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Good catch! I read that paragraph the same way and I believe it is a typo. I've left a comment on the medium article asking the author to clarify that section.

If you don't mind me asking, what is so off-putting about these types of mistakes? I'd like to do more personal and professional technical writing similar to this but I find it a bit daunting, especially when I consider that my audience could know much more about a subject than I do. Do you have any suggestions on how I could or should write articles that may contain errors so I don't upset readers?
MFA in electronic arts, BA in philosophy. An art practice allows you an opportunity to trust your instincts while working through a problem. I think this is a big advantage. Also, art making is production oriented -- you work through the issues in the work itself. This puts you in the same company as the engineering co-workers and is an important point of commonality.

But as a student, you also need to take charge of your education because there are pitfalls in much of the standard studio art curriculums (I'm a tenured professor of art. I see this up close....) The older pitfall is an emphasis on art training as the development and articulation of a personal visual style. This approach doesn't help you the long run and isn't particularly helpful when your goal is to apply your knowledge to IT work. The current pitfall is seeing your education as a checklist of training and mastery of specific software packages. This is often built into the course sequence of degree programs. I think this reflects the wrong approach.
An art education ideally provides you with great powers of close observation, pattern making/matching and systems analysis/creation. It teaches you to trust your own abilities as your ideas come together. It teaches you patience. It builds critique and review into the creative process. And it ties you into a long history of people exploring the expressive possibilities of a diverse range of media systems. This is a great legacy to be a part of.

My advice is to make sure there is room in your schedule for other liberal arts classes that involve reading, writing and discussion. These skills will help you bridge the differences between your approach and the approach of those your work with who have a more technical background.

I love working with technology, and while at times I wish I had more knowledge in CS and math, I wouldn't change a thing about my background.
> While the Copenhagen interpretation can skirt the issue completely, Bohm's must wrangle with the implications of both relativity and non-locality and no one has been completely successful as such.

Some might consider that a feature. John Bell of Bell's theorem thought QM's non-locality was the most important unresolved issue, so placing it front and center where it couldn't be ignored was a great idea. Interpretations like Copenhagen simply let you paper over the problems which will inevitably just arise elsewhere.

Finally, I think there's been some promising work in deriving covariant Bohmian mechanics. For instance, a preferred foliation of spacetime can be derived from the wave function itself [1], which means a preferred reference frame is actually a part of every interpretation of QM. This is the kind of result that probably would have never been found without research into Bohmian mechanics.

> Also, if it were the leading view, I don't think discussions of a simulated universe would be as popular.

I don't see why. Simulated reality is a purely logical argument [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1714

[2] http://www.simulation-argument.com/
There is a famous saying "Strict laws in Russia are compensated by optionality of their application".
> rent with roommates and utilities costs perhaps 800/mo

Ugh, for a lot of us roommates == hell. There's no way I'd subject myself to living with strangers again.
> like the Analytics plugin that loads each product in a category individually to send its data to Analytics when you view the category page.

Curious to know which plugin you're referring to?
Also, if one is not restricted because of license conditions, the Judy Array comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_array

The API is very easy, and it's really fast.
He explains here: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Switches are OK because they're not computers he maintains himself.
This new API, can be used from Java 8?
Yes, yes... The benevolent Vladimir and the peoples' just struggle against .. LinkedIn.

Personally, I just think he got annoyed by all the LinkedIn spam in Podesta's inbox. Can you imagine how long it takes to download all that via TOR?
Android is used by over 2 billion people on this planet and Alexa by a tiny number in comparison. Amazon tried to do a phone and failed miserably.

Today more voice data will be sent to Google than probably all the Echo voice data since launch. They are not close in market share.
+1 - As a long time Ubuntu user I've recently switched to Fedora +i3wm and love it.
I've been using Arch in my laptops and workstations almost 10 years already. I can't think of using any other distro, it's just something I need to install once and after that it just works.

For the first installation, there are way more things to do though than with your typical Ubuntu installation. People complaining about fonts should know, that in AUR there are font setups with the Ubuntu patches and the results are awesome. Why these are not in the mainline I don't know. I guess it has something to do with patents...
I'm not on the same wavelength as retired people who complain about boredom. If I retired today, I literally have a >5000-line list of ideas, topics and activities I want to pursue, most of them inexpensive or even free to pursue financially for developers, but time-consuming.

You could develop software to largely automate the municipal bureaucracy of a village in your nation. It takes a surprising amount of paperwork, and manual labor, to perform even the minimal amount of compliance work to maintain a village.

You could work with leaders in each tax levying jurisdiction to agree to publish tax data in a standard online format.

You could develop a backyard automated chicken coop, Creative Commons the plans and see what improvements everyone else comes up with.

You could develop a vanadium redox battery-powered lawn light, and save landfills from the garbage disposable lights the big box stores inflict upon us today.

There is simply an endless sea of opportunities to imbue life around you with increased cognitive density.

My head fills with an idea or two every day (usually about improving something I run across in daily life), that acts like an earworm, which I have to write down to "purge out of my mind". It got much "worse" with the advent of search engines; when I was "stuck" with school/university libraries, I would often run into dead ends researching ideas, and could quell the earworms with the thought that I gave an honest effort to run down a thread of an idea. I thought everyone thought like this, but was just better at focusing upon the task at hand and banishing these idle thoughts. I much prefer the situation today with search engines: I'm much faster at running down enough of an idea and putting it into writing to purge it out than before.
I've found https://arch-anywhere.org to be perfect for that.
Yafe – Yet Another Fractal Explorer [2011]
> Alexa isn't an inherently bad fit for a refrigerator

I think people are forgetting the purpose of a fridge. People already store food that doesn't need to be kept cool. They already throw out food based on dates stamped on packaging, not condition of the food. And they keep spoiled food in the back, forgotten. The fridge is a terribly mis-used kitchen device. So unless Alexa somehow develops a way to interact biologically with the contents, I do not see it as a good functional fit for that device.
Start time and memory usage are atrocious. This is heavy plenty enough.

> To clone and run one sample app I needed to upgrade XCode, upgrade the command line tools for XCode (>6GB in total), install a new Ruby version and bundler and then bundle install in the sample app...

> That whole exercise took hours.

Just because you do sh&t with even heavier and crazier tools doesn't change
the fact that JVM is heavy. You just look in wrong direction, that's all.

> I run at least 5 JVM processes on my 2012 MacBook Pro with 8GB of memory. This is all day, every day. I would never have tried to start 5 Rails apps at the same time.

Wow, what an accomplishment. I run twice that number of Python web
applications on a VPS that has 768MB RAM, and the server hosts also other
things.

You just don't have the right perspective.
In what way? No elections?
I'm also using i3wm (and currently terminology as terminal). I'd love to give alacritty a try but not without proper scrolling :(
That is a bad thing to say. We need help, its a huge project. Its not just rewriting a few lines of code, there is a whole infrastructure behind the software we need help in setting up.
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Unless someone manage to compel the content maker to not provide them to Netflix, I don't see that changing soon.
Ultimately user data locality issues are going to have to be settled in trade treaties.
If you believe that the leaves were rustled by a predator and you're wrong, you only waste some energy.

If you believe that the leaves were rustled by something inanimate and you're wrong, you get eaten by the predator.

There's an evolutionary advantage in expecting agency where there is none. Whether it's rustling leaves, the weather, celestial bodies or life itself.

To put it another way: if you see Jesus in your soup doesn't mean there's some divine truth in soup, it's just an artifact of your brain having evolved to recognise faces in a way that encourages false positives over false negatives.

Understand the fallibility of every aspect of yourself and a lot of supernaturalist arguments go out of the window.
Honestly this constant posting of Stallman opinions is getting tiring. I feel that the same principles he applies to one case carries over to the others, so to have 4 turn up in one day is a little annoying.
Angola transit visa has not been a problem for any overlander in the last 6 months.

30 day Tourist visa seems to be issued to about 50% of people that ask.
This is Russia's way to 1. Strike back at the US for the economic sanctions 2. Strengthen its economy by allowing local actors to develop without competition 3. Ensure that all major networks are within state control.
It's non-trivial for these companies to switch storage, and it's also dangerous as that makes them more vulnerable to government snooping.
It doesn't sound like you've read Bostrom's simulation argument:

http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
Since we are now showing our "Yet Another ..." projects, here's a small weekend project from ~10 years ago.

Make sure to right-click and switch to Lyapunov fractal, because that's ultimately what Yafe is all about, e.g.

https://swapped.cc/content/yafe/img/lyapunov-2048-bw.png

Source is over at Github - https://github.com/apankrat/yafe
Maybe a dome could be used afterall, if the panels are made of plastic... https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/real-martians-how-to-pr...
"Polyethylene, the same plastic commonly found in water bottles and grocery bags, also has potential as a candidate for radiation shielding. It is very high in hydrogen and fairly cheap to produce"
Piggybacking the question to state a general info:

There are voip operators like the italian mtalk that give you free local national numbers, free calls between users of the same provider, but the call is not encrypted.

This have the good thing that anyone can choose the preferred provider, you can receive calls also from "traditional" phones.

A phone number is like a mailbox, it's clearly provider independent, but sadly it's often non free calling between different operators.
In that reduced way science becomes a study of theory within theory, derived logical connections. Once you assume a logical framework you're out of the hypothesis/test routine completely. I don't think that's a fair thing to do in comparison. Where things start out matters.
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Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
Recently there’s been several discussions on different web browsers here on HN and after reading the "AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store" discussion [1] I wanted to ask you, dear HN community, what’s your favourite browser and why? Would be also interesting to hear if you have a default browser but are rooting for a new up-and-coming-but-not-quite-there-yet browser.

I, for one, am always on a looking for new browsers to try out. Currently using Firefox (for FB, Linkedin and Gmail), Chrome for Youtube and Safari for everything else [2].

In addition to usual suspects such as Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera I’m listing here a few alternative browsers from previous HN discussions:

Blisk, a browser for web developers - https://blisk.io/

Ōryōki Web Browser - http://oryoki.io/

A smarter web browser - https://minbrowser.github.io/min/

Brave - a browser from the co-founder of Mozilla Brendan Eich - https://brave.com

Vivaldi by the co-founder Opera - https://vivaldi.com

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327228

[2] I like to box different services in separate browsers for privacy and also running VPN and Cookie 5 (slightly paranoid like that).
A solution might be a minimal subset of C++, so with STL containers, some syntactic sugar, easier and faster to compile (modules), etc.

Basically what go and rust have achieved, except you keep most of the C/C++ syntax "taste", and you remove too high level stuff like templates and inheritance. Honestly I don't think templates are so useful, since most programmers already re-use STL containers, which are templates, but nobody really write relevant template classes.

> That's probably the C++ community's fault

The problem with C++ is backward compatibility with C and big corporations trying to not break their codebase. It makes it very hard to make the language evolve. For example D is a very good language, but it can't gain momentum as long as it doesn't have a real way to gain presence. We just have to wait that corporation clean their codebase to make room for C++ compilers to adapt, and then things should improve.
>> "heavy handed regulation on web services"

Any you could point to? The only stuff I know of the EU regulating on is privacy/data protection (and tax but that's not a tech issue).
It's never time for a windows laptop. Actually, I'm really happy with switching from mac to Fedora - after 22 years as a daily mac user.

I tried to get debian and its children & grandchildren to run on my PC, but all had issues. The most frustrating being mouse clicks intermittently not working. (seriously? 2017 and we can't figure out mouse clicks?)

But Fedora worked, it detected everything correctly, and I had a box that I could actually just start using and not spend hours (or days) configuring to get the basics working.

I would go so far as to say it's been relatively apple-esque in experience polish - when contrasted with most other distros. I've also had more stability and performance in general.

I still have nvidia screen tearing to sort out somehow. It's annoying but tolerable. But I also have way more control over my machine, and can change/do things that Apple would never let you.

Anyway, I recommend checking out Fedora if you're considering moving to linux, and have had troubles with ubuntu & co.
That's not the kind of simulation being discussed. "Simulation" means an intentionally constructed simulation of the universe. Random fluctuations don't count:

http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
Ah good catch, I misread it.
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urxvt supports tabs as well.
Does anyone know what the tech used is?
If you don't want your LG device to connect to anything, then don't feed it your SSID and password. (I don't have any unsecured networks in range of my house, so there's no way LG devices could connect without me doing something.)

I have a Samsung TV. I never hooked it up to my wifi, so it's a dumb device.
Based on the 50k-100k installs that the Play store reports.

It's an open question whether that really represents failure given the short timespan and (probably) small marketing budget, but at least it's an indication of usage.
Check out QBE and see how you like it vs LLVM:

http://c9x.me/compile/

It's designed to be simpler. One user told me it already compiles their project 4x faster than GCC with estimated speed between 01 and 02 despite so few lines of code. If it's backends are easier, might be a selling point on top of simplicity.
I do. BA in Studio Arts. I find it to be one of the most applicable degrees to software development you could have.

Forget the tech, the syntax of languages, and look at what you are actually doing -- You have a vision of something you want to build. You have a selection of tools with which to build it. You start from nothing, and build up to your vision. But it will only be considered a success if other people like the result, and comprehend what you were trying to do.

That process of creating something from scratch is exactly the same in Fine Arts, or in software.

As far as how I got into tech, the story is pretty boring. I graduated from college in '94. Needed a job. IBM Research was hiring support people. I applied, got the job, moved from support into coding over a couple years, and just worked my career from there.
The stream is down temporarily, but if you scroll down, you can see clips from earlier. This only works on the desktop version of the site though. https://www.twitch.tv/seebotschat
The BBC is very open about their government ties. RT is not.
The second question bothers me as well. In addition, partially melted and refrozen snow can cause really large loads to the dome if not removed on time. Must be annoying to climb up there.
There is a third option. The vast majority of people I've met [SF Bay Area] have no clue how easily a nuclear accident, let alone a nuclear war, could occur.

The generation growing up with Reagan had the ability to 'choose' option 2; later generations raised by those 'choosing not to think about it' are literally unequipped to understand. Perry is telling the truth, & I know this by personal experience.

Source: My dad was in the thick of compartmentalized NSA projects; I was writing book reports re. NORAD & MAD in 7th grade.
I might not understand your point, but are you basically saying that not all science requires math? To be fair, I've been thinking of physics in particular here.
He forgot to mention the streaming service has mostly junk and a few good movies.
Science isn't a religion but scientists can be zealots. The scientific principle is the antithesis of religion but scientists can be irrational like any other human.

The good thing about the modern era is that even when institutional biases may momentarily prevent a theory from gaining mainstream recognition at least it will be preserved as part of the body of scientific knowledge so future generations can rediscover it.
And why I work in IT after studying economics after studying mathematics after studying philosophy. IT is pretty much dominating the world.
Depending on your use case would also consider a Chromebook. Purchased son an Acer 14 and love this laptop and want one for myself.
I think for a lot of new people in the legal profession, the concern is not so much that one won't get rich, but more that one will have trouble finding well-paid work at all- not that you personally will encounter that issue, necessarily. But I take your point of course.
But then we come back to the premise, as you are literally just stopping at the end if my first paragraph: that works until I need to charge my phone and tether or develop at the same time, something of particular importance as there is no way to connect the phone over USB without it draining the battery of the computer into the phone.

Maybe the understanding gap here is that you don't really use your laptop very much? I use my laptop constantly. I am a developer (as are probably most people on this website), and I own a fancy laptop so I can be mobile: not thinking about the use case of a mobile developer is very strange in the context of a conversation about mobile computers in a large group of developers.

(To be clear, to avoid even more miscommunication: despite the relatively small warts in this setup which seem to violate the standard design process of Apple, I like this computer and purposefully chose it with complete knowledge of what cables it would require. I wish it had a second USB-C port instead of the headphone jack, even though that would cause me to carry around another adapter, as the adapter usage would be less, but I appreciate this was essentialy their beta of USB-C and was not where and when they wanted to start the headphone war.)
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This is probably the nastiest part of the whole Internet of Things hype. There is so much stuff that now comes with internet connected functionality that securing it all is simply not manageable. Sure, a household may demand that their smart thermostat keeps working reliably and securely, but how about the smart TV that's connected to WiFi, but is only used as a (classic) dumb screen? Or the talking doll the kids got for Christmas that talks back? (Yes, this is a thing!) Or the baby monitor? Or any other plug-and-play webcam?

All of these devices are by design capable of performing HTTP requests, and can be exploited to perform DDOS attacks. There is no economic incentive to keep these devices secure once the warranty runs out, yet hackers do have a lot of interest in hacking whole classes of devices.
I did a BA Music, which was very traditional for the first two years (analysis, criticism, composition) but concluded with some amazing modules and projects in Max/MSP/Jitter/Processing.

Followed it up with an MSc in Computer Science, looked into careers as a developer but lacked the experience/aptitude for a coalface coding job and was hesitant to go into IT consultancy. Ended up opening a board game café with some friends instead so all's well really.

I'll definitely go back to coding / making, but as a hobby not a career. The skills definitely translate in some sense, but for me the most beneficial aspect is just having more ideas for cool projects. And maybe a greater willingness to spend time doing silly stuff because I enjoy it - not always for a lofty intellectual/societal purpose.
It may be a weak tool, but it's the only tool that we know actually works.

Also, as science helps us advance technology it becomes a continuously stronger tool.
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Time is not necessary for change to occur, I would argue.

For example, how long does it take for a thought to disappear? I would argue it disappears in no time, or at least that it can do so. There isn't any transition period where only half a thought exists (what's the half of the thought "apple")?

If we're talking about physical reality/matter, however, it must take time, because of the limits of the speed of light.
I can definitely relate here. I've got a BA in music and an art minor, and am currently going back for an MS in Information Technology. I feel like the background in Art helps me grok abstraction quickly, but I have trouble when it gets down into the quantitative analysis part (though I'm getting better the more I learn).
It's a mistake to conclude science is a weak tool just because it produces less certain results in the social sciences. "Weak" is a relative measure, so science is only a weak tool if you can actually demonstrate the existence of a much better tool.