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> with local closed source we know it's going to just be our government pressure

We don't. Companies that produce proprietary code are not immune from attacks on their repository, and are more vulnerable to, say, bribery. They're also more vulnerable to attacks on their distributed binaries - users do not have the option to compile from source, so you compromise every user this way.

Proprietary software is also far more likely to embed 'telemetry' spying, or to use sloppy security practices and rely on security-by-obscurity. Authors of Free and Open Source software know that they (generally at least [0]) cannot get away with this kind of thing.

It simply isn't true that proprietary software is more trustworthy than FOSS. If anything, the opposite appears to be true.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14754740
I'm suggesting it's 1) English and 2) more than 400 years old.
True, and this places a fundamental limit on the extent and types of problems which can effectively be tackled by machine learning and AI, generally.
Does this argument back-test successfully?

Has the US suffered fewer war-fatalities in the era(s) where it had a draft (including the Civil War, WW1, WW2, & Vietnam), or in the era where it has an all-volunteer force (since 1973)?
From 08-10 I was a flunky analyst at the federal reserve. First job out of undergrad and the first w2 I ever took home. The most important thing I learned is that the people in charge don’t know what they’re doing. The second most important thing I learned is that the same people will claim they do for money.
I think this misses the point and lets legislators off too easy. Economics tends to be concerned with maximizing the size of the pie, not distribution of benefits. That’s generally seen as government’s domain, with the idea that (with proper distribution) growth can genuinely make everyone better off. As it happens, legislators (and their appointees) seem to be willing to implement the growth-oriented ideas, but not the programs that retrain/etc people who lost out.

Tangentially, there are some nice lists out there of things economists do agree on - here is one of them: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/news-flash-economists...
How about if(gradeForStudent(i) < avg(gradesForStudent(i))) flagForReview

Still a one liner.

You seem to have forgot that the software defect was an error in grading.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a medieval RPG, did this quite well. The protagonist Henry does a few jobs for the executioner and they make it clear the isolation and ostracization the executioner suffers, and he lives well out of town.
Good point.

That would explain why people from Idia always seem a bit more focuses and harsh about work, for the there has always been much on the line. In Germany we are also work focused, but overall a bit more chill, at least in my experience...
I also recommend ERE too. It is really a distillation of the FI philosophy. Very good to have in your mental toolbox.

The discussion about increasing the savings rate was really illuminating.Some might be put off by the "Extreme" part and the occasional tendency to go to great lengths to save costs, but that should taken as being tailored to oneself.

The forum is also a nice place for lot of interesting discussion with good people.
> "This mans words beat the drums for imperialism, he does not deserve praise."

Why this proclivity to view people as being either entirely good or entirely bad? Is there no room for nuance in your world view? Kipling was a racist and imperialist. He was also a talented poet and novelist who produced some seminal work. Both of those things can be true, they are not mutually exclusive.
That is annoying although it is completely at the discretion of Apple. Luckily most of my contacts use WhatsApp or Telegram anyway.
And look at the meager thanks Friedman gets from those like Applebaum craving ever-greater tax revenues!
Seems to me that is poor product-market fit; clowns rarely need shirts, as they typically wear blouses and other loose fitting tops that exaggerate their antics.
> I sincerely doubt if humans truly understand economics

This exaggerates our ignorance. Microeconomics is well understood, down to producing testable hypotheses. In macroeconomics, we can draw broad lessons. We know, with respect to elected governments, economies with independent central banks outperform those with political ones. We know there is a relationship between interest rates, money supply and inflation, even if we can’t precisely predict it.

Macroeconomics is largely qualitative. It tells us directions, but not precisely. (Microeconomics is properly a science, offering a full set of experimental tools and falsifiable predictions.)
Poor being obese is not a sign of prosperity. There are many countries that are not prosperous at all with obesity problems. Obesity can be due to genetics, lack of access to healthy food or time for recreation, etc.

High unemployment doesn't mean much if real wages are dropping for most people and necessities like housing or Healthcare are becoming less affordable even for those employed.

I agree that there are people out there incentives to make things seem worse than they are, but I so think things are pretty bad.
To quote Feynman, "what I cannot create, I do not understand".
Unfortunately, as Apple tries to integrate more and more of the supply chain, and other computer-makers are copying Apple's business model, I predict that generic computers (the ones you install Linux on) will slowly disappear from the market.
I hesitate to defend a Facebook property, but here goes anyway...

My Instagram feed is 100% welding, machining and a small smattering of woodworking. Literally any project I post gets universally positive feedback, with the occasional constructive suggestion. If I ask for help on a project, I get advice in at most a few hours from someone with 40 years more experience than I have. Contrast this to the forum community for the same thing that has a disturbing tendency to flame out and generally mock newbies.

What I take away from this is that Instagram, like all metaphorical tools, is what you make of it. If you only follow beautiful people, you may only get shallow content. If you follow interesting people who share interesting things, you'll get interesting content.
However, as a rule of thumb, larger and more complex systems tend to have more bugs than smaller and simpler ones.
For "general quota" , cut off can be 100% to get application forms (https://www.quora.com/How-could-the-cut-off-at-Shri-Ram-Coll...)
Perhaps you could try hitting the correct keys. :)

I am myself a touch-typist not using all ten digits, but still getting around 90-110 wpm typing English on online testing sites (though not a native speaker).

My error rate is usually pretty small (1-3%), but I "feel" when I miss a key and quickly correct it automatically.

I find that the rate of my typing is sufficient for the work I do (software development), so I am not bothered about improving further.

You obviously don't think your typing speed is sufficient (thus the typos), so I believe you should invest in proper hand placement and practice: if you can't force youself to do it, just get one of those split ergonomic keyboards.

There is nothing like being forced to deal with it to make you improve :)

(Any typos here are due to phone "keyboards" :)
Rethinking Set Theory (2012)
Economics is scientific — and much more complicated than physical sciences because people are involved. If I drop a rock with a certain mass from a tower of a certain height, I can safely assume that my measurements of that one event are representative of all similar events in the future. Predicting based on observations of someone’s behavior today what he will do tomorrow is highly problematic because in a real sense the same individual tomorrow will be a different person.
Indeed. From the dictionary: “Knowledge: facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education.” You can learn things by own experience, or by someone/something teaching it.
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You're right.

It's hard to fathom such countries.

On the one hand I see very industrious and smart people from countries like India and Nigeria online, on the other hand people are starving in those countries.
If it is as easy to silence as GNU Parallel and tells you how to do it (like GNU Parallel also does), I do not see a problem.
I don't hate any language myself, only the codebases I have to deal with, but Clojure is very different from Javascript in its support for immutability, such that if you want to update values you have to use atoms, agents etc. This goes a long way towards making up for the lack of typing when trying to understand peoples code.

Some people also find the lack of random syntactical noise in Lisp style syntax preferable.
Sorry for the very late reply. You're right, I must have skipped the rest of your comment.

My answer to this is to insist on the 'proper' definition - the one you yourself prefer - and to push back whenever the term is misused (I find this is generally done as a smearing tactic).

The alternative is to yield ground and to start saying 'physical violence' whenever one means 'violence'.
Whether something is a science or not depends on the methods which are applied - not how much is known about the subject. You could argue that biology is not a science because we don't understand how lots of basic cell functions work.
The article only mentions the clean executions (other than burning at the stake). There were plenty that were gruesome; essentially tortured to death.
The great university con: how the British degree lost its value
I can't see how they compete when electricity is taxed whilst aviation fuel is untaxed.
> No, Baghdad was located in the heart of the former Persian (Sassanian) Empire, a mere 35 km from the site of the Sassanian capital (Ctesiphon).

Mesopotamia was conquered by Arabs in 633. Al-Khwarizmi was born in 780. Most the Arabic lands were gained by conquest. Even modern day Yemen and Oman were not under Arabic influence if you go back far enough. The "original" arabs spread from Hijaz and Najd.

edit: from wikipedia

> The Abbasid Caliphate first centred its government in Kufa, modern-day Iraq, but in 762 the caliph Al-Mansur founded the city of Baghdad, near the ancient Sasanian capital city of Ctesiphon.

My guess is that families from the Sassanid have immigrated to the new city and as a result Al-Khwarizmi was born there.
Completely agree. I do however think the way the instagram app works you are guided down a path littered with product sales pages, advertising and general mundane materialism. I think at its core this culture is good for their business model.
Right, though the bulk of canals in Europe were dug after 1500, and most of England's in the 18th & 19th centuries. This contrasts with Japan's general lack of same; digging through mountainous volcanic rock is far harder than flat limestone (and yields fewer fossils, another story).

China though has its Great Canal which dates to 12 BCE and has had pound locks since the 10th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_(China)

In the US the Erie Canal opened up the West and cemented New York City as a transport, commerce, and financial hub, beginning in the 1830s.
Giant pumice stone floating in the Pacific could help heal Great Barrier Reef
Ask HN: What ONE book would you recommend?
If you could recommend ONE book with the goal to get someone who doesn't read regularly, to become a regular reader.... What would that one book be?
A quick Google search says Indonesia has around 3 million permanent homeless people vs about 500k in the US. 40 million people in Indonesia don’t have access to clean water. Half the population doesn’t even have access to sewer systems for waste.
Slightly off topic but this goes to show how poorly hyphens/dashes are implemented in modern typography.

Idk if its because I've been reading the word "right-wing" a lot or what it is but when I saw "right-knowledge" I thought it was a specific term when it seems like they're using it as an em-dash even though the unicode for the character is for en-dash.

I get that its harder to type a dash, but c'mon, for an official online publication their publication software should have some easy shortcut for it.
Just because I've been holding on to this link for a while now - https://i.imgur.com/efbNO4X.jpg

Granted, NZ's a small country, but if it was known about there pre Great War, I suspect many people knew about it elsewhere too.

It is one of those things that until very recently had been quite easy to ignore though I suppose (and many still try even now).
Show HN: An automatic scene switcher for Streamlabs OBS
Without hawking other items, they’re mostly just making instagram money. I’m not saying it’s good, but the it’s the expected behavior for this incentive structure.
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Actually not a giant pumice stone but a raft of small ones. Nonetheless:

research ... following a similar underwater volcanic event found that pumice rafts are one way that the ocean can redistribute diverse sea life
> it has emacs

Back to square one.
The module in that switch is made by EnOcean, they go back to at least 2006 (though the 2.4 GHz versions are more recent)

https://www.automation.com/products/enocean-announces-wirele...
Minification of scripts in an extension can only have nefarious purposes. It isn't worth it in terms of bandwidth.
os for open source. osCommerce was popular then so it influenced naming!
The Romans also used the abacus for numeric calculations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_abacus
I know dreadfully little about finance, and your comment is quite intriguing. Could you kindly elaborate?

How do hedge funds work, and what makes them particularly suited to recycling pathological businesses? Are there any notable examples?
I believe it works via the TPM or Secure Enclave in the computer or phone. The keys are stored securely there.
Germany in Uproar as Negative Rates Threaten Saving Obsession
I'm curious to this as well. I recently got a desktop computer to supplement my MacBook, and am now using Ubuntu as my more-or-less primary OS. I'm quite enjoying it, but I certainly wouldn't claim that it works better out of the box than MacOS. Perhaps it's because I've used Mac for so long, but I can't think of anything that I find difficult to set up. Ubuntu on the other hand has several issue that I've just sort of ignore - keybindings don't always work, you can't drag to/from the Desktop for some reason, some startup programs don't always run, little things like that.
It’s basically a hosted version of osTicket - Supportsystem.com
One More Way to Die: Delivering Food in Cape Town’s Gig Economy
> but feel it misses people who join the military to obtain gainful employment, get education, or numerous other reasons.

You're right. But I wonder what kind of "politics" they would adopt when needed if they didn't feel the rest of the army has one way of thinking.
'Why' presupposes there is an answer that a human can understand. Why do self-driving cars work? Because there exists some function that maps raw inputs to outputs that correctly interact with reality. Why? Because the neural network fit the right curves.
Some scary comments right here.
Could you elaborate on which problems you believe are forever out of reach of AI?
Yes, but they don't hold the rifle, in case it matters.
Exactly. Random idea, but one simple way to do it could have been to draw the figure on paper, draw a grid over it, for example with 1cm boxes, and then draw much bigger boxes, say 10 or 100 meters big on the soil. And then just copy box by box and in the end get rid of the grid. Who needs GPS?
Thanks - I’ll reach back.
Over the last 20 years, I've heard this often. "I don't need to learn no VCS, I get work done by copying files". "I don't need no IDE and semantic navigation, I'm productive with Notepad+". "I don't need no ticket manager, a shared TODO file is more than enough".

Everyone has a work flow. It can be simple or complex, self-made or partly-compulsory. Some will try to always use better tools, other will try to keep the plainest environment. I believe it's a good practice to at least know what other people can do.

It took me many years to discover and build an environment where I feel confortable and productive. I spend many days working for this, but now it has hardly changed in 5 years. I think that time was an excellent investment.
Is Jordan still the leader of FreeBSD? I’ve Been out the game for over a decade now (since he took a hiatus for Apple’s Darwin)
Vim Config Update: 2019 Edition
Yet, most of them are pretty scared to actually do something not normal.

It is mostly about looking interesting and individual, not beeing individual.
Those statements were made as part of a legal petition when he was a young lawyer in his early 20s, freshly arrived in South Africa, and one who'd had little contact with the Africans.

He later came to publicly support African rights and gave many more speeches which asked Indians to draw inspiration from Africans.

Even Mandela forgave him:

> Mandela was well aware of the racist statements made by Gandhi when he was young. He wrote in an article in 1995, “Gandhi must be forgiven those prejudices and judged in the context of the time and circumstances. We are looking here at the young Gandhi, still to become Mahatma, when he was without any human prejudice save that in favour of truth and justice.”

Source: https://thewire.in/history/gandhi-and-africans
His point is that most Western history lessons completely ignore everything but Western Europe during that time frame and present a view of history that nothing was happening globally of any importance.

That really was my experience growing up in Western education. My understanding was that history focused on the important things and it wasn't until much later in life that I learned there was a lot happening globally after the fall of the Roman empire before the European renaissance.

After the USA was established, US history lessons completely ignore the rest of the globe until the early 20th century. I only learned yesterday that Italy wasn't a country until 1861 and I am almost 40.
You checked and found I am racist? Where?

As for homophobe, I reject your definition. Call me what you want there, but “racist” is a lie. Either yours or your “last I checked” source’s.

From what you write, nonprofits are innocent and for-profits are guilty. I worked for a nonprofit or its wholly owned for-profit subsidiary for 11 years, and I can tell you that the profit motive does not go away in nonprofits. Check the 2017 form 990 on Mozilla’s site for the top salary, >$2.3m. I never got 1/3rd that and went down to 1/15th to start Brave.

Brave uses all open source for auditability and we pay for audits as well as bug bounties. We pay the user 70% of user private ad revenue. For publisher ads (not yet done, working with publisher partners) we will pay users the same 15% we get - publisher gets 70%. So we won’t make revenue without our users being happy and making more than we make. Let’s see Firefox share Google search revenue (which held up tracking protection in Firefox for years) with its users, giving more to the user than Mozilla gets.

You ad hominem argument against an open source product is absurd on its face. Should right wingers use only software from righties? How many tribes must hive off and build their own software, and reject open source that’s ritually unclean? Judge products on their observable design, implementation, and business properties.
Looks like this does signing but not encryption. Assuming I'm not missing anything: Is anyone planning on adding the encryption side of things?
Thanks, the story read like something from the onion, but I saw no indications of satire around the site.
For those who believe that economics has never done anything useful or benefits the common man, here's a small counterclaim.

The widespread adoption of index funds was absolutely an outgrowth of academic financial economics. In particular the efficient market hypothesis and CAPM theories, as well as empirical research studying the (lack of) performance of active investment managers.

In the US alone, index funds now make up more than $3 trillion of assets. That's saving investors more than $30 billion in wasteful fees every single year. (Which doesn't even account for the downward pressure on fees for active funds.) Moreover this revolution has benefited ordinary and small investors the most.
I remember the first time I used Linux. A few years later I got a Macbook Air. I love the flexibilities Linux offers. The way you can just change the look and feel of the OS felt empowering. While OS X look and feel is beautiful, I do miss that customizability.
Once upon a time being poor absolutely meant being hungry. No more.

That is an utterly remarkable change and is unprecedented in all of human history. And so many wizards of smart assured the people of their time that population growth was going to lead to famine. They were dead-ass wrong.
1TB OneDrive is $80/year ($6.66/month). So 110GB is $0.73/month. Not that far from 50 cents.
It's not as simple as swapping the keys. On macOS you use the "win key" for system shortcuts but you can also use the Ctrl key for emacs-style movement systemwide.

For example I can type Ctrl-b while editing the URL in the browser omnibar to move the cursor back a character or alt-b to move it back a word, just like you can in the terminal and then use "Win"-b to bookmark a page.

And your command changes the keys you use for moving the cursor in the terminal.
I am not sure this is true. I believe that generic computers will be in the market until there will be people willing to buy them.
I was mainly referencing the decades where the huge economic boom happened, basically/circa 1975-2005.
"Child porn", which in the US can be anything ranging from raping newborns to sexually suggestive drawings of imaginary teenager characters.
It is just sad when you see that humans are losing their humanity!
Why Andrew Yang Is the Guy to Beat Donald Trump
‘Meaningless’ does not mean ‘useless.’ You do not, for example, “really understand” math if you are not well-versed in category theory. And much of the high-school and engineering math is taught without any attempts to explain the reason why things are the way they are. You may not realize this, but people learn mostly by getting used to things.