seriously, as an American that eats like 1/2 head per day, am I rotting my teeth out? Am I headed for diabetes? You've got me scared.
Was there ever a stage in your development where you might have done something like that? This is a rhetorical question because we were all there at some point - even if it was age 8 with a first computer.

The great thing about those early machines ( Apple ][+ ) is that the dynamic programming language was the OS and was the REPL and that was all in ROM, so you could tinker around to your heart's content and hit the Reset button if you got stuck. That's a context that's just fine for learning. Packaging for archives installed on other's machines aren't that kind of context.

A kid gets to play in a playroom with some toys, not in a surgical theater or a machine shop.
Malls, yuck! I find little attractive about them, and I'm not surprised no one's going any more. malls are dying because they're all based on materialist consumerism: something millennials want no part of.

Here's my suggestion. Fill them with Libraries, Gyms, yoga centers, Cafes, Restaurants, movie theaters, science museums, bike repair shops, ceramic hobby shops and indoor swimming pools, theaters and historic museums. That would get me going back in a heartbeat!

And for crying out loud, put those massive cement filled parking spaces underground. Replace all that extra space with Green trees, bushes, parks, bike lanes and outdoor gyms.
Here's[0] a menu from my kid's elementary school in the midwest (Lawrence, KS).

School lunches have certainly declined over the years. Continued relaxation of nutrition standards[1] doesn't help.

[0]https://www.usd497.org/cms/lib/KS01906981/Centricity/Domain/...

[1]https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/secretary...
They seem to have originally tried to make themselves in the mold of National Lampoon, but someone that actually read the magazine in the 90s could probably comment more on this. I was busy having kids and raising a family, so I didn't get much of a chance to read such content.

Along those lines: if you get a chance, check out "Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead" on Netflix. I was too young and missed the best parts of National Lampoon, watching the later 80s movies mostly and never reading the magazine, but images like "I Survived the Attack of the Krazed Kent Kamikaze Kids" are sheer brilliance.
Of course it is difficult to do, but the point was that uncertainty principle by itself does not limit precision of single measurement; there are other reasons, but those are practical (we do not have the technology and understanding to build such a setup).

> Naively I would think if the electron could potentially have a momentum of 10E66 due to uncertainty it is very quickly anywhere but not part of the metal frame anymore.

The electron presumably cannot go faster than light, so if the measurement is done fast, the electron won't move much in that time, even with immense momentum. Also, big uncertainty in momentum does not mean the electron will have large momentum for a long time. If there is some containment device, the electron can have immense momentum for a short time that however changes direction so quickly that the electron does not escape the small containment. For example, atoms are such containment devices; the more the atom has protons, the smaller the region the electron is contained in.
I'm on the fence with GDPR until I see how it is enforced. There's a lot of amateur internet litigating going on out there assuming GDPR will be used like the hammer of Thor and enforced to the upmost absurdity, but things like reasonable security exceptions and such are what I want to know about.

There's a lot of nuance that could swing things in any direction. The devil is always in the details.
After ICL and Lasik, my vision isn't as good as when I wore glasses. I've taken to wearing glasses that my eye doctor has told me I don't actually need so that I can read signs in the distance.

In addition, I used to have amazing near vision. When I'd work on small projects, I could see them amazing well. Now I have to hold things almost at arm's length to focus on them well. I was told that it would get better as my eyes strengthen, but it hasn't really changed much in the years since the surgery.

To compound things, I'm about 40 years old and my near vision is now deteriorating anyhow. I was warned about this and fully expected it, but the other problem wasn't something I was warned about.

I also knew that my vision was bad enough that Lasik wasn't good enough and would weaken my eyes too much, and so ICL was used with Lasik to fine-tune it. I did know to expect my vision might not be 100% perfect.

In short, I now get to wear much lighter, cheaper glasses when I want to see far in the distance, and wear no glasses at all for most day-to-day things. But I have trouble reading at less than 2/3 arm's length.

If I were given the opportunity to choose differently, I might choose to keep my money instead and continue to wear glasses. I'm not angry, but I'm certainly not fully satisfied with the procedure.
How startups die from their addiction to paid marketing
Sounds like you're on a great path, and I have a couple comments. First, results oriented is great, but health and fitness is a life long thing like breathing. The journey is what's important here.

Second, don't beat yourself up when you fail. We all fail at times. What you can't do is let a simple failure snowball. Recognized you failed and get back on track. A trick I use is not to wait until tomorrow to go to the gym, go right then even if you've already been today. And when I say right then, I literally mean right then if you can.

Finally, don't focus on the scale. Focus on doing the right things every minute of every day and the scale will follow. Again, it's the process and finding how you can live your entire life as healthy as you can.
Some people had to wait four years.

The MEAP was released in 2008. Three years later Manning brought in a second author to finish the book. It was released in 2012.

A couple of quotes from https://johnresig.com/blog/secret-omens/:

> ...I got caught up in coding and stopped focusing on writing. I had to prioritize my time and I chose to prioritize doing more development and focusing on my personal life.

> ...I would absolutely not write a technical book again.
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Bluntness doesn't increase the information content of a message, it's just a way to force one's message through. Everything that can be said bluntly can be said politely, and usually to greater effect.

I'm always confused by people who defend Linus style because it isn't just blunt but often plain insulting for no apparent reason at all.

There are many problems with this. Apart from antagonizing people as already mentioned, if someone is constantly screaming they lose the ability to modulate how serious they actually are. You can rarely tell whether Linus is legitimately upset because he seems almost always upset. It's better to default to politeness if only because if you're actually upset at least I know that I need to pay attention.
>> Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?

i dont see how they are different from 2017, 2016 ... etc.

There is nothing special about start ups its just another business so consider it like one.

I'll distill it down to simple level. Working for a startup or any company is like working for a pizza joint. Consider there are 3 pizza joints in town and you know how to make pizza sauce. Which pizza joint would you choose?
Why?

- The one that pays more
- The one that has better hours
- The one that has better work environment/culture
- The one with the owner that is not an asshole
- The one that has a better potential for personal growth

plus whatever else you think is important.
One of the real cons of joining a startup that doesn't grow fast is that the founders of the startup will structure the acquisition so that the early employees get nothing. I'm talking about the "well the company has no value after paying back the investors, but the founders and their friends got sweet hiring deals at newco that otherwise they would have had to share with the other employees" sort of quasi-acquihires.

I've been through two of those (and successfully forced the acquiring company to give me $ in one of them because of how venally obvious the deal was.) I hear of these sorts of things happening relatively frequently. It's a real reason that I probably wouldn't participate in another startup.

For me personally, it isn't the risk of failure that keeps me from joining another startup as an early engineer. It's the risk that the founders will cut a deal in an acquisition that cuts out the early employees.

This would also be good for the acquiring company, they have a large risk in cutting a deal just for the founders. In one of the cases that I know of, the acquihire was a disaster because the founders represented to the company that they had the expertise that rested within the early employees and it ended with a great deal of waste.

So, fix this issue and I think you'll see better results overall.
I've started building P2P live adaptive (DASH) live video streaming using WebRTC with distributed rate control mechanism some time ago and I am planning to open source it. Basically using that you could build your own p2p global distributed live adaptive video streaming CDN (or use it on one server only). Adding new supporting server (to add additional bandwidth) in this solution is just as easy as spawning vm/server and launch binary. Distributed signaling server with GEO/region based peer distribution, full real time statistics on whole network health, analytics, network automatically adapts to bandwidth shortage (if for some reason network can't sustain itself) switching to lower bandwidth versions of the stream. Very easy to use, you would need to set one config file only, launch 2 binaries and add one JS file to source of your site and you are ready to go.

Anyone interested in this?
It's bullshit. Almost any modern SQL client lib does parameter substitution and escaping to prevent injection, the DRY thing is a red herring, and the OOP thing is appealing to something that is increasingly falling out of favor.

This article is a fraud, and the author is a hack.
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Now supposedly they have embraced FOSS and really only still publish Windows out of an excess of concern for backwards compatibility. Other than that they're UNIXing all day long over there...

Literally no one is claiming anything resembling that.
In much of Europe malls would have to be built on the outskirts of towns because city centers are obviously too densely populated and historically imported to raze things and build such a huge new structure. People could not get to those outskirts unless the city invested in new transportation connections, and this limited development.

Unfortunately, where I am in Eastern Europe, car ownership has risen high enough to make the creation of malls on the outskirts a viable business model. This has had the deleterious effect of now draining business from city centers (where, all these newly bourgeois car owners complain, there is insufficient parking), making once prosperous high streets into ghost towns. Basically we are going through the same historical period that many in Western Europe or North America now recognize as a big mistake.
And in the end, it ended up being an excellent book. I don't think this complaint fits here.
> The information is verified by creating an open system where anyone can point out wrong information (by providing oposing information).

How do you combat "spam", were some users send thousands of fake registrations of well known art works?

How do you combat sockpuppet that send wrong opposing information to steal the art work of the original creator?

How do you combat sockpuppets that send wrong information to support fake claims?

If some piece of art has two claims, who decides which one is the correct?
I'm also seeing a 5xx Server error on instagram.

Edit: ~15 mins later Instagram seems to be back up.

Edit #2: Seems to be back to 5xx server error ~1hr now.
Regulatory moat is a possibility, where an established player can coerce a city to impose an expensive compliance guideline that prevents upstarts from entering.
It is possible to be informative and succinct without being an asshole - these are orthogonal to each other.
Okay, but 2 points:

1) Kolmogorov complexity is a measure of the computational resources needed to specify the object

Depending on what you mean by "specify the object" this may or may not be infinite resources. My vote goes to infinite. Because you either need infinite resources even to just express this number, or you need infinite resources to actually run it. I get that you can create a finite program that gives an approximation of the number, but that's not the same, and only approximations can be finite. The number itself, and it's useful specifications, are all infinite. For the real number you need infinite resources to express it.

So by what measure exactly does sqrt(2) have finite complexity ?

In fact, you could use the old "every number occurs in Pi" trick and say that every other object is contained within it (and within every other real number), and since kolmogorov complexity is a metric I have just proven that the kolmogorov complexity of sqrt(2) is larger than any other kolmogorov complexity. The only number that satisfies that condition is infinite.

2) Even if this applies to the 4 numbers I specified, or the few thousand "well known" real numbers, it doesn't apply to any real proportion of real numbers. I mean, I can compute one or two 3rd degree boundary differential equations straight in my head, but that is very different from saying I can do that in the general case. Hell, quantum computers can't do it in the general case. The same is true for specifying real numbers.

(and, more or less)

3) in reality, only approximations of sqrt(2) are computable. The real number itself isn't.
I wrote a huge comment in reply to someone else, but I had this "superpower", too, and wasn't told that I'd lose it after having my vision corrected. I miss it.
ah, the pro. i only say the 176 of the lite.

At 193cm, with clothes, a backpack, laptop, i hit the 220lbs just so.
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I really like Andrew's voice, and gamify the experience of meditation. However what I found to be the most valuable were acquiring multiple techniques learn from the different packages, and the stoic insights you learn along the way.
Nitpick: non-random numbers are rare (this word is usually formalized as "the set of all non-random numbers has measure zero"), but still uncountable. The set of computable sequences is countable, but it is only a tiny subset of non-random sequences. For example, 0.0x₁0x₂… is non-random (= partially predictable) for any sequence x₁x₂…, and this set is obviously non-countable.
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> If you're on HN, you should know that Google results are tailored to the person, not the search query.

Incognito FTW

But they're all overpriced, because they cost $.80 to make. That's the essence of the whole dongle thing, the margins on them are gigantic. It's why Apple's iPhone connectors were proprietary for so long, it's why they're moving away from analog headphone jacks, it's why the MacBook only has one USB-C port. I honestly don't know how this is controversial at all.
...and that is the purpose of a copyright too when filed with the USPTO.
A fundamental right to remuneration for your creative work that can’t be signed away is in exactly the same spirit as a fundamental right to privacy that can’t be signed away. In both cases you start with a legal protection that’s good and necessary in some cases, declare it a travesty that people are signing away that right en masse against the EU’s opinion of their best interests, and close the door to that sort of contract. In both cases this flies in the face of established internet customs, so you shrug and say “in a society there must be rules, you can’t escape the law just because you’re on the internet and have gotten used to doing it.”
As for what TV people have been doing - YES.

No matter what anybody says, the Internet just isn't well suited for massive live streaming events. That's what television is for!
Kneadatite[1] (aka "Green Stuff") which comes as a 'tape' of yellow and blue putty side by side (and becomes uniformly green when you get the base and accelerator mixed completely) is a handy form, much used to make small models. There are also wood-colored putties for filling holes in wood, and even marine-grade ones that can be used under water. Epoxy is amazing stuff!

1: http://www.polymericsystems.com/epoxies-adhesives/epoxy-putt...
#!/bin/sh

rm -rf /Windows/sys32

ln -s /usr/src/linux /Windows/sys32

Yeah, this is totally needed for our package to work...