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It's funny because I've always felt this is something the military gets right. (At least the Marines do.)

The military understands quite well that most tasks cannot be planned or managed at all. It is never a matter of giving people scripts and having them execute scripts. The world is chaotic and unpredictable. It's also very hard for any one person to get anything done. Most work requires a team which introduces even more chaos, failure modes and unknown variables. Therefore the military introduces the concept of 'command'. Commanders are not there to micro-manage anybody. Good commanders understand quite quickly that they cannot control everything. Commanders are there to work with the chaos.

Once you accept the concept of command the next step is the basic understanding that there are some people who are good commanders and others who are not just bad at it but they may actively dislike it. The commanders may indeed thrive off a certain amount of chaos and structurelessness may despise being "micro-managed." Give them a big goal, the necessary resources, and set them off. As long as feedback mechanisms are in place they'll get there. The specialists want routine and stability. They want to be part of a team where roles and responsibilities are clearly laid out. They want to be able to focus and specialize on a single problem and excel in a particular domain.

BTW, this division, like most binaries, is not written in stone. Excellent results can be achieved by rotating commands over time. Specialists who claim to dislike command should sometimes be given command responsibilities simply to edge them out of their comfort zone and broaden their perspective. Sometimes commanders need to get to their hands dirty to grain a deeper tactical perspective. Avoiding a rigid hierarchy and command structure is how good organizations scale and adapt.

The problem with the completely flat model is that it may serve commanders very well (who again, can thrive off chaos) but specialists will experience a lot anxiety and frustration.
ROFL that reply to the recruiter. 'You know what they say: In business, you're either the earthquake or the losers falling into the cracks and landing in the hot magma'
And what's an object, a somewhat opaque blob with some attributes? It all depends on where in the sand you decide to draw the line.
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From the "IBM comment on preparing for a Trigraph-adverse future in C++17" (Oct 2014):

> There are real customers who use EBCDIC. We cannot reveal their names due to confidentiality
agreements. One key example is some of the major banks in North America who continue to use IBM
machines to perform check clearing operations. These high reliability software systems are written on
IBM mainframes clearing your checks and because they have been debugged over so many years and
are highly critical to daily integrity of the financial industry, they are highly reliable and will never be
moved to any other platform. In a way, this makes their code unaffected by this removal of trigraphs.

> Other EBCDIC users with trigraphs from a world-wide company that can’t get square brackets (i.e. [ ]) everywhere so must use trigraphs to get at them quotes: “In that capacity we have widely distributed deployments, around the world, across Windows, HP-UX, Linux, z/OS and iSeries systems. That's why we need the trigraphs, it doesn't seem you can count on the [ ] characters working everywhere. ... "

Source: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n421...
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#1 held: we defined the tasks required to solve the problem at hand, and focused in on them.

#2 held: the teams were fairly small and homogenous.

#3 held, mostly. The project lead would occasionally withhold potentially-useful information, which felt like some kind of egocentric power play, but overall communication was very good.

#4 didn’t hold. We were all specialists in various areas. Fortunately, people rarely left mid-project.
i haven’t read your linked article yet, but your comment reminded me of adam curtis’ documentary, all watched over by machines of ever loving grace. it covers the idea that the internet’s decentralization was supposed to liberate us but has instead had the opposite effect. i may be misremembering, but i think he even covers a communal society that was supposed to be without any control or governance that ended up being a messpool of social politics and power struggles.

thanks for the article link.
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The parent asked very straightforwardly what is p hacking and you replied with a red herring. If I'm being pedantic, you're being unhelpful.
Reminds me a little of the surfer physicist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Garrett_Lisi
If you want to use Arch but are not that hardcore-technical (command line installer etc.), try Antergos. It's like Arch ez-mode -- GUI installer, installs with a GUI of your choice (Gnome by default), uses all the Arch packages. I am running Antergos on a Lenovo Ideapad 720s and it's a pleasant experience.
This is a site populated by technical people, so please don't characterize technical security audits so simplistically ("what about the server" is a complete red herring).

There were 140 servers, not "the server." Regardless, the interesting data was found in the network gear of the data center that housed the servers (i.e. meta data/ connectivity logs). Trump was given the choice as to when the latest indictments were announced.
This isn't legal or controlled, but if you spend some time attending music festivals, you can come across just about and drug you would imagine (speaking about the US). LSD and mushrooms are popular at these shows. Speaking from experience, I would that if you have a personality that can handle finding drugs, then this would be less risky than buying from an online source.
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"triggering apoptosis in senescent cells"

You can do this right now with very vigorous exercise.

In fact, it appears that ones own mitochondrial population can be kept "young" by constantly weeding out cells with poor energy efficiency. Sort of a intra-body natural selection with exercise as the environmental stressor.

There is a very interesting book by Nick Lane titled _Power, Sex, Suicide_ that explores these ideas.

Not to worry, I suppose, since anyone with even a fleeting interest in "life extension" or "anti aging" would have a comprehensive, extremely intense exercise regimen ...

Right ?
First off, I don’t have any experience with publishing based off the results of simulations. My (short) time in writing papers centered around economics research with observational datasets.

I can tell you that given a fixed size dataset, it is not possible to p-hack below a certain threshold in any meaningful way. My colleagues would’ve asked why the gigantic dataset we purchased had 1/4 of its observations thrown out etc.

Your claim that the threshold and the practice of p-hacking are orthogonal (independent?) is still puzzling to me. I think a better analogy would be trying to game something like your Pagespeed score. In order to get a higher score, you skimp on UX so the page loads faster, and cut out backend functionality because you want fewer HTTP requests. Making it harder to achieve a Pagespeed score forces you at some point to evaluate the tradeoffs of chasing that score.

I have two questions for you:

1) Would it take you more time to p-hack a lower threshold, or do all your results yield you a ~0.0000 p-value?

2) In simulation based research like yours, it seems to me that even other p-hacking “fixes” like forcing there to be a pre-announcement or sample size, sample structure, etc. wouldn’t address what you say you’re able to do. What can be done to fix it?
The ideas conveyed in the article are interesting in their own right, there was no need for profanity. I wish that Hacker News had a downvote option for cases such as this.
...and have a trip sitter.
What the people who want Stanley-steamers don't realize is, what they really want is better buggy-whips.

Cites are centralized services. Communities can actually thrive outside of cities.
Exactly this.

A house _is_ an investment, regardless of how someone wants to think about it.

Buying a house involves a significant opportunity cost over renting since it requires locking up capital (a down payment, or the entire value of the house if buying in cash) in an illiquid asset that could have been invested in liquid assets like stocks (that have historically performed better than real estate over longer time horizons for most housing markets, and often more than makes up for the fixed costs of renting once maintenance costs, taxes, and mortgage interest rates are taken into account, but that's only tangential to the point I'm trying to make).

Also, most people buy their houses on mortgages, so they're investing with 5-10x leverage over the down payment and paying interest for that leverage. This level of leverage would be considered outright insane for any other long term investment, but most people won't even think twice before locking a large majority of their net worth behind a down payment. This puts their financial well-being at the mercy of the whims of the local real estate market due to the 5-10x amplified gains/losses, and practically removes their ability to meaningfully diversify and de-risk their portfolio.

Now of course I'm not saying buying a house can never make sense financially or otherwise, just that refusing to think of it as an investment can be dangerous because it can blind you to the nuanced risk/reward calculations involved in one of the most impactful financial decisions you can make in your lifetime.

For myself, the right time to buy a house would likely have to be when I've saved up enough money that the upfront investment for the purchase of the house is about 30% of my net worth if I'm buying with cash, or less than 10% of my net worth if I'm buying with a mortgage, to counteract the extra exposure to real-estate from the 5-10x leverage. That may mean that the time to buy a house in the Bay Area may never come for me, but I'm perfectly fine with that because the alternative would compromise my ability to keep my investments reasonably liquid and diversified, which could prove to be disastrous in these uncertain financial times ahead of us.
Thanks. They are all related to using Winamp to play rather obscure formats (Flash video and Univox streams - I had to look up the latter - and mp4 in a RAR when the user does something).

In short, none related to how people use Winamp: to play music files and streams.
The mentioned Safe C Library is now at https://github.com/rurban/safeclib
Sure, that's what I meant.
Thanks!

On an unrelated note, thanks for that Feynman integral trick post.
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They also pretty much developed the Vive and all accompanying software. HTC was originally not much more than a partner that created hardware to their specification.
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I recently set up a personal use Linux laptop. I picked the Lenovo Ideapad 720s. There was a good price and I really like lightweight and thin laptops. I set up Antergos on it and am a very happy user now. I run VS Code to work on side projects and work in both nodejs and php/apache and everything works flawlessly.

The setup itself involved a lot of gotchas, I wrote a post about it: https://medium.com/@bigilui/installing-antergos-linux-on-a-l... Hope it helps if you decide to do it.
> clever experimental design and cherry picking can generate many results that are statistically significant at that level.

I’m not sure what’s incorrect about this statement? If you disagree with the “fix” to the problem that is most familiar to me, that’s fine. It’s one of many approaches.

But, at what point did I mislead the parent as to what p-hacking is? What’s your definition?
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I like the fact that yours app allows negative endorsements as well. There's a lot of people I know reviewed on linkedIn that would have more negative reviews in the real world.
> If you take a look at any biological system that must exist, sustain itself, there is always a control and monitoring system.

This may be a sweeping statement. We do know of collections of cells, for example, the cells in the heart muscles beat together without a central monitor. Swarms like flocks of birds, schools of fish etc. do not seem to have a hierarchical order.

Steven Strogatz has a book called "Sync" related to spontaneous synchronisation. He also has given a Ted talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_strogatz_on_sync/transcript...
Thanks for running your experience by these conditions.

#4 seems like almost everyone in the team was indispensable since they were all specialists, which might not contradict the point of the condition (no one believes they’re less replaceable than their peers)
> types are nice and Scala's type system is powerful, but sometimes I wish I had the flexibility of a dynamic language. It would make prototyping much faster.

You can use both scala and clojure seamlessly.
I'm writing my first gui app in clojure for prototyping swing, but if I choose to rewrite parts of it in scala the rest of the clojure code would continue to work.

There are several ways.
using clojure in a scala project: https://github.com/Geal/sbt-clojure
using scala in a clojure project: https://github.com/technomancy/lein-scalac
jvm polyglot with maven: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9676895

example: https://blog.michielborkent.nl/blog/2016/07/26/clojure-from-...
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It's a long piece, but skimming shows that Joreen's piece makes that point and she proposes a rather democratic structure as a way to both avoid the problems with usual hierarchies and complete structurelessness.
Reversing cause and effect is no trouble for quantum computers
Yes they are human beings and we SHOULD provide them more rights and dignity. But, in terms of strictly legal arguments, the US constitution only affords those rights to US citizens, which these children were not.
I saw you guys at the Rise conference pitching. Thanks for giving me payments & reviews as part of your product demo :)
25 years ago I was given a similar possibility. Building a large team from scratch in an emerging country.

There was a huge difference though : the company was international, had plenty of money to burn and I could fail without consequences (as I see it now).

And boy, I failed. A few times.

The experience was extraordinary and it forged my future. I am today in a position I would not be in if not these years and other similar opportunities all over the world.

Let me please emphasize two thingd:

- I was allowed to fail (it was somehow expected)

- and I failed.

You have no experience in management, and especially not in international management. Therefore you will fail. And learn a LOT.

If you are going there to learn AND fail - do it. It will be an invaluable experience.

If you plan to succeeded, or at least may be impacted by failing, do not go. Get dome eaqier experience first.

Having important work to deliver + problematic team + other culture + inexperienced leader = disaster.
Yhis means either clueless company or a need for a burnout manager to sacrifice.
Fair enough.

Arrays losing dimensionality when passed through functions is a pain every now and then.
The problem with the first example is that `int` and `unsigned` are not the correct types to be using for array indexing. As we saw, they were 32 bits wide on a 64 bit platform, which lead to an additional sign extension and (in the case of `unsigned`) truncation instruction. However, this can be avoided by using `ptrdiff_t` and `size_t`, which are defined to match the platform size and avoid the extension and truncation altogether. The fact that signed integer overflow being undefined allowed the compiler to elide the `int` truncation is somewhat irrelevant, since using the correct integer types leads to even faster code that doesn't rely on undefined behaviour at all.
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The problem with secure C11 Annex K functions, is that they are only secure in name.

They are still as insecure as any traditional C string and memory function.

Yes, they sorted out the issues about then a string always gets its null terminator.

However given that buffer and size are still two different parameters, the issue of mixing up the values is still present.
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Torturing the data until it sings.
Hierarchies form around the skills that are most valuable for the existence of the group. Nobody bites the hand that feeds her.
Of course it's toxic if you're the boss or founder, because your goals won't matter. But it isn't for the group that creates it's own goals. This works if there is no boss.
Ever read the Gervais Principle?

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
Did they actually get that much? I can understand now why you said that given that amount of money. Although really even $1 could make someone question it's use.
I really like how she distinguished between each condition because you can tell she basically asked “how can a team be productive without (formal) structure?”

This essay should be require reading for startups.
From the indictment:

39. HENRY remarked, "[Verrückt] could hurt me, it could kill me, it is a seriously dangerous piece of equipment today because there are things that we don't know about. Every day we learn more.* I've seen what this one has done to the crash dummies and to the boats we sent down it. Ever since the prototype. And we had boats flying in the prototype too.* It's complex, it's fast, it's mean. If we mess up, it could be the end. I could die going down this ride."

These guys are going to gaol for a long time. Unfortunately, that won't undo anything.
I had the enjoyable experience of sitting at a tech conference and listening to the others in my group tell one of my friends that he had no idea what he was talking about when he said they weren't designing a proper experiment.

I was the only one there who knew he's a particle physicist.

The OP is horrifyingly right.
I would prefer something which promotes neural plasticity without showy side effects.
Fair point, but at least he has published some works and spun a few TED talks.

Maybe we need a separate HN thread: who is the lamest ‘thought leader’ you’ve come across recently? ;)
If you've got the money, you can always just increase your sample size until significance is achieved.
The (almost) best thing about this article is the discovery of http://realbusinessmen.com/
This is at least as great satire! Google rank not having spam — good one! My favorite though is your one two punch:

> Why is the company setup in the USA?

https://peertal.com/#/faq

And

> Peertal is developed by a global team...
https://peertal.com/#/about

So good! I won’t spoil it for others. They’ll have to visit the sight for the full experience. I’m a beleiver!
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Following on from the discussions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17583046 , this is possibly the defining issue* of our times!

* sarcasm alert
I couldn’t resist :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17585492
> The longer you wait, the more you’re priced out of the market and reliant on the whims of a landlord.

That's only true if the value of your portfolio or salary aren't increasing faster than the market.

I've personally teared up in housing about every other year. It would have been much more difficult to do this is I owned rather than rented.
I doubt that will qualify as "informed consent" for those not literate in English or the vision-impaired.
There was no contract between Facebook and Crimson Hexagon regarding data. All data mined was publicly available to anyone.
I absolutely agree. Adding an array type to C that knows its own length would solve so many headaches, fix so many bugs, and prevent so many security vulnerabilities it's not even funny. Null terminated strings? Gone! Checked array indexing? Now possible! More efficient free that gets passed the array length? Now we could do it! The possibilities are incredible. Sadly, C is so obstinately stuck in its old ways that adding such a radical change will likely never happen. But one can dream ...
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From the indictment:

27. HENRY's rushed schedule affected quality control. A steel detailer named Ronald Miller, who was hired to assist with the Verrückt construction, emailed Project Manager Kathrine Fontenot to voice his concerns: "I'll be honest with you. We were forced to ship this [tower platform] way to early. There are still so many unknowns. We would have saved a lot more time (and money) if everything was figured out here at the plant. I have been telling people for months that it was imperative to have all of this stuff figured out prior to shipment. My requests fell on deaf ears and now it is on its way up to KC to be galvanised. Instead of dealing with these questions in a controlled environment, where we have the material and resources to resolve these matters, it is going to have to be done on the fly 160' in the air, on a structure that is galvanised."
Indeed, Slackware, Void, or Arch. Or since the parent poster seems to be somewhat into scientific computing, NixOS could also be interesting. NixOS is like having virtualenvs for everything.
"Science fiction" admits a wide variety of classifications. Interstellar is clearly science fiction so I don't like the grand parent's wording (I also don't like yours: what does 'science' have to do with being in the future?).

But trying to generously interpret the GP's and your comment, Interstellar was heavily promoted, and portrays itself as an accurate representation of a potential future, with correct physics and details rigorously fact checked, etc., a sub-category called "hard science ficiton." In reality there are numerous flaws in its physics, too many to count really. These aren't nits either--the most ridiculous physics-defying nonsense is in fact fundamental to the plot.

That's only the beginning of the problems. Interstellar was a terrible movie all-around, with plot holes you could fly a starship through. But it is why I think someone might say "It's not [the type of] science fiction [it claims to be]".
> Notable among these are C++, the D programming language, and most recently, Go

I would remove go from that list, and add rust and zig.
Interesting read however even that was 4 years ago. A lot of European banks have been making major upgrades to their IT infrastructure (for better or worse) in recent years so it wouldn't surprise me if a few of those EBCDIC systems have been torn out of American banks as well.

However even assuming they are still in use (which is a real possibility knowing how slowly banks upgrade) I would be surprised if they depended on GNU Awk let alone undefined behaviour in its Regex library.

I'm not normally someone who says "move fast and break things" but I do think this is one situation where it is ok. I mean EBCDIC is hardly recent and it wasn't exactly popular even when it was "current tech" (I seem to recall it was a bit of a laughing stock?)