skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't multiple correct outcomes still the same thing? Because you can say in advance that all the outcomes will happen, isn't it just another perspective? As a physical entity inside the universe you know that you'll have different copies of you experience a unique outcome each, rather than being able to say "I will experience outcome X".

In other words, you can say what branches will exist but not with certainty say what you'll see as a result for yourself. By the dictionary definition, isn't that still counterfactual correctness? You'll know what happen in advance, because you can calculate the possibilities.

Is the scientific definition strictly in the perspective of a physical observer?
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I'm in my late 30s. My image of unions is an amalgam of my uncle who got paid well for his union job and the guy I knew a decade ago who bragged about intentionally disrupting a UAW production line.

(and of course other stuff, but I've seen both ends of it. I also don't give the UAW a lot of credit for tiering their recent agreements: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-moto... It's almost literally "got mine".)
Trump gets to pick 3 of the 5 National Labor Relations Board members.

That agency is currently at odds with a Trump owned Las Vegas hotel.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/17/news/companies/trump-hotel-l...
Blame needs to be spread around certainly, but "I was just following orders" is hardly an excuse.
Bitbucket for work backup and spideroak for personal files.
I thought Linux uses sysenter/sysexit, not int 0x80/iret?

Still a good tutorial; there is no magic, it's all just software.
Also in Firefox:

CoLT (Copy Link Text)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colt/

You can customize it to copy in different syntaxes; for example you can have it copy in Wikimedia link syntax.
I'd be interested to hear your take on what these economic facts are. Just curious.
The current Firefox extension platform is a mess. There are XUL add-ons, Jetpack add-ons, and SDK add-ons, nothing is fully compatible with E10s, and to say the security features are lacking would be an understatement.

The Chrome platform on the other hand was designed to be multi-process from the ground up, has some solid security research behind it (like actual academic studies), and generally just makes sense. The Chrome extension system (or something very similar to it) is also already supported in a bunch of other browsers, so why would Mozilla not use it in theirs?

E: typo
You can not do that. The the end of the day the employee is beholden to money and a job. If they blow the whistle and get big daddy government involved, other companies will not hire that person. As simple as that. You can't make anyone hire anyone. You can't give them a replacement job. All you could do for such a person who has become unemployable is guarantee them an income for essentially the rest of their lives. Are governments willing to do that?
The really relevant thing is not the farts but 1. the CO_2 emissions for feedstuff production and transport, plus 2. the deforestation for said feedstuff production, plus 3. the insane ratio of agricultural surface requirements of plants-needed-to-feed-humans vs plants-needed-to-feed-cattle-to-feed-humans (which is approx. 1:10)

For these very reasons organic meat is much better for CO_2 reduction. It doesn't use fossil fuels just to feed cattle, it limits the area foodprint of cattle production and by making meat scarcer, it last not least shifts meat based nutrition towards five-a-day nutrition.
My old strategy for this involved a cronjob to update my host file every five minutes, so I could edit the file and read for a few minutes when I legitimately was waiting on something to compile, but would get yanked away from the browser black hole and back to work in a reasonable amount of time.

Then I got a better job, and now I feel a lot less compulsion to sit and read the internet.
A critique of the CAP theorem
I haven't learned ST yet but look forward to someday; currently I'm learning a bit of Ruby. I don't doubt that it is an excellent language, but is it actually easier to learn without any prior programming experience, or is that claim it just based on opinions?
>The front page is designed to look semi-sane. That's the point. Fakenews wouldn't work if you were just one click away from seeing that it's all a troll factory construction.

That didn't occur to me. Makes total sense. Thanks
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For those who dig this stuff...I strongly recommend you watch BBC Horizon episode Project greenglow

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x40a65t
Why aren't you using aliases[1] for denoting dev, prod, etc?

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/versioning-alias...
But not in one giant queryable SQL table.

I'd worry about parallelized spearfishing attacks across multiple stores, "Good Morning DEF, have I reached store number 12345 cash handling office? OK good to hear, this ABC at walmart corporate IT calling back about that trouble ticket your coworker XYZ entered about your store in Springfield, is XYZ at work now? Oh OK, well, anyway the ticket says XYZ is having trouble accessing the credit card portal, the ticket says you're trying to log in using the password of "password2", and back at HQ I can't log in using that password either so I'm planning on resetting her password, which will completely lock her out of the system for at least a week, unfortunately, but that's how ... Oh wait, you say there's a post it note on the monitor that her password is actually "ilovejustinbeiber", hold on a moment let me try that. How about that, it does work. Hey thanks for helping out, gonna save a lot of trouble for everyone. I'm not going to reset XYZ's password since it does work, I'll just close out the ticket with "can't reproduce problem", whoever took the ticket here couldn't enter the data right and obviously whatever problem there was is fixed now. Have a nice day out there in Springfield, Make Walmart Great Again (or whatever it is they say) Bye!"

Or some team calls like twenty electronics departments and tells all of them to toss all their ipad stock into a large shipment box because they were shipped with faulty batteries while reading back all the info they gathered to build trust, then let them know a courier from UPS (fake brown uniform) will present a (fake) ID and pick up that box of ipads in an hour and they can expect replacements air shipped later that day. Remind the employee to make sure they sign and save the (fake) return receipt. Imagine what a large team could do with a phone that takes pictures, snapping serial numbers of boxes on the shelf and a half hour later reading the serial number list back to the clerk over the phone.

This is all old stuff, but the advantage is you can parallelize it. If "they" hit one store every night there would be emergency emails printed out and taped up and handed out by the next week, but if you run this right you could do maybe 200, 300 stores.

Even better if a competitor paid you to pull this off on Black Friday when half the IT staff took the day off anyway and all you need is to sow chaos to make money. Or do this the day before earnings are announced to really mess with them financially.
I was following orders, or I would lose my employment and have to go hungry, not pay my mortgage, not feed my kids. End up in a divorce. Ruin my entire life. You are right, it's hardly an excuse. Managers often get fired for not managing the people under them properly. They are responsible for the underlings, that's why they make more money and are held to a higher standard. I did not know what was going on underneath me in my organization is not an excuse for a manager.
I've read this article countless times when looking for his textbook recommendations, cited at the end. All excellent.

While I also appreciate abstraction, very often mathematics is taught at the wrong level of abstraction. A book I like a lot, in the spirit of his recommendations, is Hubbard & Hubbard.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999875 and marked it off-topic.
Most fields that aren't freshly created cutting-edge research can be handled by simple Google queries:

- best books on <subject X>

- best books on <subject X> reddit

Look for titles most often mentioned/recommended by people in the <field X>.
It's funny what kind of food satisfies that law. One night after a few prior stops I ended up at a very local and very Irish bar. Sipping from a bottle and dreaming of fried potatoes I ask the bartender what food was available. After showing visible disdain for my non-Boston accent he laughs and points to a sparse rack of old peanut bags. I guess beer is food sometimes.
Hardy Boys/Goosebumps/Boxcar Children? That's about the most advanced literature I can imagine achieving 1/day with.
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I would like to replace twitter with something else who do not supress my opinions, hide my posts, delete my account, give my details and geo positions to NSA... oh too many reasons to skip twitter really. I really hate these censorship business companies. Freedom of speech in internet today seems to be decied by Facebook, Google and Twitter. All these corporations have long history of violating peoples privacy and hiding peoples opinions. Im very happy that people start to find / develop alternatives. Dear Twitter, your censorship and agenda is wrong and you should be shutted down!
A gorilla could back up the initial bluff. I look pretty mild mannered but in my youth, I fought a lot in high school. In college and just after, I usually stayed out of it but there were quite a few of my buddies who took a bit longer to learn and thus quite a few weekends included a bar fight here or there. Point being that I'd try to avoid it but if a person moved the situation to a fight, I'm not tough guy but I can handle myself okay. Bullies don't often target someone they think might be able to handle them.
Whatever you do, don't report union reps approaching Wal-Mart employees. It's the quickest way to get a store shut down and everybody blacklisted. Wal-Mart is terrified of unions and has an almost religious zeal for prosecuting them.

Edit, source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/union-walmart-shut-5-stores-over...

http://rense.com/general65/union.htm
Everything personal (local drives, Google Drive, Dropbox) goes to my Synology NAS, NAS is backed up weekly to S3. The best thing in Synology is that it solves this out-of-the box.
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A burning dumpster full of medical waste would be better than Twitter, so fortunately the bar is low.
That's a lot of electrons perturbed for "yes, they do, unless you make your life worse to compensate."

There was a time when that wasn't the calculus for operating a Mac.
My suggestion is to just use Python.
Similar pattern but on mobile. Now chrome doesn't bother with the tab count, just a ':D'
Didn't know that but I guess the problems are not limited to Wales. My uncles and cousins are expats in the UK, some in Wales and some in London and they come to Turkey (where we're from) whenever they need the dentist. Whenever they got their teeth done there they had to get it fixed here. What I saw in the hospital is that the medical staff work like salesmen, whereas here there is great respect and love towards doctors and other medical staff, and these in turn work with great devotion. A virtuous circle absent there, unfortunately.
Immoral yes. Unethical no. They do horrible things, but they do abide the rules placed upon them. Those rules are scant and toothless but that is a different question.
I just really don't like Adobe's UI conventions across the board. They don't feel natural on either Windows or OS X and often stuff like dragging and dropping between applications doesn't do what I expect for completely random reasons. It's powerful stuff, but I wish it wasn't so obtuse.
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'Alt-right' site plans a 'fake black person' Twitter campaign
well you probably don't have that much to back up then:)
Sounds excellent to me. I think many modern webpages are 10's of megabytes (which is lame).

I guess the specific audience of people looking for good stock phones might be operating off of a low cost data plan though? Otherwise of the many things the author could work on (improve curation, link to Swappa for purchase), I wonder if shaving a megabyte off the size is the most pressing issue.
I don't think labor unions are goi to run a scam like that. This is ridiculous. Walmart has all this information in dbs right now and they're way more likely to get hacked.
It's believed there will be 32gb options next year:
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/31/macbooks-2017-price-cuts...

As for the "Pro" moniker, the new machines are pretty high performance (especially on the video front). That doesn't preclude Apple making some tradeoff and/or leaving some performance on the table.
Definitely. I'm also keenly interested in phones that can run Ubuntu touch, though that list is small.
Since @Twitter is now in the #censorship business, I will no longer use its service for my constitutional right to free speech. #GoodbyeAll

- @RealJamesWoods
Yes, I have a few inaccuracies I'm correcting right now. That is one of them.
You can check out my talk at AWS E-Business Day. For ~50 minutes we are talking how we switched to serverless architectures for one of the largest online retailers of Europe and our learnings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYVamFcphxo
I don't know any methodical study, so it may only be opinions. That said, after suffering years of bad language features, you feel weird when one actually delivers on some bold claims. Smalltalk is not even a language, it's a system, a self contained system that is quite small, consistent, yet somehow devoid of ceremony (FP languages are small, but one has to read through the culture, ST stay low in intellectualization). I don't see many of the things that tripped me up as a noob, and lots of stuff that I ended up seeing as valuable (how booleans are defined for instance).
I've blocked HN in my /etc/hosts on my laptop. I also recently blocked it on my phone. I can still read it in a VM on my laptop but at least I have to make a conscious decision to view it where as before I blocked them I'd literally type `n` and chrome would auto complete to `news.ycombinator.com` and I'd be 20-30 minutes in before I realized I never consciously decided to start reading.

I have similar problems with the net in general. This happens to me all too often. I decide to do something like take a shower. I walk to the shower and turn it on letting it heat up. I remember something that I want to remind myself to do. I walk over to the computer to type in a reminder. Before I even start typing the reminder something on the screen distracts me. 5-15 minutes go by. I go back to the shower and just before getting in I realize I never typed the reminder. So, I walk over to the computer to type the reminder and the same thing happens again. This type of thing has happened on more than one occasion. For example I'm walking out of the house, at the door I remember something tiny I want to do on the computer (send a mail, write a reminder, ...) same things happen as above.
That was rhetoric to attract a demographic that felt displaced by globalism and by an Other that wasn't white.

Never once were unions touted as a solution, despite unions pushing for contracts that would prevent outsourcing and would set compensation plans for workers whose jobs were automated away or moved overseas.
The primary issues are trade tariffs, loss of intellectual property, and national security.

Trade tariffs for providing economic sanctions against countries you don't like, you could add $0.10 to every chip sold into the US as a tariff and pretty much instantly put the US into a recession.

IP theft is always an issue, and it depends on a local jurisdiction government for enforcement, so if the local government is lax in their enforcement you will experience more IP theft. Hence the whole Gonkai aspect of things.

National security because, as we've seen in research, inserting a capacitor in the chip that is not part of the circuit can create an undetectable back door in silicon[1] and that can compromise chips in sensitive systems. Again local governmental oversight is the lever to avoid such things but if you were in a state of cold war with the government in question?

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/06/demonically-clever-backdoor-hi...
Really great article and blog.

> You can examine binary images using the nm and objdump commands to display symbols, their addresses, segments, and so on.

You can also use my new tool Bloaty McBloatface (https://github.com/google/bloaty). Check out the -v option especially, which will dump a memory map of both the file domain and the VM address domain:

$ ./bloaty `which ls` -v -d segments
FILE MAP:
[0, 19d44] LOAD [RX], LOAD [RX]
[19d44, 19df0] [None], [Unmapped]
[19df0, 1a5f4] LOAD [RW], LOAD [RW]
[1a5f4, 1a700] [None], [Unmapped]
[1a700, 1ae00] [None], [ELF Headers]
VM MAP:
[0, 400000] NO ENTRY
[400000, 419d44] LOAD [RX], LOAD [RX]
[419d44, 619df0] NO ENTRY
[619df0, 61a5f4] LOAD [RW], LOAD [RW]
[61a5f4, 61b360] LOAD [RW], LOAD [RW]
VM SIZE FILE SIZE
-------------- --------------
95.1% 103Ki LOAD [RX] 103Ki 96.1%
4.9% 5.36Ki LOAD [RW] 2.00Ki 1.9%
0.0% 0 [ELF Headers] 1.75Ki 1.6%
0.0% 0 [Unmapped] 440 0.4%
100.0% 108Ki TOTAL 107Ki 100.0%

If you leave off "-d segments" the map will include all sections too (like .bss, .text, etc). Here is an example of that output: http://pastebin.com/3XGcqA8k
Oh very nice, thanks for the tip!
I heard a lot of horror stories when people tried to get back data from Glacier so I decided that I'll use simply S3. Aren't you afraid of Glacier?
We use route53 health checks to invoke API gateway and thus the backend Lambda.
You're talking about core PII here. I'm saying the signup requirements probably constitute PII when taken all together.

Full name (if uncommon) and email address (if private from an association/club membership, etc.). IP address (I'm pretty sure they can log your IP address unless they specifically say they don't.) And Zip code is mentioned as PII if linked to any of the above.

These are all things they request for signup, and then you can optionally include your job title and your store number. All that stuff put together is very clearly PII, so I'm not quite sure what your point is.
I wonder if surviving Usenet Septembers prior to the Endless September conferred some immunity on the survivors?
Name + telephone number + address is exactly the kind of information that you used to be able to get out of a phone book and can probably still buy from the DMV.
I can't believe there are only 3 Cal Newport mentions in the comments so far!
Exactly. Whenever I increase my consumption of social media, it's because I'm doing something I'd rather not be doing at work. Even these little 5-10sec wait times make me open a new tab and check HN.
i have been building such stuff for the last 20 years.

even had stuff stolen by darpa. which is why i dont share much now.

http://www.theborgmatrix.com
With cloudformation you can deploy full stack serverless apps. IMHO You don't need serverless any more.
Thanks for the answers. Interesting stuff. I think it was a Ryoba I saw in the catalog long ago.
I should have a pony.
Combining this with electric cars, we are looking at 50% reduction I think.
Presumably this is highly weighted toward economic facts: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=6w6u
Could be. But it might also be a convenient excuse to beat up the WalMarts (low wage importers) of the world.
> Let’s replace Twitter with something much better

Federated XMPP?
I decided to read ep1[0] too and I saw a picture "use all the memory". I don't know if it's funnier that I checked if you have an "alt" HTML tag or that you actually wrote the text from the picture. People with alt tags are MVPs. :)

[0] - https://brennan.io/2016/10/13/kernel-dev-ep1/
Those are the kind of "up market" consumers you want to target new expensive products to. Eventually they'll trickle down to other people when they realize it'll save them money (after economies of scale have been reached, R&D expenses paid off, etc). For example fake meat products right now is being targeted to "elite" coastal types. But once this stuff is really good, and really cheap it might disrupt traditional meat products.
> nuclear

There you have it. This is a viable alternative that's safe, and green.

Germany did exactly the wrong thing IMO. They should've expanded their nuclear capacity instead of shutting off perfectly good plans and starting to pollute the world (proxying through China, as you say).
You are right, Linux uses INT 0x80 on x86 only when the SYSCALL/SYSENTER and SYSRET/SYSEXIT instructions are not available.
Indeed. The book is really good in the first half. The second half is a mishmash of common sense advice, but I still found it useful.
As a German, every time I travel to any other country I am impressed how many public toilets there are and the good state they are in.
> "Locked down racks" is complete FUD.

That was my point. I'd much rather have them Amazon boys or Google boys take care of my data than my own sysadmin team - the Amazon/Google sysadmins are sharp, they apply all patches, and they have procedures in place to make sure they don't do anything incredibly stupid.

The fact they don't mention how they store any of this information that could have potential career altering affects bothers the heck out of me. I'd much rather they just say that they stored everything in AWS, than run their own bare metal.
I certainly would not call Musk's statements conservative. He does ultimately deliver, but seldom on schedule.
Oh and forgot, that server stuff is backed up to another server with rdiff-backup. Some years ago this was the quickest solution and until now never had any issues with it.
If the anything they aren't making is money then it is a bubble and it will eventually burst. When growth in users is seen as orthogonal to growth in income then the whole thing will come crashing down. If growth in users can be consistently converted to growth in income then it's not a bubble. Many people are skeptical of whether user growth can be consistently converted. Very true observation on the effects of a burst bubble -- if it happens everyone will notice. No one is good at predicting the end of a bubble so it is generally better not to pay attention to the predictions until you start observing effects directly.
Episodic memory is not really learned, is it? There's a semantically confusing syllogism in there. If a memory is pondered often enough, there might not be much more to learn from, thus you stop thinking about it and as with muscles, it deteriorates if not used. But what you have deduced from that memory might have value. Eventually you might learn later on that episodic memory is a valuable thing to keep as much as possible, thus we reminisce. On the other hand, maybe early childhood is just so terrible that it needs to be suppressed.
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I ain't got time for defeatist or libertarian attitudes (see handle).

The future is what we make of it.
You are assuming a fairly specific implementation of a solution I gave essentially no details about. Odd.
could you tell me more about using a boat for seaweed farming?
If by default Firefox has multiple engines than by default i should be able to use it with right click on text.
So, replace twitter with the thing that Twitter replaced?
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