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Authoritarians will do everything in their power to replace fact based journalism with messages that support their ideology with no concern to accuracy. The very definition of authoritarianism means the public doesn't need to know what's going on and all paths to victory are acceptable.

It is a problem we have not faced in free societies but do now. It is the suppression of information and its replacement by propaganda with no connection to reality. It is the world of Putin's Russia, a world we in the west have not experienced.

And it is not necessarily driven from the top down although casting doubt on what constitutes a fact is core to the maintenance of power in a dictatorship.

There is pretense that changing Facebook's algorithm from favoring profitable self confirming nonsense to being balanced with factual posts is some an obscene from of censorship rather than a fix for a broken algorithm. This as absurd as claiming Google is censoring when it changes it's search to give results the user wants because no user wants to be fed inaccuracies by either Google or Facebook.

Incredibly we're now saying it's censorship just to adjust a ranking such that propagandist nonsense (that the user didn't want) is no longer quite the top result.

Indeed the argument has now deteriorated into the surreal position that no-one (e.g. Snopes) should dare even post corrections to politically motivated lies because that is somehow censorship. And certainly no-one should promulgate those correction let alone use them. This is exactly the Kafkaesque logic that reveals the underling motivation is actually the exact opposite of free speech.
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Ok people need to start writing articles on what deep learning rather cannot do ;)
If you want them to be, yes.

Erlang's normal "string" type is indeed a list of integers representing codepoints. Erlang also supports "bitstrings" or "binary strings", which are basically what most other languages would just call "strings", as a logical extension of its existing binary data syntax.

Elixir instead uses Erlang "bitstrings" as its default "string" type. Erlang integer-list-based "strings" are represented in Elixir by using single-quotes instead of double-quotes around such a string (or by just manipulating a list directly; Elixir will transparently convert a list of integers into an Erlang-style charlist if the integers are valid codepoints).
While not really a mathematical "equation", the Drake equation, simply for the debate it causes and the ramifications of parameter changes on what we think of as a race.
Like I said, there are exceptions to every rule. There might be smart YEC's, but to me it's a very strong counterindication. Also, that's far from the only evidence there is with regards to Ben Carson. Try searching for "stupid things Ben Carson has said" some time.
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You sound clinically insane.
Euler's Identity. There is so much mathematical content in such a small equation.
euler's identity e^ipi+1=0 of course. it connects all the dots (e, pi, sqrt(-1), 1, 0), is fun to prove, and just plain cool. i have no idea of its practical applications though.
Even though it's not an "action" movie, it's always my go-to scene for an explanation of what makes a great action sequence. After that, I genuinely felt on the edge of my seat the rest of the movie; anything could happen.
No reason. You can decide on any shape you want.

I don't have the causality backwards. We don't have a complete knowledge of the laws of physics, and we have something which is unexplained. Whenever this was the case in the past, better laws were found which closed the explanatory gap. Why should it be any different this time?
You can use offline GPS navigation software on a plane. I did it several times, just as my friends. I use LG G3 and OsmAnd app.

LG G3 has very poor GPS antenna so you have to press the phone against the plane window and wait for 4-5 minutes before it finds sufficient number of sattelites.
I thought it was the other way around? Until this year, all the leaders were all in on globalization, more open borders (in spirit if not in name) and huge free trade areas. The people revolted and put nationalism in charge in the forms of Brexit and Trump.
Give Mechanical Turk a couple more years ;)
I think you're being a bit harsh. Is there any empirical evidence that favors classic black holes over gravastars, or is our "current understanding" just a matter of what we thought of first? If the latter, take a chill pill and let us enjoy the possibilities. :)
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Blade Runner's production design is beautiful and almost prefectly timeless in its depiction of a future. The only thing that dates the film for me is the cathode ray tubes. They are even in the flying cars I think.

Directors and designers could start using flat blue devices so that interfaces can be re-imagined, in 2-D, or 3-D, and composited in future re-masterings. I like the non-desript tri-fold devices in Westworld. Kudos to the 2001 team for getting imagining tablet interfaces although that did not sway the jury Samsung vs Apple iPad case[1][2].

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/23/samsung_cites_scie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....
Good point. Still, MySQL in 2016, almost 2017 :)
Reminds me of the third episode of Black Mirror:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You

Similar, but in the case of the episode you could also replay every interaction you had with other people... Was that a slight frown before they smiled?
V - E + F = 2 - 2g, the defining equation for the genus/Euler characteristic of a surface. It has applications all throughout topology and graph theory.
Instead of a static image with a few stations on it, I would have expected Google to provide a map of all the 100 stations they are talking about. It's silly that the most important bit of info has been left out.
The intention was "I want to change this guy's hours from 5 to 8." I don't know what else you might mean by "encode the intention."

Unless you're referring to something I'm utterly overlooking, I don't see how you'd get around the invalidated assumptions that came from being offline and having outdated information. Intent doesn't matter if the intentions were invalidated.

When assumptions change, you really have a management problem on your hands. There's more information (sometimes very complicated information, like "the back office changed his hours to at least 8 because of union contracts, so now he has 11") that must be communicated and decided upon, sometimes by more than one person (e.g. foreman and superintendent) to figure out the appropriate resolution.

In version control systems, this is the same, and unavoidable for asynchronous workflows. It's basically optimistic locking, really. You make changes hoping that nobody else has altered the data, then check to see if any of your assumptions (i.e. nobody else is making changes) have held. If they haven't held, then you need to recheck your assumptions and resolve the conflict; there's no way around that.
Slightly OT but pertains to "Children of Men"

The scenes where main character Theo Faron (Clive Owen) is on the really nice buses, and there is classical music playing in the background, while outside the window there is so much poverty really resonated with me.

I've lived in SF going on 6 years now. My apt complex has private buses that run from here to FDi in the morning and evening. The route sometimes changes but a lot of the time we would go thru the heart of the TL. I'd be half asleep comfortably siting on this Bauer's bus, usually listening to something like Aphex Twin's Select Ambient Works, so not the classic music, but still I would sit there in this amazingly privileged situation and look out the window to all this poverty and despair. It constantly reminded me of this movie.

I worked at Apple for a while, and the same thing, yet instead of my apt complex, it was dozens of Apple buses, shuttling 1000s of people for all over the bay area, and again on the way i'd see so much that really made me think about the current affairs of lots of things that's going crazy in our small little part of the world.

I've since left Apple and joined to a small startup near Union Square/FDi area. I still live in the same apt complex, and they still have the buses running every 15-20 min in the morning, but i don't ride them any more.

I walk the 2 miles everyday to and back from work, and I love it. For so many reasons I love it. One big reason is I don't want to be shielded or sheltered from the real world going on around us. I don't want to deal with the shit on the sidewalk or the craziness that exists in between my spot and my work, but i also don't want to pretend it doesn't exist and try and ignore it.

Sometimes it can be very annoying, hell even scary. But also, A few times it's been amazing rewarding to help someone for 5 minutes. All sorts of little things, I've helped people that can't get their wheelchair from the street onto the sidewalk, or helping the elderly man trying to pick up a heavy box of fruit delivery for his corner store I walk past.

I've had to explain this to some friends that live in apt complex. They take the bus daily and asked why I don't ride it any more, and again it all comes back to the bus scene from Children Of Men.
It is always amazing to me how much power supernatural nonsense has over some people.

I consider myself very lucky to have grown up in a no-nonsense environment.
I think the point is: if it's able to handle the data needs of one of the largest sites in the world do you really need to worry about it not being able to handle a pet app?

It is obviously up to the task.
Right, but how would they identify that "science man answer" is correlated with the truthful answer, without in fact knowing what answer is truthful?
When I first started chatting online with the woman to whom I'm married, she told me that she had a single tattoo, and that it was of an equation.

I immediately guessed Euler's identity and wrote "$e^{i\pi}+1=0$"

That was when we knew it was serious.

I got lucky (in more ways than one) because she'd nearly gone with her other choice, the continuum hypothesis
I'm making an assertion based on my own personal experiences, just like I'm assuming you're doing as well. I've yet to meet someone who studied/worked all the time during their high-school/college/career, and still failed to secure a six figure income.
Eh. Hence why I said it like I did. In most cases, the device generates the secrets. And that's how it should be done, it guarantees that they can't be compromised easily (vs if someone compromised wherever you backed up those keys to).
That's the most depressing part of the whole thing :-(
I have Youtube Red and regularly watch Youtube videos. But I've never even heard of Scare PewDiePie or Foursome, and have never seen Youtube recommend Prank Academy.
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As a tourist who visited India 4 times for several months (6 month tourist visa) I can't believe this. I traveled all India (from Delhi to Kanyakumari and back). There's no good internet. You're very lucky if you have some Internet. High-speed? Forget about it.
It's not about population, and not quite about having no 'future' (though you could say that) - it's about social nihilism and a crises of faith (in the book, literally, in the film, a little more existentially).
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I respect what you are trying to do but honestly not a fan of this system. Every hackathon I've judged that uses it has been terrible.
Number of trans/block has been very smoothly increasing for many years now - single best indicator of increasing adoption: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-per-block?days...
Truly. Actually, there are a few of those 'scenes'.
well debate me on video

or fight me boxing in real life

or stfu. nerd. im totally sane. (and a good boxer and great debater, and engineer. and f* you)

google lobotomobile, then go get one plz
no it isn't. javascript has types; they exist only at runtime, but they're there. it's patently false to say it's untyped. but type differences codify certain classes of differences, and it really isn't that crazy or unusual to say that the length of a vector, array, list, whatever you want to call it, isn't a difference of type. to say that there's a type difference even if the type checker disagrees just means you and the type checker are using different type systems.
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Am I the only one who thinks, gee, can't we just do actual work at the place we are being paid to "work" and not goof off needing something like this?

I get it, people need downtime every now and then. How about doing something that's different, but still benefits the company?

Maybe I'm just getting old, but it really bothers me how much I see coworkers on Facebook, or worse, especially as most of them are the ones who barely put in an 8hr day.
Probably the worst (best) bit of future-past in Neuromancer is that it starts with the main character trying to fence "three megabytes of hot RAM". That seemed like a ludicrously large amount when it was written.
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It's interesting what direction Yubico will go with the new Macs having no USB A port.
A 2 cent PZT buzzer is ridiculously far from an ultrasound probe, engineering wise, and your units are off by about three orders of magnitude. And soldering depoles PZT.

A transducer does not cost as much as a car (well, not a well made car), but a system does. That's the cart plus a number of transducers.

Yes, I only covered the transducer in that post, but as I noted, the systems and software deserve their own Pt II. It takes time to write this kind of stuff you know?

Your other points I try to answer in my updated blog post along with many others here in this thread.
Please edit personal swipes, such as the first sentence here, out of the comments you post to HN. This comment would be fine without that.
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"societies lash out against outsiders/immigrants."

It's not as one-sided as that. Many of the immigrants in the book are essentially 'terrorists', there was a funeral march by a group that is essentially Hamas in the film. Hamas are point-blank terrorists, though they are also a political group.

A 'world on fire' with millions of people flooding into the 'small, stable area' definitely represent a threat to that stability at least on some level.

It's more nuanced take. Almost everyone is a good guy / bad guy, and there is a lot of violence ... in that state, it's hard to have an easy moral compass.
Are programming competitions a good use of time?
Same here. I'm with Heisenberg, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first."
It's not painfully obvious to UN or anyone else noteworthy.

Was it also painfully obvious that USSR was going to break up and Russia would have stalled with population growth?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Populati...

None of the current trends made sense 30 yrs ago. And in 30 yrs there could be major geopolitical changes that would make current projections useless.
It's odd, too, that the map's shades-of-blue color scheme makes the land look like water:

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima...

That map would be easier to parse, I think, if the water areas were the dark-blue shade, and the land areas were the light blue. (I guess I just realized that I have an implicit visual grammar of maps. I'm not sure whether it's universal.)
How would fighting someone make your ideas valid?
Closure and Typescript added type checking/safety features, ES6 adds classes, Typescript even has generics and interfaces. Javascript developers will eventually add most of Java's features but keep their conscience clear by never uttering the phrase "like Java".
Because there are multiple competitors in the field, and you are a new entry. In order to be accepted as an unknown in a quality and results conscious market, you either have to be way better, way cheaper, or some combination of those.

If you are an established player, then you can sell for slightly less and get market share from your competitor. But in a competitive market, he is also smart and makes the system cheaper, then undercuts you, and on it goes until price reaches equilibrium at a much lower price point.

If you are in a monopoly position, then you can extract a premium profit until either the govt stops you with anti-trust, or a competitor appears who wants some of that profit. If you listen to everyone on this thread, ultrasound systems are easy to make so jump right in!

Ultrasound is an incredibly competitive market with multiple large players, each of whom has high quality technical teams and they compete for market share.
I also thought these were all pretty dumb, but clicked the X button and haven't even thought about them in several months. I am kind of annoyed by unrelated recommendations though; I watch a video where someone is making tools for his lathe, then the recommendation is "MAN GETS STUNG BY BULLET ANT OH GOD THE PAIN 30 MINUTES OF HIS HAND SWELLING UP AND THEN BEING RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AND THEN HE DIES OR SOMETHING MAYBE NOT YOU CAN'T FLAG TITLES FOR BEING MISLEADING SO HAH". Not interested, at all, seriously.

Some of my recommendations I blame on clicking on things that are popular on Reddit. Pushes me back towards the lowest common denominator. (I'm not averse to watching some car crashes.)

I'm not sure how refusing to watch Techmoan because of dismissable recommendations accomplishes anything, though. Bookmark his channel, pick the video you haven't seen, watch, close tab :)
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You do realize how many major (aka Top 1000) websites are powered by MySQL don't you? It's easy to dismiss MySQL if you're stuck with experience from <5.x, but the latest versions are actually quite good. I still prefer Postgres for many things, but MySQL definitely doesn't deserve to be cringe worthy anymore, imho.
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Good luck defining what is "different, but still benefits the company." In particular, I'd wager there is someone that has found or done something on facebook that was worth more than a typical day of most people's work. Hell, a typical good day.
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i don't know rust, but i read a bit about fixed size arrays in it and the fact that 32 is the largest fixed size array makes me suspicious that it works like a pair. you can do this without depending on a value, because the length is encoded in the type.

like, you can have a type (a, b), and b can, of course, be of type (a, b), b again having type (a, b), and so on. then you always carry around the length encoded in the type, and it can be checked like above.

ghc has a limit on tuple sizes, and haskell makes no type distinction between [a] based on the number of elements in it, and it isn't dependently typed.

but again i don't know rust.
I think we can give Gibson the benefit of the doubt here and say the point was not the size, but the fact that it was hot RAM -- the contents was valuable. The price of 3MB, even as early as in 1984, was not so high as to make it that impressive even by the standards of the day.
If this bothers you and your bosses, a much more effective approach than trying to physically catch them would be to simply either block Facebook or write something that logs the amount of time people are spending on the corporate network browsing those types of sites. Tell everyone that these wasted time stats will be baked into their performance reviews.

Voila - you now have a fun-free workplace.
Same here. My memory is terrible. I've looked at these types of apps, but I have never seen one that was actually helpful.

Instead I stick with sticky notes for to-do's, and a folder of txt's of notes from meetings/conversations that I think I'll want to remember. This really helps remembering details, unfortunately I still can't remember faces for the life of me.
The point of the anthropic principle isn't to explain it, it's to point out that an explanation is not required.

We could find that the laws of our universe are the only possible set of physical laws. This would be the expectation of the Newtonian era. In that case there is nothing to explain. Or it may be, and currently seems likely, that there are many possible sets of physical laws. Then the question of why we happen to have one of the perhaps very few possible sets of physical laws that allows intelligent life to develop seems to require an explanation. The anthropic principle explains why it really doesn't, because in the (possible or actual) universes where intelligent life is impossible, the question simply doesn't come up.

The point of the anthropic principle is precisely that we shouldn't expect to close the explanatory gap, because there isn't one. We shouldn't be surprised if physical laws seem to be "tuned" to allow intelligent life to emerge.

Imagine that planets orbited in randomly selected geometric shapes, and we happened to be on the only known elliptical one, giving us the conditions required for life. Would this lucky fact require explanation?
Do cashback charge cards exist in India and are they popular?

The fees are 1 rupee for every 2000 rupees (i.e. 0.05%), so with a 1% cashback card, each time I were to charge 2000 rupees, I would get back 20 rupees, but pay out 1 rupee in fees to Snapdeal, making a profit of 19 rupees. Repeat 1000x per day, I'm now earning 19000 rupees a day, sitting at home.

I guess Snapdeal won't deliver 1000x per day to the same address, and perhaps 1% cashback cards don't exist to begin with ...?
It's increasing but still really low and definitely possible it's increased use within the population instead of increased adoption. That's also like 2.5/second at its peak and even lower when you drop chain transactions.
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Somebody at Google must be a fan of Arrested Development. That's a classic Buster Bluth joke: "oh! The blue on this map must be land!"
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Why does it keep telling me the phone number I'm entering is incorrect?!?
>30,000 samples per second.

5 years ago i was getting that amount of records written on one Oracle node with 2 CPU and a bunch of regular HDDs.

>naively making each new data point into a disk write (with fdatasync) will not work out - even with SSDs.

seems like you're trying to say that this situation requires 30K IOPS. That would be really naive :)

You have 50 writers sending 30K/sec total, ie. 600/sec from one writer. A typical RDBMS naturally batches parallel writes, so a bunch of 3-4 HDDs providing totally 600+ IOPS would easily serve your situation.
Wouldn't the workplace have a problem if an employee has a camera up which records 24x7 or atleast till he is at work.

Sidenote : don't desk Webcams have a recording red light?
Law & Order purposely based its stories on topics of the day. It was a show meant to be watched in its time. Future watchers won't get the same experience out of it. That said I still enjoy the older episodes. It's like looking back in time.
You are being forced to nice to each other?? I'm confused what you are talking about.