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> You still need to put in Born's rule by hand somewhere

I'm not sure what you mean by "putting Born's rule in by hand". We're talking about interpretations here. Born's rule is just an empirical fact. Do you mean that I need to explain why the probabilities are the square of the amplitude? That's kind of like asking me to explain why the speed of light has the value that it has. It doesn't have an explanation. It's just part of the Way Things Are.

But I can make the following heuristic arguments:

1. Outcomes are probabilistic because this is the only way that classical behavior can emerge from the wave function, and without classical behavior you can't copy information, and without copying information you can't have discussions like the one we're having. It's an anthropomorphic argument (actually it's a info-pomomorphic argument :-)

2. The probabilities are the square of the amplitude because that is how you get a useful mathematical model of reality. It is simply an empirical fact that destructive interference happens, so if you want to build a mathematical model of that you need something that can take on negative values. You can't have negative probabilities in classical reality, so the underlying reality must be something other than classical probabilities. The square root of the probability is just the simplest mathematical model that explains the observations.

Maybe this will help: the technical paper that my position is based on is here:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9605002v2.pdf
> On some Windows platforms, win32 API is emulated and very limited.

hm, very limited, maybe. There is actually no public Win32 for the platforms you have in mind, I think, but a subset is common with UWP. However, it's not emulated... and probably nearly all of Win32 are standing right there, only you just can't use it...

For ex in Win8 RT the whole (or nearly whole) Win32 was there and could even be used by a non-Windows program: Office.
Economics are terrible, though I'm wondering if there could be a market for a markov-chain or recursive-neural-network based site that just generates clickbait from the millions of training examples on the web.
> You can drill into kids

The thing is that one cannot. Or at least there are no idications that those drills have any significant effect on a later life fading away pretty quickly a year or two after school/college. At best during those drills children learn from teacher behaviour, not words. I.e. they learn how to force others to do things they do not understand or need.
Thank you for sharing this. I don't assume you're a lawyer or anything, but does this mean that after leaving a job on an H1B visa, a worker has 60 days to potentially find another job?

It is rather disappointing that more action has not been taken to remedy this increasingly byzantine process. Its rather frustrating to jump through all the hoops and then be told to wait for 10+ years for the legal right to work after having contributed thousands of dollars in taxes, social security etc.
This is how smart meters work. How long before someone hijacks a drone's SIM card?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/02/stolen_sim_woman_jai...
It's in the EULA, hence the implicit permission.
Looks fragile to me. Cheap disk brakes. Hand brakes. Gears? Expensive tires (why mountainbike style tires on a normal road?) I bet my €50 franken bike lasts longer. Its an (i guess) ~20 year old ugly bike with rear brake. But most important: it is a sort of decent brand (batavus). Most of the stuff fell off, lights broke etc. Front fender is partially broken but rear fender still ok. Except for some oil on the rusty chain and a few flat tires no maintainance at all. Its outside 24/7 for the last four years now. Will serve me fine for another few years but i need tires. Also the frontfender should be fixed. I might buy me a "new" one somewhere in 2017...

It is very comfortable to ride! I use it to cycle to my parents which live 12km away from where i live! faster than public transport :)

Bought it here and it is a bike like those ones on the photo.
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My guess would be that the aviation SE doesn't see variants of the same questions posted every day.
You kinda can do it on Android via Termux: https://termux.com/add-on-api.html
Same here, noted how someone tried their leaves as it looked peculiar. Realised I was effectively tying grannies, changed the direction of my second loop; far more secure.

To me it's fascinating as it's something taught at a very early age, something used nearly every day, yet something a lot people seem to do "wrong" (inefficiently) by habit or ignorance.

But now my kids know and can suffer less unties, so that's good.

Similar thing for me, the "use a food packet as a bowl" trick (eg for crisps/potatoe chips).
Interesting. Does it actually work though, or does it tend to depend on Windows-specific assemblies to do any useful work?

The main use-case I have for Powershell is remotely administering Exchange. If I could do that from OSX or Linux, then that would be useful enough for me to spend the time learning it.
5K gives you the right resolution to scale. The Dell UP2715K [1] is supposed to be good, though expenisve. At 5120ˣ2880, you can run it at 2x, which gives you 2560ˣ1440, same as the 27''.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dell-210-ADRZ-DELL-UltraSharp-UP2715K...
Nah, it doesn't have to be that low level.

Servo, for example, doesn't deal with this; it's a web browser.

Think of the use cases where you'd use C or C++, and Rust should work there.

You probably can rewrite Ruby scripts in Rust if you want, but the productivity benefit depends on the kind of script. But for the purposes of learning the language it doesn't really matter.
> It is a terrible thing that our educational system favors so much individualism, even when most important work

Do you recall doing group projects in school ever? I do. They're poorly designed by faculty, most of whom have little experience other than working alone all day in front of a class of 30.

Individuals are graded as a group, so the group average quality affects your individual grade. And with little way of enforcing norms, the group average effort also affects your individual grade. A clever shirker will reveal themselves early enough to motivate their teammates into covering their missing contribution.

There's techniques to mitigate this, but I'd say 1 in 10 faculty cares about this, 2 in 10 heard that group work is critical to industry and the other 8 just figure grading 6 group projects is easier than grading 30.
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The notion that multi-threading is hard to get right is a common one, but it does not match my experience. I've been running 100+ threads in C++ routinely for 20 years now.

So long as you are sensible (using mutexes for shared data structures, using queues or whatever for inter-thread messaging, using semaphores for inter-thread signaling, etc) it just isn't hard.

The only thing that briefly got me in trouble was when I tried my hand at lock-free data structures. Once they are working, they are fine, but it takes a few surprises before you really understand the A-B-A problem.
That's just depressing
Creator/Maintainer of the repo here.

I apologize for the lack of updates to the BLNS. (since I'm free today and this is on the HN front page, I'll do a cleanup pass).

Even though it's a GitHub repository with 12.3k stars, there's not much to say or improve on what is effectively a .txt file based around a good idea (I recently removed mentions of my maintainership of the BLNS from my resume for that reason, despite its crazy popularity).
Lot's of memory? Firefox nowadays uses less then Chrome (Chrome one process per tab is a killer for free RAM).

As for websites engineered for WebKit/Blink I haven't seen that yet, but I was afraid it might happen eventually - new IE6 (or was it IE5?) will happen again :(.
any return obtained by legitimate means. what makes their gains illegitimate is the market manipulation combined with abuse of IP law. Their "license" (who needs a "license" to print pages of information to be distributed to other humans, anyway?) lets them "own" the IP that was created by funding public institutions. Thus, their gains are illegitimate. That 30% ultimately comes from taxpayers (which is then ultimately pocketed by shareholders).
How did you accomplish this without an external program?
Not to mention that a lot of chain-drive cars often choose cheaper or substandard materials for chain guides.

You end up with a choice between sounding like it's broken and having to spend a good chunk of a weekend dismantling it.
This was previously in the WDK, I think, which was public (maybe only since a few versions, but nevertheless I believe at least even the Win7 WDK was public, so it has been a "few" years now...)
That's like asking "Why are people still manufacturing bikes, you'd think everyone who wants a bike would have one by this point". Bikes generally have shorter lifespans than people, and we're also making new people-who-want-bikes all the time.
Certainly, but then please first pose/define the question clearly. What do you call a macroscopic Stern-Gerlach experiment with balls floating on top of the waves of a fluid? It would be an amusing toy problem to work out if you define it for me. However, it does not change the main argument: there is nothing quantum in macroscopic experiments with water waves - interference does not imply "quantumness".
I've already got enough films, thanks, you don't need to make any more. Or telling writers that there are already enough books.

That is a reasonable opinion.

http://www.gwern.net/Culture%20is%20not%20about%20Esthetics
Then they also have to account for what other quant shop models are doing. Something something brightest minds of our generation playing algorithm battles. It's sad to me that such pursuits generate massive amounts of money while not benefitting anyone in the slightest.
Exactly! When I read this headline I thought that this was going to be from a disgruntled developer spurning the industry for the absurd hours and high volatility.
Grace makes an e-bike with this combination:

http://www.grace-bikes.com/en/bikes/mx2urban/
Sneaking suspicion that it's the legacy students (see got in on daddy's money) students who go into finance.
I like the Turquoise Turtle Shoelace Knot.[1]

It's almost exactly like the "standard" shoelace knot I've used most of my life, but with just an extra tuck, and it virtually never unintentionally gets untied. It's fast, easy to put on and easy to take off. Highly recommended.

I also like Perry's Perpetual Knot.[2][3][4][5][6]

The idea behind it is that you only ever tie it once, and then only ever have to loosen and tighten it rather than re-tie it.

On one pair of shoes, I had Perry's Perpetual Knot adjusted so that I never even had to loosen or tighten it either. From then on I'd just slip my shoes on and off without needing to adjust it or re-tie it.

[1] - http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/turquoiseturtleknot.htm

[2] - http://web.archive.org/web/20051203081429/http://web.ukonlin...

[3] - https://s24.postimg.org/ng1fp6lj9/perrys_perpetual_knot.png

[4] - https://i.imgsafe.org/bee20e4850.png

[5] - http://i.imgur.com/mzyXuet.png

[6] - I'm uploading the instruction image to a bunch of image hosting sites, so hopefully the instructions will be available "perpetually", since archive.org doesn't even seem to have saved them.
I used to be the project lead for Electron at Microsoft (now building the Slack Desktop App) and I'm super happy to say that there's been a lot of great work around interacting with native Windows APIs from Electron: https://felixrieseberg.com/using-native-windows-features-fro...
And Donald Trump is the president. It is the apocalypse.
This man changed how I tie my shoes. This sounds small, but frankly, it was one of the largest changes I have ever made to my life.

Why? Because I learned to tie my shoes at the age of 5 or 6. It's something that was ingrained into my bones. A physical memory, an act that was undeniably of the flesh, not of the mind.

Changing muscle memory is really tough, especially when it's 30 year old muscle memory. But the double Ian knot was so compelling and easy, I actually made the effort over the course of about a year to make it my standard knot. It was really hard at first. I felt like a 3-year-old trying to learn how to finger paint for the first time. It got easier over time, but it really was one of the most difficult things I've had to change about myself, ever. It was like changing from brushing your teeth with your dominant hand to your less dominant hand.

And yet, it was worth it. The double Ian knot is incredible. Something so simple and yet made such a change in my life...
I like the idea of providing such a list for testing purposes. I also like the idea of storing these as Base64, so you don't trigger issues by accident.

However, I also imagine how such a list could be misused to actually decrease the security of a system:

Imagine this list is handled the same way as virus signatures in so-called anti-virus software. Instead of properly handling user input, an application would check against this list and call itself "secure". Maybe with with partial and/or fuzzy comparison. If you demonstrate that this approach is deeply flawed by showing another unsafe input, they'd simply add that to the list and call themselves "secured" against this attack.
This is already possible with Frege.
The part that I found most interesting:

"Last-place aversion suggests that low-income individuals might oppose redistribution because it could differentially help the group just beneath them. Using survey data, we show that individuals making just above the minimum wage are the most likely to oppose its increase. Similarly, in the General Social Survey, those above poverty but below median-income support redistribution significantly less than their background characteristics would predict."

Sounds exactly like the Republican playbook for winning rural below-median-income voters. Bring up the "welfare queen moochers" bugbear as often as you can, and paint them as the primary beneficiaries of the social safety net.
Sure. I mentioned Elixir because I'm familiar with it, but not Erlang.
Ask HN: Could Gates afford to buy Elsevier and open all journals?
Bill & Melinda Gates have a stated personal mission of improving the field of education. If they had the desire could the Gates' hypothetically afford to buy the likes of Elsvier and release all its journals as open access?

What would it take for an initiative like this to succeed?
The best theory I've heard is that ever since the invention of the atomic bomb, all timelines that make sense and act according to logic have since stopped being habitable to humans so we are left with the weird one that doesn't make sense.
You could always flash your own...

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/devices/installing-ubu...

I've bit a little disappointed that Firefox OS didn't pan out
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Frege already has an Android library on the works. You could try that.
One way to avoid overfitting is to trim spurious interactions Wij -> O. This constraint forces the network to economize on the neural circuitry, thereby driving the system to find an optimal network topology. Hypothetically this should favor certain circuit-design principles. I don't know how much work has been done in artificial neural networks but there has been quite a bit of work gone with artificial gene regulatory networks which utilize the same mathematical model of integrating weighted inputs and passing this through some kind of sigmoidal/logistic function.
The HN submitter here. :)

I happened across it this afternoon and thought it was great!

Do you know of any automation around this? I was thinking of a script that grabbed your list and then hammered a given input filtering library would be awesome. It's not something you'd want to run all the time but pre-major release, it could useful.
You might want to rethink that 100,000 miles. I've noticed a lot of car manufactures (e.g. Kia) that recommend a change at 60,000. I would not ignore that recommendation.
Apparently the way I've always tied my laces (the only way I've ever known) is the Ian knot. I had no idea that's different than what most people do. Good to know!
> Are you seriously comparing selling blood to slavery? What does that have to do with anything?

No, I just see the metric as a particularly weird line to draw.
Grace was the one who actually found the bug, according to your link.

She didn't invent the term, but she evidently documented the first case of an actual insect causing a system error.

She found the moth.
Archive is not about iops. its about streaming bandwidth.

for example I used to look after a quantum iScaler 24 drive robot, each drive was capable of kicking out ~100 megabytes a second. It was more than capable of saturating a 40 gig pipe.

However random IO was shite, it could take up to 20 minutes to get to random file. (Each tape is stored in a caddy of (from memory) 10 tapes, There is contention on the drives, and then spooling to the right place on the tape.)

Email is essentially random IO on a long tale. So, unless your users want a 20 minute delay in accessing last year's emails, I doubt its the right fit.

The same applies to Optical disk packs (although the spool time is much less.)
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I'm not sure anyone would dispute that there's some incremental danger to allowing right turn on red. After all, it wasn't the norm for a long time in the US. (It became widespread in the 1970s as a fuel-saving measure.)

Similarly, we'd certainly be safer with lower speed limits.

But we collectively make tradeoffs which may even be informed by some level of data.
But most implementation implements message sends/receives under the hood as method/function calls because it's far more efficient. The conceptual difference is small, and easy to support as method/function calls. The cost in overhead of putting them even in a different thread, much less on a different core or different CPU would be a huge problem for processes that aren't inherently possible to parallelise efficiently.
Auctions are good example of a domain where game theory (and reverse game theory or mechanism design) often makes useful predictions and has practical influence. Google and Facebook use mechanisms that approximate the VCG allocation rule for some of their ad content and know that they should not be able to find massive improvements on this due to theory. I agree that it is often less predictive and more like stories.
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There definitively are some third party components in Windows, but I believe in the core most is either written directly by MS or at least the copyrighted (or its handling) is transferred to them. Parts of an old NT kernel has already been published for a limited audience (mostly education and research, with some additional prereq and with the need of an explicit licence), so probably it can be done again.
So the TLS's answer to the categorical imperative is "be as good as you can be I guess. . ." That has the same problems that they find in utilitarianism, only even more so. It is even more vague and even less calculable than they claim utalitarianism is. How good is a person capable of being? How do we find out how good an individual is capable of being? Are psychopaths given special allowances? What about people with very little self control?

If ethics is dependent on knowledge does that mean Aztec human sacrifices were a morally great deed when performed by the Aztecs under a misconception that the souls were going to heaven? What about Hitler's genocide under the misconceived belief that he was creating a better and more peaceful Europe?
> Please note that landing the rocket does not count. Because I don't think it involved something new, some new technique that was unknown before.

"Answer my question despite my imposition of arbitrary criteria that intentionally make it unanswerable"
General aviation airplanes typically fly nose-down during final approach, then pitch nose-up for the flare. Jets typically fly slightly nose-up during final approach and maintain the same attitude during the flare (or you could say they don't flare, they just fly straight down to the runway).
A negative for belt drives, especially on a bike this price, is the cost of replacement parts. I think a shimano nexus 3sp would be a much more sensible option, though obviously it's not as striking and wouldn't get to the HN front page.
He's really missed out on the chance to sell a ton of laces.
YOU force their hand. I'm tired of these journals playing gatekeepers in academia. Fuck that noise.
Its their desire to impede the eventual massive reduction in tax revenue due to "evasion". Without enough tax revenue, they wont have free money anymore.

Harsh yes but sometime you just have to call it the way you see it.
Scoring doesn't necessarily mean you give with expecting something in return, rather you're cognizant of your own contributions. If you don't do any scoring, you can easily become complacent and not be as good of a partner as you could be and your relationship could fall out of the balance it may have had before.

Yes, both parties have a role in keeping the romance alive. I meant it as the "responsibility/duty" definition. It takes two to tango.

Do parents not have roles in a family either? Maybe you don't like the terminology because it sounds business like, but we all have roles in relationships. The definition applies several ways - the part you play in the relationship and your responsibilities.
Why would you do that when gvim is available and is ways better experience then vim ? For the sake of being shell purist ? On remote shell ?
You should check the tension of your carbon belt. Gates has an app to help you do that. Usually is just a matter of loosening the back weel bolts, adjusting the screws that push on the axel and retightenig the weel. If your frame doesn't have the adjustment screws you should check your bike manual.
Nobody can know with 100% certainty what the weather will be like tomorrow but you would be a fool not to look at forecasts. Especially if you are are farmer or are planning a picnic. The mental shift to statistical thinking is something that takes a lot of time and effort. I don't think it is valid to cook up so called paradoxes using arguments from non probabilistic domains.
I'm all for mnemonic devices and I can understand how one could remember a password like "GFj27ef8%k$39". But can people remember 30 of those, assuming no password reuse?
Not snail mail.
If someone uses this list for security purposes I think that someone has a bigger problem.
From what I recall, Writable optical disks have a much shorter life span compared to tape (~15 years vs 75 years)

Plus, if I was designing an archival system, it wouldn't be on blueray, unless there was a requirement for magnetic resistance.
Yes, I came to say the same thing. You can't finish everything you start -- not if you're a creative and curious person -- so figure out which things deserve finishing. Be sure to finish those, and let the rest go.
If you think of kernel32 & friends, that's not actually considered kernel code. That is the "kernel" of Win32, which is mostly a userspace thing. The word kernel is just used in an overloaded way.
I disagree. Since so much of their business is in their passive index funds, they/the fund managers, don't get to choose. Instead, they do their best to encourage and incent a set of customers towards low turnover.

They do a great job with VTI and their other funds to attempt to minimize the requirement of actually selling assets when liquidation requests come in, but that's not the same as saying that they, Vanguard (and more accurately the fund managers), practice a "Buy and Hold" strategy. Tracking an index well actually requires lots of buying and selling!
There's always politics.