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Why research when there's already an existing narrative about the liberal university turning our spoiled children into oversensitive, overconcerned, disrespectful, judgemental revolutionaries that lack sufficient respect for their parent's pragmatic decisionmaking?

If there's any increase in oversensitiveness in universities, for me it would make sense as an indicator that the universities are becoming increasingly out of reach for people who haven't had a life privileged enough to sustain the idea that one might be able to go through life without feeling bad or sad without the person who made you feel that way being expelled from the community.

Basically, they expect proper customer service, and they're used to it from the people that serve them from behind retail counters and fast food cash registers every day. With the prices they're paying, I'm not sure that they don't deserve it. If you're a tutor to royalty, there's no academic freedom; if you can't figure out that the customer is always right, you lose your head.

Anyway, aren't most people who teach at universities making less than minimum wage with no health insurance? Do we really want their 'truth' to endanger the incomes of the administrators? If it looks like a temp, swims like a temp, and quacks like a temp, you can fire it like a temp.

There's no doubt that there's been an increase of immediately firing anyone who generates any controversy anywhere, unless they're the ones bringing in the revenue.
But what about biscuits!!!

Fried Chicken!!!

Alton Brown recommends using Crisco, he's like a scientist.
The thing is, there is no guarantee that by doing nothing things will be better than by doing something. We no longer believe than nature is somehow an eternal system that humans disturb. We know there have been huge catastrophes before without any kind of human intervention.

The only good thing about doing nothing in principle is that when something bad happens there's nobody to blame. Of course it may be the case that we have good reasons to believe that doing nothing is always safer than doing something, but we need some data and some models to support that belief, it's not enough holding it a priori just because many people still believe in "Mother Earth", even though they consider that "Father God" is dead.
Just open the bread box and we'll know for sure.
It's an extension running in the usual extension sandbox with permission to access the microphone. It's the "Ok, Google" implementation. It's a proprietary blob so you'd need to reverse engineer it to figure out exactly what it's doing.
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Alright, you've piqued my interest! I've had a couple of electronics projects in mind, mostly audio-related, like building MIDI controllers, experimenting with modular synthesizers, setting up a MIDI-controlled Gameboy synthesizer.

AoE looks pretty good. Some of then intro material I've looked at before doesn't go into much technical detail, and I feel like I'm missing the fundamentals.

But if I want to actually start experimenting with my own circuits, what should I buy? Should I order components one-by-one off of Digi-key when I think I need them? Or is there a nice starter kit of components that would get me started?
Found one job through it so far.
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Obviously no one short of a tyrant can actually force veganism on anyone, but vegans saying "eat like me or die" is close enough.
But this isn't a 'secret' download. Google isn't trying to hide it at all, it's just a feature for the browser. So there is no reason to try to avoid problems associated with certificate errors.
I was unaware that banning things rendered them impossible.
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>People love being emotionally numbed

That's not what alcohol does. If anything, it's an emotion amplifier. It does usually put me on the happy end of the spectrum, but I don't consider that to be "numbing".
defmulti/defmethod is a much cleaner way of handling dispatch on the typical message buses you see in JS than anything js provides. This speeds development and lowers maintenance (the bulk of time spent in a typical business application).

core.async makes working with UIs much easier to reason about. It's a more robust solution to the space than promises.

If the page/app is standalone, cljs is often a considerable size savings thanks to the google closure compiler's optimizations than what is typical of a jquery (or similar page). This means less to download which can be a big deal on mobile (although if this is truly your problem, the solution might not actually be clojurescript as much as not using giant frameworks in general).

It's also fun for developers. Unhappy developers are developers that are one foot out the door.
I fully second that: I'm using btrfs for / and ZFS for /srv. So many rashed filesystems beyond recovery on btrfs, so many joy, stability and easy tools for ZFS.

I'm really about to consider to migrate / to ZFS now.
Ask HN: Joke on CV?
I've just updated my CV (with thanks to some awesome feedback from HNer's) and added "Crushing it since 1993", in reference to HBO's Silicon Valley. Will startups and trendy big techs appreciate this? Or is this just a bad idea?

The CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/41n6g530impvhni/CV_v2.7.pdf?dl=0
The issue with Soylent and synthetics is that they're limited to current knowledge in medicine and nutrition. Products like Ambronite address this with 100% real food: www.ambronite.com the ingredients are all understandable and it's still 100% of everything.
>'You can see this on your desktop by doing a search for “used iPhone.” The majority of the screen real estate is now ads! In the example above 11 of the 12 links are advertisements!'

If someone is typing "used iPhone", I think the correct response would be to show them adverts for used iPhones. This is really poorly written.
Ask HN: Is it really that bad to switch jobs often?
As a programmer, I feel like we are more likely to be wooed away from our jobs (for money or challenge.) Why do companies still see it as a commitment issue when it's really the company's fault of not retaining the talent?
No, this has never been anything but non-scientists using science's name dishonorably. There has been and continues to be a large mismatch between what primary source studies say and what is reaching the public.
You can probably still buy trans fats, if you really want to eat it. You just won't find it in food shops labeled as food, because it's not safe enough to be considered food.
One should never attempt to apply logic to government actions, for government is devoid of all logic.
> I understand there are likely to be many uninvolved engineers within Google who have access to the source code. It would do a lot to restore trust if a few such engineers could take a look through the source code and find out whether it has a remote trigger, and whether the source code in Google's repo matches the file that's being distributed.

That would prove nothing since there'd be no evidence to back up said statement and that the statement originates from someone on Google's payroll to begin with.

If you're really that paranoid about closed source components within Chromium then the only recourse is not to use Chromium. Thankfully the alternatives are plentiful.

edit: s/Google Chrome/Chromium/g

> This is not the first time Google has taken an open-source project and added closed-source components to it. They did the same thing to Android

Android is Google's project to begin with, and the closed components which are part of the Play Service Framework have been a part of Android since it's initial release.

> In the case of Glass, I did some reverse-engineering and found that it would send all photos taken with Glass, and all text messages stored on a paired phone, and transmit them to Google, with no feasible way to stop it even with root. This was not documented and I don't think this behavior was well understood even within Google.

Did you do a write up of this study? I'd be interested to read it :)
Agree with Johnythree. I used to be an electronics technician over 12 years ago. What happened is that it became cheaper to replace a board than to pay a skilled technician to debug components on a board.

You also had to pretty much learn whatever setup a company's products had on the job, as typically this was proprietary information.

There are great boards/kits out today but yes, it's mostly a hobbyist thing unless you decide to go embedded, then boards such as the MSP-430 from Texas Instruments can be a good choice (especially in the Medical Devices field).
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Uhm, I do not understand what you mean by hijacking scrolling? Could you elaborate, perhaps on email anders at timeblock.com
But they were 180-degrees wrong on trans fats. They were touted as a healthy replacement for saturated fat.

A fundamental tennent of all heath care/policy is "first, do no harm." If you change or do nothing, people are no worse off than they were to begin with. If you want to change something, you better be damn sure you aren't making matters worse.
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Okay, so this is speculation.

I don't know if Apple really wants or needs to become a search engine for the web like Google. That could become true, but other than the fact that they have a native search feature that (big surprise here) they iterate on and improve, there's nothing that I can see pointing to it.
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While these are fun stories, it would be nice if you provided additional resources from your research.
This is the second time I've seen this 'article' on here. It's still utter shit.
for its own sake. for the thrill of being the top-dog, for the giggle of a nation of minions scared shitless into begging you to take more power so you can scare them more.
yet humans supposedly increased in brain size by eating meats, oh it reduced stomach sizes too.

I tend to low fat vegetarian, though dairy is kept, but even I won't forgo meat all year round. It is silly to do so. The key as with all foods is moderation

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/04/eating-meat-le...
This confuses getting to the top (which depending on the algorithm could just need a small initial spark aroudn your app) with staying at the top.

Apps that stay at the top for weeks on end make lots of money -- up to several millions per year.

As for the App Store, just like ANY OTHER marketplace, it won't make you rich in itself, just for appearing there and "putting the work"...
It's not so much that it's drying up, as that the illusion of there ever having been evidence is more and more widely disbelieved. These nutrition fads aren't actually coming from science; they're coming from the intermediaries that claim to be telling us what science has found, but which are actually just making stuff up.
Way out of line article. Amusing article, but Google's stranglehold on the internet is beyond Apple's control.
>>Taking an average of wildly varying microbenchmark scores doesn't seem particularly useful.<<

Correct. Which is why, unlike Rohit Joshi, the benchmarks game simply shows a broad median; and when a summary measure is required to order the box plots, uses the geometric mean:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-...

(Note the reminders -- "Please don't obsess over tiny differences in median values from such a small number of examples." -- "Please don't obsess about which programming language implementation is shown 10th and which is shown 11th. You can see that the order would be different if it was based on the median scores instead of the geometric mean scores.")

>>as though any of its microbenchmarks measure anything other than "is this language capable of binding to libpcre" or "is this language capable of binding to libgmp"<<

Incorrect. Everyone can see that there is only 1 regex task and only 1 arbitrary precision arithmetic task -- and they sensibly allow library use.
Trans fat will still be legal to buy, it just won't be labeled as food or sold in food stores.
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To be fair: two separate interviews with pedophiles, 5 separate news reports including police warnings, and my personal experience with it.

We're in agreement though - this can happen on any platform, and we essentially only have anecdotal evidence that it may be worse on Kik, but it's definitely one of the apps I would check with an at-risk youth. It's easy to lose track of all the newfangled apps kids are using these days.

Your approach is ideal with a child you can have an open dialog with.
I'd think that Oracle would like at least a mention of their trademark on this domain...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8344049
Animal proteins are an inefficient method of consuming nutrients

Care to explain why exactly?

I've always been thaught - ok, doesn't mean it's correct, or related, which is why I'm asking - that one difference between meat and vegetable eaters is the length of the large/small intestines: shorter for 'pure' meat eaters like cats, longer for herbivores like cows. And somewhere in the middle for humans as they are considered omnivores. Reason for this would be that it takes longer to digest/break down plants, which I assume is done by the intestines to extract nutrients for it?
Tunneling with Clojure, core.async and the Iris peer-to-peer messaging system
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Self

Crushing It.
Disagree. Humans have always been omnivores.
"Everyone hates Google".

So yeah, basically quality writing there.
Unless you run the latest kernel, I would disable TRIM.
"Redacted, which peaked at No. 2 on the Mac App Store, sold 1,845 copies through May 19 and earned $6,600"

That seems to be a low ceiling on success, no?
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This issue is the most important health and safety issue in the country right now. Add up all of the deaths due to obesity-related diseases and it's an obvious low-hanging fruit for improvement. For all the yellow-jacket journalism surrounding cars or drugs or strangers or vaccines or guns, they are all drops in the bucket compared to heart disease.

But that said, I don't think the FDA or CDC are doing anything functionally significant towards improving the issue. There is a greater underlying question that still needs to be answered: why has the problem continued to get worse, despite ALL efforts otherwise?

There is a gun against the head of 2/3rds of Americans and nobody is asking how it got there and why it's still there. I'm afraid it's because we keep arguing about the shape and color of the bullets and how you should really be better at dodging bullets of you want to stay alive.
If it communicates something helpful or necessary it cannot be considered noise.

The idea behind flat design is that we don't need to have a wooden texture to understand that something is a button.

The problem is when you forget to communicate that something is clickable/interactive, which seems to be a major issue with current flat design implementations.

But let's not forget that back in the day it was fashionable to only show that items were interactive through mouse hover. So the problem with designers forgetting useability is hardly something new.
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Sketchfab raises $7M to build the place for 3D, VR and AR on the web
http://www.earth-policy.org/books/pb2/pb2ch9_ss4
Please clarify what you mean by "these consensus algorithms". Raft is merely an instance of a specific subset of C.A.s (published) to date.

Raft's design goals were primarily to be "understandable". A noble pedagogical goal in the abstract but misguided for use in production given the prevailing mindset [1].

> What we really need is someone smart ...

[1] Under 20 years of age only or will you accept advice from 50+ set? /G
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Outlook 2015. Had a 5min delay receiving emails off Exchange server when using Mail.app. The new Outlook looks pretty sweet and works well
In software, you're guaranteed that 2 + 2 is perfectly 4 in an int32. It's a very clean abstraction. In hardware, operational amplifiers are affected by thermal noise, magnetic fields, parasitic capacitance, etc. It is not "incredibly simple", and although there are only a handful of inputs you /want/ to care about in that operational amplifier, the actual number of inputs you have to worry about increases dramatically as you chase performance, higher frequencies, and compactness.

Processors must implement logic that can be represented by software, yes. However, when you're trying to push multiple GHz on nanometer technology, that implementation becomes especially difficult. I recommend picking up an RF engineering book, as it will only begin to describe the noise and side-effects that must be accounted for in those circumstances. There's a reason that Intel has physicists on staff. If hardware was truly easier than software, then we'd probably be building our web and mobile apps in that.
Then your problem is with the corporate office, and not individual salespeople who don't need to be reminded that they're being obsoleted by online shopping, and who can't do anything about it even if you do.
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Ask HN: As a developer, how much paperwork do you do?
In my new team, the developers are having to take on a lot of paperwork. By that I don't mean development related notes or documentation. I mean all the Fortune 500 red tape, from funding requests to putting in change requests, each filled with its horde of three letter acronyms. Also spending time even understanding what you're supposed to be filling out and how to do it, to tracking down product managers to get their paperwork pieces, etc.

It seems a lot of time spent on doing non-development related work. Wondering, especially for those in the enterprise setting, as a regular developer if you're seeing the same or not?
That is an extremely tortured reading of the e-mail. And it's not true. See:

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...

Apple pays you 70% or 100% of ad revenue if you use their Apple News Format. Apple pays you nothing if you use RSS.
This is also reminiscent of the Gumbel trick[1]
If your noise is Gumbel noise, you can actually get the probability to exceed the threshold to be proportional to the intensity of the pixel.

[1] https://hips.seas.harvard.edu/blog/2013/04/06/the-gumbel-max...
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Isn't that just called, McDonalds?
I've put some serious thought into going the opposite direction, and reviving dirigibles instead. Sort of a cruise ship experience, when you need to cross the Atlantic but you're not in a particular hurry.

Unfortunately, I don't think the economics really work out. Except maybe as an expensive novelty.
Checkout the link below for a sublime iPython exploration of the TSP problem.

By Peter Norvig:
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/TSPv3.ipy...

HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9481423
>If you're really that paranoid about closed source components within Google Chrome then the only recourse is not to use Google Chrome. Thankfully the alternatives are plentiful.

The bug in question was spotted in Chromium, not Google Chrome. That would leave Firefox as the only crossplatform and sufficiently up-to-date alternative. Not exactly "plentiful".
Have you had a lot of experience in keeping your Chromium fork up to date?
This is a massive slippery slope argument. "If Apple is building out their search feature, it means they will become Google."

The same arguments have steered speculation wrong when we thought touch was coming to the MacBook or that Apple would release an iPhone Nano.
Nice, but this needs an actual version of bash, with that oldie shipped with OSX Yosemite the result is not padded with zeros.
The bit I found most interesting about this whole Redacted app story, but haven't seen mentioned anywhere, is that the app also happened to be at #1 on Product Hunt for a good portion of that same day.
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Techstars announced this morning that it's acquired UP Global, operator of Startup Weekend, Startup Week, Startup Next, and Startup Digest.
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Good advice, especially the bit about crunch. First time I contracted I let my accountant talk me into using their horrible spreadsheet. I couldn't make my self use it it was that bad and my accounts were a mess. Now my accountant (nimble jack) bundles freeagent (which when I looked into it was better than crunch and has an API) and keeping on top of things is much easier.

One additional thing: If you're married make sure your spouse is a director of the company as well (especially if they're not working). You can be hugely tax efficient in this manner and can extract nearly £80k per year from the company with no personal tax to pay (there will still be corporation tax to pay on profits).
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> Apps that stay at the top for weeks on end make lots of money -- up to several millions per year.

The article claims the Mac App Store sales is measured in thousands for the top apps. Care to point to your sources which claim three magnitudes more?
Actually I believe the formal fallacy that makes climate skeptics sites unreliable is "Begging the question".

Which isn't to say that climate & environmental science isn't a bit sick. It suffers from group-think and a pretty hefty anti-human bias.

They in general did not begin from "I do not like the implication of the carbon emission -> global warming hypothesis to my business model so I will not consider explanations that force me(or my patrons) to stop making money from fossil fuels"
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Efficient how? You could make an argument that eating meat is a less efficient use of resources such as land and water, but I doubt that eating a whole meat-protein full of the correct amino acids is less efficient than eating a combination of vegetable proteins to get the same effect.

And yes, you do get vegan powerlifters, but they are very much the minority and an outlier.
Billings MT to Lusk WY is ~380 miles. That puts it well out of range of any model?

A solution that accounts for routes which are possible using only the Superchargers, would be interesting!
> If you ask someone on the street if you can have their book, and they give it to you, then the first page has some terms on it, I don't think those terms constitute a valid contract.

I think it outlines the contract, and you have the option of declining. By returning or otherwise disposing of the book.

> I just don't think that an expectation is the same thing as a contract. I use the word "contract" to refer to an actual agreement between parties. If only one party is aware of and consenting to the terms, it is not a contract.

I think this is relevant[1]. I think it's a stretch to say only one party is aware and consenting. Why is this content being provided? To assume it's freely available without any cost is a very self-serving view.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied-in-fact_contract
To whom is an apology owed, by whom, and for what? The best science at the time indicated that saturated fats were killing people(which was true), and so public advocacy groups lead campaigns to lower the consumption of saturated fats. It turns out the replacement is also killing people, but it wasn't widely known for a few decades. The reality is that nutrition isn't a priority for most Americans, and our regulations and levels of research funding reflect that. The fact is that it was preferable for most people to continue to eat fatty foods made with substances of unknown safety than to stop eating fatty foods. There was no conspiracy.