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I have never understood the argument that "observation" is something special and that it must be taken into consideration. In fact, is it really the brain that is observing a phenomenon or is it something else?

In the double slit experiment, it really isn't the brain, is it? It's the screen you place some distance away from the slits, or the electron detector if you place it in one slit only. The fact that "an outside observer" only sees the pattern made by these detectors later and may reason about them is entirely unnecessary to the experiment itself and to the collapse of the wave function. If you leave the results of a double slit experiment lying overnight, has the wave function not collapsed for longer? As such, the "observer" in these experiments are devices, just like in most other experiments.

Just as the infamous cat is an observer of a quantum system, for whom the wave function has collapsed potentially much earlier than for an outside observer. A wave function collapse is in that case much more of a statement of information state than about the state of reality, which is the exact point of quantum mechanics, in that there must be a distinction now between "observers" (which my be single atoms, mind!) inside of the sphere of influence of an event (whether that event may be bounded by physical barriers or a light cone is irrelevant by the way). [Note that Schrödinger brought up the cat example exactly to point out that the world does not exist in a blurry double-state way even if unobserved.]

The same is true for most psychological observations, which get recorded by a computer, by a pen or by an undergrad. The fact that someone else observes these observations doesn't change the phenomenon in any reasonable way.

One more analogy: we now have computers that are entirely capable of recording/observing phenomena by themselves, some of them internal to themselves even, where we have no other way of recording such phenomenon. If you run an A/B test on a web site, let it run for long enough, then look at your analytics page and it says to accept one hypothesis with 99.99% probability, then you have exactly the same situation as if you had done the experiment through other people and publishing it as a paper. Except, of course, no human mind has "observed" the phenomenon, neither directly nor indirectly, until you opened the results page. So what it comes down to is this: did the result exist before you read the results page? I would answer yes.

All of this is a long way of saying that IMHO the observation of a phenomenon does not change the phenomenon itself.
No, it's painfully, obviously sarcasm.
Some cars do this.

My friend's Honda literally stopped combustion when his battery died while driving (no, I have no idea how, but that was the diagnosis).

In contrast, I've limped my Miata along on alternator-only when the battery wouldn't hold a charge. Note: feathering the gas at a stop with brakes and clutch depressed to keep your spark from dying is an "interesting" experience.
Just by inspection that looks like that will have a ton of unwanted side effects... How do you define as "entry"? What if the triggering of the "entry" timer fails?
Is it possible that this is all a misunderstanding based on some odd subculture's redefinition of the term "circumstantial evidence"?
"Balance" in the partisan sense just gives you "Views On Shape Of Earth Differ" articles. Or, from CNN's ticker the other day, "Are Jews People?". It also provides a big incentive to go as partisan as possible in order to drag the Overton window about.
that's a techocracy.... unfortunately, many modern horrible regimes are techocracies since engineering/science majors are the norm outside the west.

Communist governments were super big on STEM and still implemented the same horseshit policies and woo woo beliefs.

>Most engineers also aren't inflicted with the lust for power and status like so many (most?) attorneys I know.

In the west, engineering doesn't attract those types. In other countries where its the quickest way to make buck? Hell yeah!

>I think we need more scientists, engineers, software professionals, etc. in our political system, not less

I think we need a bigger guild like organization with a lobby. Not some industry sponsored group either.
Here's a reposted "summary" story with various links.

Warning, it's a rabbit hole. I'm not saying any of this is correct but it's pretty weird stuff.

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1428957
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If you're referring to the missing guy who they thought was part of the Boston Marathon bombing, that was also reddit.
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Podesta has some messages where he uses code words.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32795
That's why people started digging around in the first place.
Do you mean the stuff to take care of it? We wish we could :) For now it's only the tool
Seriously.

Look at NASA, they definitely haven't outsourced anything at all. They use all in house hardware and software to launch satellites or send astronauts to the ISS.
The vast majority of IoT devices are purchased by manufacturers, utility companies, government agencies, health care facilities, airports,
etc. etc.

If you think that any significant fraction of IoT devices are located in homes and controlled by phones, you do indeed live in a bubble. (Don't feel bad, so do lots of HN posters).
We will offer alternate domains. But it s a big world. With other languages. Not everything is English/German/French.
What a sad little man you are.
.. and pay considerably less for housing. Admittedly Brexit-related exchange rate changes make it look a lot less favourable now.
The story we are talking about, it turns out, is even dumber than I made it sound.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13029262
Is there a similar guide but for Windows?

Google mostly shows you guides from merchants trying to get you buy AV licenses.
Or you could you know... send power to the battery charging circuit at a higher voltage and let the circuitry handle current management...
I read Drexler's book and I was under the impression he was way too optimistic - he spent a lot of space trying to convince readers that there can be a balance between attacker and defender. I honestly don't see it. Whether on the Internet or with nanotech, attackers always have an advantage - because they choose when to attack, and they can strike when they're sure current defences won't hold them. Patching that would IMO require defenders to have exclusive access to a smarter-than-human AI.
The law is different in the US.

If you "work for hire" (see 17 U.S.C. § 101) an exception is made to the general rule that the person who actually creates a work is the legally recognized author of that work.
Agreed. And we will def. provide better looking URLS.
If your analysis involves data, you can't skip the statistics. If there is no analysis of data than go ahead and skip the stats all you want. You need to try and determine the uncertainty in your results, both systematic and statistical.
There's some room between "sensor fusion is fragile enough that if a physical condition persists for an unexpected amount of time the craft is lost" and "all sensor faults can be handled."

Notably, this obviously wasn't a failure case they programmed for. But it does seem a pretty fragile system to throw across the solar system in retrospect.
The Gaussian distribution is central in continuous-time models for different reasons:

https://almostsure.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/levys-characteri...

Basically any reasonable* stochastic continuous process is driven by a brownian motion. Also: discontinuous processes are more or less* the sum of a brownian motion and a poisson-type process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_process#L.C3.A9vy.E2...

(* Much details about filtrations, Banach spaces yadda yadda omitted)
Thanks! you just made my life so much easier.
Sorry for being cynical but I'll get excited only once I can actually buy this latest battery breakthrough, not when it is still X years away.
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your user name suits you.
I love living in Edinburgh, but I will admit that its startup scene is kind of tiny. There's a decent number of IT multinationals about though.

However, your biggest difficulty will be being an immigrant to the EU. These days it's a pretty damn arduous process.
Well, I perceive that SubiculumCode is among other things arguing that this legal procedural issue, and the possibility that the administrative rule making did not follow the law, something we ought to accept as legit given that Obama nominated the judge and the hurdle to get a preliminary injunction is very high, as Sacho abily discusses in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13028904, "is shit".

I certainly could have gotten his intent wrong, but for now his words have to stand as written, and the issue of the Rule of Law is both entirely relevant to this case and to current events in the US.
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Voat is the most biased source there is to learn about pizzagate.

http://www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/
Was reddit ever really credible?
no, but you single out a huge amount of people by selecting a name that sounds bad in those languages ;)
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I believe that's compared against the full, raw bandwidth requirement of a 30fps hologram and texture.
Not OP, but over the past year there has been a trend of subreddits like /r/The_Donald banning anyone who doesn't agree with their world view, or even people who come in and simply post facts that refute whatever conspiracy theory the users are on about in that moment. Basically, a set up like this is one that allows fake news to proliferate and spread without level headed users having a chance to post a comment discrediting the source. These are purposely created echo chambers, and anyone who tries top break the circlejerk gets banned. Not to mention they are very very very annoying.
Rainer Joswig is similarly legendary for Common Lisp.

I once thought a good way to really learn the language would be to answer some Stack Overflow questions. Not once have I managed to get to a question that he hasn't already answered - and in much more detail than I ever could.
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Biological systems are different from our infrastructure in that it seems that no part of an organism tries to fuck over another to get more resources for itself. I assume this is a result of a local minimum (an organism that fights within itself would kill itself quick), but maybe there are some mechanisms ensuring cooperation within the organism too? E.g. something that prevents a developing brain to grow to capture more oxygen from the bloodstream than it should, starving out other organs? Maybe someone with a biology knowledge / background can chime in on this?
So Usenet?
Why all the downvotes? His (dis)position is legitimate nonetheless.
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Was this before or after 'Jailbait' was the most popular search term that brought people to the site? Or that it became the premiere destination for recruiting and organizing racists?
Easy: "I can breath and drink water just fine, so why do you hate progress?"
Hey all, here's a blog post explaining my motivation to write this app along with some things I learned:

https://ptrvldz.me/hooks/
It is a precise technical term, and using it for a company name is unsettling to a graph theorist. But, it's probably cool for almost everyone else.
The longer I've coded in practice, the more suspicious I've gotten about "you don't need any domain knowledge, here are perfect specifications" approaches. The fingers on the keyboard should always have some grasp of the bigger picture, or bad things are likely to happen.
Indeed; since I first had a cable connection, I remember the software industry using automated updates as a continuous delivery platform. That's why I always hated updates and often disabled them in the past (back when I could feel the impact on my Internet connection and processing power).
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HackerNews happens to share your values and opinions on things like religion and politics.

I don't believe that to be true. Firstly "Hacker News" isn't a coherent whole, and also in any politically charged discussion here there are always diametrically opposing views.
ps: make sure you get a wifi card that is supported by FreeBSD. While you can put in a supported one, the X220 won't boot because Lenovo put a Wifi card whitelist into the BIOS and you need to install a patched BIOS from a dubious source.
Is it? I never knew that. Could you provide some examples of that (besides the whole OpenWRT / patching your router debacle)? I'm curious.
It's pretty hilarious that amongst the pearl clutching and virtue signaling and holding up the NY times as if it was a crucifix against vampires, there is flat out deafening silence when you bring up just a shred of the things that have been revealed during the affair in question.

I don't know what to think either, but the response amongst otherwise intelligent people on this is pretty weird, in both the positive and negative case directions.
We will offer other urls. We want of course the entire planet to use the servce. :) : )
I thought it was mostly IP and a couple of accounts that were taken. Nothing on the scale of millions of records taken? I could be wrong however.
The "evil paedophile elites are kidnapping children to abuse them" (alternatively, CPS kidnap children to sell for adoption) conspiracy theory has existed for a long time.

Six years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh-dNAby174

Four years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5LyzuVUweU

Eight years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_C75RO6LL4

Once the conspiracy theory exists you're going to get a mix of people who really believe it finding subreddits to share "proof"; trolls who like the lulz; people who don't know and don't care but who hate that politician and will share anything negative about them; and baffled people on the outside who can't tell the difference and can't understand how anyone can think that politicians order children for abuse by email.
Yup, the US doing something doesn't mean Russia didn't.
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Well now it is obvious, and honestly it has been so for a while. The reason we have shitty security is not because the risks are unknown.
Thanks for the interesting stuff.

Even if Snowden called out Qubes, you have to decide on your own security level which system is best for your needs.
I appreciate the idea here, but it's really not what the article is discussing.

The article is talking about items only previously obtainable via harvesting naturally occurring items, for example, diamonds. Then suddenly because some smart people worked on it for a bit, we had lab made diamonds. Or how purple dye used to be a challenge.

Despite the prevalence and usefulness of artifical otions for many formerly naturally occurring items, there are still huge pushes and even social stigmas for not having "authentic" versions of these materials.

I understand how you're making the comparison here, but you're conflating the topics. This isn't about verifying authenticity in the case of the materials, it's whether or not a diamond made in the ground is intrinsically worth more than one made in a lab, and why so many people feel better about the one from out of the ground.
By the power vested in me by the Internet board of governors and Archer Daniels Midland I hereby downplay this particular accusation about child exploitation and may God have mercy on your soul.
And just so we are clear, DRM is independent of copyright and license. the lack of DRM does not mean the author/publisher relinquishes claims over distribution channels, but here they are saying "we trust you not to share it". Your argument reads like "if its easy it must be legal".
On site programming puzzles are flawed, yes, especially whiteboard programming (as interviewee you're stuck with still doing them, but there's things you can do to make it less awful: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/04/04/interview-puzzles/)

Other alternatives:

1. Take-home programming exercise. More realistic, if it's a good task. Biased against people with less free time, though.

2. Paid take-home real work. DuckDuckGo does this, as does SpiderOak I think. Doesn't work well for people who have current job, but if it ever becomes popular it'll be easier for people to quit during job hunt period.

3. Pair programming during interview. Somewhat more realistic than whiteboard puzzle, biased against people with interview nerves.

4. Debugging code during interview. Somewhat more realistic than whiteboard puzzle, biased against people with interview nerves.

Etc..

There's no magic bullet, sadly.
No. Wikileaks show that reporters communicate by email.

It showed that reporters, as professional courtesy to sources and subjects, give a heads up when stories are running.

This is not new, and applied to Trump and past GOP presidential campaigns.
Fine and all, but what exactly is the law here?
Possible older folks are less likely to lie to exit pollers, too?
Just don't mention the tech bubble.
Well, it's not so crazy in the context or our continuing Iraq policy/war.

I'd blame George Bush moreso for removing bathist military folks from their jobs and banning them from government....the long term ramifications of that were insane.
And it used to be the gold standard of the idiocy that are Reddit Detectives. There is now a new one.
Did the CEO of Reddit Pierce Section 230? (Spoilers: Yes)
As it's being reported the user called spez didn't remove the posts or ban the users or any of the normal things. Instead they committed the same act, calling someone [else] a paedophile but added misattribtion (fraud, libel) and admin abuse to what had already been done.

Hasn't Reddit claimed it is a place for public and free speech as reason for not shutting down some subreddits?

Admins manually editing posts they see as offensive would seem to create a liability for the owners as they can't then argue they don't control/monitor content.

If someone calls me a paedophile on Reddit (again! it's a not uncommon juvenile taunt) will I be allowed to edit their post, presumably not.

I don't think anyone imagines Reddit is a democracy but the administration should nonetheless adhere to reasonable moral conventions such as flagging moderated posts and giving the same powers to censor personal abuse to all users.
I think the Tesla fans are more vocal with their praise.

There are some detractors.

And I think there's a lot of people here who, like myself, don't have much to add to the conversation and keep quite.
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I remember evaluating Elm and ClojueScript as an alternative to ES6 about a year and a half ago. Eventually I had to decide against both as we absolutely needed to render parts of our page server side (Google saying they'll index SPAs is a joke.)

If I'm not mistaken this wasn't possible in Elm back then, and felt uncomfortable or even hard in ClojureScript. Has that changed?

To be fair if I started a new project like the one I'm working at now I'd much rather use server + template for most pages and add interactivity through JS once it boots up.
>Make no mistake, it's always been all out information warfare.

If you look at evolution, it is just a fight over whose genes get passed over to the next generation. Genes are just biological encoding of information. Viruses are almost entirely strands of DNA, that is until they find a host cell to infect their information with. In a way it is all just information warfare.
I don't think anyone's saying it's a conspiracy.
Basically emscripten provides a set of libraries that emulate C libraries in Javascript. For example you can use the standard Berkeley socket API, but it actually translates TCP and UDP into SCTP (which can support TCP-like and UDP-like modes) via WebRTC's DataChannel.

Similarly, emscripten provides a standard C OpenGL API, but it actually translates those calls to WebGL Javascript calls.
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Political opinion blended to a puree with racism and harassment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13006555
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There are difference between natural and fake diamonds, natural diamonds have some impurities which make detection of artificial ones possible. I think those impurities give "character" to natural diamonds and make em more valuable. Same all stuff u get when u eat fruit like fiber, slows down vitamine absorbtion and we are adapted to that, thats why sintetic vitamines must be taken with food.
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I recently purchased the original Sonic the Hedgehog for my XBOX One, 512MB!!
US gained 230K jobs and 135K robots, other countries probably lost 1 million jobs to compensate. Automation goes full speed ahead, but what about sharing in the benefits?
Not out of using the internet full stop, but out of putting internet in every random device, perhaps. If the increased liability of putting internet in your refrigerator gets reflected in the purchase price, so that an IoT fridge has, say, an extra $200 in liability tacked on vs. a non-IoT fridge, many people might choose to buy the non-IoT fridge, which is probably not really a huge loss to society overall.
> This does sound like a rookie mistake, and I'll bet there's a dev somewhere saying "Oh crap" a lot because of it.

Howard Wolowitz.
SRS isn't on r/All 24/7. SRS doesn't fill up 90% of /rising. SRS is only "infamous" for being a deflector for criticism of far right subreddits. No one has heard from that subreddit for years.

There are much more active subreddits that side with SRS if you want to go there, like circlebroke. There are also much more extreme subreddits than the_donald, like TheNewRight. Nobody is talking about banning those subreddits. This isn't a partisan argument. The_Donald is (purposely) interrupting how reddit works. I'm not an American and I have no dog in this fight, but the_donald is ruining reddit for a lot of us.
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Isn't "successful" a value-term?

Aren't there "entrepreneurs" who repeatedly fail?

My interpretation of entrepreneur is someome who fails with other people's money.

The one you described is just a business person.
This looks very handy, thanks!

While I have your attentions, your app doesn't really need all these permissions:

read phone status and identity
read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
read phone status and identity
full network access
draw over other apps

Technically, all you need is internet access. You don't need access to storage if you use app-private storage, which also gives you better security and automatic backups.
I think this testing WAS that testing scenario to create better descent procedures
Doesn't surprise me. I always wondered how much support overhead it caused. I worked at the computer pool help desk of another university for a few semesters and it really opens your eyes to how alien some concepts techies find obvious can be for normal humans.
Me too. Heres link to quote: http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits...