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Sometimes the business thinks they know but the delivery team, generally the smartest folks IN the business are ignored at their peril.
"Highlighting the achievements of a brilliant, enthusiastic scientist does not diminish the contributions of the other 214 people who worked on the project, either. "

That is, in my experience, untrue, if it is highlighted in a way that unjustly lifts one contribution above all others.

Does not tend to make collaborators happy. Since there is no money involved (as in, no big salary increases), academics (being one myself) are incredibly petty about these things, and bitter feuds are fought about small points of recognition.

For example, another female collaborator of hers was actually the one to point out that Katie Bouman's algorithm was not the one used for the image, as pointed out by the NYT:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/katie-bouman-blac...
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It never should have escaped the browser. It's brought the suck to everything now...
Just release the info on the abuse then. Most police are just doing their job and the hacker has no right to release information on them or their loved ones. Not to mention, the people that the police help. As an amateur hacker, I'm dead against "doxing" indiscriminately.
My understanding is that the black hole imaged is both vastly bigger and much more active (i.e. actively consuming matter from its accretion disc) than Sgr A*. That makes it easier to get a compelling image out of it.

I don't really know if line of sight is a factor here though.
From what I've read, they actually are a similar size to image when size/distance was taken into account, and they did initially consider imaging SagA*, but M87 proved easier for them to image.
No, it’s letting them know they stand outside what’s considered polite company.

Rereading the discussion about her, this community is among those standing to learn something by considering how she is being treated differently than any man ever featured in such stories.
At work we use C#, Java, C++, Python, BASH, powershell, Javascript, PERL, etc...

If you only want to work on C#, you're limiting your mobility here.

Personally, I never get bored because there's so many interesting projects in different languages.
When I was in school they really hammered it in that data was plural. If you didn't write something like the data are or the data show that'd be a red circle on your report or paper. It was a common source of lost marks for the class. Presentations too.

It was a big deal at least to our teachers.

It always did and still does sound funny to me though.

It also seems to be different in the computer science world compared to the the biology world. I see data used as a singular far more often in the context of computers than I do with other branches of science.
The basics of flying a plane are the same because the physics are the same. The differences in engine and fuel type will yield different checklists and procedures but that's true for many planes in the same class now.

Today pilots and students get a "class rating" that certifies they know how to fly that general class of airplane such as single engine land. You might learn in a Cessna 150 or 152 and then switch to a 172 for the larger engine and more fuel so you take bigger cross-country legs. Those planes are in the same class so it's an easy transition.

Even so you can't just go rent a 172! You'll need someone to sign off saying you know how to fly the 172 or you'll have trouble renting the plane or possibly with insurance. Insurers want to see some time learning to fly a new model before going solo.

So if you learn to fly an electric airplane in the US you'll still get Private Pilot - Airplane, Single Engine Land (PP-ASEL) but you will require further training to hop in a gas engine plane that's also single engine land.

The "land" part is to distinguish those planes from sea planes (planes which can land on water) which are different enough for their own class.
I don't. Oh, I'll spend some down time learning rather than spending all of it here, but I don't expect formal training, especially if I am asked to jump in to some project quickly. In fact, most formal training I have been exposed to outside of school has been horrible and useless; I actively avoid them.
Apparently they decided BlueMix was a stupid name and just renamed it IBM Cloud.
I thought I was the only one. Also class and method names : is it array.length(), array.len(), array.Length, array.size(), len(array), Len(array).
Going from native Portuguese, then French, and only then Spanish (yep, I've gone to a crazy school), I got much of the problem the GP was talking about. I don't think I've ever spoken so much French as the time when I was leaning Spanish.

There's something with those two languages in that they interfere badly.
I knew exactly which one it was in particular before clicking. There's a deep rot in the online culture.
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The black hole that they revealed is about 1,000 times larger than the one at the center of our milky way. So even though it's also 1,000 times further away, it's about the same angular diameter in the sky. Same size but less stuff in the way/more active makes it an easier target.
> In terms of the time issue, I spend about 15 minutes a day just before bedtime learning new languages. I probably manage to do this 4 days out of every 7.

Do you find this actually works? Personally I've read entire books for a language and then gone to write some code in it and realized I knew almost nothing. The only way I've found to learn a language is by writing it.
Reposting my comment from another story that didn’t get traction (edit: thar was quickly flagged off the front page, as this one is now as well):

It should be noted that this community here was among the worst in this regard.

This isn’t about measuring the exact contribution she may or may not have made to the project. It’s that there are limitless stories of „meet the man behind <x>“ where that question just never crosses anyone’s mind. See "The Man Behind Windows PowerShell" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15250349

Yet for her (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086), the discussion was easily dominated by attempts to tear her down, a few defenders, and entirely transparent attempts to differentiate her case from all the others that avoid the obvious reason.
I recall meeting him in 2006-7 at a railsconf talk he gave about jruby, seemed like a nice guy and pretty sharp too hopefully what he’s accused of isn’t true and he’ll be ok.
Media invents a fact, that she is responsible for everything, and make her the face of the discovery, when it was a team effort. They get tons of clicks for saying something that is clearly preposterous.

Some people get upset, some even start trolling about it, and badmouth the poor woman, who's not responsible for what the media said in their quest for clicks. A loss of time for everybody involved.

Media reports the backlash. They get tons of clicks for that too.

Summary: media wins. Everybody else loses.
"I don't think she has enough experience"

You see how sexist that assumption is, right? Don't be that guy. Give her the benefit of the doubt you'd give a male researcher.
It may depend on the person. So don't take it a simple idea. Some will find languages that fit their brain so much more they'll be very happy. But only if they can make a living with it. Going back to Java <8 after Ocaml or Prolog is a chore. Plato's cave and all that.

That said it will probably enbroaden your mind tenfold.
It doesn't happen more often because people are petty and over value their contribution.
Seems like you wish to quarrel with someone about something.

If you wish to contribute then please follow the instructions; if you don't wish to contribute then have a nice day.
Checking OP's posting history, it appears to be all his own articles/blog posts/whatever. Yep, shameless self-promoting spammer. That's enough to guarantee I will not be reading (let alone purchasing) anything from him.
The quality of housing many people can afford in London can be pretty terrible too, in its own way
I've only visited Chicago once and really enjoyed it, but I suspect its reputation, whether vaild or not, for crime, cold, and corruption serves as a rate limiter on migration to the city.
Abstain from Hollywood. Consume and support independent media.

If 1% of people stop consuming Hollywood, is that going to change Hollywood? No. But that 1% would be a HUGE market to an upstart/independent market. That new market would be a threat to Hollywood, and that might change Hollywood.
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That logic only applies in the case that the inventor built something for their own use, put in all the effort for their own use, and never planned on making a living off of it. The second that they invented something to profit off of/make a living off of, they are absolutely harmed when someone else copies it. I don't understand why this is even debatable.

Per the other commenter, unless you're suggesting that private property just shouldn't exist, then your argument falls apart. And if you are arguing private property shouldn't exist, I think you'll find very few takers.
This is (my understanding of) Wittgenstein in a nutshell. Definitions in the real world don't have distinct borders. Words' meanings depend on how they're used, how we teach them to each other, how we experiment with them.

Most of their utility comes "far from the border". Ideally the border is little-trafficked and needs little policing, and if it drifts a little one way or another between speakers few important concepts are left on different sides.

Tying technical definitions to existing words is fine, obviously. Words can have several meanings, and where the contours of a technical concept approximate some lay word it can make sense to reuse the term. If mathematicians want to call something a "hole" (or a "set" or a "knot"), good for them. It might even in turn influence the lay definition, but it doesn't necessarily supersede it just by virtue of its well-defined borders (and indeed may not be suitable for general use because of its hard borders and low entropy.)
Trolling is a thing. So is misogyny. They are not the same thing.
I totally agree, high speed trains are glamorous and high profile but I think spoil the main goal. eg California high speed train was hugely expensive, would be much better to expand commuter trains and/or improve the existing Amtrak lines.
1) This one is actively ingesting material (active galaxy) so there are emissions from the accretion disk. Our galaxy is quiet, so there isn't the same emission from the black hole.

2) The one in our galaxy is 1600x closer and roughly that much smaller, so they're approximately the same angular size.

3) They have tracked the orbit of a star that orbits our galaxy's central black hole through an orbit, and it goes ~2% (iirc) of the speed of light at closest approach, but it's nowhere near the event horizon. There are other things that have been tracked near A*, but nothing at the event horizon like this one.
Next time, just don't comment if your contribution is to cast doubt on the experience and intentions of a woman based only on your bias.
I guess it's not maddening to me because I was used to this from C. Two pointers which resolve to the same value and type will still not be equal in an equality expression if they reference different addresses. But to me it's good that {k: 1} !== {k: 1}, because if this evaluated to true I would have no way of determining an object's true identity, which is often more relevant than the value it contains.
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I don't understand where the duplicity would be in that. "The media" (your term) used documents from Wikileaks in their reporting and now are outraged about the arrest of Assange? There is nothing incongruent about that.

Did I misunderstand you?
I just checked my about:config (icecat) and see-

dom.serviceWorkers.enabled = false

Is this the only thing that needs to be checked to turn them off? (And, curious, is this enabled in newer FF ESR versions?)

I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything considering it was already disabled in this version (without me knowing about it).
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You supply more by building up. Or even down, but that's a lot more expensive.
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Instead of learning more programming languages, learn more programming languages paradigms. If you know OOP, try functional programming; if you use dynamic types, try static types as well.
That is the actual definition of deception.
You ask 'when', but all the examples of limits you give are in the past tense.
Thanks, this was much more explanatory than the linked article.
The more languages you learn, the more you realize they have more in common than not. At some point it’s time to stop learning 20+ languages and start building stuff. I never said to stop learning, but be very careful what you spend your time learning. If you can be world class at Python alone, able to solve just about any problem with it, it’s better than 100% knowing many languages. Knowing a language doesn’t mean you know all of the standard libraries and third party libraries, much less solve challenging problems efficiently.
No, but does it matter? I'm pointing out that you structurally don't need a nation-state to do this. The EU isn't going to have some natural or legal tipping-point where the wealth transfer moves up or down by 0.1% and suddenly it structurally doesn't work.
>people read and accept this capability without question

These days most negative statements about Russia are accepted at face value.
> Ah yes, Netherlands: a land of barbarians, murder and rampant disentery. Not a single industry in sight.

Netherlands were the first in the industrialized world to tolerate it, and that demonstrated a lot of courage given the general attitudes at the time. Their example paved the way forward to today, when Canada is the first country in the industrialized world to give cannabis legal status.

Legalization of cannabis is the drug policy equivalent of marriage equality in social policy (which in Canada is also the law of the land).
Giving one person the credit for a team effort is wrong. In this case some people are pretending it's right because it's a female, but two wrongs don't make one right.
IANAL but he’s awaiting trial for hacking, not being a journalist. Whether or not the charges are true will be one for the courts to figure out.
Try setting up an LDAP group without being part of the LDAP team. Try ordering a replacement drive for your laptop without being part of the procurement team. Try opening holes in the firewall without being part of the network security team.

Unions really don't have much to do with this problem. It's merely an aspect of the division of labor. It's also probably a net-negative for the factor to have production stop so a worker can replace a bulb (assuming the production isn't stopped because of the bulb).
I do, I just haven't found the project navigation and jumping to definitions/uses to be quite as complete as helm and gtags are for C/C++.
Note I am not arguing this to be true today, but what you are saying is not mutually exclusive to using mandatory logins more nefariously in future. Also, one does not need to force accounts for this - users can decide if they want a login and viewing history - YouTube arguably does this already today. The compulsory part is the real issue, not the benefits it brings.

I’ve sadly seen many many features like this (just watch the industry - who hasn’t?) that are sold under one seemingly positive guise only to be used for another negative one later.

Regardless of public statements on the matter today, I’m really not sure the BBC will resist the temptation longer term to use iPlayer logins as a licence fee enforcement tool among other things, it’s too easy to spin positively as a business decision.

Much of my own unease in all of this is due to the BBC’s odd nature as a kind of hybrid public/private entity. Perhaps the time has come to just let the BBC be a private company and compete directly with Netflix et al, at which point I would care much less about how access is provided. If it is to be a public broadcaster though, I think one of its primary duties should be to be as open as is practical.
“LISP is worth learning for a different reason — the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use LISP itself a lot. […]

It’s best, actually, to learn all five of Python, C/C++, Java, Perl, and LISP. Besides being the most important hacking languages, they represent very different approaches to programming, and each will educate you in valuable ways.

But be aware that you won't reach the skill level of a hacker or even merely a programmer simply by accumulating languages — you need to learn how to think about programming problems in a general way, independent of any one language. To be a real hacker, you need to get to the point where you can learn a new language in days by relating what's in the manual to what you already know. This means you should learn several very different languages.”

— http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills1
What!!? My agent made 2% on a 500k - 1M home last month.
Can this not be viewed as a call for the media to more accurately report stories? I think people are just tired of massive media outlets manufacturing the news instead of reporting it. This was obviously a team effort but a single individual got put on a pedestal because it fit with a larger narrative.

People are mad and tired of it. Why don't we step back and look at the bigger picture and listen to what people are complaining about instead of just admonishing them.
Why would you need a separate credit card? It’s easy enough to set up separate accounts under an Organization with shared billing and with rules that work across accounts.
I'll bet you that if you pull further on that string past Ola you will find a lot more that just him. Software has a lot of loud activists, private organizations that hire based on political ideology with ties to governments and many underground networks.
I don't own a car because I'm fortunate enough to live in London with an awesome public transport system and a half decent cycle network.

But the air quality here sucks and pollution from cars is through the fucking roof. We just introduced an Ultra Low Emission area scheme that's a half hearted attempt to do what they've done in Madrid, but for me that doesn't go far enough.

I think we should just ban any vehicles that aren't electric from being inside the M25 and give people two years to prepare.

I get that this will be difficult for a lot of people and cause a lot of disruption, but it's killing us. It's killing us now. And if the Brexit brigade can wave away the looming catastrophe of their no-deal-Brexit dreams by conjuring up fantasies about the Blitz spirit, and how we can always make do and mend because we're British; then I don't see why we can't use that same logic to inflict difficult circumstances on people to save the fucking planet and protect our fellow citizens from the harm of air pollution that's being brought into our city by people who don't fucking live here.
> Research should be public?

> Wtf? So every company should share everything?

> Wtf? How realistic is that???

That's not what "research should be public" means. It just means that the existing institutions which the public funds for research (universities and research labs) should have their remit expanded to include "private" R&D for public benefit; and that, additionally, the public sector should routinely buy out valuable private R&D, perhaps via formally-established "prizes" - instead of merely allowing it to be monopolized via IP protection. We spend a lot of tax money already to fund private R&D by firms, that could instead be directed to fund these mechanisms.
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> Am I missing something here? Everyone seems thoughorly convinced that this is perfectly normal.

What you're missing is that one of the intuitions you have is simply wrong. The intuition is that sample size can undo the ill effects of non-random sample. As stated in the original article and elsewhere in the comments, it cannot:

> It is an error to use the sample size of a non-random sample to support the underlying comparison with the population of interest. Sample size can decrease random error, but not bias
Learn more ? I'm actively trying to unlearn a bunch of languages at this point!

ofcourse, when I was a wageslave in the bay area, its nice to know python, java, javascript, scala etc. - got me jobs every 2-3 years & put food on table.

now that i'm in academia, its completely upside down.
literally everybody is way more productive than me in just about any task. The other day I as supposed to program a poisson clock, it took forever. Meanwhile my advisors & classmates with zero industry experience chug thru these tasks effortlessly. Lately I've confirmed its because they know exactly 1 language , but they know it so well & in so much depth, they know exactly where to look, the right mcmc library, the right slice sampler, the right optimizer, that's what matters.

There's no point programming the same bloody front-end & back-end in a dozen different languages just because of industry constraints. That's like eating a spaghetti with a fork, a spoon, with chopsticks, with your fingers...its the same fucking spaghetti. cook something else, not just rotate dish-ware.
Service workers are used to listen for events for browser notifications.

That's the only legitimate use I know for a service worker to be alive after the tab is closed.
Care to find any example among the myriad of „meet the man behind...“ stories where the same thing happened?
So there are no holes in a straw - it's a tunnel.

This just points out that "normal English usage" is inconsistent and impossible to use in any kind of technical context. As soon as you examine one of the most common senses in which we use the word "hole" we find that there are complexities. The study starts with "What do we mean by hole?" and the rabbit warren is entered. What follows is the investigation of the unavoidable consequences of things you thought were obvious.

You said:

> The problem with being topologically pedantic about this is that it is at odds with the actual English definition ..

I said:

> ... what you're saying is a problem is actually an opportunity.

You're agreeing that there really is no consistent, usable definition of the common usage of "hole", and that people just have to know what it means. I'm pointing out that the technical approach gives us a tool whereby we can start to map usable definitions fro the technical study back into the real usage of language.

It's not a problem, it's an opportunity. Perhaps this is an opportunity to look beyond the statistic treatment of language and get mappings to "meanings", whatever they are. Perhaps the Word2Vec idea can be taken further.

The technical world is full of words that don't "mean the same thing" as when used in a non-technical sense. Function, Object, Module, Expression, Constant, Scope, these are all words that have a technical meaning in a technical environment that break down when you get into the non-technical world. Criticising the content of the video for starting with a non-technical sense of "hole" and trying to make technical sense of it seems odd.