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I was actually thinking about this earlier in the day. Could we derive the law of universal gravitation if all we had was a bunch of data about the positions of objects at times plus a bunch of machine learning algorithms, and were otherwise complete idiots?

But in this case, no, because there's nothing in the particle data that we have that can't already be explained by the standard model, plus any number of other possible models. If only we could find something in the data that we couldn't explain, we might be able to make some progress, but that data doesn't exist.
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There is an easier way, ram needs to be refreshed. If you can ensure the refresh pin gets messed up then first, reads become destructive among other things.
Hmm... http://finnishnightmares.blogspot.ca/2016/03/especially-when...
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Interesting article!

I would just like to point out that concurrent downloads can be handled much more efficiently in Python > 3.4 thanks to the asyncio library.
For an example, look at Guido van Rossum's crawler [0].

[0]: https://github.com/aosabook/500lines/tree/master/crawler
Yes but since they have to be based on probable cause and taken before a judge, there is a higher bar. But really, pain killer abuse should, in a perfect world, be a health matter, not a DEA matter, unless you are getting enough medication to have to be selling it. I think there is the argument that an individual could go to multiple doctors, or a doctor could write prescriptions for fake patients.
> Ever been to a psytrance rave? [...]

...or silent disco.

BTW, there's a great movie "Lobster" [1], where this "anti-social dance" phenomenon is hilariously portrayed in one of the scenes. Highly recommended.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464902/
Related to this: are there any good approaches to economic simulations of economies at the individual and organizational level? In other words, literally simulate groups of people and the economic organizations that they belong to.
I think it's a reference to the movie Hackers.
Open sourcing only the developer tools doesn't make you an open source company.
I like this idea. However, I must ask what safeguards do we have from preventing this class from turning into the eb5 or indeed should we try to prevent h1b from turning into eb5?
You can easily implement a feature which lists all possible exceptions that a specific function raises.

Java has a feature called checked exceptions that ensure that you handle all possible exceptions in your program, although admittedly this feature is annoying. Another language called Nim[1], that is in fact a pretty good Go alternative, offers a similar feature[2]. But in Nim it's opt-in and the documentation includes information about each procedure and the exceptions it raises, this is shown by the `raises` pragma where `raises: []` means that no exception is raised. For example, you can easily see that `parseInt` may raise a `OverflowError` or a `ValueError` in the documentation[3] whereas `normalize` doesn't raise anything[4]. This information is inferred by the Nim compiler automatically.

In my opinion this is the best of both worlds, because when your program does crash, you get a nice stack trace that is just as informative as Python's stack traces and you always know the exceptions that each procedure may raise. Here is an example stack trace from a compiler crash:

Error: internal error: getUniqueType
Traceback (most recent call last)
nim.nim(97) nim
...
msgs.nim(957) internalError
msgs.nim(866) rawMessage
msgs.nim(863) rawMessage
msgs.nim(796) handleError

1 - http://nim-lang.org

2 - http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#effect-system-exception...

3 - http://nim-lang.org/docs/strutils.html#parseInt,string

4 - http://nim-lang.org/docs/strutils.html#normalize,string
American Psychiatrist Association changed being gay to not be a mental illness in 1973. And for people who have Gender Dysphoria, probably more accurate to say affecting more people assigned male at birth then people assigned female at birth.
As a Indian and worked in Indian body shops (but who never traveled aboard). My views on Indian-body shop immigrants :

In 2005, when I completed university masters degree. Our class has around 60 students, I'm pretty sure may be 5 or 6 of (1%) them are talented and good in computers. Most of us took IT job. We had chances to immigrate to other as early as 2007 through Indian body shops like Wipro, Infy, Tata, CTS etc.

In 2016, now most of them (60%) of them working in aboard. May be 40% in USA and 20% EU/ROW. How did almost 59% of these not-so talented friends landed in other countries? Did they gained sound knowledge in those 48 months or later. I really _really_ doubt that. Its because we are low-cost workers and got close to Indian IT management. Typical Indian IT managers are ass*. They want boot-lickers not skilled developers. So its easy for unskilled people to land in other countries in the name of skilled-person. I know few guys who worked in non-IT companies (later created fake IT experiences) joined these body shops and now living in US.

I assume almost 80-90% IT Indians in US are helping American companies simply because he/she is low-cost worker. Its not like US companies cant find local talent to fill these roles, but they want low-cost solution.

If you got laid-off due to low-cost workers, please remember, its the US company & IT Body-shop bosses & stock-holders financially
benefited a lot from these lay-offs not necessarily the worker who replaced you or the poor-outsourced IT slaves.

one simple solution : Please tighten the visa-interview process, make it more like real IT company interview (ask about data-structures and algorithms etc). This will ensure immigration rates from body-shops drop from 60%(from my numbers above) to 5% max.

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My personal experience with Indian & US/foreign freelancers greatly differ. Even though US/foreign freelancers are costly (1USD:66 INR), I find them worthy. They go-out and put extra-effort to finish the task. With Indian freelancers, they just want to finish the task quickly and get the paid. I find it amusing that US companies hire us for of lack-of talents there :)
Even when we see a great green field and stunned by its beauty we start running around enjoying it we step on living things. When we breath we breath living things as well.
It is impossible to exist as far as I know without burning/kiling. The key I think is to be conscious about it; when you are conscious about it your experience is different, you know the full balance, you know and accept with humbleness, your future decisions will be in tune with you the conscious one.
Aplications for blind people probably still need the rendering, or at least something close to it to read the text in order.
True. On the other hand, nobody was trying to build them fifty years ago.
I apologize for the tone of my original comment. I've altered it to be hopefully less offensive.

But.. I was responding a post that was pointing out many things that are known to not be present in the language. These features weren't forgotten or missed they were excluded when the language spec was being decided.
When I lived in different cities people would find it extremely weird when I talked to them or said hi on the street; guys would think I wanted something from them and girls would think I wanted them. With many people around me constantly, it was a very lonely experience; hard to get to know people (I have a weird/rare first name and one of the bar guys of our local (popular) cafe we went to every friday had the same first name; after 2 years he didn't know what I always ordered or who I was) at all, let alone make friends. I started to believe the statement which people always put forward; you don't make new good friends after 30. I had colleagues at the office including my some of my long term high school / uni friends but there was no point of living in an (expensive) city for that.

We packed up and left (it was a decision on a drunk night when, once more, we found ourselves sitting in a Kirchner painting of a place where no-one looks at or interacts with each other) for a tiny place deep in the mountains of another country (we moved from the Netherlands to Spain). Everyone talks to everyone here, a few years in we not only made new friends but even people we would call new best friends. Our closest neighbour is 5 minutes walk and the closest bar 10 minutes, so if we don't want to see anyone, we can and if we want a party with a mix of friends and strangers: at least 2 times a week, but in the summer 4 times a week, we can.

Because this is a place tourists usually avoid (it is high up in the mountains and most people really don't like that; they want beach and some blue drink with a parasol), the people that do want to live here (and weren't born here) have the same kind of attitude. Great place to work with a laptop in the sun.
Paris sucks though. I half kid but it's kinda true. Polluted and crowded, super expensive, and a lot of people are pretty disagreeable in my experience. A lot of nicer cities exists.

I don't get your point about food either. Unless you are rich enough to shop exclusively Whole Foods or something, the average French food experience is a lot better than an American one. Plus basically all products are higher quality. Compare what you find in an American Walgreens to something like a Monoprix in France. It's pretty embarrassing how much cheap shit has filled American stores.

I was having chicken nuggets or pizza everyday for lunch in my US middle school FFS! How do we let kids live like that? French public school was giving me way better food (though it was like $4 instead of $2). Actual "3 course meal", you could avoid vegetables some days if you wanted to but for the most part super balanced. Agree about Fast Food really making inroads though.

And of course inequality exists, but it's not the US. I have never heard somebody say that someone should "just work two jobs" to make ends meet in France. That's more indicative of US craziness but still. Not from Paris though, maybe Paris has those kinds of people.

France has its problems but for the most part people aren't starving on the street and kids have access to veggies.
While I think Germans, and people of culturally similar countries (Austria, Switzerland) are usually quite nice I have a hard time saying they genuine care about other people. Since rationalizing others misfortunes (or most things really) seem to be deeply ingrained in society.
That would mean my computer was spending 50% of it's battery life displaying on the screen, which I'm afraid is clearly untrue. If not running games it's less than 5%.
But why say it's okay to ask questions if you're learning about $TECH, but not okay if you're learning both $TECH and $LANGUAGE_JAPANESE?

Why is learning about one, and asking for help with it, okay while learning about both, and accepting help for both bad?

> If I'm imposing on someone, the expectation is that I am going to bend over backwards to not waste their time, and that means

...reading the fine manual?

And ESR's grammar advice is insufferable.
And one person saying "never mind, solved it." with no further information about what they did.
Not entirely accurate, in my opinion. You should realize most issues brought up as arguments between left and right are publicized in order to substantiate a (mostly ficticious) divide between the left and right, and thereby prevent cooperation on instituting solutions that would likely disrupt established power structures.
I would have to argue also, that point 2 is somewhat incorrect. The cultural attributes of liberalism are more likely derived from television, which has many orders of magnitude more influence over people's thinking than any college or school has. Don't discount the social cues adopted by peer groups which influence one's behavior, also mostly imparted through television.

Perhaps your 3rd point is the most accurate of the stated reasons. But, even then, your final conclusion leaves me disturbed. There is no reason to distrust verifiable facts when they are presented, and I don't think right-wingers are any more prone to ignorance than left-wingers. What is rotten in the entire matter is that the industries attached to that science, and governments that employ science for the same reason, as a tool, with which to procure economic benefits from market participants.

All that I can suggest to anyone who wants to complain about people who do not trust vaccines, is to do something to make them more trustworthy. If they are so imperative to public health and safety, then why have a profit seeking corporation directing the implementation? The very track record of behavior by the pharmaceutical and agro-chemical industries make me question the very sanity of those who would promote thier products, let alone use them on themselves or their family.
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Wow, thanks for the link :)
> The oil age is ending in Norway.

With "oil age" you mean the use of oil, or its production?
Sweet, this looks like a perfect level of introduction -- readable to novices, but still a fairly deep dive.
> I guess the days of BBS's and forums with always-stickied "Search the site first" and "For Beginners" threads is in the past.

Whenever you have a problem of people doing something you don't want them to do your last solution should be "let's put a sign up".
Sure, I choose... "Exhaustive Search in the space of programs".
(maybe with some genetic algorithm heuristics to shave of a couple billion years on each query)

It's a ML system that can solve any decidable and even some semi decidable problems.
Which is (if the church turing thesis holds) everything that can be understood by humans or other.

You might not be able to wait around long enough to see it give you a result though, but hey at least _it_ got an answer.
Humans are neither immune to No Free Lunch, nor able to predict Perlin noise.
This is othering for anyone who is not a heterosexual man

I disagree. Women look at other women as well. It's very natural to feel excluded when groups of people over something you don't get excited about, whatever the subject. If, for example, people can contain their excitement about Magic cards when I'm around, I'm fine.

There is a long tradition of sexual images, suggestions and approaches being used to shame, scare, harrass or brutalise women.

Yeah, so a picture of a professional model is something completely different. You are dragging this point into the discussion but it doesn't add anything.

...they may reveal themselves as too sexual.

Just bring it back to basics. Men have dicks they want to use, women want to be admired. If people could just respect eachother while taking these basic needs into account, everyone would be fine.

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I am happy that people here in the Netherlands are so much more tolerant when it comes down to things like sexuality, public intimicy and nudity. It seems to me that in the US people get offended very easily and want to limit another persons freedom of expression just so that they can be offended a little bit less.
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I hate then stranger says hi to me, because i dont want it be done to me i also never say hi to anyone.

For me saying hi is start of business, like if u enter shop and want ask shop keeper something u initiate with hi, other than that it is invasion of my privacy. I can tell if i want talk to u or not just from looking at u and no need for stupid small talk.
I'd suggest you find a well known english speaking developer who seems to do well in the webstore that you think might have connections. Email them, say you really respect them and their work and ask if they have any advice or know who might be able to help you.

Simultaneously, make a blog post on medium about your experience. You have emails, you have logs of submissions, write up the whole thing with screen shots, redacting anything that you need to. Include what you want done in your situation, and recommendations so that your situation isn't repeated. Submit to HN.

IF all else fails, republish the code under a new name/account/email.
The multiprocessing slide mentions the RAM usage issue with things like Celery (because you start many instances of Python and load in dependencies). Does this solve them?

If so, how does it get around the whole GIL thing and whatnot? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding at what level things are happening?

Is it that you still have one python process but the bottleneck/URL fetching is happening inside your elixir stuff?

Super interested in this, we have this problem with Celery workers and would love to not be bound by RAM for worker count
This is sad, but apt-get and most Linux package managers require sudo to install stuff. Homebrew doesn't. I love Linux, Mint with Cinnamon that was my main desktop environment for 4+ years, but I'm typing this on a mac.
I would add Purescript to that list. Most people see it as a Haskell-like for the JS VM, but it also includes row types. Meaning that your types can keep track of granular effects ("oh, this uses IO, but just the random number generator", "Oh this just looks at the foo property"), which is super useful for reasoning with larger codebases.
But that's exactly my point. Software development and maintenance requires long-term investments.
I work remotely as well, but at our company we do a lot of screen sharing meetings. I wonder if someone should build some sort of VNC (or zoom, or adobe connect) that plays well with screen readers and doesn't just send a video feed. Or maybe it already exists.

I myself have macular degeneration, which while not disabling right now, has started a bit too early in my life. One day I might be almost blind myself and I will definitely need this.
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only makes sense if the recruiters are good and smart as you.
What about the ones you retry?
When we talk about "toxic behavior" in online games, calling everyone faggots is exactly what we're talking about. It's not "anything less than perfect politeness", it's not calling somebody an asshole one time. Constant, wildly abusive behavior is endemic to MOBA games in particular, to the extent that many developers have whole teams of people dedicated to trying to reduce it.

You've already said that you've never played this game, you don't appear to have much experience with online games in general, and you clearly haven't read the article if you think that Riot is firing people for saying "you asshole" in chat. You don't know anything about any part of the topic we're discussing. Why are you so determined that you're right anyway?
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It might depend a lot on the region of Germany as well, for example Bayern is in some ways more "laid back" and traditional (Austria seems close culturally to Bavaria than other parts of Germany)
I can answer this question; because of tax benefits.
I mostly agree, but I'd argue that epicycles actually made useful and testable predictions, although we found a simpler description later on. The article underlines a lack of refutable theories. Thus, I think [1] is a better analogy.

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Dragon_in_My_Garage
If whatever is stopping the light from reaching us is reflecting the light rather than absorbing it, could that explain the lack of IR?
Do you have an alternative unbiased source?
I agree, there might be an open niche for a typed scripting language.
I agree that immortality among white men raises a lot of hard question. And I intend to discuss them for as many millenniums as it takes.
Also worth look at Skew http://skew-lang.org/
How exactly is “true randomness” defined in the realms of cryptography?
>most of the questions you've asked are really quantum field theory questions: the string theory connection is almost entirely unimportant in that regime

My issue with the two electrons repelling scenario is that in normal quantum field theory it's modeled, I think, as the exchange of virtual photons and given that we don't really understand what a photon is and that they have odd spread out kind of properties that seem to allow that sort of interaction between distant things I can accept that that happens even if we don't understand how it fully. When you get to "emit and absorb virtual photons by pinching off into new tiny strings" and similar ideas though I just can't see it. My hunch is electrons and photons are in their base nature more abstractly mathematical and attempts to model them as bits of stuff will fail.
dont be silly
Isn't that what a lot of games do? They probably even have more fine-tuned models of economic behavior with more variables than actual microeconomic simulations.
If you allow impractical ML systems, you might as well pick a dice. Sure, the answer is inaccurate, but there's a non-zero probability that it is correct!

But, realistically, the ML system you devise cannot learn about features that require knowledge outside of the observable universe.
You see, churches are most likely to be visited by white people, who are priviliged by definition. That's why only mosques are mentioned - refugees are one of the groups that actually suffers from loneliness. Not some rich white males.

Even if some white males sufer from loneliness, we still shouldn't help them, because on average white males still are better off than muslim refugees for example.

That is also the reason we need more mosques and more welfare for refugees and more taxes for white people - to lessen the impact and privilige.
how do you get any sleep? ocean machine?
What would be the advantage of that over doing zillions of particle interactions in an actual particle accelerator?

If history is any guide then theories of physics are extremely simple. All the way from classical mechanics to special relativity, general relativity, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, the theories are simple. In fact in some sense our theories have been getting simpler.

Take for instance the step from classical mechanics to special relativity. In classical mechanics time and space are not on equal footing. Time is the independent variable, and the space coordinates of particles are functions of time. In special relativity these are put on equal footing, and this simplifies the physics. It's not easier, but it's simpler in the sense that there are fewer parts. You used to have energy, and x-momentum, y-momentum, z-momentum for the 3 spatial directions. It turned out that energy is t-momentum in the time direction. This simplifies the equations because instead of having one equation for energy and another for x,y,z-momentum, you have one equation for x,y,z,t-momentum. Symmetries between electric and magnetic fields in Maxwell's equations were discovered that unified them into one object, just like with energy and momentum. A similar story exists for quantum mechanics.

What you suggest about modeling physics as a black box has been suggested before. After the first particle accelerators were built people were finding lots and lots of new particles, and there wasn't any good theory for them. Some people thought that we had to give up on a theory, and just model the real world as a black box of X particles in -> Y particles out, and make a big database of such interactions. However, then the standard model came along and all those particles turned out to consist of a much smaller number of quarks that interact in a small number of definite ways.

With string theory however we are in precisely the opposite situation. We don't have a big amount of experimental data that we need to find a theory for. We have a large number of theories and no experimental data to distinguish them.
That's over a LAN. But what about over the distances earlier in the thread - the earlier example was a line across a significant bit of continental US. [More interesting still would be Sydney to London.]