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Something's wrong with your maths there. If you spend a million dollars fixing a million potholes and there's one left, you didn't spend a million dollars per pothole.
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It strikes me that the militant egalitarianism of the present age has reached its peak. The intolerant maximalism of its vulgar shamans has made such a grim backdrop that even modest efforts to hold people responsible for their actions create a bright contrast to the sad state of urban America.
Yea, I didn't think of that. The topic seemed to be pointing at how much the government gives.
I believe that's the point. Before Bezos the paper thought Snowden was great, after Besoz they want him thrown in jail.
Huh, so it's YOU who are the actual monsters behind "Canadian" bacon!
I feel like we have this discussion every week.
Hi.

Yes, that sounds pretty normal for someone your age. My advice would be stay fit and healthy (eat, sleep, exercise properly) and think about smaller goals that you can realistically achieve rather than dwelling on the big picture too much. For what it's worth I think a lot of people find their teens and twenties a pretty hard time (I certainly did) so don't think you are alone in that. You don't have to know all the answers right now.

About the false friendships thing -- perhaps they are and perhaps not, I suspect it's a combination of not having met people you really click with, over thinking things, and a general effect of your particular age that you're still finding where you fit in.

If you can, keep open communication with your parents/grandparent/siblings and close friends about what you around going through, or a counselor or other trusted adult if you need (there's no shame in getting some good advice about life and help to sift through your thoughts)

Maybe don't frame it as "figuring out what to do with my life" as a whole but rather many smaller experiences which will eventually add up to the whole thing.

Most people can't estimate and plan a 3 month IT project particularly accurately, let alone entire lifetime!

:)
It's also trivial to produce SipHash collisions and its "security" claims are dubious in the hash table context. There's not much credibility in the siphash paper in section 7. linear chaining is not the recommended way to treat hash tables anymore, and even with that you can add a useful protection. siphash is not one.

Yes, it's non-reversable, and it doesn't allow easy seed-independent multi collisions as with other hash functions.
But one hash function used in a hash table can never be secure. The collision resolution adds the security part. (or/plus some other schemes which are obviously over your head).
You're kinda missing the point here.
> Haskell programmers do have to think about it as being by-reference if they want to understand the performance/memory-use due to sharing.

Oh, right.
> But it could also be labelled ideal or mental, from a different categorization scheme.

Whatever label you put to the category, they are all in the same one.
I think you missed the point you were replying to. That objects fall to the ground is an undeniable observation. Having conscious experiences falls into the same category. For that matter, we experience objects falling to the ground. Gravity is an explanation of our experiences of falling objects. The experience comes first, then the explanation. If there was no experience of falling, there would be no explanation of gravity.
1. Hand someone from 1965 an Iphone.
2. Let her be discharged from the hospital the next day, after robotic surgery for stage 1 ovarian cancer. (A lot of tissue was left in the hospital.)
3. His slower (535mph vs 600 mph) cross country round trip only cost him $60 in 1965 dollars.
4. Oh, we've detected 2 gravitational wave events.
5. Oh, we've detected an elementary particle with the mass of a Barium atom.
6. We've detected superconductivity at temperatures higher than dry ice.
7. Lasers are ubiquitous and some are more than 50% efficient, energy in to laser energy out. The developed world runs on 1.5 um laser light.
8. Two groups figured out how to control-x control-v DNA.

But yes, the share of innovation due to professors has gone down, as complex work is now done by millions, and driven by consumers, not philosophical questions.
If you want to compare Bell Labs with OpenAI and Facebook Research you need to have your head examined...
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When plastic contamination in food was a big deal a few years ago I switched to the stacked pack bacon or buying it straight from the butcher. I always liked mine a little crunchy anyway, but I didn't know the meaty bacon could taste just as good or better than the stuff I was raised on. Now I can't go back.

I've had what England calls bacon and it just looks and tastes like a good boneless pork chop sliced like lunch meat. If I want that I'll have the poor chop and a dash of spices (have you tried lemon pepper or chili powder on a pork chop?)
We're currently building a MVP using http://horizon.io/, which is a self-hosted Firebase alternative. Reading this makes me a bit worried that we will run in to the same problems as the author. Anyone with experience in production apps built on Horizon who has some knowledge about these concerns?
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OP's problems seem to largely stem from not understanding how to properly use firebase. Virtually all of the "problems" they ran into are covered in the docs and could've been avoided.

Further, the claim about no user data export isn't true - see this comment for more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12526840

Happy to answer any q's from my experience building apps with firebase
Dunno about normal companies but for corporations it's very simple: they can pay for RHEL. And don't give me that story about paid support. Corporations will not use any external support - they have their own IT dept and they will not let anyone else touch it.
That doesn't really bother me, the money is going to a good cause: Redhat. Compared to other insane spending decisions this is actually sensible. It's amazing how many millions of dollars can be bled away by clever companies from those behemoths.
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Sure. Because the sugar industry knows the effects, and uses it to their advantage. No other country puts that much sugar into everything.

Politics and health organizations in the US are complicit.
Here’s an interesting precise representation of algebraic numbers as roots of integer polynomials: http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post6871_impractical-exper...
Let me start by asserting that there is no figuring it out.

You may discover satisfaction, peace and fulfillment. However, these are the result of living an engaged life, not really objectives on their own.

Find a purpose. I recommend a selfless one that allows you to be of value to other people. Commit to it fully, exhaust it or fail at it. Then move on to the next purpose.

Using this approach you will learn about yourself and develop relationships that are based on more than vicinity, common interest or some superficial social norm.

The silver-lining is that you are asking these questions. I'd argue that someone who thinks they have figured it out risks becoming blind to their full potential.
https://xkcd.com/418/
Saying that conciousness isn't real because it's an emergent phenomenon of non-conscious processes is like saying that turbulence isn't real, because it's an emergent property of non-fluid particles. I mean sure, at the level of atoms, it's just particles interacting locally, but that doesn't mean that at certain scales, turbulence isn't a better way of looking at their group behavior.
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As a young child I remember telling my dad I thought baseball was boring because you didn't have to think or use strategy, just hit the ball and run. He gently but firmly corrected me and taught me that baseball is the thinking man's game. I still don't really get in to watching it but I've had more respect for it since then.
Yes, this is known as "Beware the Share" http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Beware...
https://4us.com/Explore

Seems like I can access the content there just fine?
"A society that aims for equality before freedom, will end up with neither equality nor freedom."

Laws are not meant to lift people from poverty. PEOPLE must lift themselves so far as to lift each other out of poverty. One of the basic functions of government is to protect people from other people (both land and rights). Now, "rights" is where things tend to become grey.

Who should determine what those rights are? The government? People? A majority? San Francisco is an excellent study in what can happen when government plays a role it is not fit to oversee.

Now, Larkin Street is an excellent case study on how the private sector fills in that space governments leaves open when they play around with policy. The aim here is to continue to build these networks around support.
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All of those only imply that the physical state of the brain affects consciousness, which both camps agree on.
> What's most maddening to me is the narrative [...] that Snowden has through bravery somehow transcended accountability

I don't know where you're getting that. It's certainly not what Greenwald is saying. He's saying (and I agree) that Snowden acted responsibly by leaving to journalists the decision of what, of all the leaked material, to publish. He didn't just throw the whole pile on Wikileaks. Does that not make a difference to you? Does the Post bear no responsibility whatsoever for the decisions of their own news editors?
This is the most interesting comment in this thread.
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> We know many of you don't want fluoride in your toothpaste.

what? is this some new anti-vac kind of thing? In Denmark dentists are strongly advising against using toothpaste without fluoride.

Lena Bay of the Danish dentist school says about toothpaste without fluoride: "... if you insist on using it, then you should only use it once a day and use normal toothpaste with fluoride the rest of the time" and Ole Marker, vice president of the Danish Dental Association says that "There is a large risk of ruining your teeth [if you only use toothpaste without fluoride]"

source [in danish] http://politiken.dk/forbrugogliv/livsstil/familieliv/ECE8329...
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This kind of reminds me of those "we used MongoDB to build our social network and it sucks" articles from a couple of years ago.
Reminds me of the Abbott and Costello skit "Who's on first" [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/kTcRRaXV-fg?t=63
It's not exactly the role of a newspaper to "submit people for prosecution", is it? Could you flesh out a little bit what you mean by the WaPo taking an active role in arranging prosecutions? There's a difference between taking a position on clemency and a position on prosecution, isn't there?

At any rate: am I adequately summarizing your belief by saying that regardless of what they write, if the Washington Post Editorial Page genuinely believes that Snowden shouldn't be given clemency, then they should also believe that the Washington Post itself should be shuttered (or turned over to a different team)?
This conversation paints a different picture:
1. Did scrollytelling talk to someone privately before the tweet either volskrant or al-jazeera? Looks like they did and thing were being worked out before the put out a public tweet.

2. In the updated conversation it seems the reporter doesn't think any thing was wrong here and it was not his responsibility, which seems odd after said he was working on it back on 28th Aug.

So it looks like there was messup on both sides.

Though there are some things which are still not clear:
1. What were the specific terms of contract scrollytelling had? Did it in any form bar sharing of content?
2. Who was the initial owner of the contract - volkskrant or the reporter? If it was volkskrant, they have to talk to them first about allowing this to happen.
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It seems none of the problems raised are actually caused by Firebase, but the design decisions they've made.
> His perspective here is sophomore.

An HN comment usually gets surprisingly better if you take the name-calling bits out of it. I'd say that's the case here.
Nonsense. Look at 90,000 lb. thrust high bypass turbofan engines that makes flying long distances cheap, even for poor people with moderate savings rates. Look at avionics and control systems that make the flight safer than the drive to the airport.

You want spectacular. You missed the real advances.
I perhaps might not be the best person to get advice from on this because I am an introvert (recently retook Myers-Briggs and it placed me as an moderate introvert, although in the past I've been at extreme). I have spent days at a time happily alone, not talking to anyone, so I care less about what others think compared to most people I know. I've learned to just say no when favors would drag on my resources and the situation isn't dire enough. I would suggest having similar boundaries.

It may be different for you though, you may want these people to like you or be your friend, so perhaps you can't do that?

Again, I suggest talking to a counselor who would probably have better experience dealing with different types of people.
It means is that our experience isn't what we think it is, but if the discrepancy is large enough, that's more or less the same thing as saying it doesn't exist.

Basically, if none of the aspects of consciousness that make it important or special in our eyes turn out to be true, I think that denying its existence is actually a less misleading way to correct the record than trying to completely change our intuitive understanding of whatever it is we actually have.
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an ok guideline unless, like most proverbs/sayings/mottos/slogans it gets used as a absolute rule.

Amen!

a roller coaster ride through 10 files for what could have been a 30 line function.

sometimes it's better for the whole world to just copy-paste-alter your code.

Then what happens when you have almost a hundred copy/pasted slightly rewritten 15-30 line variations on the same theme? How do you refactor then? (Yes, I have seen this is production systems, and yes, it was very critical code!) As you say, it comes down to cost/benefit.

Basically, you just have to keep potential refactoring/rewrite costs down so that you are never trapped. Caveat: You can seldom predict the risks as well as you think you can. What you can depend on, is being observant to historical patterns in your codebase. It's hard to predict the business needs and the architecture in the future. On the other hand, it's often quite easy to see the historical trends in the codebase.

Really, the analogy of the physical file room is a great one. (Or if you're not familiar, a library, a tool chest, or any kind of physical inventory system works too.) You can have a file clerk that seems like "super-filer" because he never "wastes" time by putting files back, but this never works out in the long term. The same goes for a filing staff that never reorganizes the file room. Also, one can generally see the long term disaster developing long before it results in the dramatic disaster. You can see which shelves are getting filled up, and which drawers are getting overstuffed, usually weeks or months ahead of time.
Using a pirated textbook is not as easy as listening to pirated music. Paper is actually a pretty good form for textbooks and printing hundreds of pages is not fun, binding them in a useful way is even less fun. Sure, you can just print out the snippets that you need to work with at the moment, but that's not very convenient.
Bezos kicked Wikileaks from Amazon's infrastructure with nothing more than a few senators expressing displeasure at WL's actions.

Whether Bezos is a True Believer in the American empire, or whether he just wants to curry favour with the government to make money is beside the point: Amazon is definitely a partisan in these things. It will be interesting how that fact will play out in Europe and Asia over time.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebase-talk/zQW-zV...

Literally took me 5 seconds of Googling.
No, they all basically ripped of AOL instant messenger
I cannot find the article right now but there is an article about Greg Maddux discussing how he practiced making his motion the same for all his pitches. This cut down on the hitter's ability to judge what to do.
All of these sounds like surmountable engineering challenges that one should have weighed when evaluating the data layer.

"You don't own your data" is downright false -- you own it, you just don't host it. But do you ever really host it these days? Unless you're running it on your own hardware in your own facilities, probably not. So what the author should say is "migrating is expensive because we chose to build on top of a SaaS product using a proprietary API and we're surprised by this because we didn't plan any further than a single 3 week sprint".
Sweet!

My next feature request would be to show the domain (e.g. "news.ycombinator.com") next to each link, like HN does. That'd let ctrl-F find by domain.

Additionally, being able to sort by domain would be good. Not per-window, but globally. Just a big list of tabs. I'm almost never looking for a particular window, but rather a particular tab of a specific site.

Another minor feature request is to put the total number of tabs as a badge number on the icon itself. I.e. instead of just showing tabist's icon, show the icon with "53" on it if I have 53 tabs open.

Or, y'know, it's pretty good how it is now, so feel free to just ignore this. :)

Thanks for the extension!
Sorry, I thought you were referring to other comments on this thread about Bezos in solidarity. I took a rhetorical shortcut that didn't work out for me.

I do not understand this cui bono logic.

I think it's the role of an Editorial Page to take positions on matters of current events and public policy, and do so so in good faith (ie, to relate the genuinely held and reasonably informed opinions of the staff). My take on the role of an Editorial Page seems like it's pretty much the opposite of your take, which is that the Editorial Page exists to advance the interests of the paper itself.
What u could do is run a simple nodejs server using firebase API and
Save data to a db, (rethinkdb) from day one! (Backup)

For Android/ios clients there is data persistence for minimising data usage.

Saving user details as Json will help u export user details too
Nobody mentioned license change. Just affiliation change.
It's a copy of http://psychology-spot.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/did-you-know-... (linked in the article).

Anyway, I'm extremely suspicious of this result. In particular:

> However, several studies revealed that children are more likely to inherit intelligence from the mother, because intelligence genes are located on chromosome X.

I still don't understand how this explanation makes sense. (Assuming it's true.)

If a woman has a "smart" chromosome X and a "stupid" chromosome X, then the sons have a 50% chance of inheriting each one. Do very smart women have two "smart" chromosomes X? So all the sons get an "smart" copy.

Daughter are more difficult to analyze, because the chromosome X from the father make the comparison more complicated. But a father with a "smart" chromosome X will give all the daughters a "smart" chromosome X.

(Probably the classification is not so simple, and there are many variations, not only "smart" vs "stupid", but let's keep it simple for the sake of the discussion.)

So, in the minimal chance that this is true, I'd expect that the result have a strong correlation with the gender of the children. In particular, the intelligence of the daughters must be more strongly correlated to the intelligence of the father than the intelligence of the mother. (Assuming it's true.)
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Wouldn't it depend on what sort of attributes phenomena in the category are supposed to have? If we say that everything is material, then presumably we mean that there is a criteria for what makes something material, probably along the lines of what physicists use to make physical theories.

Otherwise, our category should just be called "everything".
Actually I think the grandparent comment should be read "...proof [of the truth] of any phenomenon..."

I suggest the problem is with the concept "true".

The assumption that all phenomenon have a physical basis is exceedingly practical and produces fantastic predictive success. "True-ness" as it is intuitively defined is not interesting in this case, indeed it may be nonsense.

Stated another way, if we're going to describe "true" as some aspect of reality that we can never directly perceive but only get at through fallible senses and perceptions then we are not only flirting with something that is likely a-priori unprovable but also likely very uninteresting.
> Also - a lot of the most 'equal' societies are very poor, so having 'equality' should not be a social objective in and of itself

This is false. Most countries with low Gini coefficients are places like Japan and Scandinavia, while high Gini countries are places like Sub-Saharan Africa and South America. There are outliers, but the trend is clear. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_...
Milagro envisions a new class of cryptographic service providers called Distributed Trust Authorities, or D-TAs for short.

The purpose of a D-TA is to independently issue shares, or fractions, of cryptographic keys to Milagro clients and servers and application endpoints which have embedded Milagro cryptographic libraries. D-TAs operate independently from each other, are isolated in totality, and completely unaware of the existence of other D-TAs.

In practice, a Distributed Trust Authority (D-TA) framework would split the functions of a pairing-based key generation server into three services, each D-TA issuing thirds of private keys to distinct identities.
Completely agree with you
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You wouldn't run into password issues, since Horizon doesn't yet support password authentication.
In my experience, IR builds tolerance way too fast.

I agree that it would be nice to have IR for those times you want shorter bursts. But I ran into its shortcomings too quickly as a daily burner, not so different than trying to therapeutically bump cocaine.

There's also dirt cheap generic IR but there wasn't generic XR back then (still?).
And, on top of it, they don't show the back window in question.
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In that case, you might as well shut them down and at least let businesses and politicians pay for their PR. There is no public interest in re-printing press releases.
> I find this odd because we know exactly what consciousness is

I guess it's solved. I'm glad the NY Times is where I go for my scientific analyses.
I work on some BitTorrent software and while it's a really cool protocol, it isn't designed to sequentially stream data. Some clients support streaming, but the act of prioritizing sequential chunks of data rather than chunks that are most likely to be unavailable in the future is bad behavior for the collective group of peers.

I haven't personally given much thought to solving the problem of streaming, but I am surprised that the WebTorrent FAQ doesn't mention why they didn't take this opportunity to design a protocol that has more suitable trade-offs than BitTorrent. I'm getting mixed messaging; is their goal to connect the BitTorrent network with WebRTC or enable high quality P2P streaming via WebRTC?
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No, but that doesn't automatically make the opposite true.
Wait, did you just quote alanaut's dead comment verbatim?