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Well they don't ignore them. They constantly remove videos.
You don't stack against random commits. Only commits that have passed tests before and so are on master, or your own commits.
Broad band industry sues California over state net neutrality law
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It is argued that there is a higher probability that we are living in a simulation.
I've found when trying this there's obvious resistance to inviting me in and showing me the ropes; they know I'll try to make it easier for them (still a manual job, in some aspects) but some are afraid I may eliminate their need.
An "implied explicit denial"? How does that work? Can you point out how these statements leave open the possibility that they know about this attack?
$20 an hour. USD.
Because calling people is an important GOTV activity. They’re not going to write a law that hurts their ability to campaign.
A lot of these experiments start from a premise that the simulating universe has similar physics to the one being simulated and thus any short cuts might be noticed, but the outer universe could be be more have more complex (or just different) physics so the fact that ours doesn't match up with theirs doesn't mean ours isn't self consistent.

Sort of like how in Permutation City they create a simulated universe via cellular automata and then when they tell the residents of that universe they are simulated they don't believe them.
I mean... yeah of course. There's always a chance that something happens and you don't know about it.
> Is 3) not inherent to all web development in that authentication on the client is 'disconnected' from users/ permissions on the server anyway?

Server side components directly call server code, unlike client components, which use an HttpService.

Compare for example https://dzone.com/articles/understanding-server-side-blazor, where:

> The Blazor app is hosted by an ASP.NET Core app, which also sets up the SignalR endpoint. Since the Blazor app is running on the server, the event handling logic can directly access the server resources and services.

Vs. the actual official samples, where an HttpService is used to access data from a controller: https://github.com/aspnet/samples/blob/master/samples/aspnet...

ie. Blazor server side components are indeed disconnected from users/permissions, by design... it just happens that they can also call arbitrary server side code, which is obviously a) not portable, and b) hugely unsafe.

There's an issue in the issue tracker for this, but basically, the tldr; is, no, you shouldn't call arbitrary server side code... but, you can, and so people are doing it.

... shakes head ...

(edit: Oh look, another great one, https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/...

> We will invoke the methods of EmployeeDataAccessLayer class from our service. The service will be injected into our components and the components will call the service methods to access the database.

...)
two discussions of this already are on the front page, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138328
You are missing the subtle and hard to explain point that he tried to illustrate with the Tale of the Tree Icon. It's that our tools and their defaults shape the way we work. I watched a team switch from branches to stacked diffs (mercurial queues, way back in the day) and it was almost exactly how this article describes.
"Boeing often employs PR firms against their competitors" is hardly a conspiracy theory.
> Would a politically correct, by-the-book US president have had the balls to sanction China?

Does Trump even have a goal in mind with his tariffs? It seems like he just wants to score political points, rather than achieve any actual outcomes.
> I wonder if society will expect companies to be more proactive in contacting the user and emergency authorities.

I'm suprised this isn't already a thing, at least on overpriced specialty devices. My grandfather already wears a device that detects when he falls (or pushes the button) and will call the company, who will then call us and an ambulance if they cannot determine everything is okay.

They seem to be okay with a pretty high false positive rate.

As you move into less at risk populations, your tolerance for false positives will go down though.
I was in Mensa for a few years but wasn't getting much out of it so I dropped it. I would have dropped it sooner, but my mother liked doing the puzzles in the newsletter. I have had the good fortune to have smart friends and work with a lot of very smart people so I have never been starved for intellectual stimulation. But not everyone is so lucky, and it soon became clear to me from letters in the Mensa newsletter that it was a godsend to bright people living in small, rural communities who had no one around who understood them. We now have on-line communities that can provide similar companionship for isolated intelligent people, without having to join a formal society like Mensa.
It is definitely the case that pushing raw performance erodes perf / watt on a given process and architecture. You could slightly underclock and moderately undervolt many CPUs or GPUs to see a fairly significant gain in perf / watt.
Blazor, to me, feels like WebForms/UpdatePanel.

WebForms/UpdatePanel was a half-baked solution to pick-up and drop-in .NET developers from WinForms to the web, while Blazor seems to do the same thing for server-side and client-side developers.

Microsoft eventually created MVC, which embraced the nature of the web (HTTP verbs, no viewstate, etc). I would urge developers to just dump into the deep end and use tech native to the browser. I know wasm is now native, but Blazor is running a VM in it that wasn't designed for it.

C# developers might find some comfort in TypeScript. Maybe Angular?
“We’ve found no evidence” ⇒ Somebody else found the evidence.

This is fun.
A tin-foil hat isn't really required, you just need to RTFA: An article critical of SpaceX has been repeatedly submitted to (and published in) 4 newspapers by a PR group called LMG who list Boeing as one of their major customers. Boeing are SpaceX's only competitor in the commercial crew area.
FB Dark Pattern: FB is making users wait twice as long to delete their accounts
Do kubernetes the hard way and soon you might realize its not really a nice shiny machine. Its a complex system which you can put together in a way to help.... or hurt, completely dependent on your abilities.

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Outside of certain demographics you just don’t see people staring into their computers in line at the bakery, on the subway platform, at dinner, at the grocery store. Television remained a dominant media deep into the penetration of the personal computer with people spending hours and hours watching every day. Again, outside certain demographics, this just wasn’t the experience of most people with respect to computers. For me and my friends, yes - we spend all day on our computers. Most didn’t. Today, people are glued to their smartphones.

I’m not saying that literally everyone owns an iPhone, either. What I am saying is that smartphone adoption hit an inflection point with the iPhone - heading upwards into the stratosphere. When you look at the concepts people had for what an Apple phone might look like pre-iphone, no one was prepared for what was coming.
> We could not measure all possible angular momentums but it was possible to measure one or two that would not be known to the attacker.

You mean moment of inertia, not angular momentum.

You could measure all of them! Given the moments for the three principal axes at any point, you can use the parallel axis theorem to calculate all the rest. In general, there are 10 degrees of freedom: 3 for the position of the center of mass, 3 for the axes, three for the moments, and for the the total mass.

For a nicer way to count and to do the math, you have the inertia tensor at the CM (a 3-dimensional rank-2 symmetric tensor, 6 DoF) plus the location of the CM and the mass.

In any event, this is a cute tampering-detection trick, but I would have started with an X-ray or CT scan.
> There is added resource utilization from tracking session state on the server, but if done properly it could be as little as 1MB or so per active client connection.

Just curious, where did you pull this number out of? I've never seen a SignalR connection use that little memory for anything.
Besides health insurance, my legally bare minimim car insurance is mandated to have 20k or something of medical coverage.
I know the prevailing view on HN is that drivers don't give a shit about pedestrians and cyclists, and I'm willing to believe it's true that drivers are not often penalized for injuring them, but are most drivers really that bad?

I'm not a terribly conscientious person, but I'm definitely worried and raise my level of caution any time I see pedestrians standing near the street or when I pass a cyclists. I know that they will be seriously injured if I hit them, and I really don't want that to be my fault. even if it isn't my fault (or if it is, but not in a way that a court will find me responsible), I am quite afraid of having to go through the whole legal process that could ensue.
Given the correlation between mental health, intelligence and physical health are all large and positive selecting for one is likely to lead to large improvements in the others.

Intelligence Predicts Health and Longevity, but Why?
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004...
I think that’s desirable. First and foremost, you want to know whose work (in this case, a merged branch) broke yours. Afterwards you might want to drill into what specific piece (in this case commit) of that work was responsible, which can be achieved by bisecting the branch’s non-auto-merge/non-rebase history; this usually gets you close enough to “where the bug was actually written” in my experience, without requiring a switch to a specific workflow of what a commit is supposed to represent/how committed code should behave.
Statements are very specific so it's easy to craft them in such a way that it basically respects the gag order and does not actually contain any untrue statement. Even " Apple has never found malicious chips, “hardware manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server."
Would this statement hold true if it was found not by Apple?

"Apple never had any contact with the FBI or any other agency about such an incident."
If Incident was being handled by 3d party private entity which was in contact with some gov entity this would hold true.

"We are not aware of any investigation by the FBI, nor are our contacts in law enforcement." If it was contacted by entity other than FBI this would hold true.
Ask HN: Why do robotic startups fail
High initial capital/investment? Technology not there yet? Public appeal? More focus on SaaS? General thoughts
Already been proven. The problem now is getting the government to change thier food recommendations based on the findings. The fight has been going on since the 1970s. We are talking about a fundamental change to society here.
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There’s a Whole New Google Assistant on Your Smartphone (Photo)
I'm calling BS on 1

Farmers have generally had pretty terrible (imbalanced) diets until the last century or so because one's diet was heavily dependent on the seasons and local climate.
Could this be solved by a clause in the contract that specified if any randomly sampled devices came tampered with, the manufacturer did not get paid?
An IDS is perfectly capable of flagging outgoing or internal traffic.
Im not buying her interpretation of why the train scene happens either, but I do think the scene was kind of a brilliant metaphor for this sort of thing.

Whenever you have a systemically pathological situation like big, enterprise software projects often get into... it's probably an incentive problem.

Tldr agreed
Ask HN: Is Silicon Valley still the best place to start a startup?
Seems like a questionable way of learning how to power down.

> […] I sought out Colleen Russo Johnson, a co-director of UCLA’s Center for Scholars & Storytellers. Johnson did her doctoral work on kids’ media and serves as a consultant to studios that produce children’s programming. […] even in relatively limited doses, these videos can affect young toddlers’ development. If kids watch a lot of fast-paced videos, they come to expect that that is how videos should work, which could make other educational videos less compelling and effective. “If kids get used to all the crazy, distracting, superfluous visual movement, then they may start requiring that to hold their attention,” Johnson said.
Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of how inefficient computers actually are compared to cells. But I just don't really see the relevance of the comparison.

Computers are so much more efficient that so many things in our world that we could much more easily improve the efficiency of: it would be great to make artificial computers as efficient as our brains but sinking resources into the effort rather than addressing much more pressing low-hanging fruit isn't really logically sound.

Of course it's not a zero-sum game: we can sink resources into both, but the alarmist headline is still hyperbole for this reason.
You're not measuring; "intelligence". You're measuring someone's ability to perform well in a very contrived test. A test that no one could even take without a very specific education experience.

So in that context, I'm sure the results are robust. But I don't think that means much
Try NYS on for size.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/nyregion/citys-annual-cos...

> New York State was the most expensive, with an average cost of $60,000 per prison inmate. [New York City] paid $167,731 to feed, house and guard each inmate last year, according to a study the Independent Budget Office released this week.

The governor proposed free community college for inmates, citing drastic reductions in recidivism rates - it would've paid for itself many times over - but voters flipped out.
Thank you for the nice reply and quote.
Is the accusation of something being a "conspiracy theory" still a valid dismissal after Snowden?
Ask HN: What is the best country to start a startup?
The simulation won't allow it. Those trying to determine it will be eliminated from the simulation. Even discussing this on a public forum is dangerous.
Showing a HERE Map with the Vue.js JavaScript Framework
Ask HN: How to find a co-founder?
We want you to make reusable UI components
What about tree-shaking/bundling/splitting? I don't see that happening, which means that you have to literally download the dlls needed to render every single page/component.
I don't see it as any more likely than us not being in a simulation. Regardless, these discussions always drag up so much existential dread in me.
The question isn't really whether you need dozens of machines, it's whether you can foresee eventually maybe needing dozens of machines.

Kubernetes doesnt manage the machines. It manages the applications on machines that are managed with something else.

You have to do something else to manage the machines
Does this factor in the added sugar in most peanut butters? I can't find any without it around here.
Yes, but the volume is higher than granular sugar. It's a "bulking agent" to give the sweetener a pleasing volume.
Interesting, does anyone know of any scripts to allow you to use stacked diffs locally when your team is using tools based around pull requests (i.e. GitHub)?
He's arguing against that view and gave arguments. Do you have any?
There's a bug in the lambert code:

var lightPoint = scene.lights[0];

this should be

var lightPoint = scene.lights[i];
Presumably the Java library it uses for the numerical integrators works on unboxed data.
How do you know that your clean Thinkpad is clean?
you are very naive. plenty of these 'really low IQ people' eventually do make it to 100,000 as a result of deception, coercion, wacky HR not understanding anything, etc. think trump. the vast majority of jobs are bullshit and play acting.
Why four cans? The concentration doesn't increase with volume.
It's not a very convincing argument because there's absolutely zero actual evidence to back the argument up, and absolutely zero reason to even accept the axioms the argument is based on.
> 10. Tell those you care about you how you feel, you never know when you might lose that chance

This one very much! Never skip an opportunity to tell people they matter to you. Time and life is very fleeting
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Ask HN: When to say “No” to investors?
Everyone in start ups are always looking for the "prized investors" so they can get a investment in their company but when are there times when you should say "No" to an investor who wants to invest in your company?
That’s not how this works.
Or opening the link, realizing its a reddit video and immediately closing the page.
Most CI systems serialize builds on master, at least at the very end of the build pipeline. That can slow things down, but, if combined with a decently fast/thought-through build process with tears, I think the benefits of not risking untested states outweigh the costs.
Certainly makes it convenient for astroturfers, marketers, and social opinion manipulators - one-stop shopping!
If pole fees were high enough that wireless carriers decided not to serve particular areas, such a decision would lead the local nightly news, because wireless company PR is powerful. Voters would be pissed, and the fees would drop.
>Just like there is a youtube generation (grew up on youtube) there is a reddit generation in the works.

I'm not sure "in the works" is correct.

Although they were founded around the same time, reddit is older as a social media platform than YouTube. I'd say the reddit demographic is those around ~30 years old, give or take a few years. I don't think young people/teenagers use it as a "go to" (like I do).

All this is to say, I'm not sure if there's a growth story here. My bet would be on stagnation.
What's so different about this than taking a kitchen knife from somebody's home, committing a murder with it and then returning it?
This seems like a classic Simpson's paradox.

Suppose that people associate with people of roughly equal "success in life". And suppose both IQ and executive function correlate positively with success. Then, at a given level of success, IQ and executive function would be negatively correlated, and so it would appear to an individual surveying their "peer" group.

Basically, consider what would happen if those high IQ individuals you knew combined their intelligence with an even mental keel and extreme conscientiousness. Lucky people like that do exist, but in rarified heights (financial/professional/whatever they choose to optimize for) rarely encountered by us mortals, and so you likely wouldn't have had the chance to meet them
I agree.

WebForms/UpdatePanel was a half-baked solution to pick-up and drop-in .NET developers from WinForms to the web, while Blazor seems to do the same thing for server-side and client-side developers.
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Backup Solutions Compared
Wiht the new user interface, Reddit is trying really hard to go the way of Digg. I used to browse it on my phone but the popups asking me to install their app block my screen. And no-- no fucking way I am going to install an app to view a webpage.
Productive stack for a solo developer
I'm looking for a productive, minimal headache inducing stack for a solo developer. It will involve a web app, and quite possibly a mobile app down the line. It will involve a lot of interactive content (delivering interactive educational material), but minimal technical complexity, and no scaling issues (very niche topic - never going to have a lot of requests per second).

Obviously makes sense to stick to a language I'm comfortable in - Ruby, Python, C#, Elixir, PHP, JS. Any thoughts/advice on productive solo development?
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Perhaps build Docker images??
The point is that people a few millennia ago thought that the maximum human lifespan was in the ballpark of 120yr, not that they were exactly correct or incorrect.

It's interesting the a similar way that Eratosthenes calculating the dimensions of the earth was interesting.
The smartest people I know discover what is important to them in life and set up their life to pursue those interests. They may or may not be interests that make them famous in their fields, but if you define success as living a happy, satisfying life, they are succeeding at their top capacity.
Refined oils, fat, and animal protien cause arterial hardening immediately, lasting for several hours. Keep ingesting and you end up with heart disease....arteries filled with plaque restricting blood flow, raspiration, mental function. Ingesting refined sugar and flour causes an insulin spike (make fat out of carbs!) that lasts for hours causing a crash and repeated cravings for...more carbs. This leads to diabetes. Cancer needs sugar and animal protien to live.

Check out China study.
Good luck finding a job, on the east coast at least, that will actually let you do this and not work you to death.
> In all honesty: why is COBOL so prevalent in the finance sector? It can't seriously be SO GOOD as to be completely un-replacable?

It is not un-replacable in itself, I'd imagine it is just a huge undertaking and many higher ups are afraid to do it and risk something going wrong.
It is fundamentally impossible to know whether we live in a "simulation". The concept itself is a notion connected to contemporary culture based on certain technical knowledge, and thus the definition of what a simulation is isn't absolute, but rather subjective.

It follows that not much objective can come from this biased root assumptions.

In many ways physics is theoretical nowadays. You can look through the list of theories in theoretical physics and realize that it is all a giant construct. Physicists can spend their entire careers with illusions, which is ironic as physics supposedely is about reality.

At the end of his career, Albert Einstein said:

"I think it's entirely possible that physics can't be based upon the field concept, i.e. consistent structures. In this case not a single part of my cloud-castle remains, including the theory of gravitation and all the rest of modern physics."
I thought it was a neat idea: they angled to be like FB but for your small group of actual, real life friends. However, it seemed like you could get most of the same benefit from signing up for FB and just not adding many people.

I just signed into Path to download my stuff and saw that the last post from a friend was 4 years ago. Good idea or not, it seems like everyone had forgotten that it existed.
Thanks, ppseafield, bluejekyll, very pertinent points. The different economic arrangements certainly shed more light on this. Interesting how fundamental policy decisions trickle down to really affect the behaviour on the street. And, lamentably, you probably have path dependency in there such that it's not easy to reverse these policy decisions.

Goes to show how important public policy is.
Yes, exactly. The car analogy I've always heard is that a huge engine is good, but how much horsepower can the car actually get to the rear tires?

I think the way we can measure "outcomes" is also highly debatable. Is becoming a wise monk with no possessions good or bad? What about a successful and influential CEO who is miserable?
Hashes should be standard for this kind of situation. Sending a hash every few seconds ensures that the audio/video 1) was created and 2) can't be forged. If a device "disappears" or is damaged we won't know for certain if it was to destroy evidence or not, but an officer with too many issues can be investigated or fired. Hashes can also be made public without privacy issues, to increase trust that the police are not editing the video.