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> That's not the definition. There are many tools and processes that do not constitute science.

They didn't say that. They said science was a collection of tools and processes. Obviously tools and processes exist that aren't a part of that collection.
Good points. Can you go into more detail about “not every set of religious beliefs is equally probable”?
https://www.barnacl.es - Business

https://www.journalduhacker.net/ - French Hacker News

https://write.narwhal.space/ - Writing

https://g33kz.de/ - German Hacker News

https://paperkast.com/ - Academic Papers

https://bitmia.com/ - Finance/Investing

All of the above are based on https://lobste.rs/, which is pretty much like HN with a few extra features and less Off-Topic

Also, there are independent StackExchange-like sites for physics and bioinformatics

https://physicsoverflow.org/

https://www.biostars.org
That's essentially how I try to use Slack, but when everyone else is monitoring constantly you're simply out of most convos.
You know that Mike Acton is now working on Unity's new C# compiler team, right?

And yes he is also having a role on the new ECS stack, which is just another form of OOP, for anyone that bothers to read the respective CS literature.

Had you implemented your SAT solver in a GC language like Oberon, Modula-3, Component Pascal, Eiffel or D, among many other possible examples, then you wouldn't need such tricks as they also use value types by default, just like C.
Wow, you exactly nailed how it felt back then.
You mentally switched modes “ok, now I’m online”, and it felt distinctly from “real life”, mostly because accessing it was hard (compared to the present).
I think the problem with current internet is that life outside is mostly the same as in 20-30 years ago, and we have artificially overvalued internet presence (youtubers, influencers, online tracking, data leaks, etc)
I don't think Microsoft is going to rename .NET Framework, that would already break too much for too little benefit. .NET Core would simply not be renamed because it is too well known.

Regarding ".NET Standard", I agree, it is an API specification but to prevent confusion you should think (for now) of it as "The .NET Standard [API set]".
Then you'd especially love Alan's talk!
~~Correct, L4 is the same thing as SDE2.~~

EDIT: I completely screwed that up. L4–L6 map to SDE1–SDE3.
Troy hunt created a service for this. He provides an API where you can securely check if a user's password is pwned without revealing the password to his server.

He's written about it several times, here's one of the posts: https://www.troyhunt.com/enhancing-pwned-passwords-privacy-b...
Our press office are definitely a law unto themselves, but the analogy was drawn in the event. It's also inaccurate, as it doesn't count the extra ~billion gates per chip for the memory (as that's just a co-packaged standard SDRAM module). It's just that we don't usually think about those as those SDRAMs are very reliable and don't cause us much trouble at all.
.NET XP sounds better for .Net Core :)
you know, sometimes I wonder how the internet would look like today if every time you loaded content from a server some money would automatically go their way (a tiny payment compensating for server time of sorts)
I suspect there are a lot fewer customers for Amazon WorkDocs / WorkMail / WorkSpaces than for Microsoft's equivalents, though. I've certainly never heard of anyone using them.
Im pretty sure for each loud motorcycle that drives by your street there are 20 angry neighbors wherever the owner lives :)
I am not a diver, I've just read and seen enough about sharks and their attacks on humans to know there's enough contrary evidence to consider this diver isn't exactly a scientist.

My issue is he's making generalized statements about sharks based on years of diving in a specific region: the icy waters of cape town.

It seems perfectly obvious to me that his observation can equally be explained as "the sharks in the icy waters of cape town may be generally well-fed".

Frankly the article is nothing more than a thinly veiled advertisement for a book, and probably lacked substance if it stayed purely on-topic regarding the octopus. I expect the book to suffer similarly.
In the last few years, I've noticed that visiting my kids' pediatricians that the doctors spend most of the time during the visit poking at their computer. As a parent, it makes me feel that they're just filling out a form, not caring for my daughters.
They could have been trying for a figure of speech. People sometimes say a complex problem or piece of code "has a lot of moving parts," so there's precedent for not taking "moving parts" literally. I agree it's awkward regardless.
Or too old to interpret the world in terms of heroes and villains.
https://twitter.com/developertea/status/1059517242407374848?...
Master PDF Editor can do a lot. (Linux, commercial but the watermark somehow was never inserted into the file in my version)

https://code-industry.net/masterpdfeditor/
> Real rivers go somewhere. They don't just stop in the middle of nowhere.

Yeah? Have a look at the Morghab River in southern Turkmenistan. It flows from some mountains in Afghanistan out into a desert, where it splits up into a delta and just sort of... stops. The satellite view on Google Maps is striking. (There are several canals connecting to the delta now, but historically the river stopped in the middle of nowhere.)

Rules of thumb like this aren't laws, just patterns which have exceptions. (That said, yes, imaginary maps are sometimes ridiculous.)
On building and scaling Glossier, and the future of e-commerce brands
Adding to this - Apple manufactures new products with both upgradable hardware and T2 chips (well, product - the Mac Mini with the T2 chip and upgradable memory), and the long-awaited Mac Pro refresh will be an upgradable computer and presumably will have a Tx chip.
We're all building a future together here, and "life isn't equal and never will be" is a dire, shitty attitude to take.

You said I have fluffy unicorn ideology in another thread here, and I think that's bullshit, especially in the resource-rich 21st century. As resource-rich as we are now, the future's gonna be even brighter.

If you just want to recreate the "life is unequal" structures in the 22nd century, why fucking bother at all?
It is just an API set you target. You should see it as NodeJS vs Web Browser. They both support a common API set defined in ECMAScript 6 (for instance) which contains Date, Intl.DateFormat, Symbol.iterator, etc.

Note that executables cannot be compiled to .NET Standard, because they are self-bootstrapping so they must target one or the other (or both).
When current bio-related credentials are stolen, they're not stealing your hand or your iris or your face.

They're stealing destructive hashes of those things.

It'd be like having someone sketch a stick figure version of you, and then you claim your identity was stolen.

No, it wasn't. Stick figure drawings only work in stick figure readers.
As an aspiring remote worker I will bookmark this for future reference. Great site.
Why You Should or Should Not Work at a Startup by Justin Kan
I have great memories building small guitar amplifiers out of its little brother the LM386.

Adding just a transistor to handle the high impedance of the guitar and a few cents worth of resistors and capacitors, one could build a tiny amplifier that once plugged to a 12" guitar speaker could make some serious rock'n'roll!

I remember taking most design ideas from this gold mine: https://www.sonelec-musique.com/electronique_realisations.ht... (unfortunately only in French)
Raw number crunching performance is similar with Node and Go. Python and ruby are in different league than them. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
If you're doing that, you might as well do the "magic email" link as medium does now (and as mozilla's now-defunct 'persona' did [0]). In that case, you don't have any passwords at all, merely long-lived tokens which the user mints by using a unique one-time nonce in an email link. To login on a new device, they get an email and click a link, and that's it. No passwords ever.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/Per...
Fans of this article will also enjoy Ken Sherriff's talk at Supercon last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKi1xX7KKOI
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Talmud is basically the collected notes on the study of the Torah, which was was supposedly (capital-R) Revealed by a supernatural authority on Mount Sinai.

Just because people spent a long time debating the interpretation of their holy book (and accompanying oral tradition) does not make it any less grounded in the supernatural, at the end of the day. Followers still have to either believe it, or not, where "it" is that some divine revelation inspired those original sources.
Many would say globalized, unfettered capitalism.
Our GitLab instance has a lot of projects and it’s been helpful for the users to have a set of template projects each with their own Docker image. Some of those images are many gigabytes in size, tricky env vars etc. Docker “democratized” CI for most of our scientific personnel who aren’t devs, since they can hit the Fork button and have a working CI config to base their project on.

In the ML projects, it serves mainly to package dependencies, and to ensure some basic security constraints: raw datasets are accessible read only, ensuring that if we suspect some issue with cached results (cause our inner orchestrator is Make..) we can nuke all the results and start over from scratch, sure the raw data is intact.

The models and arguments are in the CI config. No magic there, but since it’s all in the repo I’m ok with it.

This whole setup was put together for an upcoming clinical trial as steps toward ISO quality norms compliance, and I can’t share it now. I do intend to reproduce it in an open form alongside our existing software (GitHub.com/the-virtual-brain) when it’s ready.

In any case I appreciate your questions a lot: they drove me to think a little harder and see why stuff like Michelango and PyML is stuff that even we (academic/clinical) group should be using... if we can find the time to do it.
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Surely, you know that there are native code compilers for Java, right?
OT but it seems like a good place to ask:

this week I’ve been looking into making a wireless speaker similar to a Sonos play:1. In terms of the streaming mechanism is was going to use a raspberry pi running as a snapclient, wired to a class-d amp board and a, say, 3” driver. I thought I would find a load of projects using a pi + amp + driver in a small box combination, but I must be looking in the wrong place.

Does anyone have any top tips of examples of setting something like this up? What amp / driver combination to use? I’m not looking for anything amazing, and I’m sure round 1 will be a learning experience, but any help appreciated.
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Leap is a private online network for women in tech, but these AMAs are available for all to read. Hope you enjoy!
Interesting. I will have to think about it more, but I can't say I completely agree with Rawls either. I don't agree that economic value of things is completely subjective, either.

It seems to me that these problems should be addressed with education first, rather than by imposing someone else's preference on people (which is my main worry here). Therefore, that some rural Indian women might decide differently is not really transferable to decisions made by well-educated women in western postindustrial societies.
I'm not sure this is "journalism". It's a product of university Communications, and by no means the worst example.
Laser technology to attract attention from alien astronomers
I wonder the same. Might these all be signs of the great filter at work?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
The article repeatedly points to Obama's election as a turning point. While I won't argue that his election wasn't consequential, I think the timing is mostly coincidental.

2008-2009 is right around when the internet became mainstream. It's when everyone and their mothers signed up for Facebook and when people got smartphones in their hands for the first time. Civil discourse moved almost entirely online, which is a particularly bad venue for it.

Microtargeted ads became a thing, and fringe ideas found large audiences. If you are looking at analytics for your electorate, which metrics "pop" more- the reactions to middle-of-the-road, nuanced discourse, or sound bite extremism?
I thought that was funny, I'm bummed it got downvoted. I tried imagining what a base element of time is. This is like some kind of complex or imaginary unit time quaternion or something.
You can use acme.sh to automate certificate issuing, installation, verification, renewal and some server configuration: https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh
Some deep loathing for budget-cutting and project rejecting administration, can have some scientists not raise their hands to veto embarrassing articles.
I'm not certain regular users will, but I do believe that this should probably be practical knowledge that could be taught in schools considering the far reaching impacts of having financial accounts or email accounts hacked.

Alternatively teaching about the use of password managers might not be a bad idea.

But digital literacy should certainly be something that our society focuses on teaching it's young adults and keeping your accounts secure is one big component of that.

But considering our schools don't teach us about credit scores, and a myriad of other very useful things that can impact you in large ways down the line, I guess I'm not so hopeful.
So it sounds like the role worked primarily with Java? I guess I can see why IT for 6 years plus 3 years as a JS dev wouldn't really prepare you for that and why, as a result, you would get slotted into an SDE1 role (hopefully with the expectation of ramping up quickly and making it to SDE2 in relatively short order). I'm not sure I understand why such a role would be interesting to you, though.
A lot of these seem like HN-clones (UI-wise) except that they are ghost towns, with no comments on the top stories.

I think it would be more useful to share sites that have great communities, even if they use different software.

For example, for investing, the Boggleheads forum is excellent: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php
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The problem is the rest of the industry looks to these companies for best practices and then proceed to cargo-cult them. If you think they can be avoided by applying to a greeting card or healthcare company instead, well I've got news for you.
But if we're talking about cloud computing and microsoft offers these these services in the cloud, they should not be penalized because their customers once started on the desktop. They're demonstrating that they are making the transition.
Amazon does have a cloud SaaS office suite, actually -- Amazon WorkDocs / WorkMail / WorkSpaces. I've hardly ever heard of businesses using them, though; Office 365 and Google Apps have the market pretty well locked down.

I feel like there is a fundamental distinction to be made between infrastructure services (like AWS S3, EC2, RDB, etc) and end-user services (like Office 365). Combining the two doesn't make a lot of sense; procurement for the two typically happens separately, and businesses frequently mix-and-match vendors for infrastructure and end-user services.
What lawsuit happened in the '90s? All I see on the Wikipedia page started in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes#Tim...

Are you sure it was a lawsuit and not the state of the still very new Linux in the '90s? From what I recall, Linux didn't have a good reputation before 2.6.
I'd say the opposite, but maybe not so much on the fear front. Superfund sites are everywhere, p2.5 is generated by every diesel on the road. A level of human generated poison/contamination is everywhere. Low levels of pesticides, herbicides and microplastics are part of our lives. They have a cost and in many cases the cost is unknown, and maybe unquantifiable without tremendous cost. These are just facts, not things to be feared so much as motivation to answer in the affirmative when there is a policy choice re: "hey should we study why there is a worldwide loss of flying insects, bee colony collapse?, should we incentivize less polluting tech?" etc.
Can you give some examples of liberals being anti-biology? That seems so far from even the common stereotypes of liberals that I'm genuinely not sure what you're talking about.
What satellite companies and energy providers should I be prepared to short in the event we are expecting another solar storm of this magnitude?
That's a slice of the stack. It's not a replacement for Word/Excel -- Google has Docs for that.

That said, I think that's evidence that this fits in the cloud revenue stream.
Not category theory, per se, but this link on functional programming was trending on hn a few months back: https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon

Some people have noted that not all definitions are complete or accurate, with many missing altogether. Despite that, it is a pretty good starting point.
System76 Engineer here, who did a lot of work on the ID for Thelio. The veneer actually has a pretty superb minimum radius, depending on which direction you bend it. Bending with the grain for our particular veneer lets you bend around a 1/8" radius (about 3mm) pretty reliably. That's reduced a bit in our case since the finish is applied first (part of a cost-reduction), which limits it a bit, but Thelio uses corners that are pretty close to a 20mm radius, so that's not really a limiting factor here.

You can actually cut the stuff with a normal pair of paper scissors. It's pretty wild stuff.
The two are not mutually exclusive, you can be an atheist or theist agnostic, but also a positive or negative atheist.

You probably mean the colloquial use of agnostic fornegative atheist - the position of someone who does not believe that a god/supernatural being exists -, in contrast to positive atheism, the position of someone who believes that there is no god/supernatural being.

There is no problem with this colloquial use, I just wanted to clarify that the "professional" terminology does not match it.
You should definitely be on Twitter and Facebook, but a better question is if you should be active on these social networks.

Unless you are producing lots of marketing materials (tutorials, new features, blog posts, etc) and/or creating an audience I don't think you should invest resources in being active. A simple light presence should be enough.

Lots of people (myself included) prefer to send a tweet to a project/company than sending an email. This has the advantage that it's a public indexable conversation that could, given the circumstances, even become viral.
Facebook opens its first small biz pop-up stores inside Macy’s
Yes, you need to be aware of things though, especially if you aren’t using municipal water.

Look for superfund sites, former dumps, former military facilities, etc and avoid them. Even things like army depots and train depots. If you’re in an area with well water, understand what’s upstream.

In an old city, test the soil if you grow vegetables in the yard, you may have coal ash or other nasties.
Some worst case scenarios:

- Your tab freezes due to an infinite loop for a while until your browser notices and asks you if you want to kill the script.

- The script downloads illegal content, and your ISP notifies authorities.

- CSRF attack against a site you're signed into that's not properly secured.

All of these things are things any site you go to can do. There's nothing special about `eval` that makes this site more dangerous.
The United States minus Congress is essentially the Chinese system with two parties instead of one - overwhelming authority for the executive, overt and covert threats to get with the program. Not surprising, since our networked, interconnected world concentrates everything - wealth, fame, power etc.

I wonder how much of the balance of power is due to asymmetries of knowledge and expertise. We live in a very complex world and the President (perhaps not this one!) has access to top-drawer talent and large, specialized institutions whose job is to crunch the data to suit his mood. How can generalists who spend most of their time fund-raising hope to compete with the executive branch?
Fuzzing works best if you sprinkle assertions generously in your code. If you do algorithm heavy stuff, you can choose a certifying algorithm [1] for your problem. That makes it a lot easier to get the oracle that you need.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certifying_algorithm
I'm not at all curious about your year off (other than as incidental conversation if you choose to bring it up). I am curious about your experience and competency, both overall and in terms of recency/currency, as I believe both of those are strongly correlated to your projected contributions to my company.

A pilot with 5K hours of experience is more experienced (in the pilot job market) than one with 4K. I don't care that you could have had that extra 1K hours if you'd worked an extra year instead of doing something else. I only care whether you do or don't (as it pertains to this dimension of the evaluation).
HiFiBerry is a good place to start: https://www.hifiberry.com/build/guides/hifiberry-streamer-in...
(disclaimer: I was at AWS from 2008 to 2014, and VMware from 2014 to 2016)

Microsoft have been playing this game for years now. It's a joke.

Anybody with just a little sense of how the industry works knows that AWS still leads the market with 80% to 90% penetration.

Microsoft should be punished for misleading the public this way. And some analysts should be fired for not knowing better.
Cloud-nuke: A tool to delete all resources in your AWS account
I thought the Java framework nomenclature was bad, but .Net is way more confusing.
We are pleased to preview Flockport with the HN community. Flockport is a new container management platform designed to deliver a lot of functionality and ease of use. We designed this to be simple, it was the core driving force and we hope we have succeeded.

Flockport lets you quickly provision servers and deploy and manage containers across servers, supports overlay networks, distributed storage, service discovery, load balancers and high availability.

Flockport also provides a container build system and an app store. Apps can be deployed cluster wide. We also built in support for rolling out things like databases across clusters. Users can add and remove both database instances and also individual databases cluster wide. There is also similar support for web servers and load balancers builtin.

We are eager to have the community give it a go and get their early feedback and support. For those who do not want to install it there are preinstalled VMs on the downloads page and also screencasts on the resources page.