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I like the way you frame privilege. I've heard it expressed in almost the same terms before, but maybe it's a combination of you expressing it less emotionally and me being more receptive to the message in the first place.

And this segues into my response to you: as you said, it is very hard for some people to just "up and ignore politics for a while".

What I feel you are missing however is that there is a very perverse mirror effect: as a white guy (which I assume from your comment you are not), drinking from the social justice firehose is like basking in anti-white male hate (remember that just like not every white male is a racist and a sexist, not every advocate for social justice is immune from similar hateful beliefs targeted at the former group).

One difference is that you're supposed to like it. Or at least a white male who's a "good person" is.

Now, I don't know to what extent both situations are similar or different, I've only ever experienced one side of it (and all the minority friends I ever asked couldn't relay experiences that approach the level of severity people imply on the Internet. But maybe that's because Québec/Ontario is a very different place than wherever you live, or maybe I just don't know the right people).

> something that others can't just do whenever they want, something that really is a luxury compared to the way others are forced by our society to live

I don't really know how to frame this, but I think it's worth noting that in fact, no matter what you've experienced, you still live a luxurious life yourself by today's world standards.

Indeed, if you make just 18k $/year, you're part of the world's richest 10%.

If you have Internet, then you're part of the 40% of people lucky enough to do so.

In many countries today, female foeticides (that is, killing babies because they are not males) is a reality. In other places, young boys are used as sex toys. In a few Islamic countries in Africa (Sudan and Chad are the 2 I remember offhand), actual chattel slavery is still a thing today.

I guess the point I am trying to make is that probably all of us who can comment on HN live in a bubble (certainly some bubbles are inside others however).

And I think it's easy for all of us to look at bubbles inside our own and "take a week off" from problems which do not affect us directly. Heck, I've seen videos of crazy stuff and I'm writing about it here and I still don't really grasp that people actually get stoned to death for adultery.

In perspective, it feels to me like the plight of marginalized people in western countries is akin to a rich lawyer complaining to Bill Gates about how unfair it is that he can't afford a small island himself while ordering a burger from a minimum wage cashier.
Thanks for letting me know - I appreciate it. And thanks for vouching for my comment - it would be a shame if OP didn't see it. Cheers!
they'll happily enter lines where their pawn structures are shattered...

Makes you wonder if computers will essentially ruin all the novelty of innovating and discovering new tricks/strategies in age-old games. No more will genius' have their moments of brilliance and improvisation that lead to a stunning victory or upset. No more will commentators debate and regal over phenomenal victories in ages past.

With a computer, it's just the optimal play strategy and you were just playing a god who knew the quickest path to terminating your king. When a human runs with non-standard play strategies in almost any game, it's considered brilliant, innovative, game of the century, etc...
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Why would you? You're already there. It's effectively a synonym for "different search engine".
I don't know about the specifics of how this is related to their algorithm, but it makes perfect sense from a philosophical standpoint.

You are using Google (the world's most well-known search engine) to search for other search engines. So either you are clueless about what a search engine is (in which case they win, since you're using them without knowing the term), or you're explicitly looking for alternatives (in which case, according to their philosophy, the way to serve you best is to give you a great list of all the other search engines out there).
Could it be argued that spelling suggestions are still a search result in and of themselves?
If it's an educated guess, then what is it based on?
Think of it like this: 8 weeks, 5 days per week, 1 hour per day. That's 40 hours.

I spend more than a few minutes a month administering my MBP, so I have no idea how you get along doing so little for a Linux machine. In fact, I spend more than a few minutes a month administering my Linux servers...

I honestly think my 1-hour-per-day estimate is in the ballpark and your experience sounds unlike mine.
What happens when he starts combining companies?

Space X launches the rocket that takes solar-powered self-driving machinery to Mars which starts building solar-powered settlements. By the time we get there, we're not fighting for basic survival, we're just moving in...
Gestures from way across the room or from a separate room entirely? To me voice beats that.
> That diagram is the most interesting representation of a diagram I have ever seen.

Thank you! We worked really hard on it.

> Do you have a tool to generate these for you, or was it hand crafted for this post? If it's a tool, is it available anywhere?

It was hand-made for this blog post. The diagram itself was drawn in a vector graphics editor and exported as SVG. Then, using web inspector tools to find which visual box corresponded to some line of svg markup, classes/ids were added to the items we cared about. Next came writing prose for each component. Finally, a bit of JavaScript and a CSS animation makes it come alive.

> If this is a built out tool, I would use this tool all the time.

Me too!
That looks like a pre-print or review copy, and is missing the authors' names and other citation information.

The paper is:
L. Wang, Y. Xiao, B. Shao and H. Wang, "How to partition a billion-node graph," 2014 IEEE 30th International Conference on Data Engineering, Chicago, IL, 2014, pp. 568-579.
doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2014.6816682

Here's the (potentially paywalled) link to IEEExplore: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6816682/
> Not only that, but to make these kinds of arguments, we need to make all kinds of pretty serious assumptions: that we know how causality works in a multiverse, that laws of physics are invariant even at the beginning of universes (whatever that might mean), and so on.

1. If laws aren't immutable, then either some function governs their changes over time, which makes them immutable when you consider that function, or the laws are entirely random, in which case all science is impossible anyway, and so we shouldn't concern ourselves with this case.

2. The difference is that there is evidence of a multiverse in quantum mechanics, the most well-tested scientific theory of all time. The Many-Worlds interpretation is the most reasonable explanation of QM phenomena.
Yeah, "deep" is probably a better term than "complex" to describe Go.
They have powershell for that.
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Fantastic work on the entire post then. Great content, and presentation. Looking forward to reading future posts like these as well.
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I agree with what you're trying to express, and was the biggest "be careful not to overdo this". Getting outside your tribe is really healthy and good.

I'd phrase it like this: "find the people who are best in the world at what you want to do and learn from them". And then I would add "but get outside of their circle frequently. It will be good for them and you".
Actually we have adopted a file format haystack object store[1][2] originally developed by FB for their photo storage platform.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/...

[2] https://code.facebook.com/posts/685565858139515/needle-in-a-...
> assuming Crouton is still an option

Any confirmation available?
Depending on what you're actually able to run of the Android apps, there's a lot that you could do with one of these even just for local development just with the Android subsystem.

Shell? Yep, several options (BusyBox, Termux, others?). I was going to suggest Terminal IDE but it's apparently incompatible with anything modern, but I suspect there are other options out there.

Language-aware editors? Yep, things like AIDE, Termux (for vim or emacs), DroidEdit, etc.

Servers? Yep, the only one I ever played with (years back) was Servers Ultimate Pro[1], but I'm sure there are a variety of other tools.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapp... No Apache, but nginx and lightttpd. MySQL but no Postgres. Not for production use certainly, but for local development?
One of the nice things about Go is that branches rejoin quite a bit, mitigating some of the branching factor concerns.
Actually, this comment reminded me of the following:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-03/advertisi...

TLDR;: But in one sense, the advertising business is about as static and boring as they come. The industry has never grown in scale. Looking at data since the 1920s, the U.S. advertising industry has always been about 1 percent of U.S. GDP. It’s surprisingly consistent, mostly tracking between 1 percent and 1.4 percent—and averaging 1.29 percent.

So when you said, "...eating from the same pie", according to the linked article, they actually are.
I love this!

I'm working (albeit very slowly, as a beginner) on a similar project with Geometry Dash and Python. You're a great inspiration!
dogma's point about the Play Store apps is right though. ChromeOS was designed to keep everything in the cloud, but Android apps are different-- while currently running on storage-constrained tablets and phones, the Play Store on a laptop will feel a lot more like the App store on a Mac-- games especially will have tons of giant assets that will ideally be stored locally. But if you only have 32GB for a 500GB game... there's a problem.

When a device has a keyboard and 12" screen, it'll feel like a laptop and you'll expect a laptop-like installation experience, not a phone-like experience. That means not waiting a half hour for your game media to download every time you want to play a level...
Is there a canonical list of US billionaires, or say, top 100 wealthiest US citizens? I suspect that not all provide their endorsement. I'd be interested in seeing a more complete breakdown (assuming this isn't).
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I wonder if there is any correlation or causation between portrayal of the government in films and the actual impression of the government.

To me it seems that U.S. likes to portray government in a negative way in films, and in real life a sizeable portion of the people are also not happy with the government. The reverse is true in China.

I mentioned the difference in people-government relationship earlier but didn't think of the link to the media and film industry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13203027
Here's a direct link to the ICDE Conference version: https://www.graphengine.io/downloads/papers/Trinity.Partitio...
No search results are being modified in the case you mentioned.
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It's all about biota; if the author has decided that fasting or restricted diets (of whatever kind), etc, can't possibly alter one's gut bugs; then it would be nice of them to maybe drop some bibliography showing that, since there's a lot of evidence on the other side. Sure there's a lot of nonsense spouted, too: but Low-FODMAP diets, just for one, do in fact have solid clinic evidence behind them. The author doesn't buy the SIBO explanation for that for a minute? Great, but even if SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth) is bunkem, and the scientists who proposed it wrong, that doesn't alter the mostly positive outcomes. Of course, the article is air and jazz hands, it doesn't discuss any of this much less list counter-studies, but this is what's relevant; science agrees that toxins ARE produced in the gut when our biota goes wrong.

The cleansing movement started before we knew nearly as much about our biota as we do now, so understandably much of the folk-terminology and initial high-level concepts look rather dated by now; but that's exactly what the history and philosophy of science tells us to expect from any successful theory, namely that it's higher-level concepts usually don't turn out to be entirely accurate (or even very accurate), even in the case of highly useful theories. The history and philosophy of science tells us that no theory ever has all its P's and Q's lined up, particularly at the top of the theory, and the terminology it initially chooses is almost never ideal - so to leap from finding given terminology and the broadest expression of concepts (and your very idiosyncratic almost pun-like interpretation of them) disagreeable to assuming that you don't have to look into the considerable existing evidence we now have that is consistent with them, is extremely bad (but common, and classist) logic. The guys with the biggest budgets and best University connections usually lose the medical knowledge and innovation wars, for the simple reason that they're the incumbents - it's the innovator's dilemma all over again.

Low-FODMAP diets came out of Monash University in recent years.
This isn't the best citation, I admit, but it is what's handy right now:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/when-gluten-sensiti...
My somewhat cynical guess is they threw an insane offer his way. A man has to eat, and Linkedin has been heavily recruiting for its Ember.js bet. Tom Dale is a big name in Ember.
And he's also going to be able to get all that while contributing to the community he loves. No company is perfect and it's easy to see how you can explain those things away.
Rumour has it that Trump's planning to spend significant time in NYC, so it may turn out that there won't be as many as you fear. Trump Tower is being reglazed with bullet proof glass.
God is not just a word, or just a concept. When (most) people talk about god, they're not doing so in an abstract form.

For instance, when someone says "The car parked the driveway is blocking my exit". They aren't speaking of "car" as some theoretical idea. They're speaking of it as a concrete, real thing, that exists, and has a fundamental impact on it's environment.

"God" to most people falls into this category. It's not just a concept. It's not just a word. God is a supreme being, that exists, and has a fundamental impact on the world.

I think your decision to move from agnosticism to belief, is more your decision to change your understanding of what "god" is... You've re-classified the words meaning.
It was my understanding that 18 U.S. Code § 871 included depictions enticing or encouraging such acts.

If that's the case, I suspect that the relevant language here is enticing or encouraging. Depictions of, say, historical events would be different. That said, I am most definitely not a lawyer.
Having idled around the same tech watering holes as you have for years, I'd think they'd have to make a significant effort to keep you from talking about it. ;)
Not interested. Waiting for galaxy tab s3 with proper s pen. Still dont get the use case for a cloud only device. Many of us do way more on tablets than take notes for college.
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My best bit of the tour was the explanation that if the climate control system ever goes down, the building's large enough to develop its own weather systems, including potentially clouds and rain.
do I just apply through the link? if I have further questions, how can I contact you?
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Interesting. Thanks for answering all of my questions in this thread.

To be honest, I'm somewhat surprised there were any untouched cities left for Michael Bay to destroy after already having made three previous Transformers films.
Bitcoin fails to satisfactorily answer von Mises' regression theorem. It also has no scarcity since it can face competition by an infinite number of similar conceivable algorithms / block-chains / virtual currencies that offer much the same features, regardless of how hard its own mining gets. Not to mention that once it is perceived as more than just a nuisance by some major government it will be shut down in a heartbeat. Future generations will laugh at our incredulity just like we make fun of the Tulip mania (which had more substance to boot). There is real, almost insatiable global demand for a currency with intrinsic value and scarcity that cannot be inflated by fiat. But given that such a currency will antagonize major governments it will likely not be a crypto-currency but rather a currency backed by some sufficiently powerful country. I am actually expecting the Russians or Chinese to launch a 100% gold-backed currency within the next 5 years. Failing that, when the EU breaks up the new Deutsche mark will be a good alternative. Any of these developments will pop Bitcoin's bubble.
Twitter is useful as a type of news source, and way to be notified about certain important events in noteworthy people's lives, and organizations, but for any kind of actual human-to-human interaction it's correct that twitter is absolutely worthless. You're essentially muzzled and will be misunderstood the majority of the time, because everyone expects sarcasm and hate from everyone else, even when it isn't there.

All they have to do to fix Twitter is make the 140ch limit text become the 'headline text' and then allow each post to have an unlimited (or very long) length 'body part' that you can see IF you choose to click on it, to read the whole thing.

The other thing they need is to make it threaded for conversation so that each node has a parent node, so that to 'reply' to a node you make a 'child' node, under what you're replying to. HN does this to some decent extend. I've done this in my own side-project meta64.com app, but meta64 is not open for business yet so don't go there and then complain that it's not finished/working.
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You can have the plants indoors and protected from temperature extremes in a single story greenhouse with natural illumination.

Theoretically, an infinite-junction solar cell can achieve up to 68.7% efficiency under non-concentrated sunlight. The best demonstrated so far is about half of that: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160517121811.h...

Efficiency under concentrated illumination is higher but concentrating designs require direct illumination and have their performance fall off a cliff under even partially cloudy conditions.

Spectral tuning of the light sources can make illumination more photosynthetically efficient, and so can evening out the illumination intensity. If you could get lights and multi-junction solar cells that operated at the theoretical limit it might be more efficient than natural sunlight growing, but that's a tall order to achieve in practice. To achieve a net environmental benefit not only does it have to be more efficient than single-story natural illuminated structures, it has to be enough more efficient to pay back the environmental costs of manufacturing the extra equipment required up-front in the vertical case.
> I have some arguments I find convincing and that I like, but when push comes to shove, it's a personal (and wholly non-rational) choice someone makes.

Sure, but was it really a choice? If you were born Hindu, wouldn't you make the same arguments about their pantheon of gods and not Christianity?

> This, theologically speaking, happens because we believe Jesus Christ was kind of a big deal that changed the moral workings of the universe.

Seems strange that he could change the moral workings of God though. Being raised Catholic myself, I get that he is an aspect of God as part of the trinity, but that's such an artificial construct of the Church to retroactively make sense of their mythology.

> I think this intuition points to some sort of "realness" of the idea of good, e.g. some "ideal" of good. I think that this is, in some sense, a whiff of God.

Moral realism doesn't require a deity of any kind. The whole field of ethics in philosophy is concerned with exploring the rational basis of morality. Most philosophers are moral realists, meaning that morals are in some sense "real", that moral propositions can be true or false and that we can come to know their truth values and thus acquire moral knowledge.

See for instance, A Proof of the Objectivity of Morals - Bambrough (1969) [1]. You can bootstrap objective morality with a deity, but there's really no reason to, and if that's your only reason to believe in God, you're better off reading some philosophy.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/3etl9b/a_proof_...
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This is very cool and I think if Kevin spends a bit of time learning reinforcement learning it could be amazing.

It seems like a lot of people doing reinforcement learning on video games get bogged down on training on raw pixels only... it would take a tremendous amount of data to make the driver recognise when and where to use certain power ups, however if you encoded this as a variable, wow it could be really cool.

I believe this is fundamentally how we humans learn with so few examples. Other humans "encode features for our brain to track" by telling us how it should be done and what information to prioritise.
Yes, that is the downside. Miririr doesn't attend meatspace meetings :( But perhaps that will become possible as robotics develops. Snowden attends many meetings via robot. Of course, people help and accommodate that because he's famous. But maybe robotic-presence services will develop. Consider attendant reductions in global climate forcing! I like the vision of temporary bodies in Kevin MacArdry's Last Trumpet Project.[0]

[0] https://anarplex.net/hosted/files/last_trumpet/LTP.pdf
Python and perl are very very similar. Python prioritises expressiveness over uniformity, perl is the opposite. Perl's original OO mechanism was stolen from pythons, but due to the greater flexibility it means that there's a lot of choice and perl's extended OO capabilities exceed that of python. Personally I hate the way that the python people keep bagging out perl when it's clear they know little about it.

I don't have preferences as such. My main problem is that over the past few years my perl skills have been in such high demand that I haven't had much time to do substantial other programming stuff (this is a class of problem you want to have). I have been playing with python's maths libraries (particularly sympy) lately, and along with jupyter it's pretty neat stuff.