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So this article is being blown out of proportion. Pichai's letter is just saying that Google employees should act in a professional manner, not that they shouldn't have political views or be involved in politics.
Two words: moral hazard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

It's the perfectly normal result of adding so many "safety nets" to life that young adults correctly ascertain that they can literally go wild and someone will come along and save them from their own actions. Of course, this isn't entirely the case, so you end up with trips to the ER instead of a friend saying "hey, dude, you're done for the night and I'm going to drive you home...".

There's also this TED talk that I really enjoyed that deals with this issue to some degree:

https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_howard

We need a return to common sense and an expectation that the individual has autonomy and authority over their own actions and those that they are responsible for.
It is a problem when the whole premise of funding it and how it was sold to the public and politicians was that it will find new physics...
Consider posting this on the Racket mailing list.
If no one asks for it, we don't know what to implement next.
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This one liner isn't really quicksort anyway.
This timeline does not work.

Have a look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUiLJnEYJI
Dimitri Hegemann, who opened Tresor, has always said that techno was brought to Berlin via Detroit.

Your comments also suggest that you don't even know how important the interviewee, Juan Atkins, is.

In the old days, the only terms people had to describe electronic dance music were "techno" and "house."
They have stated that their very first reused booster cost less than half as much money to refurbish than it cost to build a new one.

That was quite a while ago, with a much less advanced reusable design. The current version of the Falcon 9 incorporates lessons learned from tearing down and reflying the earlier units, so should be much cheaper. Even if you think there are no possible improvements, it can’t possibly get worse than a 50% savings.

Unless you’re proposing that they’re lying out their asses?
>Thomas Jefferson wanted a revolution every 20 years, but we don't string up, draw and quarter our entire government every other decade.

Not your own one. Jefferson did get his wish granted in some ways however. Possibly by a malignant genie with a keen sense of irony.
We live in a post-post-modern world. These days it's more relevant to read Rushkoff and look into his 'present shock' idea: http://www.rushkoff.com/books/present-shock/

> In his new book, PRESENT SHOCK: When Everything Happens Now (Current; March 15, 2013), Rushkoff introduces the phenomenon of presentism, or – since most of us are finding it hard to adapt – present shock. Alvin Toffler’s radical 1970 book, Future Shock, theorized that things were changing so fast we would soon lose the ability to cope. Rushkoff argues that the future is now and we’re contending with a fundamentally new challenge. Whereas Toffler said we were disoriented by a future that was careening toward us, Rushkoff argues that we no longer have a sense of a future, of goals, of direction at all. We have a completely new relationship to time; we live in an always-on “now,” where the priorities of this moment seem to be everything.
I don't think it will help much in teaching math or anything else that can be easily learned from a textbook. But you can't learn plumbing or operating a crane from a textbook, and here VR has great potential.

It might also be great for teaching science, since VR can communicate scale much better than drawings.
Did Java for many years. Their exceptions were a good next step when compared to C++, but there are many problems. For example, InterruptedException. It really should be a runtime exception, except that it is checked. I've very rarely seen code that handles this exception properly, and quite often seen it buried, causing all kinds of mischief at runtime.

Since Java, did Ruby (several years ago). It was a revelation that using essentially runtime exceptions was not as big a cluster as Java community at the time thought it would be. Convinced me that if you're going to have exceptions, they should be runtime exceptions.

Since then, been doing golang and really liking it. The verbose error handling is sometimes tedious, but is the least evil way of handling things that I've worked with. Our experience has been that the quality of code improves when error handling is tied in with the code flow instead of dealt with as a separate path.
Since were on a thread of medical advice with minimal scientific double blind controlled studies costing millions of dollars, check out acupuncture and get a grounding mat to sleep on. 120$ not much to lose and it’s helped many people I know. And ofc mandatory no brained eat healthy and lift weights be able to do 50 push-ups , do yoga etc. work towards doing the splits over 3 year period of practice each week
Have you seen any functional medicine doctors? Not "naturopaths" or chiropractors, but an actual functional medicine MD? (I make the distinction because many will scoff at naturopaths, and also because that world is full of many pretenders who give functional medicine a bad name.)

Gut health and the mind<->gut connection have been well accepted facts in functional medicine for many years. First anecdotally, and now with more and more scientifically backed research.

I feel your pain regarding conventional doctors not understanding, or not caring to understand that health issues can be solved with tools other than their prescription pad or an invasive surgery. That paradigm is slowly changing; ie. the reluctant mainstream acceptance of things like probiotics for gut health. I wonder what the more critically minded audience of HN thinks of functional medicine?

If you haven't looked up any functional doctors, a good place to start is Dr. Mark Hyman, who is the director of functional medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. At first glance, his books and persona can seem a little "new agey" or bullshit, but if you listen to him on more technical health podcasts, you can see that he is a very intelligent person rooted in scientific research and trial and error in his medicinal practice.
Or maybe the universe is indifferent to our goals, and we're stranded in this rock without sufficient materials and ways to get away, no matter how inventive we can be.

(The same way inventiveness doesn't matter if you found yourself in the middle of Antarctica with no food, no heating, and no materials to make a compass).
well back when i was studying molecular biology and biochemistry, those high quality 3d animations were extremely useful because not only was it easier to memorize the different stages, it gave me a really good reference visually which I could recall with more ease than bits of written text.

on a side note, it also took my interest to new levels because the 3d animations revealed to me just how mechanical our body is, with a hierarchy of components very much like an integrated circuit.

so I can only imagine what it will be like to conduct labs or teach students using a 3d VR environment. It has a unique edge that not even the best teacher on earth can do-trick its users into believe they are not in lecture, but in a video game like world but with higher productivity.
Before search engines and open source CMSes were widely adopted, it was reasonable to expect that basic news sites were going to be insanely valuable. The barriers to entry were high but the reward was now exponentially higher with the global reach potential
With old fashioned boring training videos (e.g. safety) and training propaganda (e.g. anti-union messages) you could easily look away from the screen. Now they are gluing the screen to your eyeballs so that it's pretty much impossible to look away and not pay attention.

It will probably work. It's probably a good idea from the employer's point of view. It feels very dystopian.
Uprooted trees are gold mines for people interested in finding objects like arrowheads or other historic artifacts.

It's a natural time capsule. The ground under the tree is stabilized for the duration of the tree's life, effectively snapshotting its contents.

The first time someone explained this to me while on a hike, as they excitedly dug through a mess of exposed tree roots, was one of those rare, surreal perspective-shifting moments. Suddenly I saw the forest surrounding me as a versioned filesystem of sorts, with every tree holding a snapshot of ground for its respective age beneath.
If I understood the details I would never have signed the contract. At the time I was pretty desperate for a job (I’d moved to the US from Australia and my own company had gone belly up and I was living in Santa Barbara with a mortgage).
>"I am quite familiar with techno culture and this piece is extremely misrepresentative. Reads like a promo piece from the artist's clueless PR agent. Maybe the Detroit scene sees things like this (I am from Europe), but no, techno is definitely not "a combination of technology and funk"

I'm not sure why you would be disputing this.
Historically that part is correct and non-misrepresentative at all. Derrick May even has pretty famous quote that.

[techno is]"like George Clinton and Kraftwerk caught in an elevator, with only a sequencer to keep them company."

Afrika Bambaataa and Arthur Baker were also very much influenced by Kraftwerk's peculiar "funkiness"(Planet Rock)[1] and what was coming out of the South Bronx at that time influenced Detroit Techno as much as the European influences. And Kraftwerk themselves were also influenced by James Brown[2]. It doesn't get any funkier than that. And then of course there is P-funk which was a huge influence on electronic music(Bernie Worell alone for that matter.) And P-Funk has root in the JBs - James Brown's band.

Honestly this is really less about just knowing "techo culture" and a lot more about music history.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/arts/music/06kraftwerk.ht...

[2] http://www.electronicbeats.net/juan-atkins-about-kraftwerk/
Your father's beliefs are not necessarily irrational, they are just based on different assumptions. Your assumption is that the order in the universe arises from causality and physical law. His assumption is that the order in the universe arises from purpose, i.e. he believes in teleology. That is not in and of itself irrational.
Not quite. UBI is millions of people subsidizing everyone.

This is more like 300 fanatical content consumers deciding to give a certain person $5 a month so that they spend as much time as possible producing content.
I am using the latest iPhone Xs Max on the Verizon network and I am a member of the yearly upgrade program. Notably, this time for the first time, my iPhone uses an Intel Modem XMM 7560 [1], whereas in all previous years, it has used a Qualcomm modem (AT&T and T-mobile have been using Intel modems).

Apple decided to use 4x4 MIMO with 4 antennas and I've already tried the phone in weak signal areas and the extra antennas and 4x4 MIMO helps.

Whereas previous Intel modems were fabbed by TSMC, this modem for the first time is fabbed by Intel on their 14 nm process.

Until a few years ago, Qualcomm had all of iPhone business, but because they charged very high licensing fees (not only per chip but also as a percentage of the overall cost of the phone), IMHO, they lost the Apple business.

Apple shipped 225 million iPhones last year.

Because they have a great competitor in Intel, Qualcomm will no longer be able to charge the high prices of the past and that will be a big hit on revenues.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/wireless-products/mo...
I added a travis cron job to update the image daily: https://github.com/Algram/ytdl-webserver/pull/6 and another guy came around and made the image even more friendly for automatic updates https://github.com/Algram/ytdl-webserver/pull/7

So if you ever run into issues you would just pull the latest container.
It is perfectly possible to travel vast distances without FTL: just self-sustaining generation ships that are capable of operating indefinitely. A very boring solution to the problem admittedly. It is even possible without generation ships if the understanding of biology advanced enough to allow for indefinite cell repair, or 'state restore' of DNA. Obviously beyond our capabilities but there is no 'special sauce' required just a lot of depth.

Although it brings to mind the irony that if one has the capability to live in space within artificial environments indefinitely, gather resources within it, and produce more of them there isn't technically a need to find any habitable planets. If such a state is reached there are only two things to worry about - self destruction and entropy or cosmic scale events that a planet wouldn't be safe from anyway.
You can formulate all kinds of questions a given experiment like the LHC didn't answer but unless the experiment actually set out to answer these questions in the first place, you're mostly just talking about the empty set.

Namely, the LHC was never directly concerned with black holes, the Big Bang, dark energy and dark matter. (Outside of the possibility that completely new physics would be found and that this would somehow lead to an explanation of dark matter, dark energy and/or quantum gravity down the road.)

Moreover, I'm also not sure why you're casting doubt on dark energy (= the cosmological constant), the Big Bang and black holes. There are certainly many aspects about them we don't fully understand yet but their existence is generally not disputed.
A better question would be what would society look like with politicians that never retire? Plutocrats who never die?
Philosophical question. If you don't event see the banner, because you've spamfiltered it, does it count as accept or reject?
Table salt has problematic additives. One of the additives is an anti-caking ingredient. It is the reason table salt pours easily. Other forms of salt tend to clump up.

Sea salt also has additional micronutrients. It isn't just sodium chloride.

Not necessarily a huge issue if you are perfectly healthy, but it makes a surprisingly large difference if there is anything wrong that intersects with these chemicals in some manner.
Remember, before they hit the street and became politicized, many drugs (MDMA, LSD, and a variety of other psychoactives) were produced by major pharmaceutical companies and used by therapists at major universities.

There is no legitimate reason for that research to have ever stopped. In humans.
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> The interesting thing is how people react to it. For some reason you are expected to provide a reason for why you don't drink. I don't smoke either but nobody asks me why. I've noticed also that it makes people uncomfortable if you're not drinking. When I do go out now I drink diet soft drinks so that I don't get constantly asked why I don't have a drink.

Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-X2zPMB5dk

I never drank aside from a few sips in past attempts to placate people bothering me about drinking. I used to be more annoyed by people who seem to really want to know why, but I've found that simply being firm about not drinking is usually enough to get people to drop the subject. I don't usually give a reason, as that seems to be an invitation for others to harass you. I also will refuse to even sip an alcoholic beverage for the same reason.

Some people seem to take the fact that you don't drink as personally offensive, as if you are judging others for drinking. But I really don't care that much about how much you drink any more than I care about how much ketchup you put on your fries. That is, I don't care much at all unless you're using obviously too much. The view that non-drinkers are judgmental seems to be caused by a combination of psychological projection and the drinker having mixed feelings about alcohol.

If I had to give a reason, it would be something like this: I never was convinced of any benefit from drinking, but I can see many risks. The main benefit to me is that many drinkers will socially exclude non-drinkers, but I think a better solution is to avoid people who don't like non-drinkers.

The reasons I've heard from people about why they drink or want to encourage me to drink vary a lot. One that comes to mind is "I want you to be happy", which don't find convincing because I am perfectly happy and don't think drinking would improve my happiness. The people who insist that I just haven't tried the right drink are getting tiring. If you didn't like ketchup and I said that you haven't tried the right ketchup and then insisted that you try small amounts of a half dozen ketchups, that would be considered fairly weird. But it happens to non-drinkers.
ah, blast from the past! this has to be one of my top favorite HN submissions of all time, I recall 5 years ago when I first saw it posted here I was amazed. It'd be interesting to see a 2018 "Gonkai" phone.
I suggest then you download the blind app. It’s an anonymous app where people share offers they get (especially from FAANG), mostly to ask for negotiation advice. That’s where I posted my offers back then, as a sounding board to make sure I wasn’t taken for a ride.

You’ll quickly discover that either those compensations are real and very common considering how many posters are there, or the app is literally full of trolls pretending to have those offers and ask tips to other trolls, for whatever reason (except that they need to have a valid FAANG email account to post, so go figure why they would lie).

And there are many other resources to vet those numbers, such as http://levels.fyi or advice from “trusted” folks in the software community like patio11: https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/100632191192687001...

As to why I am disturbed: people who don’t believe average software engineers can make that much are the reason why many employers don’t pay that much, so they drive down the overall compensation in the industry. If all software engineers were more aware of their market value, there would be less discrepancy in compensation, such as in other mature fields (e.g. doctors, lawyers). So, the fact you don’t believe me it’s disturbing because it’s directly affecting the job market I’m in.
there's a company that focuses on this: http://www.forklift-simulator.com/
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Also observed benzo addiction skyrocket, while most people consider them to be “safe” because they’re “anxiety medication”

Benzos + alcohol (+ possibly opiates) is a recipe for a really bad time. I’ve seen people take like 4mg xanax and 8-10 shots and get instantly sent to the ER
Good point. Safari is not a bad browser, but it's all or nothing - I prefer Firefox since I can find add ons if there's a feature I want that isn't included.
I completely appreciate that there're many people who much prefer the separation between code and markup, however, if you ever worked w/ Lisp you'll also learn to appreciate that code is just data and that the earlier separation really is just a convention. Maybe that convention is much better suited for supporting different job descriptions in companies (UX vs. dev), but it's also somewhat arbitrary...

The benefits of the component as plain, non-stringified data are not the avoidance of closing tags, but what you can do with those components computationally. E.g. instrumentation, behavior/attribute injections, configuration, filtering etc. An approach based on string interpolation can only go this far, whereas having everyting as arrays, objects, iterators your possibilities of composition & transformation are almost endless...

Also, take for example the hdom-canvas support library which doesn't target the DOM itself, but defines virtual elements translated into drawing calls. Using the string interpolation approach would be complete overkill since these elements would have to be re-parsed again, in which case SVG would be faster. But I can easily manage 10k+ moving particles @ 60fps with the hdom approach:

https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/hdom-canvas-shapes/#points-10k
Accept, because you installed software that intentionally blocks it.
"Octopus" is Greek, so the plural would actually be "octopoodles."
For those of you reminising over days gone by in electronic music (UK folks for whom Sasha, Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold and Fatboy Slim were common names) a few links. It's also funny how history is repeating itself.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/03/dom-phillips-in...

Sasha is still going strong of course, my favorite mix of the moment

https://m.soundcloud.com/last-night-on-earth/sasha-presents-...
After visiting Copenhagen I'm shocked to find Danish salaries are that low...If you pay 50% taxes I can't imagine living on €40k/y with Copenhagen prices.
Yes, I was answering why it’s so hard to do legitimate research. I agree that it would be better if the garbage research didn’t exist at all. No info is better than bad info.
I’m not an MIT grad but that sounds like downplaying the unique culture of SH imo.
The Parable of Ignac Semmelweiss
Sure, you can travel 1 light year if you also go 1 year ahead in time without any causality issues.
~$1.5K, circa 2003

This is the one startup I worked for that exited. I was only there for a little over a year. But for a few months, they couldn't make payroll and issued stock instead.

Ironically it was the project that I was working on which ultimately led to the acquisition. Not really because I was writing brilliant code though, so I'm not bitter about that.
Quick note to the author if they see this.

The lodash Babel plug-in automatically takes care of only importing the used functions to keep your lodash imports under control. I’d recommend adding that note to your lodash section.

Thanks for taking the time to put this together! Always helpful.
Wouldn't it be the other way around? The subscription explicitly ties the reward to the quality.

Imagine this: (1) The publisher starts writing quality content in order to gather as much subscribers as possible. (2) Th publisher gets a comfortable amount of subscribers. So it starts to wind down the content quality, thus reducing his costs. (3) Now the users aren't getting the quality they are paying for. (4) Maybe slowly, but surely the subscribers will cancel their subscriptions and ultimately lose their trust in the publication itself. (5) The world is balanced once again.

Now this last point is important, the relationship between the producer and the consumer is based on trust.
Oh, I am neither against IP, nor in favor of buy-out of all natural resources. I just think it would be good if each IP had reasonable price [0] and everyone had a land for subsistence.

[0] Not like that story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....
The trouble is they don't scale and are generally just a pain. Especially with how bad they play with lambda expressions.
How is your core strength ? Ie can you do v-ups balancing on hands? 30 pull ups ? I found digestion and stomach issues can be resolved with a good diet and physical training regime. Also try and find a teacher who can show you nauli , exercise where you churn your stomach innards , acting as internal massage and strengthens pelvic floor. Stop wasting your time with doctors — up to you to self experiment since you know yourself best
Loled. I used to do phone support for x11 servers for pcs. This terminology confused people to no end
I never understood why it's lazy to get up late, but not lazy to go to bed super early. What's the difference?