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Say, you shuffle a deck of cards, and shuffle really well. Now you could spend forever by drawing cards from the deck and analyzing the sequence and trying to think of theories how to predict the next card. But the is no ultimate reason behind why the deck was shuffled into this order and not some other.

Perhaps the shape of natural laws (the four fundamental interactions) and the values of natural constants have been arrived at by a similar process. Perhaps there is a multiverse of different universes with different variations of these natural laws, and we just happen to live in this one.

If this is how our universe came to be, shouldn't we be ready to accept it, instead of searching meaning where there is none?

Then again, this is just an idea. And not really even falsifiable. So it's difficult to say if this is even a scientific idea, in the strict sense.

Or perhaps Einstein was right, perhaps God didn't play dice (I am really misusing this phrase here), and there is an underlying mechanistic model which explains everything.

Who knows.
This sounds like the scientific equivalent of "overfitting" in machine learning. The point of a theory is not to predict the training set well, but to generalize well to new cases. This is what string theory fails at.
> Huge costs. Data centers aren't only worried about the power consumption of chips, because for every watt that's generated as heat, they have to use >1W to cool that (because cooling systems aren't 100% efficient themselves).

Not at all. A typical cooling system might use 1 watt to move 4 watts of heat outside.

And that's not really how superconductors work. That's how normal conductors work.
The video is now on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eIoYMB_0Xc
Maybe you meant the geocentric model of the cosmos developed by Apollonius, Hipparchus, and Ptolemy, full of epicycles and so on? (As contrasted with the heliocentric “Copernican” model.)

Every serious astronomer in the West (indeed, every educated person) has known that the earth is round for about 2500 years. The idea that medieval Europeans believed in a flat Earth is largely a modern myth. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
Can't tell much about the Austrians, but Canadians definitely care less than the average German

They may be friendly and talkative, yes, but it's mostly for politeness. You might see they quickly lose interest after a bit

Now your average German will be a little bit interested in a legitimate conversation (of course if this goes nowhere that's fine as well)
> I cannot stand the road that new languages are on, abandoning the type system, or making it optional, or not explicit. Given that I appear to be a minority, I thank you for reading my rant... Have a good day :(

There are "new" languages with normal or decent type systems: check out Scala and Nim.
I wonder if the story about H1B visas and older americans being sacked provides a hint of a back story here. It seems to me that social solidarity impedes immediate profits; things like healthcare and pensions are very awkward for folks who want to smash open the value locked up in corporations for redeployment into yachts and sports cars. The consequences have been out of the public eye till now, but as the boomer bulge starts being the focus of this, and as boomers discover that they are working till they are 80 and retiring poor maybe things will change. How to change things - well that's going to be one of the challenges of the future.
These are the kinds of things, specifically, that gross me out about this story:

(from http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexualized_environment)

* In geek contexts, they are usually a way for heterosexual men to bond over their common attraction to women. This is othering for anyone who is not a heterosexual man, including, obviously, women, and contributes to their invisibility in the field. This sensation of exclusion is very visceral when in a small minority, as women can be in geek settings.

* There is a long tradition of sexual images, suggestions and approaches being used to shame, scare, harrass or brutalise women. This is common enough that most women will have had personal experience of it. Therefore many women are unable to sensibly assume good faith on the part of unknown men seeking to make a situation sexual and feel mentally uncomfortable at best and physically intimidated often.

* While in many areas this restriction is loosening, women are stigmatised as well as celebrated for being too sexual. This traps women into a double bind when responding to sexualized environments, because even by getting the joke they may reveal themselves as too sexual.

Keep in mind the commenter received extra points for this.
_Technically_, it would be more accurate to say that your client is isomorphic to your server. In that regard, the term 'isomorphic javascript' doesn't really make sense as there's nothing to compare it to.

However, everyone knows what you're talking about when you say 'isomorphic javascript', so the pedantry doesn't really matter.
> The U.S. ranks twenty-eighth on the Q.N.I., behind nearly every E.U. country.

Ha! It sits right under Romania and Bulgaria. And to think that people of these two countries have long dreamed to emigrate to US (for decades, before joining EU). Now, much less so.
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You are you - all humans are unique. You have your needs and desires and you have found a way to satisfy them. I'd be interested to learn if you feel any commitment or duty to others - do you have a social impulse separate from your desire for personal isolation? For example some people in your mould have written books to try and share their thoughts with other humans, some people make art, perhaps some people give money or other support? Would you like to do any of those things or do you think that you should?
Where we learn more about the experimenter than the subject.
This looks like a really interesting model, less hacky than the current approach of 'lets take client-side react-router and somehow make it work on the server' approach.

What isn't answered here however is how it transfers this 'config' and the rest of the state and make it work in the browser. Does rill come with its own client-side router (that works nicely with React?) How does it serialise the state and send it down for the client resume?

Ultimately, the reason 'universal javascript' is hard is because everything's 'modular' so you can get more controller over each component and customise exactly how it works. While rill might be 90% for 90% of use cases, I can see something like this falling down once you start to build anything non-trivial.
One of the supermarkets around here has an automated alerting system that tells the next person in line which cashier they should move to (they use a large screen and a recorded voice).

The notification comes when the cashier moves to the payment step, so you still have time to unload the purchases onto the belt before the previous customer is finished.
Don't use the latest nightly then. Use the nightly from 4 months ago that corresponds to today's stable, ensuring that it doesn't have any extra soundness patches that need backporting. Usually the case.

I don't see "several", I just see one. Most of the non-simd benchmarks have almost exactly the same numbers for Rust and C. Perhaps the Rust test for fannkuch isn't optimized yet (looks like the C one has some extra logic about how to split up the chunks, whereas Rust blindly parallelizes)? I already optimized one Rust program, I'm not going to sit and optimize every benchmark out there -- we have tons of counterexamples of fast benchmarks already. It seems like you won't agree as long as one nonoptimized benchmark exists. In that case, good day to you. I'm done here.
This is a special case which passes dkim, spf and dmarc.
Thanks, this is just what I was wondering about after reading the original article.
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> the most objectively dangerous situations I've ever been in have all occurred in rural and suburban areas

This documentary about Johannesburg opened my eyes. It's really bad. People are trying to organize while Police can't cope with the situation. I'm giving such a remote comparison for reference. It is good to know how bad it can be. I have never seen such bad conditions except maybe in a favela in Rio.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xycnjl_law-and-disorder-in-...
Well indeed, and "isomorphic javascript" is really just dropping the heavily implied "application" at the end.

At it’s core Isomorphic JavaScript describes the relationship between the application that runs on the server and the one it serves to the client to run.

It's perfectly correct - because it's not describing the code it's describing the application(s) and the approach they take.
>If you don't want other people to use your country, how do you tolerate babies being born? They never contributed anything. They're just like immigrants - appearing and competing with the existing people.

The phrase "grandfathered in" refers to familial relations for a reason.
It seems to me that one thing we could do would be to use some updated version of our existing technologies to provide people with personalized notifications of such things as what station they're entering via personal technologies such as a phone. Your phone (or alternative device) tells you, in a language or visual or tactile cue of your choice, where you are, what station you are entering, how much more time to your destination station, and so on. You subscribe to the notifications you want in the format you want.

This sort of thing could be approached more generally, so that it would work for kids who aren't paying attention, for travelers who don't speak the loudspeaker's language even when it's working, adults who see and understand the language just fine but need an alarm because of a tendency to fall asleep and miss their stop, and so on.

Which then tells me that the big tech companies should all have whole divisions of employees with various "features" (very short, tall, blind, speech problems, etc.) who would not only test ideas like these but design, prototype, and build them. They would not only be experimenting with products and services for customers but with how to get their own work done, looking into questions such as whether you could design a programming language with a syntax optimized for hearing instead of looking, which would then be transpiled into something more mainstream, or creating alternatives to keyboard & mouse for those with muscular disorders, or countless other things.

My guess is that many of the ideas they come up with for helping some small niche of the population will be discovered to be of great value to many other groups in ways that weren't anticipated. Of course the dev tools they come up with for blind coders would be made available to all, but the "audio-optimized syntax" might just prove to be popular with programmers with no vision problems, and the keyboard/mouse replacement might be a big hit with cooks, surgeons, and musicians.

I'm sure there are many such things already going on that I haven't heard of, but I'm thinking it could become a very rich source of innovative technologies and products with big markets and should be such a big push that everybody knows about it.
It was quite a long time ago so I don't remember all the details. I have a recollection that the managers paid themselves pretty generously, but I can't say explicitly.

As it was expressed to me the basis for the decision was that the "leaders" didn't believe the workers could handle the load as I suggested, so they went with their original plan.

At the time I attributed it to their rigidity but it could have been about relative salaries. Here I thought doing it my way would actually cost less when all added up.
All too familiar. I am reminded why I stopped writing software for academic research. It's considered low-academic-value work, on a par with system administration or I.T. helpdesk work.
People were living in squalor up to and right after the second world war. I might not like the rentier economy but I try and remember some of the alternatives are worse.
>If all people are equal who should receive the benefit?

The million dollar question is: which ones are you entrusted to represent?
Pay based on efficiency? This might be something if efficiency were something that a cashier had much control of. As a cashier, you cannot control for folks that write checks, can't find their credit card, are confused by the machines to get cash back, or can't find that last penny in their pockets. You cannot control for folks that stand there and ask about every price, nor for the ones that are chatty or just move slowly.

It sounds like a trap. Move quickly, get higher scores for that, yet get reprimanded for poor customer service.
> This is othering for anyone who is not a heterosexual man

Except, you know, for bisexual men and women, lesbians, heterosexual trans-men, and so on. A lot of people could theoretically bond with one-another over a shared attraction to a given gender. (Not making any point to the spirit of your argument; just poking at the letter of it in hope that you refine it.)
Incidentally, seeing the speaker set up an overkill neural network for a trivial classification problem seemed off to me.
Unsurprisingly, at least 75% of the neurons were unused.

Throwing a phenomenal amount of neurons at a problem is not a goal; using a minimal amount to solve it in a given time budget is.

The statement at the end of the video, “all the serious applications from here on out need to have deep learning and AI inside”, seems awfully misguided. Even DeepMind doesn't use deep learning for everything.
The revision in the face of observations relies on them being new observations. You can make an almost infinite number of models that fit existing knowledge; the way you figure out which one to go with is by having the model make testable (falsifiable) predictions, and then test those predictions. The string theory revisions, however, seem to fall out of conflicts between the theory and existing observations (like, say, that the dimensionality of our physical space is 3, or that the cosmological constant is non-positive).

For example, general relativity could make Newtonian mechanics fall out as a low-mass, low-velocity special case, and solved the already-known theoretical problem of the constant speed of light, but there a lot of conceivable models that could solve that. To be accepted, its predictions needed to be tested (starting with gravitational lensing in the 1919, and going through higher-precision tests later).

This is related to the problem of overfitting in machine learning. You can get a system to be very very familiar with your training data, so it can predict the things it has already seen. However, until you have validated it on data it wasn't trained on, you don't know if the model reflects any of the underlying properties of the system it's observing.
Sort of. My very opinionated point of view would be that Haskell demonstrates that the functional paradigm is the correct setting for the imperative style.
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"knowledge hub", in this case, apparently means a collection of logs on various topics.

1) create your own team

2) create lots of channels (don't screw this up)

3) put thoughts into the channels as you have them and use integration to automatically pull other stuff into the channels

4) review everything you've logged in Slack

5) put the condensed thoughts into Evernote
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Playing Devil's advocate, their choice does have some advantages; for example, when a superior worker is sick, the loss of productivity is higher, especially if in the regular workers model they could get the other nine to work just 10% faster for a few days. Likewise, if one quits, not only there's more work per day not being done, as it might be harder to hire a superior worker.

Their model is probably less efficient during regular operation, but the variance when problems arise also seems lower.
Companies consist of not just developers, but also managers (sometimes also called "decision makers").

Often it's the manager's job, not the individual developer's job, to register to such things. Then they will take care of the emails, possible negotiations, and all other consequences of such subscriptions.

Don't get me wrong: Often these managers do have a Github account (and many more accounts). But offering LinkedIn is a safer bet to address almost all of these decision makers.
> I just can't see the moral authority

You completely took that out of the context. I wrote about it to show how risky it is to pick a random library, not to complain about the author.

> But surely, the moment you integrate the random library into your project, you assumed responsibility for it.

No, you don't. Your only responsibility is your project. If the library is broken, and the original author doesn't want to fix it, it's time to evaluate whether it's easier to remove it, replace it with something else or fix it yourself. You are not obliged to fix it yourself at all. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the world doesn't work that way.
Algolia contains a lot of customization parameters that can be used. For example the Product Hunt example could have been solve easily by using removeWordsIfNoResults=allOptional (query is trying as a AND and if there is no results, it is tried again as a OR)
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MS is nerve damage caused by the nerve cell's coating (Myelin) being mistaken for a foreign body by the immune system, and attacking it. How would the Placebo effect stop and reverse that nerve damage?
Cloud platforms like AWS offer other things besides just scaling. Like Hadoop processing, hosted databases, email infrastructure, DNS services and the list goes on and on.
Does it mean that a team of developers where each developer is responsible for a feature (vs the team being responsible for all features) will deliver quicker?
The oil age is ending in Norway. It's considered a fact of life.

You all have heard of the petroleum fund. That money is going towards pensions. Of course it's easier to buy an electric car if you're used to thinkinf of the oil age that something that ends within your own working life.
Maybe separate queues work better, but that creates competitiveness, and in a long term will stress workers more, who might eventually slow down and feel judged by others.
IMO things are just getting out of hand as time goes by.

I grew up in italy and I guess I had similar experiences (at least, I did start fires and explore abandoned buildings :) ).

But my friends' kids in my home town don't do that anymore.

It seems to me this is in a way a result of the replacement of the "local community" with a wider world, which often brings a sense of uneaseness or unsafety.

I.e. if you know basically everyone who lives in your neighborhood you feel kids are pretty safe, and at most tell them not to go play near the "bad people".

If you don't know who lives near to you, and you hear a lot of news about kids being abducted/molested/injured (which might have happened before, but it was less often in the news) you get worried about kids running around unsupervised.
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Yes, it must take a massive amount of internal strength and drive to be able to become a good software engineer while blind. They deserve the highest respect. Not only do they have to be good at programming, but they have to be excellent salesmen too (in order to convince potential employers).

Interview processes are quite cold/inhuman, but if you're blind, you really need to create a 'human connection' with your prospective employer in order to offset the 'perceived risk' that your disability brings.

If a blind person is competing with other fully-able applicants, it's easy for the employer to subconsciously fallback to a 'safe option' (it's a natural human instinct to avoid unknown risks) - That's why the 'frantic' follow-up communications are so important for a blind person - It's to make sure that the employer doesn't fall back to making 'subconscious' decisions.
A while back got curious about the approach used by apps like Manga Camera ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.supersof... ) to turn photos into Manga style "drawings".

Turns out there's a paper on it "MANGAWALL: GENERATING MANGA PAGES FOR REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS" ( https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/MangaWall-Generating-m... ) and an implementation - https://github.com/zippon/MangaWall - that implementation uses ordered dithering ( https://github.com/zippon/MangaWall/blob/master/src/MangaEng... ) among other things to help produce a pencil drawn like effect.

Anyway just saying ;) To me at least, pretty fascinating ...
How is authentication/authorization handled in this example?

The code hits a web api that sends out a batch of emails. Doing this from client side has an obvious set of problems, whereas had it been on server side one can assume a stricter use and thus have a simple security model.
Note that proper typesystems are not yet mainstream, though.

You should certainly have a look at "less mainstream" languages whose type systems are more expressive and still simpler to use than those of the "mainstream" languages. For example (list is incomplete, but you'll get the idea):

* Haskell (very popular, hard to reason about performance, though)
* OCaml (possible to reason about performance, except for garbage collection)
* Idris (type system with dependent types!)
* Rust (type system that allows to reason about memory usage, aliasing, etc.)
* Elm (meant to replace JavaScript for user interfaces in the browser)
This result is indeed not good but it could be solved easily with one Algolia setting (removeWordsIfNoResult=allOptional which perform the query with all terms as mandatory and reply it with optional terms if there is no result).

Algolia comes with a lot of pre-defined tuning that are good for most use cases (see https://blog.algolia.com/inside-the-algolia-engine-part-3-qu... for more details).

That said there is always some tuning to have perfect result for a specific use case. There is no engine that provide perfect results out of the box without any tuning.
None. I have two EU nationalities and apart from this way having the same nationalities my children have, there is no advantage.
From one of the comments by the article author:

"I am far from "silent" on what should be done. I have said here and many times before that what needs to be done is to take measures against social and cognitive biases. If people still work in masses on string theory after that, so fine."
Tesco do a "Scan as you Shop" service in some stores that use a handheld laser scanner that allows you to scan whilst you shop.

Interestingly the same scanners can be used for the online order picking.
> A lot of people could theoretically bond with one-another over a shared attraction to a given gender.

OK? That's not what's happening here.
Grads who choose to apply to mentoring jobs with Hack Reactor are not counted in the hiring stats. Once they leave and begin their engineering job search full time, they are.

Also, I believe there is only a single company that has 'blacklisted' HR grads, and it was because they had a bad interpersonal experience with a few people from a single cohort.
Ah, I have fond memories of running NetBSD and Linux (JLime) on SH3 handhelds. SH3/4 represents a meaningful step forward, hope they are able to implement it soon-ish:

> The sh4 processor (dreamcast) has an mmu, but the last sh4 patents don't exire until 2016.
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