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"Because it taste good" isn't a rational reason?
Is the contract for 10 Mbps?

Why should they do more than honor the contract if you demand to stick with it?
The same argument could be made for tagging dozens of other physical property items, or if we are going down that slope, humans themselves. I'm willing to bet the number of hit-and-run incidents solved each year from bystanders catching a plate number is negligible (as compared to rage I experience whenever I need to visit the DMV - I live in socal). Also we can still ID the car to a reasonable level: white chevy bronco headed southbound on 405. If we absolutely need a number on the back of the car, we could (1) have manufacturers just print a shorter version of the vin back there, or (2) make it required that we put a number back there ourselves; my mailbox has a number I put there myself using reflective stickers bought on Amazon.
It was named by a german chemist, it is volfram in swedish. Check out the german wikipediaentry and try sending it through translate.
Openstreetmap is just the underlying data - absolutely anyone can come along and build a program to draw images from it. That's why OSM is so powerful, and what distinguishes it from Google maps etc.
I'm not sure it's true though. Look at any polls about trust in the media. It's been falling for a long time. People are becoming aware that journalists are systematically unreliable and it's having an impact.
I don't remember ever eating a Kit Kat thingy, but from a look at the photo in the article, I don't understand what's so unique about the shape.

Also, how the hell are you supposed to recognize it when the shape is hidden by the packaging?
My main point was the same as yours: that the event horizon looks more and more "normal" as a region of space the larger the black hole is, so if you want to get close to a black hole's event horizon to test its properties (e.g. to explore whether quantum effects might cause that "normalness" to break down), visiting a very large black hole is your best bet.

I haven't double checked the calculations myself: too much other stuff to do. But glancing around at other people who have looked at the numbers, it seems pretty clear that spaghettification is expected to happen for macroscopic objects well outside the event horizon of a stellar-mass black hole. Wikipedia gives an example of a 10-solar-mass black hole: its event horizon radius is about 30km, but macroscopic objects will be spaghettified at a radius of about 320km. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification#Inside_or_ou... (That ratio is roughly reversed for a 10,000-solar-mass black hole.) There are some similar calculations shown in detail on this NASA math worksheet (which is for some reason still using cgs units): https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/blackh/4Page33.pdf
He says not to use your repository commit messages as the source for your changelog text.
That's exactly what I do use.

I started doing this after reading "The Pragmatic Programmer" where it's argued that the DRY principle should apply to everything including documentation.

It starts with the bug tracker. So when entering something in that I'll also add the text that I want to appear in the changelog for the user to see (these lines will have a // at the start).

When a bug/feature is completed a commit is made and the text in the bug tracker is the commit comment.
If the commit comment has a line starting with a // then that line will have another line inserted above it //Bug fix: or // Feature:

Finally on building the distributable the changelog is constructed entirely from the lines in the commit messages that start with //
Isn't it more like ROP attack? You present data meant to cause the judge to follow a desired execution path through the relevant laws.
I would like something generic as well. I used to use semantic-release[1] but it's a bit too Github-specific for my tastes.

[1]: https://github.com/relekang/python-semantic-release
Kit Kat actually 'beat' Kvikk Lunsj to market by a couple of years. No idea if Kvikk Lunsj was inspired by KitKat or if they came up with the shape independently.
I made an argument that it isn't practical, but people will still prefer the fantasy. And you are saying that "it should be lauded" without addressing any of my concerns. Doing the exact same thing I said people would do. I would be easier just to admit that you care about as much as bankers going to charity dinners.

There is no need for an anarchist collective. You can just go to a third world country an import the drugs. Or you can start a pharma company. Or you can buy proper equipment and hire experienced people. The only reason for doing it yourself, and go to hacker conferences be applauded by people with no knowledge of the subject whatsoever, is to live a fantasy that can't exist if it is effective. And there is no way to loose because ignorant people will always say you did what you could in the face of Goliath even though anyone who was competent knew what would happen.

It is all fake. Just look at every other diy initiative to date that hasn't affected big companies in the slightest. "Hackers" are still perfectly happy about their "successes" while they make six figure salaries helping the oligopoly. Because there is always a new hacker conference, online forum or meetup you can visit to feel good about yourself by excluding people who know better.

These opinions can only exist in a place where the popularity of ignorance is favored over reason. And you'll deserve each other.
It does matter yes. Journalists have inordinate influence on politicians, if an outlet (much more likely the guardian in this case) is making nonsense claims about bots it can easily lead to legislation, especially if it lets politicians feel they're doing something.
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In this case it's a good estimate of scarcity, unlike air, land is property
It was a mistake to put that in quotes; I didn't mean to cite you. I meant to emphasize that the the phrase "every data release" sounds like there were individual, distinct cases where Facebook agreed to release data.

When it comes to the GP that talked about his experience - this was about platform vendors such as Apple or Blackberry having supposed "special access". But Facebook just did not release any data here. It just allowed third parties to write a Facebook app. For the most part, those apps where client-side, so the data did not leave the users device.

Now in the spirit of argument, there are a lot of aspects that can be debated: Is there a meaningful difference between code written by a contractor, but published by Facebook, an app published by a third party, but making it look like it belongs to Facebook, or a third party app without the blessing of Facebook. How does that relate to our ideas about the freedom of the internet (should anyone be allowed to create a Facebook app, without Facebook's blessing, which is certainly a technical possibility? What is the implication of Facebook's support for such an app, or lack of taking legal action against it?). What is the responsibility of companies like Facebook when having an API of the sort that they do, which prima facie allows users to decide which data to share? So about if I agree to share data, but that data is something my friend shared with me? Does Facebook have a responsibility to prevent this? Is is problem the sheer amount of data on Facebook? If I have a small online community forum, can I offer that sort of access, letting my users share their friends list with third party apps? What about apps like Twitter, Telegram asking for your permission to access your phone book. Courts in Germany have said the users agreeing to this are the ones breaking the law. What if I agree to share my contact book with an app, but that app does not upload this data to a server? How does that compare to Facebook asking a third party to provide a Facebook app, but data does not go to a third party server?

It's all interesting stuff. And I don't even ask the media to discuss it in that level of detail. They can give the 5-or-however-many foot view. But don't misrepresent that.

Gell-Mann amnesia doesn't defend the media here, right? The idea is that it is strange that you trust it after their incompetence has been proven to you.

Look, I am not a Trumpian Fake-Newser. I think it's good we have journalists. I am sure the journalists working on those Facebook stories did their best, given limited time, the breath of technical details involved, the pressures of creating content that brings in clicks, and yes, the personal vanity of wanting to uncover a big story. We are all human, after all.

CA is even one thing. But regarding the platform integrations - what GP tells from personal experience is the same thing I got from reading the reporting. It was simply misleading.
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Fantasy? Then how come genetics is now starting to confirm steppe ancestry in Indians?
> To start, the US (Main HN audience) incarcerates 0.716% of its population. Add on family of those incarcerated, and prison rights immediately effect a sizeable portion of the population. Then there is the societal effects of how we treat those who are incarcerated. Prison is a punishment, but that does not strip prisoners of their rights. The punishment is that they are no longer free to go where they will. Enforcing that happens to come with other downsides, but no part of enforcement includes 'price gouging by state sanctioned monopolies'.

We don't have the kind and extent of unjust laws that would give me the ability to care one iota about people who are stupid, desperate or boneheaded enough to break them.

> Now, HN isn't supposed to be political. This is where the tech angle comes in. The stuff about using free devices to peddle services. In this specific case, there is a state sanctioned monopoly that exacerbates the issue. Note that some of these services supplant others; meaning that inmates don't have alternatives.

Right, that's the beauty of it all, but the article buries it in the midst of a bunch of humanitarian bullshit. (pardon the pleonasm)
They simply force threads with a short topic and provide a subchannel-like view for them.

Threads in Slack are hard to enforce (please don't write 20 "get well soon" replies in the main channel). They are hard to parse (you have to scroll past all the threads, including the "get well soon" chain). And impossible to mute without leaving a whole channel behind.

I can imagine this approach to help (but we use slack at work...)
Probably similar reason for NIH syndrome. It's theirs, they made it and they have a reasonable idea how it's going to function. Also, if it breaks, they have no one to blame but themselves.
I'd be happy to pay extra income tax if the DMV was abolished (I'd even let highway patrol increase their budget by the amount saved from not needing to pay DMV wages, pensions, facilities operation and maintenance, anymore).
The dot at the end has a technical meaning in two different contexts. The first is to disable search lists in the DNS stub resolver. If you try to look up, say 'ai', then the sub resolver is likely to append your current domain name during the lookup. Looking up 'ai.' disables that.

The other use is in DNS zone files where everything that does not end in a '.' get the name of the zone appended.

The for mail (SMTP) the dot at the end is implicitly present, and adding one is not allowed.

HTML/HTTP basically doesn't define semantics with respect to the dot at the end. That's why "www.example.org" and "www.example.org." are different. They are different strings, and nobody defined them to be equivalent. At the same time, the name is just passed to the stub resolver in many cases. So search lists may be applied under the hood.
No, that’s not a thing here. Your American was pulling stuff out of his keister.

Many Americans don’t learn to properly use a knife and fork because of the ubiquity of fast food - many of us never really have to.

Go to a part of the country that’s upper SES, everyone knows how to properly use a knife and fork.
I agree that China has not been a good actor trade-wise, and pressure should be applied, but I'm utterly unconvinced that Trump understands the situation well enough to get them to actually do anything. He put tarrifs on Canadian steel ffs, I'm not sure how he can succeed in China when he fucks up relations with our allies like this.
I guess the issue is the definition of problem. If the law reaches a point where you need AI augmentation to understand it, that's a good sign it's being applied to problems it can't actually address or which may not even exist at all.

Look at GDPR. It's impossible to know what it really means. Huge efforts are put into action with no idea of whether it will be considered good enough or not. That's not a problem you can fix with ai. You need better law (in this case, no law would be better)
Scrubbing timelines... sounds helpful for heavy animation project like Html5/flash
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Because it's not backwards compatible, and would prevent delivery of a large amount of email.

We just need a way for domain owners to signal that their domains definitely accept email over STARTTLS. At that point, senders which recognise those signals can start to enforce that mail which they send to those domains MUST use STARTTLS. Fortunately, those signalling methods are beginning to rise to the surface. We have MTA-STS, and now also a preload list thanks to StartTLS Everywhere.
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As opposed to mouthpieces for the US?

Besides, that's beside the point. What would be the motivation to lie here?

If the idea is to appeal to foreigners outside of China, then why would anyone outside of China care if some Chinese companies go bankrupt or not?
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This is specifically addressed in the article - this is a function how our maths represent phenomena:

"Physicists have found it convenient to use the concept as a mathematical idealization where infinity occurs as a limit of large numbers, even though in physical reality there is no infinity of anything. An example is the Fourier series: while mathematically an infinite number of terms are needed to give an exact representation of the function representing an arbitrary waveform, this does not in fact mean that there are infinite physical frequencies occurring in the real physical system."
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That title is abysmal. I'm not surprised the article is crappy.

Next article: testicular cancer - the dangerous cancer that only affects men!
> or re-sell at profit

That's not really enforceable, is it?

> It could become a nice little corner of the internet where people like us can run stuff for each other, and the unwashed masses never visit.

Why not register a domain and offer subdomains for sale?
For one of those jobs, I was approached by a head hunter. I outright tell the headhunters I know (that do contracts) to call me if they come across something “weird” but they generally can’t pay enough for it to be worth it.

All the rest where word of mouth from people I know. I wish I knew of a place where these sorts of jobs were advertised.
They needed each other. YouTube couldn't survive without Google's money and engineering ability, and Google didn't understand how to quickly iterate in social products.
Ask HN: Do you purge your social media content?
Also, what's your stance on deleting social media history?
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>There is math model Prisoners dilemma that says that both sides is better of cooperating.

Prisoners dilemma is a contrived example though, within a contrived scenario. There are not just 2 parties but 100s of parties (countries) they can cooperate or not with, and lots of leeway and secondary factors, not just some binary prisoner's style dilemma.
There is a comment up this thread saying that the blockchain technology is a solution looking for a problem. You comment here sounds very similar.
One of the basic conclusions of game theory about non-cooperative games is that the ability to make yourself irrational is useful. For example, if the expected outcome of me fighting you is a moderate negative to both of us (let's say roughly 50% chance of getting injured, 50% chance of feeling pleased to win the fight), then it's never rational for me to seek you out and fight you. However, if I can manage to convince you that, if you take my stuff, then I will seek you out and fight you, then this might succeed in convincing you not to take my stuff. The difficulty is in making this threat credible—it's never in my interest to carry it out. So if I give my brain the propensity to feel angry at offenses like that, and demonstrate on other occasions that I do go fight people when they make me angry, then this is a way to make the threat credible. The more irrationally angry I am known to get, the stronger the threat becomes. This can be useful as a negotiating tactic, though obviously it can be risky if someone calls your bluff or acts "more irrational".

There's a nice Star Trek episode, "Chain of Command", in which acting captain Jellico raises his voice with some Cardassians he's negotiating with, and I think throws them out of the conference room, at which point he immediately starts speaking calmly to his officers. As I recall, he tells them to wait ten minutes and then go out to the Cardassians, saying that Jellico's a "loose cannon" and they've managed to calm him down and he's ready to resume the meeting but the Cardassians will have to be ready to concede some items. It's a negotiating tactic, and in the episode it works.

Since someone mentioned Trump: it might be to his advantage to encourage a reputation for being dangerously excitable and willing to pull the trigger. (I just hope no one calls his bluff.)
My HN username is my surname... so naturally I snapped up https://nick.rw/

I wondered if they'd refuse it, for being close to "nic.rw" but they don't seem to use it.
Just because you rarely encounter unpackaged goods doesn't mean you shouldn't account for even the small amount of cases where you do. Someone could have a bowl full of kitkat-shaped chocolates in a bowl at a party which you could confuse for the real deal.
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Your comment is still false. Google allows Android forks with their services installed. You just can't break the API, which makes sense, otherwise apps from the store wouldn't reliably work.
Learn a new language make sense if such language teaching you a new way of thinking.

If you come from a "normal" background I guess you can already program in python or ruby or java or C

From this kind of background I would love towards functional programming (Haskell or Closure) or the actor model (BEAM languages or maybe pony) or Rust.

The reality is that go forgot the last 10/20 years of progress in programming languages theory. It is true that this makes a really simple programming language but it is also true that the complexity of any task does not disappear if you use a simple programming language but it will be simply shuffle around in the code itself.

On the other side rust is pushing the state of the art in programming languages. This means that the language itself is more complex to learn, but once you master it the language itself will take care of part of the complexity in your code.

As always it is a trade-off.
There's this continual refrain from AI people: "well evolution is just brute force too", or "the brain is just doing complex statistics too" as if that explains anything at all. There are different ways of implementing "brute force" and "complex statistics" - what matters is the implementation, not the terminology. Clearly AI is not even remotely close to "thinking" or "awareness" in the human sense. We don't even understand the implementation of those things in humans. It is ignorant conceit to think we will just magically stumble upon the answer with zeitgeist machine learning techniques.
Ironically that is a misattribution, see https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/32944
>The domestic buyers of the tariffed goods suffer, but I guess we don't care about them.

Only if we consider the first order effects -- and only if we consider them simplistically as mere consumers.

Because the wider view is that those "consumers", are also workers, and the "race to the bottom" effect of modern global trade with the developing world hurts their bottom line, and leaves them without money to be consumers anyway.

The US, and other western countries, have used tariffs to great effect throughout their capitalistic development.
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Maptiler is not OpenStreeMap - they're one of the many companies who productize OSM.

Which is exactly the way it's meant to be.
Wikipedia[1] says there are more words in the German dictionary - but I suppose this depends how you count compound words, and what you take as contemporary words, too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictionaries_by_number...
First, the definition:

Psychonautics (from the Ancient Greek ψυχή psychē ["soul", "spirit" or "mind"] and ναύτης naútēs ["sailor" or "navigator"] – "a sailor of the soul") refers both to a methodology for describing and explaining the subjective effects of altered states of consciousness, especially an important subgroup called holotropic states, including those induced by meditation or mind-altering substances, and to a research paradigm in which the researcher voluntarily immerses themselves into an altered mental state in order to explore the accompanying experiences.

Smoking weed with music playing in the background (your own words) is pretty far from doing _research_ by immersing oneself into altered mental states. Psychedelics are powerful but one, of course, needs a modicum of understanding into how to best take advantage of them and the ability to do _research_ with one's own psyche as the subject. I could rephrase your comment as:

"One time I drove a race car and I had a lot of fun, it was quite pleasurable. What does this experience tell us about the limits of the human body in such situations? Literally nothing." => Because you are not in the position to evaluate the inputs you are receiving besides the rudimentary level of "having fun". Or as the old Hermetic proverb goes:

"The lips of Wisdom are sealed; except to ears of Understanding"
this. loudness in restaurants/bars/etc is a feedback loop. It's loud so you talk louder. It gets louder so other people talk louder. repeat.
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The definition of hate speech depends on what each society defines it as.
(semirelated): The Amiga, all the way back to the Amiga 1000 from 1985, had 4 channel (2 on the left, 2 on the right, no configuration here), 8-bit DMA output with a 6-bit analog amplifier.

I've heard claims that the 6-bit analog amplifier was sufficiently precise that you could combine two 8-bit channels into one 14-bit channel (in 1985!) per stereo channel. I guess it's possible, but I still question this. Anyone here know if that's actually true?
Game theory applies to all scenaria that fit its simplistic model and few parameters and leeway, regardless to whether the people involved are rational or not.

The problem is that complex real world behavior doesn't reduce well to game-theoretical approaches.
I have family living in a vilage shown in the snapshot of the map. It's deep black forest so, while I think displaying the steepness is a neat idea, there, you just know that over the mountain is steep, and if you want to avoid it, you stay in the valley :)
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